Anticipation is increasingly central to urgent contemporary debates, from climate change to the global economic crisis. Anticipatory practices are coming to the forefront of political, organizational, and citizens' society. Research into anticipation, however, has not kept pace with public demand for insights into anticipatory practices, their risks and uses. Where research exists, it is deeply...

Despite declared political commitment to implement the Political Declaration of the High-Level Meeting of the United Nations General Assembly on the Prevention and Control of Non-Communicable Diseases, many countries are experiencing challenges in moving to concrete action. The response to the 2011 UN political declaration and to the regional framework for action which was endorsed by the Regio...

The biodiversity crisis is one of the greatest challenges facing humanity, but our understanding of the drivers remains limited. Thus, after decades of studies and regulation efforts, it remains unknown whether to what degree and at what concentrations modern agricultural pesticides cause regional-scale species losses. We analyzed the effects of pesticides on the regional taxa richness of strea...

Contagion is usually defined as correlation between markets in excess of what would be implied by economic fundamentals; however, there is considerable disagreement regarding the definitions of the fundamentals, how the fundamentals might differ across countries, and the mechanisms that link the fundamentals to asset returns. Our research takes, as a starting point, a two-factor model with time...

since the collapse of the soviet :union:, russia has been affected by intensifying regional and international developments than ever before. because of new opportunities and threats caused by these developments, russia faced with the problem of structural adoption whit systemic new realities, accompanying whit redefinition of its position and review of foreign policy approaches. conceptual and ...

BACKGROUND Greece was one of the countries hit the hardest by the 2008 financial crisis in Europe. Yet, evidence on the effect of the crisis on total and cause-specific mortality remains unclear. We explored whether the economic crisis affected the trend of overall and cause-specific mortality rates. METHODS We used regional panel data from the Hellenic Statistical Authority to assess mortali...

An overall management plan for malignant hyperthermia susceptible (MHS) parturients is presented based on the experience of managing 14 of these patients. A summary of the pertinent features of their deliveries and care plus a case report of one of these parturients is described. Discussion centres around the problems of diagnosis of malignant hyperthermia susceptibility in pregnancy, the diffe...

Since the first eruption of the Asian crisis last July, the majority of Southeast Asian countries have been hit by stormy shocks from the regional crisis to their financial sectors; they also have encountered grave setbacks in production, consumption and investment. As a result, their economic growth has been stunted and possibly reversed. However, among Asian countries, Taiwan appears to be aw...

The world’s population is ageing and this presents a major policy issue in the developing world (United Nations, 1991). In Asia, the crisis is an immediate one (World Bank, 1994); China stands out as the most rapidly ageing society, and its population structure will be closer to that of the developed regions by 2025 (United Nations, 1999a, 1999b). In Africa, ageing is a crisis that is just begi...