Is technology transfer more than a “mechanical” process?

Editorial Advisory Board     

BUILDING SOCIETIES: A QUESTION OF ACCOUNTABILITY?

The investment and mortgage policies and practices of the British building societies affect individuals, neighbourhoods and the economy. Their activities have been subject to serious criticisms. Building societies, however, are scarcely accountable to their members, despite their position as'mutual' organizations; nor are they politically accountable to the electors through the government. The British building societies present a public interest problem. This article questions whether and how they ought to be made accountable for their actions in order to ensure that they further the public interest.     

Statistical distribution of the serum markers Gm(1), Gm(2), Gm(10) and Inv(1) in German probands and Turkish probands living in Germany

Frequencies of Gm- and Km-phenotypes were studied in German and Turkish individuals. Collected data originate from casework of police forensic science laboratories in West Germany and Berlin. Distribution of Km-phenotypes is homogeneous in Germans and Turks, while distribution of Gm-phenotypes shows significant heterogeneity.