Publications

Focus Groups: A Practical Guide for Applied Research

Economic Welfare and the Allocation of Resources for Invention

Invention is here interpreted broadly as the production of knowledge. From the viewpoint of welfare economics, the determination of optimal resource allocation for invention wil...

Detection of widespread horizontal pleiotropy in causal relationships inferred from Mendelian randomization between complex traits and diseases

Basics of Qualitative Research: Techniques and Procedures for Developing Grounded Theory

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...

Hegemonic Masculinity

The concept of hegemonic masculinity has influenced gender studies across many academic fields but has also attracted serious criticism. The authors trace the origin of the conc...

Aging: A Theory Based on Free Radical and Radiation Chemistry

The phenomenon of growth, decline and death—aging—has been the source of considerable speculation (1, 8, 10). This cycle seems to be a more or less direct function of the metabo...

Investment under Uncertainty

Interorganizational Collaboration and the Locus of Innovation: Networks of Learning in Biotechnology

This research was supported by grants provided to the first author by the Social and Behavioral Sciences Research Institute, University of Arizona, and the Aspen Institute Nonpr...

Multiobjective evolutionary algorithms: a comparative case study and the strength Pareto approach

Evolutionary algorithms (EAs) are often well-suited for optimization problems involving several, often conflicting objectives. Since 1985, various evolutionary approaches to mul...

Exploring the Limits of Transfer Learning with a Unified Text-to-Text\n Transformer

Transfer learning, where a model is first pre-trained on a data-rich task\nbefore being fine-tuned on a downstream task, has emerged as a powerful\ntechnique in natural language...

Evaluation of general 16S ribosomal RNA gene PCR primers for classical and next-generation sequencing-based diversity studies

16S ribosomal RNA gene (rDNA) amplicon analysis remains the standard approach for the cultivation-independent investigation of microbial diversity. The accuracy of these analyse...