Climate information helps homeowners make choices

You cannot make informed choices without information.

Informed choices require information that is relevant, valid and accessible. Systematic reviews of the effects of alternative strategies provide information that is essential but not sufficient for recommendations about how best to manage mild brain injury or other problems. Work such as that of the Task Force on Mild Traumatic Brain Injury make decisions easier and better informed. To achieve ...

Consumption and Investment Motives and the Portfolio Choices of Homeowners

This article investigates the portfolio choices of homeowners, taking into account the investment constraint introduced by Henderson and Ioannides (1983). This constraint requires housing investment by homeowners to be at least as large as housing consumption. It is shown that when the constraint is binding, the homeowner's optimal portfolio is ineffcient in a mean-variance sense. Thus, portfol...

Cdc42 helps cancer cells make their exit

T o initiate a metastatic tumor in a new tissue, a cancer cell circulating in the blood must attach to the endothelial cells lining the blood vessel, squeeze between them, and then penetrate the underlying basement membrane. Reymond et al. reveal that the Rho GTPase Cdc42 drives this process—known as transendothelial migration—by promoting the expression of 1 integrin (1). Rho GTPases regulate ...

Willingness of Homeowners to Mitigate Climate Risk through Insurance

Behavioral Choices: How Neuronal Networks Make Decisions

To survive, animals must constantly make behavioral choices. The analysis of simple, almost binary, behavioral choices in invertebrate animals with restricted nervous systems is beginning to yield insight into how neuronal networks make such decisions.