Is global constitutionalism meaningful or desirable? (Abstract only)

Is It Feasible or Desirable?

During the past decade, advances in device technology (eg, drug-eluting stents), development of safer anticoagulants (eg, bivalirudin), and refinement in procedural techniques have led to a dramatic improvement in the effectiveness and safety of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), despite increasing clinical and anatomic complexity of treated patients.1 As safety and effectiveness have be...

Proportionality Balancing and Global Constitutionalism

What is a Postmodern Constitutionalism?

Identifying meaningful locations - Poster Abstract

Petteri Nurmi, Johan Koolwaaij 1 Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 68, FI-00014, Finland 2 Telematica Instituut P.O. Box 589, NL-7500 AN Enschede, the Netherlands [email protected], [email protected] In context-aware mobile computing, location information has been, without doubt, the most widely studied source of contextual inf...

Escalating health care spending: is it desirable or inevitable?

This study analyzes changing trends in U.S. health spending and concludes that although the long-term growth trend has been a good predictor of future spending, periodic differences in the growth trend are important. Of particular concern is the rapid acceleration in health spending beginning in 1998. If left unchecked, the current growth rate will result in almost 24 percent of GDP spent on he...