Palpitations, should one worry?

Population ageing: what should we worry about?

Approximately half the world's population now has replacement-level fertility or below. The UK experience in accommodating to a changing dependency ratio provides some generalizable insights. A mechanistic approach assuming a fixed retirement age and a need to raise fertility or increase immigration in order to maintain pensions at a fixed proportion of the gross domestic product (GDP) is overs...

When transgenes wander, should we worry?

It is hard to ignore the ongoing, often emotional, public discussion of the impacts of the products of crop biotechnology. At one extreme of the hype is self-rightoeus panic, and at the other is smug optimism. While the controversy plays out in the press, dozens of scientific workshops, symposia, and other meetings have been held to take a hard and thoughtful look at potential risks of transgen...

Should Designers Worry about Market Systems ?

Engineering approaches for optimizing designs within a market context generally take the perspective of a single producer, asking what design and price point will maximize producer profit predicted by consumer choice simulations. These approaches treat competitors and retailers as fixed or nonexistent, and they take business-oriented details, such as the structure of distribution channels, as s...

Black Hairy Tongue: Should We Worry?

Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com Male sex, older age, poor oral hygiene, xerostomia, oxidizing mouthwashes, excessive black tea or coffee consumption, smoking or chewing tobacco, excessive alcohol intake, poor feeding, oral infections, status after a radiation therapy to the head and neck region, trigeminal neuralgia and drugs like steroids, antipsychotics, interferon [5], antibiot...

Should Judges Worry About the “CSI Effect”?