dopamine decisions and the drive for reward

... Exxon and General Motors? They should, and they Every quarter they add up their sales and costs, and figure out where they stand Then they tell the world, in press releases and conference calls and ... accounting and Wall Street in the twentieth century, beginning with the boom and bust of the 1920s and the creation of the S.E.C in 1934 For the seeds of the system’s failure were present from the very ... $200,000; they have bought expensive houses and mink coats for themselves or their wives, and look forward to lives of leisure and affluence All through the days, and long into the evenings, the...

Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 04:20

... Exxon and General Motors? They should, and they Every quarter they add up their sales and costs, and figure out where they stand Then they tell the world, in press releases and conference calls and ... accounting and Wall Street in the twentieth century, beginning with the boom and bust of the 1920s and the creation of the S.E.C in 1934 For the seeds of the system’s failure were present from the very ... $200,000; they have bought expensive houses and mink coats for themselves or their wives, and look forward to lives of leisure and affluence All through the days, and long into the evenings, the...

Ngày tải lên: 28/06/2014, 18:20

... integrity, and availability; and you may experience attacks against these dimensions We can think of these as the “primary colors” of information assurance By mixing and matching these and we mix and ... diagram shows another way to think of the Defense In Depth concept At the center of the diagram is your information However, the center can be anything you value, or the answer to the question, ... would breach the confidentiality of this sensitive information (the password file) Then, on the privacy of his own computer system, the attacker can use brute force or dictionary-driven password...

Ngày tải lên: 09/12/2013, 17:15

... strategies and plans for 2011 and beyond; in public investment decisions; and policy instruments such as SEA • Articulate VN policies, strategies and plans on vulnerability reduction in the context ... • In-depth consultation with key stakeholders and the wider public • Refine the CCA strategy • Adopt CC impact scenarios as the basis for public and private investments • Mainstream reduction ... (UNDP and others) What is needed, now and later? International support, cooperation and coordination Current international support to Viet Nam on CC • Support to the mitigation of effects of CC and...

Ngày tải lên: 24/01/2014, 00:20

... four fundamental forces One of these is the gravitational force The other three are the electromagnetic force, the weak force, and the strong Force Force particle Mass force Strong Gluon Electromagnetic ... between the two presidents and that therefore, without further ado, the light it emitted traveled the same distance to reach each of them Since the speed of the emitted light to the left and to the ... is for the president of Backwardland, and since the speed of light toward each is the same, the light will reach the president of Forwardland first This is why the citizens of Forwardland claim...

Ngày tải lên: 25/01/2014, 16:20

... market interest rates and accommodating the demand for outside money Changes in these interest rates alter the opportunity costs of money holdings and thereby affect the demand for broad money however, ... to alleviate the funding risks faced by the banks It should therefore facilitate the provision of money and credit to the economy.22 Understanding the funding models of banks and the interlinkages ... borrower and on the value of collateral that the bank receives For instance, a positive shock to the value of the collateral that is pledged to banks implies a lower risk for the bank and thus the...

Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 11:20

... costs and the expenses of the social and health services are increasing The report analyses the factors influencing the use of social and health services by the elderly On the basis of the analysis, ... receiving some help, the sources of the help was asked The list covered both informal and formal care-givers and respondents were asked to list all of them and name one who helps the most The structure ... in five tables The first table reports the probabilities for not using the service and the rest of the tables give the probabilities for using the services with certain intensity The EVERGREEN...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 17:20

... WHA55.25) The Regional Office will publish the research papers later this year This publication outlines the extent of the problem, the implications for the health sector and other sectors, and the ... National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, Netherlands Rudolf Hoogenveen National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, Netherlands Alan A Jackson ... of the countries it serves The European Region embraces some 880 million people living in an area stretching from the Arctic Ocean in the north and the Mediterranean Sea in the south and from the...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 14:20

... sky near sunset As they walk, the grandfather tells tales of the Old Ones, the elders of the community, and of their wisdom As the boy absorbs the stories and begins to make their wisdom his own, ... groaning woods, the crying grass, and the moaning rocks They are also in the woman's breast, the wailing child, the home, and the crowd The last line tells us, "The dead have a pact with the living." ... of the ancestors in the voices of fire and water We are then told that those who have died "have never left" and that they are "not under the earth." Rather, they are in the rustling trees, the...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 18:20

... Finland, France, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, and the UK are explored in more detail It should be noted that due to the concerns about the accuracy of the HP filter towards the end of data ... France, and the Netherlands The implications of these differences were investigated specifically for each country, with references to how the data align with other observed trends and studies The differences ... whether the European Central Bank’s policies are optimal for all the countries in the Eurozone or if they disproportionately favor certain countries in the monetary union at the expense of others...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 13:20

... in the Solar System The road was open before us, ours for the taking And then the will faded For the next 30 years, the trail-blazing was taken up by others, as Americans chose to less risky and ... during their lifetimes, the tide of change inexorably rolls forward, sometimes for better, sometimes for worse The story of the first space stations and the men and women who built and flew them ... self-centeredness In the early 1970s, the United States had the tools, the abilities, the vision, the freedom, and the will to go to the stars We had already explored the moon Our rockets were the most powerful...

