conclusions these findings demonstrated that metacognition had an important role in predicting alexithymia in the substance abusers, which underscores the necessity of precautionary measures. patients and methods the research sample included addicts (males and females aged 10 to 70 years) who referred to the addiction treatment and counseling centers of three iranian cities of zahedan, sari, an...

background: role of information source, perceived benefits and risks, and destination image has significantly been examined in travel and tourism literature; however, in medical tourism it is yet to be examined thoroughly. the concept discussed in this article is drawn form well established models in tourism literature. methods: the purpose of this research was to identify the source of informa...

Image quality assessment (IQA) enables distortions introduced into an image (e.g., through lossy compression or broadcast) to be measured and evaluated for severity. It is unclear to what degree affective image content may influence this process. In this study, participants (n=25) were found to be unable to disentangle affective image content from objective image quality in a standard IQA proce...

We investigated the event-related power decrease (event-related desynchronization: ERD) of the alpha bands associated with the anticipation of affective images. Participants (n = 19) were presented with emotionally positive or negative images under different anticipatory conditions, and their brain responses were recorded using magnetoencephalography (MEG). In the Affective Cue conditions, the ...

INTRODUCTION Research suggests that body image affects sexual functioning, but the relationship between specific types of body image (evaluative, affective, and behavioral) and domains of sexual functioning (desire, arousal, and orgasm) has not been investigated. AIM To determine whether, and to what degree, body image concerns (evaluative, affective, and behavioral) influence aspects of wome...

This study investigates the effects of corporate-, productand user image dimensions on purchase intentions, with cognitive and affective attitudes as mediator. A questionnaire survey was conducted with convenience sample. The results demonstrate significant effects of three brand image dimensions on purchase intention. In addition, the cognitive and affective attitudes fully or partially accoun...

Emotional semantic image retrieval systems aim at incorporating the user’s affective states for responding adequately to the user’s interests. One challenge is to select features specific to image affect detection. Another challenge is to build effective learning models or classifiers to bridge the so-called “affective gap”. In this work, we study the affective classification and retrieval of a...