Development: Time to leave GDP behind

Leave no city behind.

lose to 4 billion people live in cities. As the driver of environmental challenges, accounting for nearly 70% of the world’s carbon emissions, and as sites of critical social disparities, with 863 million dwellers now living in slums, urban settlements are at the heart of global change. This momentum is unlikely to disappear, as approximately 70 million more people will move to cities by the en...

Leave No Technology Behind

30 IEEE ConsumEr ElECtronICs magazInE ^ JULY 2014 L eave no technology behind— this slight twist on the mantra of the U.S. Armed Forces is a rusting signpost on the highway of consumer electronic innovation. From the DOS prompt to the RS-232 connector, from CTRL-ALT-DEL to the CD drive, there are an amazing number of technologies that are not left behind, even within an industry obsessed with t...

how to successfully leave behind the peer review process?

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Kidney function assessment in the critically ill child: is it time to leave creatinine behind?

The accurate diagnosis of acute kidney injury (AKI) is especially problematic in critically ill patients in whom renal function is in an unsteady state, rendering creatinine-based baseline assessment measures of renal function potentially inadequate. Herrero-Morin and colleagues performed a cross-sectional analysis of the ability of cystatin C and beta2 microglobulin to reflect creatinine clear...

Door-to-Needle Times: Let's Not Leave Smaller Hospitals Behind.