Closing out 10 years

Crowd-out 10 years later: have recent public insurance expansions crowded out private health insurance?

Ten years ago, Cutler and Gruber [Cutler, D., Gruber, J., 1996. Does public health insurance crowdout private insurance? Quarterly Journal of Economics 111, 391-430] suggested that crowd-out might be quite large, but much subsequent research has questioned this conclusion. Our results using improved data and methods clearly show that crowd-out is still significant in the 1996-2002 period. This ...

Informatics 10 Years Back , 10 Years Ahead

Interpretation is a theory of approximation of the be— havior of dynamic discrete systems such as the formal seman­ tics ofprograms. Since such behaviors can be characterized by fixpoints, the theory essentially provides constructive and ef— fective methods for fixpoint approximation and checking by abstraction. Non—conventionalapplications of abstract interpretation in— clude the design of hie...

Microprocessors - 10 Years Back, 10 Years Ahead

SATVI - after 10 years closing in on a new and better vaccine to prevent tuberculosis.

The vision of the South African Tuberculosis Vaccine Initiative (SATVI) (www.satvi.uct.ac.za) is 'A World Without TB' and our mission is 'Innovative and high-quality TB vaccine research in Africa, to impact the global epidemic'. Over the last 10 years, our focus has been twofold: first, clinical trials of BCG and of new candidate vaccines, and second, complementary research that addresses criti...

Will Mongolia’s Herders Disappear within 10 Years?

Introduction The challenges related to the preservation of Mongolia’s pastureland, its quality and condition are key concerns for the livestock sector. However, scientists, researchers and government agencies tend to focus solely on rangeland ecology and livestock. All too often, herders are overlooked and omitted from the discourse. This is the main reason I want to talk about people of the M...