On the psychology of prediction.
In this paper, we explore the rules that determine intuitive predictions and judgments of confidence and contrast these rules to the normative principles of statistical predicti...
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A SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS OF CROSS-COUNTRY GROWTH REGRESSIONS
A vast literature uses cross-country regressions to search for empirical linkages between long-run growth rates and a variety of economic policy, political, and institutional in...
The gut microbiota as an environmental factor that regulates fat storage
New therapeutic targets for noncognitive reductions in energy intake, absorption, or storage are crucial given the worldwide epidemic of obesity. The gut microbial community (mi...
A New Simplified Acute Physiology Score (SAPS II) Based on a European/North American Multicenter Study
<h3>Objective.</h3> —To develop and validate a new Simplified Acute Physiology Score, the SAPS II, from a large sample of surgical and medical patients, and to provide a method ...
ILAE Official Report: A practical clinical definition of epilepsy
Summary Epilepsy was defined conceptually in 2005 as a disorder of the brain characterized by an enduring predisposition to generate epileptic seizures. This definition is usual...
The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture 2022
The designations employed and the presentation of material in this information product do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the Food and Agricult...
FastTree: Computing Large Minimum Evolution Trees with Profiles instead of a Distance Matrix
Gene families are growing rapidly, but standard methods for inferring phylogenies do not scale to alignments with over 10,000 sequences. We present FastTree, a method for constr...
Population Structure and Eigenanalysis
Current methods for inferring population structure from genetic data do not provide formal significance tests for population differentiation. We discuss an approach to studying ...
The Skill Content of Recent Technological Change: An Empirical Exploration
We apply an understanding of what computers do to study how computerization alters job skill demands. We argue that computer capital (1) substitutes for workers in performing co...
Using Embeddings to Improve Named Entity Recognition Classification with Graphs
Richer information has potential to improve performance of NLP (Natural Language Processing) tasks such as Named Entity Recognition. A linear sequence of words can be enriched w...
A Short Portable Mental Status Questionnaire for the Assessment of Organic Brain Deficit in Elderly Patients†
ABSTRACT Clinicians whose practice includes elderly patients need a short, reliable instrument to detect the presence of intellectual impairment and to determine the degree. A 1...