Impulsivity: Four ways five factors are not basic to addiction

Impulsivity: four ways five factors are not basic to addiction.

Several impulsivity-related models have been applied to understanding the vulnerability to addiction. While there is a growing consensus that impulsivity is multifaceted, debate continues as to the precise number of facets and, more critically, which are most relevant to explaining the addiction-risk profile. In many ways, the current debate mirrors that which took place in the personality lite...

When Four Distinct Ways to Measure Utility Are the Same

Assuming that binary rankand sign-dependent utility holds for gambles and that riskless choice utility can be constructed using the binary operation of joint receipt of consequences, there are four distinct measures of utility over gains: the two, one from gambles and the other from joint receipt, that arise by working with the trade-offs of just gains and the two that arise by working with the...

Four Ways to Measure Culture

Five ways to improve access to care.

One of the fundamental tenets of health care is access. In politics, access is defined as having health insurance, even though access to insurance does not guarantee access to care. HEDIS defines access as getting in to see your doctor at least once per year. A better measure is to ask the patient, “How easy is it for you to get medical care when you need it?” Only about 50 percent of people re...

Five Ways to Simplify Cloud Integration