Editor's perspectives – January 2014
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January 2014
The prevalence of ocular lesions associated with hypertension in a population of geriatric cats in Auckland, New Zealand JM Carter, AC Irving, JP Bridges and BR Jones AIMS: To provide an estimate of the prevalence of ocular lesions associated with hypertension in geriatric cats in Auckland, New Zealand and to evaluate the importance of examination of the ocular fundi of cats over eight years of...
متن کاملJanuary 2014
In the 1940s and 1950s, the major nutritional diseases prevalent in large sections of the population were kwashiorkar (acute protein-energy malnutrition), keratomalacia (attributable to severe vitamin A deficiency), beri-beri (arising from vitamin B1 deficiency) and pellagra (nicotinic acid deficiency). Over the course of two to three decades, the most florid manifestations of these malnutritio...
متن کامل2. British Petroleum (BP), “BP energy outlook 2035”, 2014 (January)
In recent years, many efforts have been made to reduce pollution in compression ignition engines. Dimethyl ether is one of the methods to achieve this goal due to its special properties such as high Cetane number and low pollution. Also, one of the parameters that plays an important role in improving combustion and engine performance is fuel injection pressure. In the present study, a numerical...
متن کاملNo . 059 - 2014 Fair management of social risk * January 2014
We provide a general method for extending fair social preferences defined for riskless economic environments to the context of risk and uncertainty. We apply the method to the problems of managing unemployment allowances (in the context of macroeconomic fluctuations) and catastrophic risks (in the context of climate change). It requires paying attention to individuals’ risk attitudes and ration...
متن کاملNo . 060 - 2014 Discounting , beyond utilitarianism * January 2014
Discounted utilitarianism and the Ramsey equation prevail in the debate on the discount rate on consumption. The utility discount rate is assumed to be constant and to reflect either the uncertainty about the existence of future generations or a pure preference for the present. We question the unique status of discounted utilitarianism and discuss the implications of alternative criteria addres...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Surgery
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1743-9191
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijsu.2013.12.004