When Good Hues Go Bad

Why Good Companies Go Bad by Donald N . Sull

Plant Autoimmunity: When Good Things Go Bad.

A recent study finds that the Arabidopsis DM1 and DM2d proteins physically interact and trigger autoimmunity in plants. The DM1-DM2d interaction pattern differs from that of known immune receptor pairs, portraying the versatility in NLR functioning.

A Note on CEO Compensation, Elimination Tournaments and Bankruptcy Risk

We investigate an economy in which ̄rms have di®erent risks to go bankrupt. We observe two things: ̄rst, workers in ̄rms with higher bankruptcy risk (bad ̄rms) always work less than workers in good ̄rms. Second, the CEOs of bad ̄rms may nonetheless receive larger wages.

Annotation and features of non-native Mandarin tone quality

Native speakers of non-tonal languages, such as American English, frequently have difficulty accurately producing the tones of Mandarin Chinese. This paper describes a corpus of Mandarin Chinese spoken by non-native speakers and annotated for tone quality using a simple good/bad system. We examine interrater correlation of the annotations and highlight the differences in feature distribution be...

Learning: The Good, the Bad, and the Fly

Olfactory memories can be very good-your mother's baking-or very bad-your father's cooking. We go through life forming these different associations with the smells we encounter. But what makes one association pleasant and another repulsive? Work in deep areas of the Drosophila brain has revealed the beginnings of an answer, as reported in this issue of Neuron by Owald et al. (2015).