Mood Types Research Articles

A Mood Prediction System for Preventing Diseases Using Biological Information and Weather Information

SUMMARYPreventive medicine has attracted much attention due to increase of medical expenses in Japan. As a preventive measurement against diseases, this paper presents a system for predicting three types of moods namely, good, normal, and bad using biological and weather information. Specifically, we focus on analyzing factors for the predictions. Evaluation experiments demonstrate that the proposed system predicts the tomorrow's mood with 73% accuracy by learning biological information, weather information, and moods in the past with multiple classifiers. Moreover, we found that body fat, maximal pressure, and amount of insolation are important factors for the prediction. The evaluation experiments indicate that the proposed system is useful for the prevention of bipolar disorder and lifestyle diseases.

The Management of Itching in Burn Patients During the Rehabilitation Stage

Pruritus, a distressing symptom that affects burn patients, not only interferes with activities of daily living but also causes disturbed sleep, which has been associated with anxiety, depression, and other types of negative moods. Furthermore, the uncontrolled scratching that often accompanies pruritus causes tissue damage and may damage or destroy the skin graft. In this paper, the authors first describe the definition and mechanism of pruritus and next use itching-assessment tools to identify the triggering factors. Finally, the authors propose a multifaceted approach to treating pruritus that includes using medication, topical emollients, massage therapy, skin moisture, relaxation techniques, and combined coping to relieve patient discomfort. The authors hope that this paper deepens and broadens the knowledge of health professionals on this issue and improves the quality of care that is available for burn patients who are in the rehabilitation stage.

The Use of Communication Strategies among Indonesian Young Learners of English in Early Total Immersion Program

This study aims at describing how Indonesian young learners of English act in responding to the interlocutor’s move to keep a conversation going. The research questions are (i) what speech functions are involved in the kindergarten students’ conversation; and (ii) what communication strategies are used by the learners? The participants of the research are kindergarten students of Mondial School of the Academic Year of 2015. The study uses descriptive qualitative research. The section of analysis is move(s). The learners’ speech is recorded, transcribed and identified to figure out what speech functions are involved in the conversation. The data are then analyzed and interpreted to reveal what communication strategies are used by the learners. The findings suggest that the learners use communication strategies involving four major speech function choices: opening, continuing, react responding, and react rejoinder moves. The learners produce initiation and react-responding the most. Opening in the form of demanding information and react responding in the form of replying answer moves are mostly realized through declarative clauses. Regardless the incongruent or congruent of mood types, it proves that they are able to sustain the conversation. The learners use three basic types of communication strategy: interpersonal negotiation, logico-semantic negotiation, and “channeling” negotiation. It is reasonable to argue that their conversation is natural. The conversation is also meaningful because the children are involved in the process of exchange. It is recommended that total immersion program can be applied in Indonesia as it provides precious opportunities for learners to speak.

The Use of Communication Strategies among Indonesian Young Learners of English in Early Total Immersion Program

This study aims at describing how Indonesian young learners of English act in responding to the interlocutor’s move to keep a conversation going. The research questions are (i) what speech functions are involved in the kindergarten students’ conversation; and (ii) what communication strategies are used by the learners? The participants of the research are kindergarten students of Mondial School of the Academic Year of 2015. The study uses descriptive qualitative research. The section of analysis is move(s). The learners’ speech is recorded, transcribed and identified to figure out what speech functions are involved in the conversation. The data are then analyzed and interpreted to reveal what communication strategies are used by the learners. The findings suggest that the learners use communication strategies involving four major speech function choices: opening, continuing, react responding, and react rejoinder moves. The learners produce initiation and react-responding the most. Opening in the form of demanding information and react responding in the form of replying answer moves are mostly realized through declarative clauses. Regardless the incongruent or congruent of mood types, it proves that they are able to sustain the conversation. The learners use three basic types of communication strategy: interpersonal negotiation, logico-semantic negotiation, and “channeling” negotiation. It is reasonable to argue that their conversation is natural. The conversation is also meaningful because the children are involved in the process of exchange. It is recommended that total immersion program can be applied in Indonesia as it provides precious opportunities for learners to speak.

