Music emotion recognition and recommendation systems often use a simplified 4-quadrant model with categories such as Happy, Sad, Angry, and Calm. Previous research has shown that both listeners and automated systems often have difficulty distinguishing low-arousal categories such as Calm and Sad. This paper seeks to explore what makes the categories Calm and Sad so difficult to distinguish. We ...

BACKGROUND The sagittal abdominal diameter (SAD) measured in supine position is an alternative adiposity indicator that estimates the quantity of dysfunctional adipose tissue in the visceral depot. However, supine SAD's distribution and its association with health risk at the population level are unknown. Here we describe standardized measurements of SAD, provide the first, national estimates o...

BACKGROUNDS AND AIMS Visceral fat has a crucial role in the development and progression of cardiovascular disease, the major cause of death in end-stage renal disease (ESRD). Although sagittal abdominal diameter (SAD), as an index of visceral fat, significantly correlated with mortality in the general population, the impact of SAD on clinical outcomes has never been explored in ESRD patients. T...

Implicit associations of the self to concepts like "calm" have been shown to be weaker in persons with social anxiety than in non-anxious healthy controls. However, other implicit self associations, such as those to acceptance or rejection, have been less studied in social anxiety, and none of this work has been conducted with clinical samples. Furthermore, the importance of depression in these...

BACKGROUND Child maltreatment is associated with heightened risk for depression; however, not all individuals who experience maltreatment develop depression. Previous research indicates that maltreatment contributes to an attention bias for emotional cues, and that depressed individuals show attention bias for sad cues. METHOD The present study examined attention patterns for sad, depression-...

This paper describes the design of a high speed motion estimator using the Z-D log search algorithm. The architecture consists of 5 simple processing elements (PE) where each PE is capable of computing the sum-of-absolute-difference (SAD) to exploit the parallelism. For each step in the 2-D log search procedure, the 5 SADs of the 5 search points are computed in parallel. The design is implement...

Il saggio si propone di esaminare le nuove sfide della regolazione alimentare intrattenendosi sulla necessità, che un “sistema sostenibile” richiede, superare la prospettiva food safety, orientata a garantire sicurezza igienico sanitaria degli alimenti, e abbracciare anche quella security, tesa ad assicurare tutti una quantità cibo sufficiente prezzi ragionevoli. Dopo aver illustrato i caratter...

Edita Stokić1*, Reza Hakkak2,3, Andrea Romani4, Aleksandar Kupusinac5, Esma Isenović6, Dragana Tomić-Naglić1, Biljana Srdić-Galić7, Slađana Pejaković1 and Dragana Radošević7 1Medical Faculty in Novi Sad, University of Novi Sad, Clinical Center of Vojvodina, Novi Sad, Serbia 2Department of Dietetics and Nutrition, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR 72205, USA 3Arkansas ...

Sad people recognize faces more accurately than happy people (Hills et al., 2011). We devised four hypotheses for this finding that are tested between in the current study. The four hypotheses are: (1) sad people engage in more expert processing associated with face processing; (2) sad people are motivated to be more accurate than happy people in an attempt to repair their mood; (3) sad people ...

Social anxiety disorder (SAD) is characterized at a neurobiological level by disrupted activity in emotion regulation neural circuitry. Previous work has demonstrated amygdala hyperreactivity and disrupted prefrontal responses to social cues in individuals with SAD (Kim et al., 2011). While exposure-based psychological treatments effectively reduce SAD symptoms, not all individuals respond to t...