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Shorter Ends, Faster End? Leukocyte Telomere Length and Mortality Among Older Taiwanese

Noreen Goldman
2015
Recent studies have found mixed results regarding the association between leukocyte telomere length (LTL)-- thought to be a marker of cellular aging-- and all-cause mortality. Some studies have reported a significant inverse relationship, but others have ...

Talking Up and Talking Down: The Power of Positive Speaking

Susan Fiske
2015
Consistent with Lewin's legacy and SPSSI's traditions, out work has focused on inequality and power dynamics between people. Drawing on interpersonal positivity biases, stereotype content emphasizing perceived warmth and competence, and on the ...

Quantifying the risk of pandemic influenza virus evolution by mutation and re-assortment

Bryan Grenfell
2015
Large outbreaks of zoonotic influenza A virus (IAV) infections may presage an influenza pandemic. However, the likelihood that an airborne-transmissible variant evolves upon zoonotic infection or co-infection with zoonotic and seasonal IAVs remains poorly ...

After Hegemony Cooperation is Still Possible

Robert Keohane
2015
The rejoinder by Prof. Keohane can be accessed via the external link. The attached paper, After Hegemony: Transatlantic Economic Relations in the Next Decade (Download File), which appeared in The International Spectator in January 1984, previewed many of ...

Infectious Cognition: Risk Perception Affects Memory for Medical Information

2015
November, 2015 Health Media Psychology Social and Behavioral Psychology Download File ...

Infectious Cognition: Risk Perception Affects Memory for Medical Information

2015
November, 2015 Health Media Psychology Social and Behavioral Psychology Download File ...

Infectious Cognition: Risk Perception Affects Memory for Medical Information

2015
November, 2015 Health Media Psychology Social and Behavioral Psychology Download File ...

Infectious Cognition: Risk Perception Affects Memory for Medical Information

2015
November, 2015 Health Media Psychology Social and Behavioral Psychology Download File ...

A Conceptual Critique of the Cultural Cognition Thesis

2015
Sander van der Linden November, 2015 Science Communication Culture Education Environment Media Politics Psychology Science Science and Technology Social and Behavioral Psychology Download File External Link ...

How to Improve Public Engagement with Climate Change: Five "Best Practice" Insights from Psychological Science

2015
Sander van der Linden November, 2015 Perspectives on Psychological Science, 10(6), 758-763. Education Energy Environment Politics Psychology Science Domestic and Social Policy Environment and Energy Social and Behavioral Psychology Download File External ...

Green Prison Programmes, Recidivism, and Mental Health: A Primer

2015
Sander van der Linden November, 2015 Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health, 25(5), 338-342. Education Environment Health Law Poverty Psychology Science Domestic and Social Policy Environment and Energy Law and Justice Social and Behavioral Psychology ...

Managing nitrogen for sustainable development

Denise Mauzerall
2015
ABSTRACT: Improvements in nitrogen use efficiency in crop production are critical for addressing the triple challenges of food security, environmental degradation and climate change. Such improvements are conditional not only on technological innovation, ...

The Experience of Middle-income Countries Participating in PISA, 2000-2015.

Marlaine Lockheed
2015
Marlaine Lockheed November, 2015 with Tijana Prokic-Breuer and Anna Shadrova, OECD/World Bank, Paris: OECD Publishing, Education International Development External Link ...

The Great Recession and Mother’s Health

Janet Currie
2015
We investigate the impacts of the dramatic increases in state unemployment rates that accompanied the Great Recession on the health of women with children using the last two waves of the Fragile Families and Child Well-being Study. We focus on a wide ...

Speaking with a Single Voice: The EU as an Effective Actor in Global Governance?

2015
November, 2015 Edited by Sophie Meunier and Eugenia da Conceicao-Heldt, Routledge International Political Economy and Trade External Link ...

Inference on Causal Effects in a Generalized Regression Kink Design

David Lee
2015
We consider nonparametric identification and estimation in a nonseparable model where a continuous regressor of interest is a known, deterministic, but kinked function of an observed assignment variable. We characterize a broad class of models in which a ...

State Innovation Waivers: Redrawing the Boundaries of the ACA

Heather Howard
2015
Heather Howard October, 2015 With Galen Benshoof; Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, Published online before print October 7, 2015, doi:10.1215/03616878-3424614 Health Domestic and Social Policy Health Policy state health policy Affordable Care ...

Mitigating the impact of oil palm monoculture on freshwater fishes in Southeast Asia

David Wilcove
2015
David Wilcove October, 2015 Giam, X., R. K. Hadiaty, H. H. Tan, L R. Parenti, D. Wowor, S. Sauri, K. Y. Chong, D. C. J. Yeo, D. S. Wilcove. 2015 Conservation Biology 29: 1357-1367. Environment Environment and Energy Download File External Link ...

Within-Mother Estimates of the Effects of WIC on Birth Outcomes in New York City

Janet Currie
2015
There is a large literature suggesting that “WIC works” to improve birth outcomes. However, methodological limitations related to selection into the Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) program have left room for doubt about this conclusion. This article ...

Ex Post Inequality of Opportunity Comparisons

Marc Fleurbaey
2015
In this paper we propose different criteria to rank income distributions according to equality of opportunity. Different from existing ones, our criteria explicitly recognize the interplay between circumstances and effort. We characterize them ...

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