Progress over a decade, a century, a millennium.

Progress in Infrared Photodetectors Since 2000

The first decade of the 21st-century has seen a rapid development in infrared photodetector technology. At the end of the last millennium there were two dominant IR systems, InSb- and HgCdTe-based detectors, which were well developed and available in commercial systems. While these two systems saw improvements over the last twelve years, their change has not nearly been as marked as that of the...

Obama’s “Pivot to Asia” Policy (2011- 2016): the Case of China

It has been argued and stated that the 21st century is America's Pacific Century, the century or millennium of Asia, and century or era of China, the inevitable superpower. This paper explains the essence of the new changes when the Pivot Policy was announced by President Obama in 2011. The main question discussed is therefore the following: ‘Why (and how) did President Obama adopt (and impleme...

Global Health Challenges: The Need for an Expanded Discourse on Bioethics

July 2005 | Volume 2 | Issue 7 | e143 Although the 20th century saw a major expansion of the world economy, impressive military/ security advances, and spectacular progress in science and technology, the grim reality in the fi rst decade of the new millennium is that human life, health, and security remain under severe threat—but now from the adverse effects of inexorably widening disparities i...

The 1970s and after The political economy of inflation and the crisis of social democracy

The 1970s was the decade in which the left lost its historical role as the standard bearer of freedom and progress, the role it had proudly possessed since the French Revolution. It was the decade in which the dynamic for necessary change was hegemonised by the new right. This is why the 1970s are so crucial for an understanding of the present situation and the discussion of how to transcend th...

HEPATOLOGY: A CENTURY OF PROGRESS LIVER TRANSPLANTATION AT THE MILLENNIUM Past, Present and Future