Creative Economy Report 2013 Special Edition: widening local development pathways

From Creative Economy to Creative Society

Public policy promoting the creative economy has two serious flaws: one, a misperception of culture and creativity as a product of individual genius rather than collective activity; and, two, a willingness to tolerate social dislocation in exchange for urban vitality or competitive advantage. This brief recaps current culture and revitalization research and policy and proposes a new model—a nei...

Model Checking Contest @ Petri Nets, Report on the 2013 edition

This document presents the results of the Model Checking Contest held at Petri Nets 2013 in Milano. This contest aimed at a fair and experimental evaluation of the performances of model checking techniques applied to Petri nets. This is the third edition after two successful editions in 2011 [34] and 2012 [33]. The participating tools were compared on several examinations (state space generatio...

Special Edition: Editorial

It is surprising that over 60 years have elapsed since the first use of influenza vaccines, yet with the advances in biotechnology that have occurred in the interim, the majority of the influenza vaccines that we use today are still non-living viral antigens produced in a relatively uncontrolled substrate, the embryonated chicken egg. It is also surprising that the impact of seasonal influenza ...

MJM Special Abstract Edition

Investigation of positional and orientational contributions to visual shape integration in amblyopic patients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .93 Richard Dallala, Robert Hess, Behzad Mansouri, Yi-Zhong Wang Nrf2 and Cul3 are potential biomarkers for the evaluation of chemoresistant breast cancer . . . . ...

Special 45th Anniversary Edition