If current laws and practices continue, health expenditures in the United States will reach $1.7 trillion by the year 2000, an amount equal to 18.1 percent of the Nation's gross domestic product (GDP). By the year 2030, as America's baby boomers enter their seventies and eighties, health spending will top $16 trillion, or 32 percent of GDP. The projections presented here incorporate the assumpt...

by Mark Z. Jacobson and Mark A. Delucchi Executive Summary The plan below demonstrates how the world can feasibly produce 100% of its energy by 2030 from sources with near-zero lifetime (including construction, operation and decommissioning) emissions of greenhouse gases and air pollutants. Only technologies available and scalable today are included. These include wind, water, and solar (WWS) f...

This volume of Higher Education to 2030 discusses trends and prospects regarding changes in the population of students, academic teaching staff and graduates in higher education in OECD countries, from both a quantitative and qualitative standpoint. It examines in particular the link between these developments, demographic changes and higher education policy. The book is thus concerned no less ...

La Agenda 2030 para el desarrollo sostenible fue aprobada 25 de septiembre 2015 por 193 países. Desde entonces han sido muchas la personas e instituciones que intentado encajar término cultura en contenido misma. Ninguno los 17 objetivos se concreta hacen mención a una manera expresa, así intentemos introducir ellos numerosos, y podríamos decir también infructuosos. El punto partida poder inter...

En este artículo se estudia el fenómeno de la tecnología blockchain, adentrándonos en análisis un nuevo marco jurídico desconocido y hasta fecha pleno desarrollo normativo. Con propósito entender carácter disruptivo esta nueva tendencia mercado actual, previsiblemente futuro, detalla proceso denominado tokenizacion activos, su evolución, razón ser, las ventajas dificultades que presentan estos ...

In this study, we simulated the expansion of the São Paulo Metropolitan Area (SPMA)— the largest metropolitan area in Brazil — by the year 2030 using the Dinamica EGO software with data extracted from Landsat TM 7 (orbit point 219 076, resolution 30 × 30 m). Based on the urban area in 2008, we used an urban growth scenario to analyze urban expansion up to 2030. Subsequently, we used ArcGIS to i...

Cancer incidence and deaths in the United States were projected for the most common cancer types for the years 2020 and 2030 based on changing demographics and the average annual percentage changes in incidence and death rates. Breast, prostate, and lung cancers will remain the top cancer diagnoses throughout this time, but thyroid cancer will replace colorectal cancer as the fourth leading can...

Abbreviations: AVP, arginine vasopressin; FDA, US Food and Drug Administration; MELD, Model for End-stage Liver Disease; SALT, Study of Ascending Levels of Tolvaptan; SIADH, syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone Corresponding author: Won Hyeok Choe Digestive Disease Center, Konkuk University School of Medicine, Konkuk University Hospital, 4-12 Hwayang-dong, Gwangjin-gu, Seoul 143-729, ...

Corresponding author: Tae-Yop Kim, M.D., Ph.D., Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Konkuk University Medical Center, Konkuk University School of Medicine, 120-1, Neungdong-ro, Gwangjin-gu, Seoul 143-729, Korea. Tel: 82-2-2030-5445, Fax: 82-2-2030-5449, E-mail: [email protected] This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commerc...