Policy Implications of Changing Longevity

Building roots in a changing environment: implications for root longevity

Root turnover is important to the global carbon budget as well as to nutrient cycling in ecosystems and to the success of individual plants. Our ability to predict the effects of environmental change on root turnover is limited by the difficulty of measuring root dynamics, but emerging evidence suggests that roots, like leaves, possess suites of interrelated traits that are linked to their life...

Changing Effects of Monetary Policy

A series of developments in the U.S. economic environment in the 1980s has resulted in major changes in prevalent thinking about how monetary policy affects economic activity. One important part of this change simply reflects the heightened awareness, following the experience of disinflation early in the decade, that monetary policy is not neutral-that is,,that actions taken by h e central bank...

Can universal pre-kindergarten programs improve population health and longevity? Mechanisms, evidence, and policy implications.

Recent research has found that children who attended pre-kindergarten programs in childhood were more likely to be healthy as adults. One intuitive way of improving population health and longevity may therefore be to invest in pre-kindergarten programs. However, much of the research linking pre-kindergarten programs to health is very recent and has not been synthesized. In this paper, I review ...

origins of armenia’s foreign policy and its foreign policy towards iran

foreign policy takes root from complicated matters. however, this issue may be more truth about armenia. although the new government of armenia is less than 20 years, people of this territory are the first ones who officially accepted christianity. in very past times, these people were a part of great emperors like iran, rome, and byzantium.armenia is regarded as a nation with a privileged hist...

Policy implications of the changing epidemiology of Chagas disease and stroke.