Personal and proprietary interests

Joined-up Government: A Survey

“…In both social services and health care there are 'immense (and immensely forgotten) literatures -and policy documents -on working together, collaboration, etc. in across services, from the 1960s onwards' (Clarke, 2001). In 1975 the Central Policy Review Staff reported on A Joint Approach to Social Policy, perhaps the best known of its several attempts to encourage more co-ordinated Whitehall thinking about particular policy sectors (Blackstone and Plowden, 1988).…”

Inhibition of vegetative growth and fruiting body formation inMyxococcus xanthus

“…Such compounds would be expected to be effective under a variety of nutritional conditions. This criterion has not been fulfilled by any of the inhibitors of fruiting body formation which have been described [7,8]. Furthermore, inhibitors of cAMP metabolism such as caffeine, BAP and 2iP also inhibit vegetative growth as well as fruiting body formation.…”

“…It was recently shown thai inhibitors of cAMP metabolism e.g. cytokinins [7] and caffeine [8] inhibited fruiting body formation but had no effect on vegetative growth.…”