Background & Aims: Recent studies have indicated memory dysfunction in individuals with obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). The present study aimed to examine the relationship between cognitive selfawareness and episodic memory performance in patients with OCD and healthy individuals. Methods: In the present study, 30 patients with OCD and 30 normal individuals in the Shiraz Professional C...

Background and aims College students experiencing stress show tendencies to procrastinate and can develop Internet addiction problems. This study investigated the structural relationship between time perspective and self-control on procrastination and Internet addiction. Methods College students (N = 377) residing in South Korea completed the following questionnaires: the Pathological Internet ...

A model of alcohol consumption is proposed that is based on the premise that alcohol serves to decrease an individual's level of self-awareness. According to this analysis alcohol interferes with encoding processes fundamental to a state of self-awareness, thereby decreasing the individual's sensitivity to both the selfrelevance of cues regarding appropriate forms of behavior and the self-evalu...

Decreasing weight prior distributions for mixture models play an important role in nonparametric Bayesian inference. Various random probability measures with decreasing weights have been previously explored and it has shown that they provide efficient alternative to the more traditional Dirichlet process model. This ordering of implicitly alleviates so-called label switching problem, as larger ...

objective: endothelial progenitor cells (epcs) have a potential application for cell therapy, however, their biological nature is not well-understood. epcs also possess some stemness features, such as their clonogenicity and differentiation capacity. the main aim of this study was to evaluate the expression of certain transcription factors regulating self-renewal property of stem cells. materia...