Sozioökonomische Benachteiligung als Risikofaktor für Krebserkrankungen – „closing the care gap“

Closing the Gap on Health Care Disparities

Closing the Technology Gap? Closing the Technology Gap?

This paper focuses on the dimensions shaping the dynamics of technology. We present a model where the knowledge stock of a country grows over time as a function of three main factors: its innovation intensity, its technological infrastructures and its human capital. The latter two variables contribute to determine the absorptive capacity of a country as well as its innovative ability. Based on ...

Homosexualität als Risikofaktor für Depression und Suizidalität bei Männern

This review attempts to illustrate that homosexuality is an important factor for understanding male depression and suicidality. Homosexual and bisexual (HBS) men are at a higher risk for depression and suicidality than heterosexual men, as revealed by international studies. We present these results meta-analytically and contrast them with the few studies from German-speaking countries that foun...

Closing the Generation Gap

I describe recent examples of phase transitions in four-dimensional M theory vacua in which the net generation number changes. There are naive obstructions to transitions lifting chiral matter, but loopholes exist which enable us to avoid them. I first review how chirality arises in the heterotic limit of M theory, previously known forms of topology change in string theory, and chirality-changi...

Closing the Gender Gap