Covalent binding of the food-borne heterocyclic amine 2-amino3,8-dimethylimidazo[4,5-f]quinoxaline (MeIQx) to albumin and hemoglobin (Hb), 3.5–6.0 hr after oral administration of a single dose of either 21.3 or 228.0 mg of [C]MeIQx (304 and 3257 ng/kg of body weight, respectively, based on a 70-kg subject weight), was studied in human volunteers using accelerator mass spectrometry. Human protei...

ed from actual and possible preferences. Welfare interests consist in just that set of generalized resources that will be necessary for people to have before pursuing any of the more particular preferences that they might happen to have. Health, money, shelter, sustenance, and such like are all demonstrably welfare interests of this sort, useful resources whatever people’s particular projects a...

We test the impact of a broadly utilized social ritual, namely sharing food with an ideological opponent, on two phenomena relevant to dispute resolution: receptiveness to the opponent’s views and attitude strength. Participants engaged in a debate about a contentious socio-political issue while eating a sandwich that they either made for themselves (Control condition) or one that was made for ...

This article discusses the actual and potential use of organizational development (OD) premises and practices in libraries. Several academic research libraries have adopted an OD approach in order to create and maintain a healthy organization, improve operations and culture, and anticipate and manage change. There are many reasons for this trend, including a natural resonance between library cu...

The selection of hardware to support big data systems is complex. Even defining the term “big data” is difficult. “Big data” can mean a large volume of data in a database, a MapReduce cluster that processes data, analytics and reporting applications that must access large datasets to operate, algorithms that can effectively operate on large datasets, or even basic scripts that produce a needed ...

This paper presents a view of group problem solving based on Heider’s balance theory (Cartwright & Harary, 1956; Doreian, Kapuscinski, Krackhardt, & Szczypula, 1996; Heider, 1946, 1958), which conceptualizes the problem solving process as a progression towards increasing structural balance. Balance theory provides a means of representing problems in ways that capture both gestalt restructuring ...

The design of team training programs and other team interventions could benefit from an understanding of team cognition. The research presented in this article evaluates methods for eliciting and assessing team knowledge during acquisition of a complex task. Knowledge measures are evaluated in terms of their ability to predict team performance and also in terms of how they reflect skill acquisi...

The activities of AADC and MAO were measured in kidney, liver, brain and heart of the rat at neonatal to senescent stages. Rapid neonatal increase to adult level in the specific activity of AADC was observed in the kidney, liver and brain. The total activity of AADC per organ continued to increase in the brain for 3 weeks after birth and for 20 weeks in the kidney and liver. In the heart, the s...

This paper presents the Featural and Unitary Semantic Space (FUSS) hypothesis of the meaning of object and action words. The hypothesis, implemented in a statistical model, is based on the following assumptions: First, it is assumed that the meanings of words are grounded in conceptual featural representations, some of which are organized according to modality. Second, it is assumed that concep...

Competition has been studied as something to be averted, yet rarely has it been asked what processes may be involved in successful competition. We tested whether more accurate modeling of an adversary can assist competitive success. Pairs played a zero-sum game with no specific skill component over 40 trials. We measured the relative accuracy of the players’ second-order model (i.e., what I thi...