Umbrella Advocates Versus Validity Police: A Life-Cycle Model
The rise and fall of organizational effectiveness, an “umbrella construct” once at the forefront of organizational theory, is traced through four life-cycle stages: emerging exc...
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Capitalizing on and coping with daily-life events: Expressive responses to positive events.
It is argued that insufficient attention has been paid to the nature and processes underlying positive experiences. An analogy is drawn between coping with negative events and t...
Mechanism by which high-dose aspirin improves glucose metabolism in type 2 diabetes
Recent studies have implicated fatty acid-dependent activation of the serine kinase IKKβ, which plays a key role in tissue inflammation, in the pathogenesis of insulin resistanc...
Spatial heterogeneity in urban ecosystems: reconceptualizing land cover and a framework for classification
Urban areas are heterogeneous. Transitions in architecture and building density, vegetation, economic activity, and culture can occur at the scale of city blocks. Ecologists hav...
A Long Neglected World Malaria Map: Plasmodium vivax Endemicity in 2010
This detailed depiction of spatially varying endemicity is intended to contribute to a much-needed paradigm shift towards geographically stratified and evidence-based planning f...
Towards writing the encyclopaedia of life: an introduction to DNA barcoding
An international consortium of major natural history museums, herbaria and other organizations has launched an ambitious project, the ‘Barcode of Life Initiative’, to promote a ...
Time Lag between Deforestation and Bird Extinction in Tropical Forest Fragments
Abstract: Tropical forests are becoming increasingly fragmented, threatening the survival of the species that depend on them. Small, isolated forest fragments will lose some of ...
Estimating the National Public Health Burden Associated with Exposure to Ambient PM<sub>2.5</sub> and Ozone
Ground‐level ozone (O 3 ) and fine particulate matter (PM 2.5 ) are associated with increased risk of mortality. We quantify the burden of modeled 2005 concentrations of O 3 and...
A comparison of propensity score methods: a case‐study estimating the effectiveness of post‐AMI statin use
Abstract There is an increasing interest in the use of propensity score methods to estimate causal effects in observational studies. However, recent systematic reviews have demo...