Learn how the ratchet effect influences economic processes, consumer behavior, and market dynamics, with examples from political economy and business sectors.

Tropical Storm Humberto and Invest 94L could merge in the Atlantic, potentially sparking a rare Fujiwhara effect forecasters say could considerably alter a storm's track, with communities unaware a ...

Neurointervention has seen significant advancements in recent decades with the adoption of myriad new technologies and techniques. Initially reliant on case reports and small case series, we now ...

ABSTRACT: The Brief Interactive Optimism Scale (BIOS-G), recently published, was developed to measure optimism based on the interactive personality styles theory in the general population of Mexican ...

Quantitative variables can be counted or measured numerically, and can be continuous or discrete. Continuous variables can have infinitely many values in a given range. For example, height could be ...

Treacherous Hurricane Helene is expected to make landfall Thursday evening on Florida’s northwestern coast and then continue on to torment parts of Georgia, the Carolinas and Tennessee with heavy rain ...

The size effect, or the negative relation between average stock returns and market capitalization that is not explained by market risk exposure, was first documented by Rolf Banz in his 1981 paper ...

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Standard effect sizes are more meaningful outcomes in Alzheimer's disease drug trials than the widely used metric of percent slowing of decline, an analysis suggested. In recent trials of Alzheimer's ...

Background Per cent slowing of decline is frequently used as a metric of outcome in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) clinical trials, but it may be misleading. Our objective was to determine whether per cent ...