Health Promotion by Social Cognitive Means
This article examines health promotion and disease prevention from the perspective of social cognitive theory. This theory posits a multifaceted causal structure in which self-e...
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Toward defining the preclinical stages of Alzheimer's disease: Recommendations from the National Institute on Aging‐Alzheimer's Association workgroups on diagnostic guidelines for Alzheimer's disease
The pathophysiological process of Alzheimer's disease (AD) is thought to begin many years before the diagnosis of AD dementia. This long “preclinical” phase of AD would provide ...
Good features to track
No feature-based vision system can work unless good features can be identified and tracked from frame to frame. Although tracking itself is by and large a solved problem, select...
Isolation of a T-Lymphotropic Retrovirus from a Patient at Risk for Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS)
A retrovirus belonging to the family of recently discovered human T-cell leukemia viruses (HTLV), but clearly distinct from each previous isolate, has been isolated from a Cauca...
Evolution and the Theory of Games
In this 1982 book, the theory of games, first developed to analyse economic behaviour, is modified so that it can be applied to evolving populations. John Maynard Smith's concep...
Near-Optimal Signal Recovery From Random Projections: Universal Encoding Strategies?
Suppose we are given a vector f in a class F ⊂ ℝN, e.g., a class of digital signals or digital images. How many linear measurements do we need to make about f to be able to reco...
2D materials and van der Waals heterostructures
BACKGROUND Materials by design is an appealing idea that is very hard to realize in practice. Combining the best of different ingredients in one ultimate material is a task for ...
Importance of pollinators in changing landscapes for world crops
The extent of our reliance on animal pollination for world crop production for human food has not previously been evaluated and the previous estimates for countries or continent...
Opinion Mining and Sentiment Analysis
An important part of our information-gathering behavior has always been to find out what other people think. With the growing availability and popularity of opinion-rich resourc...
Anarchy, State, and Utopia
Robert Nozicka s Anarchy, State, Utopia is a powerful, philosophical challenge to the most widely held political social positions of our age ---- liberal, socialist conservat...
The Economic Implications of Learning by Doing
It is by now incontrovertible that increases in per capita income cannot be explained simply by increases in the capital-labor ratio. Though doubtless no economist would ever ha...
Qualitative Research: Introducing focus groups
This paper introduces focus group methodology, gives advice on group composition, running the groups, and analysing the results. Focus groups have advantages for researchers in ...