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Will retinal implants restore vision?

A number of research groups are developing electrical implants that can be attached directly to the retina in an attempt to restore vision to patients suffering from retinal degeneration. However, despite promising results in animal experiments, there are still several major obstacles to overcome before retinal prostheses can be used clinically.

What Will You Sacrifice?

It Will Happen to You

Everyone experiences bereavement but few give prior thought to it. Knowing something about the possible reactions and repercussions of bereavement is the best preparation for it.

Which Topic Will You Follow?

Who are the most appropriate candidates to receive a call-for-paper or call-for-participation? What session topics should we propose for a conference of next year? To answer these questions, we need to precisely predict research topics of authors. In this paper, we build a MLR (Multiple Logistic Regression) model to predict the topic-following behavior of an author. By empirical studies, we fin...

Global Carbon Pricing We Will If You Will

This paper makes the case for negotiating a common international charge on greenhouse gas emissions (“carbon”) as opposed to global cap-andtrade. All countries would be covered in principle, but a much smaller number that covered most of the emissions would suffice. The charge would be internationally adjusted from time to time, and each country would collect and keep the revenue it generated b...