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Effect of Ethylene-Glycidyl Methacrylate Copolymer on the Barrier Properties of Montmorillonite K 10 in Low-Density Polyethylene
Submitted: 06 November 2026 You are already at the latest version A potential route to reducing material complexity in flexible packaging is to improve the oxygen barrier of polyethylene (PE)-based films. This study investigated the influence of ethylene-glycidyl-methacrylate copolymer (EGMA) on the structure and properties of low-density PE (LDPE) composites containing montmorillonite (MMT).
Stop Subsidizing AI: Architect Profitable Monetization Strategies
The share of SaaS organizations shipping AI capabilities increased from 70% to 93% within a single year. This rapid market saturation eliminates baseline technical capability as a primary commercial differentiator. Software buyers currently evaluate competing platforms built on identical architectures and serving identical workflows. Revenue leaders must shift their strategic focus from fundamental product development to precise pricing execution.
The neurovascular impulse response function differentially reflects intrinsic neuromodulation across cortical regions
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Abstract Neuromodulatory transmitters have vasoactive properties. Therefore, the impulse response function (IRF) linking spontaneous neuronal activity with hemodynamics may depend on neuromodulation. To test this hypothesis, we used optical imaging to measure norepinephrine (NE) or acetylcholine (ACh), calcium (Ca2+) activity of cortical neurons and hemodynamics in cerebral cortex in awake mice.
By Bradley Rauscher, Natalie Fomin-Thunemann, Sreekanth Kura, Patrick Doran, Pablo Perez, Emily Martin, Nathan Chai, Francesca Froio, Patrick Bloniasz, Rockwell P. Tang, Scott G. Knudstrup, Andrew Garcia, John Jiang, Jeffrey P. Gavornik, Michael London, David Kleinfeld, Michael E. Hasselmo, Laura Lewis, Lei Tian, Gal Mishne, Emily P. Stephen, Martin Thunemann, David A. Boas, Anna Devor, Kıvılcım Kılıç, Dora Balog, Kate E. Herrema, Sava Sakadzic
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Fifth Circuit Holds That Prerecorded Calls Require Only Prior Express Consent - Not Prior Express Written Consent
On February 25, 2026, Judge Jennifer Walker Elrod, Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, held that a pest control company did not violate the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) when it made prerecorded calls to the cell phone of a customer who had provided prior express consent to receive those calls because the TCPA requires nothing more than express consent for prerecorded calls.1 The United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas...
The Lost Lever of Inorganic Growth
3. Start From Clean Slate Two wrongs don’t make a right. Merging two legacy pricing schemas without tidying up a bit first will yield messy pricing debt that causes internal and external confusion, making integrated deals tougher to sell and slower to expand. Run a post- (or ideally pre-) M&A diagnostic to assess pricing health. Understand what’s working, what’s broken, and how customers actually perceive value today.
Don't Listen to Your Gut. Trust SaaS Pricing Data to Exceed Your Growth Targets
Pricing Pricing Strategy 10 Jul 25 From usage-based pricing to strategic price increases, these 6 key recommendations from the 2025 State of SaaS Pricing Report help you exceed growth targets. What is more likely to accelerate SaaS growth in 2025: pricing data or gut instinct? SaaS companies that follow data-led pricing approaches are nearly 10x more likely to exceed their growth targets.
Don't Waste Your AI Features. Pricing Insights to Maximize Adoption
AI is now central to your SaaS product strategy, even if you’re not an AI-first company. From analytics and automation to customization and customer service, SBI's 2025 State of SaaS Pricing Report found that 77% of enterprise SaaS already have AI-powered features live in their product. But how should you price AI-powered features to maximize adoption and revenue? Here’s a hint: don’t monetize them as add-ons and make sure to get internal alignment. 1.
