BACKGROUND Low levels of self-compassion are associated with a number of mental health problems. Recent findings suggest that self-compassion can be significantly increased through traditional therapist led interventions such as Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC). AIMS The goal of this study was to assess the impact of a psychoeducational website modeled on MSC on measured levels of self-compassio...

Continuous goodness-of-fit testing is a classical problem in statistics. Despite having low power for detecting deviations at the tail of a distribution, the most popular test is based on the Kolmogorov-Smirnov statistic. While similar variance-weighted statistics such as Anderson-Darling and the Higher Criticism statistic give more weight to tail deviations, as shown in various works, they sti...

High-Throughput Characterization of Surface Segregation in CuxPd1 x Alloys Deepika Priyadarshini, Petro Kondratyuk, Yoosuf N. Picard, Bryan D. Morreale, Andrew J. Gellman, and James B. Miller* National Energy Technology Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15236, United States Department of Chemical Engineering and Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Carn...

The ABA Binding Factor/ABA-Responsive Element Binding Proteins (ABF/AREB) subfamily of bZIP-type transcription factors are positive effectors of ABA responses. Here, we examine the proteolytic regulation of two members: Arabidopsis thaliana ABF1 and ABF3. Both transcription factors are unstable in seedlings, and their degradation is sensitive to proteasome inhibition. ABA treatment of seedlings...

Background: Due to oxidative stress, hypoxia, and serum deprivation, a large percentage of mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) die in the early stages of transplantation. The present study aimed to address whether induction or inhibition of autophagy would affect the viability of MSCs after exposure to oxidative stress.Methods: MSCs were isolated from umbilical cord tissue using the Ficoll grad...

A new combinatorial object is introduced, the part-frequency matrix sequence of a partition, which is elementary to describe and is naturally motivated by Glaisher’s bijection. We prove results that suggest surprising usefulness for such a simple tool, including the existence of a related statistic that realizes every possible Ramanujan-type congruence for the partition function. To further exh...

In this paper, we present case deletion and mean shift outlier models for linear mixed measurement error models using the corrected likelihood of Nakamura (1990). We derive the corrected score test statistic for outliers detection based on mean shift outlier models. Furthermore, several case deletion diagnostics are constructed as a tool for influence diagnostics. It is found that they can be w...

Background: Mesenchymal stem cells (MSC) are a very promising transplantable stem cell source for a variety of cell replacement therapies. As the main source of MSC is bone marrow (BM), most of studies have been done on BM-derived MSC (BM-MSC). Umbilical cord (UC)-derived MSC (UC-MSC) which are recently introduced, is one of the good alternative source for these cells. The objective of this stu...