Investment Liberalization is a three-year BRIE project organized in collaboration with CPS (the Council of Policy and Strategy, Shanghai) and DIHS (the Dentsu Institute of Human Studies, Tokyo), and funded in part by the generous support of the United States-Japan Foundation.

Britain?Achievements and Problems. By J. H. Nicholson. (Report sponsored by the Carnegie United Kingdom Trust and the National Council of Social Service and published by the N.C.S.S.) This report attempts to review the social consequences of rehousing policies in the country as a whole and covers not only the new towns, but also selected housing estates and expanded towns. Dr. Nicholson found m...

We consider some of the earlier work and some recent results on diet and cancer (since the 2007 WCRF/AICR report on Diet and Cancer), discuss challenges facing nutritional cancer epidemiology, and consider the field from the perspective of the need to apply what we know in cancer control. We highlight 2 current difficulties; first, we are uncertain on the stage of carcinogenesis on which many n...

Sleeping sickness, also known as human African trypanosomiasis (HAT), is a neglected disease that impacts 70 million people living in 1.55 million km2 in sub-Saharan Africa. Since the beginning of the 20th century, there have been multiple HAT epidemics in sub-Saharan Africa, with the most recent epidemic in the 1990s resulting in about half a million HAT cases reported between 1990 and 2015. H...

This paper describes an approach to the methodology of answer set programming (ASP) that can facilitate the design of encodings that are easy to understand and provably correct. Under this approach, after appending a rule or a small group of rules to the emerging program we include a comment that states what has been “achieved” so far. This strategy allows us to set out our understanding of the...

One of the principal concerns in graduate admissions is how future performance in graduate studies may be predicted from a candidate’s undergraduate achievements. In this study, we examined the statistical relationship between B.Sc. and M.Sc. achievements using a dataset that is not subject to an admission-induced selection bias. Our analysis yielded three insights. First, we were able to expla...

BACKGROUND Adolf Kussmaul was born in Graben, close to Karlsruhe, Germany, on February 22,1822. He graduated at Heidelberg University in 1845 and he received his medical degree in 1855. He made original descriptions, such as the ophthalmoscope, the gastroscope or endoscope, and Kussmaul signs, besides the respiration named after him. He was the first to perform a thoracocenteses, peritoneal and...

During several years of interest for the applications of Artificial Intelligence techniques to Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) I have worked in projects that aimed at supporting older adults by using either robots (in projects like RoboCare, ExCITE, GiraffPlus) or generic ICT-based tools (see EasyReach, SpONSOR, MAESTRO). This talk mostly revisited my work done within the first group of projects ...

This paper reviews Brazil’s growth performance over the last quarter of a century and discusses the main determinants of a pick-up in growth since the mid-1990s. Emphasis is placed on the policy pay-offs associated with a consolidation of macroeconomic adjustment, which is a pre-condition for sustained growth. Structural reform based on a liberalization of the county’s trade and investment regi...