Prospecting for life

Prospecting for (Campaign) Gold

Campaigns and political parties are faced with the immensely important practical challenge of financing their efforts. Raising money is instrumental to all other aims. In recent years, this task has been complicated by the need to enlist ever greater numbers of contributors to raise ever larger sums of money. At the same time, fundraising burdens are eased a bit because contributors flock toget...

Prospecting for an HIV vaccine

Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) sets several challenges for the development of a preventative HIV vaccine. Predictable, protective natural immunity against HIV does not occur and so unlike most other diseases for which vaccines exist, there are few guideposts from natural infection. Nonetheless, six vaccine efficacy trials have occurred. One in particular, the Thai trial called RV144, showed...

“the effect of risk aversion on the demand for life insurance: the case of iranian life insurance market”

abstract: about 60% of total premium of insurance industry is pertained?to life policies in the world; while the life insurance total premium in iran is less than 6% of total premium in insurance industry in 2008 (sigma, no 3/2009). among the reasons that discourage the life insurance industry is the problem of adverse selection. adverse selection theory describes a situation where the inf...

Prospecting for Precision: Promises for Personalized Medicine.

Prospecting for efficient enantioselective epoxide hydrolases

Epoxide hydrolases (EHs) from microbial sources have recently been recognized as a versatile biocatalytic tool for the synthesis of enantiomerically pure epoxides and vicinal diols. Keeping in mind the potential of these compounds in pharmaceutical, agrochemical and flavour industries, a range of epoxide substrates have been analyzed using epoxide hydrolase as the catalyst. Enzymatic catalysis ...