OBJECTIVE The study examined the relationship of self-rated health and self-rated economic situation with depressed mood, and life satisfaction as mediator of this relationship among older adults in Costa Rica. METHOD A longitudinal study was conducted with a subsample (N = 1,618) from the Costa Rican Longevity and Healthy Aging Study (CRELES). Self-rated health, self-rated economic situation...

A lot of research has been done in the past decade in the field of audio content analysis for extracting various information from audio signal. One such significant information is the ”perceived mood” or the ”emotions” related to a music or audio clip. This information is extremely useful in applications like creating or adapting the play-list based on the mood of the listener. This information...

BACKGROUND Self-management is important for family caregivers of people with dementia, especially when they face changes in their relative's behavior and mood, such as depression, apathy, anxiety, agitation and aggression. The aim of this study is to give insight into why these changes in behavior and mood are stressful for family caregivers, what self-management strategies family caregivers us...

Building upon recent findings that affective states can influence the allocation of spatial attention, we investigate how state, trait and induced mood are related to the temporal allocation of attention to emotional information. In the present study, 125 unscreened undergraduates completed a modified rapid serial visual presentation task designed to assess the time course of attention to posit...

BACKGROUND Hong Kong (HK) has pluralistic primary care that is provided by a variety of doctors. The aim of our study was to assess patient-reported outcomes of primary care consultations in HK and whether having a family doctor (FD) made any difference. METHODS We interviewed by telephone 3148 subjects from 5174 contacted households (response rate 60.8%) randomly selected from the general po...

Spatiotemporal chaos of a two-dimensional one-way coupled map lattice is used for chaotic cryptography. The chaotic outputs of many space units are used for encryption simultaneously. This system shows satisfactory cryptographic properties of high security; fast encryption (decryption) speed; and robustness against noise disturbances in communication channel. The overall features of this spatio...

Previous research has shown that people solve insight or creative problems better when in a positive mood (assessed or induced), although the precise mechanisms and neural substrates of this facilitation remain unclear. We assessed mood and personality variables in 79 participants before they attempted to solve problems that can be solved by either an insight or an analytic strategy. Participan...

the aim of this paper is to study of sociological factors affecting young girls and women’s use of make-up tools. the study has been conducted through survey method and the data has been collected by questionnaire. the statistical sample was 200 girl and women students from kerman universities that selected by simple random sampling. also, in this paper, has been used from kendall, somers d and...