Although listeners are able to decode the underlying emotions embedded in acoustical laughter sounds, little is known about the acoustical cues that differentiate between the emotions. This study investigated the acoustical correlates of laughter expressing four different emotions: joy, tickling, taunting, and schadenfreude. Analysis of 43 acoustic parameters showed that the four emotions could...

'WITH every tap a peculiar itching or tickling sensation may be perceived in the tendon'. So was the feeling described, ninety years ago, in the first account of the hammer as applied to the patellar tendon.' For the well equipped physician had been carrying in his bag some variant of our red rubber triangle mounted on a stainless steel handle quite some time before the words just quoted appear...

slow sand filters are as a proper technology for pre-treatment of raw water, with a fine and medium trubidity in small communities in developing countries. thus, with a minimum operation cost and minimum need for expest bodies have the maximum efficiency. the purpose of this research is carried out to evaluate the efficiency of two processes of horizontal flow roughing filter and vertical flow ...

One way for the development of tourism objects is to make promotional texts. The text will be interesting if it packaged with element "language game" by utilizing sound word game. Because using this form, existence – directly or indirectly have a sense "curious: and tickling". results research can used as reference well making promotion stages include: 1. stage providing data, 2. data classific...

Contribution of phosphatidylserine receptor to apoptotic cell uptake Apoptosis or programmed cell death occurs during embryogenesis, normal cell turnover, and as a consequence of immune mediated, infectious, or inflammatory effects. Clearance of intact apoptotic cells (ACs)* by phagocytes protects surrounding tissues from intracellular factors and reduces the likelihood of tissue damage caused ...

We report a 10-year-old boy with mild developmental delay and epilepsy with new events of right back tickling and emotional upset. These initially appeared behavioral, causing postulation of habit behaviors or psychogenic nonepileptic seizures. Several ictal and interictal EEGs were unrevealing. Continuous EEG revealed only poorly localized frontal ictal activity. Given that his clinical sympto...

BACKGROUND Benign lesion interior to the cavernous sinus (CS) is very rare. OBJECTIVE In this series we found nonneoplastic lymphatic aggregation and osteoclastoma inside the CS which is very rare and probably not reported in literature. One interesting postoperative complaint of feeling of tickling down of warm water under the skin forehead was found in the patient of inflammatory disease of...

A 65-year-old man has a three-month history of lumbar back pain and progressive lower extremity weakness due a T6 spinal cord compression secondary to hepatic metastatic carcinoma. Examination revealed, paraplegia, urinary incontinence, T10 sensory level, lower limbs hyperactive deep reflex, and hallux indifferent cutaneous plantar response but with an exuberant fascia lata reflex (Figure). The...

Projection operators are employed to evaluate functions of operators. In particular, this formalism is used to find polynomial expressions for exponential operators and thence to solve density matrix evolutions in closed analytical form. Problems explicitly treated include pulse rotation ofspin1 and spin-j systems, spin tickling and spin interferometry on a system of two coupled spin-f nuclei, ...