New aspects of Japan’s immigration policies: is population decline opening the doors?

Phenotype–genotype complexities: opening DOORS

The escalating pace of molecular genetic discoveries in neurological diseases is repeatedly providing surprises that challenge our ability to match phenotype and genotype. With the current transition of whole-exome sequencing from the laboratory to clinical use, the ability to understand and interpret molecular-level data becomes ever more important. The classic view of one gene encoding one pr...

The Evaluation of Immigration Policies

The Evaluation of Immigration Policies This chapter summarizes the literature on the evaluation of immigration policies. It brings together two strands of the literature dealing with the evaluation of labor market programs and with the economic integration of immigrants. Next to immigrant selection and settlement policies, there are four types of interventions that aim at improving the economic...

Opening Doors in Motion Analysis Research

This paper discusses the use of motion analysis techniques to establish a computational model of human motion. As a test case, we discuss an experiment that analyzes combined navigation and manipulation motions performed by human subjects. In this particular experiment, we have analyzed the action of walking to a door and opening the door in different settings. We have looked at different varia...

Opening the doors of perception in the irritable bowel syndrome.

The Legal Aspects of Immigration

Summer 2005 ■ Volume 83 292 The U.S. Census Bureau reports that 10.4% of the U.S. population, or approximately 28 million individuals, are immigrants (Schmidley, 2001). Immigration is undoubtedly the strongest force that has shaped U.S. history, and current global changes account for unprecedented movements of individuals across the world in search of better life opportunities and conditions (M...