Risky quantities

Report on Blood Drawing : Risky Procedures , Risky Devices , Risky Job

Risky prey behavior evolves in risky habitats.

Longstanding theory in behavioral ecology predicts that prey should evolve decreased foraging rates under high predation threat. However, an alternative perspective suggests that growth into a size refuge from gape-limited predation and the future benefits of large size can outweigh the initial survival costs of intense foraging. Here, I evaluate the relative contributions of selection from a g...

Risky business.

In prior studies by high-level commissions, emphasis was given to improving the scientific basis and institutional procedures for risk assessment and risk regulation within existing statutory frameworks. Recommendations have led to slow but steady progress. This study is considerably different. It emphasizes a public health approach for efficient use of resources in a new flexible framework for...

Framing of Numerical Quantities

Judgments and decisions are dependent upon the information available. They are also dependent upon the way the information is presented. Message characteristics that make recipients willing to endorse a message have been discussed within the rhetoric tradition and studied empirically in the psychology of persuasion (Cialdini, 2007), advertising (Armstrong, 2010), and health communication (Berry...

Measurements of Electrical Quantities