what should we be worried about - john brockman

... innovation. We should be worried that this will hamper the adoption of technologies that might otherwise be of practical benefit to individuals and great benefit to society. Here’s an example: My e-mail ... life-forms as our descendants. So what will actually happen? This is something we should be really worried about. The Industrial Revolution has brought us machines tha...

Ngày tải lên: 06/07/2014, 02:10

... (-1 .32) 31 (-1 .69) 37 (-2 .17) 37 (-2 .16) 38 (-2 .20) 37 (-2 .17) 38 (-2 .18) 38 (-2 .18) MD Hispanic b 22 ( 71) 28 ( 81) 56 (-2 .56) 57 (-2 .57) 56 (-2 .53) ... Sarah A. Fox CCPR-02 8-0 3 October 2003 California Center for Population Research On-Line Working Paper Series What...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 23:20

... small differences between them are unlikely to be statistically, or practically significant. However, we do also note that there are many possible pair-wise comparisons between countries that ... (‘governance crisis’); Light Red: between 10 th and 25 th percentile rank; Orange: between 25 th and 50 th percentile rank; Yellow, between 50 th and 75 th ; Light Green between 75 th and 90 t...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 08:20

... is note- worthy that IL-6 induces NF-kB activation, for example in intestinal epithelia [37]. Both NF-kB and IL-6 are involved in a positive feedback-loop that can be initiated by an inflam- matory ... cytokines, IL-2 and IFN gamma. Th2 cytokines, IL-4, IL-5, IL-10. IL-6. Inhibits the STAT3 pathway which is activated by IL-6 Renders dendritic cells maturation resistant. ESR, CRP, IL-6 Might...

Ngày tải lên: 01/07/2014, 13:22

... could be very different at some targets than at others. As secu- rity planners shift from thinking through what emerging threats they should worry about to what to do in response, cost-effectiveness ... N.J.: John Wiley and Sons, 2004. Hall, Miami, “Sci-fi writers join war on terror,” USA Today, May 31, 2007. As of April 16, 2009: http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/200 7-0 5-2...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 15:20

... et al. examines what we understand by ‘medication errors’, what we mean by ‘computerized physician order entry (CPOE) systems’, how we measure errors, and what types of errors we are ‘reducing’ ... are critical when we measure the role of CPOE systems in preventing errors remains valid even if we don’t categorize the types of errors and even though we benefit from well-acc...

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Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 20:20

... an attempt to answer the question “Why do Internet ser- vices fail, and what can be done about it?” we have stud- ied over a hundred post-mortem reports of user-visible failures from three large-scale ... Finally, we believe that research into system reliability would benefit greatly from an industry-wide, publicly-accessible fail- ure database, and from service-level performability...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 21:20

... have long debated the relationships between reproduc- tive health (RH), population change, and economic well-being. In recent years, however, a growing number of studies across disciplines have ... investments. This posi- tive relationship between health and wealth, referred to as the “health-wealth” hypothesis, is reinforced by decreasing fertility and the quantity-quality trade-off. A...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 16:20

... of what we are doing, even though that might be precisely what is needed in these early days. We ought have a sense of where we are and where we might go. That, after all, is what maps are about. ... music: (what makes musical experience valuable, what connections can be established between music and mysti- cism, between music and ineffability, between music and sile...

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