France, Britain boost AIDS funds

Britain pledges science funding boost

The British chancellor, Gordon Brown, last month set out spending plans that, if carried out, would lead to the largest sustained increase in science spending for a generation, but many researchers are concerned that such is the pressure on funds, there would be very little money left over for new research. Brown’s ten-year investment framework for science pledged that research and development ...

Early blood chemistry in Britain and France.

I review here key research in the early years of the field of blood chemistry. The review includes successes and limitations of animal chemistry in the critical period of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Eighteenth century medical theories emphasized the primacy of body solids. Body fluids were governed by the tenets of humoral pathology. After Boerhaave sparked interest in the chemistr...

Solving and Industrial Performance: Electronics in Britain and France

Unions and Workplace Performance in Britain and France

Using nationally representative workplace surveys we examine the relationship between unionization and workplace financial performance in Britain and France. We find that union bargaining is detrimental to workplace performance in Britain and that this effect is larger when unionization is endogenized. In France, union bargaining is associated with poorer workplace performance but the effect di...

No longer ignored, AIDS funds just keep growing.

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