Abstract Deep personal relationships involve deep mutual understanding and strong affection. This paper focuses on whether having is one of the elements well-being. Roger Crisp put forward thought experiments which might be taken to suggest that has only instrumental value as a means other The different conclusion this draws an element well-being if, but people involved have qualities merit aff...

BDI (Belief Desire Intention) cognitive framework has become a popular tool to design intelligent agents. Particularly, EBDI (Emotional BDI) agents have emerged strongly in the last years. Its affective modeling usually includes emotions, mood, personality and also some affective capacities. Despite this, there are affective aspects that are not considered when modeling affection and a proposal...

Is a person more receptive to love and affection when his self-esteem, is high or when it is low? Learning theorists, clinicians, and dissonance theorists provide conflicting answers. This paper proposes and tests an explanation for these contradictory research findings. This explanation is based on the assumption that low-self-esteem individuals are unusually receptive to affection when they r...

Mycoplasma is a virulent organism that is known to primarily infect the respiratory tract; however, affection of the skin, nervous system, kidneys, heart and bloodstream has been observed in various forms, which include Stevens Johnson syndrome, erythema multiforme, toxic epidermal necrolysis, encephalitis, renal failure, conduction system abnormalities and hemolytic anemia. Small vessel vascul...

The following case is a remarkable instance of the mimicry of joint-disease in hysteria. For three years the patient was under the treatment of various surgeons for organic disease of the hip, and yet when the true nature of the affection was recognised she was cured in less than three months. The affection for more than two years was confined to one hip, and was considered to be certainly tube...

Research suggests that families have development histories which influence their responses to situations across the life course. The present study examined the effects of family relationship histories on intergenerational affection and conflict between adult children and their parents and how this affects parents' depressive symptoms. Path analysis based on matched reports of adult children and...

Choosing an appropriate gift is difficult because the purpose of gift giving is to arouse affection in the receiver, not the giver, and too many variables that influence the results. Utilizing 600 samples and a hybrid method combining the decision tree and K-nearest neighbor approaches, this study builds a DTKNN two–stepped recommendation system which achieves a precision rate higher than 80%. ...