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Delay Discounting for HIV/STI Testing
Sexuality Research and Social Policy, 2023 Wait time in healthcare is an important barrier to HIV/STI testing. Using a delay discounting approach, the current study examined a systematic reduction in testing likelihood as a function of delay (wait time) until testing.In Study 1 (N = 421; data collected in 2019), participants were randomly assigned to either a chlamydia/gonorrhea group or HIV ...
Val Wongsomboon, Gregory D. Webster
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Drought Exposure and Dynamic Input Adjustment in North Central U.S. Agriculture
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines whether realized extreme drought episodes affect the speed of adjustment of derived input demands and output supplies toward their long‐run equilibrium in U.S. agriculture, focusing on states in the North Central Region.
Victor H. Lana Pinto +2 more
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Anxious Individuals Are Impulsive Decision-Makers in the Delay Discounting Task: An ERP Study [PDF]
, 2017 Impulsivity, which is linked to a wide range of psychiatric disorders, is often characterized by a preference for immediate but smaller rewards over delayed but larger rewards. However, debate exists on the relationship between anxiety and impulsivity.
Yuejia Luo +7 more
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Advanced Intelligent Systems, Volume 7, Issue 3, March 2025.Quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicle control is critical to maintain flight safety and efficiency, especially when facing external disturbances and model uncertainties. This article presents a robust reinforcement learning control scheme to deal with these challenges.
Yu Cai +3 more
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PIGEONS' DISCOUNTING OF PROBABILISTIC AND DELAYED REINFORCERS [PDF]
Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 2010 Pigeons' discounting of probabilistic and delayed food reinforcers was studied using adjusting‐amount procedures. In the probability discounting conditions, pigeons chose between an adjusting number of food pellets contingent on a single key peck and a larger, fixed number of pellets contingent on completion of a variable‐ratio schedule.
Leonard, Green +2 more
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Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.As food insecurity and global food demands surge, artificial intelligence (AI)‐based technologies offer promising opportunities to reduce food loss and waste. In this perspective, current AI adoption across the food supply chain is assessed using various academic, industry, and policy sources.
Akansha Prasad +5 more
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Self-Affirmation Reduces Delay Discounting of the Financially Deprived
Frontiers in Psychology, 2019 Financial deprivation is associated with excessive discounting of delayed rewards. In the present research, we argue that this counterproductive tendency may be driven, at least in part, by the aversive and self-threatening nature of experiencing ...
Mehrad Moeini-Jazani +3 more
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Stuck in Time: Negative Income Shock Constricts the Temporal Window of Valuation Spanning the Future and the Past. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 Insufficient resources are associated with negative consequences including decreased valuation of future reinforcers. To determine if these effects result from scarcity, we examined the consequences of acute, abrupt changes in resource availability on ...
Warren K Bickel +4 more
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The effect of cognitive challenge on delay discounting [PDF]
NeuroImage, 2016 Recent findings suggest that the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC), a region consistently associated with impulse control, is vulnerable to transient suppression of its activity and attendant functions by excessive stress and/or cognitive demand.
Aranovich, Gabriel J +3 more
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American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract This study examines the impact of soil erosion on agricultural land values in the United States (US) Midwest. Based on a novel county‐level panel data set with information on soil erosion levels and agricultural land values covering five census years (1997, 2002, 2007, 2012, and 2017), we separately investigate the direct effect of two types ...
Le Chen +3 more
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