Fifty years after the publication of Exit, Voice, and Loyalty , Albert Hirschman’s work is receiving renewed attention in leading journals, including efforts to develop formal models new strands democratic theory that capture his insights. These have led some conclude power flows exclusively from an ability exit at low cost, we can only empower weaker elements society by giving them more choice...

Abstract Recently, there has been a revival in taking empirical magnitudes seriously. Weights, heights, velocities and the like have accepted as abstract entities their own right rather than just equivalence classes of objects. The aim my paper is to show that this should include value magnitudes. If we posit such magnitudes, important comparisons (cross-world, cross-time, mind world, cross-the...

In the previous article [Ammann, K. (2008) Feature: integrated farming: why organic farmers should use transgenic crops. New Biotechnol. 25, 101-107], in a plea for the introduction of transgenic crops into organic and integrated farming, it was announced that the complementary topic, namely that high tech farmers should integrate elements of organic agriculture, will be a follow up. Some selec...

Background: Health research is increasingly being conducted on a global scale, particularly in the developing world to address leading causes of morbidity and mortality. While research interest has increased, building scientific capacity in the developing world has not kept pace. This often leads to the export of human tissue (defined broadly) from the developing to the developed world for anal...

In today's world the agricultural sector employs half of the world's labour force with an estimated 1.3 billion workers active in agricultural production worldwide. The majority of agricultural workers are found in developing countries. A great majority are small scale farmers. They have been more often victims rather than beneficiaries of the green revolution, the technological development and...

This article presents the experiences of a woman in academic plant pathology from the 1950s to today. Topics include the social climate for women in science, personal and professional developments and research discoveries, public policy issues in agriculture and biotechnology affecting plant pathology, and projections for the future of plant pathology.