OBJECTIVES this literature review examines the experience of joy at birth and what that joy means. The premise is that the whole of the birthing experience has not been fully explicated in the literature and that something of significance remains unexplored and unspoken. It is argued that a hermeneutic phenomenological approach to reviewing literature provides unique insights and leads to deepe...

We intend to show that transient chaos is a very appealing, but still not widely appreciated, subfield of nonlinear dynamics. Besides flashing its basic properties and giving a brief overview of the many applications, a few recent transient-chaos-related subjects are introduced in some detail. These include the dynamics of decision making, dispersion, and sedimentation of volcanic ash, doubly t...

Joy is in a unique position to provide comments on this subject as we have been involved with Proximity Detection since the initial research project conducted in 2002 as documented in the Background information of this Information Request. In addition we have been involved to some level with each Proximity Detection manufacturer on every generation of design because of the interface to our cont...

objective: citizenship is not just a situation in which a person has a set of rights and duties, but it serves the two ideas of situation and feeling. feeling of citizenship is an important aspect of citizenship that plays a great role in strengthening social bases in a society. feeling refers to view and attitudes, and citizenship in its full meaning is an attitude. citizens should be such ind...

the present study provides an analysis of the correlation between acoustic properties, duration and pitch amplitude of speech associated with three basic emotions: anger, sadness and joy against neutrality as a reference, emotionally expressed by six persian speakers. rise/fall connection model (taylor, 1995) is used to analyze acoustic parameters and measure how an utterance is modulated when ...