Sea-bed mining — count the true costs

The costs of a bullet--the true cost of labour.

After discussion on a viable intervention strategy, we felt that something ‘cool’ and innovative was called for. Step forward ‘Mr Butt’, a Facebook character based on a fictional 14year-old boy. This champion of quitting smoking is everyone’s pal and can be added as a friend on this vastly popular networking tool. Mr Butt’s group on Facebook, ‘Mr Butt wants everyone to quit smoking’, is a sourc...

Using Penetrometers to Measure Sea Bed Properties

The principal objective of this work has been to develop a set of mechanical, remote-sensing tools that will permit the determination of the main geotechnical variables that control mine burial in the bottom. These variables include the shear strength of both soft, fine-grained sediments and coarser, dilative granular sediments. A further objective is to understand better the response of typica...

What are the true costs of major trauma?

BACKGROUND This economic evaluation reports the results of a detailed study of the cost of major trauma treated at Princess Alexandra Hospital (PAH), Australia. METHODS A bottom-up approach was used to collect and aggregate the direct and indirect costs generated by a sample of 30 inpatients treated for major trauma at PAH in 2004. Major trauma was defined as an admission for Multiple Signifi...

U.S. health care costs: the untold true story.

Measuring the True Costs of War: Consensus and Controversy

All wars generate controversy, though some more so than others. The current US-led intervention in Iraq and the catastrophic explosion of ethnic violence it incited is especially contentious. Whilst acrimonious disagreement over the raison d’etre of the Iraq war persists in capitals around the world, few deny that it has been an especially bloody and traumatic experience for Iraqi civilians. Th...