Introduction It is widely accepted that the performance of sex work involves both emotion work and emotional labour – the shaping of feelings, as well as their public management (for example, Chapkis, 1997; Sanders, 2004). However, whilst much is known about the feelings and experiences of female sex workers, very little is known about the experiences of their clients – the men who pay for sex....

stress is the way that our body responds to something that is out of the normal. when we are under stress, our body makes chemical and physical changes to try to maintain it. everyone responds to stressful status in their own way. researches show anxiety and stress during pregnancy can have both immediate and long-term effects on her offspring. in addition, the emotional state of the pregnant m...

The evolution of anatomically modern humans is frequently linked to the development of complex, symbolically based language. Language, functioning as a system of cognition and communication, is suggested to be the key behavior in later human evolution that isolated modern humans from their ancestors. Alternatively, other researchers view complex language as a much earlier hominid capacity, unre...

The number of children with undesirable lifestyles has recently increased. We tested the hypothesis that maternal feelings about pregnancy might be associated with their attitude towards promoting healthy lifestyles in their children. We used a city database collected from guardians of 204 randomly selected children aged 1 to 3 years in Nihonmatsu City, Fukushima. Maternal feeling about pregnan...

In most Interactive Storytelling systems, user interaction is based on natural language communication with virtual agents, either through isolated utterances or through dialogue. Natural language communication is also an essential element of interactive narratives in which the user is supposed to impersonate one of the story’s characters. Whilst techniques for narrative generation and agent beh...

International Family Planning Perspectives Many medical workers who treat women experiencing complications of induced or spontaneous abortion readily acknowledge that such women need “counseling,” but they often view counseling as a nonmedical function requiring specific training, a specially designated time apart from the provision of other postabortion services and a separate, private facilit...

A 28-year-old woman was referred to an epilepsy and neuropsychiatry service following a disastrous attempt at treating her infertility by a local gynaecological unit. At the age of 14 she had developed complex partial seizures. A single electroencephalograph (EEG) had shown epileptic activity focal to the right temporal lobe and she was placed on sodium valproate by a paediatrician. She continu...