Operationalizing Plant Traits

Microbially Mediated Plant Functional Traits

Plants are rife with bacteria and fungi that colonize roots and shoots both externally and internally. By providing novel nutritional and defense pathways and influencing plant biochemical pathways, microbes can fundamentally alter plant phenotypes. Here we review the widespread nature of microbially mediated plant functional traits. We highlight that there is likely fitness conflict between ho...

Operationalizing Diagrammaticity

In this contribution we present a model for a component of a diagrammatic reasoning system. For reasons of identifying elementary components for diagrammatic reasoning processes we introduce the notions of the elementary diagrammatic inference step (EDIS) and the elementary diagrammatic simulation step (EDSS) as the basic processes for diagrammatic reasoning. The EDIS comprises several descript...

Psychological Assessment Are Fearless Dominance Traits Superfluous in Operationalizing Psychopathy? Incremental Validity and Sex Differences

Are fearless dominance traits superfluous in operationalizing psychopathy? Incremental validity and sex differences.

Researchers are vigorously debating whether psychopathic personality includes seemingly adaptive traits, especially social and physical boldness. In a large sample (N = 1,565) of adult offenders, we examined the incremental validity of 2 operationalizations of boldness (Fearless Dominance traits in the Psychopathy Personality Inventory [Lilienfeld & Andrews, 1996]; Boldness traits in the triarc...

Operationalizing Precision Cardiovascular Medicine

For precision medicine to become a reality, we propose 3 changes. First, healthcare deliverables must be prioritized, enabling translation of knowledge to the clinic. Second, physicians and patients must be convinced to participate, requiring additional infrastructure in health systems. Third, discovery science must evolve to shift the preclinical landscape for innovation. We propose a change i...