• This paper represents a very first draft on an ongoing research project. • In it present extension (some 20 000 words), it is more a has more a book chapter format than an article one. • A simplified, but complete version of the argument and the empirical evidence can be obtained by reading sections 1-2 and 7-8 only (some 8000 words in total), oriented to newcomers into welfare state research...

* I would like to thank all the participants to a session of the Annual Meeting of the American Economic Association held in New York City on 3 rd and 4 th January 1999, in which a first draft of this paper was presented. Remarks, critiques and suggestions were very useful. I am especially grateful to Lawrence Moss. Usual caveats apply.

for dissemination) This deliverable presents a first version of a series of 5 documents, to be delivered each 6 months and whose target is to give guidelines for the application of Knowledge IT to practitioners in the field of in large E-Commerce and Knowledge Management. This series of documents is primarily aimed at anyone who is involved in the process of designing, building and managing Kno...

A recently published article describing the draft genome of Erwiniamallotivora BT-Mardi (1), the causal pathogen of papaya dieback infection in Peninsular Malaysia, hassignificant potential to overcome and reduce the effect of this vulnerable crop (2). The authors found that the draft genome sequenceis approximately 4824 kbp and the G+C content of the genomewas 52-54%, which is very similarto t...