8 Insights to Revamp Your 2025 Pricing Strategy
Think having an internal pricing function makes you stand out? Think again. In 2025, 98% of SaaS companies designate responsibility for pricing strategy to a specific person, group or team. But 60% of SaaS companies still find pricing overly complex, leading to muddled strategies. Given your pricing strategy’s influence on SaaS revenue growth, the competitive upside is clear: the more you get to grips with SaaS pricing, the more you get ahead of the market.
Pull the Pricing Growth Lever: Build a Profitable Pricing Strategy in 5 Steps
Pricing Pricing Strategy 23 Apr 25 From analyzing perceived customer value to pricing based on willingness to pay, here’s 5 steps to building a profitable value-based pricing strategy. 67% of SaaS companies ignore value-based pricing, according to our latest 2024 State of SaaS report and research. They invest heavily in competitor-led or cost-plus pricing - and miss out on revenue opportunities as a result.
A Poor Pricing Strategy is Driving Your Customers Away
If you’re not pricing correctly, you’re driving customers away. In an uncertain economy, your pricing strategy has a greater impact on revenue retention than traditional churn strategies. SaaS companies have started to take notice with 94% updating pricing every year and almost 40% tweaking pricing every quarter. In 2025, the real pricing opportunity is therefore not related to the frequency of pricing changes, but the pricing approach you employ.
SBI | GTM Insights | Saas Pricing Strategy
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Don't Leave Money on the Table: Localize SaaS Price Internationally
What is the most impactful yet underutilized growth lever for SaaS companies? Pricing. Research shows that every 1% increase in monetization effectiveness yields a 15-16% revenue lift compared to just 3-4% for acquiring new customers. Despite this, pricing remains the ‘black sheep’ of the growth family, receiving far less attention and resources than sales. In our recent webinar, we discussed one of the most critical elements of a SaaS pricing strategy: price localization.
Eleventh Circuit Invalidates FCC's Attempt To Alter Meaning Of Prior Express Written Consent
In 2023, the FCC issued a legislative rule interpreting the meaning of the phrase “prior express consent” as used in the TCPA. The proposed rule sought to close the “lead generator loophole,” and would impose new consent requirements on telemarketers. First, it would require both “one-to-one” consent, meaning telemarketers must individually obtain “prior express written consent” from consumers for each entity attempting to make robocalls to those consumers.
AllSides Data Confirms MRC Studies: Google Search Manipulation Against Right Is Real
Recently released AllSides data confirms MRC study results. Google Search manipulation of news outlets is real, and it overwhelmingly favors the left.
Election Eve Insult: WashPost Columnist Stupidly Claims Voters Are Better Off Than Four Years Ago
Americans struggling to pay bills? Record credit card debt? High grocery prices? Higher cost of living? No problem! A Washington Post columnist is idiotically claiming Americans are better off economically than they were four years ago. Washington Post columnist Heather Long decided to gaslight voters one more time before they head to the polls to decide who will run the White House for the next four years.
Google Makes Its Preference Clear, Continues Search Manipulation on Election Day
It is election day, and Google is still unrepentantly pushing leftist and legacy media on voters searching for the presidential race. Throughout October, every time MRC researchers searched the terms “donald trump presidential race 2024” and “kamala harris presidential race 2024,” Google rigged the results to bury right-leaning media outlet articles. Election Day is no different.
WATCH: Fetterman Sees the Light: Dem Admits Gov't-tied Censorship in MAJOR Election
Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) shockingly admitted government influence on social media has an “undeniable” impact on elections during the Saturday episode of the Joe Rogan Experience. After Rogan asked him about his thoughts on the topic, Fetterman acknowledged the government’s overreach and censorship of the Hunter Biden laptop story during the election four years ago. “It did probably have a significant impact on the 2020 election,” he told host Joe Rogan, referring to censorship.
