Emotion is defined as a property of intentional behavior. The widespread practice of separating emotion from reason is traced to an ancient distinction between passive perception, which is driven by sensory information from the environment, and active perception, which begins with dynamics in the brain that moves the body into the environment in search of stimuli. The neurodynamics of intention...

Social network games (SNGs) are part of the highly evolving marketing and e-commerce channel of social network sites (SNSs). Marketers in SNGs offer economic incentives of game currency or virtual goods in exchange for consumer interactions with ads, often encouraging consumers to forward marketer-generated messages broadly to social networks. This study investigates factors that lead consumers...

CONTEXT When elderly patients face a terminal illness such as lung cancer, most are unaware that what we term in this article "the Lake Wobegon effect" taints the treatment advice imparted to them by their oncologists. In framing treatment plans, cancer specialists tend to intimate that elderly patients are like the children living in Garrison Keillor's mythical Lake Wobegon: above average and ...

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Behavioral norms consist of two components: a cognitive component of obligation that is thememory repository of social standards, and an emotional component of sanctions that are the feelings and physiological states that result when actual behavior is consistent or not consistent with the obligation. This article analyzes the cognitive and emotional components of norms identiŽ ed in three stud...

Highly oriented VO2 thin films were grown on sapphire substrates by the sol-gel method that includes a low pressure annealing in an oxygen atmosphere. This reduction process effectively promotes the formation of the VO2 phase over a relatively wide range of pressures below 100 mTorr and temperatures above 400◦C. X-ray diffraction analysis showed that as-deposited films crystallize directly to t...

Aims of the Study: This study was carried out to determine the effective factors in environmental health status of grocery stores in the city of Qom (located in the center of Iran). Materials & Methods: In this cross-sectional study, 283 grocery stores from 3 different regions were selected randomly using stratified sampling. Data were gathered through ...

This paper presents two algorithmic refinements that improve systematic testing of asynchronous message-passing programs for a fixed input. Such programs can have a large number of possible execution paths due to the nondeterministic interleaving of messages. However, many paths are equivalent, and dynamic partial-order reduction (DPOR) techniques attempt to explore all distinct, feasible behav...

ances noted above were all exaggerated; such spasms, however, often came on at short intervals without any visible disturbing cause. The patient's body was covered with perspiration and the temperature was normal. The bowels were, as a rule, constipated, and there was also some difficulty in passing urine voluntarily. The patient could speak but very indistinctly ; she was however quite rationa...