Background: Given the importance of emotions, present study is conducted to investigate the effectiveness of achievement emotions regulation training package on negative emotions and self-regulation learning strategies (cognitive and metacognitive) among female high-school students. Methods: The research method is semi-experimental with pre-test, post-test and follow-up for two months relative...

This study examined differences between men and women, and between individuals experiencing rejection (Rejectees) and individuals doing the rejecting (Rejectors) in romantic relationship break-ups. We tested fourteen evolution-based predictions about romantic breakups using data from 193 participants; ten received support. Women more than men, for example, experienced costly sequelae such as th...

The intention of this article is to create a link between human spatial cognition research and architectural design. We conducted an empirical study with human subjects in a complex multi-level building and compared thinking aloud protocols and performance measures of experienced and inexperienced participants in different wayfinding tasks. Three specific strategies for navigation in multilevel...

Maneuvers performed with tractor-trailers vehicles (N-trailers) belong to the most demanding motion control tasks in the transportation practice. Very frequent maneuvers concern the lining-up process of a vehicle chain, usually as a preliminary stage which prepares the system to subsequent parking/docking maneuvers. The most common lining-up control approach results from utilization of the open...

This study was performed to evaluate the role of postnatal ultrasonography (US) in predicting the final diagnosis and need of surgery of antenatal hydronephrosis patients. One hundred and twenty six renal units (RUs) of 76 patients with diagnosis of antenatal hydronephrosis (ANH) were studied. An early postnatal US no later than the first week of life was requested. Voiding cystourethrography (...

In human social interaction, the notions of commitment and trust are strongly interrelated. A formal model for this interrelation will enable artificial agents to benefit from the associated reduction of complexity and improved possibilities for cooperation. We argue that the notion of living up to one’s commitments, rather than actual fulfillment, plays the key role in the trust–commitment int...