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Market and hierarchical/organizational failures have long been the target of public policies explicitly aimed to mitigate their negative effects. However, in spite of a growing interest in policies around industrial clusters and business networks, scholarship on public efforts at remediating network failures has been ad hoc and lacking a binding theory. A central question is what strategies public agencies employ to repair network failures. We begin to answer this question by distinguishing between two distinct approaches: (1) “network construction” in which government agents actively build, re-shape, or thicken the structures of private sector networks; and (2) “network activation” in which government agents seek to alter the internal dynamics of existing private sector networks. To provide empirical support for these concepts, we provide a series of short international examples to illustrate the scope of network remediation activities as well as two in-depth cases that demonstrate how these mechanisms can work: the Canadian Industrial Research Assistance Program (IRAP) and the specialized Mexican Lead Substitution Program.

The combination of lingering construction debt and bank loans underscore the fiscal tribulation of building a rural hospital from the ground up during trying times. To cover payroll and ongoing vendor expenses with little or no revenue, the hospital board turned to bank loans that now total more than $4.7 million. The air ambulance service facility, operated by Air Evac Lifeteam of O'Fallon, Missouri, adjoins the south side of the hospital grounds where a hangar provides shelter for a helicopter based on site.

There are substantial barriers to the introduction of hydrogen fuel cells for transportation, including the high cost of fuel-cell systems, the current lack of a hydrogen infrastructure, and the relatively low fuel efficiency when using hydrogen produced from hydrocarbons. Here, we describe a solid oxide fuel cell that combines a catalyst layer with a conventional anode, allowing internal reforming of iso-octane without coking and yielding stable power densities of 0.3 to 0.6 watts per square centimeter. This approach is potentially the basis of a simple low-cost system that can provide substantially higher fuel efficiency by using excess fuel-cell heat for the endothermic reforming reaction.

The clinical successes in immunotherapy have been both astounding and at the same time unsatisfactory. Countless patients with varied tumor types have seen pronounced clinical response with immunotherapeutic intervention; however, many more patients have experienced minimal or no clinical benefit when provided the same treatment. As technology has advanced, so has the understanding of the complexity and diversity of the immune context of the tumor microenvironment and its influence on response to therapy. It has been possible to identify different subclasses of immune environment that have an influence on tumor initiation and response and therapy; by parsing the unique classes and subclasses of tumor immune microenvironment (TIME) that exist within a patient’s tumor, the ability to predict and guide immunotherapeutic responsiveness will improve, and new therapeutic targets will be revealed. The tumor immune microenvironment influences tumor progression and response to immunotherapy; its further characterization will improve therapeutic outcome.

Cooks Venture's executive vice president was Blake Evans, the grandson of Arkansas poultry genetics pioneer Lloyd E. Peterson and the last president of Peterson Farms before its broiler operations were sold to Simmons Foods of Siloam Springs in 2008. State Agriculture Secretary Wes Ward explained in a response to King. \"Because the proper role of government does not include state assumption of private debts, your request has been respectfully declined,\" Ward wrote. Bel's Poultry LLC offered the highest bid for Cooks Venture's assets, court filings say, and it agreed to buy basically all of Cooks Venture's assets, including the live poultry stock of Pioneer breed chickens. Road to Bankruptcy The Cooks Venture companies were \"a vertically integrated poultry company focused on regenerative farming practices in Decatur, ... where they raise their own proprietary Pioneer breed of heritage chicken,\" according to an April 22 bankruptcy filing by Carroll, of the Cozen O'Connor law firm of Wilmington, Delaware.