Attention bias modification (ABM) programs have been considered as a promising new approach for the treatment of various disorders, including social anxiety disorder (SAD). However, previous studies yielded ambiguous results regarding the efficacy of ABM in SAD. The present proof-of-concept study investigates the feasibility of a newly developed virtual reality (VR)-based dot-probe training par...

Agent-Based Modeling (ABM) and simulation have gained popularity in the Geographic Information Systems (GIS) domain. Despite the increasing number of models built by experts and users, it remains challenging for users to specify their models in a manner in which one can understand it. This constraint represents an inhibition to the development and acceptance of the ABM approach. In this paper, ...

Diffusion model is increasingly employed to simulate diffusion of biological compounds including nutrient, oxygen and chemoattractants in the agent-based model (ABM). However, it takes long compute time to employ conventional numerical methods such as alternating direction implicit (ADI) method to approximate the exact solution of the diffusion processed by sequential computing algorithm. To ov...

The present study compared the T-cell progenitor content of CD34+ lineage (Lin)- cells isolated from normal adult bone marrow (ABM) and mobilized peripheral blood (MPB). Both cell populations were found to differentiate into T cells when injected into human fetal thymi implanted into severe combined immunodeficient mice. Cytokine-MPB cells were less efficient than ABM cells in engrafting in the...

Effective weather forecast information helps smallholder farmers improve their adaptation to climate uncertainties and crop productivity. The main objective of this study was assess the impact adoption on We coupled agent-based productivity models farmers’ management decisions maize under different rainfall scenarios in Ethiopia. A household survey conducted with 100 households from 5 villages ...

Multilevel Models (MLM) have pioneered the analysis of hierarchical data, with two or more levels. Agent-Based Models (ABM) are also used to analyse social phenomena in which there are two or more levels involved. This paper addresses the integration between MLM and ABM. To provide a basis of comparison, we focus on differential school effectiveness analysis, where MLM has been well studied, us...

According to new research accepted for publication in the Endocrine Society's Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, Chinese herbal medicines are well recognized for their medicinal properties and have been used in traditional medicine for millennia. The medicinal effects attributed to herbal medicines, based mainly on unchar-acterized substances or extracts, include depression managem...

Hotelling's Rule is the observation that the exploitation of a nonrenewable resource can only be economically e cient if the resource owner's marginal pro t increases at the prevailing discount rate. This has been a perennial topic in the literature of resource economics since the 1970s, with some authors extending the theory and others analyzing empirical data. This paper reports on the result...

Organizations and markets can both be seen as complex systems whose aggregate dynamics cannot often be inferred from their micro building blocks [Faggini and Lux (2008)]. Different traditional modeling methods exist to support researchers to understand and predict the behavior of such complex systems. However, most of these models are developed under the assumption of a state of stability, equi...

There is growing evidence that young people own alcohol-branded merchandise (ABM), and that ownership influences their drinking intentions and behaviours. However, there is a paucity of research on parents' knowledge or attitudes in relation to ownership of ABM. Study 1 (n = 210) identified high levels of ownership of ABM and associations between ABM and drinking attitudes and behaviours. In St...