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Evolutionarily Optimal Risk Aversion
Risk Analysis, Volume 46, Issue 5, May 2026.ABSTRACT In an experimental choice situation, we identify risk‐acceptability thresholds and show how such thresholds are updated in response to benchmark information, a recurrent feature of health, safety, and environmental (HS&E) risk governance. We present a theoretical framework linking the observed behavior to an underlying evolutionary parameter ...
Chmura, Nguyen, Biermann
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Reconceptualizing Crisis: An Empirically Based Investigation
Sociological Inquiry, Volume 96, Issue 2, Page 247-263, May 2026.Crisis is predominantly characterized in terms of its detrimental consequences. Drawing on in‐depth semi‐structured interviews in Melbourne and Taipei, the article provides a critical and distinctive understanding of crisis. Crisis is conceptualized here as a disruptive prefiguring of new possibilities, both agentic and structural.
Xiaoying Qi
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Clumped Isotope Temperature Reconstruction Using Stalagmite Drip Cups
Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, Volume 40, Issue 8, 30 April 2026.ABSTRACT Rationale Application of clumped isotope palaeothermometry to speleothems (carbonate cave deposits, e.g., stalagmites and flowstones) has been restricted largely to subaqueous samples because of kinetic fractionation processes that occur during subaerial speleothem formation, which lead to erroneously high inferred temperatures.
Stuart Umbo +11 more
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A Remedy for the mosquito evil. Press bulletin no.15. [PDF]
, 1902 University of Minnesota, Agricultural Experiment Station
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Managing Status Epilepticus in the Older Adult.
J Clin Med, 2016 Legriel S, Brophy GM.
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Life events, happiness and depression: The half empty cup
Personality and Individual Differences, 1993 Abstract The present study investigates happiness and depressive mood and their relationship to events and individual perception of events in a sample of adults over a period of approx. 6 weeks. Happiness was measured using the Oxford Happiness Inventory; depression was assessed by the Beck Depression Inventory.
Gayle L. Valiant
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In Every Cup of Bitterness, Sweetness: California Christianity in the Great Depression
Church History, 2011 If the past decade has taught Americans anything, it is the danger of treating Wall Street as the sole indicator of the nation's economic health. Those who lived through the Great Depression learned this lesson also. Because so many more Americans and American institutions are investors in 2011 than in 1929, the stock market is a better measure today ...
Jonathan H. Ebel
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