DO YOUR JOB: NBC Nightly News Ignores ‘Worst Jobs Report’ in Nearly Four Years
For all the media brouhaha about the supposed strength of the Biden-Harris administration’s jobs market, NBC’s flagship evening news show didn’t even bother to report on the "worst" jobs report in years released just before Election Day. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported on Nov. 1 that the U.S. economy embarrassingly added only 12,000 jobs in October—well below the 113,000 jobs prediction by economists.
EXCLUSIVE: YouTube STILL Wiping Out Scientific Discussion by Renowned Cardiologist
YouTube is still suppressing ongoing discussions on the safety and efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines and treatment nearly five years after the start of the pandemic. Eagle Forum hosted its Eagle Council 52 conference last month, which featured a plethora of speakers including renowned cardiologist and epidemiologist Dr. Peter McCullough. During his Speech, Dr. McCullough mentioned some of the most pernicious impacts of the COVID-19 virus and vaccines.
YouTube CENSORS Rogan-Trump Interview: Jordan Fires Back at Google CEO
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) grilled Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai for allegedly corrupting his YouTube platform to censor former President Donald Trump’s Oct. 25 appearance on the Joe Rogan Experience. Jordan condemned YouTube for its role in censoring the episode which has accumulated over 42 million views as of Friday.
MRC Tested YouTube on Burying Rogan-Trump Interview. Here’s What We Found
Google-owned YouTube is still finding new ways to interfere in the 2024 presidential election, suppressing a three-hour Rogan interview of Trump. Scarcely more than a week before the 2024 presidential election, YouTube stymied users’ efforts to search for and find the recent episode of the Joe Rogan Experience podcast featuring former President and GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump.
Collusion with Harris? MRC President Bozell Calls on CBS to Tell All
MRC President Brent Bozell has put CBS News on notice in a letter calling for the outlet to confirm whether or not it coordinated with Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign when it edited her 60 Minutes interview. On Oct. 6, CBS News’s Face the Nation previewed a 60 Minutes interview with Harris during which she was asked about whether Israel is conducting its war the way she wants it to.
See How Sen. Schmitt Clapped Back at Rep. Schiff’s Call for More Big Tech Censorship
Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) has appealed to Big Tech companies to prioritize free speech ahead of the 2024 election. In response to Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) and a group of seven Democrat lawmakers writing to tech companies to insist on increased online censorship in the lead up to the election, Schmitt sent a letter of his own. His Oct.
MRC, Brent Bozell Petition FCC to Reconsider LAWLESS Soros Shortcut
The Media Research Center is asking the Federal Communications Commission to undo its creation of a lawless Soros shortcut. Yesterday, the Media Research Center (MRC) and MRC Founder and President Brent Bozell filed a formal petition to the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) requesting reconsideration of its order fast-tracking Soros Fund Management’s acquisition of radio behemoth Audacy, which owns the second largest number of broadcast radio stations in the United States.
ELECTION INTERFERENCE: Google Offers Users a Firehose of Legacy Media on Election Coverage
Google continues to go to great lengths to block users from seeing any right-of-center media outlets on 2024 presidential election news. For the fifth consecutive week, Google rigged search results for “donald trump presidential race 2024,” shoving leftist and legacy media outlet articles into Americans’ faces. MRC researchers once again used AllSides “right” and “left” media bias ratings and had to dig deep to find the first right-of-center result for the Trump prompt search.
Trump and Rogan Criticize Big Tech Censorship in 2020 Election Discussion
Former President Donald Trump and popular podcast host Joe Rogan called out Big Tech’s interference in the 2020 presidential election, predicting a new era where young Americans will break free from censorship and leftist “wokeness.” During Friday’s edition of the Joe Rogan Experience, Trump appeared to reference a 2020 Media Research Center survey, which found Big Tech’s influence titled the election in favor of Joe Biden.
‘They Lied’: Trump References MRC Survey, RIPS Big Tech’s Election Interference
Former President Donald Trump and popular podcast host Joe Rogan called out Big Tech’s interference in the 2020 presidential election, predicting a new era where young Americans will break free from censorship and leftist “wokeness.” During Friday’s edition of the Joe Rogan Experience, Trump appeared to reference a 2020 Media Research Center survey, which found Big Tech’s influence titled the election in favor of Joe Biden.
