Erratum: Biotech financing retrenches in Q2

Equity Financing and External Contracting at Biotech Firms: Evidence from PIPEs

We investigate young public biotechnology companies that raise additional capital utilizing offerings of private investments in public equity–so-called PIPE deals. Among 110 biotech firms that raise $5.5 billion in IPO proceeds during 1996 to 2004, 61 firms raise an additional $9.5 billion from 200 PIPE deals by the end of 2006. We study the timing and terms of such private placements in relati...

Q2 Evolution of Chiral-Odd Twist-3 Distributions hL(x,Q2) and e(x,Q2) in Large-Nc QCD.

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Special: Biotech in Russia

Traditions of Russian fundamental and applied life sciences go back to the last third of the nineteenth century, the reign of “Tzar-Liberator” Alexander II. Basic scientific schools in organic chemistry and life sciences appeared in St. Petersburg, Moscow, Kazan, Kiev, and Warshaw. Since then, Russian bioscience and biotechnology has experienced rises and falls together with the whole country.

Erratum to: ‘Setting performance-based financing in the health sector agenda: a case study in Cameroon’

BACKGROUND More than 30 countries in sub-Saharan Africa have introduced performance-based financing (PBF) in their healthcare systems. Yet, there has been little research on the process by which PBF was put on the national policy agenda in Africa. This study examines the policy process behind the introduction of PBF program in Cameroon. METHODS The research is an explanatory case study using ...