To examine the predictive power of Cloninger's psychobiology model of depression, 167 Japanese college students were studied on two occasions, with an interval of approximately three months. At Time 1 (T1), the Temperament and Character Inventory (TCI) and Self-rating Depression Scale (SDS) were distributed. At Time 2 (T2), the SDS was distributed again. The T2 SDS score was positively correlat...

Several studies assessed the relationship between depression and dimensions of temperament/character using the Cloninger's model of personality and the TCI-R. The aim of this study is clarify the relation between depression and personality in men and women who are expecting a baby. The Temperament and Character Inventory-Revised Form and the Beck Depression Inventory were administered to 65 pre...

This paper explores the effects of the surface density and concentration profiles of extra cellular matrix proteins on the migration of rat intestinal IEC-6 cells. Microfluidic devices were used to create linear, immobilized gradients of laminin. This study investigated both the impact of the steepness and local concentrations on the directedness of cell migration. The bulk concentrations of pr...

objective: in recent years, interpersonal relationships have become more complex and increasing number of people suffers from seclusion and loneliness. early maladaptive schemas (emss), important cognitive structures, are expected to have a profound effect on interpersonal relationships. the present study aimed to investigate the relationship between emss and interpersonal problems among univer...

Several heterogeneous pattern types are available nowadays as a result of the different goals that a mining task tries to accomplish and of the application of Data Mining techniques over different domains. In this chapter we overview three popular pattern types, namely frequent itemsets and association rules, clusters and clusterings, and decision trees. We also adopt a pattern representation s...

As modeling details can have a large impact on planner performance, domain transformation has been a traditional subject of interest in the planning community not only between languages, but also within languages. Herein, we automate an intra-language transformation method that has as yet been applied only manually, and that has never been formally described: action schema splitting, which tran...

Several studies have linked teachers' personality characteristics and sense of efficacy to stress. However, investigating the relationship between these three constructs in this context was limited. This study aims to investigate the relationship between personality, sense of efficacy and perceived stress among Korean teachers. A total of 137 teachers working in elementary, middle, and high sch...

present study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of cognitive group therapy based on schema on modification early maladaptive schema among orphan and dysfunctional parenting adolescents girls. the study was an applied research with a quasi-experimental type (with non-equivalent control group design). participants were being selected by using convenient sampling method, who were then randoml...