The present study (N= 86) sought to evaluate a laboratory-based behavioral measure of risk
taking (the Balloon Analogue Risk Task; BART) and to test associations between this …

Importance Exposure to nicotine in electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) is becoming increasingly
common among adolescents who report never having smoked combustible tobacco. …

The present study tested the hypothesis that limited ability to tolerate physical and
psychological distress is associated with early relapse from smoking cessation. Specifically, the …

Background: Although a number of measures of alcohol problems in college students have
been studied, the psychometric development and validation of these scales have been …

Objective: A substantial proportion of US college students drink alcoholic beverages and
report significant deleterious effects. The present study describes the development and initial …

In trying to better understand why individuals begin and continue to smoke despite the
obvious health consequences, researchers have become interested in identifying relevant …

… to call a "strong type" capacitary inequality. These weak and strong type capacitary estimates
oppose each other in much the same way as do the usual weak and strong Lp estimates. …

Vaccines prevent infectious disease largely by inducing protective neutralizing antibodies
against vulnerable epitopes. Several major pathogens have resisted traditional vaccine …

We give and prove two new and fundamental properties of total-variation-minimizing function
regularization (TV regularization): edge locations of function features tend to be preserved, …

Inhibition of the TOR signalling pathway by genetic or pharmacological intervention extends
lifespan in invertebrates, including yeast, nematodes and fruitflies 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 ; however, …