ENOUGH: House Republicans Increase Pressure on Media Traffic Cop NewsGuard
Republicans on the House Oversight Committee have taken leftist, biased media ratings firm NewsGuard to task for its ties to the Biden-Harris administration. Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) sent a letter to NewsGuard Co-CEOs Steven Brill and Gordon Crovitz on Oct. 25, according to a committee press release. Comer asked the online ratings firm for all documentation related to past or present potential partnerships with and grants from the federal government.
Foreign Interference? Microsoft Calling for Fact Checks Heading Into Election Day
Tech giant Microsoft is once again taking aim at free speech as the 2024 election approaches. In an Oct. 23 blog post, Microsoft accused U.S. adversaries Russia, China, and Iran of “undermining U.S. democratic processes” with online activities. The Microsoft Threat Analysis Center (MTAC) offered an equally problematic and anti-free speech solution, calling on politicians, government institutions, and online fact-checkers to target and censor information with alleged foreign ties online.
Vance Rebukes the REAL ‘Biggest Threat to Democracy‘
GOP vice presidential nominee JD Vance told NewsNation that America’s number one threat is the relentless attacks on freedom of speech. Vance mourned how divided Americans have become and said that those divisions are in part fueled by violations of Americans’ First Amendment rights during a NewsNation town hall Thursday. “To me, the biggest threat to democracy is the rising tide of censorship,” Vance stated during the town hall.
READING THE TEA LEAVES: Amazon and Bezos Appear to Predict Who Will Win Presidency
Amazon Founder and CEO Jeff Bezos may have tipped his hand on who he believes will be the next president of the United States, a new Media Research Center study found. After searching for “election party decorations” and “election party favors” on Amazon, MRC researchers uncovered that 57% of partisan election party decorations and 61% of partisan election party favors were Trump or Republican-themed on Oct. 25.
Sen. Mark Warner Complains About a Decline in Social Media Censorship
Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) joined a chorus of leftist voices begging Big Tech to censor more aggressively, hearkening back to the days of even more aggressive content moderation. Warner went after X and TikTok for their lack of cooperation with the government before complaining to MSNBC Anchor Katy Tur that most major social media companies had supposedly censored content less aggressively since 2020.
Free Speech Week Betrays Free Speech to Promote ‘Media Literacy’
In a shocking move, the official page dedicated to Free Speech Week promoted an event devoted to a new and pernicious type of censorship: media literacy.
NYT, Biden CISA Official Scaremonger About Foreign Misinfo Just Before Election
Less than two weeks before the 2024 election, legacy media and government leftists are doubling down on their anti-free speech pressure campaign encouraging social media companies to censor.
Even Oversight Board Is Chastising Zuckerberg’s Facebook for Censorship Decision on Harris-Walz Meme
Common sense would tell most people that it shouldn’t take two months and a committee of global progressives to figure out that Meta should allow political satire and harmless memes on its platforms. But it’s quite clear that the folks at Meta are not most people. On Wednesday, the Meta Oversight Board overturned Facebook’s decision to censor a Dumb and Dumber meme that made fun of Democrat presidential candidate Kamala Harris and her running mate Tim Walz.
CRY MORE: NYT Rages at Trump for ‘Insidious’ ‘Smearing’ of Harris with McDonald’s Stunt
The New York Times was so triggered by former President Donald Trump’s recent trolling of Vice President Kamala Harris’ employment record that it committed a major logical fallacy when attempting to fact-check him. Trump made a high-profile appearance at a McDonald’s in Feasterville-Trevose, Pennsylvania to work the fryers, on Oct. 20 and The Times couldn’t handle it.
