Energy issues challenge mindsets …

Energy issues challenge mindsets …

president, turned up in Cannes last month to promote his new documentary on the dangers of global warming, amid speculation that he may stage a political comeback on the basis of an issue which is increasingly dividing George Bush's administration and the Democrat opposition in the face of rising fuel prices. He arrived in France to showcase An Inconvenient Truth, a film that issues alarming pr...

Europe and the Challenge of Energy Security: Limitations and Strategies

The increasing dependence of European Union member countries on imported oil and gas has led to concerns about energy supply and security.  At the same time the share of clean energy in Europe’s energy consumption basket is increasing due to environmental issues. About a quarter of all energy consumption in the EU is natural gas, and most EU member states import almost all of their energy resou...

Mindsets and Math/Science Achievement

The Challenge of Regulating Nanomedicine: Key Issues

Patent Law Department, Bawa Biotech LLC, Ashburn, Virginia, USA; Department of Biological Sciences, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, USA; c Laboratory of Membrane and Liposome Research, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Institute for Medical Research Israel – Canada (IMRIC), The Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel; d Department of Molecu...

Challenge studies of human volunteers: ethical issues.

There is a long history of medical research that involves intentionally infecting healthy people in order to study diseases and their treatments. Such research-what might be called "human challenge studies"-are an important strand of much current research-for example, in the development of vaccinations. The many international and national guidelines about the proper conduct of medical research ...