Joking is universal behaviour. Jokes provide playful ways of addressing taboo subjects that relate to the basic drives of people for sexuality, affiliation, novelty and dominance. Telling jokes is a way to achieve status, which is more a male preoccupation than a female one. But aside from the gender difference, people do not make the same kinds of jokes across the world. There are differences ...

Based on a substantial amount of evidence suggesting that humour can have great therapeutic benefit, three trainee and qualified counsellors took part in semi-structured interviews to discuss their experiences within work with clients, variety were disclosed. Interpretative phenomenological analysis was utilised generate themes reflect participants' experiences. The findings suggest be natural ...

Primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG) with complex pathogenesis is one of the many major causes of blindness. It is widely accepted that the major cause of POAG is the dysregulation of the trabecular meshwork (TM), which regulates the resistance to aqueous humour outflow. Intraocular pressure is elevated with increasing outflow resistance in the conventional pathway, which consists of the TM and S...

OBJECTIVES To determine whether humour therapy reduces depression (primary outcome), agitation and behavioural disturbances and improves social engagement and quality-of-life in nursing home residents. DESIGN The Sydney Multisite Intervention of LaughterBosses and ElderClowns study was a single-blind cluster randomised controlled trial of humour therapy. SETTING 35 Sydney nursing homes. P...

BACKGROUND Equine recurrent uveitis (ERU) is a common cause of ocular pain and blindness in horses. Leptospira spp. have been commonly implicated in the pathophysiology of ERU in mainland Europe and the USA. No recent studies have been carried out in the UK, but Leptospira is reported not to be a major factor in the aetiology of ERU in the UK. OBJECTIVES To establish the prevalence of Leptosp...

This paper exposes the idea of humour as a strategy for coping with COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. By focusing on Swiss federal council’s media conferences, it aims at evaluating specific linguistic and thematic features which constitute humour. The analysis highlights importance everyday topics dealing coronavirus shows that humorous potentiality press conferences’ oral communications is specified...

This paper reports the findings of a study two automatically generated corpora multimodal digital items user-tagged as ‘Black Lives Matter memes’ and ‘Blue memes’. The central aim is to flesh out memetic trends representing discourses ideologies on Black blue memescape, which explored in wake most infamous but interest-generating tragedy history Blue movement, namely George Floyd's death at han...