Regulatory dendritic cells (DCregs) represent a potential therapeutic tool for assessing a variety of immune overreaction conditions; however, current approaches for generating DCregs for therapeutic purposes are limited. We attempted to generate and characterize DCregs from murine induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells. The iPS cells co-cultured with OP9 cells displayed mesodermally differentiat...

Participants in two studies reported how they would feel, think, and behave after being confronted about either gender-biased or equivalent racial-biased responses. In Study 2, whether the confrontation was from a target group member (Black or female) or nontarget (White or male) group member was manipulated. Regardless of confronter status, allegations of racial bias elicited more guilt and ap...

This paper advocates a theory of expectation formation that incorporates many of the central motivations of behavioral finance theory while retaining much of the discipline of the rational expectations approach. We provide a framework in which agents, in an asset pricing model, underparameterize their forecasting model in a spirit similar to Hong, Stein, and Yu (2005) and Barberis, Shleifer, an...

Both Behavioral Finance and market practitioners view confidence as one of the most important psychological variables influencing investor behavior. In the Behavioral Finance literature, confidence is associated with biased decisions and overreaction: investor confidence leads them to give too much importance to some ideas and to refuse to seriously take new facts into account until the grounds...

In the backdrop of the creation and collapse of the Cyprus stock market bubble, we document substantial positive abnormal returns around the announcement and execution of stock splits in Cyprus. Split-induced returns cannot be explained by variables proxying for conventional liquidity and signalling hypotheses for stock split activity, and are largely reversed in the post-split months. Post-spl...

Based on indirect utility theory, we introduce a novel methodology of measuring inflation expectations indirectly. This starts at the individual level, asking consumers about change in income required to buy same amounts goods and services one year ahead. Analytically, our possesses smaller ex-post aggregate forecast errors relative forecasts based conventional survey questions. We ask this que...

The purpose of this study was to examine the effects stress on job performance psychiatric nurses in Ankaful Psychiatric Hospital Cape Coast. A descriptive survey design adopted for study. sample 150 were selected from a population 197 using simple random sampling procedure. Data collected Weiman Occupational Stress Scale (WOSS) questionnaire. 143 answered questionnaires retrieved out offered, ...