THE AIM The aim of this study is to investigate the correlation between the morning level of serum cortisol and perceptive experience of optimism in a selected group of 60 patients with newly diagnosed cancer who were treated at Mostar University Clinical Hospital during a one-month period. PATIENTS AND METHODS The morning level of serum cortisol was measured in all patients following the ver...

There has been very limited research on the use of self-worth protection strategies in the achievement context of school physical education (PE). Thus, this study aimed to examine some antecedents and consequences of defensive pessimism and selfhandicapping. The sample comprised 534 (females n = 275; males n = 259) British pupils recruited from two schools who responded to established questionn...

This article explores the ways in which some female-authored solarpunk stories employ cyborg models developed by feminist cyberpunk fiction order to continue with its traditional role of liberating/liberated ontological subject. The text contemporary critical readings and analyzes Lauren Beukes’ Moxyland (2008), Camille Meyers’ “Solar Child” (2017), Brenda Cooper’s “For Snake Power” (2018) way ...

Off-policy deep reinforcement learning algorithms commonly compensate for overestimation bias during temporal-difference by utilizing pessimistic estimates of the expected target returns. In this work, we propose Generalized Pessimism Learning (GPL), a strategy employing novel learnable penalty to enact such pessimism. particular, learn alongside critic with dual TD-learning, new procedure esti...

Dee Jones is 35 years old, married, and the mother of three children, all younger than15 years of age. She had been healthy all of her life before she presented with a 2-week history of abdominal discomfort and anorexia. Evaluation revealed moderate jaundice, an enlarged liver, and abnormal liver function tests. An image of the abdomen showed a pancreatic mass and widespread metastatic disease ...