Ciekawostka: A shark can detect one part of blood in 100 million parts of water

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Blood in the water: An abductive approach to startup valuation on ABC's Shark Tank ☆. Most negotiations over startup valuation take place behind closed doors. As a result, we lack knowledge about how valuation is negotiated between entrepreneurs and investors. We constructed a dataset by hand to exploit the unique nature of a popular business pitch television show, ABC's Shark Tank, to examine this issue. Our descriptive findings suggest that entrepreneurs who initially offer less of their company to investors are more likely to receive investment offers. We also discovered that startup valuation negotiations tend to take place over the relative equity percentage each party receives rather…

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Is Blood Thicker Than Water? The Influence of Kin Within a Bull Shark Social Network.. The influence of kinship on social structure (what we novelly refer to as "kinfluence") has been studied extensively within terrestrial taxa yet remains poorly understood in marine systems. While kin-based associations have been explored in teleost fish and cetaceans, few have investigated this within elasmobranchs, and none have combined fine-scale social behavior with both genomic relatedness and categorical kinship inference. This study utilized the Shark Reef Marine Reserve in Fiji, a site where a population of adult bull sharks ( Carcharhinus leucas ) aggregate in response to provisioning, and social…

Evidence: 35 • authority: 80

Evidence: 35 • authority: 80

Nanoparticles and artificial intelligence can help researchers detect pollutants in water, soil and blood

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