The increasing diffusion of electric vehicles (EVs) can challenge the stability distribution grids. Smart charging systems reduce stress EV on grid, but potential technology depends drivers' participation in smart schemes. To investigate this potential, we conducted an online randomised-controlled experiment with two waves (baseline and experimental phase, N = 222), which examined preferences f...

OBJECTIVES We assessed the impact of restaurant menu calorie labels on food choices and intake. METHODS Participants in a study dinner (n=303) were randomly assigned to either (1) a menu without calorie labels (no calorie labels), (2) a menu with calorie labels (calorie labels), or (3) a menu with calorie labels and a label stating the recommended daily caloric intake for an average adult (ca...

To overcome unhealthy behaviors, one must be able to make better choices. Changing food preferences is an important strategy in addressing the obesity epidemic and its accompanying public health risks. However, little is known about how food preferences can be effectively affected and what neural systems support such changes. In this study, we investigated a novel extensive training paradigm wh...

We investigate a new type of decision under risk where-to succeed-participants must generalize their experience in one set of tasks to a novel set of tasks. We asked participants to trade distance for reward in a virtual minefield where each successive step incurred the same fixed probability of failure (referred to as hazard). With constant hazard, the probability of success (the survival func...

the purpose of this study was to compare the quality of life in participants and non-participants who took part in sport for all in ardabill city. 226 active subjects (72 women and 152 men) in sport for all stations and 539 non-participants (208 women and 331 men) were selected as the sample of the study. the quality of life (qlq) questionnaire included 72 questions which measured 6 factors of ...

We survey three recent breakthroughs in algebraic combinatorics. The first is the proof by Knutson and Tao, and later Derksen and Weyman, of the saturation conjecture for Littlewood-Richardson coefficients. The second is the proof of the n! and (n + 1)n−1 conjectures by Haiman. The final breakthrough is the determination by Baik, Deift, and Johansson of the limiting behavior of the length of th...

Let u(d, n) denote the number of permuations in the symmetric group Sn with no increasing subsequence of length greater than d. u(d, n) may alternatively be interpreted as the number of closed Z-lattice walks which begin and end at the origin and take n positive steps followed by n negative steps while remaining confined to the Weyl chamber W = {(t1, t2, . . . , td) ∈ R : t1 ≥ t2 ≥ · · · ≥ td}....

Karlin and Altschul in their statistical analysis for multiple highscoring segments in molecular sequences introduced a distribution function which gives the probability there are at least r distinct and consistently ordered segment pairs all with score at least x. For long sequences this distribution can be expressed in terms of the distribution of the length of the longest increasing subseque...

The Mallows measure on the symmetric group Sn is the probability measure such that each permutation has probability proportional to q raised to the power of the number of inversions, where q is a positive parameter and the number of inversions of π is equal to the number of pairs i < j such that πi > πj . We prove a weak law of large numbers for the length of the longest increasing subsequence ...

Cognitive models of decision making aim to explain the process underlying observed choices. Here, we test a sequential sampling model of decision making, multialternative decision field theory (MDFT; Roe, Busemeyer, & Townsend, 2001), on empirical grounds and compare it against 2 established random utility models of choice: the probit and the logit model. Using a within-subject experimental des...