Consider the world of the 1950s. Ten percent of American households had a television, which displayed only in black and white. Telephones had rotary dials and party lines, and they were used only for conversation. The average life expectancy at birth was 69 years (1). Massive randomized clinical trials were in progress to test a new vaccine for polio (2) and streptomycin and isoniazid treatment...

Abstract Many studies raise the issue of relationships between internationalization and innovativeness, linking them with firms’ international competitiveness. However, very few these focus on influence innovativeness regard multifaceted nature two concepts. The study presented in this paper is based a holistic approach to innovativeness. It explores outward (e.g. exporting, FDI) inward importi...

The effects of tetraethylammonium, apamin, 4-aminopyridine and holding potential on the phenylephrine-evoked outward currents in dispersed smooth muscle cells of the rabbit taenia caeci were analyzed using the whole cell patch clamp method. Phenylephrine (10 mumol/l) under the double sucrose gap condition, substantially hyperpolarized the smooth muscle membrane and reduced the input membrane re...

introduction: pentylenetetrazol (ptz) is one of the most often used epileptogenic agents. several effects of this epileptogenic drug have been described, but the mechanism of the epileptogenic action of ptz at the cellular level is still unclear. in this study the effect of ptz, on the ionic currents of d5 neuronal soma membrane in helixaspersa, using intracellular recording technique was inves...

Ann Oakley, pioneering social researcher for nearly 60 years, is Professor of Sociology and Social Policy at IOE (Institute Education), UCL’s Faculty Education Society (University College London, UK). This article explores the innovation influence her work close colleagues Science Research Unit (SSRU) its Evidence Practice Information Coordinating Centre (EPPI-Centre). It describes advances in ...