In a previous study, a significant negative correlation between shyness with affiliative humor and a significant positive one with self-defeating humor were reported. Since shyness and loneliness share many of the same characteristics, poor social skills and negative affect, for example, significant negative correlations of loneliness with affiliative and self-enhancing humor and a significant ...

Nanocontact printing using hydrogen silsesquioxane (HSQ) soft stamps is studied for nanobio device fabrications in this work. The stamps with designed linewidth 80-200 nm were fabricated by low-dose e-beam lithography on HSQ films. The contact printing technique by using aminosilane as the ink on O2 plasma treated HSQ/Si substrates was developed. The plasma treatment, stamping force and stampin...

The purpose of this study was to reevaluate the multi-dimensional model of humor creation, which is comprised of three dimensions: humor motivation, humor cognition, and humor communication, using in vivo (natural setting) methodology. Thirty-four lecturers from colleges and universities completed a questionnaire. Additionally, 1530 students observed these lecturers and evaluated their sense of...

In the past three decades the medical world has begun to take more serious notice of the healing power of humor and the positive emotions associated with it. Humor and laughter are currently being employed by psychotherapists and other care givers as tools to promote and maintain health, as well as intervention and rehabilitation tools for a host of maladies and illnesses related to stress and ...

introduction: nursing is among most stressful jobs and a common syndrome is job burnout in nurses caused by stress. enhancing coping capacity is an effective factor in dealing with stresses. thus it seems significant to study the effect of sense of humour on job burnout and nurses’ resiliency. objective: the present study was conducted to determie the relationship between severity of nurses’ bu...

When used as a negative-tone electron-beam resist, hydrogen silsesquioxane HSQ is typically developed in an aqueous alkali solution such as tetramethyl ammonium hydroxide. This development process results in low contrast. In this work, the authors instead used a mixture of salt and alkali to significantly increase the contrast of HSQ. Contrast values as high as 10 in a 115-nm-thick resist were ...

This study aimed to test how sense of humor is dependent on the complex and dynamic interactions between emotional (temperament) sociocognitive (character) components personality. Specifically, we examined relationship temperament and/or character profiles overall potential comic style. In total, 665 adults responded Cloninger’s Temperament Character Inventory (TCI) Comic Style Markers. were as...