Interpersonal meanings in Michelle Obama’s speech at memorial service for Dr. Maya Angelou (A Descriptive Qualitative Study)

This study investigated the interpersonal meaning which lies on the eulogy speech which was delivered by Michelle Obama at Dr. Maya Angelou’s memorial service. The purposes of this study were to describe the tenor realized in the text, the construction of the interpersonal meaning and the contribution of this study for language education. This study was categorized as a discourse analysis which used qualitative approach as its main method. The qualitative approach was used to describe the quantitative data which was got from the analysis. The data for this study was analyzed using two units of analysis. In terms of grammar analysis, the units of analysis were the MOOD system, modality, and mood types, while the lexical analysis mainly analyzed the appraisal of the speech. Based on those analysis, it can be concluded that the tenor that was realized in the speech showed the strong social relationship between the interactants. In term of status, she did not stand as the first lady of United States. In terms of contact, she tried to make the situation as friendly as possible. In addition, in terms of affect, she showed that she gave a strong involvement with the audiences through her speech. In terms of grammar analysis, it showed that Michelle Obama tended to represent herself as one of the black women who got inspiration from Dr. Maya Angelou. She also intended to inform the audiences about Dr. Maya Angelou’s life. The appraisal analysis showed that judgment was the most frequent appraisal system in the speech. Michelle Obama tended to give a high appraisement towards Dr. Maya Angelou’s struggle and actions during her life.

Recreating the image of Chan master Huineng: the roles of MOOD and MODALITY

AbstractThe article investigates the roles of MOOD and MODALITY in the recreation of the image of Chan master Huineng in four English translations ofThe Platform Sutraby Wong Mou-lam, (Sutra Spoken by the Sixth Patriarch, Wei Lang, on the High Seat of the Gem of Law(Message from the East), 1930), Heng Yin, (The Sixth Patriarch's Dharma Jewel Platform Sutra, 1977), Thomas Cleary, (The Sutra of Hui-neng, grand master of Zen: with Hui-neng's commentary on the Diamond Sutra, 1998) and Cheng Kuan (The Dharmic Treasure Altar-Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch, 2011). MOOD refers to the mood types of indicative and imperative, and MODALITY covers the semantic space between ‘yes’ and ‘no’. Adopting SysFan, a computational tool for doing systemic and functional analysis, the study investigates the choice of mood types and the values of modality (low, median and high) in each translation. Heng and Cleary favour high-valued modality more than Wong and Cheng though the mood type of declarative is adopted by all. They also use more imperative clauses and indicative clauses with high-valued modality than the latter. Consequently, two types of image are recreated of Huineng: an authoritative and forceful Huineng presented by the two American translators, and a prudent and polite Huineng presented by the two Chinese translators. The investigation shows that the phenomenon cannot be accounted for by the translators’ linguistic competence. Instead, the context of the translation, especially the tenor, should be taken into consideration to interpret these two types of image of Huineng.

The Realization of Interpersonal Negotiation in the Conversation

This study aimed toinvestigate how the students of English Department of theState University of Semarang realize interpersonal negotiation in their conversationand find out what kinds of problems that emerge when the students have aninterpersonal negotiation in their conversation.In analyzing the data, the descriptivequalitative approach was employed with small quantification was made to support theanalysis. Besides, the choices of mood, modality, speech roles as well as clause categorywere applied to analyze the data.The research findings showed that from theobservation towards 10 (ten) students done by practicing the conversation in pairs,there were only 3 (three) pairs that could realize the interpersonal negotiation in theirconversation. Most of students used declarative mood types (56.6%) more in theirconversation. It indicated that they wanted to initiate the exchanges by givinginformation more often. The modality that they used most was probabilitymodalization (41.2%). With high and medium categories of probability, the studentsexpressed their idea of the situation given.Though the students produced declarativemood more in their conversation, it did not directly indicate that they could realizeinterpersonal negotiation well. Most of the declaratives produced was moremaintaining the information exchange. The giving speech roles of the clauses producedby the students sometimes were inappropriate with the topic being discussed. It madethe conversation inconvenient. Even though the use of modalization and modulation toexpress interpersonal negotiation was not problematic, they did not use it optimally;only 17 clauses out of 143 clauses made use of them.Keywords : realization, interpersonal negotiation, conversation

Microblog Sentiment Analysis with Emoticon Space Model

Emoticons have been widely employed to express different types of moods, emotions, and feelings in microblog environments. They are therefore regarded as one of the most important signals for microblog sentiment analysis. Most existing studies use several emoticons that convey clear emotional meanings as noisy sentiment labels or similar sentiment indicators. However, in practical microblog environments, tens or even hundreds of emoticons are frequently adopted and all emoticons have their own unique emotional meanings. Besides, a considerable number of emoticons do not have clear emotional meanings. An improved sentiment analysis model should not overlook these phenomena. Instead of manually assigning sentiment labels to several emoticons that convey relatively clear meanings, we propose the emoticon space model (ESM) that leverages more emoticons to construct word representations from a massive amount of unlabeled data. By projecting words and microblog posts into an emoticon space, the proposed model helps identify subjectivity, polarity, and emotion in microblog environments. The experimental results for a public microblog benchmark corpus (NLP&CC 2013) indicate that ESM effectively leverages emoticon signals and outperforms previous state-of-the-art strategies and benchmark best runs.

