Across the board of mobiles as handheld gadgets prompts to different creative applications that makes utilization of their constantly expanding nearness in our day by day life. One such application is area following and checking. This paper proposes a model for area following utilizing Geographical Positioning System (GPS) and Global System for Mobile Communication (GSM) innovation. The framewo...

Some studies find that eating with TV increases food intake while others do not. Some of this variability may reflect the engagingness of what is being watched (i.e., content). To test this we varied engagingness by manipulating content familiarity. Female participants undertook two sessions. In the "Different" session they watched two different episodes of the comedy Friends, with snack food p...

Recent studies demonstrate that some brain structures activated by pain are also engaged when an individual observes someone else in pain, and that these empathy-related responses are modulated as a function of the affective link between the empath and the individual in pain. In this study we test the hypothesis that empathy-evoked activation in the pain network leads to heightened pain percept...

This study investigated whether observers can identify what language was being spoken in visual-only speech stimuli, and whether or not this ability depends on an observers’ prior linguistic experience. Participants watched visual-only speech stimuli and were asked to decide if the talker in the video was speaking English or Spanish. Four groups of participants were studied: monolinguals and bi...

Previous research has shown that inhibiting emotion-expressive behavior (emotion suppression) leads to increased sympathetic activation of the cardiovascular system [Gross, J.J. and Levenson, R.W. (1993). Emotional suppression: physiology, self-report, and expressive behavior. J. Pers. Soc. Psychol. 64(6), 970-986]. Ethnic differences have been reported in how frequently suppression is used as ...

Over the past two centuries, surveillance technology has advanced in three major spurts. In the first instance the surveillance instrument was a specially designed building, Bentham’s Panopticon; in the second, a tightly controlled television network, Orwell’s Big Brother; today, an electronic human-tracking service. Functionally, each technology provided total surveillance within the confines ...

Watching news is important for preadolescents, but it may also harm their well-being. This study examined whether applying insights from positive psychology to news production can reduce this potential harm, by reducing negative emotional responses and enhancing positive emotional responses to negative news, and by encouraging prosocial intentions. Moreover, we explored whether peer discussion ...

YOU ENTER A CAVE full of twisty little passages, all alike. You and your friends follow the path of a more experienced spelunker, who happens to be a bit portly. He gets stuck in a narrow corridor, unable to move forward or backward, thus trapping the rest of the party. Unfortunately for you, a stream on your side of the cave is rising. If you do nothing, you and your friends will drown. Fortun...

Transparency is a complex issue, which can be approached from many angles and with various conceptual tools. This contribution provides a brief survey of the economic literature on transparency. The conceptual tool that economists use is the principal-agent model, a game-theoretic setting where a principal (the citizens, shareholders, etc) wants an agent (the government, the CEO, etc.) to perfo...

The Bugis tribe in South Sulawesi has a tradition that is still being carried out today, namely 'uang panai.' Uang Panai given to the bride and groom. purpose of this research examine reception Maha(r)l's film 'Uang Panai.' This study used qualitative methods. Data was collected through in-depth interviews. informants who were subjects five people with criteria having watched Maha(r)l panai', n...