Desflurane – balancing environmental costs and cognitive benefits

Clinical Governance: Costs and Benefits

Balancing costs and benefits in cancer therapy and prevention.

In an era of increasing cost containment in health care, it has become extremely important to allocate resources as efficiently as possible. This implies that formal health economic considerations are taken into account. One field of increasing importance is that of economic appraisal, which allows quantifying the value for money of medical interventions. This type of research is extremely usef...

Balancing the Costs and Benefits of Learning Ability

We study the costs and benefits of plasticity by evolving agents in environments with different rates of environmental change. Evolution allows both hard-coded strategies and learned strategies, with learning rates varying throughout life. We observe a range of change rates where the balance of costs and benefits are just right for evolving learning. Inside this range, we see two separate strat...

Balancing Environmental Impacts and Benefits of Wastewater Reuse

Wastewater reuse is being widely promulgated to help address the global freshwater resource crisis. It can assist in reducing extraction of freshwater from the environment, and reuse of wastewater lessens the need for environmental discharge, which is clearly beneficial to receiving waters. But the practice itself also has the potential to be detrimental to natural and human environments: soil ...

Environmental and economic costs of soil erosion and conservation benefits.

Soil erosion is a major environmental threat to the sustainability and productive capacity of agriculture. During the last 40 years, nearly one-third of the world's arable land has been lost by erosion and continues to be lost at a rate of more than 10 million hectares per year. With the addition of a quarter of a million people each day, the world population's food demand is increasing at a ti...