The dimensional structure of cycling mood disorders

This study examines whether mood disorders differ fundamentally in terms of phase duration. Most clinically significant mood disorders are recurrent and cyclical. The phase duration of these cycles is part of the diagnostic criteria. Specifically, we determined whether a dimensional or taxonic latent structure better captures cycling mood disorders. 319 patients recruited from 5 psychiatrists and a psychoeducational program completed three questionnaires assessing aspects of mood cycling. These were the Affective Lability Scale-Short Form (ALS-SF), Mood Disorders Questionnaire (MDQ), and the Eysenck Neuroticism scale. Patient scores on these instruments were submitted to three taxometric procedures (MAMBAC, MAXEIG, and L-Mode). Comparison curve fit indices (CCFIs) were calculated to distinguish taxonic versus dimensional latent structure. In addition, graphs were produced for each procedure and compared with those of categorical or dimensional prototypes. The CCFIs of the three procedures ranged from 0.25 to 0.27, consistent with dimensional structure. The graphs closely resembled dimensional prototypes. Mood instability and other types of cycling moods probably conform to a dimensional latent structure. Patients with disorders featuring mood cycling might benefit from common treatments.

Application of the Welfare Quality® animal welfare assessment system in Finnish pig production, part I: Identification of principal components

AbstractThe Welfare Quality® (WQ) on-farm welfare assessment protocols for fattening pigs (n = 95 farms) and sows, as well as suckling piglets (n = 103 farms), were applied on Finnish farms. In order to identify distinct types of welfare problems (WPTs) Principal Component Analysis (PCA) was applied to the pooled animal-based items within both categories of animals. Measures describing suckling piglets did not contribute to the WPTs. The main WPTs (seemingly) reflected fighting in fattening pigs and lack of bedding in both fattening pigs and sows. The results imply that WQ includes biologically plausible shortlists of animal-based measures with decent to good internal consistency describing distinct types of welfare problems in growing pigs and in sows. The 20 descriptors of Qualitative Behavioural Assessment were analysed similarly to identify distinct mood types, which were named active positive, passive positive and passive positive behaviours. The different mood types had close to identical build-up in both fattening pigs and in sows and suckling piglets.

Automatic analysis of thematic structure in written English

This paper proposes and describes a computational system for the automatic analysis of thematic structure, as defined in Systemic Functional Linguistics, in written English. The system takes an English text as input and produces as output an analysis of the thematic structure of each sentence in the text. The system is evaluated using data from The Wall Street Journal section of the Penn Treebank (Marcus et al. 1993) and the British Academic Written English corpus (Gardner & Nesi 2013). An experiment using these data shows that the system achieves a high degree of reliability in regard to both identifying theme-rheme boundaries and determining several of the linguistic properties of the identified themes, including syntactic nodes, theme function, markedness, mood types, and theme roles. To illustrate how the system is used, we describe an example application designed to compare collections of novice and expert academic writing in terms of thematic structure.

Play practices and play moods

The aim of this article is to develop a view of play as a relation between play practices and play moods based on an empirical study of children's everyday life and by using Bateson's term of ‘framing’ [(1955/2001). In Steps to an ecology of mind (pp. 75–80). Chicago: University of Chicago Press], Schmidt's notion of ‘commonness’ [(2005). Om respekten. København: Danmarks Pædagogiske Universitets Forlag; (2011). On respect. Copenhagen: Danish School of Education University Press] and Heidegger's term ‘mood’ [(1938/1996). Time and being. Cornwall: Wiley-Blackwell.]. Play mood is a state of being in which we are open and ready, both to others and their production of meaning and to new opportunities for producing meaning. This play mood is created when we engage with the world during play practices. The article points out four types of play moods – devotion, intensity, tension and euphorica – which show an affiliation with four types of play practices such as sliding, shifting, displaying and exceeding. Though play practices and play moods become possible, this conceptual framework makes it possible to highlight three features of play – first, moods are essential to play; second, moods are always in plural and finally, different moods describe different ways of being in play which means different ways of engaging with the world and the people around us.

