One of the most important fields research is effort to develop human abilities in various areas and use them for advancement life improvement one's livelihood. The Qurʾān, which Muslims believe that was last book revealed by Almighty Allāh (God), gives many examples how emotions help people make happier. Qurʾān a deals with using its guidance helps refine people's were stated Sū...

PURPOSE To evaluate prospectively the emotional repercussions in the individual with uveal melanoma and surgical indication in three phases: diagnosis and preoperative, postsurgery and late postsurgery. METHODS Clinical qualitative study based on the following instruments: STAI--State, Trait Anxiety Inventory; BDI--Beck Depression Inventory; Quality of Life Questionnaire SF-36. RESULTS The ...

We have been advocating cognitive developmental robotics to obtain new insight into the development of human cognitive functions by utilizing synthetic and constructive approaches. Among the different emotional functions, empathy is difficult to model, but essential for robots to be social agents in our society. In my previous review on artificial empathy (Asada, 2014b), I proposed a conceptual...

The objective of this study was to assess patient satisfaction with the investigation and initial management of infertility. A postal questionnaire survey was carried out of 1366 women attending outpatient clinics for the investigation and initial management of infertility at 12 hospitals throughout Scotland. The response rate to the questionnaire was 59% (806/1366). Overall, 87% of responders ...

Cocaine is now responsible for the second-highest number of cessation intervention requests. In this study we analyze the different skills of emotional intelligence in cocaine- dependent patients maintaining abstinence. The Mayer- Salovey-Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test (MSCEIT) and the Balloon Analogue Risk Task (BART) were administered to 50 subjects (25 individuals with no history of drug...

This thesis has two main goals. First, we provide an analysis of language means which together form an emotional meaning of written utterances in Czech. Second, we employ the findings concerning emotional language in computational applications. We provide a systematic overview of lexical, morphosyntactic, semantic and pragmatic aspects of emotional meaning in Czech utterances. Also, we propose ...