Societal Impact Statement The impact of humans on Earth's biodiversity varies across the Tree Life. extirpation and extinction species is often determined by compatibility with human activities. Here we classify, where data are available, a significant portion (~30%) vascular plant as winners or losers respect to this show that currently greatly outnumber these will continue exceed in future ev...

Many physicians receive a payment for their performance (P4P). This is often linked to health target that triggers bonus when met. For some patients the easily met, while others require significant amount of care reach (if ever). study contributes literature by providing evidence how P4P affects allocation across with low and high responsiveness treatment compared fixed payment, such as capitat...

An activity profile of competitive 3 × 2-min novice-level amateur boxing was created based on video footage and postbout blood [La] in 32 male boxers (mean ± SD) age 19.3 ± 1.4 y, body mass 62.6 ± 4.1 kg. Winners landed 18 ± 11 more punches than losers by applying more lead-hand punches in round 1 (34.2 ± 10.9 vs 26.5 ± 9.4), total punches to the head (121.3 ± 10.2 vs 96.0 ± 9.8), and block and...

As the competition within the gaming industry continues to grow exponentially, these organizations are using players club programs as a key component of their marketing programs. This study investigates the relationship between casino players club programs and its members. Through the use of data collected from a mail survey of 3000 players club members, a detailed analysis was undertaken to ex...

How ocean acidification affects marine life is a major concern for science and society. However, its impacts on encrusting biofouling communities, that are both the initial colonizers of hard substrata and of great economic importance, are almost unknown. We showed that community composition changed significantly, from 92% spirorbids, 3% ascidians and 4% sponges initially to 47% spirorbids, 23%...

Two assumptions anchor most contemporary discussions of knowledge in cases of (large, fair, single-winner) lotteries. First, based on the long odds alone, you don’t know that your ticket lost. Second, based on watching a news report of the winning numbers, you do know that your ticket lost. Moreover, it is often treated as an uncontroversial datum that this is how most people view matters. Expl...

While most technical assessments classify privatization as a success, it remains widely and increasingly unpopular, largely because of the perception that it is fundamentally unfair, both in conception and execution. We review the increasing (but still uneven) literature and conclude that most privatization programs appear to have worsened the distribution of assets and income, at least in the ...