Inhibitors of the renin-angiotensin system remain a cornerstone of cardiovascular pharmacotherapy. Although angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors (ACEIs) have been demonstrated to afford cardiovascular risk reduction in patients with atherosclerosis and preserved left ventricular function, at the present time it is unclear if angiotensin receptor blockers (ARBs) exert similar benefits. We pe...

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I n recent times, we have seen widespread publicity given to domestic child abuse in the lay press, and there is every reason to suspect that sport is not immune from this problem. In Australia for example, a well known international cricket umpire was recently jailed for child sex allegations made when he was a schoolteacher. In 2001, a UK based tennis coach was jailed for seven years (with a ...

This article explores the materialist reading of culture developed by C.L.R. James. Central to James’s approach was his refusal to respect the implicit segregation between “high” and “low” or “intellectual” and “popular” forms of culture. In important respects, the article argues, it is precisely because James begins from an analysis of the practices and audiences of popular sport that his appr...

In the present era, Reverse Logistics Support has monitored as a momentous realm, where stuffs are transferred from point of consumption to origin. The companies who provide the logistic equipments, i.e. Truck, Joseph Cyril Bomford, and Shipment, etc. to its partner’s firms called Third-Party Logistics (3PL) service provider. Today, the feasible 3PL service provider evaluation-opt problem is ye...

High performance scientific computing software is of critical international importance as it supports scientific explorations and engineering. Software development in this area is highly challenging owing to the use of parallel/distributed programming methods and complex communication and synchronization libraries. There is very little use of formal methods to debug software in this area, given...

During the 1990s, pension funds seemed to dominate the world's capital markets, reaping unprecedented rates of return. This stands in glaring contrast to the budgetary difficulties of most nonfunded European pension arrangements, which are a result of the changing demographic composition of the population. As a result, a growing number of European states is trying to transform the existing pay-...

Three years of age in the human species applies to a toddler. In primates, as for a medical publication like the Clinical Kidney Journal, turning 36 months means maturity. It is time, now that he has reached the end of his tenure, that the former Editor-in-Chief takes a look back at his dear journal’s conception, its birth, its achievements and its promises. Its conception stemmed from the reti...

The African Court of Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACtHPR) made history on August 27, 2018. majority its judges were female—six 11, the first among international courts tribunals (ICs) to secure sex parity—that is, numerical equality.1 This achievement is even more remarkable given that only 23% arbitrators ICs are women.2 milestone also prompts us consider closely what considerations legitimacy e...

It is now widely accepted as an ideal that democracy should be as deliberative as possible. Democracy should not involve a tussle between different interest groups or lobbies in which the numbers matter more than the arguments. And it should not be a system in which the only arguments that matter are those that voters conduct in an attempt to determine where their private or sectional advantage...