Previous studies suggest that people holding protected values show a bias against harmful acts as opposed to harmful omissions (omission bias). Protected values (PVs) have been seen as grounded in deontological moral rules to avoid causing harm. The present study 1) investigated the relationship between PVs and acts of commission versus omission in risky choices, using a paradigm where act and ...

Effect systems have the potential to help software developers, but their practical adoption has been very limited. We conjecture that this limited adoption is due in part to the difficulty of transitioning from a system where effects are implicit and unrestricted to a system with a static effect discipline, which must settle for conservative checking in order to be decidable. To address this hi...

The aim of this article is to propose and analyse measurement-based admission control schemes. We distinguish between large-scale and small-scale systems, where scale is measured in the number of concurrent applications that can run simultaneously. For large scale systems, we show that simple enduser probing strategies, based on ECN-type feedback provided by the network, achieve a good utilisat...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to assess factors associated with patient frequency of intentionally skipping insulin injections. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS Data were obtained through an Internet survey of 502 U.S. adults self-identified as taking insulin by injection to treat type 1 or type 2 diabetes. Multiple regression analysis assessed independent associations of various demogra...

TO THE EDITOR: We write you regarding an article named " Isolation and characterization of cholangiocyte primary cilia, " published by Huang et al. in September of 2006 (1). The Introduction of this article ends with the following sentences: " Despite these findings, our understanding of the functions of the primary cilium and its role in responding to environmental stimuli are still poorly und...

 In this paper an applied problem, where the response of interest is the number of success in a specific experiment, is considered and by various visions is studied. The effects of outlier values of response on results of a regression analysis are so important to be studied. For this reason, using diagnostic methods, outlier response values are recognized. It is shown that use of arc-sine ...