The messages that matter

Messages that matter: Age differences in affective responses to framed health messages.

Age differences in responses to framed health messages-which can influence judgments and decisions-are critical to understand yet relatively unexplored. Age-related emotional shifts toward positivity would be expected to differentially impact the affective responses of older and younger adults to framed messages. In this study, we measured the subjective and physiological affective responses of...

Dark Chocolate and Metabolic Syndrome; Do Polyphenols All that Matter?

It's the holes that matter

Patterns that matter

Pattern mining is one of the best-known concepts in Data Mining. A bigproblem in pattern mining is that humongous amounts of patterns can be minedeven from small datasets. This makes it hard for domain experts to discoverknowledge using pattern mining, for example in the field of Bioinformatics. Inthis thesis we address the pattern explosion using compression.We argue that t...

Showing that Neighborhoods Matter

A long-standing contradiction has posed a critical puzzle to urban sociologists: On the one hand, a wealth of ethnographic studies make the point that the kinds of neighborhoods people inhabit profoundly shape their fortunes; on the other hand, statistical analyses of “neighborhood effects” have often failed to confirm that claim. From the earliest studies of the Chicago School, through classic...