This article is dedicated to the metaphilosophical pessimism of C. McGinn. McGinn known as a main proponent “new mysterianism” in contemporary analytic philosophy mind. According mysterianism, we can’t solve mind-body problem because natural cognitive limitations on our side. McGinn’s view nature component this conception. In general, mysterian metaphilosophy didn’t get enough coverage research...

Background and Purpose: The association between optimism and pessimism and health outcomes has attracted increasing research interest. To date, the association between these psychological variables and risk of stroke remains unclear. We examined the relationship between pessimism and the 7-year incidence of stroke. Methods: A random sample of 23 216 adults (9 480 men, 13 796 women) aged 20-54 y...

Knowledge plays a critical role in achieving organization strategic objectives and gaining competitive advantage; thus, knowledge like other organizational resources needs to be managed. However, knowledge management (KM) often lacks adequate infrastructure and necessary requirements that makes its implementation difficult and costly. It is argued that the first step to accommodate a KM strateg...

Objectives and Methods. The aim of the present study was to evaluate, by means of receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves, whether cognitive vulnerabilities (CV), as measured by three well-known instruments (the Beck Hopelessness Scale, BHS; the Life Orientation Test-Revised, LOT-R; and the Attitudes Toward Self-Revised, ATS-R), independently discriminate between subjects with different ...

We propose a method called Fast and Realistic Attacker Modeling and Evaluation (FRAME) that can reduce pessimism in static noise analysis by exploiting temporal logical correlation of attackers and using novel techniques termed envelopes and σ functions. Unlike conventional pruningbased approaches, FRAME efficiently considers all relevant attackers, thereby producing more realistic results. FRA...

Musculoskeletal disorders account for a higher proportion of sickness absence from work in the European Union than any other health condition. The present study examined the associations between work environment, dispositional optimism/pessimism and medically certified sickness absence caused by musculoskeletal complaints in a sample of employees from the Norwegian Armed Forces (N = 1190, 77.5%...

Learning methods vary in the optimism or pessimism with which they regard the informativeness of learned knowledge. Pessimism is implicit in hypothesis testing, where we wish to draw cautious conclusions from experimental evidence. However, this paper demonstrates that optimism in the utility of derived rules may be the preferred bias for learning systems themselves. We examine the continuum be...

OBJECTIVE We sought to explore optimism/pessimism, knowledge of HIV, and attitudes toward HIV screening and treatment among Ghanaian pregnant women. METHOD Pregnant women in Accra, Ghana, completed a self-administered questionnaire including the Life Orientation Test-Revised (LOT-R, an optimism/pessimism measure), an HIV knowledge and screening attitudes questionnaire, the Short Form 12 (SF-1...

Some personality traits have key importance for health because they can affect the maintenance and evolution of different disorders with a high prevalence in older people, including stress pathologies and diseases. In this study we investigated how two relevant personality traits, optimism and pessimism, affect the psychophysiological response of 72 healthy participants (55 to 76 years old) exp...