Artificial livers--what's keeping them?

Artificial livers--what's keeping them?

Keeping Them on the Field

M usculoskeletal injuries are an integral part of many sports. Contact sports seem to produce the most, with football, hockey, soccer, and basketball leading the way. As athletes compete and push themselves to improve, sprains, strains, contusions, and other injuries become part of the daily routine. Those often attending to these athletes with regular aches and pains are athletic trainers, phy...

Rapid Survey of Wasting and Stunting in Children: Whats New, Whats Old and Whats the Buzz?

Nationwide Rapid Survey on Children (RSoC), conducted by the Ministry of Women and Child Development and UNICEF in 2013-14 showed a marked improvement in the status of the child malnutrition over the third National Family Health Survey (NFHS-3) that was conducted in 2005-06. Despite some impressive gains in the anthropometric indicators of malnutrition, the absolute levels remain high, and of c...

Cleaning Up Very Large Databases and Keeping Them Clean

This presentation shows a real-world example of how a very large Customer database was cleansed and de-duplicated to shrink it down to a manageable size. The techniques used to do this are shown, as well as the processes that were implemented to maintain the new level of data cleanliness. The tricks and techniques are applicable to customer files or databases of any size in any business. Actual...

Some whats, whys and worries of geoengineering

In this paper I discuss the nature of geoengineering, some of its attractions, and some reasons for concern. I claim that there is confusion in the use of the term ‘geoengineering’ that is related to larger concerns about the language in which responses to climate change are discussed. I conclude that despite some reasonable grounds for suspicion, research in areas that involve carbon dioxide r...