Unless you illustrate the problem you wish to solve, the solution is not going to make sense.
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At the same time, consumers preempt their future inertia; 24%-36% of potential subscribers avoid subscribing when offered an auto-renewal promo. Further, offering an auto-renewal contract decreases the share of subscribers over the two years after the promo by 10%. Even though auto-renewal generates higher revenue in the medium-run due to payments from inert subscribers, auto-renewal and auto-cancel are revenue equivalent after one year, but with fewer subscribers in auto-renewal.
"A lot of people have looked at the impact of the marine shipping regulation change. If you take that and you put it into some climate model and you estimate the temperature change, right now you’d expect about 0.05 of a degree, 0.08 of a degree [of warming per year], and then building over a decade to about 0.1 degree. So that seems like it helps, but it doesn’t seem like it’s sufficient."
Based on the results of their modeling approach, cycling and high intensity interval training (HIIT) produced the most consistent effects in improvement of memory, attention, executive function, information processing and other cognitive functions.
"We found that vigorous activities had the largest effects," Giesbrecht said. "Also, the effects were strongest for studies that tested cognition after exercise, as opposed to during exercise. And lastly, the effects of exercise less than 30 minutes in duration were bigger than those that went beyond 30 minutes."
"Also among their findings, the team discovered that executive functioning was the key cognitive domain impacted by vigorous exercise, such as HIIT protocols."
On average, sleep/wake classification accuracies were reported to be 87.2% based on 53 assessed devices. There was no significant difference in accuracies between devices using only accelerometer data (86.7%, d = 28) and devices using both PPG and accelerometer data (87.8%, d = 22), as determined by a t-test (significance threshold p < 0.05). All reported accuracies ranged from 79% to 96%, except for Kanady et al.’s study28, which reported lower values of 54% and 64%. This difference can be attributed to their 24-hour measurement, which had a higher wake-to-sleep ratio compared to overnight measurements in other studies. Therefore, these accuracies reflect the generally poor performance of sleep classifiers in detecting wake. The average accuracy for 3-stage classification (wake vs. NREM vs. REM) was 69.7% (d = 3), and for 4-stage classification (wake vs. light vs. deep vs. REM), it was 65.2% (d = 9).
"The directive covers 'essential entities' and 'important entities'.
Essential organisations will generally have a minimum of 250 employees, annual turnover of at least €50m or a balance sheet of at least €43m.
The essential sectors include energy, transport, finance, public administration, health, space, water and digital infrastructure.
Important entities will generally have a minimum of 50 employees, annual turnover of €10m or a balance sheet of €10m."
https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2024/1012/1475023-eu-cybers...
Curious to try this out now -- have never tested L-tyrosine before. I wonder what other effects it could have.
And if you do find an effect, then you should do a more high-effort self-blinded test.
For example, in one study "the final dose of 1 gram of Matcha green tea was taken on the testing day and contained only 12.4 mg of L- theanine." Source: https://www.ffhdj.com/index.php/DietarySupplementsNutraceuti...
Another study: "According to Kaneko et al., the content of l-theanine in matcha tea infusions amounts to 6.1 mg/L [50], while Unno et al. [9] found as much as 44.65 mg/g of that compound in matcha tea samples." Source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7796401/
I'm not sure, but I guess one would use around 4 grams of matcha in a cup? So then at the upper bound you would come close to 200mg. But matcha has a lot of caffeine so probably not suitable to improve sleep.
"The findings of this systematic literature review indicate that the devices with higher relative agreement and sensitivities to multistate sleep (ie, Fitbit Charge 4 and WHOOP) seem appropriate for deriving suitable estimates of sleep parameters. However, analyses regarding the multistate categorization of sleep indicate that all devices can benefit from further improvement in the assessment of specific sleep stages."
> https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/16/france-and-ger...
The reason to avoid a monetary reward is not that it is tacky, but because money can easily be used to pass on influence to offspring, such as by boosting their profile, or buying votes for them. This can undermine a selection mechanism where they should win or gain reputation by engaging in pro-social activities.
Also, not everything may be monetised. I cannot sublet the garage attached to my apartment for example, because the contract forbids it. AirBnB is banned in some cities/situations.
The difficulty is that there is a downward spiral: if fewer talented people enter the public service or politics because it is becoming relatively unattractive, the average performance of that class goes down. That makes it harder to justify any increase in salary or other benefits, reinforcing the dynamic.
But it seems to me that there is still a lot of energy from the population at large being devoted to politics, such as with the higher turnout in the last presidential election. When that starts to decline, such as when people just can't be bothered to vote, will be the real sign they no longer have faith in politics.
I think you are right regarding creativity – but that is the case across the West it seems to me.
But what's more interesting is what he says comes after: in reaction to a dominant leadership, the masses withdraw their loyalty and start to devise new religious forms (or maybe repurpose old ones). So a growing religious fervour could be a sign of things going wrong. I don't think we see that yet, but it could be something to keep an eye out for if people lose faith in the power of politics to improve their situation.