Are Cities Dying?

Are Paralysed Chondrocytes Really Dying?

Introduction: Paralysed chondrocytes are cells with uncommon morphology that recently have been seen among the non-hypertrophic chondrocytes of rabbit growth cartilage. Paralysed chondrocytes characterised by condensed nucleus and well developed rough endoplasmic reticulum and Golgi apparatous and numerous secretory vesicles. Because, in some examples, the cytoplasm of these cells appeared empt...

All Cities Are Different :

The cultural sector and its workforce are often positioned as economic drivers, and important themes within this discourse have included relationships between the cultural sector and human capital, urban regeneration, community engagement, branding, and image. Little of the research underpinning these arguments has documented the work practices, orientations, attitudes, career trajectories and ...

Are HMOs really a dying breed?

Dan Beckham's "The Beginning of the End for HMOs," a two-part article in the Nov./Dec. 1997 and Jan./Feb. 1998 issues of this journal, contends that the capitation/channeling model of healthcare and the entire HMO industry that has been built on it is dying. In a recent letter, Jeff Goldsmith, noted healthcare futurist and frequent contributor to this journal, raises questions about Beckham's a...

Of what diseases are Nepalese people dying?

Large cities are less green

We study how urban quality evolves as a result of carbon dioxide emissions as urban agglomerations grow. We employ a bottom-up approach combining two unprecedented microscopic data on population and carbon dioxide emissions in the continental US. We first aggregate settlements that are close to each other into cities using the City Clustering Algorithm (CCA) defining cities beyond the administr...