EEG-Based Music Mood Analysis and Applications

Music is known to be a powerful elicitor of emotions. Music with different moods induces various emotions, each of which corresponding to certain pattern of EEG signals. In this paper, based on current music mood categories, we discuss how the music belonging to different mood types affect the pattern EEG activity. We review several literatures verifying that certain characteristics of EEG differ from each other induced by different types of music. Such differences make it possible for emotion recognition through EEG signals. We also introduce some applications of emotional music such as improvement of human emotions and adjuvant treatment of diseases.

May, might and degrees of positivity in four English sentence types

This paper develops the framework of telling and knowledge operators earlier proposed for distinctions of mood and sentence types in the lexical verb (Davies 2006) to apply to non-inferential epistemic modal verbs. It consists of two parts: the first offers some background to the approach and sets out the formal model used; the second applies this model to two modal verbs. It considers the meanings of the modal verbs may (not) and might (not) as used in four different English sentence-types, with a view to assessing the different degrees of ‘loading’ towards a positive belief that they convey. Different kinds of meanings are suggested, one to do with degrees of a speaker’s commitment to what s/he is saying (‘presentational meaning’), and another to do with attitudes projected, by the speaker through the constructions s/he uses, onto the addressee(s) in a developing text (‘textual meaning’). In the case of the two modal verbs studied here, the textual meaning is said to be contrastive in relation to the speaker’s own ‘presentational meaning’.

Towards a profile of the interpersonal organization of the portuguese clause

This paper aims at contributing to the description of Portuguese from the point of view of Systemic Functional Grammar, particularly in relation to the description of the clause as an exchange. While assuming that the interpersonal organization of the Portuguese clause involves phenomena that are similar across different languages, such as Mood systems, for instance, the paper wants nevertheless to show that there are systemic options (and their structural realizations) that are specific to Portuguese, particularly if compared to the same options in English, a language whose descriptions have so often and too strongly been imposed on Portuguese. Starting with a general description of some aspects of the Portuguese language, the paper then proceeds to a description of Mood types and the system of choices associated with them. By raising some questions and doubts concerning the description of the elements that in Portuguese carry the negotiation forward, the paper ends up proposing a description that sees Portuguese as a Finite-less language, that is, a language that does not have Finite, a function that proved to be appropriate for the description of the English language but fails to be so when considered from the point of view of Portuguese.

Could Addiction-Fighting Tool Be in Palm of Your Hand?

Back to table of contents Previous article Next article Clinical & Research NewsFull AccessCould Addiction-Fighting Tool Be in Palm of Your Hand?Joan Arehart-TreichelJoan Arehart-TreichelSearch for more papers by this authorPublished Online:6 Feb 2009https://doi.org/10.1176/pn.44.3.0016aFancy this: opiate abusers who want to kick their habit can click on their Palm Pilot (or any other handheld, digital communications device) whenever they feel the urge to relapse, and the electronic device will quickly provide them with information to help them resist the craving.Such on-the-spot feedback intervention may sound scientifically improbable. But a study reported in the January Archives of General Psychiatry suggests that it might eventually become a reality.David Epstein, Ph.D., a staff scientist at the National Institute on Drug Abuse's Intramural Research Program in Baltimore, and colleagues conducted this study. A total of 102 individuals who were being given methadone to counter their heroin addiction agreed to serve as subjects.Subjects were given a palmtop computer and asked to enter information into it whenever they felt tempted to use heroin or cocaine, or whenever they actually used either heroin or cocaine. (Although methadone is highly effective in countering heroin use, it is not always a cure-all, and it has no impact on cocaine use.) They were asked to make written entries into the device describing what mood they were in, where they were, whom they were with, and what they were doing. To enhance accuracy of reporting, subjects were assured that the information they provided would be kept confidential.The subjects provided daily entries anywhere from six days to 189 days, which, in total, added up to almost 15,000 person-days.“The first thing that struck us—I won't call it a surprise, but I will say it was a pleasure to see—was the orderly quality of the data,” Epstein told Psychiatric News. “In a scientific sense, this was a high-risk study. No one had ever asked 102 cocaine and heroin users to walk around all day with palmtop computers and report on their moods and activities, so there was always the possibility that the responses would be perfunctory and haphazard, leaving us with little or nothing to analyze. When we saw the results, we knew that our participants had taken the study seriously.”Epstein and his group then used the data to see what types of moods preceded subjects' urges to use heroin or cocaine or their use of these substances.“The main thing we can say from these analyses is that the harbingers of cocaine craving and use were not quite the same as the harbingers of heroin craving and use,” Epstein said. “I don't think anyone could have guessed in advance the pattern of differences we found.” For example, although negative emotions such as feeling sad, angry, worried, or down after being criticized by others tended to precede heroin craving or use, those types of emotions were not the only catalysts to precede cocaine craving or use; just being in a good mood could be the trigger for cocaine abusers.The researchers will analyze the data to learn what types of locations, companions, or activities preceded the subjects' urges to use heroin or cocaine or their relapses into using these drugs. It might then be possible to design a palmtop-computer program to help individuals handle moods or situations that tend to trigger craving or use of these drugs.“That sort of on-the-spot feedback intervention is already a reality for several kinds of behavioral problems—at the level of clinical trials anyway,” Epstein noted. “A person with, say, generalized anxiety disorder can put information into a palmtop computer during an acute episode of anxiety, and the palmtop can respond by giving relaxation exercises or generating suggestions for cognitively reframing the situation.... A more ambitious intervention would be to have the palmtop learn, over time, what constitutes a risky pattern of behavior for the person using it and to tailor the feedback on that basis.”The study was funded by the Intramural Research Program of the National Institute on Drug Abuse.An abstract of “Real-Time Electronic Diary Reports of Cue Exposure and Mood in the Hours Before Cocaine and Heroin Craving and Use” is posted at<http://archpsyc.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/short/66/1/88>.▪ ISSUES NewArchived

