Objectivity is an Elusive Ideal that Can Never be Achieved

Sustainable development: how to manage something that is subjective and never can be achieved?

René Kemp & Pim Martens 1 UNU-MERIT & International Centre for Integrated Assessment and Sustainable Development, Maastricht University, PO Box 616, 6200 MD Maastricht, The Netherlands (email: [email protected]) 2 International Centre for Integrated Assessment and Sustainable Development, Maastricht University, PO Box 616, 6200 MD Maastricht, The Netherlands (email: [email protected]...

“Not Everything That Is Faced Can Be Changed, but Nothing Can Be Changed Until It Is Faced”: A Response to Recent Commentaries

The Circle That Never Ends: Can Complexity Be Made Simple?

There is no need to try to ease into the discussion because the issue being discussed here is too involved to waste words that way. It is important to get right to the point. The starting premise is that we seek to understand the world in which we live. This leads immediately to a whole set of related premises that define the problem as being the answer to the question “how we can obtain that w...

B(ℓ p ) can never be amenable

We show that, if E is a Banach space with a basis satisfying a certain condition, then the Banach algebra l∞(K(l2 ⊕ E)) is not amenable; in particular, this is true for E = l with p ∈ (1,∞). As a consequence, l∞(K(E)) is not amenable for any infinite-dimensional Lp-space. This, in turn, entails the non-amenability of B(lp(E)) for any Lp-space E, so that, in particular, B(lp) and B(Lp[0, 1]) are...

[Do clinical trials contribute to research development in Peru? How can that be achieved?].

The participation of the National Institute of Health as a leader in ethical and methodological assessment and its responsibility to approve the implementation of studies dates back to 1995. Since then, clinical trials have increased significantly until 2009; for this reason, a preliminary analysis was made to assess whether this increase has had an impact in the production of clinical trials o...