scholarly journals No Evidence for Differential Relations of Hedonic Well-Being and Eudaimonic Well-Being to Gene Expression: A Comment on Statistical Problems in Fredrickson et al. (2013)

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Carol A. Nickerson
Keyword(s):  
Gene Expression ◽  
Well Being ◽  
National Academy Of Sciences ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Statistical Problems ◽  
Highly Correlated ◽  
The One ◽  
Differential Relations ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Considerable Doubt

In a study of the relation between well-being and gene expression, Fredrickson et al. (2013, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, 110 (33), 13684–13689) concluded that hedonic well-being and eudaimonic well-being have similar affective correlates but different gene transcriptional correlates in human immune cells. This comment addresses four statistical problems in Fredrickson et al.’s (2013) analyses. First, an idiosyncratic two-factor scoring rather than the documented and well-validated three-factor scoring was used for the instrument assessing well-being. Second, the analyses relating hedonic well-being and eudaimonic well-being to affect did not include the same variables as the analyses relating these two well-being variables to gene expression, invalidating any comparison between them. Third, hedonic well-being and eudaimonic well-being were highly correlated, resulting in untheorized and unrecognized suppression effects that accounted for their supposed differential relations with gene expression. Fourth, the method of computing p values for the one-sample t tests discarded information and violated the assumption of independence for those tests. These problems cast considerable doubt on the validity of Fredrickson et al.’s (2013) conclusions.

Experimental Measures of Poverty and Net Worth: 1996

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathleen Short ◽  
Patricia Ruggles
Keyword(s):  
Family Income ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Poverty Measurement ◽  
Program Participation ◽  
National Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Net Worth ◽  
Poverty Status ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
The Relationship

The National Academy of Sciences report on poverty measurement recommended changes to the official measure of poverty in the USA. That report from a panel of experts suggested that it is important to examine the relationship between asset ownership in relation to poverty status. This paper suggests that debt is also an important determinant of economic well-being. While spending down assets can enhance income to make ends meet, servicing debt can be a drain on family income that would otherwise be sufficient to purchase basic necessities. This paper uses data from the 1996 panel of the Survey of Income and Program Participation to examine these issues.

Macroeconomic conditions are only an illusion, not the solution, to firm sustainability: unveiling the new dimension of stakeholder well-being

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Zahid Irshad Younas ◽  
Mahvesh Khan ◽  
Mamdouh Abdulaziz Saleh Al-Faryan
Keyword(s):  
Well Being ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Macroeconomic Performance ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Macroeconomic Conditions ◽  
Us Economy ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
The One

Purpose The purpose of the study is to explore the misconception that in developed countries, macroeconomic performance lead to sustainable firms or improves stakeholder well-being. The results may be the opposite or even worse. Design/methodology/approach This study examined this misconception using balanced panel data from 1,122 firms from different sectors of the US economy and data on macroeconomic performance from the World Bank. Findings The results of the one-step generalised method of moments indicate that most macroeconomic performance indicators had significant and negative impacts on firm sustainability and stakeholder well-being. Practical implications From a societal perspective, the results illustrate that the fruits of macroeconomic performance of the US economy do not reach stakeholders through firms’ sustainability. Thus, linking the economy’s macroeconomic performance with firm sustainability is vital for sustainably uplifting society and for stakeholder well-being. Originality/value From a policy perspective, this study reveals that the greater focus on macroeconomic performance in the USA over the past decades has resulted in lower firm sustainability because of the malfunctioning of social, economic, environmental and governance factors. This has negatively influenced stakeholder well-being in the country.

Monitoring of Coastal Ocean Waters Receiving Wastewaters in the USA: Review of Two 1990 Publications of the USA National Research Council – National Academy of Sciences and National Academy of Engineering

1992 ◽  
Vol 25 (9) ◽  
pp. 49-57
Author(s):  
W. F. Garber
Keyword(s):  
Coastal Waters ◽  
Research Council ◽  
National Research Council ◽  
National Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Water Contact ◽  
National Monitoring ◽  
Usable Information ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Monitoring Effort ◽  
Academy Of Sciences

Required monitoring of the physical, biological and chemical condition of the nearshore waters of the ocean receiving treated wastewaters has been underway in the U.S.A. since 1955 or about 35 years. When established the stated intent had been to utilize the information obtained to evaluate the effects of the diffusion of wastewaters upon the beneficial values of these receiving waters. That is upon the food web including game and food fish; upon water contact sports uses; upon aesthetics; and upon the local, regional, and worldwide ecology. To this end original requirements had included a provision that the regulatory agency reduce the data obtained from the monitoring effort to information useful to themselves as well as to facility design and operational authorities. Inasmuch as the monitoring effort in 1989 was using funds in excess of 130 million dollars per year and had a 35 year data base, the Marine Board of the National Research Council - National Academy of Sciences: National Academy of Engineering established committees of scientists to evaluate the progress of the national monitoring effort and of the longest and most complete program of the Southern California Bight. It was found that the essential portion of the program, that of reducing the data obtained to usable information, had not been carried on so that approximately 35 years of data existed with little to zero information. In addition the data existed in pools of intensive samplings around discharge points with very little overall study of the coastal waters. Whether the discharge points were significantly different from the “normal” coastal waters was not really known because “normal” was not known. The Committees recommended procedures to follow to rectify these basic problems including reallocation of current funding to cover the research, control, design and operational needs. Their findings are summarized in the paper.

