This paper uses data from the largest tax preparer in the United States to estimate the impact of the “saver’s credit,” a US federal program providing financial incentives to encourage retirement savings, on the decision to contribute to an IRA. It finds significant, but very modest, effects. This is contrasted with results from a field experiment showing much larger impacts of clearly presente...

BACKGROUND Concerns have been raised about the career pipeline in academic medicine, including whether women with a demonstrated commitment to research succeed at the same rate as male colleagues. OBJECTIVE To determine the subsequent academic success of recipients of National Institutes of Health (NIH) career development awards. SETTING United States. PARTICIPANTS 2784 of 2799 (99.5%) re...

Abstract This study aims to reveal the perceptions of local beach destination managers about level sustainability in their management practices. research puts into practice a comparative assessing two destinations: Muğla, located Turkey, which won World Travel Award, and Algarve, Portugal, is member state European Union (EU) that has also repeatedly same award. In this context, in-depth intervi...

For his outstanding research on synaptic transmission in the mammalian brain, Prof. Peter Jonas (Institute of Physiology, Freiburg) recently received the Leibniz award of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. The Leibniz Prize, valued 1.55 million €, is the most prestigious research award in Germany. Part of the work is being done within the recently founded Bernstein Center for Computational Ne...

cal and Materials Engineering and Ph.D. Program Director in the Materials Research & Technology Institute at The University of Texas at El Paso. Dr. Murr received his B.Sc. in physical science from Albright College, and his B.S.E.E. in electronics, his M.S. in engineering mechanics, and his Ph.D. in solid-state science, all from the Pennsylvania State University. Dr. Murr has published 20 books...

Biography Dr. J. Michael Ramsey holds the Minnie N. Goldby Distinguished Professor of Chemistry Chair at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. In addition, he is a member of the faculty in the Departments of Biomedical Engineering and Applied Physical Sciences, and the Carolina Center for Genome Sciences. His present research interests include microfabricated chemical instrumentation, m...

In this note, we present a complete characterization of the utility metrics that allow for non-trivial differential privacy guarantees. Department of Computer Science, Cornell University, Ithaca NY 14853. E-mail: {rdk,katrina}@cs.cornell.edu. Supported by NSF Award CCF-0643934, an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship, a Microsoft Research New Faculty Fellowship, and a grant from the Air Force ...

Dr. Punita K soDhi: MBBS (1991) and MS (1995), both from University College of Medical Sciences, Delhi; DNB (2001), National Board of Examinations, New Delhi. Recipient of (i) Best Poster Award in SAARC (2008), (ii) Best Paper Award (1998), Oculoplastic Association of India. Presently, Prof. in Ophthalmology, Guru Nanak Eye Centre and Maulana Azad Medical College, New Delhi. Email: sodhipunita@...

The ninth Ackermann Award is presented at CSL’13, held in Turin, Italy. This year, as in the previous three years, the EACSL Ackermann Award is generously sponsored by the Kurt Gödel Society. Besides providing financial support for the Ackermann Award, the Kurt Gödel Society has also committed to inviting the recipient of the Award for a special lecture to be given to the Society in Vienna. The...

In order to recognize outstanding papers that have been published in Symmetry, the Editorial Board established an annual “Symmetry Best Paper Award”. We are pleased to announce the first “Symmetry Best Paper Award” for 2015. Nominations were selected by the Editorial Board Office, with all research articles published in 2013 and 2014 eligible for consideration. Following review and voting by th...