In search of how people change: Applications to addictive behaviors.
How people intentionally change addictive behaviors with and without treatment is not well understood by behavioral scientists. This article summarizes research on self-initiate...
Publications
Explore 7,521 academic publications
Showing 12 of
7,521 publications
Economic Growth in a Cross Section of Countries
In neoclassical growth models with diminishing returns to capital, a country's per capita growth rate tends to be inversely related to its initial level of income per person.Thi...
A Theory of the Term Structure of Interest Rates
This paper uses an intertemporal general equilibrium asset pricing model to study the term structure of interest rates. In this model, anticipations, risk aversion, investment a...
Stages and processes of self-change of smoking: Toward an integrative model of change.
An integrative model of change was applied to the study of 872 Ss (mean age 40 yrs) who were changing their smoking habits on their own. Ss represented the following 5 stages of...
Markov Decision Processes: Discrete Stochastic Dynamic Programming.
From the Publisher: The past decade has seen considerable theoretical and applied research on Markov decision processes, as well as the growing use of these models in ecology, ...
The measurement of psychological androgyny.
This article describes the development of a new sex-role inventory that treats masculinity and femininity as two independent dimensions, thereby making it possible to characteri...
ape 5.0: an environment for modern phylogenetics and evolutionary analyses in R
Abstract Summary After more than fifteen years of existence, the R package ape has continuously grown its contents, and has been used by a growing community of users. The releas...
Hybridization of denatured RNA and small DNA fragments transferred to nitrocellulose.
A simple and rapid method for transferring RNA from agarose gels to nitrocellulose paper for blot hybridization has been developed. Poly(A)+ and ribosomal RNAs transfer efficien...
The International Scientific Association for Probiotics and Prebiotics consensus statement on the scope and appropriate use of the term probiotic
An expert panel was convened in October 2013 by the International Scientific Association for Probiotics and Prebiotics (ISAPP) to discuss the field of probiotics. It is now 13 y...
Asylums: Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates.
A total institution is defined by Goffman as a place of residence and work where a large number of like-situated, individuals, cut off from the wider society for an appreciable ...