Rules Rather than Discretion: The Inconsistency of Optimal Plans
Even if there is an agreed-upon, fixed social objective function and policymakers know the timing and magnitude of the effects of their actions, discretionary policy, namely, th...
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EFFECTS OF BIODIVERSITY ON ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONING: A CONSENSUS OF CURRENT KNOWLEDGE
Humans are altering the composition of biological communities through a variety of activities that increase rates of species invasions and species extinctions, at all scales, fr...
Cancer statistics, 2024
Abstract Each year, the American Cancer Society estimates the numbers of new cancer cases and deaths in the United States and compiles the most recent data on population‐based c...
Extended <sup>14</sup>C Data Base and Revised CALIB 3.0 <sup>14</sup>C Age Calibration Program
The age calibration program, CALIB (Stuiver & Reimer 1986), first made available in 1986 and subsequently modified in 1987 (revision 2.0 and 2.1), has been amended anew. The...
The emotional dog and its rational tail: A social intuitionist approach to moral judgment.
Research on moral judgment has been dominated by rationalist models, in which moral judgment is thought to be caused by moral reasoning. The author gives 4 reasons for consideri...
Overweight, Obesity, and Mortality from Cancer in a Prospectively Studied Cohort of U.S. Adults
Increased body weight was associated with increased death rates for all cancers combined and for cancers at multiple specific sites.
Effects of radiotherapy with concomitant and adjuvant temozolomide versus radiotherapy alone on survival in glioblastoma in a randomised phase III study: 5-year analysis of the EORTC-NCIC trial
In 2004, a randomised phase III trial by the European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) and National Cancer Institute of Canada Clinical Trials Group (NC...
Quantitative assessment of tactile allodynia in the rat paw
We applied and validated a quantitative allodynia assessment technique, using a recently developed rat surgical neuropathy model wherein nocifensive behaviors are evoked by ligh...
Varieties of Capitalism: The Institutional Foundations of Comparative Advantage
What are the most important differences among national economies? Is globalization forcing nations to converge on an Anglo-American model? What explains national differences in ...
Prevalence and Trends in Obesity Among US Adults, 1999-2008
In 2007-2008, the prevalence of obesity was 32.2% among adult men and 35.5% among adult women. The increases in the prevalence of obesity previously observed do not appear to be...
dbSNP: the NCBI database of genetic variation
In response to a need for a general catalog of genome variation to address the large-scale sampling designs required by association studies, gene mapping and evolutionary biolog...