Kumamoto Industrial Research Institute

The Research Institute of Industrial Economics

The paper analyses the interaction between economic incentives and work norms in the context of social insurance. If the work norm is endogenous in the sense that it is weaker when the population share of beneficiaries is higher, then voters will choose less generous benefits than otherwise. We also discuss welfare-state dynamics when there is a time lag in the adjustment of the norm in respons...

The Industrial Fellowships of the Mellon Institute.

Dr. B. T. Galloway, Mr. Charles F. Deering and Professor W. D. Crocker were elected to membership. The program of the evening was devoted to the subject of "The Relation of Plant Succession to Forestry and Grazing." Mr. C. G. Bates discussed the natural regeneration of forest stands in the climax formations of the Rocky Mountain region and called attention especially to the temporary control of...

Institute for Environmental Research

The Scripps Research Institute

Lansbury and Caughey state in their Primer on prion proteins [1] “Mice lacking the PrP gene, first produced by Charles Weissmann and colleagues, are viable, but have altered neuronal function and develop neurological abnormalities later in life.” This statement is misleading. The PrP-knockout mice produced in our laboratory [2] do not show neurological abnormalities at any time and we have neve...

Geneva Biomedical Research Institute

In 1980 Mark Ptashne published a review entitled How λ repressor and Cro work followed by another, in 1988, called How eukaryotic transcriptional activators work. The bold — almost, some might feel, naïve — ambition these titles betray is unashamedly the author’s: to generate a coherent picture of how genes are switched on and off. Mark Ptashne’s approach has always been transparent. During gro...