Pain is unique to every person, and difficult to quantify and treat. Whether it is delivered as a jolt or a persistent, dull ache, pain is guaranteed to affect one's quality of life. Our author examines how brain imaging is opening our eyes to the richness and complexity of the pain experience, giving us extraordinary insight into the neurochemistry, network activity, wiring, and structures rel...

Based on a robust literature indicating that happy couples tend to think and behave more positively in their relationships than less happy couples do, most interventions designed to treat and prevent marital distress tend to encourage couples to engage in morepositive cognitive and behavioral processes and avoid more-negative ones. Consistent with the limited effectiveness of such interventions...

This paper presents a small-scale acoustic investigation into postvocalic /r/ in both middle class and working class varieties of the Glaswegian accent. Tokens of /CVC/ and /CVrC/ minimal pairs (e.g. hut/hurt, bead/beard) were elicited from two middleclass and two working-class speakers, and the formant frequencies throughout the V(r) portion were analysed. The results show significant differen...

While prior research suggests that corporate sponsorship can positively affect consumers' perceptions of sponsors, little research to date has investigated the impact of such sponsorships on an individual's willingness to support nonprofits. This paper investigates the psychological processes that underlie whether and how corporate sponsorship impacts an individual's willingness to support nonp...

Deliberate self-harm rates in the UK are the highest in Europe, and at present, this problem is poorly understood, as there has been little research available to shed light on why such a considerable number of young people are compelled to hurt themselves. The Mental Health Foundation and The Camelot Foundation recently launched a UK-wide inquiry into self-harm among 11-25-year-olds, which aims...

New strategies to control U.S. health spending growth are urgently needed. Although provider payment cuts are likely, cutting fee-for-service (FFS) payments will hurt quality and access. A more sensible approach would be to restructure the delivery system into organized networks of providers delivering reliable, evidence-based care. But restructuring will not occur without payment policy reform...

Implication for health policy/practice/research/medical education: This article discusses the unintended aspects of sanctions by the US and its allies on the science and activity of the scientists in Iran. Authors explain that the sanctions if imposed against any country even intended or unintended would hurt the scientists and the basis of science and thus it is an unfair action. Copyright © 2...

abstract: iran passed wide range of events over her controversies history. it has great special geopolitics position, natural resources and cultural values. iran is in asia and connects asia to europe. iran as relational bridge has an important role so that it could be an important center during first and second world war for enemies' forces in spite of explicit neuter declaration from ira...

This study was designed to identify and analyse conceptual dimensions underlying the concepts pain, ache and hurt in order to provide a theoretical basis for further development of a methodology for the assessment of pain in clinical practice. The three words, pain, ache and hurt were studied in 1.814 contexts found in a computer based concordance of 7.8 million texts from Swedish newspapers an...

Platforms greatly facilitate transactions between buyers and sellers. At the same time, this allows platforms to gather detailed information on tailor their strategies when introducing own products that compete with independent Concerns have been raised such an advantage of can hurt To investigate impact usage by platforms, we analyze a dynamic game-theoretic model where competing sellers trade...