A World Without Mangroves?

A World Without Standards

h THIS ISSUE OF IEEE Design & Test of Computers is all about standards. Each of the papers makes an excellent argument why a particular standard is important and what benefits can be achieved by adopting the standard. As engineers we deal with standards a lot, but, like the air, I don’t think we often stop to think of their pervasiveness. Let’s imagine a world without standards. You wake up to ...

A world without measles.

Measles is one of the most highly transmissible contagious human diseases. In the prevaccine era, .90% of children had measles by their 15th birthday. In 1980, before the use of measles vaccine was widespread, an estimated 2.6 million deaths due to measles occurred worldwide. The aim of Millennium Development Goal 4 (MDG4) is to reduce the overall number of deaths among children by two-thirds b...

World Cancer Day 2011: a world without cancer one day?

Whither "world without leprosy"?

Dr Yo Yuasa, who was the President of the International Leprosy Association for two terms, exhorted everyone to work towards a “world without leprosy “ at the International Leprosy Congress, Beijing in 1998. He defined this state as “a world without leprosy-related problems, both medical and social, emphasizing the point that it is not the disease per se but its related problems, mostly social ...

World without End Economics ,

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