Projection bias is the tendency to overpredict the degree to which our future tastes will resemble our current tastes. This bias underlies the popular adage: never shop on an empty stomach. We test for evidence of projection bias in two of the largest and most important consumer markets the housing and car markets. Using data for more than four-million housing purchases and fortymillion car tra...

Clinical Sciences Stroke Epidemiology, Patterns of Management, and Outcomes in Fortaleza, Brazil: A Hospital-Based Multicenter Prospective Study João José Freitas de Carvalho, MD; Monique Bueno Alves, RN; Georgiana Álvares Andrade Viana, RN; Cícera Borges Machado; Bento Fortunato Cardoso dos Santos, MD, PhD; Alberto Hideki Kanamura, MD; Claudio Luiz Lottenberg, MD, PhD; Miguel Cendoroglo Neto, ...

Cad. Saúde Pública, Rio de Janeiro, 29(10):1921-1923, out, 2013 On October 5, 1988, against the neoliberal tsunami, Brazil’s Federal Constitution created the Brazilian Unified National Health System (SUS), a common good consolidated in the midst of successive internal crises. Twenty-five years later, the still-young National Health System is experiencing doubts about its own survival. According...

This study aims to estimate the tree diversity status of Rashad Forest Reserves in locality South Kordofan State Sudan. For data collection, eight sample plots (20 × 20 m) were taken randomly, and parameters determined: trees species diversity, composition, relative density, dominance, important value index, richness forest reserve. The results show that a total 237 56 species, including 22 fam...

This paper explores how earnings variability is related to retirement wealth. Past research has demonstrated that the average American household on the verge of retirement would need to save substantially more, in order to preserve consumption flows in old age. While several socioeconomic factors have been examined that might explain such problems, prior studies have not assessed the role of ea...

Potential Role of the Chemokine Macrophage Inflammatory Protein 1 in Human and Experimental Schistosomiasis Adriano L. S. Souza, Ester Roffê, Vanessa Pinho, Danielle G. Souza, Adriana F. Silva, Remo C. Russo, Rodrigo Guabiraba, Cı́ntia A. J. Pereira, Flávia M. Carvalho, Michele M. Barsante, Rodrigo Correa-Oliveira, Lúcia A. O. Fraga, Deborah Negrão-Correa, and Mauro M. Teixeira* Laboratório de I...

Daniele Andreucci, ∗ Dario Bellaveglia, 2, † Emilio N.M. Cirillo, ‡ and Silvia Marconi § Dipartimento di Scienze di Base e Applicate per l’Ingegneria, Sapienza Università di Roma, via A. Scarpa 16, I–00161, Roma, Italy. Dipartimento di Ingegneria Strutturale e Geotecnica Sapienza Università di Roma, via Eudossiana 18, I–00184 Roma, Italy. Dipartimento di Strutture, Università degli Studi Roma T...