Do Corporations Invest Enough in Environmental Responsibility?

Environmental enteropathy and malnutrition: do we know enough to intervene?

Environmental enteropathy (EE) is a poorly defined state of intestinal inflammation without overt diarrhea that occurs in individuals exposed over time to poor sanitation and hygiene. It is implicated as a cause of stunting and malnutrition, oral vaccine failure and impaired development in children from low-income countries. The burden on child health of malnutrition alone, which affects 25% of...

Do we expect enough?

The use of adrenaline in combination with local anesthetics is a broadly extended practice in surgery for extending the anesthetic effect (up to 200%) and achieve improved hemostasia and therefore enhanced visualization in the surgical field.1 In this practice it is important not only to use adrenaline as a vasoconstrictor but also to observe the prescribed time for the said drug to reach its m...

JNK bond regulation: why do mammalian hearts invest in connexin43?

Large numbers of gap junctions interconnect working myocytes in the ventricle of adult humans.1–5 Until recently, it was assumed that the reason for the abundance of these clusters of intercellular channels was straightforward. This phenomenon was thought to be principally a matter of ensuring that action potentials were conducted efficiently from myocyte to myocyte.6–8 However, it has long bee...

When Do Firms Invest in Privacy-Preserving Technologies?

Privacy is a central concern in the information age. In some circumstances, customers’ decisions whether to use firms’ services rely on the extent of privacy that firms are able to provide, for example, the use of certain banking services, health care information technology [7]...etc. Firms thus face crucial assessment of investment on privacypreserving technologies. Two important factors affec...

Environmental Violence, Liberalism, and Responsibility