Alfred M. Boyce

Boyce , Christopher J . and Wood , Alex M . and Ferguson

Loss aversion is considered a general pervasive bias occurring regardless of context or person making the decision. We hypothesized that conscientiousness would predict an aversion to losses in the financial domain. We index loss aversion by the relative impact of income losses and gains on life satisfaction. In a representative German sample (N = 105,558: replicated in a British sample, N = 33...

Publications for Philip Boyce 2018

Reflections on Boyce-Codd Normal Form

1. Introduction

Correction to Daly, Boyce, and Wood (2014)

racial prejudice through implicit evaluative conditioning. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 32, 421–433. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/ 0146167205284004 Philpott, A., Knerr, W., & Maher, D. (2006). Promoting protection and pleasure: Amplifying the effectiveness of barriers against sexually transmitted infections and pregnancy. The Lancet, 368, 2028–2031. http:// dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-...

Finding Faithful Boyce-Codd Normal Form Decompositions

It is well known that faithful (i.e. dependency preserving) decompositions of relational database schemas into Boyce-Codd Normal Form (BCNF) do not always exist, depending on the set of functional dependencies given, and that the corresponding decision problem is NPhard. The only algorithm to guarantee both faithfulness and BCNF (if possible) proposed so far in [Os79] is a brute-force approach ...