...Seasonal Affective Disorder, also known as SAD, is a common problem of people living in the northern parts of the world. Seasonal Affective Disorder is a regular seasonal pattern that consists of many depressive episodes during the fall and winter months with periods of improvement in the spring and summer months (Rohan 1.) People who are affected by this disorder suffer from lethargy, weight gain, inability to concentrate, and depression. Many experiencing this disorder also report they suffer from craving starches and sweets, and even gaining at least five percent of their body weight (Rohan 1.) People in the north are more likely to suffer from this disorder because of the shorter days they experience. Due to the deficiency of sunlight, some people suffer from these symptoms. These shortened days have an emotional and hormonal effect on the body. These effects cause the symptoms of SAD....
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...Course (“SAD”). Previous research has examined instructors’ perceptions regarding the skills and topics that are most important in the teaching of the SAD course and the class time devoted to each. A similar assessment evaluated SAD course content from a practitioner perspective. Both studies used entropy calculations. A comparison of these studies is presented in this paper. For traditional topics, the group (either faculty or practitioner) with greater agreement believes the topic to be deserving of less class time. For structured and object-oriented topics, the group with the greater agreement also believes the topic to be of greater importance. This analysis demonstrates that practitioners and academics agree on approximately 40% of the SAD skills and knowledge areas. Keywords: Systems analysis and design, Structured analysis, Object-oriented analysis, Management Information Systems curricula, Entropy INTRODUCTION It is important that an education in Management Information Systems (MIS) is reflective of practices and techniques that are currently used in industry. Given the pace of technological innovation, there are ever-changing demands of technology workers [19] [30]. The content of each MIS course should be regularly compared to the skills that are required by employers, as an alignment must exist to ensure adequate preparation of students. As a significant component of the MIS curriculum and a primary focus of IS professionals, the content offered in the SAD course has...
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...Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts 2012, Vol. 6, No. 3, 204 –213 © 2012 American Psychological Association 1931-3896/12/$12.00 DOI: 10.1037/a0026937 Can Sad Music Really Make You Sad? Indirect Measures of Affective States Induced by Music and Autobiographical Memories Jonna K. Vuoskoski and Tuomas Eerola University of Jyvaskyla ¨ ¨ The present study addressed music’s disputed ability to induce genuine sadness in listeners by investigating whether listening to sad music can induce sadness-related effects on memory and judgment. Related aims were to explore how the different mechanisms of music-induced emotions are involved in sadness induced by familiar, self-selected music and unfamiliar, experimenter-selected music, and whether the susceptibility to music-induced sadness is associated with trait empathy. One hundred twenty participants were randomly assigned into four conditions with different tasks: listening to unfamiliar sad or neutral music, or to self-selected sad music, or recalling a sad autobiographical event and writing about it. The induced affective states were measured indirectly using a word recall task and a judgment task where participants rated the emotions expressed by pictures depicting facial expressions. The results indicate that listening to sad music can indeed induce changes in emotion-related memory and judgment. However, this effect depends, to some extent, on the music’s relevance to the listener, as well as on the personality...
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...Directionality Affect on Emotion The same researchers from the previous study this time were interested in musical scales and the affect of happiness and the emotion of awkwardness. Once again, Collier and Hubbard conducted the study at Texas Christian University. This study consisted of 24 undergraduate students 12 male and 12 female. The stimuli that was presented to the participants was an auditory scale of minor scales consisting of 8 sequential wave tones. The participants rated their levels of happiness and awkwardness on 2 different 1-7 Likert scales with 1 being sad and 7 being happy and 1 being not awkward while 7 being awkward. A single ascending or descending scale was played from speakers for the participants, then 2 Likert scales appeared on a monitor for the students to rate their levels of happiness or awkwardness after they heard the...
