One research tradition has distinguished self-deception, the tendency to give favorably biased but honestly held self-descriptions from impression management, the tendency to give favorable selfdescriptions to others. A 2nd tradition has distinguished enhancement, the claiming of positive attributes, from denial, the repudiation of negative attributes. The 2 distinctions were evaluated jointly ...

Within peripheral sympathetic and sensory systems, target tissue provides diffusible factors such as nerve growth factor that influence neuronal survival, growth, and differentiation. To determine whether target tissue may exert retrograde effects within the central nervous system, we have used hippocampus as a source of neurotrophic factors and cultured medial septal nucleus explants as a sour...

This paper presents a new speech enhancement approach originated from factor analysis (FA) framework. FA is a data analysis model where the relevant common factors can be extracted from observations. A factor loading matrix is found and a resulting model error is introduced for each observation. Interestingly, FA is a subspace approach properly representing the noisy speech. This approach parti...

It is commonly assumed that reaction measurements for astrophysics should be preferably performed in the direction of a positive Q value to minimize the impact of the stellar enhancement factor, i.e., the difference between the laboratory rate and the actual stellar rate. We show that the stellar effects can be minimized in the charged particle channel, even when the reaction Q value is negativ...

A general method is presented for calculating the field enhancement factor of cylindrically symmetric high aspect ratio conductive structures. A discrete distribution of charges is used on the symmetry axis to replace the real charge distribution such that the electrostatic potential satisfies a set of boundary conditions. Their number will be set through a self-validating process. The method i...

The functional activity of hippocampal neurons is strongly correlated with behavioral performance in a vertebrate model learning system, rabbit eyeblink conditioning. Using this system, we have previously shown that (a) complete removal of the hippocampus blocks acquisition of the conditioned response; (b) a calcium-dependent postsynaptic afterhyperpolarization is reduced in pyramidal cells rec...

Leukotriene B4 (LTB4) is a potent primary stimulator of neutrophil chemotaxis, aggregation. and degranulation and induces superoxide production at higher concentrations. In order to determine whether LTB4 modulates neutrophil responses to oxidative stimuli, human neutrophils (PMNs) were incubated with LTB4 prior to stimulation with fMet-Leu-Phe (fMLP. 1 0 mol/L). opsonized zymosan (OZ. 250 tg/m...

background: natural background radiation of a particular region is one of the distinctive factors defining the status of environment. eloor island is an industrial area in ernakulum district of the state of kerala, india. the indoor and outdoor gamma level measurements have been carried out for the region for evaluating the annual effective dose to the population residing in this area. material...