Restrictive immigration policy in Germany: pains and gains foregone?

Pains, gains, and midbrains.

O ne of the main aims of neuroscience is to understand how the CNS deals with and adapts to external inputs and internal events. The altered molecular and cellular events form a basis for abnormal processing that underlies physiopathological events. Understanding these events can allow translation from bench science to the patient, and a key step in this process is using models of a clinical co...

Maximizing the Gains and Minimizing the Pains of Diversity: A Policy Perspective.

Empirical evidence reveals that diversity-heterogeneity in race, culture, gender, etc.-has material benefits for organizations, communities, and nations. However, because diversity can also incite detrimental forms of conflict and resentment, its benefits are not always realized. Drawing on research from multiple disciplines, this article offers recommendations for how best to harness the benef...

Deploying MT into a Localisation Workflow: Pains and Gains

This user report demonstrates in detail the work involved in deploying MT into a typical enterprise localisation workflow. It analyzes the challenges that MT brings, taking the workflow of Symantec (a software company) as an example. This paper reports that the traditional workflow (i.e. a localisation process from English into Chinese) can be changed dramatically. Although localisation cost ca...

Immigration, refugees, and foreign policy.

The author first notes that mass movements of people across international boundaries, whether voluntary or forced, are increasingly becoming topics for international concern. In particular, the late 1970s and early 1980s have seen a series of migration crises with powerful foreign policy implications. The policy consequences of these international migration movements are considered, with part...

Immigration policy and health care.