The Tragedy of the Commons*
The tragedy of the commons as a food basket is averted by private property, or something formally like it. The pollution problem is a consequence of population. Analysis of the ...
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Personality Structure: Emergence of the Five-Factor Model
There is clear evidence that parents can and do influence children. There is equally clear evidence that children’s genetic makeup affects their own behavioral characteristics, ...
Self-theories: Their Role in Motivation, Personality, and Development
Preface. Introduction. 1. What Promotes Adaptive Motivation? Four Beliefs and Four Truths about Ability, Success, Praise, and Confidence. 2. When Failure Undermines and When Fai...
Ecology of the family as a context for human development: Research perspectives.
This review collates and examines critically a theoretically convergent but widely dispersed body of research on the influence of external environments on the functioning of fam...
Identity and the life cycle
This book collects three early papers that-along with Childhood and Society-many consider the best introduction to Erikson's theories. Development and Historical Change is a se...
Hazards of heavy metal contamination
The main threats to human health from heavy metals are associated with exposure to lead, cadmium, mercury and arsenic. These metals have been extensively studied and their effec...
Classrooms: Goals, structures, and student motivation.
This article examines the classroom learning environment in relation to achievement goal theory of motivation. Classroom structures are described in terms of how they make diffe...
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 ...
The sixth report of the Joint National Committee on prevention, detection, evaluation, and treatment of high blood pressure
Racial and ethnic minority populations are growing segments of our society. The prevalence of hypertension in these populations differs across groups, and control rates are not ...
Google's Neural Machine Translation System: Bridging the Gap between Human and Machine Translation
Neural Machine Translation (NMT) is an end-to-end learning approach for automated translation, with the potential to overcome many of the weaknesses of conventional phrase-based...