The rankings will be one of the elements that will lead public authorities toward structural reforms in higher education and research and to make this effort despite financial constraints on public finances.

UNESCO: Education

If the regulators truly believe that the main element of their structural reforms, the separation of equity research from investment banking, will remove Wall Street's inherent conflicts of interest, they are mistaken.

ECONOMIST: The Wall Street settlement

The deal will include structural changes in the way the firms handle research.

FORBES: Wall Street Buys Peace

But more detailed regulations, compensation payments to investors or structural remedies such as a ban on issuing research to retail clients might be counterproductive.

ECONOMIST: Why investors should always be suspicious of advisers

He has recently developed a research interest in understanding the securitization and structural violence of the Ebola Virus Disease in Africa.

UNESCO: Professor David J. Francis

This is because there are structural and cultural issues which prevent men from seeking help, the research concludes.

BBC: Diane Abbott to warn of British 'masculinity crisis'

"The price of the yuan appreciation so far has been just too moderate and the trade surplus is related to structural problems, " said Xiao Minjie, an economist with Daiwa Institute of Research.

BBC: NEWS | Business | China trade surplus at new high

Nevertheless, due primarily to the negative impressions many people have about so-called "trailer parks, " the value of a manufactured home is less than a third of a comparable site-built home, even when variables such as neighborhood, structural characteristics and geography are controlled, according to an analysis published in the Journal of Real Estate Research.

WSJ: 'Luxurious' Mobile Homes?

The committee was gathering evidence as part of its inquiry into the next round of European Structural Funds, which Professor Phil Gummett from the higher education funding body HEFCW said was essential for funding academic research in Wales.

BBC: Enterprise and Business Committee