Poor mental wellbeing not only affects an individual and their family, but it also the workplace society as a whole. Consequently, is crucial to investigate approaches that can promote positive mindset in order enhance wellbeing. This study aimed explore association between gratitude, wellbeing, spirituality, experiencing meaningful work. A sample of 197 participants (69.5% female) completed me...

Even though the acknowledgement genre is a common practice in Arabic scholarly texts, this area largely neglected academic research. The present study examines generic structure and linguistic patterns of gratitude expressions used acknowledegments accompanying Ph.D. dissertation genre. To end, I have analyzed various rhetorical component options that writers use to convey role played by socio-...

We hypothesized that gratitude would be related to sense of coherence via positive reframing, which is a process by which negative events or circumstances are seen in a positive light. We tested this hypothesis in two studies. In Study 1 (N1⁄4 166) we found a strong, robust relationship between trait gratitude and sense of coherence above and beyond life satisfaction, positive and negative affe...

Gratitude is an important aspect of human sociality, which benefits mental health and interpersonal relationships. Thus, elucidating the neural mechanism of gratitude, which is only now beginning to be investigated, is important. To this end, this study specifies the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) involved in the gratitude of heterogeneous individuals using the transcranial direct current stim...

If someone is nice to you, you feel good and may be inclined to be nice to somebody else. This every day experience is borne out by experimental games: the recipients of an act of kindness are more likely to help in turn, even if the person who benefits from their generosity is somebody else. This behaviour, which has been called 'upstream reciprocity', appears to be a misdirected act of gratit...

Temporal expressions—references to points in time or periods of time—are widespread in text, and their proper interpretation is essential for any natural language processing task that requires the extraction of temporal information. Work on the interpretation of temporal expressions in text has generally been pursued in one of two paradigms: the formal semantics approach, where an attempt is ma...

In this report, we present an account of the semantics of the English temporal prepositions. The approach taken here stresses the limited range of expressive possibilities afforded by these words, and pays particular attention to the irregular interactions they exhibit with verb-tense and -aspect. A framework is developed within which the semantics of English temporal expressions can be couched...

This paper presents how an existing temporal processor was adapted to be used by the English Question Answering system developed part of the EU-funded project QALL-ME. Experiments applying the existing temporal processor to questions from the domain of tourism revealed that the existing temporal processor tackles far too many temporal expressions, and this makes it slower than necessary. In lig...

This paper presents a system for recognition and normalization of temporal expressions (TEs) in Serbian texts according to the TimeML specification language. Based on a finite-state transducers methodology, local grammars are designed to recognize calendar dates, times of day, periods of time and durations, to determine the extension of detected expressions, as well as to normalize their values...