as its first research and training centre and started work in Helsinki, Finland in 1985. The Institute undertakes applied research and policy analysis on structural changes affecting the developing and transitional economies, provides a forum for the advocacy of policies leading to robust, equitable and environmentally sustainable growth, and promotes capacity strengthening and training in the ...

As part of an ongoing research effort on separation assurance and functional allocation in NextGen, a controller-in-the-loop study with ground-based automation was conducted at NASA Ames’ Airspace Operations Laboratory in August 2012 to investigate the potential impact of introducing self-separating aircraft in progressively advanced NextGen time-frames. From this larger study, the current expl...

We present early-time Keck spectroscopic observations and late-time Hubble Space Telescope (HST) imaging of GRB000926. The HST images show a small offset between the optical transient and the compact host galaxy. Combined with the large equivalent widths measured for metallic absorption lines by the Keck Echellette Spectrograph and Imager (ESI) and the Low-Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (LRIS)...

Double-negative T cells (DNTCs; ie, CD3(+)CD4(-)CD8(-) T cells) play a role in limiting chronic immune activation. GB virus C (GBV-C) infection is associated with reduced T-cell activation in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected individuals. T-cell activation and DNTCs were measured in HIV-infected subjects with a nondetectable HIV load. GBV-C-viremic subjects had significantly reduced C...

0020-0255/$ see front matter 2013 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ins.2013.09.012 q This work was supported in part by the National Science Council of Republic of China under contracts NSC 98-2221-E and NSC 101-2221-E-011-038-MY3. ⇑ Corresponding author. Address: Department of Information Management, Shih Hsin University, 1 Lane 17 Section 1, Mu-Cha Rd., Taipei 10...

Japan’s hybrid system during the Meiji era of technological modernization provides a useful laboratory for examining whether complementary mechanisms to patents induce innovation. Patents were introduced in 1885 and by 1911 1.2 million mostly non-pecuniary prizes were awarded at 8,503 competitions. Prizes increased patent outcomes by 35 percent, a conservative causal estimate based on the timin...

Abstract Study question In Belgium, by law, a retention period of 10-years is standard. Is this sufficient for women to return the clinic and use their vitrified oocytes? Summary answer A standard cryopreservation seems since half returned fertility 96% used oocytes. What known already The main driver elective oocyte buy more time find suitable partner. remains whether 10 years accomplish goal ...