User profiles for J. Pratts

Jay Pratt

- Verified email at utoronto.ca - Cited by 14270

Jerry Pratt

- Verified email at ihmc.us - Cited by 10494

James R Pratt

- Verified email at wsu.edu - Cited by 4284

Use of fluorochromes for direct enumeration of total bacteria in environmental samples: past and present

RL Kepner Jr, JR Pratt - Microbiological reviews, 1994 - Am Soc Microbiol
Understanding the role of bacteria in microbial food webs is intimately connected to the
methods applied in the direct enumeration of bacteria. We have examined over 220 papers …

Family centred care: a review of qualitative studies

L Shields, J Pratt, J Hunter - Journal of clinical nursing, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Aim. To review systematically qualitative studies, which were found during a literature search
for a Cochrane systematic review of the use of family centred care in children's hospitals. …

Roles of cyclic diguanylate in the regulation of bacterial pathogenesis

R Tamayo, JT Pratt, A Camilli - Annu. Rev. Microbiol., 2007 - annualreviews.org
Cyclic diguanylate (c-di-GMP) is a bacterial second messenger of growing recognition involved
in the regulation of a number of complex physiological processes. This review describes …

Playing an action video game reduces gender differences in spatial cognition

J Feng, I Spence, J Pratt - Psychological science, 2007 - journals.sagepub.com
We demonstrate a previously unknown gender difference in the distribution of spatial attention,
a basic capacity that supports higher-level spatial cognition. More remarkably, we found …

Perceiving numbers causes spatial shifts of attention

MH Fischer, AD Castel, MD Dodd, J Pratt - Nature neuroscience, 2003 - nature.com
Abstract Number symbols are part of our everyday visual world. Here we show that merely
looking at numbers causes a shift in covert attention to the left or right side, depending upon …

The effects of action video game experience on the time course of inhibition of return and the efficiency of visual search

AD Castel, J Pratt, E Drummond - Acta psychologica, 2005 - Elsevier
The ability to efficiently search the visual environment is a critical function of the visual system,
and recent research has shown that experience playing action video games can influence …

Risk aversion in the small and in the large

JW Pratt - Uncertainty in economics, 1978 - Elsevier
… 4 JW Pratt, Risk aversion in the small and in the large, 3 2 ( 1 9 6 4 ) , 122-136 Econometrica
In … PRATT This paper concerns utility functions for money. A measure of risk aversion in the …

Symbolic control of visual attention

B Hommel, J Pratt, L Colzato… - Psychological …, 2001 - journals.sagepub.com
The present study reports four pairs of experiments that examined the role of nonpredictive (ie,
task-irrelevant) symbolic stimuli on attentional orienting. The experiments involved a …

[BOOK][B] Penal populism

J Pratt - 2007 - taylorfrancis.com
PrattPratt argues that new media technology is helping to spread national insecurities and
politicians are not only encouraging such sentiments but are also being led on by them. Pratt

Capture point: A step toward humanoid push recovery

J Pratt, J Carff, S Drakunov… - 2006 6th IEEE-RAS …, 2006 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Pratt [13] discussed the addition of a flywheel in simple biped models, but did not fully
explore the models. Kuo and … Then we get a step change in the forward velocity of Δ x = − J