Global sustainability: the challenge ahead

Global Scenarios for the Century Ahead: Searching for Sustainability

The Challenge Ahead

Despite widespread advances in coronary heart disease (CHD) treatment and the growing use of implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs), sudden cardiac death (SCD) remains a major cause of CHD death in the United States,1 and identification of patients at risk for SCD remains a challenge. Left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) has been found to be the strongest independent predictor of S...

The global sustainability challenge: from agreement to action

The United Nations General Assembly will hold the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) in Johannesburg in 2002. The aim of the summit is to review progress in the implementation of sustainable development goals adopted in 1992 at the historic United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in Rio de Janeiro and map out a strategy for renewed commitment to sustainable ...

IP Storage : The Challenge Ahead

Advanced networking technology has led to the genesis of the storage area network model, where host servers can access storage as a service from various devices connected to the network. While the initial approach to storage area networks has involved specialized networking technology, the emergence of Gigabit Ethernet technology has raised the question of whether we can use commodity IP networ...

Electronic Waste and Sustainability: Reflections on a Rising Global Challenge