What Makes a Maker?

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...

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What makes a life good?

Two studies examined folk concepts of the good life. Samples of college students (N = 104) and community adults (N = 264) were shown a career survey ostensibly completed by a person rating his or her occupation. After reading the survey, participants judged the desirability and moral goodness of the respondent's life, as a function of the amount of happiness, meaning in life, and wealth experie...

What makes a good prion?

Introduction Although transmissible spongiform encephalopathies have been studied for decades, prion biology is still a young discipline. The prion concept has existed for less than a quarter of a century, and the study of fungal prions is barely in its teens. The fascinating idea that a protein can turn into a deadly self-replicating entity attracts neurobiologists, cell biologists, geneticist...