Eulogy for Detroit 1967

Eulogy for the clinical research center.

The extramural General Clinical Research Center (GCRC) program has been funded for more than 50 years, first by the National Center for Research Resources, NIH, and more recently as part of the Clinical Translational Science Award (CTSA) program through the newly formed National Center for Advancing Translation Sciences (NCATS). The GCRCs represent the federally funded laboratories that employ ...

Eulogy for the Metabolic Clinical Investigator?

A recent editorial in the Journal of Clinical Investigation by Nathan et al. (1) dwelt on the decision to cease direct National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding of Clinical Research Centers (CRCs). As the authors rightly point out, the lack of extramural support for the CRC infrastructure will doom this valuable resource for human research at academic institutions without the wherewithal to s...

Rethinking Detroit∗†

We study the urban structure of the City of Detroit. Following several decades of decline, the city’s current urban structure is clearly not optimal for its size, with a business district immediately surrounded by a ring of largely vacant neighborhoods. We propose a model with residential externalities that features multiple equilibria at the neighborhood level. In particular, developing a resi...

Eulogy for Kristian Fauchald (1 July 1935 – 4 April 2015).

Eulogy written in a country churchyard.

As known, to finish this book, you may not need to get it at once in a day. Doing the activities along the day may make you feel so bored. If you try to force reading, you may prefer to do other entertaining activities. But, one of concepts we want you to have this book is that it will not make you feel bored. Feeling bored when reading will be only unless you don't like the book. elegy written...