The Right-Hemisphere Hypothesis posits that emotional stimuli are perceived more efficiently by the right hemisphere than by the left hemisphere. The current research examines this hypothesis by examining hemispheric asymmetries for the conscious and unconscious perception of emotional stimuli. Negative, positive, and neutral words were presented for 17 ms to one visual field or the other. Cons...

Background: It is not well understood whether the self-reported experience of substance abuse-related problems differs by socioeconomic status.Methods: We conducted a secondary analysis using the 2013 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) on participants who reported ever using illicit drugs or used illicit drugs in the past year.Findings: Among those reporting ever using illicit drugs...

In medical research, the concept of minimum clinically important difference (MCID) has gained its popularity among clinical practitioners and health policy markers. Over the past 20 years, intensive research has been conducted to explore how clinical significance could be interpreted from the patient reported outcomes (PROs) by using MCID. This article aims to provide a review on the statistica...

Forced marital sex is reported in a variety of socio-cultural contexts The paucity of nationally representative data makes it difficult to establish the prevalence of nonconsensual sex among married young women in developing countries. What is clear however from papers presented at the New Delhi meeting is that early forced sex is reported by married young women living in diverse contexts. Wher...

Primary tumours and cysts of the diaphragm are rare. In a review of the literature Clagett and Johnson (1949) were able to record 30 cases, to which they added four of their own. Of these cases, 18 were malignant and 16 were benign. Primary cysts constituted only a very small proportion of the cases, and in recording a case of mesothelial cyst of the diaphragm Aufses and Oseasohn (1949) stated ...

We measured 160 English-language films released from 1935 to 2010 and found four changes. First, shot lengths have gotten shorter, a trend also reported by others. Second, contemporary films have more motion and movement than earlier films. Third, in contemporary films shorter shots also have proportionately more motion than longer shots, whereas there is no such relation in older films. And fi...

Much traditional user interface evaluation is conducted in usability laboratories, where a small number of selected users is directly observed by trained evaluators. However, as the network itself and the remote work setting have become intrinsic parts of usage patterns, evaluators often have limited access to representative users for usability evaluation in the laboratory and the users' work c...