Background: People with mental health problems often have difficulties linked to high self-criticism and shame, and may be fearful of and resistant to compassionate and prosocial motives. Compassion focused therapy (CFT) is specifically designed to help people address these difficulties, cultivate and build compassionate motives and emotions for self and others. There is increasing evidence for...

BACKGROUND Compassion-focused therapy (CFT) is a relatively novel form of psychotherapy that was developed for people who have mental health problems primarily linked to high shame and self-criticism. The aim of this early systematic review was to draw together the current research evidence of the effectiveness of CFT as a psychotherapeutic intervention, and to provide recommendations that may ...

We discuss a possible relation between singletons in AdS space and logarithmic conformal field theories at the boundary of AdS. It is shown that the bulk Lagrangian for singleton field (singleton dipole) induces on the boundary the two-point correlation function for logarithmic pair. Bulk interpretation of mixing between logarithmic operator D and zero mode operator C under the scale transforma...

The two-point Green function of a local operator in CFT corresponding to a massive symmetric tensor field on the AdS background is computed in the framework of the AdS/CFT correspondence. The obtained two-point function is shown to coincide with the two-point function of the graviton in the limit when the AdS mass vanishes.

After an introduction to jet phenomenology and tests of AdS/CFT at LHC we derive the heavy quark drag of a string dangling in a shock metric of AdS space, thus generalizing the AdS/CFT drag calculations in strongly coupled thermal media to momentum loss in both hot and cold nuclear matter.

Perturbations around black holes have been an intriguing topic in the last few decades. They are particularly important today, since they relate to the gravitational wave observations which may provide the unique fingerprint of black holes’ existence. Besides the astrophysical interest, theoretically perturbations around black holes can be used as testing grounds to examine the proposed AdS/CFT...

The prescription of the AdS/CFT correspondence is refined by using a regularization procedure, which makes it possible to calculate the divergent local terms in the CFT two-point function. We present the procedure for the example of the scalar field. Email address: [email protected] Email address: [email protected]

Using the AdS-CFT correspondence we calculate the two point function of CFT energy momentum tensors. The AdS gravitons are considered by explicitely solving the Dirichlet boundary value problem for x0 = ǫ. We consider this treatment as complementary to exising work, with which we make contact. Email address: [email protected] Email address: [email protected] 1

Objectives: To determine testosterone fractions in Japanese men and to compare the values as stratified by age with those of Framingham Heart Study (FHS) subjects. Methods: We enrolled 498 healthy Japanese men. Total testosterone (msTT) was assayed by LC-MS/MS, sex hormone-binding globulin (SHBG) was assayed by immunoassay and free testosterone (cFT) was calculated by a lab at the Boston Medica...

Immune response to Brucella abortus strain RB51 vaccine was measured in cattle vaccinated at calfhood. After an increase at day 6 post-vaccination (pv), the antibody level recorded in the 10 vaccinated animals remained constant for two months, and then progressively decreased. All vaccinated animals remained negative from day 162 pv to the end of the study (day 300 pv). Only at days 13 and 14 p...