Whether technological progress raises or lowers aggregate employment in the short run has been the subject of much debate in last few years. Using a simple model of industry employment, we show that cross-industry differences of inventory holding costs, demand elasticities, and price rigidities potentially all affect employment decisions in...
SEOUL AFP — South Korea's President Lee Myung-Bak Friday replaced seven top aides to give his government a fresh start after weeks of mass protests against a US beef import deal. In a televised ceremony Lee named replacements for chief of staff Yu Woo-Ik and six senior presidential...
Dr. Motoda named for fundamental cancer stem cell discovery DURHAM, N.C. and SEOUL, Korea, June 19 /PRNewswire/ -- The journal STEM CELLSR announces that Lena Motoda, M.D., Ph.D. won the 3rd Annual STEM CELLSR Young Investigator Award. Co-sponsored by The International Stem Cell Symposium, the $10,000 prize...
SEOUL AFP — A South Korean firm said Monday it has successfully cloned four dogs capable of sniffing out human cancers by using tissue from a retriever in Japan. The four black retrievers were born last month from cloned foetuses of Marine, a six-and-a-half-year-old dog trained in Japan...
Just sniffing that first hot cup of coffee in the morning may help ease some stresses you might be feeling, a South Korean trial indicates. When rats inhaled the aroma of roasted coffee beans, a number of genes were activated, including some that produce proteins with healthful antioxidant activity, the...
SEOUL AFP — A Japanese centre which says it has trained a dog to sniff out human cancer cells is cloning the animal in South Korea, a Seoul bio-technology company and the dog's owner said Wednesday. Cloned foetuses from the black labrador retriever named Marine were last month...
WORLD ARCHERY EVENT Ogden will host the first archery qualifiers for the Youth Olympic Games in July of 2009, according to the International Archery Federation. The 2009 Youth Archery World Championships are the main qualifier for the Youth Olympic Games, which will be held...
SEOUL AFP — Malaria is spreading rapidly from North Korea and beginning to take root in South Korea, a Seoul research team warned Tuesday. Soldiers guarding the border were previously the main victims but now an equal number of civilians are being infected, said Seoul National University team...
SEOUL AFP — The world's first cloned dog will become a father next month in the first breeding of cloned canines, South Korean researchers said Friday. Snuppy, the cloned Afghan hound, successfully impregnated two cloned bitches of the same breed through artificial insemination, the Seoul National University researchers...
INCHEON, South Korea -- The country that created the world's first cloned canine plans to put duplicated dogs on patrol to sniff out drugs and explosives. The Korean Customs Service unveiled Thursday seven cloned Labrador retrievers being trained near Incheon International Airport, west of Seoul. The...
INCHEON, South Korea -- The country that created the world's first cloned canine plans to put duplicated dogs on patrol to sniff out drugs and explosives. The Korean Customs Service unveiled Thursday seven cloned Labrador retrievers being trained near Incheon International Airport, west of Seoul. The...
Editor's Introduction to the Special Issue The 15th Seoul Journal of Economics International Symposium, which was co-hosted with the Korea Economic Research Institute KERI and Brain Korea 21, Department of Economics, Seoul National University was held on October 23, 2007 with the theme of 'Productivity and Performance of the...
SEOUL AFP — A South Korean firm has received an order for the world's first commercial cloning of a pet dog -- a request from a US woman to re-create her beloved former pitbull, a report said Friday. RNL Bio is charging 150,000 dollars to clone a pitbull...
M2 PRESSWIRE-13 February 2008-Lloyd's Register: Lloyd's Register Educational Trust awards GBP2m to fund maritime research at Korea's top universitiesC1994-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:13022008 The Lloyd's Register Educational Trust LRET, an independent charity wholly funded by the Lloyd's Register Group,...
Global trends in income inequality. Heshmati, Almas. Nova Science Publishers 2007 211 pages $79.00 Hardcover HC79 Heshmati's field is techno-economics and policy at the college of engineering, Seoul National University, South Korea. He offers...
If walking on water takes grace, jumping on it requires exquisite care. Water striders spend most of their lives on a water surface, typically that of a pond. Microscopic hairs, coated with a waxy substance, make the striders' long legs extremely water-repellent, enabling the bugs to rest on...
SEOUL AFP — North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il has still not decided whether to give up his nuclear weapons despite a disarmament pledge under an international deal, a senior analyst said Wednesday. Nam Sung-Wook, a North Korea expert at Korea University who advises President-elect Lee Myung-Bak, said he...
SEOUL AFP — South Korean scientists have cloned cats by manipulating a fluorescent protein gene, a procedure which could help develop treatments for human genetic diseases, officials said Wednesday. In a side-effect, the cloned cats glow in the dark when exposed to ultraviolet beams. A team...
Strategies and policies in digital convergence. Ed. by Sangin Park. IDI Publications 2007 222 pages $165.00 Hardcover HE7631 Park (Seoul National University, Korea) gathers work on technological aspects of digital convergence, related business strategies...
SEOUL AFP — Disgraced South Korean cloning scientist Hwang Woo-Suk has fled to Thailand to escape controversy and continue his research, associates said Tuesday. Hwang and some 10 other researchers have been in Thailand for two months, focusing on research into the cloning of pet animals and the...
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