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...Bab 1 Business Combinations (Kombinasi Bisnis) Kombinasi bisnis dalam bahasa umum adalah menyatukan entitas bisnis yg sebelumnya terpisah. Horizontal integration adalah kombinasi dari perusahaan-perusahaan yang memiliki line bisnis atau pasar yang sama. Sedangkan vertical integration adalah kombinasi dari perusahaan-perusahaan dengan operasi yang berbeda di tahap-tahap produksi atau distribusi atau keduanya. Conglomeration adalah kombinasi dari perusahaan-perusahaan yang memiliki produk atau jasa yang beraneka ragam dan tidak terkait satu sama lain. Istilah merger dan konsolidasi sering digunakan sebagai sinonim untuk akuisisi. Namun secara legal dan di dalam akuntansi itu terdapat perbedaan. Merger adalah penyerapan dari suatu perusahaan oleh perusahaan yang lain. Perusahaan pembeli juga akan mengambil baik aset maupun kewajiban perusahaan yang dibeli. Setelah merger, perusahaan yang dibeli akan berhenti beroperasi. Konsolidasi terjadi apabila perusahaan baru dibentuk untuk pengambilalihan aset dan operasi dari dua atau lebih entitas bisnis yg terpisah dan membubarkan entitas sebelumnya. Tujuan dari kombinasi bisnis * Cost Advantage * Lower Risk * Fewer operating delays * Avoidance of takeovers * Acquisition of Intangible Assets Accounting for Combinations as Acquisitions Kita mencatat kombinasi bisnis menggunakan fair value principle. Dengan kata lain, kita mengukur biaya (cost) purchasing entity (entitas pembeli) ketika mengakuisisi...
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...Problem People often find themselves looking at and talking to their pets, but all too often their little friend doesn’t talk back, or at least not in a comprehendible manner. They could be full of joy or in deep depression caused by their captivity. In all reality, one can never truly understand these animals and what they feel and think; one can only guess. In the poem “Panther,” Rainer Rilke makes her guess pertaining to what an animal feels in captivity in his piece about a panther that is going through tough times in his cage. She begins the poem with, His vision, from the constantly passing bars, has grown so weary that it cannot hold anything else. It seems to him there are a thousand bars; and behind the bars, no world. (1-4) Even though Rilke’s introductory thought may only be a guess, her idea that such an amazing animal can be, for all intensive purposes, in clinical depression is worth taking another look at. What if he is right, and all the zoos and parks in the world are just prison cells for these innocent creatures to just sit and rot? To even come close to a solution, one must go to the very basics of the issue. What gives humans the right to imprison these animals; animals who deserve better than to sit in a small enclosure with thousands of eyes staring at them on a daily basis? It is said that these so called wildlife parks or zoos and aquariums serve multiple purpose; that they are helping making groundbreaking discoveries on the understanding...
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...you, like many other people, are bothered with a case of the winter blues, you are most likely suffering from a more severe form of seasonal depression known as Seasonal Affective Disorder, or SAD. This form of depression has been described as a form of a mood disorder that, unlike other forms of depression, follows a strictly seasonal pattern. In general, many people suffer from some form of sporadic depression during the wintertime. We may feel more tired and sad at times. We may even gain some weight or have trouble getting out of bed. Over 10 million people in America, however, may feel a more extreme form of these symptoms. They may constantly feel lethargic and depressed to an extent that social and work related activities are negatively affected. Typical SAD symptoms include sugar cravings, lethargy, depression, an increase in body weight, and a greater need for sleep. Onset of these symptoms usually occurs in October or November, and the symptoms disappear in early spring. Frequently, people who suffer from SAD react strongly to variations in the amount of light in their surrounding environment. Most often, patients who suffer from SAD note that the more north they live, the more distinct and severe their SAD symptoms become. In addition, SAD patients note that their depressive symptoms increase in severity when the amount of light indoors decreases and the weather is cloudy. Out of all of the patients who suffer from SAD, 70-80% are female....
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...includes over 300 manifestations of mental illness also called psychological disorders. Seasonal Affective Disorder According to Medilexicon's medical dictionary, Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) is: "A depressive mood disorder that occurs at approximately the same time year after year and spontaneously remits at the same time each year." Seasonal Affective Disorder is more prevalent in areas farther away from the equator where there is a lack of sunlight. Individuals who live where seasonal variations of sunlight intensity occur are more likely to develop SAD. Approximately six percent of the U.S. population is affected by SAD and another 14 percent suffer from a milder form of SAD called winter blues. Individuals with a family history of depression or who have family members who suffer from SAD are more likely to suffer from SAD themselves. Some symptoms of SAD include craving starchy food, weight gain, drop in energy level, fatigue, tendency to oversleep, difficulty concentrating, irritability, and avoidance of social situations (Sesonal Affectve Disorder, 2000). There is treatment for SAD the most common treatment is light therapy. The theory is that SAD is caused by a lack of sunlight. Light therapy is a substitute for natural sunlight and may help relieve symptoms of SAD. Other forms of treatment include...
