Two studies suggest early land plants could actively control stomata, facilitating gas exchange while limiting water loss, a critical adaption to life on land.

Most prominent accounts of autonomy are active accounts, which means they hold that an agent can be autonomous with respect to a given action only if that agent has appropriately sanctioned that action. Active accounts, however, are vulnerable to the regress problem, since it seems that the required sanctioning actions are themselves just actions that must be sanctioned. Passive accounts hope t...

‘New science’’ has profound implications for business. Industrial capitalism can no longer power prosperity. The mass society worldview is giving way to individualisation. The ‘‘standard enterprise logic’’ is challenged. Marketing has operated as an attention technology for sellers competing to capture customers. However, in an intention economy buyers are a scarce commodity, and it is intentio...

Abstract Introduction Patients living with chronic pain conditions, especially conditions for which there is no cure, may experience feelings of hopelessness and mental health challenges the continuation issues. This study explored relationship between hope a cure to condition psychological flourishing, exploratory variables such as age, whether participants were told that their might be curabl...