All animals can predict the hedonic consequences of events they've experienced before. But humans can predict the hedonic consequences of events they've never experienced by simulating those events in their minds. Scientists are beginning to understand how the brain simulates future events, how it uses those simulations to predict an event's hedonic consequences, and why these predictions so of...

hypermedia, multimedia, ubiquitous computing, mobility In this position paper we describe an emerging area of research that we believe will have significant impact in the areas of personal mobility and digital media. Our term for this research area is “ubimedia”, a concatenation of ‘ubiquitous computing’, and ‘physicallylinked hypermedia’. We note that the structure of media is evolving from st...

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...

Does compassion feel pleasant or unpleasant? Westerners tend to categorize compassion as a pleasant or positive emotion, but laboratory compassion inductions, which present another's suffering, may elicit unpleasant feelings. Across two studies, we examined whether prototypical conceptualizations of compassion (as pleasant) differ from experiences of compassion (as unpleasant). After laboratory...

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...

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...