A Quarter Century of Estate Tax Reforms

A Quarter Century of Glycobiology.

As was pointed out in the editorial in the very first issue ofGlycobiology (Hart 1990), the study of the biology of carbohydrates and glycoconjugates dates back to the earliest foundations of biochemistry. What is now the Society for Glycobiology dates back to small meetings organized by the founding fathers of our field, which took place in the early 1960s (for a historical review, see Silbert...

A quarter of a century with Iranian Journal of Nuclear Medicine

ENDOCRINOLOGY AND METABOLISM INSTITUTE OVER TIME: A QUARTER OF A CENTURY OF EXPERIENCE

Endocrinology and Metabolism Research Institute (EMRI) was established in 1993. EMRI has progressed step by step from the beginning and has reached maturity in the last 25 years. EMRI has expanded, advanced in human resources and infrastructures (laboratories and new technologies) and gained first rank in endocrine research in various fields. It has also worked with regional and international o...

Socially-Efficient Tax Reforms∗

We propose graphical methods to determine whether commodity-tax changes are “socially efficient”, in the sense of improving social welfare or decreasing poverty for large classes of social welfare and poverty indices. We also derive estimators of critical poverty lines and economic efficiency ratios which can be used to characterize socially-efficient tax reforms. The statistical properties of ...

A Quarter of a Century with AIDS

In Northwestern Spain (NWS), the annual incidence of AIDS diagnoses increased from 1984 (when the first case was diagnosed) until 1996. However, since 1996, this incidence has reduced considerably, including a notable 40% reduction between 1997 and 1998. The Galician Register of AIDS supplies information on the evolution of AIDS pathology in NWS. This report compiles data on patients who were d...