THE INFLUENCE OF PERSONALITY ON THE EFFECTS OF NATURE EXPOSURE AMONG COLLEGE STUDENTS

College students’ emotional, mental, and physical health have seen a steady decline over the last decade. Research suggests that exposure to nature such as interacting with wildlife, hearing nature sounds, or programs where individuals are directedly involved in their experience with nature, allow for the individual to experience lower levels of stress, raise moods, and can help aid in the treatment of some of the most common mental illnesses such as Major Depressive Disorder and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. However, there is little research that examine other variables such as personality that may influence the outcome of the nature exposure effect. This study aims to provide more information and insight into how the nature exposure effect is modulated among different personality types. This study examines how personality influences the outcomes of the nature exposure effect among college aged people through the use of the Big Five Inventory and the Perceived Stress Scale. This study did not find any significant differences among personality through the nature exposure effect (p\u3e.05) but did find that those with low nature exposure scores had significantly higher perceived stress (p = .045). More research is required to fully understand how personality influences the effects of nature exposure

A quantum probabilistic approach to Hecke algebras for p\mathfrak{p}-adic PGL2{\rm PGL}_2

The subject of the present paper is an application of quantum probability to $p$-adic objects. We give a quantum-probabilistic interpretation of the spherical Hecke algebra for ${\rm PGL}_2(F)$, where $F$ is a $p$-adic field. As a byproduct, we obtain a new proof of the Fourier inversion formula for ${\rm PGL}_2(F)$

The limit theorem with respect to the matrices on non-backtracking paths of a graph

We give a limit theorem with respect to the matrices related to non-backtracking paths of a regular graph. The limit obtained closely resembles the $k$th moments of the arcsine law. Furthermore, we obtain the asymptotics of the averages of the $p^m$th Fourier coefficients of the cusp forms related to the Ramanujan graphs defined by A. Lubotzky, R. Phillips and P. Sarnak

Lattice sums of II-Bessel functions, theta functions, linear codes and heat equations

We extend a certain type of identities on sums of $I$-Bessel functions on lattices, previously given by G. Chinta, J. Jorgenson, A Karlsson and M. Neuhauser. Moreover we prove that, with continuum limit, the transformation formulas of theta functions such as the Dedekind eta function can be given by $I$-Bessel lattice sum identities with characters. We consider analogues of theta functions of lattices coming from linear codes and show that sums of $I$-Bessel functions defined by linear codes can be expressed by complete weight enumerators. We also prove that $I$-Bessel lattice sums appear as solutions of heat equations on general lattices. As a further application, we obtain an explicit solution of the heat equation on $\mathbb{Z}^n$ whose initial condition is given by a linear code

血清トランスフェリン濃度測定の鉄栄養評価への応用

Serum transferrin measurement was performed by radial immunodiffusion for 274 female students in the department of food science in this university after getting the approval of the ethical committee and also the consent of the students. Serum transferrin concentration was measurable in 0.04μ 1 of serum and the average value in the students was 321.6±76.7mg/dl. Transferrin concentration had statistically negative correlation (p<0.01) for MCV (mean corpuscular volume of erythrocytes), transferrin saturation or serum ferritin concentration within the subjects. The 10～90 percentile range within 256 students, who were in normal Hb value, was 240～386mg/dl. The estimated percentage, who suffered from iron deficiency in the subjects, was 10.2% in MCV, 19.3% in transferrin saturation and 11.0% in serum ferritin concentration. Provided that 386mg/dl of transferrin concentration was cut-off value of iron nutrition, the percentage beyond that value was 12.8%. Serum transferrin measurement seemed to be a reliable method for evaluating iron status, which canbe practicedby less than 10μ 1 of sera

Time course study of oxidative and nitrosative stress and antioxidant enzymes in K(2)Cr(2)O(7)-induced nephrotoxicity

BACKGROUND: Potassium dichromate (K(2)Cr(2)O(7))-induced nephrotoxicity is associated with oxidative and nitrosative stress. In this study we investigated the relation between the time course of the oxidative and nitrosative stress with kidney damage and alterations in the following antioxidant enzymes: Cu, Zn superoxide dismutase (Cu, Zn-SOD), Mn-SOD, glutathione peroxidase (GPx), glutathione reductase (GR), and catalase (CAT). METHODS: Nephrotoxicity was induced in rats by a single injection of K(2)Cr(2)O(7). Groups of animals were sacrificed on days 1,2,3,4,6,8,10, and 12. Nephrotoxicity was evaluated by histological studies and by measuring creatinine clearance, serum creatinine, blood urea nitrogen (BUN), and urinary excretion of N-acetyl-β-D-glucosaminidase (NAG) and total protein. Oxidative and nitrosative stress were measured by immunohistochemical localization of protein carbonyls and 3-nitrotyrosine, respectively. Cu, Zn-SOD, Mn-SOD, and CAT were studied by immunohistochemical localization. The activity of total SOD, CAT, GPx, and GR was also measured as well as serum and kidney content of chromium and urinary excretion of NO(2 )(-)/NO(3)(-). Data were compared by two-way analysis of variance followed by a post hoc test. RESULTS: Serum and kidney chromium content increased reaching the highest value on day 1. Nephrotoxicity was made evident by the decrease in creatinine clearance (days 1–4) and by the increase in serum creatinine (days 1–4), BUN (days 1–6), urinary excretion of NAG (days 1–4), and total protein (day 1–6) and by the structural damage to the proximal tubules (days 1–6). Oxidative and nitrosative stress were clearly evident on days 1–8. Urinary excretion of NO(2)(-)/NO(3)(- )decreased on days 2–6. Mn-SOD and Cu, Zn-SOD, estimated by immunohistochemistry, and total SOD activity remained unchanged. Activity of GPx decreased on days 3–12 and those of GR and CAT on days 2–10. Similar findings were observed by immunohistochemistry of CAT. CONCLUSION: These data show the association between oxidative and nitrosative stress with functional and structural renal damage induced by K(2)Cr(2)O(7). Renal antioxidant enzymes were regulated differentially and were not closely associated with oxidative or nitrosative stress or with kidney damage. In addition, the decrease in the urinary excretion of NO(2)(-)/NO(3)(- )was associated with the renal nitrosative stress suggesting that nitric oxide was derived to the formation of reactive nitrogen species involved in protein nitration

Clinical and Experimental Studies on the Characteristics of Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura Part 1. The Influence of the Serum of the Patient with Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura on the Megakaryocyte Function of Normal Persons

With the purpose to pursue the platelet reducing factor in the serum of idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura, the author performed the bone-marrow tissue culture of the normal persons and the patients with this disease by the simple method of bone-marrow tissue culture; and also observed number of megakaryocytes, their functions (motility and separation of platelets) in the tissue growth area, relative tissue growthrate, and the wandering velocity of neutrophils by means of the bone-marrow tissue culture of normal persons in the serum of patient with this disease. 1. In the bone-marrow tissue culture of this disease number of megakaryocytes appearing in the tissue growth area was normal in one case, and greater than the normal in two cases; but the megakaryocyte funcion was on the whole lowered. The relative growth rate and the wandering velocity of neutrophils showed no significant differences from those of the control. 2. In the case of the bone-marrow tissue culture of normal persons in the serum of this disease there was no significant difference in the number of megakryocytes appearing in the growth area from that of the control, but the megakaryocyte function was markedly diminished and also a marked degeneration was recognized. However, the relative growth rate and the wandering velocity of neutrophils showed no significant differences from those of the control. From these findings it is clear that there exists some factor in the serum of the patient with thrombocytopenic purpura, which acts directly on megakarycoytes so as to inhibit the thrombocyte production