Kazushi Imai, Seema S. Dalal, John Hambor, Peter Mitchell, Yasunori Okada, William C. Horton, and Jeanine D’Armiento Division of Molecular Medicine, Department of Medicine, College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University, New York, New York; Central Research Division, Pfizer Inc., Groton, Connecticut; Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan; and Emor...

Emotional communication can be viewed as a fundamental factor in children's emotional, social, and cognitive development. Most developmental psychologists agree that the recognition and expression of emotions through early social interaction between the mother and the child play a particularly important role in children's development (Bandura, 1992; Bowlby, 1969; Sroufe, 1996; Trevarthen, 1979)...

Idea and concept of quantum computing was introduced way backs in 1970s and 1980s, by Richard Feynmann, David Deutsch and Paul Benioff. First breakthrough of the concept was reported in 1994 in Peter Shor’s factoring algorithm, followed by Lov Grover, searching algorithm in 1996. Isaac L. Chuang, developed the world’s first 2-qubit, 3-qubit, 5-qubit and 7-qubit quantum computer in 1996–2000. In...

Health insurance plans typically provide less coverage for mental health and chemical dependency treatment than for general medical services. In 1996 the federal government responded to these inequities by passing the Mental Health Parity Act, requiring equal annual lifetime dollar limits for mental health benefits. However, provisions within the law are easily circumvented, rendering it relati...

Discrepancies between assumed dynamical models and observations are often handled by making further probabiIistic assumptions, a tactic which has both strengths and weaknesses. A re-examination of filtering and smoothing is conducted, and an alternative multicriteria approach, which is probability free, is advanced. This approach involves vector minimization as a key ingredient, and it speciali...

Encouraging people to consider multiple alternatives appears to be a useful debiasing technique for reducing many biases (explanation, hindsight, and overconfidence), if the generation of alternatives is experienced as easy. The present research tests whether these alternative generation procedures induce a mental simulation mind-set (cf. Galinsky & Moskowitz, 2000), such that debiasing in one ...

Paul Collier is Director of the Development Economics Research Group at the World Bank. His e-mail address is [email protected]. Stefan Dercon is a University Lecturer in Economics at Oxford University, linked to the Centre for the Study of African Economies. His e-mail address is [email protected]. John Mackinnon is an independent researcher and advisor on development issue...

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The DARPA Internet uses the Domain Name Sys tem DNS a distributed database to map host names to network addresses and vice versa Using a vulnerability rst noticed by P V Mockapetris we demonstrate how the DNS can be abused to sub vert system security We also show what tools are useful to the attacker Possible defenses against this attack including one implemented by Berkeley in re sponse to our...

We replicate Moskowitz and Grinblatt’s (1999) findings on industry momentum using data for US large cap stocks between 1998 and 2007. Moskowitz and Grinblatt find that industry momentum strategies appear to be highly profitable. Moskowitz and Grinblatt also demonstrate that individual stock momentum strategies, which buy past winning stocks and sell past losing stocks, are less profitable after...