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Why women make better directors

The positive correlation between the presence of female directors on boards and corporate performance suggests that women appear to make better directors than men. But why? Using the Defined Issues Test (DIT) instrument (Rest, 1979, 1986), 624 board directors (75% male; 25% female) were surveyed to determine their reliance on three reasoning methods (i.e., ‘Personal Interest’, ‘Normative’ and ‘...

Can SOCS make arthritis better?

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic inflammatory disease characterized by autoimmunity and infiltration of joint synovium by activated inflammatory cells, including neutrophils, macrophages, lymphocytes, plasma cells, and osteoclasts (reviewed in ref. 1). Morbidity in RA occurs secondary to the destruction of cartilage and bone by an inflammatory mass termed the pannus, which consists predom...

Bitter to Better - How to Make Bitcoin a Better Currency

Bitcoin is a distributed digital currency which has attracted a substantial number of users. We perform an in-depth investigation to understand what made Bitcoin so successful, while decades of research on cryptographic e-cash has not lead to a large-scale deployment. We ask also how Bitcoin could become a good candidate for a long-lived stable currency. In doing so, we identify several issues ...