This paper compares the growth prospects of China and India through a growth accounting analysis. Consistent time series for capital stock and employment are constructed using available survey data, and recent revisions to the national accounts for both countries are incorporated. The results allow for a discussion of the sources of growth in both countries, and a consideration of each country’...

Since mid-2008, the UK economy has faced an unprecedented series of large adverse shocks that have led companies and households to become more uncertain about future economic prospects. These shocks include one of the United Kingdom’s largest ever financial crises, continuing headwinds from the euro-area debt crisis and the implementation of the Government’s fiscal consolidation programme. The ...

The development and research of discrete optimization models with logical, resource and other constraints to solve complex products design problems are continued in the article. These models are based on the SAT problem and its generalizations. Particular attention is paid to the questions of design of series of products using special sets of components (”kernels”) that have been suggested by t...

The measurement of parity violation in the helicity dependence of electronnucleon scattering provides unique information about the basic quark structure of the nucleons. In this review, the general formalism of parity-violating electron scattering is presented, with emphasis on elastic electron-nucleon scattering. The physics issues addressed by such experiments is discussed, and the major goal...

A summary is given of the 5th International Conference on Hyperons, Charm and Beauty Hadrons held in Vancouver, Canada, June 25th to 29th, 2002. This series of conferences began in 1995 in Strasbourg, France, in large part through the efforts of A. Fridman, to whose memory this talk is dedicated. Topics reviewed include kaon and hyperon physics, charm and beauty production and decays, heavy bar...

A novel chemical platform based on branched piperazine-2,5-dione derivatives (2,5-diketopiperazines) for creating orally available biologically active peptidomimetics has been developed. The platform includes a diketopiperazine scaffold with "built-in" functionally active peptide fragments covalently attached via linkers. The concept was applied to two hemostimulatory drugs, the dipeptide thymo...

The age determination of latent fingerprint traces is a very important challenge for forensic investigations, which has not been solved satisfyingly so far. Based on prior work, we use the novel and very promising aging feature of counting binary pixel for the approximation of a mathematical aging function to be used for the age determination of latent fingerprint traces. We first show the feas...

A new HIGEE device-rotating zigzag bed (RZB) was developed in the context of process intensification. The RZB is structurally featured by a combinatorial rotor of one series of baffles attached to a rotating disk with another series to a stationary disk. The novel structure of the RZB determines its many advantages over the other HIGEE devices. The RZB is free of dynamic seal, capable of interm...

The identification of small-molecule modulators of protein function, and the process of transforming these into high-content lead series, are key activities in modern drug discovery. The decisions taken during this process have far-reaching consequences for success later in lead optimization and even more crucially in clinical development. Recently, there has been an increased focus on these ac...