Glenn Harrison

COGNITION IN NATURAL ENVIRONMENTS: USING SIMULATED SCENARIOS IN COMPLEX DECISION-MAKING (2008)

Charles E. Hughes, Glenn Harrison, Steve Fiore, Elisabet Rutström, Eileen Smith, Christopher B. Stapleton

We present a new approach using virtual environment scenarios to study decision making in complex tasks. Using simulation techniques we build a bridge between abstract and naturalistic environments...

Self Control, Risk Aversion, and the Allais Paradox (2006)

Drew Fudenberg, David K. Levine, Glenn Harrison, John Kagel, Drazen Prelec

We thank Daniel Benjamin and Jesse Shapiro for helpful comments and a very

First year to second year transition in biomedical sciences: Mind the gap. (2006)

Harrison, Glenn, Zimitat, Craig

Universities have strong agendas aimed at first year retention, however attrition rates in second year can be just as high and receive little attention. Second year represents a period of...

L-Arginine attenuates cardiovascular impairment in DOCA-salt hypertensive rats (2005)

Hoey, Andrew, Fenning, Andrew, Harrison, Glenn, Rose Meyer, Roselyn, Brown, Lindsay

Nitric oxide (NO) is essential for normal function of the cardiovascular system. This study has determined whether chronic administration of L-arginine, the biological precursor of NO, attenuates the...

L-Arginine attenuates cardiovascular impairment in DOCA-salt hypertensive rats (2005)

Hoey, Andrew, Fenning, Andrew, Harrison, Glenn, Rose Meyer, Roselyn, Brown, Lindsay

Nitric oxide (NO) is essential for normal function of the cardiovascular system. This study has determined whether chronic administration of L-arginine, the biological precursor of NO, attenuates the...

What Happens After A Technology Shock? A Bayesian Perspective (2005)

Ossama Mikhail A, Ellen R. Mcgrattan, To Sune, Glenn Harrison, Kyungso Im, J. Walter Milon, ...

This paper investigates the effect of a positive technology shock on per capita hours worked within the class of Bayesian Vector Auto-Regressive [BVAR] models. Such a framework avoids the current...

L-Arginine attenuates cardiovascular impairment in DOCA-salt hypertensive rats. (2005)

Fenning, Andrew, Harrison, Glenn, Rose'Meyer, Roselyn, Hoey, Andrew, Brown, Lindsay

Nitric oxide (NO) is essential for the normal functioning of the cardiovascular system. This study has determined whether chronic administration of L-arginine, the biological precursor of NO,...

L-Arginine attenuates cardiovascular impairment in DOCA-salt hypertensive rats (2005)

Hoey, Andrew, Fenning, Andrew, Harrison, Glenn, Rose Meyer, Roselyn, Brown, Lindsay

Nitric oxide (NO) is essential for normal function of the cardiovascular system. This study has determined whether chronic administration of L-arginine, the biological precursor of NO, attenuates the...

Age-related changes in cardiac adenosine receptor expression (2004)

Jenner, Tamsin, Mellick, Albert, Harrison, Glenn, Griffiths, Lyn, Rose'Meyer, Roselyn

Adenosine is an important cardioprotective agent that works via several adenosine receptor (ADOR) subtypes to regulate cardiovascular activity. It is well established that functional responses to...

Age-related changes in cardiac adenosine receptor expression (2004)

Jenner, Tamsin, Mellick, Albert, Harrison, Glenn, Griffiths, Lyn, Rose'Meyer, Roselyn

Adenosine is an important cardioprotective agent that works via several adenosine receptor (ADOR) subtypes to regulate cardiovascular activity. It is well established that functional responses to...

Age-related changes in cardiac adenosine receptor expression (2004)

Jenner, Tamsin, Mellick, Albert, Harrison, Glenn, Griffiths, Lyn, Rose'Meyer, Roselyn

Adenosine is an important cardioprotective agent that works via several adenosine receptor (ADOR) subtypes to regulate cardiovascular activity. It is well established that functional responses to...

Auranofin increases apoptosis and ischaemia-reperfusion injury in the rat isolated heart (2004)

Venardos, Kylie, Harrison, Glenn, Headrick, John, Perkins, Anthony

1. Auranofin, an antirheumatic gold compound, is an inhibitor of selenocysteine enzymes, such as thioredoxin reductase and glutathione peroxidase. These enzymes play an important role in protecting...

Effects of dietary selenium on glutathione peroxidase and thioredoxin reductase activity and recovery from cardiac ischemia-reperfusion (2004)

Venardos, Kylie, Harrison, Glenn, Headrick, John Patrick, Perkins, Anthony Vincent

Glutathione peroxidase and thioredoxin reductase are selenocysteine-dependent enzymes that protect against oxidative injury. This study examined the effects of dietary selenium on the activity of...

The measurement of adenosine and estrogen receptor expression in rat brains following ovariectomy using quantitative PCR analysis (2003)

Rose'Meyer, Roselyn, Mellick, Albert, Garnham, Bronwyn Gaye, Harrison, Glenn, Massa, Helen Maureen, Griffiths, Lyn

In our laboratory we have developed a quantitative-polymerase chain reaction (Q-PCR) strategy to examine the differential expression of adenosine receptor (ADOR), A1, A2A, A2B and A3, and estrogen...

The measurement of adenosine and estrogen receptor expression in rat brains following ovariectomy using quantitative PCR analysis (2003)

Rose'Meyer, Roselyn, Mellick, Albert, Garnham, Bronwyn Gaye, Harrison, Glenn, Massa, Helen Maureen, Griffiths, Lyn

In our laboratory we have developed a quantitative-polymerase chain reaction (Q-PCR) strategy to examine the differential expression of adenosine receptor (ADOR), A1, A2A, A2B and A3, and estrogen...

