This paper develops an efficiency wage model to highlight public policy for relieving unemployment in general equilibrium. This equilibrium entails unemployment because of either friction in the labor market or efficiency wages. For the purposes of relief, we present unemployment benefits and public employment programs, and we estimate labor demand and supply. Wage subsidies are also considered...

Coincident with the blossoming of the sakura was the 14th annual CDB Symposium hosted by the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology in Kobe, Japan. This year's meeting, 'Size in Development: Growth, Shape and Allometry' focused on the molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying differences in size and shape and how they have evolved. On display was the power of using diverse approaches ranging...

OBJECTIVE To explore the potential clinical application of the oncolytic activity of cyclooxygenase 2 (COX-2) promoter-based, conditional, replication-selective adenovirus vector for hypopharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma. DESIGN In vivo study and retrospective study. SETTING Kobe University Hospital, Kobe, Japan. SUBJECTS Expression of COX-2 in hypopharyngeal cancers treated at Kobe Univ...

Nine years after the Kobe earthquake in Japan, social issues are still prominent, and the rehabilitation process is still ongoing. The earthquake caused two major changes in Japanese society: an increase in voluntary and non-government activities, and the enhancement of cooperation between local government and the residents' association. People's participation in the decision-making process was...

1 CRYSTAL STRUCTURE OF THE CIS–DIMER OF NECTIN-1: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE ARCHITECTURE OF CELL–CELL JUNCTIONS Hirotaka Narita, Yasunori Yamamoto, Mamoru Suzuki, Naoyuki Miyazaki, Asuka Yoshida, Katsuhisa Kawai, Kenji Iwasaki, Atsushi Nakagawa, Yoshimi Takai , and Toshiaki Sakisaka* From the Laboratory of Supramolecular Crystallography, Research Center for Structural and Functional Proteomics, Inst...

Molecular analysis of dystrophin Kobe showed that exon 19 of the dystrophin gene bearing 52-bp deletion was skipped during splicing, although the known consensus sequences at the 5' and 3' splice sites of exon 19 were maintained (Matsuo, M., T. Masumura, H. Nishio, T. Nakajima, Y. Kitoh, T. Takumi, J. Koga, and H. Nakamura. 1991. J. Clin. Invest. 87:2127-2131). These data suggest that the delet...

In 2000, we encountered cases of nosocomial infections with epidemic keratoconjunctivitis (EKC) at a university hospital in Kobe, in the western part of Japan. Two human adenovirus (HAdV) strains, Kobe-H and Kobe-S, were isolated from patients with nosocomial EKC infection. They were untypeable by existing neutralizing antisera; however, the isolate was neutralized with homologous antisera. We ...

in the present paper axial distributions of plasma and floating potentials, electron and iondensities and eedf have been measured in the dl region of a hg discharge constriction. an attempt hasbeen made for the resolution of opposing charged layer structures in dl. excitation processes in theconstriction region are studied. using the linearization method for the nonstationary balance equationss...