Understanding why people respect social norms and exhibit pro-social behavior, many times contrary to their material interest, is an important topic in social science. This paper studies the role of emotions such as pride and shame. Based on various psychological literature, we argue that pride and shame are (i) external (ii) context dependent and (iii) relative feelings. In order to accomodate...

What is ProteomeXchange? ProteomeXchange (PX) provides a standard way for submitting mass spectrometry [2]-based proteomics [3] data to public-domain repositories. Once you have submitted your data to the PX entry point, it will be automatically disseminated to all other repositories in the consortium [1]. ProteomeXchange simplifies the submission and distribution of proteomics data. It has a c...

Nurses have been at the heart of services for people with HIV and AIDS for 30 years. In this article nurses reveal what it was like to care for patients in the early 1980s, when a positive diagnosis of HIV was effectively a death sentence. They describe the progress since then and the challenges they face today.

To characterize patient satisfaction surveys, such as the U.S. government-mandated Press Ganey health care performance improvement tools, as unpopular among health care providers is an understatement. So it comes as no real surprise that among medical practitioners a recent internet headline went viral that “reported” that a major patient satisfaction study was stopped due to a mortality increa...