The trade in live crustaceans implies keeping these animals alive after capture and/or farming until purchase by the final consumer. Regarding animal welfare, the European Union includes cephalopods in Directive 2010/63/EU on the protection of animals used for scientific purposes, but there are no further regulations on crustaceans in EU legislation. The present study analysed the provisions of...

Under what conditions do individuals feel free to express their emotions? To what degree are actors constrained by the social domain in which their emotions are activat-ed? To what extent are they bound by the hierarchical position that they occupy or by their status as a function of their gender, race, or class? Questions such as these are central to the sociology of emotion and illustrate how...

The debate over the impact of government regulation on innovation in the United States is framed in the context of the gradual decline of economic regulation since the 1960s, and the gradual increase in social welfare regulation over the same period. Fueling much of the economic deregulation movement has been classical economic theory, which holds that regulation imposes a cost burden on firms,...

The present neuroimaging study investigated two aspects of difficulties with emotion associated with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD): affective lability and difficulty regulating emotion. While these two characteristics have been previously linked to BPD symptomology, it remains unknown whether individual differences in affective lability and emotion regulation difficulties are subserved ...

To identify the cause of emotion is a new challenge for researchers in nature language processing. Currently, there is no existing works on emotion cause detection from Chinese micro-blogging (Weibo) text. In this study, an emotion cause annotated corpus is firstly designed and developed through annotating the emotion cause expressions in Chinese Weibo Text. Up to now, an emotion cause annotate...

Recent compliance regulations are intended to foster and restore human trust in digital information records and, more broadly, in our businesses, hospitals, and educational enterprises. In the health sector, storage and management of electronic health records have become a vital issue. Specifically, with the passing of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), the securit...

We present a system designed to model characteristics which contribute to the emotional content of music. It creates n-gram models, Hidden Markov Models, and entropy-based models from corpora of musical selections representing various emotions. These models can be used both to identify emotional content and generate pieces representative of a target emotion. According to survey results, generat...

Humans have a number of emotion regulation strategies at their disposal, from which in a particular situation one or more can be chosen. The focus of this paper is on the processes behind the choice of these regulation strategies. The paper presents a neurologically inspired cognitive computational model of a monitoring and decision mechanism for emotion regulation incorporating different strat...

An objective of the paper was to determine a set of lowdimensional feature spaces that provide high emotion recognition rates. Candidates for target feature spaces were randomly drawn from a broad pool of speech signal parameters that comprised both commonly used characteristics and newly introduced features. As a result, several four-dimensional feature spaces that provide the highest emotion ...

A system consists of a text classifier and Fuzzy Inference System (FIS) to build a life-like virtual character capable of expressing emotion from a text input is proposed. The system classifies emotional content of sentence(s) from text input and expresses corresponding emotion by a facial expression. Text input is classified using the text classifier, while facial expression of the life-like c...