The Virginia Tech and Columbine High shootings are 2 of the deadliest school massacres in the United States. The present study investigates in a nationally representative sample how White Americans' causal attributions of these shooting moderate their attitudes toward the shooter's race. White Americans shown a vignette based on the Virginia Tech shooting were more likely to espouse negative be...

Despite significant advances in treatment, stigma and discrimination toward persons with mental illness and drug addiction have remained constant in past decades. Prior work suggests that portraying other stigmatized health conditions (i.e., HIV/AIDS) as treatable can improve public attitudes toward those affected. Our study compared the effects of vignettes portraying persons with untreated an...

The potential of gender bias within the DSM personality disorders has long been a concern of scholars and clinicians. Over the past three decades, research fi ndings utilizing the case vignette methodology have repeatedly indicated a gender bias within the histrionic diagnosis. The current study replicates these fi ndings using a novel case vignette, but extends them to investigate the potentia...

BACKGROUND Overtreatment (or unnecessary treatment) is when medical or dental services are provided with a higher volume or cost than is appropriate. This study aimed to investigate how a group of dentists in Switzerland, a wealthy country known to have high standards of healthcare including dentistry, evaluated the meaning of unnecessary treatments from an ethical perspective and, assessed the...

This paper tried to amplify a sense of emotion toward drama. Using Long Short-Term Memory Recurrent Neural Network to model and predict dynamic emotion(Arousal and Valence) recognition. After building model, we transplant whole framework and take results from it on visualizing. We have two demo version: RGB version and Vignette version. RGB version is to modulate the RGB value of frame in video...

Previous research has revealed that natural and synthetic pheromones can enhance ratings of opposite sex attractiveness. The present study investigated the effects of exposure to male axillary secretions on female ratings of the sexual attractiveness of male stimuli. Thirty-two female undergraduates, half of whom were contraceptive pill users, rated male vignette characters and photographs of m...

Other SectionsAbstractIntroductionReview of the Definition ‘Holding’‘Holding’ has Many Facets‘Holding’ in a Clinical Sense Vignette 1 2 Discussion Conflicts Interest Reference

This vignette illustrates diagnostics that are intended to help with • the choice of filter criterion and • the choice of filter cutoff in independent filtering [1]. The package genefilter provides functions that might be convenient for this purpose.

Title RNA-seq count data employed in the vignette of the tweeDEseq package Description RNA-seq count data from Pickrell et al. (2010) employed to illustrate the use of the Poisson-Tweedie family of distributions with the tweeDEseq package.