Protecting life, facilitating death

Protecting athletes from sudden cardiac death.

THE CARDIOVASCULAR BENEFITS OF REGULAR PHYSIcal activity have been well documented, but vigorous exercise can also transiently increase the risk of sudden cardiac death. Exercise-related sudden death in adults is primarily due to coronary artery disease, whereas such events in younger individuals are due to a variety of congenital and genetic cardiovascular disorders, including inherited cardio...

Constraints on experimentation: protecting children to death.

Life & Death

life insurance policy (college freshman), about the same as the Gettysburg Address, and much less readable than Hemingway (fifth grade level). I used more words per sentence than Hemingway (18.5 versus 13.5) but less than Lincoln (26.8). I used longer words than any of the references (4.8 letters per word, versus 4.0 for Hemingway) but used fewer prepositions (10.7 percent) than any of the othe...

Facilitating and Improving Organisational Community Life

The growth in importance of communities within organisational settings is a sign of a change in paradigm. When management and organisational theory introduce the critical notion of communities , in parallel to the concepts of collaborative work and of knowledge sharing, there is an internal revolution going on. Brown & Duguid, 1991) has a critical role to play in today's development of manageme...

Sharing and Protecting Networked Digital Life Memories

The increasing power of computers, increasing capacity of digital memory and wider availability of a great variety of input devices such as cameras and video recorders, has resulted in an astonishing growth in the use of multimedia and the production of user generated content. It’s now becoming feasible to store a digital record of everything that a person sees and hears throughout their life, ...