Presidential Address: Parasitology: Retrospect and Prospect

Presidential address. Parasitology: retrospect and prospect.

Presidential Address: Innovation in retrospect and prospect

This paper asks whether innovation has slowed in recent decades. While there has been dramatic progress in information and communications technology, the recent record of innovation in the crucially important agriculture, energy, transportation, and health care sectors is cause for concern. The paper also considers whether the pace of innovation is sufficient to improve or even maintain living ...

Retrospect and Prospect

Entrepreneurship has been a topical issue in the business administration literature, but in the past decade a wave of interest can be observed on the role of entrepreneurship in the economic growth literature. This paper aims to highlight the various contributions to the entrepreneurship literature from the perspective of regional economic development. After a broad overview, particular attenti...

Phylogeography: retrospect and prospect

Phylogeography is a relatively new discipline that deals with the spatial arrangements of genetic lineages, especially within and among closely related species. The word phylogeography was coined in 1987 (Avise et al., 1987). About a decade earlier, scientists had begun using mitochondrial (mt) DNA to address precisely how conspecific individuals are genealogically linked through shared ancesto...

Translation: in retrospect and prospect.

This review is occasioned by the fact that the problem of translation, which has simmered on the biological sidelines for the last 40 years, is about to erupt center stage--thanks to the recent spectacular advances in ribosome structure. This most complex, beautiful, and fascinating of cellular mechanisms, the translation apparatus, is also the most important. Translation not only defines gene ...