A second lease on life for technological forecasting

Stem Cells A New Lease on Life

offspring, including the germ cell compartment. To During embryogenesis, a single fertilized oocyte gives maintain cultured ES cells in their relatively undifferentirise to a multicellular organism whose cells and tissues ated, pluripotent state, they must both express the inhave adopted differentiated characteristics or fates to trinsic transcription factor Oct4, and constitutively reperform t...

Technological Forecasting: A Strategic Imperative

Assessing future opportunities and threats is a serious management concern. All we know about the future is that it will very likely pose new and different challenges. Hence, the basic resources which serve a business today may have little relevance under tomorrow's conditions. If a business is to survive, it must be prepared to adapt rapidly to the requirements of the future. Difficulty arises...

The Red Queen Gets a New Lease on Life

The multitude of functions performed in the cell are largely controlled by a set of carefully orchestrated protein interactions often facilitated by specific binding of conserved domains in the interacting proteins. Interacting domains commonly exhibit distinct binding specificity to short and conserved recognition peptides called binding profiles. Although many conserved domains are known in n...

“the effect of risk aversion on the demand for life insurance: the case of iranian life insurance market”

abstract: about 60% of total premium of insurance industry is pertained?to life policies in the world; while the life insurance total premium in iran is less than 6% of total premium in insurance industry in 2008 (sigma, no 3/2009). among the reasons that discourage the life insurance industry is the problem of adverse selection. adverse selection theory describes a situation where the inf...

A New Lease of Life for African Rail