There have been horse races for many centuries. Horse racing is closely related to betting, which illegal in China, and strictly speaking, betting regarded as gambling. If opens up “horse betting”, legally, will likely be included a part of the process. Since founding People’s Republic China has banned at beginning its development. After China’s reforms opening up, it was tacitly approved then ...

This research uses a representative sample of U.S. nascent entrepreneurs to find that there is a positive relationship between their use of systematic search and their success in founding new firms. We control for mediating variables and find that searching systematically leverages firm founding by using an adaptive decision making style and social capital. Systematic search also appears to red...

BACKGROUND The Annals of Botany is a peer-reviewed scientific journal publishing papers on a wide range of topics in plant biology. It first appeared in 1887, making it the oldest continuously published botanical title. The present article gives a historical account of events leading to the founding of the Journal and of its development over the first 50 years. SOURCES OF INFORMATION Much of ...

The world was different when the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion was released 30 years ago. Concerns over the environment and what we now call the ‘social determinants of health’ were prominent in 1986. But the acceleration of ecological crises and economic inequalities since then, in a more complex and multi-polar world, pose dramatically new challenges for those committed to the original ...

One of the most influential contributions to the literature on the expectations theory of the term structure of interest rates is Mankiw and Miron (1986), who found support for the expectations theory prior to the founding of the Fed but not after. Mankiw and Miron suggested that the failure of the expectations theory after the Fed’s founding was due to the Fed’s practice of smoothing short-ter...

The Georgia Institute of Technology has been a catalyst for economic growth in the Southeast United States since its founding in 1885. Over the past 30 years, it has become known as one of the top technological universities in the world. As part of a strategic planning effort in mid2009, it sought to strengthen its thought leadership and impact through the implementation of a global innovation ...