scholarly journals Anne Marie Treisman. 27 February 1935—9 February 2018

2020 ◽  
Vol 68 ◽  
pp. 407-430
Author(s):  
Daniel Kahneman ◽  
Deborah Treisman
Keyword(s):  
National Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Scientific Enterprise ◽  
White House ◽  
Arts And Sciences ◽  
University Of Louisville ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Attention And Perception ◽  
The University ◽  
Academy Of Sciences

The psychologist Anne Treisman dedicated her career to the study of attention and perception, a central concern of cognitive science. While still a graduate student, she modified and reformulated the leading theory of auditory attention. Her discoveries and insights into the role of visual attention in the perception of objects, to which she devoted her subsequent decades of research, have had a lasting influence, not only in experimental psychology but also in vision research, neuroscience and artificial intelligence. In a period of rising interest in the brain, her foundational theories inspired thousands of experiments in her own field and others, and the originality and precision of her experimental design confirmed the continued relevance of behavioural research to the scientific enterprise. Treisman's accomplishments were recognized by the National Academy of Sciences in the USA in 1994 and by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1995. In 1996, she became the first psychologist to win the Golden Brain Award. She received the University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Psychology in 2009, and was awarded the National Medal of Science by President Barack Obama at a White House ceremony in 2013.

Material and Financial Hardship and Income-Based Poverty Measures in the USA

2004 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
KATHLEEN S. SHORT
Keyword(s):  
Longitudinal Survey ◽  
Program Participation ◽  
National Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Poverty Measure ◽  
Single Indicator ◽  
Poverty Measures ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
The Relationship

Individuals and families may encounter difficulty making ends meet on many dimensions and there are a large number of measures designed to identify this group. In general, there is agreement that all of the approaches capture different pieces of the puzzle, while no single indicator can yield a complete picture. In an attempt to understand this multidimensional aspect of poverty, several measures are examined in this article: the official US poverty measure, a relative poverty measure, an experimental measure following recommendations of the US National Academy of Sciences, an index of material hardship, a measure of household debt, and responses to a question about inability to meet expenses. This study uses the 1996 panel of the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP). The SIPP is a longitudinal survey that allows us to examine all of these various indicators for the same people over the period from 1996 to 1998. The study uses regression analysis to assess the relationship between and among the various indicators of economic hardship.

Environmental scientists: advocates as well?

1999 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 163-165 ◽  
Author(s):  
NORMAN MYERS
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The Political ◽  
Valuable Resource ◽  
National Academy Of Sciences ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The World ◽  
Professional Credibility ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Policy Arena

What should be the response of environmental scientists when the world and the Earth appear to be heading toward exceptional crisis? Some scientists have signed up to public assertions that there indeed could be environmental Armageddon ahead (e.g. Union of Concerned Scientists 1992; US National Academy of Sciences and Royal Society of London 1992). Other scientists proclaim that our most valuable resource is not environmental well-being but professional credibility; the 'cry wolf' risk is the key determinant. Others appear to prefer to be scientists pure and simple, eschewing the policy arena, let alone the political scrum. Still others seem to think that warning of prospective crisis, even warning amongst themselves, is out of protocol's court.

scholarly journals Preface

2010 ◽  
Vol 647 ◽  
pp. 1-1
Author(s):  
Geoffrey McFadden ◽  
Paul Steen ◽  
Grae Worster
Keyword(s):  
Fluid Mechanics ◽  
Associate Editor ◽  
Annual Review ◽  
National Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Engineering Sciences ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Assistant Editor ◽  
American Physical ◽  
The University ◽  
Academy Of Sciences

This volume is dedicated to Professor Stephen H. Davis on the occasion of his seventieth birthday. Steve, as he is known to his many friends and colleagues, has served the fluid mechanics community for a good part of those seventy years. He has been distinguished by election to the National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Sciences of the USA. A variety of professional societies have honoured Steve, including the American Physical Society, with the Fluid Dynamics Prize in 1994, and the Society of Engineering Sciences, with the G. I. Taylor Medal in 2001. Among a number of named lectureships, he was selected as the G. K. Batchelor Lecturer in 2003 at the University of Cambridge; this is an honour that befits the third scholar to enjoy a dedicated volume of Journal of Fluid Mechanics (JFM), following those dedicated to George Batchelor himself in 1990 (volume 212) and to Philip Saffman in 2000 (volume 409). Steve's editorial services have benefitted the Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, the Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, SIAM Monographs on Mathematical Modeling and Computation, and the Cambridge University Press Monographs in Mechanics. However, the community to benefit most from Steve's editorial leadership has surely been the authors and readers of JFM. Steve served as an assistant editor and then associate editor for twenty years, from 1969 to 1989, and then returned as editor of the Journal in 2000.

