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Following the Great Recession, many commentators are already forecasting a bleak economic future for developed economies over the next decade. Our research suggests, however, that there are ample opportunities for new growth and jobs in mature economies. Policymakers and business leaders can mine rich seams of growth through imaginative responses to oft-perceived challenges around aging populations, the transition to a low-carbon future, rising demands for public services, new information-based services, and growing demands in the emerging world for social and physical infrastructure. However, such growth will fail to materialize unless action is taken today to secure the necessary supply-side foundations for longer-term growth. © 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article, the author discusses ethical challenges in covering baseball player Barry Bonds. He mentions the relationship of Bond with the media with focus on the attitude and personalities that Bond portrays towards columnists. He relates his first one-on-one interview with Bonds in the spring of 1993 during which they talked about media interaction. Moreover, he claims that a columnist cannot personally take how athletes behave towards people and certain situations.

The article focuses on how businesses can build a balanced portfolio of geographic options to achieve competitive advantage. Key characteristics that measure geographic talent pools are attractiveness of the talent environment, quality of the workforce, and availability of top talent. Businesses are encouraged to understand where they can benefit from more sustainable energy systems and sources of renewable energy. There is also a need to focus on output measures to excel at innovation.

Compares the effects of liberalization with those of the restricted entry to the European air transport market. Pricing policy of new entrants to the market; Reduction in air fares; Market support for low unrestricted fares.

To date, existing studies focus largely on the economic detriments of malaria. However, if we are to create suitable incentives for larger-scale, more sustained anti-malaria efforts from a wider group of stakeholders, we need a much better understanding of the economic benefits of malaria reduction and elimination. Our report seeks to rectify this disjuncture by showing how attaining the funding needed to meet internationally agreed targets for malaria elimination would, on conservative assumptions, generate enormous economic improvements. We use a cost-benefit analysis anchored in Global Malaria Action Plan projections of malaria eradication based on fully met funding goals. By calculating the value of economic output accrued caused by work years saved and subtracting the costs of intervention, we find that malaria reduction and elimination during 2013-2035 has a 2013 net present value of US $208.6 billion.

Object: Oxidative stress leading to lipid peroxidation is a major cause of secondary injury following spinal cord injury (SCI). The objectives of this study were to determine the duration of lipid peroxidation following acute SCI and the efficacy of short-and long-term administration of methylprednisolone on decreasing lipid peroxidation., Methods: A total of 226 female Wistar rats underwent clip-compression induced SCI. In the first part of the study, spinal cords of untreated rats were assayed colorimetrically for malondialdehyde (MDA) to determine lipid peroxidation levels at various time points between 0 and 10 days. In the second part of the study, animals were treated with methylprednisolone for either 24 hours or 7 days. Control animals received equal volumes of normal saline. Treated and control rats were killed at various time points between 0 and 7 days., Results: The MDA levels initially peaked 4 hours postinjury. By 12 hours, the MDA levels returned to baseline. A second increase was observed from 24 hours to 5 days. Both peak values differed statistically from the trough values (p < 0.008). The methylprednisolone reduced MDA levels (p < 0.04) within 12 hours of injury. No effect was seen at 24 hours or later., Conclusions: The results of this study indicate that oxidative stress persists for 5 days following SCI in rats, and although methylprednisolone reduces MDA levels within the first 12 hours, it has no effect on the second lipid peroxidation peak.