scholarly journals Cognitive and Emotional Aspects of Cupping Therapy

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 144 ◽  
Author(s):  
Minyoung Hong ◽  
In-Seon Lee ◽  
Yeonhee Ryu ◽  
Junsuk Kim ◽  
Younbyoung Chae
Keyword(s):  
Cluster Analysis ◽  
Healthy Volunteers ◽  
Cupping Therapy ◽  
Emotional States ◽  
Two Dimensional ◽  
Fear Of Pain ◽  
Public Attention ◽  
Emotional Aspects ◽  
Psychophysical Analysis ◽  
Valence And Arousal

Cupping therapy has recently gained public attention and is widely used in many regions. Some patients are resistant to being treated with cupping therapy, as visually unpleasant marks on the skin may elicit negative reactions. This study aimed to identify the cognitive and emotional components of cupping therapy. Twenty-five healthy volunteers were presented with emotionally evocative visual stimuli representing fear, disgust, happiness, neutral emotion, and cupping, along with control images. Participants evaluated the valence and arousal level of each stimulus. Before the experiment, they completed the Fear of Pain Questionnaire-III. In two-dimensional affective space, emotional arousal increases as hedonic valence ratings become increasingly pleasant or unpleasant. Cupping therapy images were more unpleasant and more arousing than the control images. Cluster analysis showed that the response to cupping therapy images had emotional characteristics similar to those for fear images. Individuals with a greater fear of pain rated cupping therapy images as more unpleasant and more arousing. Psychophysical analysis showed that individuals experienced unpleasant and aroused emotional states in response to the cupping therapy images. Our findings suggest that cupping therapy might be associated with unpleasant-defensive motivation and motivational activation. Determining the emotional components of cupping therapy would help clinicians and researchers to understand the intrinsic effects of cupping therapy.

Analyzing Emotional Oscillatory Brain Network for Valence and Arousal-Based Emotion Recognition Using EEG Data

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (04) ◽  
pp. 1359-1378
Author(s):  
Jianzhuo Yan ◽  
Hongzhi Kuai ◽  
Jianhui Chen ◽  
Ning Zhong
Keyword(s):  
Emotion Recognition ◽  
Affective Computing ◽  
Affective State ◽  
Feature Selection Method ◽  
Emotional Valence ◽  
Brain Network ◽  
Previous Method ◽  
Emotional States ◽  
Eeg Data ◽  
Valence And Arousal

Emotion recognition is a highly noteworthy and challenging work in both cognitive science and affective computing. Currently, neurobiology studies have revealed the partially synchronous oscillating phenomenon within brain, which needs to be analyzed from oscillatory synchronization. This combination of oscillations and synchronism is worthy of further exploration to achieve inspiring learning of the emotion recognition models. In this paper, we propose a novel approach of valence and arousal-based emotion recognition using EEG data. First, we construct the emotional oscillatory brain network (EOBN) inspired by the partially synchronous oscillating phenomenon for emotional valence and arousal. And then, a coefficient of variation and Welch’s [Formula: see text]-test based feature selection method is used to identify the core pattern (cEOBN) within EOBN for different emotional dimensions. Finally, an emotional recognition model (ERM) is built by combining cEOBN-inspired information obtained in the above process and different classifiers. The proposed approach can combine oscillation and synchronization characteristics of multi-channel EEG signals for recognizing different emotional states under the valence and arousal dimensions. The cEOBN-based inspired information can effectively reduce the dimensionality of the data. The experimental results show that the previous method can be used to detect affective state at a reasonable level of accuracy.

The Loyal Traveler: Examining a Typology of Service Patronage

1997 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 2-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark P. Pritchard ◽  
Dennis R. Howard
Keyword(s):  
Cluster Analysis ◽  
Discriminant Analysis ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Two Dimensional ◽  
Composite Measure ◽  
The Third ◽  
Dimensional Matrix ◽  
Repeat Purchase ◽  
Clear Support

The first goal of this study was to determine whether Day's (1969) measure of loyalty could be extended to better understand travel service patronage. Findings provide clear support that this composite measure, of repeat purchase and loyal attitude, is an effective approach to distinguishing the loyal traveler. A cluster analysis that combined scores on the composite measure from 428 travelers supported a two-dimensional matrix that identified four types of loyalty: true, spurious, latent, and low. This accomplished the study's second purpose by confirming that the four distinct levels of loyalty exist in a variety of service settings. Discriminant analysis was used to achieve the third objective — To identify those characteristics that differentiate the truly loyal patron. The resulting profile found this traveler to be a highly satisfied, symbolically involved consumer drawn to those services that exhibit an empathetic, caring concern for their patrons. These findings generate a much clearer understanding of how service providers can measure and manage their returning patrons.

scholarly journals Influence of arousal on intentional binding: Impaired action binding, intact outcome binding

