Professor Grant Jordan died on Friday 23 June at his home in Hatton, UK, aged 68. Most people know him as an esteemed international scholar in the field of public administration, the policymaking process and interest group politics. We remember him as a valued colleague, mentor and friend. After graduating from Aberdeen University (the class of 1971), Grant worked in market research for 18 mont...

The UCD Department of Agronomy and Range Science recently announced a one-time internal competitive "seed grant" program, to support UCD faculty doing research at LTRAS. Proposals to measure those "parameters and processes [most] likely to change significantly during the early years of the 100-year experiment" will be favored. The emphasis at LTRAS on long-term trends makes it particularly impo...

As to Rose in August Wilson’s Fences, most of critiques view her as an “angel the house”, devoting herself family without female self-consciousness. While paper will prove is a brave, independent woman who has sense self express ideas, stick decision and pursue felicity she wants.

The above researches were supported by The National Basic Research Program of China under Grant Nos. 2006CB708303 (advanced research) and 2007CB311005, The National High-Tech Research and Development Plan of China under Grant Nos. 2006AA01Z192 and 2005AA147060, and The National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No. 90820017. I Title: Towards Scene Understanding: Deep and Layered R...

Medicine Research Career Development Program (grant no. 5K12HL109005-03). H.A.S. is supported in part by grants from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (grant nos. AI44236 and AI066738) and the National Center for Advancing Translation Sciences (grant no. RR026134), National Institutes of Health. Disclosure of potential conflicts of interest: H. A. Sampson and J. D. Katta...

Received September 6, 2006; accepted November 17, 2006 doi: 10.1007/s11433-007-0028-8 Corresponding author (email: [email protected]) Supported by the National High-Tech Research and Development Program of China (Grant Nos. 2006AA01Z419 & 2006AA01Z440), the Major Research Plan of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 90604023), the National Research Foundation for the ...

There are certain trends that already affecting –or will soon inevitably affect, the evolution of tax law everywhere.These digitalization processes started by many administrations and current challenges experienced accounting auditing institutions to provide reliable non-financial information. Both may offer new opportunities for fairer taxation in search sustainable development. In middle digi...

“This work was supported by a National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant funded by the Korean government (MEST, 2009-0078234); the National Nuclear R&D Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (No. 2012M2A2A7014020); a grant from the Korea Health Technology R&D Project, Ministry of Health & Welfare, Republ...