Anatomical redescription of Cyrenoida floridana (Bivalvia, Cyrenoididae) from the Western Atlantic and its position in the Cyrenoidea

Members of the small bivalve family Cyrenoididae inhabit brackish waters of the eastern and western Atlantic Ocean.Cyrenoida floridana (Dall, 1896) from the western Atlantic is poorly known aside from shell descriptions.A detailed shell and anatomical study of C.floridana is here presented and compared with available data for Cyrenidae and Glaucono

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A psychological law of inertia and the illusion of loss aversion

The principle of loss aversion is thought to explain a wide range of anomalous phenomena involving tradeoffs between losses and gains.In 7B this article, I show that the anomalies loss aversion was introduced to explain - the risky bet premium, the endowment effect, and the status-quo bias - are characterized not only by a loss/gain tradeoff, but b

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