The biotechnology industry has grown rapidly in recent years, doubling in size between 2004 and 2014. Much attention is given to the potential of the biotechnology industry, from drugs and environmental products currently in the pipeline. These products have the potential to generate tremendous opportunities for society, by improving the quality of health care and producing a cleaner environmen...

BACKGROUND Improved sanitation has been shown to have great impacts on people's health and economy. However, the progress of achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) on halving the proportion of people without access to clean water and basic sanitation by 2015 has thus far been delayed. One of the reasons for the slow progress is that policy makers, as well as the general public, have ...

There many open questions concerning the concept of primary prevention in FM. Diagnostic or classification criteria are not universally accepted, and this leads to difficulties in establishing the onset and duration of the disease. In the case of FM, primary prevention may consist of the immediate care of acute pain or treatment for affective disturbances as we do not have any specific laborato...

Currently, China is pursuing a long-term expansion of its nuclear power program and plans to reprocess the resulting civilian spent fuel, recycling the plutonium in MOX fuel for LWRs and in fast breeder reactors. China presently operates three civilian nuclear power reactors, but it plans to build about 20 reactors by 2020. A pilot civilian reprocessing plant has been built at Lanzhou, with a c...

This is a report of a study on the evolution of manufacturing technology policy during the deployment of domestic advanced manufacturing systems in thirty-four plants and two panels of data collection separated by one year. Changing firm environment was significantly correlated with pioneering product introduction business strategy (p < 0.05). More importantly, it was found that manufacturing t...

There are significant disparities among the health needs of citizens and the financial resources of the healthcare system. Limitations of the inputs to growth of the health systems are primarily due to fiscal constraints, the demographic crisis, the degree of competitiveness of the EU, as well as the willingness of citizens to bear some degree of the tax burden. The costs of providing healthcar...

INTRODUCTION The aim of this study was to assess the costs associated with mild hypertension (HTN) in Poland and to compare the costs of 3-year ambulatory care for those diagnosed with mild HTN (group A) and those diagnosed with mild HTN and comorbidities (group B). MATERIAL AND METHODS The researchers undertook a retrospective study of a group of 120 patients treated for 3 years (2006-2008) ...

Can the Internet be redesigned to reduce future conflicts? The Internet’s underlying architecture, Internet Protocol (IP), was introduced in 1974. Since then many ideas have been put forward about how to update and improve it. One branch of these is called “Information-Centric Networking” (ICN). Trossen and Kostopoulos note how ICN could improve the ability of the Internet to resolve conflicts ...

Grids are becoming mission-critical components inresearch and industry, offering quite sophisticatedsolutions for the exploitation of virtually unlimitedcomputing and storage resources. The grid resourcesare usually shared among multiple organizations andtypically managed in a “best effort” manner. However,many real-world supercomputing applications, suchas computati...

all of us have heard about the asian south east miracle many times. in the situation that dependency and world system theories was whimpering over the third world countries, the countries of this region experienced highest economic growth in history in according to wb. many of researchers believe that this have been achieved by making economic development prior and suspending other development ...