Smart Shipping - Seizing Opportunities while Controlling Risks

Seizing the opportunities of adolescent health.

Economic and social change have brought great opportunities and threats to adolescent health for rich and poor nations alike. The health transition, together with changes in adolescent social roles, has shifted the burden from childhood infectious diseases towards adolescent injuries and health-jeopardising behaviours in all but the poorest countries. Fortunately, research has clarifi ed many d...

Risks and Opportunities for Systems Using Blockchain and Smart Contracts

Introduction: Opportunities and risks

It is a known fact that, world wide, there are more than 200 international water systems and that some 60 per cent of the global population resides within such systems. This has important implications for international security of these water systems and the people dependent on them. With this in mind, the United Nations University (UNU), within the framework of the environmentally sustainable ...

Controlling Smart Matter

Smart matter consists of many sensors, computers and actuators embedded within materials. These microelectromechanical systems allow properties of the materials to be adjusted under program control. In this context, we study the behavior of several organizations for distributed control of unstable physical systems and show how a hierarchical organization is a reasonable compromise between rapid...

The Emerging Smart Grid: Opportunities for Increased System Reliability and Potential Security Risks