Risk-takers are rhetorically extolled in America, but does this veneration ignore the downsides of failure? We test ngetikin competing perspectives on how workplace risk-takers are perceived by examining cultural attitudes about individuals who successfully take, unsuccessful take, and avoid risks at work.The results of two experiments show that, i
The evolutionary history of Mesozoic mammaliaformes is well studied.Although the backbone of their phylogeny is well resolved, the placement of ecologically specialized groups has remained uncertain.Functional and developmental covariation has long been identified as an important source of phylogenetic error, yet combining incongruent morphological
Abstract Background Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related death telemarkskongen flue in the world.In contrast to many other cancers, a direct connection to modifiable lifestyle risk in the form of tobacco smoke has long been established.More than 50% of all smoking-related lung cancers occur in former smokers, 40% of which occur more t
Abstract Antibiotic heteroresistance is a phenotype in which a susceptible bacterial population includes a small subpopulation of cells that are more resistant than the main population.Such resistance can arise by tandem amplification of DNA regions containing resistance genes that in single copy are not sufficient to confer resistance.However, tan
How can here we be sure that we understand seventeenth-century classicism? Not the rules of the art, but the beauty of it.Take for instance the Amsterdam town hall by Jacob van Campen, a building which has the appearance of an unattractive block, at least in my eyes and in those of some nineteenth- and eighteenth-century critics.A colleague of Van