As liberal democracies, what can the United States, Europe, and Japan be expected to embrace as “democratic” solutions to global environmental problems such as climate change? It is our argument that contradictions in liberal democratic politics lead these states to advocate solutions that are nature-ascommodity oriented and that idealize the notion of “managed nature.” In the case of climate c...

BACKGROUND The hemoglobin threshold for transfusion of red blood cells in patients with acute gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding is controversial. We compared the efficacy and safety of a restrictive transfusion strategy with those of a liberal transfusion strategy. METHODS OBJECTIVE The objective was to prove that the restrictive threshold for red blood cell transfusion in patients with acute...

This study investigates the role of government activity in economic growth, arguing that economic systems are important and that, therefore, one size of government does not fit all countries. Taking a panel of 111 countries over the years from 1971 to 2010, we consider clusters of economic systems as predicted by an extended Varieties of Capitalism (VoC) approach. The empirical growth impact of...

Until very recently analyses and computations on a large scale were feasible only on supercomputers or clusters of high-end processors. Such computational infrastructure requires massive investments that can be unrealistic in a liberal arts college environment such as that found at The College of New Jersey (TCNJ). However, TCNJ has several state-of-the-art campus computer labs for use by stude...