An accurately inferred phylogeny is important to the study of molecular evolution. Factors affecting the accuracy of a phylogenetic tree can be traced to several sequential steps leading to the inference of the phylogeny. I examine here the features of the sequences in the alignment which impact phylogenetic (topological) accuracy rather than any source of error during the process of sequence a...

Two experiments explored the effects of ingroup vs outgroup performance on the extent to which individuals value an attribute. Self-appraisals of personal standing on the attribute were examined as a potential mediator of this relationship. In both experiments, members of two groups (either experimentally created or gender groups) took a test of a bogus personality trait and received feedback a...

Health impact assessment (HIA) is a multidisciplinary aid to decision-making that assesses the impact of policy on public health and on health inequalities. Its purpose is to assist decision-makers to maximize health gains and to reduce inequalities. The 1999 Gothenburg Consensus Paper (GCP) provides researchers with a rationale for establishing community participation as a core value of HIA. A...

The analysis of interactive marketing campaigns frequently requires the investigation of latent constructs. Consequently, structural equation modeling is well established in this domain. Noticeably, the Partial-Least-Squares (PLS) algorithm is gaining popularity in the analysis of interactive marketing applications which may be attributed to its accuracy and robustness when data are not normall...

Most economists and neuroeconomists believe that individuals make choices first by assigning values to objects and then by selecting the option with the highest value, perhaps with some noise (Rangel, Colin Camerer, and Read Montague 2007). This raises a question with important implications for economics: How does the brain compute the values that guide decisions (henceforth called decision val...

With near-ubiquitous availability of smartphones equipped with a wide variety of sensors, research in building contextaware services has been growing. However, despite a large number of services proposed and developed as research prototypes, the number of truly context-aware applications available in smartphone applications market is quite limited. A major barrier for the large-scale proliferat...