Abstract Introduction Bedtime procrastination, a behavior associated with poor sleep health and wellbeing, refers to voluntary delays of bedtime. Although bedtime procrastination is often defined as needless or mindless delay, procrastinators report delaying their strategically regulate sleep-interfering processes. One such process pre-sleep arousal, an important vulnerability for perpetuating ...

We develop a general game-theoretic framework for reasoning about strategic agents performing possibly costly computation. In this framework, many traditional game-theoretic results (such as the existence of a Nash equilibrium) no longer hold. Nevertheless, we can use the framework to provide psychologically appealing explanations of observed behavior in well-studied games (such as finitely rep...

This study investigated changes in psychological and physiological markers during a weekend meditation workshop (N = 34). Psychological symptoms of anxiety, depression, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and happiness were assessed. Physiological markers included cortisol, salivary immunoglobulin A (SigA), heart rate variability (HRV), blood pressure (BP), and resting heart rate (RHR). On pos...

The Universal Thermal Climate Index UTCI assesses the outdoor thermal environment based on the multi-node UTCI-Fiala-model of thermoregulation, which was coupled with a clothing model considering the clothing behaviour of an urban population. The applicability of UTCI to exercising, resting or occupational settings is currently limited by the assumed moderate activity level (2.3 MET) and the ma...

Changing trends in runoff and water balance under a warming atmosphere are a major subject of interest in recent climatic and hydrological research. Forest basins represent the most complex systems including critical hydrological processes. In this study, we investigate the relationship between annual total runoff (Q), precipitation (P), and mean temperature (T) using observed data collected fr...

Nerve growth factor (NGF), a member of the neurotrophin family, is known to regulate the development and survival of a select population of neurons through the binding and activation of the TrkA receptor. Elevated levels of NGF have been associated with painful pathologies such as diabetic neuropathy and fibromyalgia. However, completely inhibiting the NGF signal could hold significant side eff...

Claude Bernard Department of Physics, Washington University, St. Louis, MO 63130, USA Tom Blum Department of Physics, Brookhaven National Lab, Upton, NY 11973, USA Thomas A. DeGrand Physics Department, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, USA Carleton DeTar, Craig McNeile Physics Department, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA Steven Gottlieb Department of Physics, Indiana U...