Who wins the race for knowledge-based competitiveness? Comparing European and North American FDI patterns

Sperm competitiveness in frogs: slow and steady wins the race.

When sperm compete to fertilize available ova, selection is expected to favour ejaculate traits that contribute to a male's fertilization success. While there is much evidence to show that selection favours increased numbers of sperm, only a handful of empirical studies have examined how variation in sperm form and function contributes to competitive fertilization success. Here, we examine sele...

Gambling, Who Wins

Gambling, Who Wins? Who loses?, edited by Gerda Reith, Ph.D, examines several wide-ranging yet important topics related to gambling. This multidisciplinary compilation of essays, some written by prominent scholars in their fields, examines such questions as: How can the alluring economic benefits of gambling be balanced against the potential harm caused to a significant minority? Is problem or ...

What is "Race-To-The-Bottom" Effect On FDI Inflow?

Who dares, wins?

Despite the tremendous achievements of tissue engineering, its clinical counterpart, regenerative medicine, has rather been slow in delivering on its promise of producing natural organs from synthetic materials. It appeared that Dr. Paolo Macchiarini had broken through the stalemate in regenerative medicine when he performed an operation in which a synthetic trachea seeded with stem cells was t...

Slow but steady wins the drug race

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