hronic kidney disease (CKD) is a significant interactive disease in patients with diabetes, hypertension, and cardiovascular disease with major morbidity and mortality consequences and high costs to the healthcare system. CKD is characterized by a gradual loss of renal function. In most parts of the world, once end-stage renal disease (ESRD) occurs, patients who do not have access to maintenanc...

A prevailing undercurrent of doubt regarding the merits of economic growth has motivated efforts to rethink how we measure the success of economic policy and societal wellbeing. This article comments on efforts to better account for impacts of economic activity emphasizing genuine progress indicator (GPI) and wellbeing metrics from a Canadian viewpoint. The authors caution that GPI and related ...

Relentless progress in artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly raising concerns that machines will replace humans on the job market, and perhaps altogether. Eliezer Yudkowski and others have explored the possibility that a promising future for humankind could be guaranteed by a superintelligent “Friendly AI” [1], designed to safeguard humanity and its values. I will argue that, from a phys...

The JLC is a linear collider project pursued in Japan by researchers centered around KEK. The R&D status for the JLC project is presented, with emphasis on recent results from ATF concerning studies of production of ultra-low emittance beams and from manufacturing research on Xband accelerator structures.

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As we mark the centenary of Albert Einstein’s seminal contribution to both quantum mechanics and special relativity, we approach another anniversary — that of Einstein’s foundation of the quantum theory of solids. But 100 years on, the same experimental measurement that puzzled Einstein and his contemporaries is forcing us to question our understanding of how quantum matter transforms at ultra-...

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