The effect of the emotional quality of study-phase background music on subsequent recall for happy and sad facial expressions was investigated. Undergraduates (N = 48) viewed a series of line drawings depicting a happy or sad child in a variety of environments that were each accompanied by happy or sad music. Although memory for faces was very accurate, emotionally incongruent background music ...

The happy function H : N → N sends a positive integer to the sum of the squares of its digits. A number x is said to be happy if the sequence {Hn(x)}∞ n=1 eventually reaches 1 (here H(x) denotes the nth iteration of H on x). A basic open question regarding happy numbers is what bounds on the density can be proved. This paper uses probabilistic methods to reduce this problem to experimentally fi...

Happiness and life satisfaction have traditionally been measured using verbal response scales, however, these verbal scales have not kept up with the present trend to use numerical response scales. A switch from a verbal scale to a numerical scale, however, causes a severe problem for trend analyses, due to the incomparability of the old and new measurements. The Reference Distribution Method i...

The authors investigated whether people can feel happy and sad at the same time. J. A. Russell and J. M. Carroll's (1999) circumplex model holds that happiness and sadness are polar opposites and, thus, mutually exclusive. In contrast, the evaluative space model (J. T. Cacioppo & G. G. Berntson, 1994) proposes that positive and negative affect are separable and that mixed feelings of happiness ...

This short contribution is a lite MESON2000 conference summary. As appropriate for the 600th anniversary of the Jagellonian University, it begins with a brief summary of the last 600 years of European history and its place in hadron physics. Next a " physicist chirality " order parameter PC is introduced. When applied to MESON2000 plenary speakers this order parameter illustrates the separation...

For those who followed the fate of Hereditas in the last months may have noticed that the journal terminated its activity by the end of 2014. I am extremely happy to announce that Hereditas is alive again and as a result of this resurrection, I write this Editorial. I must admit that around 8 months ago, I wrote a similar Editorial for the last issue of Hereditas under the wings of the previous...

Our first Impact Factor comes five years after the first CLINICS issue circulated and we are extremely happy to inform our readers that Clinics achieved IF = 1.591, which is the third highest ever for any Brazilian Journal. This IF was achieved with 21% of autocites, perfectly within the ethical limits set by ISI-Thomson. One other piece of good news is the fact that slightly more than 80% of t...

objective angelman syndrome (as) is a genetically determined syndrome that has a unique behavioral phenotype. this syndrome is described as jerky ataxia and an unusual happy facial expression with pathological laughter. severe mental retardation is a unique feature of the syndrome, together with microbrachycephaly and abnormal electroencephalographic findings with or without clinical seizures. ...