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Daniel H. McFadden: The Chancellor Mark Christensen Era at UC Santa Cruz, 1974-1976

, 2012
UC Santa Cruz’s second chancellor, Mark N. Christensen, served the campus from July 1974 to January 1976. Christensen arrived at UCSC during a tumultuous point in the campus’s history. Founding Chancellor Dean McHenry had brought to fruition his singular vision for UC Santa Cruz as an innovative institution of higher education which emphasized ...
McFadden, Daniel H., Jarrell, Randall, Regional History Project, UCSC Library   +2 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Human-Induced Downsizing of Animal Communities Weakens Trait Matching Between Tropical Plants and Frugivores. [PDF]

Ecol Lett
We assess the impact of human‐induced ‘downsizing’ of animal communities on plant–frugivore trait matching—the alignment between fruit size and frugivore body mass—using a global dataset on plant and animal traits and 102 ecological networks across the tropics.
Guerra D, Cabral A, Paetzolt M, Fricke E, Kissling WD, Lens F, Onstein RE.   +6 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Tree defenses, host choice, and reproductive success of a native bark beetle under novel outbreak conditions. [PDF]

Ecol Appl
Abstract Bark beetles of the genus Dendroctonus are some of the most important disturbance agents in North American forests, having colonized conifers for millions of years. The selection pressure posed by tree‐killing bark beetles pushed trees to develop an arsenal of defensive strategies to which beetles have adapted in their turn.
Graham G, Windmuller-Campione M, Griffin D, McKee F, Aukema B.   +4 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Who Knows Best What the Next Year Will Hold for You? The Validity of Direct and Personality‐based Predictions of Future Life Experiences Across Different Perceivers

European Journal of Personality, EarlyView., 2020
Abstract This study explored the validity of person judgements by targets and their acquaintances (‘informants’) in longitudinally predicting a broad range of psychologically meaningful life experiences. Judgements were gathered from four sources (targets, N = 189; and three types of informants, N = 1352), and their relative predictive validity was ...
Nele M. Wessels, Johannes Zimmermann, Daniel Leising, Jan‐Erik Lönnqvist   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Foundations of Stated Preference Elicitation: Consumer Behavior and Choice-based Conjoint Analysis

Foundations and Trends® in Econometrics, 2019
Stated preference elicitation methods collect data on consumers by "just asking" about tastes, perceptions, valuations, attitudes, motivations, life satisfactions, and/or intended choices.
M. Ben-Akiva, D. McFadden, K. Train
semanticscholar   +1 more source

A Cross-Sectional Examination of the Mental Wellbeing, Coping and Quality of Working Life in Health and Social Care Workers in the UK at Two Time Points of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Epidemiolgia, 2021
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to evolve around the world, it is important to examine its effect on societies and individuals, including health and social care (HSC) professionals.
P. McFadden, R. Neill, J. Moriarty, P. Gillen, J. Mallett, J. Manthorpe, D. Currie, H. Schroder, J. Ravalier, P. Nicholl, Daniel Mcfadden, J. Ross   +11 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Suit the action to the word, the word to the action: Hypothetical choices and real decisions in Medicare Part D [PDF]

, 2012
In recent years, consumer choice has become an important element of public policy. One reason is that consumers differ in their tastes and needs, which they can express most easily through their own choices.
Heiss, Florian, Kesternich, Iris, McFadden, Daniel, Winter, Joachim   +3 more
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The Relationship Between Precuneus Thickness and Psychopathology in Adolescent Females With Anorexia Nervosa

International Journal of Eating Disorders, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Anorexia nervosa (AN) is a severe psychiatric disorder with structural brain alterations; however, the roles of cortical surface area (CSA) and cortical thickness (CTh) during adolescence remain unclear. Building on frequent reports of gray matter reductions in the cingulate cortex and precuneus, this study assesses CSA, CTh, and ...
Irina Jarvers, Raphael Degmayr, Alexandra Otto, Ricarda Jacob, Wilhelm Malloni, Stephanie Kandsperger, Daniel Schleicher, Angelika Ecker, Isabel Wiesinger, Christina Wendl, Mark Greenlee, Romuald Brunner   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Premi Nobel d'Economia de l'any 2000: Una elecció encertada entre una mostra seleccionada [PDF]

, 2001
El Premi Nobel d'Economia de l'any 2000 ha estat atorgat als professors Heckman i McFadden per les seves contribucions metodològiques en el camp de la microeconometria, disciplina que s'ocupa dels problemes economètrics relacionats amb la utilització de ...
Garcia i Villar, Jaume
core   +1 more source

Farmers' pro‐social motivations and willingness‐to‐accept in markets with public goods

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract To explain how some farmers' decisions may diverge from profit‐maximization, we incorporate proactive social preferences for public goods in an expected utility framework, in addition to reactive risk preferences to uncertainty. We offer empirical evidence that proactive preferences influence farmers' decisions alongside reactive preferences ...
Jill Fitzsimmons, Hikaru Hanawa Peterson, Nathalie Lavoie   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source