What Makes a Better Annuity?

What Makes a Better Smeller?

Olfaction is often viewed as difficult, yet the empirical evidence suggests a different picture. A closer look shows people around the world differ in their ability to detect, discriminate, and name odors. This gives rise to the question of what influences our ability to smell. Instead of focusing on olfactory deficiencies, this review presents a positive perspective by focusing on factors that...

What makes medical students better listeners?

Diagnosing heart conditions by auscultation is an important clinical skill commonly learnt by medical students. Clinical proficiency for this skill is in decline [1], and new teaching methods are needed. Successful discrimination of heartbeat sounds is believed to benefit mainly from acoustical training [2]. From recent studies of auditory training [3,4] we hypothesized that semantic representa...

Changing the challenge: measure what makes you better and be better at what you measure

European Journal of Information Systems (2008) 17, 1–3. doi:10.1057/ejis.2008.1 Six excellent articles are yours in this issue of EJIS To what degree do we adopt IT because it’s just plain ‘fun’? Is this ‘fun’ motive seriously influenced by the opinions of those around us? From three Vienna Universities, Dickinger, Arami, and Meyer join those bold researchers who investigate the adoption of IT ...

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

What Makes a Revolution

Although property rights are the cornerstone of capitalist economies, throughout history existing claims have been frequently overturned and redefined by revolution. A fundamental question for economists is what makes revolutions more likely to occur. A large literature has found contradictory evidence for the effect of income and income inequality on revolt, possibly due to omitted variable bi...