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Indien steckt tief in der Zwiebelkrise

By Guest PostDecember 14, 2013Economyadam smith, benzin, China, gemuesemarkt, handelsminister anand sharma, hindustan times, India, indien, indira gandhi, janata partei, kolkata, mckay savage, millionen tonnen zwiebeln, mumbai, neu delhi, peter g achten, politiker, premierminister manmohan singh, reserve bank, sharad pawar, sonja gandhi, uno massstab, zwiebelkrise

Zum Heulen: In Indien sind die Zwiebelpreise explodiert. Die Volksseele kocht. Politiker bangen um ihre Wiederwahl.

Die Preise für Zwiebeln haben sich in Indien fast vervierfacht. Das Alltagsgemüse ist zu einem Luxusgut geworden. «Über die letzten Jahre», kommentiert ironisch die in Neu Delhi erscheinende Wirtschaftszeitung «Economic Times» das ernste Thema, «wurden wiederholt Tränen wegen Zwiebeln, beziehungsweise wegen zu wenig Zwiebeln vergossen.»

Der Anstieg der Zwiebelpreise gefährdet die politische Stabilität im Land. Für Politiker, die demnächst wiedergewählt werden möchten, ist die Lage bedrohlich, denn die meisten Wähler sind arm und leiden am meisten unter den teuren Lebensmitteln. Sowohl regierende wie oppositionelle Politiker sind nervös, stehen doch im Dezember in fünf indischen Bundesstaaten Wahlen an. Noch gravierender: Anfang 2014 finden landesweite Wahlen statt. (more…)

New Details on the Molecular Machinery of Cancer

By Guest PostFebruary 17, 2013Scienceactivation, adam smith, addition of phosphate, anton arkhipov, autophosphorylation, berkeley lab, cancer, cancer therapies, cancers, cell surface protein, cellular functions, computational modeling, egf ligand, egfr, epidermal growth factor, fluorescence spectroscopy, gene, immune system, jay groves, john kuriyan, ligand induced dimerization, living cells, molecular machinery, nicholas endres, nuclear magnetic resonance, photon, post translational process, protein activation, quantitative approach, quantitative biology techniques, rahul das, receptor, receptor tyrosine kinases, single compound molecule, specific proteins, t-cell receptors, time resolved, uc, university of california

Berkeley Lab Researchers Resolve EGFR Activation Mystery

Researchers with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of California (UC) Berkeley have provided important new details into the activation of the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR), a cell surface protein that has been strongly linked to a large number of cancers and is a major target of cancer therapies.

“The more we understand about EGFR and the complex molecular machinery involved in the growth and proliferation of cells, the closer we will be to developing new and more effective ways to cure and treat the many different forms of cancer,” says chemist Jay Groves, one of the leaders of this research. “Through a tour-de-force of quantitative biology techniques that included cutting edge time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopy in living cells, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, and computational modeling, we’ve determined definitively how EGFR becomes activated through to its epidermal growth factor (EGF) ligand.” (more…)

Are the Wealthiest Countries the Smartest Countries?

By Guest PostMarch 21, 2011Culture, Economyadam smith, cognitive ability, Colombia, economic freedom, economic productivity, economists, factor, free market, gdp, heiner rindermann, intelligence, iq, james thompson, kazakhstan, new zealand, nobel prizes, people, technological progress, u s, value of human capital

It’s not just how free the market is. Some economists are looking at another factor that determines how much a country’s economy flourishes: how smart its people are. For a study published in an upcoming issue of Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, researchers analyzed test scores from 90 countries and found that the intelligence of the people, particularly the smartest 5 percent, made a big contribution to the strength of their economies.

In the last 50 years or so, economists have started taking an interest in the value of human capital. That means all of the qualities of the people who make up the workforce. Heiner Rindermann, of the Chemnitz University of Technology, wanted to look more closely at human capital, and particularly the factor that psychologists call cognitive ability. “In other words, it’s the ability of a person to solve a problem in the most efficient way—not with violence, but by thinking,” Rindermann says. He wrote the new study with James Thompson of University College London. (more…)

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Indien steckt tief in der Zwiebelkrise

New Details on the Molecular Machinery of Cancer

Are the Wealthiest Countries the Smartest Countries?