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Placebo Effects of Open-label Verbal Suggestions on Itch
Placebo effects are positive outcomes that are not due to active treatment components, which may be elicited even when patients are aware of receiving an inert substance (open-label).
Stefanie H. Meeuwis+6 more
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Provisional Life Expectancy Estimates for 2020
This report presents updated estimates of life expectancy based on provisional mortality data for the full year, January through December 2020.
Elizabeth Arias+3 more
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This paper focuses on survey expectations and discusses their uses for testing and modeling of expectations.Alternative models of expectations formation are reviewed and the importance of allowing for heterogeneity of expectations is emphasized. A weak form of the rational expectations hypothesis which focuses on average expectationsrather than ...
M. Hashem Pesaran, Martin Weale
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Defining the Focus of Attention: Effects of Attention on Perceived Exertion and Fatigue.
This manuscript presents two experiments designed to explore the effects of attention on perceived exertion and time to failure in a fatiguing athletic task. There were two major motivating factors for these experiments.
Keith eLohse, David E Sherwood
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Life Expectancy after Bariatric Surgery in the Swedish Obese Subjects Study.
BACKGROUND Obesity shortens life expectancy. Bariatric surgery is known to reduce the long-term relative risk of death, but its effect on life expectancy is unclear.
L. Carlsson+7 more
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Placebo effects benefit a wide range of clinical practice, which can be profoundly influenced by expectancy level and personal characteristics. However, research on the issue of whether these factors independently or interdependently affect the placebo ...
Lili Zhou+13 more
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Brief Version of Caffeine Expectancy Questionnaire in Brazil
The use of extensive questionnaires has the limitation of filling time bias, related to the ability to focus and accurately respond to many items, justifying the necessity for a brief version.
Guilherme Falcão Mendes+3 more
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Life Expectancy and Mortality Rates in the United States, 1959-2017.
Importance US life expectancy has not kept pace with that of other wealthy countries and is now decreasing. Objective To examine vital statistics and review the history of changes in US life expectancy and increasing mortality rates; and to identify ...
S. Woolf, Heidi Schoomaker
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Expected returns and expected dividend growth [PDF]
Abstract We investigate a consumption-based present-value relation that is a function of future dividend growth and find that changing forecasts of dividend growth are an important feature of the post-war U.S. stock market, despite the failure of the dividend–price ratio to uncover such variation. In addition, dividend forecasts are found to covary
Sydney C. Ludvigson+4 more
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Background: Population-based surveys demonstrate cannabis users are more likely to use both illicit and licit substances, compared with non-cannabis users.
Jason Paul Connor+9 more
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