John Ellis, Gerardo Ganis, D.V. Nanopoulos and Keith A. Olive TH Division, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, Munich, Germany; present address: INFN, Università di Roma II ‘Tor Vergata’, Rome, Italy Department of Physics, Texas A & M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA; Astroparticle Physics Group, Houston Advanced Research Center (HARC), Mitchell Campus, Woodlands...

INTRODUCTION The study focuses on the programmatic bases of Slovenian political parties since independence. It presents an analysis of party programs and their preferences regarding doctors and other health workers, as well as the contents most commonly related to them. At the same time, the study also highlights the intensity of the presence of doctors on the policy agenda through time. METH...

This study investigates the effect of participative political institutions (PPIs) that emerged in many central European cities from the late 13th century. The empirical analysis of the paper is based on newly compiled long-run data for the existence of different types of PPIs in 104 cities in the Holy Roman Empire. The effect of both an overall index of participativeness of political institutio...

Research into kidney organogenesis has seen dramatic growth in recent years, fueled not only by new data on epithelial cell differentiation and the function of genes expressed in the kidney but also by a renewed interest in stem cell biology and its potential application to treating disease. Since the pioneering work of Grobstein in the middle 1950s (1), it has been known that the formation of ...

The article critiques the ‘loss of self-control’ requirement within Loss Control partial defence, investigating its meaning (legally and scientifically), as well theoretical purpose. We contend that defence currently performs a curious problematic role, promoting questions self-control, are most effectively dealt with at post-conviction stage (ie, sentencing), into for liability stage. This cou...

Research on work-family conflict has focused on individuals, and little is known as to how spouses perceive each other’s work-family conflict and how inaccuracies of such perceptions relate to relationship quality. Using a national sample of dual-earner married and cohabiting couples (N = 545), we found that over half of spouses overestimate or underestimate each other’s work-family conflict. H...