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Render ◽  
Petra Jansen
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Arousal ◽  
Interactive Effect ◽  
Violent Behavior ◽  
Continuous Measure ◽  
Emotional States ◽  
Intentional Binding ◽  
Action Execution ◽  
Emotion Induction ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Valence And Arousal

Abstract Emotional states have been indicated to affect intentional binding, resulting in an increase or decrease as a function of valence and arousal. Sexual arousal is a complex emotional state proven to impair attentional and perceptual processes, and is therefore highly relevant to feeling in control over one’s actions. We suggest that sexual arousal affects intentional binding in the same way as highly negative arousing states such as fear and anger. Ninety participants performed the intentional binding task before and after watching an either sexually arousing or emotionally neutral film clip. Analyses were conducted for the subcomponents action and outcome binding separately including the change in arousal before and after the emotion induction as a continuous measure. Results showed an interactive effect for time of measurement (before and after emotion induction) and arousal change on action binding: a decrease in action binding was noted in participants who reported to be more aroused and an increase in action binding was observed for participants who reported to be less aroused. Results emphasize that alterations in action binding are likely to reflect the deficits in the dopaminergic system involved in action execution. An impaired feeling of control in aroused states may play a crucial role for the underlying psychological mechanisms of impulsive violent behavior.

Cluster analysis and multiplet pattern recognition in two-dimensional NMR spectra

1990 ◽  
Vol 89 (3) ◽  
pp. 543-552
Author(s):  
Klaus-Peter Neidig ◽  
Rainer Saffrich ◽  
Michael Lorenz ◽  
Hans Robert Kalbitzer
Keyword(s):  
Cluster Analysis ◽  
Pattern Recognition ◽  
Nmr Spectra ◽  
Two Dimensional

Statistical approach in cluster analysis of two-dimensional quasicrystals

2005 ◽  
Vol 61 (3) ◽  
pp. 350-357 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aleksandra Dąbrowska ◽  
Bartłomiej Kozakowski ◽  
Janusz Wolny
Keyword(s):  
Cluster Analysis ◽  
Statistical Approach ◽  
Two Dimensional

Solving Secure Problems for Wireless Sensor Networks Using Clustering and OKS

2013 ◽  
Vol 818 ◽  
pp. 230-236
Author(s):  
Yu Quan Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Cluster Analysis ◽  
Wireless Sensor Networks ◽  
Wireless Sensor Network ◽  
Sensor Networks ◽  
Sensor Network ◽  
Network Connectivity ◽  
Wireless Sensor ◽  
Two Dimensional ◽  
Wsn Security

A secure scheme for wireless sensor network is presented through dividing sensing area into clusters and using the overlap key sharing (OKS) concept in this paper. The two-dimensional sensing square is divided into a number of small squares called cells, four of which consist of a cluster called logical group. The overlap key sharing protocol creates long bit clusters as the key cluster pools and distributes a sub-group to store every sensor as the key cluster. Analysis and comparison demonstrate this scheme enhances the WSN security, realizes the flexile secure grades for WSNs, and has good network connectivity.

scholarly journals Two Dimensional Cluster Analysis of Air Quality by Time and Area

2008 ◽  
Vol 17 (5) ◽  
pp. 517-524
Author(s):  
Seong-Seung Wee ◽  
Jae-Hoon Kim ◽  
Chi-Kyung Ahn ◽  
Byong-Su Choi ◽  
Dae-Seon Kim
Keyword(s):  
Cluster Analysis ◽  
Air Quality ◽  
Two Dimensional

scholarly journals Patterns of Emotional Displays in Campaign Messages during the 2019 European Parliamentary Election in Lithuania

Intersections ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kiryl Kascian ◽  
Viktor Denisenko
Keyword(s):  
Public Image ◽  
Parliamentary Election ◽  
Public Attention ◽  
Political Messages ◽  
Political Discourses ◽  
Emotional Displays ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Campaign Messages ◽  
Emotional Aspects ◽  
Political Groups

The 2019 European Parliament (EP) election in Lithuania was a second-order event significantly affected by domestic political developments and agendas. As with all previous EP elections, it attracted a minimal level of public attention in Lithuania, creating challenges and opportunities for Lithuanian political groups to effectively reach their electorates. This article focuses on the emotional display patterns of the campaign messages of political parties during the 2019 European Parliamentary campaign in Lithuania. To this end, it applies Lasswell’s model of commu-nication to assess printed media- and social-network-based campaign materials. Findings confirm that emotional messages dominated the communication of the political groups to their voters, and show the extremely broad spectrum of political messages that were used to arouse emotions. The study indicates that the concept of Europe remains distant and abstract to voters in Lithuania. Politicians’ messages to voters overwhelmingly appealed to the European context when addressing domestic agendas, thereby exploiting the emotional aspects of domestic political discourses in Lithuania and the perception of the EU in the country. Finally, the study demonstrates that the personification of political strategies involving politicians’ charisma, public image, and expressivity were key elements in terms of the election outcome.

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