The Emotional Controls of Nociception (ECON) paradigm involves the presentation of emotionally-charged pictures during which painful stimuli are delivered. Across several ECON studies, unpleasant pictures enhanced pain and nociception, whereas pleasant pictures inhibited pain and nociception. However, at this time it is unknown whether emotional valence (unpleasant, neutral, pleasant) influence...

The performance of linear interference suppression in a DS-CDMA (Direct-Sequence Code Division Multiple Access) system using random codes varies over the user population due to the random set of interfering sequences. As a result , the capacity of such systems depends on the distribution of the interfering signature sequences and consequently the distribution of the signal-to-interference ratio...

Just about everything changes, and so should a software system accordingly in order to survive and succeed. But how can we develop such a software system? Lately, a growing number of practitioners have shown great interests in using design patterns towards the development of an adaptable system, since design patterns represent high-level abstractions that reflect the experience of no other than...

In this paper we build on our work already produced on advanced separation of concerns for requirements engineering by adding two main ideas: (i) the integration of catalogues to help identifying and specifying concerns and (ii) improve the composition rules by informally defining some new operators.

Purpose This paper aims to evaluate non-financial reporting (NFR) frameworks insofar as risk is concerned. facilitated through analysis of the adequacy climate- and pandemic-related in three industries that are both significantly impacted by COVID-19 pandemic at from climate change. The pervasiveness climate-change risks have been highlighted 2020, hottest year on record struck. Stakeholders mi...

Despite the emergence of nonablative fractional resurfacing (NFR) as a new therapeutic modality for skin photoaging, little is known about the molecular events that underlie the heat shock response to different treatment parameters. Human subjects are treated with a scanned 1550-nm fractional laser at pulse energies spanning 6 to 40 mJ and a 140-μm spot size. The heat shock response is assessed...

Non-functional Requirements (NFRs) such as software quality attributes, software design constraints and software interface requirements hold crucial information about the constraints on the software system under development and its behavior. NFRs are subjective in nature and have a broad impact on the system as a whole. Being distinct from Functional Requirements (FR), NFRs are dealt with speci...

In a world overflowing with creative works, it is useful to be able to filter out the unimportant works so that the significant ones can be identified and thereby absorbed. An automated method could provide an objective approach for evaluating the significance of works on a universal scale. However, there have been few attempts at creating such a measure, and there are few "ground truths" for v...