Neurovascular Impulse Response Function (IRF) during spontaneous activity differentially reflects intrinsic neuromodulation across cortical regions
Abstract Ascending neuromodulatory projections from deep brain nuclei generate internal brain states that differentially engage specific neuronal cell types. Because neurovascular coupling is cell-type specific and neuromodulatory transmitters have vasoactive properties, we hypothesized that the impulse response function (IRF) linking spontaneous neuronal activity with hemodynamics would depend on neuromodulation.
Opinion: Stretch your wings in nature
By Patrick Doran This time of year, the skies above Michigan are filled with hundreds of thousands of birds that have migrated north to their breeding grounds. During the day, these birds are frequently seen along the shores of the Great Lakes, but also at any location, perhaps even in your own backyard.
Visual stimulation drives retinotopic acetylcholine release in the mouse visual cortex
Abstract Cholinergic signaling is involved with a variety of brain functions including learning and memory, attention, and behavioral state modulation. The spatiotemporal characteristics of neocortical acetylcholine (ACh) release in response to sensory inputs are poorly understood, but a lack of intra-region topographic organization of cholinergic projections from the basal forebrain has suggested diffuse release patterns and volume transmission.
Widefield in vivo imaging system with two fluorescence and two reflectance channels, a single sCMOS detector, and shielded illumination
Abstract Significance: Widefield microscopy of the entire dorsal part of mouse cerebral cortex enables large-scale (mesoscopic) imaging of neuronal activity with fluorescent indicators as well as hemodynamics via oxy- and deoxyhemoglobin absorption. Versatile and cost-effective imaging systems are needed for large-scale, color-multiplexed imaging of multiple fluorescent and intrinsic contrasts. Aim: Develop a system for mesoscopic imaging of two fluorescent and two reflectance channels.
FCC Proposes Additional TCPA Calling, Texting Restrictions
At its June 8, 2023 Open Meeting, the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) adopted a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (Notice) aimed at clarifying and strengthening consumers' ability to grant or revoke consent to receive robocalls and robotexts, while at the same time clarifying callers' obligations under FCC rules to timely honor consumers' requests.
My “Dimes Square” Article
I went to “dimes square” the other day and had a couple beers then went home.
Public Notices and the Courts – Miami-Dade | Daily Business Review
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Consumer Protection Laws Alert: Florida Poised To Enact Strict Telemarketing Law
United States: Consumer Protection Laws Alert: Florida Poised To Enact Strict Telemarketing Law 14 June 2021 by Samantha L. Southall , Jennifer Olmedo-Rodriguez and Patrick Doran Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC Your LinkedIn Connections with the authors To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. Florida is poised to enact a bill that updates the Florida Consumer Protection Law and the Florida Telemarketing Act.
Robocallers Beware: The U.S. Supreme Court Strikes Down Portion Of TCPA; Violators Could Face Millions In Damages
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The Supremely Republican Court: McConnell Style
False patriotism. Will to power. Disruption. If President Donald Trump’s term were a work of fiction, readers might well analyze him and his band of GOP cronies through these lenses, and then put away the book, relieved to close the cover on the darkness. Unfortunately, Trump is real, as is Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who often seems to function as the puppet master behind the screen (think Wizard of Oz).
Fresh Hot Buns Comedy Presents: Jamie Loftus in the Burger Basement
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11th Circ. Ruling May Mark Turning Point For TCPA Litigation
Law360 (September 6, 2019, 5:24 PM EDT) -- Businesses in the Southeast may be able to breathe a sigh of relief — for now, at least. In a landmark decision issued on Aug. 28, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit held in Salcedo v. Hanna that receipt of a single text message on a cell phone did not constitute a concrete injury sufficient to give a plaintiff standing to sue for violation of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act.
Proposed New Jersey Legislation Would Protect Auto Dealers (and Lenders) from Harshest Provisions of the Consumer Fraud Act | JD Supra
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The Supreme Court Declines to Entertain Spokeo Round 2
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