France and the United States have a rich history of shared ideals and principles. As evidence, I present to you that in 1776, the founding fathers of the United States of America signed the Declaration of Independence. With this document as a model, in 1789 the French Assembly published the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen. Like the Declaration of Independence, the French Dec...

Wedevelop a theory of stability inmany-to-manymatchingmarkets. We give conditions under which the setwise-stable set, a core-like concept, is nonempty and can be approached through an algorithm. The usual core may be empty. The setwise-stable set coincides with the pairwise-stable set and with the predictions of a non-cooperative bargainingmodel. The setwise-stable set possesses the conflict/co...

BACKGROUND The relationship between domestic funding for selected conditions to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the burden of disease and disability in the United States was assessed systematically. METHODS Using mortality, years of potential life lost (YPLLs), disability-adjusted life years (DALYs), hospital days, hospital discharges, and direct medical costs of cond...

Within the ICSTI Insights Series we offer three articles on the 'living publication' that is already available to practitioners in the important field of crystal structure determination and analysis. While the specific examples are drawn from this particular field, we invite readers to draw parallels in their own fields of interest. The first article describes the present state of the crystallo...

Over the past 20 years, computer networks have introduced unprecedented opportunities for language learners to access and publish texts and multimedia materials and to communicate in new ways within and beyond the classroom. Whereas computer-assisted language learning (CALL) refers broadly to a wide range of applications (e.g., tutorials, drills, simulations, instructional games, tests, concord...