Now a 'days agriculture is one field where automated systems for classification and grading of fruits can be very useful not only for farmers but at experts in taking fast and accurate decisions. Over some recent year’s customers and buyers lifestyles and needs have increased and there have been many changes. Such lifestyle and changes have proved to be a challenge for the farmers and experts i...

The target date in 2015 for the United Nation’s Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) was reached, and a new period of global goals for the post-2015 is dawning. To assess whether and how regional progress towards achieving the MDGs has contributed to better quality of life in developing nations, we formulated a correlation between various aspects of human development, indicated by MDG indicators...

AIM The present descriptive analysis of breast-cancer women with mastectomy surgery was conducted to assess husband partner compatibility and level of loneliness during the post-surgery period. MATERIALS AND METHODS The study was carried out in Ondokuz Mays University, Medical Faculty surgical clinic. A sample of 48 women with mastectomy and 44 husbands were included in the study. A questionn...

Our perception of how others expect us to feel has significant implications for our emotional functioning. Across 4 studies the authors demonstrate that when people think others expect them not to feel negative emotions (i.e., sadness) they experience more negative emotion and reduced well-being. The authors show that perceived social expectancies predict these differences in emotion and well-b...

OBJECTIVE Both objective and subjective aspects of social isolation have been associated with alterations in immune markers relevant to multiple chronic diseases among older adults. However, these associations may be confounded by health status, and it is unclear whether these social factors are associated with immune functioning among relatively healthy adults. The goal of this study was to ex...

• Does information on upcoming goal attainment spoil some of its benefits? • People hold a script that positive emotion is experienced after a goal is attained. • Learning that a goal is going to be attained disrupts this script. • And results in mellowed happiness and lower goal evaluation. • Reawakening positive emotion after early knowledge of goal attainment is difficult. a b s t r a c t a ...

In previous studies we obtained evidence that variation in loneliness has a genetic component. Based on adult twin data, the heritability estimate for loneliness, which was assessed as an ordinal trait, was 48%. These analyses were done on loneliness scores averaged over items ('I feel lonely' and 'Nobody loves me') and over time points. In this article we present a longitudinal analysis of lon...

Family therapy has been shown to have some effect on overweight among children and adolescents [5,9-12]. These studies have demonstrated behaviour change and some weight loss after a few sessions. Nevertheless, merely advice to families within a primary care context seems to be too small effort to produce lasting results [13]. Some studies have showed better outcome when only parents received g...