https://doi.org/10.1080/08109028.2016.1144669 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1080/08109028.2016.1144669 Copy URL This paper explores a model-centred approach to ...

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Across scientific disciplines, psychology being no exception, a distinction is often made between basic and applied research. Basic research, as this distinction goes, is ivory-tower research, with no ...

Last fall, a year after the anthrax attacks sounded a bioterrorism alarm, Anthony S. Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, promised that he would strive to ...