In July 1999, a consultation paper was issued by the DTI relating to the modernisation of Part V of the Weights and Measures Act 1985. This was in response to issues concerning the complexity of the legislation,
644 tumour regions sampled at surgery or during follow-up from the first 421 patients with non-small cell lung cancer prospectively enrolled into the TRACERx study. This project aims to decipher lung cancer evolution and address the primary study endpoint: determining the relationship between...
Constructs and measuresItem wordingVIFsWeightsLoadings Quality dataMode “B” compositeConvergency: 0.856 To what extent do the following statements apply to your company? (1 = completely disagree, 7 = completely agree) QD1 We have well-established marketing routines and procedures 2.038 0.180* 0.7...
Summary Conditional cash transfer programs with female beneficiaries have scope to increase women’s intrahousehold decision-making power. Yet quantitative evidence is limited. We show that Brazil’s Bolsa Família program has significant impacts on women’s decision making, but with considerable ...
Humans also exhibit Pavlovian misbehavior in Go/No-Go tasks, erroneously acting in response to reward-predictive stimuli when they should withhold action, and erroneously withholding action in response to punishment-predictive stimuli when they should act5,6. The idea that instrumental and Pavlovian ...
We test a novel ‘weight scarring’ hypothesis which suggests that past obesity is associated with impairments in current psychological well-being and this increases risk of negative physical health outcomes associated with obesity. Across two nationally representative studies, we tested whether past obes...
Over/under reaction and investment decision The Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH) suggests that investors’ attempts to act rationally are based on the availability of market information (Fama1998; Fama et al.1969; De Bondt2000). However, psychological biases in investors systematically respond to unw...
Canadian Health Measures Survey Racial populations Chemical exposures Analytical considerations 1. Introduction The Canadian Health Measures Survey (CHMS) is an ongoing, cross-sectional population survey that is led by Statistics Canada, in partnership with Health Canada and Public Health Agency of Canada...
“Methods”). TheθXmatrices change because of control measures implementing contact reductions (0 ≤ ϵi ≤ 1) and travel restrictions (0 ≤ ξij ≤ 1), while theϕXmatrices change owing to isolation of infected individuals (at ratesχiX). Thus, the control ...
A pre-notification was also sent by post to each key informant which provided further details about the study and the offer of a summary of the findings to encourage their participation. The useable responses numbered 208 (79 incomplete surveys with missing values were removed), providing a ...