DMA shapes up for future challenges

Adolescent Depression Prevention Growing Up: Challenges and Future Directions

Challenges for the Future∗

The dinner last night we shall all remember for a long time. We were fortunate enough to hear three Federal Reserve chairmen—each of them a giant in his own way—and a reply from Don Kohn that was not only insightful and thoughtful but moving too. Tributes are one thing, but the Bank of England puts its money where its mouth is. Alan Greenspan originally loaned Don Kohn to the Bank, as we couldn...

Challenges for the Future

Industrial policy has attracted considerable controversy in the development context. This paper makes a case for a pragmatic and limited approach to interventions as a means of stimulating industrialization in the context of current and future challenges facing newly industrializing economies. It begins with a simple definition of industrial policy, a brief survey of the theoretical case, and a...

DPP shapes up wing cells

DPP shapes up wing cel ls PP is not a savior for fly epithelial cells, according to new reports from Matthew Gibson and Norbert Perrimon (Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA) and from Jie Shen and Christian Dahmann (Max Planck Institute, Dresden, Germany). Once thought to be a survival factor in the wing imaginal disc, the DPP morphogen is now shown to regulate cell architecture. Previous experi...

Future Challenges for Autonomous Systems

The domain of intelligent creatures, systems and entities is suffering today profound changes, and the pace of more than a hundred meetings (congresses, conferences, workshops) per year shows there is a very large community of interest, eager of innovations and creativity. There is now no unanimity and homogeneity of the crowd, no convergence on what concerns scientific or technological goals, ...