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Polymeric Gas Separation Membranes: What Makes them Industrially more Attractive?

Moonlight Makes Owls More Chatty

BACKGROUND Lunar cycles seem to affect many of the rhythms, temporal patterns and behaviors of living things on Earth. Ambient light is known to affect visual communication in animals, with the conspicuousness of visual signals being largely determined by the light available for reflection by the sender. Although most previous studies in this context have focused on diurnal light, moonlight sho...

What Makes Annuitization More Appealing?

We conduct and analyze two large surveys of hypothetical annuitization choices. We find that allowing individuals to annuitize a fraction of their wealth increases annuitization relative to a situation where annuitization is an "all or nothing" decision. Very few respondents choose declining real payout streams over flat or increasing real payout streams of equivalent expected present value. Hi...

More variable tropical climates have a slower demographic growth

Vision: Attention Makes the Cup Flow Over

Scalp potentials are surprisingly informative about visual attention: a recent study that used them to record neural responses to up to four superimposed visual patterns simultaneously has now revealed the flow of attentional signals back to visual cortex.