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Genome Biol
March 2007
Center for Biological Sequence Analysis, BioCentrum-DTU, Technical University of Denmark, DK-2800 Kgs, Lyngby, Denmark.
A 'better' Escherichia coli K-12 genome has recently been engineered in which about 15% of the genome has been removed by planned deletions. Comparison with related bacterial genomes that have undergone a natural reduction in size suggests that there is plenty of scope for yet more deletions.
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January 2004
Department of Public and Social Administration, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
This paper explores the coping strategies of the low income single elderly in Hong Kong, which are divided into several broad types: government-orientated (public services); market-orientated; community-orientated; and individually-orientated (practically speaking self restraint and denial). It highlights this group's reliance on the government, which not only provides housing, medical care and other services, but is also a major source of income support, although support levels are seriously inadequate. Yet the highly differentiated nature of Hong Kong's market economy provides single elders with ways to supplement inadequate public provision, by entering into low paid, menial work, and purchasing consumption necessities and accessing affordable housing in the informal sector--notably those segments of Hong Kong's increasingly sophisticated economy that are a throwback to leaner, meaner times.
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