Second, we asked more specifically for the experience of eight different emotions (happiness, sadness, disgust, anxiety, anger, interest, shame, boredom) again using scales from 0 to 6. Higher values indicated stronger momentary experience of this particular emotion.
Each potential solution would anger one interest group or another, so the agency has been subjected to fierce lobbying, including from members of Congress lining up behind various factions.
Human Rights Watch says the threats have prompted many Afghan journalists, editors and media directors to carry out self-censorship, shying away from investigative reporting or stories that could anger powerful interests.
The lesson of that vote -- and the Senate's failure to take up the hard-fought cap and trade legislation passed by the House in 2009 -- combined to make last session's House Democrats more wary of angering oil interests for the sake of legislation that would eventually be scrapped.
According to economist Martha Bailey, "EOA funds flowed to poor and nonwhite areas, which empowered the poor and African-Americans and angered entrenched interests".
But on 18 October William Hague, the former foreign secretary, said central bankers could lose their independence if they ignored anger about low interest rates.
The former foreign secretary, William Hague, has been accused of attempting to undermine Bank of England governor Mark Carney after he warned that central bankers could lose their independence if they ignore public anger over low interest rates.
That the initiative should have provoked such anger, but also interest, highlights a deeper problem in the Arab world: for all its centrality to the Arab experience during the past half-century, and for all the justifiable grievances it has aroused, the Palestinian fight for self-determination has, in many respects, rendered the Arab world impotent.
Furthermore, the emotion detectors demonstrated satisfying performance for the emotion states of interest, Anger and Boredom, and contributed towards successful modelling of the patient's emotion status.
Observers also used the Philadelphia Geriatric Center Affect Rating Scale to record the predominant type of affect (pleasure, contentment, interest, anger, sadness, anxiety/ fear) evident during every minute [ 25].
For the affect measure, six affects were selected from Lawton's Affect Rating scale [ 26] to include both positive and negative affect and that could be easily recognized in body and facial expressions: pleasure, anger, anxiety, depression, interest, and contentment.
