health concern Three million infants die before their first birthday as the result of being born prematurely (Ahman and Zupan, 2007). According to global statistics, the greatest cause of infant mortality in the USA is preterm birth, which is the birth of a child after less than 37 weeks of completed gestation, rather than the typical 40 weeks (Committee on Understanding Premature Birth and Ass...

This paper is concerned with casting o! the standard assumption } the production function displays socially constant returns to scale } in a simple growth model with public inputs. In the model, public services work as a source of utility and as an input to production. Making use of the global bifurcation technique, we show that the model can generate a whole spectrum of interesting dynamics, w...

Public participation in scientific research can be a powerful supplement to more-traditional approaches. We discuss aspects of the public participation project Foldit that may help others interested in starting their own projects.

Trait activation theorists suggest that situational demands activate traits in (pressure) situations. In a comparison of situational demands of private (monetary incentive, cover story), mixed (monetary incentive, small audience), and public (large audience, video taping) high-pressure situations, we hypothesized that situational demands of private and mixed high-pressure conditions would activ...

The nature of publicly funded research is changing. Both developed and developing nations are increasing their investments in scientific research, either to maintain their technological lead or to catch up with advanced societies. The focus on research as a basis for a ‘knowledge society’ has raised public awareness of science and its impact on society, with repercussions for science and its pu...