Consumer theory examines how consumers allocate income and make purchasing decisions. All economic activity takes place within the context of limitations. Consumers, therefore, need to make trade-offs ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Mark Travers writes about the world of psychology. Has your partner been worried you're not spending enough time together? Here’s ...

If you drive a car built since 2018, a rearview camera came standard, but they actually started popping up as options on cars more than a decade before that. And while many early examples were ...

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Abstract: Rigorous analysis of via-plate-pair interactions requires the impedance of a plate pair to be defined in terms of radial transmission lines on perfect magnetic conductor (PMC) ports. The ...

Anja Djuricic was born in Belgrade, Serbia, in 1992. Her first interest in film started very early, as she learned to speak English by watching Disney animated movies (and many, many reruns). Anja ...

In 1994, an earthquake of a proof shook up the mathematical world. The mathematician Andrew Wiles had finally settled Fermat’s Last Theorem, a central problem in number theory that had remained open ...

“I think that maybe it’s not two circles but one,” says Sebastian, the protagonist of Edward St Aubyn’s scintillating new novel Parallel Lines to his newly discovered sister, Olivia. They are looking ...

Abstract: The application of the general reciprocity theorem for low-frequency networks to circuits which do not satisfy the conditions of the near zone and which include distributed electromotive ...

Death, psychosis, apocalypse — it’s a strong mixture for a novel. In the hands of a writer less capable than Edward St Aubyn, it would probably add up to a fatal dose for a book that you were actually ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Therapist Martin Carr is in a quandary. He has learnt that a new patient, Carmen, is already known to his ...