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Alexander Weiss

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Alexander Weiss

- Verified email at cs.brown.edu - Cited by 2179

Happiness is a personal (ity) thing: The genetics of personality and well-being in a representative sample

A Weiss, TC Bates, M Luciano - Psychological science, 2008 - journals.sagepub.com
Subjective well-being is known to be related to personality traits. However, to date, nobody
has examined whether personality and subjective well-being share a common genetic …

[PDF][PDF] The Crumbs complex couples cell density sensing to Hippo-dependent control of the TGF-β-SMAD pathway

…, P Samavarchi-Tehrani, M Narimatsu, A Weiss… - Developmental cell, 2010 - cell.com
The Hippo pathway senses cell density information to control tissue growth by regulating
the localization of the transcriptional regulators TAZ and YAP (TAZ/YAP). TAZ/YAP also …

Evidence for a midlife crisis in great apes consistent with the U-shape in human well-being

A Weiss, JE King, M Inoue-Murayama… - Proceedings of the …, 2012 - National Acad Sciences
Recently, economists and behavioral scientists have studied the pattern of human well-being
over the lifespan. In dozens of countries, and for a large range of well-being measures, …

Home 3D body scans from noisy image and range data

A Weiss, D Hirshberg, MJ Black - … International Conference on …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The 3D shape of the human body is useful for applications in fitness, games and apparel.
Accurate body scanners, however, are expensive, limiting the availability of 3D body models. …

Domain and facet personality predictors of all-cause mortality among Medicare patients aged 65 to 100

A Weiss, PT Costa Jr - Psychosomatic medicine, 2005 - journals.lww.com
Objectives: Our objectives were to test whether Conscientiousness, the other 4 domains of
the Five-Factor Model, and their facets predicted mortality in older, frail individuals. Methods: …

Intelligence and personality as predictors of illness and death: How researchers in differential psychology and chronic disease epidemiology are collaborating to …

IJ Deary, A Weiss, GD Batty - Psychological science in the …, 2010 - journals.sagepub.com
This monograph describes research findings linking intelligence and personality traits with
health outcomes, including health behaviors, morbidity, and mortality. The field of study of …

Childhood socioeconomic status amplifies genetic effects on adult intelligence

TC Bates, GJ Lewis, A Weiss - Psychological science, 2013 - journals.sagepub.com
Studies of intelligence in children reveal significantly higher heritability among groups with
high socioeconomic status (SES) than among groups with low SES. These interaction effects, …

The TGFbeta superfamily signaling pathway

A Weiss, L Attisano - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
The transforming growth factor (TGF)beta superfamily of secreted factors is comprised of over
30 members including Activins, Nodals, Bone Morphogenetic Proteins (BMPs), and Growth …

Estimating human shape and pose from a single image

P Guan, A Weiss, AO Balan… - 2009 IEEE 12th …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We describe a solution to the challenging problem of estimating human body shape from a
single photograph or painting. Our approach computes shape and pose parameters of a 3D …

Protein interaction network of the mammalian Hippo pathway reveals mechanisms of kinase-phosphatase interactions

AL Couzens, JDR Knight, MJ Kean, G Teo, A Weiss… - Science …, 2013 - science.org
The Hippo pathway regulates organ size and tissue homeostasis in response to multiple
stimuli, including cell density and mechanotransduction. Pharmacological inhibition of …