Cadmium Protection Strategies—A Hidden Trade-Off?

Cadmium Protection Strategies—A Hidden Trade-Off?

Cadmium (Cd) is a non-essential transition metal which is introduced into the biosphere by various anthropogenic activities. Environmental pollution with Cd poses a major health risk and Cd toxicity has been extensively researched over the past decades. This review aims at changing the perspective by discussing protection mechanisms available to counteract a Cd insult. Antioxidants, induction o...

Uncertainty trade-off and disturbance trade-off for quantum measurements

An important non-classical feature of quantum measurements is the celebrated uncertainty trade-off, namely that the uncertainties in the outcomes of measurements performed on distinct yet identically prepared ensembles of systems cannot all be made arbitrarily small. Recently, we have shown that quantum measurements also exhibit another non-classical feature of disturbance trade-off namely, tha...

Hidden global trade in water

water. The River Omo, site of the Gibe dam, flows south into Kenya and Lake Turkana. Some estimates suggest the country has the potential to generate 45,000 MW of hydroelectric power. While work continues on Gibe III, Ethiopia has already approved plans for several new schemes, including a giant 2,100 MW project on the Blue Nile and a number of other dams have already been built or are close to...

Cardiac protection takes off.

Protecting the heart from ischaemiaand reperfusioninduced injury represents the greatest challenge of cardiology, since myocardial infarction is the major cause of mortality in industrialized countries. Research on cardiac protection has a long history in the discovery of new principles of protection, replete with triumphs but also broken dreams with respect to their clinical application. Treat...

The Diversity-Bandwidth Trade-off