Fun is often seen a necessary gratification for recreational games. This paper studies two freeform role-playing games aiming to create extremely intense experiences of tragedy, horror, disgust, powerlessness and self-loathing, in order to gratify the self-selected group of experienced role-players. Almost all of the 15 interviewed players appreciated their experiences, despite crying, experien...

Emotions experienced by healthy individuals in response to tasting or eating food were examined in two studies. In the first study, 42 participants reported the frequency with which 22 emotion types were experienced in everyday interactions with food products, and the conditions that elicited these emotions. In the second study, 124 participants reported the extent to which they experienced eac...

Many nurse managers actively developed mentoring programs to shorten the acclimation period of new nurses in hospitals. The main aim was develop a negative experience questionnaire (NMEQ) and test its validity reliability. A cross-sectional study employed. This adopted questionnaire-survey method with Taiwanese In study, this reliability analysis, content, validity, construct criterion-related ...

UNLABELLED Negative interpretation bias, the tendency to appraise ambiguous situations in a negative or threatening way, has been suggested to be important for the development of adult chronic pain. To our knowledge, this is the first study to examine the role of a negative interpretation bias in adolescent pain. We first developed and piloted a novel task that measures the tendency for adolesc...

AIM The aim of this work was to retrospectively analyze patients with Philadelphia-negative myeloproliferative neoplasms through evaluation of frequency and characteristics of second malignancies (other than acute leukaemia and myelodysplastic syndrome). PATIENTS AND METHODS Records of 172 patients were reviewed; an analysis was performed on data from 66 patients treated with hydroxyurea, 105...

INTRODUCTION Patients with radiological features suggestive of active pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) from areas with a high prevalence of the disease have a high clinical likelihood of PTB regardless of the bacteriological findings. It is the established practice in many countries to initiate therapy in such patients. Our study aimed to determine if treatment for bacteriologically-negative PTB in...

OBJECTIVE Amygdala abnormalities have been discussed as a possible mechanism underlying reduced reactivity to negative stimuli in Parkinson's disease (PD). METHODS The present investigation used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) in order to test this hypothesis. We compared brain activation of 17 nondepressed and nondemented PD patients with 22 healthy controls during the elicitati...

OBJECTIVE To report experience with negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT) in 45 consecutive dogs admitted with extensive cutaneous wounds and to determine if NPWT is feasible in veterinary hospital practice. STUDY DESIGN Prospective descriptive study. ANIMALS Dogs (n = 45). METHODS Collected data were organized into 6 categories: patient data, wound data, NPWT data, adjunctive treatments...