conclusions patients’ experiences after cardiac surgery indicated the need for the consideration of holistic care and supportive intervention programs after surgery to promote recovery and a better quality of life following cardiac surgery. results the data analysis revealed three main themes and 11 subthemes, categorized as conceptual and abstract, based on their nature: concern of going out t...

Current knowledge about small-world networks underlying emotions is sparse, and confined to functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies using resting-state paradigms. This fMRI study applied Eigenvector Centrality Mapping (ECM) and functional connectivity analysis to reveal neural small-world networks underlying joy and fear. Joy and fear were evoked using music, presented in 4-min blo...

J. Schmidhuber proposes a "theory of fun & intrinsic motivation & creativity" that he has developed over the last two decades. This theory is precise enough to allow the programming of artificial agents exhibiting the requested behaviors. Schmidhuber's theory relies on an explicit 'internal joy drive' implemented by an 'information compression indicator'. In this paper, we show that this indica...

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social systems, where the number of play partners of an individual is more restricted as only few can be trusted as play-mates. For bonobos, it seems it is safe to play with anyone. Play-partner diversity is important when thinking about adaptability: playing 100 times with the same individual requires less variation and adjustment of behaviour than playing 10 times with 10 different individual...

0 7 4 0 7 4 5 9 / 0 0 / $ 1 0 . 0 0 © 2 0 0 1 I E E E engineering is still a first-generation field, some of its basic ideas are widespread and reach back to practices in industrial design2 and the “golden rules” of John D. Gould and Clayton Lewis.3 The key principles include: the analysis of a product’s intended context of use (user skills and needs, task requirements, and physical, social, an...