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Direct-to-Consumer Drug Advertisements Can Paradoxically Increase Intentions to Adopt Lifestyle Changes

Frontiers in Psychology, 2016
Background: Direct-to-consumer (DTC) prescription drug advertisements are thought to induce boomerang effects, meaning they reduce the perceived effectiveness of the alternative option: non-pharmaceutical treatment via lifestyle change. Past research has
Maya B. Mathur, Maya B. Mathur, Michael Gould, Nayer Khazeni, Nayer Khazeni   +4 more
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Quantum boomerang effect in systems without time reversal symmetry

, 2022
In an Anderson localized system, a quantum particle with a nonzero initial velocity returns, on average, to its origin. This recently discovered behavior is known as the quantum boomerang effect.
Janarek, Jakub, Delande, Dominique, Zakrzewski, Jakub, Grémaud, Benoît   +3 more
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The effect of legacy pollution information on landowner investments in water quality: lessons from economic experiments in the field and the lab

Environmental Research Letters, 2021
To address the legacy effects of human activity on water quality, it is helpful to understand how land managers make decisions that directly impact legacy sources of pollutantion generated by previous generations, as opposed to current practices.
Patrick M Fleming, Leah H Palm-Forster, Lindsey E Kelley   +2 more
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Boomerang Switch in Multiple Rounds. Application to AES Variants and Deoxys

IACR Transactions on Symmetric Cryptology, 2019
The boomerang attack is a cryptanalysis technique that allows an attacker to concatenate two short differential characteristics. Several research results (ladder switch, S-box switch, sandwich attack, Boomerang Connectivity Table (BCT), ...) showed that ...
Haoyang Wang, Thomas Peyrin
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Testing a Dual Path Framework of the Boomerang Effect: Proattitudinal versus Counterattitudinal Messages [PDF]

, 2017
This dissertation aims to differentiate two types of boomerang effects on belief and attitude change: a boomerang effect under a proattitudinal message and a boomerang effect under a counterattitudinal message.
Zhao, Xinyan
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Menage a Trois [PDF]

, 2002
Commissioned new art work for publication with Neil Rollinson poems published by Boomerang Press. The commission resulted in two new drawing based works as visual responses to the visceral and sexual nature of the ...
Clarke, Louise
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Two modes of fusogenic action for influenza virus fusion peptide.

PLoS Computational Biology, 2023
The entry of influenza virus into the host cell requires fusion of its lipid envelope with the host membrane. It is catalysed by viral hemagglutinin protein, whose fragments called fusion peptides become inserted into the target bilayer and initiate its ...
Michal Michalski, Piotr Setny
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Opinion dynamics with confirmation bias. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2014
Confirmation bias is the tendency to acquire or evaluate new information in a way that is consistent with one's preexisting beliefs. It is omnipresent in psychology, economics, and even scientific practices.
Armen E Allahverdyan, Aram Galstyan
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BOOMERANG returns

, 2003
BOOMERANG was one of the first experiments to map large areas of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) with high signal-to-noise during a long duration balloon (LDB) flight in 1998/99. BOOMERANG uses bolometric detectors measuring frequency bands from 90
IACOANGELI A., POGOSYAN D., CRILL B. P., NATOLI, Paolo, BOCK J. J., DE GASPERIS G., BALBI A., CABELLA P., ROMEO G., PRUNET S., POLENTA G., LANGE A. E., GANGA K., RUHL J. E., DE BERNARDIS P., ADE P. A. R., CONTALDI C. R., PASCALE E., RICCIARDI S., DE OLIVEIRA COSTA A., MONTROY T., KISNER T. S., NETTERFIELD C. B., HIVON E., BOND J. R., MASI S., PIACENTINI F., MAUSKOPF P. D., DE TROIA G., TEGMARK M., MACTAVISH C., NATI F., DI STEFANO G., TORBET, E., BORRILL J., HRISTOV V. V., VITTORIO N., JONES W. C., BOSCALERI A., JAFFE A. H., MELCHIORRI A.   +40 more
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Home Energy Report: labeling pro-environmental behaviors to prevent the boomerang effect

, 2022
The Home Energy Report (HER) is a social norms-based intervention tool used to encourage various in-home conservation behaviors. Past research has consistently demonstrated the applied importance of HER (e.g., Allcott, 2011; Ferraro & Price, 2013 ...
Magnus Bergquist
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