India got $52 billion from its diaspora, more than it took in foreign direct investment.In this section The aid workers who really help A no-brainer A shifting locus Mirror, mirror on the wall Reprints Related items Human development indexOct 8th 2009Impressive as these figures are, measuring the real impact is hard.
Adding iron to food costs less than ten cents a head per year, and the economic return (in productivity) might be 36 times as much; adding folic acid to diets costs four or five cents per head per year, with a payback of perhaps 120-fold.In this section The aid workers who really help A no-brainer A shifting locus Mirror, mirror on the wall ReprintsSo why, for example, is all salt not iodised?
It is also necessary to explore implicit benefits of crowdsourcing such as marketing, public relation, intelligence, building long-term relation with participants, and probably most importantly shifting locus of cost of ideation from firms to crowds.
This week is also an opportunity for us to consider -- even for a moment -- a shifting locus of power.
Shifting loci also add to the variance in epistatic interactions.
This phenomenon of "shifting loci" is well known from plant breeding, where it is an obstacle to marker-assisted breeding efforts [ 16].
Increased abundance of calcareous nannoplankton shifted the locus of carbonate sedimentation from shallow seas to the deep ocean.
The socialist's government's reforms of 1982 83 shifted the locus of bargaining to the enterprise, making it obligatory for employers to negotiate working hours changes and instituting direct employee representation in the enterprise.
Assuming that any nucleotide substitution at a defined nucleotide site shifts locus S from the advantageous to the disadvantageous state, we defined μ = 2.5 × 10-5 per generation.
In postnatal testis development, piRNA targeting is shifted towards loci residing in introns of protein-coding genes.
But the philosophy arose as a conscious attempt to reshape human life and shift the locus of power.
