Guiding Perth’s Growth: A Regional Perspective

Globalization, FDI and Growth: A Regional and Country Perspective

The views expressed here are those of the author and do not represent the positions of Georgetown University or the World Bank 2 " The celebration of capital flows in the early 1990s and the subsequent skepticism were both excessive. The reality is more complicated and therefore requires a more nuanced policy response… This implies a multiplicity of measures that not only foster absorption of i...

Regional evolution and waves of growth: A knowledge-based perspective

Guiding Situational Applications from a Structuration Perspective

Situational applications are a new breed of software assumed to fit to the types of tasks and contextual requirements encountered in dynamic work environments described as weakly structured, highly diverse and fastchanging. The aim of this paper is to discuss the characteristics of situational applications and how organizations can benefit from them with the help of Structuration Theory. Concep...

Euthanasia: a regional perspective

81 ANNALS EDITORIAL It is paradoxical to talk about euthanasia when we are hearing people dying all over the world without willing to die such as in Iraq, Ukraine, Egypt, Palestine and so on. Life is full of contradictions, perplexing complexities, and infinite possibilities. If you ask anyone if he or she wants to die most likely you will get an answer 'no'. On the other hand, we hear every da...

Guiding neuronal growth with light.

Control over neuronal growth is a fundamental objective in neuroscience, cell biology, developmental biology, biophysics, and biomedicine and is particularly important for the formation of neural circuits in vitro, as well as nerve regeneration in vivo [Zeck, G. & Fromherz, P. (2001) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 98, 10457-10462]. We have shown experimentally that we can use weak optical forces to...