scholarly journals Joseph Edward MURRAY - American surgeon-transplant surgeon, academician of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States (to the 100th of birthday)

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-81
Author(s):  
Andreev Alexander Alexeevich ◽  
Anton Petrovich Ostroushko
Keyword(s):  
Medical School ◽  
Deceased Donor ◽  
The United States ◽  
Harvard University ◽  
Unrelated Donor ◽  
Immune Rejection ◽  
National Academy Of Sciences ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
The City

Joseph Murray was born in 1919 in the USA. He graduated from the College of the Holy Cross and Harvard University Medical School. He developed his own method of kidney transplantation, proposed to reduce the risk of immune rejection of the organ by performing closely related transplants. In 1954, D. Murray completed the first successful kidney transplant in the world from a twin brother, in 1959 from an unrelated donor, in 1962 from a deceased donor. In 1971, Murray returned to the study of plastic surgery, being the chief plastic surgeon at the Children's Hospital of Boston from 1972 to 1985. In 1986, he left the surgical practice, having the honorary title of professor at Harvard University Medical School. In 1990, Joseph Murray, along with Edward Thomas was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine. In the same year, Joseph Murray was admitted to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, in 1993 - the National Academy of Sciences of the USA. Joseph Edward Murray died in 2012 in the city of Boston.

Revistas más citadas en las patentes sobre coronavirus según Lens.org

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gema Velayos-Ortega ◽  
Rosana López-Carreño
Keyword(s):  
Web Of Science ◽  
General Nature ◽  
National Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Journal Citation Reports ◽  
Bibliographic Data ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Microsoft Academic ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Journal Citation

The scientific literature cited in patents on coronaviruses is analyzed with the aim of determining its characteristics, identifying the main journals, and evaluating the possible correspondence between the impact of these publications in the scientific and technological fields. For this purpose, the Lens.org patent search engine and its two predefined sets of patents on coronaviruses were used, one of a general nature and the other more specific (on treatments and vaccines). Among the results, the use of persistent identifiers and bibliographic metadata extracted from other academic-scientific platforms such as Microsoft Academic or PubMed, among others, stands out. However, debugging and standardization of the bibliographic data in Lens is required, because duplications have been detected. Although the most cited journals, namely the Journal of Virology and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, do present a similarity in their positioning in the top positions of the rankings of Journal Citation Reports (JCR) and Lens, the rest of the journals that are most cited in patents on coronaviruses do not have high impact according to the JCR index of the Web of Science. Inequalities are evident when comparing the scientific with the technological impact of the journals cited in patents, and indicators other than traditional bibliometrics are needed to evaluate scientific journals cited in patents from the technological perspective. Resumen Se analiza la bibliografía científica citada en patentes sobre coronavirus con el objetivo de conocer sus características e identificar las principales revistas, valorando la posible correspondencia del impacto de estas publicaciones tanto en el ámbito científico como en el tecnológico. Para este propósito se ha utilizado el buscador de patentes Lens.org y sus dos conjuntos de patentes predefinidos sobre los coronavirus, uno de carácter general y otro más específico (tratamiento y vacunas). Entre los resultados resalta la utilidad del uso de identificadores persistentes y metadatos bibliográficos extraídos de otras plataformas académicas-científicas como Microsoft Academic o PubMed, entre otras. Sin embargo, se requiere una depuración y normalización de los datos bibliográficos en Lens ya que se han detectado duplicidades. Aunque las revistas más citadas, Journal of virology y Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, sí que presentan una similitud en su posicionamiento en las primeras posiciones de los rankings de Journal Citation Reports (JCR) y de Lens, el resto de revistas más citadas en patentes sobre los coronavirus no son de alto impacto según el índice JCR de la Web of Science. Se evidencian desigualdades en la comparativa del impacto científico con respecto al tecnológico de las revistas citadas en patentes, precisándose otros indicadores diferentes a los bibliométricos tradicionales para valorar a las revistas científicas citadas en patentes desde la vertiente tecnológica.

Beyond Money: Progress on an Economy of Well-Being

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 171-175 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ed Diener ◽  
Martin E. P. Seligman
Keyword(s):  
Well Being ◽  
The United States ◽  
Economic Indicators ◽  
Economic Policies ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
National Accounts ◽  
National Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Human Flourishing ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
The Impact

In our 2004 “Beyond Money” article, we argued that national accounts of psychological and subjective well-being should complement the economic indicators that frequently guide policy decisions. We claimed that economic indicators fail to reflect important aspects of quality of life that well-being indicators capture. Since the time of our article, progress has been made, and scores of nations have used some forms of well-being measures. The National Academy of Sciences of the United States and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development both issued reports on accounts of well-being. Researchers have pointed to policies that are supported by the findings, such as environmental and economic policies. The emergence of “big data” has opened major new pathways for measuring well-being in inexpensive, unobtrusive, and nonreactive fashion. Psychological researchers now need to create superordinate combinations of subjective and objective measures of well-being to study the impact of the policies they advocate. The accounts can serve as a lever for convincing policymakers to enact policies that increase human flourishing.

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