Publications

Frailty in Older Adults: Evidence for a Phenotype

This study provides a potential standardized definition for frailty in community-dwelling older adults and offers concurrent and predictive validity for the definition. It also ...

A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance

Leon Festinger's theory of cognitive dissonance has been widely recognized for its important and influential concepts in areas of motivation and social psychology. The theory of...

Some methods for classification and analysis of multivariate observations

This paper describes a number of applications of the 'k-means', a procedure for classifying a random sample of points in E sub N. The procedure consists of starting with k group...

A tutorial on hidden Markov models and selected applications in speech recognition

This tutorial provides an overview of the basic theory of hidden Markov models (HMMs) as originated by L.E. Baum and T. Petrie (1966) and gives practical details on methods of i...

Soft self-consistent pseudopotentials in a generalized eigenvalue formalism

A new approach to the construction of first-principles pseudopotentials is described. The method allows transferability to be improved systematically while holding the cutoff ra...

Canonical dynamics: Equilibrium phase-space distributions

Nos\'e has modified Newtonian dynamics so as to reproduce both the canonical and the isothermal-isobaric probability densities in the phase space of an N-body system. He did thi...

The Ecology of Human Development

Classical Electrodynamics

MRBAYES: Bayesian inference of phylogenetic trees

Abstract Summary: The program MRBAYES performs Bayesian inference of phylogeny using a variant of Markov chain Monte Carlo. Availability: MRBAYES, including the source code, doc...

Introduction to Quantitative Genetics.

Part 1 Genetic constitution of a population: Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium. Part 2 Changes in gene frequency: migration mutation. Part 3 Small populations - changes in gene frequen...

An Evolutionary Theory of Economic Change.

Journal Article An Evolutionary Theory of Economic Change Get access An Evolutionary Theory of Economic Change. By Richard R. Nelson and Sidney G. Winter. (Cambridge, Massachuse...

Atherosclerosis — An Inflammatory Disease

Atherosclerosis is an inflammatory disease. Because high plasma concentrations of cholesterol, in particular those of low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol, are one of the p...