Can Costs Be Contained? Ask the Doctor

Can costs be contained? Ask the doctor.

Can the digital divide be contained?

Rapid technological change typically occurs in an uneven fashion. Certainly, there is no doubt about the unprecedented speed of progress in the use of the new information and communication technologies (ICTs) 3⁄4 but patterns of diffusion are less clear and change fast. Given the pervasive impact of ICTs on society, there is grave concern about whether the rapid and uneven spread of ICTs will f...

Minimizing Costs Can Be Costly

A quite common practice, even in academic literature, is to simplify a decision problem and model it as a cost-minimizing problem. In fact, some type of models has been standardized to minimization problems, like Quadratic Assignment Problems QAPs , where a maximization formulation would be treated as a “generalized” QAP and not solvable by many of the specially designed softwares for QAP. Igno...

Ask Your Doctor About MegaNatural®-BP

GSEs (grape seed extracts) which contain polyphenolic compounds cause an endotheliumdependent relaxation of blood vessels. The aim of the present study was to examine the mechanisms involved in this response. A well-characterized GSE was applied to rabbit aortic rings suspended in organ baths containing Krebs–Henseleit buffer maintained at 37 ◦C. In aortic rings pre-contacted with noradrenaline...

Ask The Doctor - Pancreatic Enzymes 1 What is the pancreas ?

While starch and fat digestion can be carried out satisfactorily without the help of pancreatic enzymes, the proteases are critical to proper protein digestion. Incomplete digestion of proteins creates a number of problems for the body including the development of allergies and formation of toxic substances produced during putrefaction. Putrefaction refers to the breakdown of protein material b...