Ngày tải lên: 03/06/2014, 01:55

... biology and, therefore, no good evidence for the existence of God According to Oxford evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins and other New Atheists, the lack of evidence for design has made the idea ... into the earth, geophysicists would time the resulting echoes as they traveled back to the surface and then use the information from these signals to reconstruct a picture of the subsurface of the ... evidence: the information the digital code—stored in DNA and the other large biological molecules The case I make for intelligent design is less well known than Professor Behe’s and, therefore, to...

Ngày tải lên: 08/06/2014, 09:00

... between the ends they seek and the means they use to realize them The idea that the end justifies the means has always rested on casuistry It only begs the question of what justifies the end, and to ... a high price for their liberation from the Taliban Aside from the thousands killed and the tens of thousands injured in the initial bombing campaign, the economy has collapsed to the point where ... shambles; and the exodus of the middle class Iraq has become the most dangerous place on earth—not merely for the soldiers of the occupying power but also for the citizens forced to endure the descent...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 12:44

... entertainment outside the home Many of the southern theaters, which formed the TOBA, closed their doors The rise of the American economy caused by the start of World War II, as well as the continued ... get the footage to the networks for the nightly news.9 Furthermore these televised images and the outrage of segments of the American public directly impacted the Kennedy White House Donovan and ... self-affirmation They garnered the strength to cope with the harsh reality of their public life and critiqued the white society that enslaved them and refused to acknowledge their status as human beings They...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 13:07

... Talbert et al [38] for P taeda and Yanchuk and Kiss [45] for Picea engelmannii Only Vargas-Hernandez and Adams [41] and Zhang and Morgenstern [48] estimated an h2i = 0.60 value for RD for Pseudotsuga ... from the 6th or 7th year On the other hand, with regard to the genetic control evolution in the characteristics related to the radial growth of trees (LWP and RW), a tendency for an increase of the ... where h2i is the individual heritability and b, f, and t, are the number of blocks, families, and trees/family/block, respectively RESULTS The summary statistics, at tree level, and the individual...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 14:20

... integration: I Symmetry and convergence of the corticocortical connections of the left and the right principal sulcus (PS) and the left and the right supplementary motor area (SMA) in the rhesus monkey ... Logsdail and Toone defined diagnostic criteria for PIP [4], thereby distinguishing PIP from the other psychoses of epilepsy, namely ictal and interictal psychosis The patient presented here meets these ... intravenous phenytoin The patient slept and an EEG was performed Information was gathered by telephone contact with the patient's family, and we determined that Mr R was married and lived in a different...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 21:20

... http://arthritis-research.com/content/10/1/203 These studies indicate the importance of muscle mass in protecting the structures of the knee joint and the need for longitudinal studies to account for this factor when exploring the influence ... examining the effect of age and sex on the relationship between physical activity and risk for developing knee OA Table (continued) Arthritis Research & Therapy Other studies that have examined the ... physical activity and the risk for developing knee OA Recommendation Details There is evidence to indicate the importance of investigating the role of the following factors when examining the relationship...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:22

... agreement, negotiated at the end of the Uruguay Round of the 'General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade' in 1994, sets forth global minimum standards for protecting and enforcing all forms of IPRs (or ... flexible criteria for novelty and inventiveness are implemented, pharmaceutical companies may apply for patents for different formulations of known drugs and thus expand the duration of the protection ... applications for the development and approval of a generic product before the patent expiration date In November 1998, the European Commission and their member states requested that the WTO Dispute...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 18:20

... ethnic groups, even after adjusting for the predictors listed above The standard deviations of the QOL scores differ between ethnic groups, and the models not account for all of this, leading to heteroscedasticity ... differed in the reported importance [Figure 1] The largest differences are between White British participants (almost all of whom rate all the topics as important) and the others, though the Chinese ... data analysis and AB was responsible for data collection and processing Both authors have read and approved the final manuscript References: 10 Lawton, M.P., Environment and other determinants...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 23:22

... data sets and takes responsibility for the integrity of the data and the accuracy of the data analysis Takeda Pharmaceuticals International, Inc did not have access to the raw data, and Takeda ... than 10) was the dependent variable and sUA was the independent variable of interest sUA quartiles were defined for men and women separately and were subsequently pooled We adjusted for the following ... uric acid the correlation between sUA concentration and CAC (Table 2) Although these models differed in the definition of subclinical atherosclerosis and in the stratification strategy for sUA,...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 15:23