The principle of loss aversion is thought to explain a wide range of anomalous phenomena involving tradeoffs between losses and gains.In this article, I show that the anomalies loss aversion copyright was introduced to explain - the risky bet premium, the endowment effect, and the status-quo bias - are characterized not only by a loss/gain tradeoff
BackgroundHealthcare and other front-line workers are at particular risk of infection with Ebola virus (EBOV).Despite the large-scale deployment of international responders, few cases of Ebola virus disease have been diagnosed in this group.Since asymptomatic or pauci-symptomatic infection has been described, it is plausible that infections have oc
Abstract Background Air-liquid interface (Ali) systems allow the establishment of a culture environment more representative of that in vivo than other culture systems.They are useful for performing mechanistic studies of respiratory epithelial cells as drug permeation barriers and can be used to study the interactions between hosts and respiratory
Abstract Background The burden of frailty on older people is identifiable by its adverse effect on mortality, morbidity and long term functional and health outcomes.In patients suffering from a traumatic injury there is increasing evidence that it is frailty rather than age that impacts greatest on these outcomes and that early identification can g