Lester M. Salamon Memorial Issue, Part II

Nonprofit Governance and Accountability by Lester M . Salamon and Stephanie

Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly Lester M . Salamon Welfare State Toward a

Memorial Issue for Professor Nobuhiko Saitô

This special issue of Biophysics and Physicobiology is published as a memorial for Prof. Nobuhiko Saitô who died 2 May 2015. His obituary will appear first in this special issue written by Kei Yura [1], one of the last graduates of Saitô’s laboratory in 1980s. We try to organize this special issue as a review of the work in biophysics by late Nobuhiko Saitô, especially protein folding study and...

Introduction to Michael E. Robbins Memorial Issue

By the time of his death on 23 November 2012, Michael (Mike) E. Robbins had gained a national and, indeed, international , reputation as a leader in the fi eld of radiation-induced normal tissue eff ects. For the fi nal decade or so of his career, Mike had been based at Wake Forest Medical Center, an institution where he had developed a world-class research program looking at the prevention and...

m . S 203 Memorial Union

This paper studies the impact of the preferential tax treatment of housing, including the mortgage interest deduction, on equilibrium house prices, rents, and homeownership. We build a dynamic model of housing tenure choice that features a realistic progressive tax system in which owner-occupied housing services are tax-exempt, and mortgage interest payments and property taxes are tax deductibl...