Cardiovascular and respiratory responses during musical mood induction

Music is used to induce moods in experimental settings as well as for therapeutic purposes. Prior studies suggest that subjects listening to certain types of music experience strong moods and show physiological responses associated with the induced emotions. We hypothesized that cardiovascular and respiratory patterns could discriminate moods induced via music. 18 healthy subjects listened to 12 music clips, four each to induce happiness, sadness, and fear, while cardiovascular and respiratory responses were recorded using an electrocardiogram and chest strain-gauge belt. After each clip subjects completed a questionnaire. Subjects consistently reported experiencing the targeted mood, suggesting successful mood induction. Cardiovascular activity was measured by calculating time domain measures and heart rate changes during each clip. Respiratory activity was measured by total, inspiration, and expiration lengths as well as changes in mean respiration rate during each clip. Evaluation of individuals' patterns and mixed-model analyses were performed. Contrary to expectations, the time domain measures of subjects' cardiovascular responses did not vary significantly between the induced moods, although a heart rate deceleration was found during the sadness inductions and acceleration during the fear inductions. The time domain respiratory measures varied with clip type: the mean breath length was longest for the sad induction, intermediate during fear, and shortest during the happiness induction. However, analysis using normalized least mean squares adaptive filters to measure time correlation indicated that much of this difference may be attributable to entrainment of respiration to characteristics of the music which varied between the stimuli. Our findings point to the difficulty in detecting psychophysiological correlates of mood induction, and further suggest that part of this difficulty may arise from failure to differentiate it from tempo-related contributions when music is used as the inducer.

Automatic background music generation based on actors' mood and motions

AbstractSince adding background music and sound effects even to short animations is not simple, an automatic music generation system would help improve the total quality of computer generated animations. This paper describes a prototype system which automatically generates background music and sound effects for existing animations. The inputs to the system are music parameters (mood types and musical motifs) and motion parameters for individual scenes of an animation. Music is generated for each scene. The key for a scene is determined by considering the mood type and its degree, and the key of the previous scene. The melody for a scene is generated from the given motifs and the chord progression for the scene which is determined according to appropriate rules. The harmony accompaniment for a scene is selected based on the mood type. The rhythm accompaniment for a scene is selected based on the mood type and tempo. The sound effects for motions are determined according to the characteristics and intensity of the motions. Both the background music and sound effects are generated so that the transitions between scenes are smooth.

Relationships Between Emotional Distress and Psychosocial Concerns Among Newly Diagnosed Cancer Patients

Forty-four newly diagnosed oncology outpatients completed self-report forms that assessed their mood state and types and levels of psychosocial concerns at three points (at entry and three and six months later) during their initial six months of treatment. The levels of their psychosocial concerns were further assessed by auditing their medical records. The data analysis focused on how these measures of psychosocial concerns were related to stage of cancer, type of treatment, and levels of mood disturbance and psychosocial concerns. Stage of disease did not correlate with the levels and types of psychosocial concerns, whereas treatment modality and mood disturbance did. The results indicated that specific screening and inquiry into types of concerns and emotional distress, including distinctions between somatic and nonsomalic concerns, rather than reliance on routine interactions during physical examinations or treatments, should be considered when evaluating patients' psychosocial concerns and emotional ...