THE HEART WILL ALSO BE INFLAMED

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Education will be at the heart of 21st century demography

At the end of the last century, Population and Development Review (PDR) published an article with the visionary title “Demographic dimensions in forecasting: adding education to age and sex” (Lutz et al. 1999). In this contribution the authors (W. Lutz, A. Goujon and G. Doblhammer-Reiter) systematically discuss the criteria governing the choice of particular dimensions (i.e. covariates, breakdo...

Tissue engineered heart valves: will a clinical application be possible?

Artificial valves have been used as the ultimate treatment for cardiac valvular diseases with severe morphologic and functional disorders. Currently, artificial cardiac valves are the most widely used artificial organ, but there remain problems, such as materials, opening and closing mechanisms, and distal control. The best artificial organs are considered to function in the same manner as the ...

Information Will Be Free

Since the popularity of internet and new communication technologies, the issue of information sharing has become a matter of debate. In digital world, distances are meaningless and Information could be transferred to different parts of the world in few seconds. In this paper we discuss the effect of new technologies on licensed information and copyright law. We take this position that in modern...

Will He Be There?

This paper focuses on an unsettling example of experimental labour - the Human Landing Catch (HLC). The HLC is a cheap and reliable technique to produce data on mosquito densities in a defined area. It requires only a human volunteer to sit over night with his legs exposed, a headlamp to spot mosquitoes, and a rubber tube and plastic cup to catch them as they come to feed on him. The HLC formed...