Thus, gonorrhoea causes significant morbidity and socioeconomic consequences globally [ 1, 2].
Repeated infections lead to acute and chronic undernutrition, resulting in more frequent and more severe infections; eventually this leads to developmental deficits in growth, fitness and cognition, which persist into adulthood with devastating human and economic consequences globally.
In 1971, W. David Montgomery, a Harvard graduate student in economics, fleshed out the idea of emissions trading in his doctoral thesis and has spent much of the last three decades trying to figure out how the marketplace can deal with environmental problems that are caused by relatively few actors but have consequences felt globally.
Although these studies have provided important information on the tissue-specific functions of GR, the cardiovascular and metabolic consequences of globally altered GR density, and hence glucocorticoid sensitivity, have not been described, although this is the clinically relevant situation.
It is hard to gauge how much has been spent on this vision of a nuclear perpetual motion machine, but we're fortunate in that it's been a total failure, because the environmental, public health and security consequences of a globally distributed plutonium economy at scale are almost too hideous to contemplate.
But we're in denial about some newly emergent threats, which may seem improbable but whose consequences could be globally devastating.
Significance of these deregulations (consequence of a globally altered transcriptional status or causative and driving abnormality) is still a matter of debate.
Consequently, more people globally are experiencing the consequences of NCD risk factors in middle and later life, according to the classic theories of epidemiological transition (3).
Its consequences will be felt globally.
Frank Rich's reconstruction of events in 2002 ("Karl and Scooter's Excellent Adventure," column, Oct. 23) illustrates how the president and his men are tacticians suited to the quick action of domestic political knife fighting, rather than patient strategists with the vision to conduct long-term struggles with needs and consequences that can unfold globally over years or even decades.
Or will it rage disastrously, perhaps globally, the consequence of public apathy and a politics that has asked too little and assumed too much?