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...because there are a lot of them it is important to know when to use a certain method in a specific situation. This view is important because it shows that certain groups, such as children should not be tested the same way as adults. The scope of what I will review is the methods that the researchers have chosen to use in order to validate their findings, the various Stroop tasks that were used, and possible future areas of interest. The Stroop task is a test that is given to people to test how long it takes them to complete a task with interference; the interference slows down their reaction time. Another important definition is the happy-sad task, this was a task specifically developed by Bluell and Montgomery to make a Stroop task that was easier for children, the cues that the children were exposed to were faces that had emotions of being happy or sad on them and they were required to give a response based on the cues shown to them. Another Stroop task that Bluell and Montgomery chose to use was called the night-day task, this task was also designed for children and the cues portrayed night-time and daytime, the children were also required to respond so the researchers could determine the levels of interference they had experienced. My argument is that it is important to document the various Stroop tasks and the various groups they can be applied to, that is which groups it would work best for, and if there is a specific reaction to look for. The first study was by Booth and Sharma...
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...similar in a lot of people’s eyes, however they both have a very different meaning. Sadness is the feeling of sorrow or grief. Being sad is more of a mood while depression is a clinical problem. Depression has a deeper meaning than sadness. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th edition, categorizes depression as someone who is in a depressed mood and has a loss of interest or pleasure in daily activities for more than two weeks. People who are depressed often feel like there is no way out and that is why depression can often lead to suicide. Some people may mistake sadness and depression for the same thing because they do have similarities. Sadness is often how depression starts out. Sadness can also be associated with grief. Grief is the response to a loss of someone and is associated with sadness. More people should look at sadness and grief as the same instead of sadness and depression. To know if you have depression, a diagnostic needs to be made by pointing out symptoms. Dr. Kramer believes that there are nine symptoms; if you have five out of those nine then you are depressed. The symptoms include: depressed mood, hard time having fun, no energy, can’t sleep, eating a lot, no desire for physical activity, feeling worthless, can’t concentrate, suicidal thoughts (Valiunas). All of those may seem like signs of just being sad, but as symptoms of depression, they are prolonged much longer. The physical characteristics of depression are what really set...
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...Ph.D.,1 ∗ Lindon J. Eaves, Ph.D.,1,2 John M. Hettema, M.D.,1 Kenneth S. Kendler, M.D.,1,2 and Judy L. Silberg, Ph.D.1,2 Background: Childhood separation anxiety disorder (SAD) is hypothesized to share etiologic roots with panic disorder. The aim of this study was to estimate the genetic and environmental sources of covariance between childhood SAD and adult onset panic attacks (AOPA), with the primary goal to determine whether these two phenotypes share a common genetic diathesis. Methods: Participants included parents and their monozygotic or dizygotic twins (n = 1,437 twin pairs) participating in the Virginia Twin Study of Adolescent Behavioral Development and those twins who later completed the Young Adult Follow-Up (YAFU). The Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Assessment was completed at three waves during childhood/adolescence followed by the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IIIR at the YAFU. Two separate, bivariate Cholesky models were fit to childhood diagnoses of SAD and overanxious disorder (OAD), respectively, and their relation with AOPA; a trivariate Cholesky model also examined the collective influence of childhood SAD and OAD on AOPA. Results: In the best-fitting bivariate model, the covariation between SAD and AOPA was accounted for by genetic and unique environmental factors only, with the genetic factor associated with childhood SAD explaining significant variance in AOPA. Environmental risk factors were not significantly shared between SAD and AOPA...
