To close the message gap, practitioners have devised life-saving solutions that range from bumper stickers and text messages to mobile cancer screenings.
Also, Van Leeuwen believes, as much of this data as possible should be made available in an open and readable format to the public, so creative minds will devise life-saving new applications.
We devised a life in which we took care of John in the day, bought steaks and Champagne at night and watched videos after Bernice came.
But transfusion for medical reasons did not exist in Biblical times; this is one of the many difficulties that arise when codes of ethics that were devised for life in the pre-modern desert are applied to the 21st century.
"I read, revised, plotted and schemed; I dreamed and devised a life in those semi-silent rooms," he said.
This is an exhaustive, admiring biography of Brandeis (1856-1941), the jurist, lawyer and reformer who devised savings bank life insurance, helped establish the state of Israel as the head of the American Zionist movement and, as a Supreme Court justice, developed the modern jurisprudence of free speech and the doctrine of a constitutionally protected right to privacy.
Henri, the son of Lorenzo de Tonti, the Neapolitan financier who devised the tontine life insurance plan, joined the French army in 1668.
"My God," he thinks, "what stories ordinary life devised; not masterpieces to be sure, they were doubtless closer to Venezuelan, Brazilian, Colombian, and Mexican soap operas than to Cervantes and Tolstoy.
Initially popularised by Donna Karan, who launched her "7 Easy Pieces" range in 1985, the concept was devised to make life as a busy, working woman and mother as easy as possible, segueing seamlessly from office scenarios to weekend wear and back again.
Meanwhile, Mr Knight, who says he has "worked in restaurants and bars all my life", devised a food menu that would best complement the beer.
The Arthritis Impact Measurement Scale was developed to reflect the WHO definition of health [ 50], and the WHOQOL from the definition of quality of life devised by the WHOQOL group [ 30].
