Positive, but non-excessive discounting of future utilities to take account of possible non-realization/survival is not the dictatorship of the present, contrary to Chichilnisky’s argument which is ingenious but contains a slip due to the improper treatment of infinity. As the probability of people existing a trillion to the power of a trillion years from now is close to zero, the fact that the...

, Jessica Suplie and Elsa Tsioumani . The Digital Editors are Andrei Henry and Nabiha Megateli . The Editor is Pamela S. Chasek, Ph.D. and the Managing Director is Langston James “Kimo” Goree VI . The Sustaining Donors of the Bulletin are The Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Aff...

Recovering three-dimensional information from two-dimensional images is the fundamental goal of stereo techniques. The problem of recovering depth (three-dimensional information) from a set of images is essentially the correspondence problem: Given a point in one image, find the corresponding point in each of the other images. Finding potential correspondences usually involves matching some ima...

This issue is written and edited by Changbo Bai and Teya Penniman . The Editor is Lynn Wagner . Director of IISD Reporting Services (including Sustainable Developments) is Langston James "Kimo" Goree VI . Funding for coverage of this meeting has been provided by the United Nations University. The authors can be contacted at t...

, Jessica Suplie and . The Editor is Pamela Chasek, Ph.D. and the Managing Editor is Langston James "Kimo" Goree . Digital editing by Ken Tong . The Sustaining Donors of the Bulletin are The Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Government of Canada (through CIDA),...

Paraoxonase-1 (PON1) is a high-density lipoprotein (HDL)-associated enzyme known as a free radical scavenging system (1). PON-1 has three main activities, responsible for its antioxidant and anti-inflammatory potential: paraoxonase, arylesterase and lactonase (LACase), the latest to be discovered and pointed out to be its native activity (2). Among other physiological roles, the LACase might mi...

and Jessica Suplie . The Digital Editor is David Fernau . The Editor is Pamela S. Chasek, Ph.D. and the Managing Editor is Langston James Goree VI .The Sustaining Donors of the Bulletin are The Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Government of Canada (through CIDA and DFAIT), the United States (through US...

BACKGROUND Bivalirudin is an alternative to heparin in patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). We aimed to define the effects of a bivalirudin-based anticoagulation regimen compared with a heparin-based anticoagulation regimen on ischaemic and bleeding outcomes. METHODS We searched Medline, the Cochrane Library, and relevant meeting abstracts (search done on April 9, 201...