OBJECTIVE The present study tested the extent to which age and obesity predicted impulsive choices for food and monetary outcomes and tested how a brief mindful-eating training would alter delay discounting for food and money choices compared with control groups. METHOD First, 172 adolescents (Mage = 13.13 years) and 176 (Mage = 23.33 years) adults completed the Food Choice Questionnaire (FCQ...

We compared the effects of guessing vs. choosing an upcoming task. In a task-switching paradigm with four tasks, two groups of participants were asked to either guess or choose which task will be presented next under otherwise identical conditions. The upcoming task corresponded to participants' guesses or choices in 75 % of the trials. However, only participants in the Choosing condition were ...

By reviewing Longest Increasing Subsequence (LIS) and Longest Common Subsequence (LCS), the Longest Common Increasing Subsequence (LCIS) problem is explored for two non-random input cases in details. Specifically, we designed two algorithms, one solving the input sequence scenario with the case that one sequence is ordered and duplicate elements are allowed in each of sequences, and the second ...

We consider the problem of :nding the longest increasing subsequence in a sliding window over a given sequence (LISW). We propose an output-sensitive data structure that solves this problem in time O(n log log n+OUTPUT) for a sequence of n elements. This data structure substantially improves over the na?@ve generalization of the longest increasing subsequence algorithm and in fact produces an o...

In this paper we give parallel solutions to the problem of finding the Longest Increasing Subsequence of a given sequence of n integers. First, we show the existence of a simple dynamic programming solution. Its running time is Θ(n) and its space requirement is Θ(n). Then, we continue by showing that it is possible to develop two parallel solutions based on optical bus system of n processors, o...

We study the fluctuations, in the large deviations regime, of the longest increasing subsequence of a random i.i.d. sample on the unit square. In particular, our results yield the precise upper and lower exponential tails for the length of the longest increasing subsequence of a random permutation. §.

The interplay between two-dimensional percolation growth models and one-dimensional particle processes has always been a fruitful source of interesting mathematical phenomena. In this paper we develop a connection between the construction of Busemann functions in the Hammersley last-passage percolation model with i.i.d. random weights, and the existence, ergodicity and uniqueness of equilibrium...

There is evidence that neural patterns are predictive of voluntary decisions, but findings come from paradigms that have typically required participants to make arbitrary choices decisions in highly abstract experimental tasks. It remains to be seen whether proactive neural activity reflects upcoming choices for individuals performing decisions in more complex, dynamic, scenarios. In this funct...

Homophily, or "love for similar others," has been shown to play a fundamental role in the formation of interpersonal ties and social networks. Yet no study has investigated whether perceived similarities can affect tacit coordination. We had 68 participants attempt to maximize real monetary earnings by choosing between a safe but low paying option (that could be obtained with certainty) and a p...