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Individual differences are accentuated during periods of social change: The sample case of girls at puberty.
The emergence of new behaviors and the reorganization of psychological structures are often attributed to critical events and crises in the life course. A fundamentally differen...
Artificial life meets entertainment
The relatively new field of artificial life attempts to study and understand biological life by synthesizing artificial life forms. To paraphrase Chris Langton, the founder of t...
Explaining Diffusion Patterns for Complex Health Care Innovations
Why are some less solidly supported health care innovations widely adopted while others with apparently stronger scientific support remain underused? Drawing on four case studie...
High‐Rate, Long‐Life Ni–Sn Nanostructured Electrodes for Lithium‐Ion Batteries
In this paper, we report a revolutionary, new type of nanoarchitectured configuration that results in electrodes that have very high rate capability and excellent capacity reten...
Self-Reported Health Status of the General Adult U.S. Population as Assessed by the EQ-5D and Health Utilities Index
This study provides U.S. population norms for self-reported health status on the EQ-5D, HUI2, and HUI3. Although these measures appeared to be valid and demonstrated similaritie...
Vulnerability research and the issue of primary prevention.
The goal of primary prevention of psychiatric disorder is a laudatory one, which unfortunately can not be realized in the absence of scientific knowledge about etiology. This pa...
The global epidemiology and burden of opioid dependence: results from the global burden of disease 2010 study
Abstract Aims To estimate the prevalence and burden of disease attributable to opioid dependence globally, regionally and at country level. Methods Multiple search strategies: (...
Integration of targeted health interventions into health systems: a conceptual framework for analysis
The benefits of integrating programmes that emphasize specific interventions into health systems to improve health outcomes have been widely debated. This debate has been driven...
Lymphokine-mediated regulation of the proliferative response of clones of T helper 1 and T helper 2 cells.
Murine Th1 and Th2 subsets differ not only in the lymphokines they produce, but also functionally. It is not clear what factors influence the preferential activation of one subs...