SUMMARY In recent years, geo-engineering has been suggested as a viable strategy in dealing with climate change, the main indicator of what has become known as 'the Anthropocene'. In this paper, I investigate the effects of geo-engineering in terms of freedom – not the only but perhaps the most important measure of moral and political desirability. Is geo-engineering a curse or a blessing, a po...

Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) are an important checkpoint for all types of research in medicine. Although these bodies originated primarily in the developed world, they have special contemporary consideration in the context of developing countries due to the large number of clinical trials being conducted in these regions with the financial support of large pharmaceutical companies. IRBs a...

Continuing VLSI technology scaling raises several deep submicron (DSM) problems like relatively slow interconnect, power dissipation and distribution. and signal integrity. Those problems are encountered particularly on long wires for global interconnect. As clockfrequencies increase, scaled wires become relatively slowe1; and on-chip communication will be the limiting performance factor of fut...