Some thirty years ago Walter P. Pitkin wrote a book called Life Begins at Forty. Its sales rocketed to millions and it probably helped to crystallize the attractive image of youthful middle-age which beguiles us from the pages of American magazines, with its sun-tanned greying men with flashing teeth, skilfully concealing girth under colourful, capacious, Hawaian shirts, or those icily elegant,...

Non-cognitive abilities are supposed to affect student's educational performance, who challenged by parental expectations and norms. Parental gender stereotypes shown strongly decrease student wellbeing in China. Students more depressed, feeling blue, unhappy, not enjoying life sad with no male-female differences while education does matter.

Carol Edmonston was first diagnosed with breast cancer in 1995. After a lumpectomy and 6 weeks of daily radiation therapy she continued living a full life. Exactly 2 years later she was diagnosed with an unrelated cancer in her other breast following a routine mammogram. She had a lumpectomy, along with lymph node dissection, followed by 6 weeks of daily radiation therapy. Upon completion, she ...

Tremendous amount of images are used on modern Web pages, but images are rarely used in everyday communication via e-mail, SMS, SNS, etc., although many communication systems allow the use of images in the message. We believe that images can greatly enhance the quality of communication if they are appropriately used with alphabetical texts, and we created a text input system with which users ca...