UNEP's 1988 ‘Global 500’

Changing patterns in global blindness: 1988–2008

impairment Changing demography When the Community Eye Health Journal was launched in 1988, the world population was approximately 5.1 billion. Over the last 20 years, it has increased by approximately 30%, reaching 6.7 billion in 2008. During the same period, the world population has also become proportionally older, as the number of people aged 65 years and over has increased by approximately ...

Trr 1988

Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 1988, Transportation Research Board of the National Academies, Washington, D.C., 2006, pp. 63–66. The analytical procedures for all-way stop-controlled intersections in the 2000 edition of the Highway Capacity Manual (HCM) lack a model to estimate the 95th percentile queue length. This is considered a major shortc...

500 Solutions

No problem is ever permanently closed. The editor is always pleased to consider for publication new solutions or new insights o n p a s t p r oblems. (1) Determine the set of all c > 0 such that whenever (1) holds, then we have x + y + z xy + yz+ zx. The positive r eals c asked for are those satisfying c 4. From (1), we have xy < c and z = c ; xy x + y + xy. Substituting this value of z into th...

Oracle Advanced Compression Helps Global Fortune 500 Company Meet Storage Savings Initiative

Global Sustainable Development priorities 500 y after Luther: Sola schola et sanitate.

Martin Luther succinctly summarized his theology in sola statements, such as sola scriptura, viewing the Bible (scriptura) as the only valid source of information about God rather than what he viewed as the extraneous, corrupting church doctrine of the time. As a secular side effect of this focus on individual reading skills, the Protestant territories were the first to acquire high literacy ra...