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The Supply of Medical Isotopes An Economic Diagnosis and Possible Solutions

The Supply of Medical Isotopes An Economic Diagnosis and Possible Solutions
OECD, Nuclear Energy Agency, "The Supply of Medical Isotopes An Economic Diagnosis and Possible Solutions"
English | 2019 | pages: 126 | ISBN: 9264945504 | PDF | 3,1 mb
This report explores the main reasons behind the unreliable supply of Technetium-99m (Tc-99m) in health-care systems and policy options to address the issue. Tc-99m is used in 85% of nuclear medicine diagnostic scans performed worldwide - around 30 million patient examinations every year. These scans allow diagnoses of diseases in many parts of the human body, including the skeleton, heart and circulatory system, and the brain. Medical isotopes are subject to radioactive decay and have to be delivered just-in-time through a complex supply chain. However, ageing production facilities and a lack of investment have made the supply of Tc-99m unreliable. This report analyses the use and substitutability of Tc-99m in health care, health-care provider payment mechanisms for scans, and the structure of the supply chain. It concludes that the main reasons for unreliable supply are that production is not economically viable and that the structure of the supply chain prevents producers from charging prices that reflect the full costs of production and supply.

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The Successful Investor Playbook

The Successful Investor Playbook
The Successful Investor Playbook: Get comprehensive and simple understanding of option geeks, various strategies and how to implement them to generate constant profit by Alan Doyle
English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0B754B4FR | 103 pages | EPUB | 0.52 Mb
Trading has become a familiar word for everyone recently, but what is trading? Everything that can be sold and bought is "traded".

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The Strong State in Russia Development and Crisis

The Strong State in Russia Development and Crisis
Andrei P. Tsygankov, "The Strong State in Russia: Development and Crisis"
English | 2014 | ISBN: 0199336210, 0199336202 | 272 pages | True PDF | 4.7 MB
The Russian state presents a mystery to outside observers. Although Russia was the site of some of the last century's most radical upheavals, and although Russian governments are usually characterized by autocracy, corruption, and political decay, the central government has retained a remarkable hold on the vast country. Does its historical progress represent change, or continuity? How has the political culture molded the expectations and behavior of the Russian people over time? What features of the Russian state are the keys to understanding it?

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The Star Captains Frigate Command in the Napoleonic Wars

The Star Captains Frigate Command in the Napoleonic Wars
Tom Wareham, "The Star Captains: Frigate Command in the Napoleonic Wars"
English | ISBN: 1557508712 | 2001 | 256 pages | AZW3 | 1355 KB
Novelists from C. S. Forester to Patrick O'Brian have glorified Nelson's dashing frigate captains, but how much of their story is true? The author of this new volume on the nature of frigate command argues that the legend was very close to reality. Based on detailed studies of the appointments, training, and promotion of the Royal Navy's officer corps, he contends that frigate commanders were an elite group whose careers followed separate paths from their contemporaries. They exhibited specific and highly prized skills that were rewarded with fast-track promotions and resulted in the creation of one of the most successful military cadres in history. Often facing daunting odds, these frigate captains won the vast majority of their battles and a place in maritime lore. This book is a fascinating contribution to the broader understanding of the workings of Nelson's navy and will appeal to enthusiasts and historians alike.

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The Social Singularity

The Social Singularity
The Social Singularity: How decentralization will allow us to transcend politics, create global prosperity, and avoid the robot apocalypse by Max Borders
English | 2018 | ISBN: 1732039402 | 208 Pages | EPUB | 590.5 KB
What if politics as we know it is about to end? What if humanity soon organizes itself not in hierarchies, but in hive minds? What if society's mediating structures-education, media, and financial institutions-are about to be completely transformed? Welcome to The Social Singularity. In this decentralization manifesto, futurist Max Borders shows that humanity is already building systems that will "underthrow" great centers of power. Exploring the promise of a decentralized world, Borders says we will: - Reorganize to collaborate and compete with AI; - Operate within networks of superior collective intelligence; - Rediscover our humanity and embrace values for an age of connection. With lively prose, Borders takes us on a tour of modern pagan festivals, cities of the future, and radically new ways to organize society. In so doing, he examines trends likely to revolutionize the ways we live and work. Although the technological singularity fast approaches, Borders argues, a parallel process of human reorganization will allow us to reap enormous benefits. The paradox? Our billion little acts of subversion will help us lead richer, healthier lives-and avoid the robot apocalypse.

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The Social Contract A Personal Inquiry into the Evolutionary Sources of Order and Disorder

The Social Contract A Personal Inquiry into the Evolutionary Sources of Order and Disorder
Robert Ardrey, Berdine Ardrey, "The Social Contract: A Personal Inquiry into the Evolutionary Sources of Order and Disorder"
English | 2014 | ISBN: 098860437X, 0002117908 | 322 pages | EPUB | 0.34 MB
"Violation of biological command has been the failure of social man. Vertebrates though we may be, we have ignored the law of equal opportunity since civilization's earliest hours. Sexually reproducing beings though we are, we pretend today that the law of inequality does not exist. And enlightened though we may be, while we pursue the unattainable we make impossible the realizable." In his two previous books, Robert Ardrey exploded a series of philosophical landmines. African Genesis (1961) introduced his new evolutionary approach to an understanding of men. Then came The Territorial Imperative (1966), whose title is now a common phrase in our language. The Social Contract is the third in the series, and it denies that men are created equal - but that they deserve absolute equality of opportunity. Robert Ardrey maintains that since the publication of Rousseau's Social Contract two centuries ago, men have wasted social resources, converted much of education into a process of brain-washing, committed themselves to one political insane asylum after another, all in pursuit of a goal that is a natural impossibility in any sexually reproducing species. Discarding the myth, Robert Ardrey combines his wealth of knowledge of animal ways with the new insights of modern biology and the newest revelations concerning human evolution to probe perplexing contemporary problems: the revolt of the young, the status struggle and the role of leadership, population control, urban overcrowding, violence in civilized life. Praise for the 1970 edition: "Robert Ardrey's The Social Contract is as imaginative and exciting as his African Genesis or The Territorial Imperative, but this new book is broader in scope, better balanced, and more philosophical than its predecessors. I disagree with some of Ardrey's opinions concerning human aggression, because I have greater faith than he has in the power of environmental conditioning. But this does not affect my conviction that The Social Contract will be of immense value in helping the public to probe into the dark and misty areas where zoology, anthropology, and prehistory join to account for the origins of man as a social animal." - Rene Dubos, Rockefeller University

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