David Chidester’s Wild Religion focuses on religious diversity and South Africa ‘‘from the advent of democracy in 1994 to the euphoria of the Football World Cup in 2010’’ (viii). It is not a conventionally defined description of particular faith communities or sacred rituals but rather an attempt to describe in a well-informed story-telling anecdotal way how ritual and the sacred are used (and ...

air-jet weaving is an advanced weaving method with high efficiency and productivity. it is one of the most widely used methods of weaving in the world. in air-jet filling insertion, the motion of weft yarn is caused by friction between weft yarn and air blown through nozzle. after declamping and subjecting the yarn to air stream, its motion is not active but very complicated and influenced by s...

Controversies about time discounting loom large in decisions about climate change. Prominently, a particularly controversial debate about time discounting in climate change decision-making has been conducted within climate economics, between the authors of Stern et al. (Stern review on the economics of climate change, 2006) and their critics (most prominently Dasgupta in Comments on the Stern r...

Balancing exploration and exploitation is difficult, and across a wide variety of situations under-exploration of uncertain alternatives appears prevalent. We propose that one possible cause of under-exploration is present bias, whereby immediate rewards (like those gained from exploitation) loom larger than future rewards (like those gained from exploration). This possible cause of under-explo...