The progress in the field of affective computing enables the realisation of affective art. This paper describes the affective interactive art system Mood Swings, which interprets and visualises affect expressed by a person. Mood Swings is founded on the integration of a framework for affective movements and a colour model. This enables Mood Swings to recognise affective movement characteristics...

Many scientific experiments deal with data-intensive applications and the orchestration of computational workflow activities. These can benefit from data parallelism exploited in parallel systems to minimize execution time. Due to its complexity, robustness and efficiency to exploit data parallelism, grid infrastructures are widely used in some e-Science areas like bioinformatics. Workflow tech...

t i v a i t t p a t H n p f s l g n s r n T ake care” is often a parting phrase we use with our friends and family, noted Don Vickery, MD, a pioneer in self-care and coauthor of he groundbreaking book, Take Care of ourself, published over three decades ago. lthough the notion of taking care of ourself or that health is a personal reponsibility rather than professional one as controversial at th...

This paper suggests an approach to consciousness that focuses on the evolutionary transition from pre-conscious animals to the simplest types of conscious (experiencing) animals. Our argument is that experiencing originated with the evolution of associative learning, and that one of the major functions of experiencing was what William James called ‘fighting for ends’: endowing animals with moti...

OBJECTIVES This study first aimed to examine the structure of self-reported posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms using three different samples. The second aim of the paper was to test the robustness of the factor analytic model when depression scores were controlled for. DESIGN Based on previous factor analytic findings and the DSM-IV formulation, six confirmatory factor models were ...

BACKGROUND Experiencing stigma by patients with mental illness in their day to day lives has substantial importance in treatment, compliance and quality of life. There is dearth of information and researches in experiences/ perceptions and coping of stigma in Nepal. AIMS The objective of this study was to find out experiences/ perceptions and coping of stigma and stigmatizations among patient...

Acute stress disorder (ASD) was introduced into DSM-IV to describe acute stress reactions (ASRs) that occur in the initial month after exposure to a traumatic event and before the possibility of diagnosing posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and to identify trauma survivors in the acute phase who are high risk for PTSD. The recommendation to shift ASD and PTSD out of the anxiety disorders sec...