There are limits to government regulation

Are there ecological limits to population?

Policy on population and environment in the United States and abroad has been vacillating, unsure of its course; it would be more decisive if the several disciplines could agree on the nature of the problems and their urgency. The two disciplines principally concerned are biology and economics, and the contribution of this paper is to identify eight of the many axes or directions on which the m...

Panel: E-Government: Are there Different Perspectives?

The area of e-Government has rapidly become the focus of much attention amongst academics and practitioners. Led by the drive to streamline government services to citizens and increase participation in the governing and democratic process amongst citizens, government agencies and bodies at different levels are implementing information systems and undergoing process changes under the pervasive u...

Are there limits to binaural additivity of loudness?

In recent years there has been notable interest in additive models of sensory integration. Binaural additivity has emerged as a main hypothesis in the loudness-scaling literature and has recently been asserted by authors using an axiomatic approach to psychophysics. Restrictions of the range of stimuli used in the majority of former experiments, and inherent weaknesses of the axiomatic study by...

P30: Are There Anxious Genes?

Anxiety comprises many clinical descriptions and phenotypes. A genetic predisposition to anxiety is undoubted; however, the nature and extent of that contribution is still unclear. Extensive genetic studies of the serotonin (5-hydroxytryptamine, 5-HT) transporter (5-HTT) gene have revealed how variation in gene expression can be correlated with anxiety phenotypes. Complete genome-wide linkage s...

Catheter ablation of ventricular tachycardia: are there limits?