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Are Investors Warned by Disclosure of Conflicts of Interest? The Moderating Effect of Investment Horizon
Financial analysts are required to disclose conflicts of interest (COI) in their research reports, but there is limited evidence on the effectiveness of COI disclosures. We investigate whether the influence of disclosing COI in analyst reports on investors' decision making depends on investment horizon. Experimental results show that short-term investors who view a COI disclosure are significantly less willing to invest in the recommended stock compared to short-term investors who do not view such a disclosure, while the presence of a COI disclosure does not significantly affect long-term investorsâ willingness to invest. Results further demonstrate that the COI disclosure decreases short-term investorsâ willingness to invest by reducing their perception of analystsâ trustworthiness and expertness. This study provides evidence on when and how the COI disclosure can influence investorsâ behavior and enhances our understanding of investorsâ reactions to cautionary disclaimers
Lexical Derivation of the PINT Taxonomy of Goals: Prominence, Inclusiveness, Negativity Prevention, and Tradition
What do people want? Few questions are more fundamental to psychological science than this. Yet, existing taxonomies disagree on both the number and content of goals. We thus adopted a lexical approach and investigated the structure of goal-relevant words from the natural English lexicon. Through an intensive rating process, 1,060 goal-relevant English words were first located. In Studies 1-2, two relatively large and diverse samples (total n = 1,026) rated their commitment to approaching or avoiding these goals. Principal component analyses yielded 4 replicable components: Prominence, Inclusiveness, Negativity prevention, and Tradition (the PINT Taxonomy). Study 3-7 (total n = 1,396) supported the 4-factor structure of an abbreviated scale and found systematic differences in their relationships with past goal-content measures, the Big 5 traits, affect, and need satisfaction. This investigation thus provides a data-driven taxonomy of higher-order goal-content and opens up a wide variety of fascinating lines for future research
Signal Alignment: Enabling Physical Layer Network Coding for MIMO Networking
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The roles of family members, health care workers, and others in decision-making processes about genetic testing among individuals at risk for Huntington disease
Purpose: To understand how individuals at risk for Huntington disease view the roles of others, e.g., family members and health care workers, in decision making about genetic testing.
Methods: Twenty-one individuals (eight mutation-positive, four mutation-negative, and nine not tested) were interviewed for approximately 2 hours each.
Results: Interviewees illuminated several key aspects of the roles of family members and health care workers (in genetics and other fields) in decision making about testing that have been underexplored. Family members often felt strongly about whether an individual should get tested. Health care workers provided information and assistance with decision making and mental health referrals that were often helpful. Yet health care workers varied in knowledge and sensitivity regarding testing issues, and the quality of counseling and testing experiences can range widely. At times, health care workers without specialized knowledge of Huntington disease offered opinions of whether to test. Input from families and health care workers could also conflict with each other and with an individual's own preferences. Larger institutional and geographic contexts shaped decisions as well.
