Satisfaction in experiencing the future depends on decisions made today. We consider six well-known psychological laws governing satisfaction. The laws capture habit formation, social comparison, and satiation. We show it is possible to formalize these laws by means of a utility model, and to derive implications from the laws: wanting vs. liking, crescendo, recharge periods, variety seeking, an...

BACKGROUND Patients who play musical instruments (especially wind and stringed instruments) and vocalists are prone to particular types of orofacial problems. Some problems are caused by playing and some are the result of dental treatment. This paper proposes to give an insight into these problems and practical guidance to general practice dentists. METHOD Information in this paper is gathere...

To build a common controlled vocabulary is a formidable challenge in Medical Informatics. Due to vast scale and multiplicity in interpretation of medical data, it is natural to face overlapping terminologies in the process of tracing medical informatics [40]. A major concern lies in the integration of seemingly overlapping terminologies in the medical domain and this issue has not been well add...

To ascertain to what degree binge eating is experienced as an addiction, this study examined the proportion of women with binge-eating disorder (BED) whose symptoms met criteria for an addiction. Women (N = 79) with current BED completed a structured telephone interview to assess for symptoms of a modified version of DSM-IV substance dependence and Goodman's [(1990). Addiction: Definition and i...

What we normally think of as the “physical world” is also the world as experienced, that is, a world of appearances. Given this, what is the reality behind the appearances, and what might its relation be to consciousness and to constructive processes in the mind? According to Kant, the thing itself that brings about and supports these appearances is unknowable and we can never gain any understa...

Identifying What Does What for Brain Mechanisms of Outcome Utilities 330 Brain Mesolimbic Dopamine: Anticipated/Predicted Utility or Pure Decision Utility? 330 Berridge’s Incentive Salience Theory: Dopamine as Pure Decision Utility 331 Incentive Salience “Wanting” versus Ordinary Wanting 331 Computational Modeling of Incentive Salience as Decision Utility 333 Applications of Incentive Salience ...

This study aimed to identify the difficulties nurses experience at the start of their professional life in prenatal care activities. Data were collected through interviews with 25 nurses who accompanied prenatal care in the basic health network of Rio Branco-AC, Brazil and were grouped according to the frequency and level of difficulty they mentioned. We observed that nurses did not demonstrate...

Individuals differ in thermosensitivity, thermoregulation, and zones of thermoneutrality and thermal comfort. Whereas temperature sensing and -effectuating processes occur in part unconsciously and autonomic, awareness of temperature and thermal preferences can affect thermoregulatory behavior as well. Quantification of trait-like individual differences of thermal preferences and experienced te...