Different psychotherapeutic theories provide contradictory accounts of adult narcissism as the product of either parental coldness or excessive parental admiration during childhood. Yet, none of these theories has been tested systematically in a nonclinical sample. The authors compared four structural equation models predicting overt and covert narcissism among 120 United Kingdom adults. Both f...

This paper describes a method to detect and identify the Italian road sign for no-blocking of passageway. The approach detects the sign in the image by color processing and multi-layer perceptron neural network. The approach locates the region of interest within the image, using color segmentation, then the signal of restricted no stopping is identified using shape and color information, and fi...

We report a novel approach for determining the sign of permanent dipole moments, using nitric oxide [NO(v=0)] as an example. State-selected NO (j=|m|=|Omega=1/2) molecules are focused using a hexapole and oriented in a strong dc electric field. The angular distributions of ionic fragments resulting from extreme ultraviolet single-photon and multiphoton dissociative ionization at 400 and 800 nm ...

PURPOSE To examine the effect of modifying the interval between administration of saline used during the loss of resistance (LOR) method and local anesthetic on epidural anesthetic level and its quality. METHODS Seventy-three patients who received thoracic epidural anesthesia were randomly allocated into three groups; the 2, 5 and 10 min groups, according to the interval between the administr...

Self-compassion, typically operationalized as the total score of the Self-Compassion Scale (SCS; Neff, 2003b), has been shown to be related to increased psychological well-being and lower depression in students of the social sciences, users of psychology websites and psychotherapy patients. The current study builds on the existing literature by examining the link between self-compassion and dep...