This study examined a prediction model that integrated three categories of predictors likely to influence adoption of the Quebec Healthy Schools (HS) approach, i.e. attributes of the approach, individual and contextual characteristics. HS receptivity was considered as a potential mediator. For this study, 141 respondents representing 96 schools participated in a postal survey. We used bivariate...

Here we introduce the Genetic and Environmental Foundations of Political and Economic Behaviors: A Panel Study of Twins and Families (PIs Alford, Hatemi, Hibbing, Martin, and Smith). This study was designed to explore the genetic and environmental influences on social, economic, and political behaviors and attitudes. It involves identifying the psychological mechanisms that operate on these tra...

In the early 1990s, we proposed the integration of constraint programming and optimization techniques within the branch-and-bound framework for the global optimization of nonconvex nonlinear and mixedinteger nonlinear programs. This approach, referred to as branch-andreduce, was subsequently supplemented with a variety of branching and bounding schemes. In this paper, we review the theory and a...