Although higher education has been linked to better income, longer life expectancy, and
better health, about 25–45% of incoming college freshmen never graduate. The current study …

Importance Substandard and falsified medicines burden health systems by diverting
resources to ineffective or harmful therapies, causing medical complications and prolonging …

Enteric pathogens are exposed to a dynamic polymicrobial environment in the gastrointestinal
tract 1 . This microbial community has been shown to be important during infection, but …

Although theory and research suggest that self-awareness is necessary to regulate one’s
behaviors, it is unclear what effect mindfulness, a form of present-centered, non-judgmental, …

In the past two to three decades health behavior scientists have increasingly emphasized
affect-related concepts (including, but not limited to emotion) in their attempts to understand …

Self-regulation requires overriding a dominant response and leads to temporary self-regulatory
fatigue. Existing theories of the nature and causes of self-regulatory fatigue highlight …

Research findings within posttraumatic growth (PTG) and terror management theory (TMT)
currently appear contradictory. Following confrontations with mortality, PTG research …

The Life Orientation Test and its revision include items tapping both the belief that good things
will happen (optimism) and the belief that bad things will not happen (low pessimism). The …

Multidrug-resistant bacteria pose a serious health threat, especially in hospitals. Horizontal
gene transfer (HGT) of mobile genetic elements (MGEs) facilitates the spread of antibiotic …

Protonated arenes are widely accepted intermediates in electrophilic aromatic substitution
chemistry. 1 Known as Wheland intermediates, but more correctly ascribed to Pfeiffer and …