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About: New York University is a education organization based out in New York, New York, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Poison control. The organization has 72380 authors who have published 165545 publications receiving 8334030 citations. The organization is also known as: NYU & University of the City of New York.
Topics: Population, Poison control, Health care, Cancer, Mental health
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01 Jan 1997TL;DR: In this article, Manin argues that representative government should be understood as a combination of democratic and undemocratic, aristocratic elements, in which citizens elect representatives only because they cannot assemble and govern in person.
Abstract: The thesis of this original and provocative book is that representative government should be understood as a combination of democratic and undemocratic, aristocratic elements. Professor Manin challenges the conventional view that representative democracy is no more than an indirect form of government by the people, in which citizens elect representatives only because they cannot assemble and govern in person. The argument is developed by examining the historical moments when the present institutional arrangements were chosen from among the then available alternatives. Professor Manin reminds us that while today representative institutions and democracy appear as virtually indistinguishable, when representative government was first established in Europe and America, it was designed in opposition to democracy proper. Drawing on the procedures used in earlier republican systems, from classical Athens to Renaissance Florence, in order to highlight the alternatives that were forsaken, Manin brings to the fore the generally overlooked results of representative mechanisms. These include the elitist aspect of elections and the non-binding character of campaign promises.
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TL;DR: This article examined the long-term impacts of Africa's slave trade and found that individuals whose ancestors were heavily raided during the slave trade are less trusting today, which may persist to this day.
Abstract: In a recent study, Nunn (2008) examines the long-term impacts of Africa’s slave trade. He finds that the slave trade, which occurred over a period of more than 400 years, had a significant negative effect on long-term economic development. Although the article arguably identifies a negative causal relationship between the slave trade and income today, the analysis is unable to establish the exact causal mechanisms underlying this reduced-form relationship. In this article, we examine one of the channels through which the slave trade may affect economic development today. Combining contemporary individual-level survey data with historical data on slave shipments by ethnic group, we ask whether the slave trade caused a culture of mistrust to develop within Africa. Initially, slaves were captured primarily through state organized raids and warfare, but as the trade progressed, the environment of ubiquitous insecurity caused individuals to turn on others—including friends and family members—and to kidnap, trick, and sell each other into slavery (Sigismund Wilhelm Koelle 1854; P. E. H. Hair 1965; Charles Piot 1996). We hypothesize that in this environment, a culture of mistrust may have evolved, which may persist to this day. We show that current differences in trust levels within Africa can be traced back to the transatlantic and Indian Ocean slave trades. Combining contemporary individual-level survey data with historical data on slave shipments by ethnic group, we find that individuals whose ancestors were heavily raided during the slave trade are less trusting today. Evidence from a variety of identification strategies suggests that the relationship is causal. Examining causal mechanisms, we show that most of the impact of the slave trade is through factors that are internal to the individual, such as cultural norms, beliefs, and values. (JEL J15, N57, Z13)
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Stanford University1, New York University2, Duke University3, Boston University4, Saint Louis University5, Imperial College London6, Northwick Park Hospital7, Hospital Universitario La Paz8, Durham University9, NewYork–Presbyterian Hospital10, Albany Medical College11, St. Michael's Hospital12, Montreal Heart Institute13, Auckland City Hospital14, All India Institute of Medical Sciences15, University of British Columbia16, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center17, Harvard University18, Brigham and Women's Hospital19, Saint Francis University20, Columbia University Medical Center21, University of Missouri–Kansas City22, Government Medical College, Thiruvananthapuram23, Sri Jayadeva Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences and Research24, University of São Paulo25, Emory University26, Veterans Health Administration27, Mayo Clinic28, Semmelweis University29, Flinders Medical Centre30, Université Paris-Saclay31, Uppsala University Hospital32, Uppsala University33, Keio University34, National Institutes of Health35, Vanderbilt University36, East Carolina University37, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai38
TL;DR: Evidence that an initial invasive strategy, as compared with an initial conservative strategy, reduced the risk of ischemic cardiovascular events or death from any cause over a median of 3.2 years is not found.
Abstract: Background Among patients with stable coronary disease and moderate or severe ischemia, whether clinical outcomes are better in those who receive an invasive intervention plus medical ther...
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TL;DR: An approximation algorithm is presented which uses an iterative method to produce polygons with a small—but not minimum—number of vertices that lie on the given curve that justifies the abandonment of the minimum-vertices criterion.
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TL;DR: Under conditions of limited attention for normal perceptual awareness, it is shown that healthy observers demonstrate robust benefits for the perception of verbal stimuli of aversive content compared with stimuli of neutral content.
Abstract: Commensurate with the importance of rapidly and efficiently evaluating motivationally significant stimuli, humans are probably endowed with distinct faculties1,2 and maintain specialized neural structures to enhance their detection. Here we consider that a critical function of the human amygdala3,4 is to enhance the perception of stimuli that have emotional significance. Under conditions of limited attention for normal perceptual awareness—that is, the attentional blink5,6—we show that healthy observers demonstrate robust benefits for the perception of verbal stimuli of aversive content compared with stimuli of neutral content. In contrast, a patient with bilateral amygdala damage has no enhanced perception for such aversive stimulus events. Examination of patients with either left or right amygdala resections shows that the enhanced perception of aversive words depends specifically on the left amygdala. All patients comprehend normally the affective meaning of the stimulus events, despite the lack of evidence for enhanced perceptual encoding of these events in patients with left amygdala lesions. Our results reveal a neural substrate for affective influences on perception, indicating that similar neural mechanisms may underlie the affective modulation of both recollective7,8,9 and perceptual experience.
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Name | H-index | Papers | Citations |
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Rob Knight | 201 | 1061 | 253207 |
Virginia M.-Y. Lee | 194 | 993 | 148820 |
Frank E. Speizer | 193 | 636 | 135891 |
Stephen V. Faraone | 188 | 1427 | 140298 |
Eric R. Kandel | 184 | 603 | 113560 |
Andrei Shleifer | 171 | 514 | 271880 |
Eliezer Masliah | 170 | 982 | 127818 |
Roderick T. Bronson | 169 | 679 | 107702 |
Timothy A. Springer | 167 | 669 | 122421 |
Alvaro Pascual-Leone | 165 | 969 | 98251 |
Nora D. Volkow | 165 | 958 | 107463 |
Dennis R. Burton | 164 | 683 | 90959 |
Charles N. Serhan | 158 | 728 | 84810 |
Giacomo Bruno | 158 | 1687 | 124368 |
Tomas Hökfelt | 158 | 1033 | 95979 |