Addictive behavior associated with alcoholism is characterized by compulsive preoccupation with obtaining alcohol, loss of control over consumption, and development of tolerance and dependence, as well as impaired social and occupational functioning. Like other addictive disorders, alcoholism is characterized by chronic vulnerability to relapse after cessation of drinking. To understand the fac...

The impact of adult attachment to parents, perceived disease severity, and caregiving behaviors, moderated by perceived caregiving adequacy, were investigated in 108 adult children of patients with dementia. Multiple regression analyses indicated that attachment style, the trait aspect of attachment, predicted both aspects of caregiver burden: caregiving difficulty and psychological symptomatol...

The pursuit of happiness is a preoccupation for many people. Yet only the pursuit can be promised, not happiness itself. Can science help? We focus on the most tractable ingredient, hedonia or positive affect. A step toward happiness might be gained by improving the pleasures and positive moods in daily life. The neuroscience of pleasure and reward provides relevant insights, and we discuss how...

In 2 studies of physical violence and sexuality among college students, more than 75% of men and more than 60% of women reported committing physical violence in the past year, including more women to partners and more men to non-partners. More than 90% of men who committed violence to partners were also violent to non-partners. In Study 1, among 193 men and 203 women, people who committed viole...

Data compression and learning are, in some sense, two sides of the same coin. If we paraphrase Occam’s razor by saying that a small theory is better than a larger theory with the same explanatory power, we can characterize data compression as a preoccupation with small, and learning as a preoccupation with better. Nevill-Manning et al. (1994) presented an algorithm, since dubbed SEQUITUR, that ...

Highlights Discussions of diversity in relation to children's education are often characterized by binaries same/different, mainstream/margins, inclusion/exclusion, self/Other. Curriculum remains a contested site educational debate, with differing views about curriculum as reinforcing social norms, beliefs, and values, addressing the learning needs learners from variety backgrounds worldviews, ...

In the era of Fourth Industrial Revolution, establishment a TBT system that utilizes knowledge-based view as means overcoming problems scarcity human resources and lack technological capabilities faced by export companies produce supply products services is being emphasized. The WTO Agreement, which based on multilateral agreement GATT 7th Tokyo Round, consists 15 articles 3 annexes to ensure t...