We then coded cases of positive discordance as when the TQ response indicated a more optimistic view of recovery than the corresponding change in RMDQ score, and negative discordance when the TQ presented a more negative response than the RMDQ score.
Finally, the opinion factor "need to evaluate opportunities to improve complex post-disaster outcomes at a range of societal levels" gave rise to a concise code of Positive Resilience Outcomes.
Such responses may reflect coding of positive temporal reward prediction errors, as observed previously [ 31, 32].
The differential coding of positive and negative values by DA neurons is evident in all the studies of the phasic DA signal, and can be regarded as an inevitable consequence of the low baseline activity of these neurons.
Scaling the negative errors by a factor of d ∈ (0, 1], we thus get For symmetric coding of positive and negative errors (d = 1), the average response is 0. For asymmetric coding (0 < d < 1), the average response is indeed proportional to the variance of the rewards, and thus maximal at p r = 0.5.
However, when summed after asymmetric scaling of the negative errors by a factor of d = 1/6 (which simulates the asymmetric coding of positive and negative prediction errors by DA neurons), a positive ramp of activity ensues, as illustrated by the black line in Figure 2c.
Within the codes the classification of "positive", "negative", "neutral" and "suggestion" remained as sub-codes.
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Acute pancreatitis was defined as a hospitalization with an International Classification of Disease, 9th Edition (ICD-9) diagnosis code of 577.0x (positive predictive value 60%) in the primary (first) position on the claim 6. Pancreatic cancer was defined by an inpatient claim with ICD-9 157.x in the primary position.