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...schools. The demonstration was meant to be peaceful and was secretly planned to avoid discovery by the police. On the morning of June the 16th, thousands of youths gathered with the plan to march to Orlando Stadium to hold a rally to air their grievances. However, their intended route was blocked by riot police, and what had started as a peaceful march turned bloody as police used live ammunition on the protesters. Evidence shows that many protesters were shot in the back as they were running away. [Readers Digest Illustrated History of South Africa, (1988: 440) and Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soweto_uprising)] The journey that the speaker is going to go on in lines 1 – 2 suggests a struggle and an ultimate goal to be reached. The journey has been planned as the speaker refers to ‘tomorrow’ in line 1. He then talks about the road ‘that winds’. This suggests many twists and turns in the journey, which in turn suggests that the journey will not be an easy or straight-forward one. The words ‘top of the hill’ suggest the end of the journey or the ultimate goal. The final goal or destination will only be reached by means of an uphill struggle. The word ‘only’ is used in line 3 – ‘I take with me only the sweet memories of my youth’. The speaker is ready for his journey and takes with him just what is important – his memories. His memories are his only link to the innocence of his youth, and he knows that the following day, his life is going to change forever – he will lose his...
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...all other works cited in this submission have been appropriately referenced. I understand that any act of Academic Dishonesty such as plagiarism or collusion may result in the non-award of my degree. Signature…………………………………………………………………………………… Date………………………………………………………………………………………….. Table of Contents Abstract 3 1. Introduction 3 2. General process of customer requirements management 3 2.1. Requirement Elicitation 5 3. Kansei mining 5 3.1. Kansei Engineering 5 3.2. Kansei mining method 6 3.3. Case study 7 3.4. Method analysis 8 4. Picture Sorting and ART2 Network 8 4.1. Sorting technique 9 4.2. The ART2 Network 10 4.3. Case study 11 4.4. Method analysis 12 5. Conclusion 13 6. References 14 Figure Index Figure 1 - Customer requirement management process (Jiao & Chen, 2006) 4 Figure 2 - Perceptual design elements for mobile phones (Jiao, Zhang, & Helander, 2006) 7 Figure 3 -Procedure of specified picture sorts for product design (Shieh, Yan, & Chen, 2008) 10 Figure 4 - Customer attributes hierarchy derived from the sorting process (Shieh, Yan, & Chen, 2008) 12 Table index Table 1- Perceived by testing groups (Jiao, Zhang, & Helander, 2006) 8 Table 2 - Definitions of terminology used in sorting techniques (Shieh, Yan, & Chen, 2008) 9 Table 3 - Results from the ART2 network regarding present data of the surveying company (Shieh, Yan, & Chen, 2008) 13 Abstract Understanding customer...
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...A Guide to Customs Import Procedures Note: It should be noted that these guidelines are intended for general information purposes only and do not purport to be a legal document. July 2013 CONTENTS 1. Introduction ............................................................................................. 4 What is this Guide About? ........................................................................... 4 What does Importation mean? ..................................................................... 4 Why would I come into contact with Revenue? ........................................... 4 What goods are Prohibited or Restricted? ................................................... 4 Overview of Importing ............................................................................ 5 Pre-Arrival of the goods in the EU ............................................................... 5 Arrival of the goods in the EU ...................................................................... 5 Where can the goods be brought to?........................................................... 5 What places are approved? ......................................................................... 5 Goods arriving through another Member State ............................................ 5 What must I do when the goods arrive? ...................................................... 5 Can I use an agent to work on my behalf? .................................................. 6 How...
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...HOW SAD IS YOUR STATE? STATISTICS FINAL PROJECT MARK GRUNEWALD I chose to explore the topic of if individuals in overall colder states have more cases of depression than in the warmer states. While doing research on this topic I stumbled upon many different reasons as to why my topic could be proven factual. The first disorder I found was Seasonal Affective Disorder which is primarily individuals whose moods are determined by the weather. Another topic I discover was that “normal” health individuals are affected by the weather as well. The topic that stood out the most to me is SAD (Seasonal Affective Disorder). I chose to accept this topic because rarely so I hear anything about SAD let alone someone talking about it. WHAT IS SAD? Seasonal affective disorder (SAD) is a type of depression that tends to occur (and recur) as the days grow shorter in the fall and winter. It is believed that affected people react adversely to the decreasing amounts of sunlight and the colder temperatures as the fall and winter progress. It is important to note that although seasonal affective disorder usually presents in the fall and winter there are those who suffer from this condition during the summer instead of, or in addition to, during the fall or winter. Seasonal affective disorder has not been long recognized as an official diagnosis. The term first appeared in print in 1985. Seasonal affective disorder is also sometimes called winter depression, winter blues, or the hibernation...
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