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Analysis of Global Sea Level Rise Impact and Adaptation Risk Assessments

Ward, Molly (2011-04-28)

Global sea levels currently are rising and will continue to rise far into the future. This rise engenders significant risks to life and the environment, as it creates negative physical, economic, and societal impacts ...
Analysis of Global Sea Level Rise Impact Risk Assessments

Ward, Molly (2011-04-28)

Global sea levels currently are rising and will continue to rise far into the future. This rise engenders significant risks to life and the environment, as it creates negative physical, economic, and societal impacts ...
A Risk‐Risk Trade‐off: Insecticide Use for Malaria Control

Pfau, Kristen (2011-04-29)

Malaria is among the top causes of death in low-income countries. Because it is transmitted through a mosquito vector, programs to reduce or control these insects receive much attention. Recently, concerns have increased ...
`Crack Babies' and `Illegals': Neo-liberalism, and Moral Boundary Maintenance of Race and Class

Roth, Leslie Tate (2013)

<p>Examination of the moralized risk discourse that occurs during moral panics can help us better understand how discourse supports neoliberal modes of governance. Using the moral panics about crack babies in the 1980's ...
Diagnosis of Partial Body Radiation Exposure in Mice Using Peripheral Blood Gene Expression Profiles

Meadows, Sarah K.; Daher, Pamela; Himburg, Heather; Russell, J. Lauren; Doan, Dr Phuong; Chao, Nelson; Chute, Dr John (PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE, 2010)

In the event of a terrorist-mediated attack in the United States using radiological or improvised nuclear weapons, it is expected that hundreds of thousands of people could be exposed to life-threatening levels of ionizing ...
Frequency of Occult High-Grade Squamous Intraepithelial Neoplasia and Invasive Cancer within Anal Condylomata in Men Who Have Sex with Men

Proper, JoAnn (UNIV CHICAGO PRESS, 2010)

Human papillomavirus causes anal condylomata, high-grade anal intraepithelial neoplasia, and anal squamous cell cancer. We found high-grade intraepithelial neoplasia or squamous cell cancer in 75 (47%) of 159 HIV-seropositive ...
Genome-Wide Scan of Copy Number Variation in Late-Onset Alzheimer's Disease

Heinzen, Erin L. (IOS PRESS, 2010)

Alzheimer's disease is a complex and progressive neurodegenerative disease leading to loss of memory, cognitive impairment, and ultimately death. To date, six large-scale genome-wide association studies have been conducted ...
Managerial Decision Making in Censored Environments: Biased Judgment of Demand, Risk, and Employee Capability

Feiler, Daniel C. (2012)

<p>Individuals have the tendency to believe that they have complete information when making decisions. In many contexts this propensity allows for swift, efficient, and generally effective decision making. However, individuals ...
Optimal Critical Values for Pre-Testing in Regression

Toyoda, T.; Wallace, Dudley (Econometrica, 1976)

In this paper we derive and present optimal critical points for pre-tests in regression using a minimum average relative risk criterion. We use the same type risk functions as Sawa and Hiromatsu [8] who, in a recent paper ...
Probabilistic Risk, Neuroeconomic Ambiguity, and Keynesian Uncertainty

Portelli, Samuel (2012-04-16)

The relative importance of agent confidence and rational expectations has fluctuated in the course of economic thought, and remains an important issue in the discipline today. Positions on the formations of expectations ...
The Role of Information in Behavioral and Environmental Health Economics

Baker-Goering, Madeleine Marie (2012)

<p>The increased use of information disclosure in environmental policy raises questions of whether and how provision of information motivates changes in behavior. Accurate assessment of the value of information provision ...
Serotonin Transporter Genotype Modulates Social Reward and Punishment in Rhesus Macaques

Watson, Karli; Platt, Michael (PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE, 2009)

Background: Serotonin signaling influences social behavior in both human and nonhuman primates. In humans, variation upstream of the promoter region of the serotonin transporter gene (5-HTTLPR) has recently been shown to ...
A Strategy To Advance the Evidence Base in Palliative Medicine: Formation of a Palliative Care Research Cooperative Group

Abernethy, Amy; Wheeler, Jane; Zafar, Yousuf (MARY ANN LIEBERT INC, 2010)

Background: Palliative medicine has made rapid progress in establishing its scientific and clinical legitimacy, yet the evidence base to support clinical practice remains deficient in both the quantity and quality of ...

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