IMMIGRATION AND TRADE-particularly with less developed countries (LDCs)-have become more significant to the U.S. economy since the 1960s than they were earlier in the postwar period. The number of immigrants relative to native-born workers has risen; an increasing proportion of immigrants come from less developed countries; and a disproportionate number of immigrants have relatively little scho...

The study focuses on how socio-economic and demographic indicators affect fertilization sustainability (excessive amount of fertilization). Principally we aim to examine the significance magnitude of the effects of three socio-demographic variables such as traditional way of fertilization, rental land farming, and farmers’ younger age on over-fertilization in Bangladesh and other developing cou...

A leaky blood-brain barrier has long been implicated in cognitive dysfunction in aging and neurodegeneration, but reliable human data were lacking. Here, Montagne et al. (2015) provide the first in vivo evidence of blood-brain barrier disruption in the aging hippocampus and in minimal cognitive impairment.

In the Globe and Mail, 6 September 2008, Doug Saunders’s column was entitled, ‘‘Europe Comes Home to the Shock of a Demographic Bombshell.’’ He opines on the latest Eurostat report, Population and Social Conditions, which predicts that by 2015 the European population will begin to shrink as deaths outnumber births, even taking into account immigration and in the absence of any other changes. Ne...

We investigate the effects of cueing, in a multimedia programme for the individualized training of the ‘whole task’ to prepare a plea, on the learning outcomes of 43 sophomore law students. The cueing formats of worked-out examples (WOEs), process worksheets (PWs), and both WOE and PW are compared to a no-cueing control condition. Our hypotheses that WOE enhance near transfer, by stimulating im...

Article history: Received 10 January 2011 Received in revised form 23 March 2011 Accepted 4 April 2011 Available online 12 May 2011 The concept of leveraged innovation to create wealth within regions, countries and economies is not a new concept. Competitiveness of regions in the increasingly global economy now requires not only that innovation be present within a regional economy, but also tha...

Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez, who enjoys more domestic power and higher international name recognition than any other president of a Latin American democracy, is now facing serious political troubles. Since mid-2007, the Chávez administration has been beset by street protests, electoral setbacks, and economic woes that amount to a second wave of discontent. The first wave, when critics passionately ...

This is a defining moment for health and health care in the United States, and medical schools and teaching hospitals have a critical role to play. The combined forces of health care reform, demographic shifts, continued economic woes, and the projected worsening of physician shortages portend major challenges for the health care enterprise in the near future. In this commentary, the author emp...

The computing industry is currently facing a huge deficit in talent entering the industry. Even though enrollment in Computer Science (CS) degrees is climbing, many students drop out due to hurdles in grasping fundamental concepts. ChiQat-Tutor, our new CS Intelligent Tutoring System (ITS) helps students overcome difficulties by teaching CS concepts such as data structures. Content aside, an im...