Healthcare: ripe for disruption

Hypertension Management: Ripe for Disruption

I n 1994, Jeff Bezos began to sell books online. With the virtual bookstore that would eventually become Amazon.com, he engaged customers more often than brick-and-mortar bookstores and delivered books to the customers’ destinations of choice, commonly the customers’ homes. Books were chosen as the initial offering in the delivery of this virtual service in part because of the large number of b...

Northeast Asia Ripe for Integration

Parasites and food: ripe for exploitation.

Parasites are often exploited for emotive or political purposes. This is especially so for a number of foodborne parasitic zoonoses, where this exploitation may not necessarily best serve the public good.

Grape seeds: ripe for cancer chemoprevention.

A wide variety of phytochemicals, mostly flavonoids or polyphenolics, have been shown to possess anticarcinogenic activities. Among these are the grape seed proanthocyanidins (GSPs), which are the active ingredients of grape seed extract (GSE). Substantial in vitro and preclinical in vivo studies have shown the chemopreventive efficacy of GSPs against various forms of cancers in different tumor...

Internet - Draft RIPE NCC

With the DS record [5] the concept of key-signing and zone-signing keys has been introduced. Key-signing keys are the keys that sign the keyset only. In general, key-signing keys are the keys that are pointed to by DS records and are the first keys to be used when following a chain of trust into the zone. The key-signing keys only sign the KEY RRset at the apex of a zone, zonesigning keys sign ...