yoga has been considered as one of influential factors in reducing stress and psychological disease in many countries all over the world. in iran, yoga has received much attention from iranian women recently and this trend is accelerating. this study aimed to explore the main reasons of their interest. since family life is considered as the most important private sphere of women’s lives, this s...

The objective of this study was to understand how the partners of mastectomized women perceived life after the surgery. The study is both descriptive and exploratory, and was conducted in 2006 with five men who lived with mastectomized women in Fortaleza, Brazil. Semi-structured interviews were performed and the results were grouped into three analytic categories. We identified a level of misin...

Indian Academy of Social Sciences (ISSA) has resolved to devote the 31st session of Indian Social Science Congress (XXXI ISSC) on ‘Peoples’ Struggles And Movements For Equitable Society’ with a view to discovering, developing and disseminating a new scientific knowledge relevant to creating a new democratic global society free from hunger, poverty, literacy, unemployment and violence of any sor...

Humans have recognized for several millennia that the complexity of their lives is a function of time. When we reminisce about the “good old days,” we refer the simplicity and tranquility. When we look forward we have always do so with trepidation. 9/11, cyber-terrorism, and the December, 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami are all reminders that our fears are not without warrant. In this paper we’ll loo...

In this paper, we propose living-being-like breathing expressions concurrent with both aspiration and utterances using a stuffed-toy robot in order to enable intimate interactions. The focus of the research is the impression of the intimacy between the robot and the user corresponding to the physical distance of the two. From the factor analysis of the impression for the word “intimacy” and the...