The hypothesis of this experiment was that humans in an anxious state compared with a nonanxious state are able to increase anxiety levels in other humans via their body odors. Specifically, we hypothesized that male chemosensory anxiety signals compared with neutral chemosignals increase state anxiety of female subjects. Thirteen male subjects participated in 2 different sweat donation session...

God's perceived closeness (GC) is greater when the attachment system is activated. This conclusion is based primarily on adult studies, but some findings suggest its validity also in childhood. Adult studies have shown GC to vary in relation to security of attachment, but child studies have been few and methodologically limited. In this study, we tested differences between securely and insecure...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate treatment outcome in dogs with separation anxiety and owner compliance with and perception of effectiveness of discharge instructions. DESIGN Cohort study. ANIMALS 52 dogs with separation anxiety. PROCEDURE Sex, age at which the owner obtained the dog, age at which separation anxiety was first noticed, age at behavioral examination, and discharge instructions were ob...

Despite several recent proposals to achieve Blind Source Separation (BSS) for realistic acoustic signals, the separation performance is still not enough. In particular, when the length of an impulse response is long, the performance is highly limited. In this paper, we consider the reason for the poor performance of BSS in a long reverberation environment. First, we show that it is useless to b...

This three-wave longitudinal study explored developmental trajectories for various types of childhood anxiety symptoms (i.e., specific fears, social anxiety, generalized anxiety, and separation anxiety) and examined how these trajectories were associated with several factors thought to be involved in the pathogenesis of anxiety. Parents of a community sample of 224 children aged 4 to 11 years r...

BACKGROUND Parenting self-esteem includes two global components, parents' self-efficacy and satisfaction with their parental role, and has a crucial role in parent-child interactions. The purpose of this study was to develop an integrative model linking adult attachment insecurities, dyadic adjustment, and parenting self-esteem. METHODS The study involved 118 pairs (236 subjects) of heterosex...

The present study carries out output-only modal analysis using two blind source separation (BSS) techniques, namely independent component analysis and second-order blind identification. The concept of virtual source is exploited and renders the application of these BSS techniques possible. The proposed modal analysis method is illustrated using numerical and experimental examples. r 2007 Elsevi...

Blind source separation (BSS) is a method for recovering a set of source signals from the observation of their mixtures without any prior knowledge about the mixing process. In BSS the definition of a source signal has an inherent indeterminacy; any linear transform of a source signal can also be considered a source signal. Due to this indeterminacy, there are an infinite number of valid separa...

Blind Source Separation (BSS) refers to the process of recovering source signals from a given mixture of unknown source signals were in no prior information about source and mixing methodology is known. Independent Component Analysis (ICA) is widely used BSS technique which allows separation of source components from complex mixture of signals based on certain statistical assumptions. This pape...

Objectives: Primary school children's representations of themselves and their attachment figures were explored by assessing their family drawings. The main aim of the study was to empirically explore differences in the representations of children with secure versus insecure attachment. The study was theoretically informed by attachment theory and methodologically based on widely-used systems fo...