When several choice options are sampled one at a time in a sequence and a single choice of the best option is made at the end of the sequence, which location in the sequence is chosen most often? We report a large-scale experiment that assessed tasting preferences in choice sets of two, three, four, or five wines. We found a large primacy effect—the first wine had a large advantage in the endof...

The standard economic model of efficient competitive markets relies on the ability of sellers to charge prices that vary as their costs change. Yet, there is no restructured electricity market in which most retail customers can be charged realtime prices (RTP), prices that can change as frequently as wholesale costs. We analyze the impact of having some share of customers on time-invariant pric...

This paper examines the welfare effects of third degree price discrimination by an intermediate good monopolist selling to downstream firms with bargaining power. One of the downstream firms (the “chain store”) may have a greater ability than rivals to integrate backward into the supply of the input. In addition to this outside option, the firms’ relative bargaining powers depend on their disag...

Garnham, Malaria Parasites and Other Haemosporidia (Blackwell Scientific, Oxford, 1966)]. Sex ratios based on counts of 50 to 75 gametocytes were found to be representative. We calculated sex ratios from either 50,000 RBCs or 100 gametocytes, whichever was less. Sex ratios are given as proportion of males. 7. R. E. Sinden, G. A. Butcher, O. Billker, S. L. Fleck,. Adv. Parasitol. 38, 53 (1996). ...

People with schizophrenia have problems with social functioning, and it may be related to deficits in processing social information. This study investigated how people with schizophrenia process eye gaze, a form of self-referential social information, and whether it is related to paranoia symptoms in schizophrenia. Twenty-one participants with schizophrenia and 26 healthy controls were shown fa...

This paper describes a case study conducted within the domain of blood transfusion aiming at non-exhaustively extraction of candidate terms for an ontology of human blood. The process involved both the construction of a corpus and its automatic processing, and the retrieval of specialized terms. As our main result, we have obtained candidate medical terms to be used in a ontology of blood trans...

Ral GTPases have been implicated as critical drivers of cell growth and metastasis in numerous Ras-driven cancers. We previously reported stapled peptides, based on the effector RLIP76, that can disrupt signaling. Stapled peptides are short locked into their bioactive form using a synthetic brace. Here, an affinity maturation RLIP76 Ral-binding domain, we identified several sequence substitutio...

Autism is characterized by inappropriate social interactions, deficits in verbal communication and facial expressions, and ritualistic and repetitive behaviors. Recent evidence suggests the gaseous neurotransmitter nitric oxide (NO) may regulate certain behaviors characterized by autism-like symptoms. Inhibition of NO leads to hyperaggression and excessive mounting which may represent inappropr...

The content of this paper is based solely on the original study reported in Abe and Watanabe (2012a) in which the authors develop a structured and innovative theory of optimal resource allocation and prestige maximization for an institution of higher education. Although the study provides a sound diagnostic framework and unambiguous results, the paper requires relatively advanced knowledge of m...

In addition to the classical nuclear receptor pathway, there is a non-genomic pathway in the cell membrane that regulates gene expression in animal steroid hormone signaling; however, this mechanism is unclear. Here, we report that the insect steroid hormone 20-hydroxyecdysone (20E) regulates calcium influx via phospholipase C gamma 1 (PLCG1) to modulate the protein kinase C (PKC) phosphorylati...