Sufficient history now exists to assess the National Institutes of Health Pathway to Independence Award (K99/R00), first offered in 2007 to support the career development of biomedical researchers. The success of K99 (Mentored Phase of the K99/R00) principal investigators in obtaining subsequent grant support was compared with that of principal investigators supported by the long-standing K08 (...

Sufficient history now exists to assess the National Institutes of Health Pathway to Independence Award (K99/R00), first offered in 2007 to support the career development of biomedical researchers. The success of K99 (Mentored Phase of the K99/R00) principal investigators in obtaining subsequent grant support was compared with that of principal investigators supported by the long-standing K08 (...

Acknowledgement I would like to thank my mentor Prof. Dr. Krešimir Veseli´c for introducing me to the exciting field of relative error analysis, for devoting to me a lot of his time, and for sharing with me so many of his ideas. I also thank my colleagues Eberhard Pietzsch, Zlatko Drmač und Xiaofeng Wang for the possibility to check my ideas in numerous discussions, and Prof. his valuable and d...

There are those who regard this type of enterprise that of strengthening the regime for managing financial failures as misdirected. Some think focusing on bank resolution is like devoting resources to redesigning the morgue rather than improving the hospital. Some think that by preparing to deal with crises you make them more likely. I think the wiser judgment is the contrary. In this area at l...

To avoid devoting research resources toward a hopeless cause (and to avoid ignoring productive research avenues out of an unfounded fear of underidentification), researchers need a way to quickly evaluate a model's identification status before data are collected. Furthermore, because models are often altered in the course of research (Joreskog, 1993), researchers need a technique that helps the...

By far the most frequent argument I encounter against the wisdom of curing aging is that it would cause unacceptable global overpopulation. While most other potential drawbacks of indefinite lifespans are generally acknowledged to be speculative, this one is robustly asserted to be inevitable, short of a compulsory sterilisation policy of unprecedented proportions. I therefore feel that it is w...