Due to COVID-19 and the repeated imposition of lockdowns in Pakistan’s Sindh province, life senior citizens has become challenging. Given scarcity health care policies targeted at Sindh’s aged persons, use folk literature as therapy increased support against isolation, depression, distress caused by lockdowns. Although research on healthy ageing from medical perspectives been increasingly condu...

Cerebral cortex Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) assumes that those who are reasonably reasonable most of the time have more pleasant emotional lives. “The wise man is always happy—keeping an eye on his logic,” wrote Cicero, the prefeminist philosopher. Today even the Dalai Lama favours rationality: “My experience is that [mental peace] is obtained mainly through reasoning. Meditation does n...

OBJECTIVES This paper examines age-related changes in subjective well-being (SWB) in later life using multiple measures that cover eudemonic, evaluative, and affective dimensions of well-being. METHOD Using data from 5 waves of respondents aged 50 and older from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (2002-11), we fit multilevel linear growth curve models to examine the cohort differences a...

This paper presents a new model of gratitude incorporating not only the gratitude that arises following help from others but also a habitual focusing on and appreciating the positive aspects of life", incorporating not only the gratitude that arises following help from others, but also a habitual focusing on and appreciating the positive aspects of life. Research into individual differences in ...

An approach using component technology for the development of System Dynamics models is introduced. At first a brief introduction of System Dynamics, its modeling perspective and its modeling elements is given. The representation of System Dynamics models in Vensim, an interactive software environment for the handling of such models, is described. On this basis the paper provides an approach fo...

When evaluating and developing organisations, the business process perspective is a popular one to use. Several methods exist and there are new ones being developed. When evaluating and/or developing organisations from a business process perspective, there is a need to reconstruct existing business processes. We have experienced problems in distinguishing and delimiting business processes in re...

In this paper we develop a simple analytic characterization of the steady state throughput, as a function of loss rate and round trip time for a bulk transfer TCP ow, i.e., a ow with an unlimited amount of data to send. Unlike the models in [6, 7, 10], our model captures not only the behavior of TCP's fast retransmit mechanism (which is also considered in [6, 7, 10]) but also the e ect of TCP's...

Drawing an inspiration from behavioral studies of human decision making, we propose here a general parametric framework for multi-armed bandit problem, which extends the standard Thompson Sampling approach to incorporate reward processing biases associated with several neurological and psychiatric conditions, including Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s diseases, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disord...

This paper presents a numerical modelling study on the simulation of the cracking process and fracture energy in concrete under high strain rate. To capture the stress wave effect and the damage evolution at the meso-length scale, both a homogeneous model with a millimetreresolution mesh and an explicit heterogeneous mesoscale model with random polygon aggregates are employed. The tendency of d...