With the warhead supply depleting, the US has a second huge problem: developing a way to produce nuclear fuel, probably mostly from spent fuel, with the desired high concentration of uranium-235. Today, Russia is the primary supplier of enriched uranium. The plan of the US is to use govern...
Global tensions have been rising, creating significant risks for countless companies. Here's how to build geopolitical resilience in the face of uncertainty.
“This is the end of the small trading business and the rise of industry,” Li, whose name has been changed to protect his privacy, tells Sixth Tone. “It has always been the survival of the fittest.” Li is part of a group that has played a little-known, but crucial role in drivi...
Benefits of telehealth include convenience, access to care, better patient outcomes, and a more efficient healthcare system. In a study done by the World Health Organization (WHO), it was found that roughly 50% of European member states have some form of telehealth in their nations. Specificall...
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According to Zwick and Denegri Knott [19] (referred in Ref. [18] consumers are produced as ‘novel sets of consumers’ by these technologies: [C]omputerized information networks that continuously integrate dispersed sites of information solicitation with simultaneous feedback loops do not produce ...
When commodity prices rise, there is an impact on how people travel, how goods are shipped, and how people formulate theirbudgets. In comparing the rise of natural gas vs. oil prices, both have an impact on the consumer. For instance, when home heating prices climb, people have to decide...
to feed a growing population is a crucial issue for the 21st century.The issue was high on the agenda (当务之急) at the recent United Nations Climate Change Conference in Egypt.According to the UN,by 2050,we will need to produce 60% more food to feed a world population of 9.3 billion...
Because people with lower incomes spend a larger portion of their earnings on clothes and other goods that are cheaper to import than to produce domestically, they would probably suffer the most from a turn towardsprotectionism—just as many of them did from trade liberalization. According to a ...
Higher prices per barrel of oil also helped to justify the cost of ahydraulically fracturedwell (also known asfracking). The United States is once again one of the top producers of oil and gas.Greater domestic oil production is a net positive for the United States. However, as an oil-pro...