The Handbook of Experimental Economics Results (2003)

Joyce E. Berg, John W. Dickhaut, Thomas A. Rietz, Jel Classifications B, Glenn Harrison, ...

On the Performance of the Lottery Procedure for Controlling Risk Preferences In theory, the lottery-based induction procedure for controlling risk preferences (Roth and Malouf, 1979; and Berg, Daley,...

The measurement of adenosine and estrogen receptor expression in rat brains following ovariectomy using quantitative PCR analysis (2003)

Rose'Meyer, Roselyn, Mellick, Albert, Garnham, Bronwyn Gaye, Harrison, Glenn, Massa, Helen Maureen, Griffiths, Lyn

In our laboratory we have developed a quantitative-polymerase chain reaction (Q-PCR) strategy to examine the differential expression of adenosine receptor (ADOR), A1, A2A, A2B and A3, and estrogen...

Effects of A3 adenosine receptor activation and gene knock-out in ischemic-reperfused mouse heart (2002)

Harrison, Glenn, Cerniway, Rachael J, Peart, Jason Nigel John, Berr, Stuart S, Ashton, Kevin John, Regan, Sara, ...

Objectives: To characterize effects of A3 adenosine receptor (A3AR) activation and gene knock-out on responses to ischemia-reperfusion in mouse heart. Methods: Perfused hearts from wild-type and A3AR...

Acute but not chronic caffeine impairs functional responses to ischaemia-reperfusion in rat isolated perfused heart. (2001)

Rose'Meyer, Roselyn, Headrick, John Patrick, Peart, Jason Nigel John, Harrison, Glenn, Garnham, Bronwyn Gaye, Willis, Roger

1. The effect of acute (50 ¼mol/L) and chronic (0.06% in drinking water for 14 days) caffeine on the response to ischaemia reperfusion was studied in Wistar rat isolated perfused hearts. 2. Neither...

Multilateral Bargaining Over Trade Policies

Glenn Harrison

Is it possible to design a bargaining institution that will substantially improve the international trade negotiations conducted in a multilateral basis? Rausser and Simon [1991] propose a...

True Friends and Enemies of Reforming the Common Agricultural Policy

Glenn Harrison, E. Rutstrom

We employ an empirical general equilibrium model of the CAP to determine which factors and countries would be expected to be opposed to or support reform of the CAP. The objective is to determine who...

Trade Wars and Trade Negotiations in Agriculture

Glenn Harrison, E. Rutstrom

We employ a numerical equilibrium model to evaluate the payoffs to agricultural and non-agricultural interests in the EC and the US. A government objective function for each region is calibrated as a...

Product standards, imperfect competition and completion of the market in the European Union

Harrison, Glenn, Rutherford, Thomas, Tarr, David

The authors model the static and steady-state effects on trade, production, and market structure of completion of the European Union's (EU's) internal market. The impetus for change comes from the...

Multilateral Bargaining in Political Science Experiments: A Survey

Glenn Harrison

The political science literature has long been concerned with the behavioral properties of alternative bargaining institutions. The focus of most of this research has been on the way in which...

Instructional Manual for Burden Sharing and Public Goods Investments in Policy

Glenn Harrison, Leo K. Simon

This paper describes the basic laboratory experiment design that has been developed to assess a new Multilateral Bargaining institution that may be used for trade negotiations. Our overall objective...

Instructional Manual for Multilateral Bargaining in Public Decision Making

Glenn Harrison, Leo K. Simon

This paper describes a laboratory experiment design that has been developed to assess a new political economy institution for possible use in trade negotiations. The objective of this paper is to...

Economic Experimental Results on Multilateral Bargaining

Glenn Harrison, Gordon C. Rausser, Leo K. Simon

In a companion series of papers, we have described a new bargaining institution and the design of laboratory experiments to assess its performance (see Rausser and Simon [1991] and Harrison and Simon...

Survey of Experimental Bargaining Formulations with Credible Threat Points, A

Glenn Harrison

This study surveys and evaluates the experimental economics literature on bargaining. The basic results derived in this literature are assessed in terms of their relevance for the GATT negotiations...

The measurement and decomposition of nonuse values: A critical review

Ronald Cummings, Glenn Harrison

We critically review the literature that claims that existence values, or nonuse values in general, are a large and measurable component of total value for certain environmental resources. Our...

Multilateral negotiations over climate change policy

Ligia Costa Pinto, Glenn Harrison

Negotiations in the real world have many features which tend to be ignored inpolicy modeling. They are often multilateral, involving many negotiating parties with preferences over outcomes that can...

Experimental Evidence on Alternative Environmental Valuation Methods

Glenn Harrison

Experimental methods are central to assessments of environmental valuation approaches that are operationally meaningful. Existing lab experiments focus attention sharply on the neglect of...

Naturally Occurring Markets and Exogenous Laboratory Experiments: A Case Study of the Winner’s Curse

Glenn Harrison, John A. List

There has been a dramatic increase in the use of experimental methods in the past two decades. An oft-cited reason for this rise in popularity is that experimental methods provide the necessary...

Statistical Characterization of Heterogeneity in Experiments

Glenn Harrison, John A. List, Constant Tra

Does individual behavior in a laboratory setting provide a reliable indicator of behavior in a naturally occurring setting? We consider this general methodological question in the context of...

Expected utility theory and prospect theory: one wedding and a decent funeral

Glenn Harrison, E. Rutström

Expected utility theory, Prospect theory, Mixture models, D81, C91, C51, C12,