The present study examines marital disharmony in terms of disturbed communication in neurotics and their spouses, as compared with normal couples. It is hypothesised that there would be significant differences between neurotics and normals, and between spouses of neurotics and spouses of normals, with regard to communication. The Marital Communication Inventory and the Personal Report of Spouse...

This research aims to discover the effect of Nature in Thomas Hardy's chosen literary works. The treatment ecology illustrates roots thought that have led our contemporary environmental crisis. Hardy shares affinity by philosophically reconstructing society center natural elements and images introducing true meaning art nature. self-consciously depicts naked reality nature, property, place man ...

OBJECTIVE To analyze the amount and inflammatory components of the sputum in patients with "disharmony of stomach", including gastroesophageal reflux disease, peptic ulcer and chronic gastritis. METHODS Sputum production was induced by inspiration of aerosol of 3.5% hypertonic saline with ultrasonic nebulizer, and the total cell count in the sputum was examined. Sputum smear stained with Gims...

OBJECTIVES This study assessed fatigue and its association with emotional labor and non-standard working hours among hotel workers. METHODS A structured self-administered questionnaire was distributed to 1,320 employees of five hotels located in Seoul. The questionnaire survey included questions concerning the participants' sociodemographics, health-related behaviors, job-related factors, emo...

Few neuro-endocrinological studies have examined the relationship between occlusal disharmony and stress. To determine the effect of occlusal disharmony on the central nervous system, we measured plasma corticosterone and extracellular noradrenaline in the vicinity of the hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus in rats both with and without incisal caps. After the caps were set, plasma corticoster...

Children growing up in disharmonious families with anxious/depressed mothers are at risk for emotional and behavioral difficulties, however whether these associations reflect postnatal environment, prenatal exposure, or an overall liability is still unclear. This study used prospectively collected data from 24,259 participants of the Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort Study (MoBa). Mothers repor...

General vowel harmony and disharmony rules have comparable formal complexity but differ dramatically in typological frequency phonetic motivation. Previous studies found no difference learning between disharmony; this putative equivalence has been used to discount the view that learners are influenced by substantive biases. In current study, we use a more nuanced test show there is clear dishar...