COVID-19 in Iran: What was done and what should be done?

Public health in times of war and famine: what can be done? What should be done?

What should be done in acute emergencies?

SIR—Davis (Sept 28, p 868) convincingly challenges the assumption that children under age 5 years can be singled out as the most vulnerable group during acute emergencies and that, as a result, emergency public health interventions can be reduced to a standard package of child survival measures. We have witnessed in refugee camps how such focused strategies channelled a disproportionate share o...

What Should be Done in the Future

• Catalyst recovery can be performed in an energy-efficient way by reducing the volume of distillation streams. • Temperature-sensititve catalysts can be recovered at relatively mild temperatures from high boiling compounds. • By enabling continuous operation, reactions can be run under steady-state conditions, e.g., at limited conversions. • Catalysts based on expensive metals or ligands can b...

Getting Prices Right: What Should Be Done?

T he theory of price indexes is usually left to specialists, but when a suspicion that something has gone wrong is coupled with the possibility of large political and fiscal benefits from fixing it, the topic can move into the limelight. I suspect that much of the profession, like me, is now prepared to believe that, in some sense, the rate of growth of the Consumer Price Index likely overstate...

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