Conclusion: Decision-making theories applied to Huntington disease testing have frequently drawn on psychological models, yet the current data highlight the importance of social contexts and relationships in testing decisions. This report, the first to our knowledge to explore individuals' perceptions of social factors (particularly family and health care worker involvement) in Huntington disease testing decisions, has critical implications for practice, education, research, and policy
Extracting molecular Hamiltonian structure from time-dependent fluorescence intensity data
We propose a formalism for extracting molecular Hamiltonian structure from
inversion of time-dependent fluorescence intensity data. The proposed method
requires a minimum of \emph{a priori} knowledge about the system and allows for
extracting a complete set of information about the Hamiltonian for a pair of
molecular electronic surfaces.Comment: 7pages, no figures, LaTeX2
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DecisionâMaking About Reproductive Choices Among Individuals AtâRisk for Huntington's Disease
We explored how individuals atârisk for HD who have or have not been tested make reproductive decisions and what factors are involved. We interviewed 21 individuals (8 with and 4 without the mutation, and 9 unâtested) inâdepth for 2 hours each. Atârisk individuals faced a difficult series of dilemmas of whether to: get pregnant and deliver, have fetal testing, have preâimplantation genetic diagnosis, adopt, or have no children. These individuals weighed competing desires and concerns: their own desires vs. those of spouses vs. broader moral concerns (e.g., to end the disease; and/or follow dictates against abortion) vs. perceptions of the interests of current or future offspring. Quandaries arose of how much and to whom to feel responsible. Some changed their perspectives over time (e.g., first âgambling,â then being more cautious). These data have critical implications for genetic counselors and other health care workers and future research, particularly as more genetic tests become available
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Disclosures of Huntington disease risk within families: Patterns of decisionâmaking and implications
Patterns of disclosure of Huntington disease risk and genetic test results among family members are important, but have been underexplored. We interviewed 21 individuals inâdepthâeight mutationâpositive for HD, four mutationânegative, and nine not testedâfor 2 hr each. Within families, critical questions arose of what, when, and to whom to disclose, and what to do postâdisclosure. Interviewees wrestled with dilemmas of what to tell (e.g., suspicions vs. confirmed symptoms; initiation vs. completion of testing; partial vs. indirect information), how to disclose (e.g., planning in advance vs. âblurting outâ information in arguments), and whether and how to tell extended family members. Questions arose of when to tell (i.e., to avoid disclosing âtoo earlyâ or âtoo lateâ). Similarities and differences emerged related to types of relationships (e.g., parents telling offspring vs. offspring telling parents vs. siblings telling each other). Individuals often disclosed because of perceived duty to foster the health of their family members, enabling these others to pursue appropriate medical evaluation, if desired. Yet tensions arose because the information could burden these members, who also have rights to remain âin denialâ if they wish and not discuss the topic or pursue testing. Postâdisclosure, dilemmas emerged of whether and how much to encourage family members to pursue testing. These data shed important light on critical issues that have received little, if any, attention concerning what, how, and when disclosure occurs, and have key implications for atârisk individuals, genetic counselors, and other health care workers (HCWs), and for future research. Atârisk individuals would benefit from considering these issues in advance. HCWs need to realize that these decisions are multiâfaceted. Future research can explore whether, when, how, and how often HCWs raise these issues with individuals
Lack of association between dietary fructose and hyperuricemia risk in adults
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>High serum uric acid concentration (hyperuricemia) has been studied for its relationship with multiple adverse health outcomes, such as metabolic syndrome. Intervention studies have produced inconsistent outcomes for the relationship between fructose intake and serum uric acid concentration.</p> <p>Methods</p> <p>The association of dietary fructose intake with hyperuricemia risk in adults was examined using logistic regression and U.S. NHANES 1999-2004 databases. A total of 9,384 subjects, between the ages 20 and 80 years, without diabetes, cancer, or heart disease, were included.</p> <p>Results</p> <p>The highest added or total fructose intake (quartiles by grams or % energy) was not associated with an increase of hyperuricemia risk compared to the lowest intake with or without adjustment (odds ratios = 0.515-0.992). The associations of alcohol and fiber intakes with the risk were also determined. Compared to the lowest intake, the highest alcohol intake was associated with increased mean serum uric acid concentration (up to 16%, <it>P </it>< 0.001) and hyperuricemia risk (odds ratios = 1.658-1.829, <it>P </it>= 0.057- < 0.001); the highest fiber intake was correlated with decreases of uric acid concentration (up to 7.5%, <it>P </it>< 0.002) and lower risk (odds ratios = 0.448-0.478, <it>P </it>= 0.001- < 0.001). Adults who were over 50 y old, male, or obese had significantly greater risk.</p> <p>Conclusions</p> <p>The data show that increased dietary fructose intake was not associated with increased hyperuricemia risk; while increased dietary alcohol intake was significantly associated with increased hyperuricemia risk; and increased fiber intake was significantly associated with decreased hyperuricemia risk. These data further suggest a potential effect of fructose consumption in an ordinary diet on serum uric acid differs from results found in some short-term studies using atypical exposure and/or levels of fructose administration.</p
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