All Outputs (8)

Avoidable waste in ophthalmic epidemiology: A review of blindness prevalence surveys in low and middle income countries 2000–2014 (2017)
Journal Article

Purpose: Sources of avoidable waste in ophthalmic epidemiology include duplication of effort, and survey reports remaining unpublished, gaining publication after a long delay, or being incomplete or of poor quality. The aim of this review was to asse... Read More about Avoidable waste in ophthalmic epidemiology: A review of blindness prevalence surveys in low and middle income countries 2000–2014.

Growing up in New Zealand cohort alignment with all New Zealand births (2014)
Journal Article

Objective: To compare the birth characteristics of the Growing Up in New Zealand cohort with those of all New Zealand (NZ) births over a similar time period, and to describe cohort alignment to current NZ births. Method: The Growing Up in New Zealand... Read More about Growing up in New Zealand cohort alignment with all New Zealand births.

A concurrent-choice analysis of amount-dependent temporal discounting (2013)
Journal Article

Amount-dependent temporal discounting refers to the differential rates at which the values of large and small rewards are discounted over time. A lower rate of discounting of larger rewards is known as the magnitude effect. The present study aimed to... Read More about A concurrent-choice analysis of amount-dependent temporal discounting.

Matching-to-sample and stimulus-pairing-observation procedures in stimulus equivalence: The effects of number of trials and stimulus arrangement (2013)
Journal Article

Studies comparing the effectiveness of the stimulus-pairing-observation and matching-to-sample procedures in facilitating equivalence relations have reported conflicting findings. This study compared the effectiveness of these procedures and examined... Read More about Matching-to-sample and stimulus-pairing-observation procedures in stimulus equivalence: The effects of number of trials and stimulus arrangement.

Growing up in New Zealand: A longitudinal study of New Zealand children and their families. Report 2: Now we are born (2012)
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Growing Up in New Zealand is a longitudinal study that provides an up-to-date, population-relevant picture of what it is like to be a child growing up in New Zealand in the 21st century. It recruited and collected information from both mothers and th... Read More about Growing up in New Zealand: A longitudinal study of New Zealand children and their families. Report 2: Now we are born.

How do you recruit and retain a prebirth cohort? Lessons learnt from growing up in New Zealand (2012)
Journal Article

Growing Up in New Zealand, a longitudinal study following nearly 7,000 children, has faced some unique challenges in identifying, enrolling, and retaining a large and diverse antenatal cohort. Identification of a study region with population demograp... Read More about How do you recruit and retain a prebirth cohort? Lessons learnt from growing up in New Zealand.

The effects of session length on demand functions generated using FR schedules (2011)
Journal Article

In comparing open and closed economies, researchers often arrange shorter sessions under the former condition than under the latter. Several studies indicate that session length per se can affect performance and there are some data that indicate that... Read More about The effects of session length on demand functions generated using FR schedules.

Extinction-induced variability in human behavior (2009)
Journal Article

Participants earned points by pressing a computer space bar (Experiment 1) or forming rectangles on the screen with the mouse (Experiment 2) under differential-reinforcement-of-low-rate schedules, followed by extinction. Variability in interresponse... Read More about Extinction-induced variability in human behavior.