Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi of Libya, ruthless and erratic as he may be, achieved the continent's highest levels of progress in terms of education, health and wealth, according to last year's United Nations Human Development Report.
At sufficiently high levels of technological progress, in other words, there is nothing a human can do that a machine can't.Human labour is necessary in order to do required tasks that aren't yet automatable.
This suggests that, controlling for the effects of all other predictors, municipalities whose local government leaders possess a higher level of disaster resilience leadership tend to have a higher level of progress in flood resilience building.
In addition, when comparing the overall progress of flood resilience building among the five regions, the data show that, on average, municipalities located in the northern region of Thailand have made the highest level of progress in flood resilience building, followed by municipalities in the central, southern, northeastern, and eastern regions, respectively (Fig. 1).
The so-called "London effect", which describes the high levels of attainment and progress of pupils in the capital over the past decade, has been the subject of intense investigation by researchers seeking to replicate it elsewhere.
These results suggest that high levels of CARD9 in progressing colon carcinoma are due to accumulation of macrophages in the tumor microenvironment.
The provocative finding that some SIV-infected pigtailed macaques do not develop CNS disease (although all animals develop similar high levels of persistent viremia and progress to AIDS) suggests that there are host genetic factors that confer resistance to lentiviral-induced CNS disease.
Moreover, in the later stages with high levels of iron, heart failure progress quickly with severe systolic dysfunction, and ventricular dilation in these patients.
In Chile family members in a multifamily psychoeducation and skills building programme showed high levels of satisfaction with the progress of their family member, although overall satisfaction with the service provided was higher in the study control group (a waitlisted group receiving usual care) [ 39].
At a very high level of technological progress that's basically nothing.
