On 24-25 July 2000, the Bank held a conference on ‘The Australian Economy in the 1990s’. The papers presented at the conference are available on the Bank’s web site. The conference volume, which also includes discussion of the papers and contributions from a panel session on prospects for the future, will be available on 24 October. The following is the introductory chapter of the volume by Dr ...

Two duplexes could become unwound locally in homologous regions which, it might be argued, could then rewind to form regions of hybrid DNA. The difficulty with this scheme is that, without breaks, each right-hand turn of the hybrid helix generated in this way must be compensated by a left-hand turn. No one who has attempted to build a stable left-handed double helix with molecular models has su...

Dr. Couch is a medical quality management consultant serving providers and purchasers of health care services (including insurers and corporations) nationwide. He represents the 6,000 physician executives of the American College of Physician Executives and American College of Utilization Review Physicians at the JCAHO. He is associated with the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics of the...

The tremendous therapeutic advantage afforded by antibiotics is being threatened by the emergence of increasingly resistant strains of microbes. Selective pressure favoring resistant strains arises from misuse and overuse of antimicrobials (notably extended-spectrum cephalosporins), increased numbers of immunocompromised hosts, lapses in infection control, increased use of invasive procedures a...

Although the bottom is not about to fall out of the military market, a tough period of belt tightening has begun. The severity of these adjustments will vary based on the size and relationship of businesses to the defense industry. Ultimately, the military procurement process must be reformed. First, by streamlining the rules. Second, by upgrading the caliber of the people involved in the proce...

political developments in algeria throughout the years after the second world war have attracted the attention of many analysts. a country that, due to its fights for independence as well as against colonialism, was a source of inspiration for many freedom fighter movements of the world, during the ending years of the last century, exposed to one of the most terrible violence and civil war. so ...

OBJECTIVES This report presents trends and variations in smoking during pregnancy in the United States. Data are presented for various characteristics including mother's age, race, ethnic origin, place of birth and State of residence, live birth order, and birthweight. METHODS Descriptive tabulations of data reported on the birth certificates are presented. RESULTS The percentage of women w...

This three-round delphi survey of senior IS executives is the third in a series designed to determine the most critical issues in IS management. Analysis focuses on respondents' assessments of specific issues as well as emerging trends. Key findings include: (1) Continued concern for traditional issues such as strategic planning and organizational alignment; (2) only six of the top issues from ...

[1] Two aspects of the onset of a warm event in the Southern Oscillation are 1) the subtropical South Pacific High is weakened in early southern winter which weakens subtropical sea level pressure (SLP) gradients, and thus reduces the trade winds and upwelling along the equator, and 2) in the months that follow, and particularly during the mature phase of the warm event during southern summer, ...