Introduction: 20th Dubrovnik Economic Conference Symposium

Health and economic development: introduction to the symposium.

This symposium explores the role of health as an 'economic engine' in the lower Mississippi River Delta region of the United States. The health as an economic engine model proposes that health is an important and perhaps critical determinant of economic growth and development. This model is the reverse of the more commonly considered paradigm in which economic conditions are major determinants ...

Symposium Introduction

For the interventionalist, intracoronary thrombus remains an important marker for the presence of an acute coronary syndrome as well as a harbinger of potential complications during the percutaneous procedure. Acute complications include myocardial infarction either new and/or recurrent related to coronary embolization, slow coronary flow or acute closure and long term complications include sub...

Adolescence: 20th Child Guidance Inter-Clinic Conference

The New Economic Geography — An Introduction to the Bank ’ s 2006 Economic Symposium

During the past 20 years, the number of countries taking part in the global economy has soared. Some countries made this transition by reforming their economic systems. Others did so by reducing their reliance on capital controls and barriers to trade. Their transition to market economies has been facilitated by improvements in transportation technology that reduced the cost of shipping goods a...

Introduction to the symposium.

Forty-five years ago a symposium on the ‘‘Lower Metazoa’’ was held in Pacific Grove, California. The resulting volume (Dougherty et al., 1963) sampled much of the then current study and thought about simple animals—sponges, cnidarians, ctenophores, flatworms, pseudocoelomates, and more. Extensive discussions of homology and phylogeny formed the basis for testing a variety of hypotheses concerni...