Scarcity or economic insecurity Two yardsticks for measuring capitalism's performance

Global resources: abuse, scarcity, and insecurity.

Introduction Sedation is widely used in intensive care unit (ICU) patients to limit the risk of pulmonary barotrauma and to decrease oxygen needs. However, adverse effects of sedation have not been fully evaluated; in particular, effects of benzodiazepine and opiates on microcirculation have not been extensively studied. The aim of this study was to evaluate the microcirculatory effects of a se...

Measuring Economic Insecurity in Rich and Poor Nations

In both rich and poor nations, worrying about future economic dangers subtracts from the present well-being of individuals, which is why affluent societies have complex systems of private insurance and public social protection to reduce the costs of economic hazards. However, the citizens of poor nations (i.e. most of humanity) typically find both private insurance and public social protection ...

Food Insecurity or Poverty ? Measuring Need - Related Dietary Adequacy

We examine the extent to which food insecurity questions and the standard poverty measure are correlated with various dietary and physiologic outcomes. Our findings suggest that the correlations vary tremendously by age. We find that the food insecurity questions are correlated with the dietary outcomes of older household members, but that they are not consistently related to the diets of child...

Measuring Insecurity of Programs

Recent advances in the theory and practice of quantitative information flow analysis allow, for the first time, to compute good approximations of security leaks of non-trivial programs. This paper presents a tool for a dynamic analysis of security leaks in programs. The tool first computes the precise leakage for a subset of the program inputs within a user-specified time. After exceeding this ...

Measuring an independent Scotland’s economic performance