From Rags to Riches: Looking at Poverty from a Gender Perspective

Looking at Trade from a Gender Perspective

From rags to riches: Democratisation of the photographic art

The democratisation of photography has gone hand-in-hand with the advent of the devices used for the ubiquitous production of images speaking to an individual’s engagement with the world. As the various photographic formats have changed over the years, largely aligned with the impact of the medium/cameras used, it’s interesting to note how the different forms of photography; social, constructed...

From Rags to Riches: on Constant Proportions Investment Strategies

This paper studies the performance of self-financing constant proportions trading strategies, i.e. dynamic asset allocation strategies that keep a fixed constant proportion of wealth invested in each asset in all periods in time. We prove that any self-financing constant proportions strategy yields a strictly positive exponential rate of growth of investor’s wealth in a financial market in whic...

From riches to rags or what went wrong in Greece

The economic and social progress Greece achieved in the early post war decades decelerated after 1974 because all institutions sustaining the efficient operation of democracy and free markets were deliberately and gravely eroded. Under the impetus of hard core socialists provisions introduced in the 1975 constitution, economic policies extended further in the direction of unfettered statism, th...

Epigenetics Drives RAGs to Recombination Riches

V(D)J recombination of antigen receptor gene segments in B and T cells is mediated by the lymphoid-specific proteins RAG1 and RAG2. Now, Ji et al. (2010) demonstrate how RAG1 and RAG2 use DNA sequence specificity and modified histones within chromatin to target specific loci for V(D)J recombination at different stages of lymphoid development.