Navigating Disruptive Events to Strengthen Global Managerial Resilience

Global partnerships to strengthen the evidence base for nursing.

Global sugar guidelines: an opportunity to strengthen nutrition policy.

The 2014 draft WHO sugars intake guidelines reiterate the 2003 recommendations of the Joint WHO/FAO Expert Consultation on Diet, Nutrition and the Prevention of Chronic Diseases, which recommended that sugar intake should be limited to less than 10% of dietary energy intake. These new WHO draft guidelines present a stronger evidence base on the health benefits of limiting sugar intake to 10% of...

Resilience to Global Food Supply Catastrophes

Many global catastrophic risks threaten major disruption to global food supplies, including nuclear wars, volcanic eruptions, asteroid and comet impacts, and plant disease outbreaks. This paper discusses options for increasing the resilience of food supplies to these risks. In contrast with local catastrophes, global food supply catastrophes cannot be addressed via food aid from external locati...

Disruptive events in high-density cellular networks

Stochastic geometry models are used to study wireless networks, particularly cellular phone networks, but most of the research focuses on the typical user, often ignoring atypical events, which can be highly disruptive and of interest to network operators. We examine atypical events when an unexpected large proportion of users are disconnected or connected by proposing a hybrid approach based o...

Globally disruptive events show predictable timing patterns

Globally disruptive events include asteroid/comet impacts, large igneous provinces and glaciations, all of which have been considered as contributors to mass extinctions. Understanding the overall relationship between the timings of the largest extinctions and their potential proximal causes remains one of science's great unsolved mysteries. Cycles of about 60 million years in both fossil diver...