these assumptions and predictions, subjects supporting and opposing capital punishment were exposed to two purported studies, one seemingly confirming and one seemingly disconfirming their existing beliefs about the deterrent efficacy of the death penalty. As predicted, both proponents and opponents of capital

of the ways in which qualitative content analysis can be used would potentially illuminate key issues for researchers to consider in the design of studies purporting to 1277 AUTHORS' NOTE: We wish to express our gratitude to Drs. Pamela L. Jordan, Carol J. Leppa, and J. Randall Curtis for their feedback

-group, random-assignment, placebocontrolled Internet study, the authors tested 5 purported happiness interventions and 1 plausible control exercise. They found that 3 of the interventions lastingly increased happiness and decreased depressive symptoms. Positive interventions can supplement traditional

There are over 165 studies that have focused on Thimerosal, an organic-mercury (Hg) based compound, used as a preservative in many childhood vaccines, and found it to be harmful. Of these, 16 were conducted to specifically examine the effects of Thimerosal on human infants or children

Abstract—The purported ability of a seventeen-year-old female, investigated for seven years in China, to perceive information without using visual and kinesthetic cues, was studied. In one experiment, five letters from A to Z and five numbers from 0 to 100 were randomly selected by computer

security and reliability. Many municipalities have adopted electronic systems, and the number of deployed systems is rising. For these new computerized voting systems, neither source code nor the results of any third-party certification analyses have been available for the general population to study

The area under blood ethanol concentration-time curves may be lower after ingestion vs. intravenous infusion of similar ethanol doses, a difference that has been attributed to first-pass metab-olism in the gasthc mucosa. Using a model of human hepac ethanol metabolism, we predted the area under tood ethanol concentration-time curves and first-pass metabolism that would result from oral vs. Intravenous ethanol. This model accurately predicted reported differences in AUC after oral vs. intravenous ethanol. First-pass metabolism has been shown to disappear when the stomach is bypassed via intraduodenal or portal vein infusion of ethanol. Our model predts that the effidency of first-pass metabolism is extremely sensitive to the hepatic delivery rate of ethanol and the rapid ethanol delivery rate in bypass studs would have elimk’iated hepatic first-pass metabolism. We conclude that hepatic ethanol metabolism could explain pub-

which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. There are over 165 studies that have focused on Thimerosal, an organic-mercury (Hg) based compound, used as a preservative in many childhood vaccines, and found

ejecta containing pterosaur bones since then. However, the detailed analysis of the bones preserved in the pellet, their study by X-ray microCT, and the comparison with those of basal pterosaurs do not support a referral to the Pterosauria. Comparison with the osteology of a large sample of Middle

regulation. On the basis of those studies, 4 methods are described that provide compelling evidence for emotion regulation: independent measurement of activated emotion and purported regulatory processes; analysis of temporal relations; measurement across contrasting conditions; and multiple, convergent