Emerging Infectious Diseases
Is an unstoppable global pandemic possible?
From the deadly Ebola outbreak in West Africa to a mysterious new illness that killed a Kansas farmer last summer, emerging infectious diseases — illnesses never seen before or that reappear in new places or with new severity — threaten people around the world. About five new infections emerge in humans each year, typically three crossing over from animals. Many new kinds of infections also strike wild and domestic animals. Fifty years ago many medical scientists believed widespread use of antibiotics and vaccines would all but eliminate infectious disease. But factors such as environmental change, population growth, poverty and globalization are spurring new, often deadly, infections. Disease scientists urge policymakers to pay much more attention to animal health and to boost funding for public-health agencies here and abroad, but many conservatives say more money is not the answer. Meanwhile, scientists are gaining new insights into the genetic makeup of disease-causing microbes, giving them hope of discovering more ways to prevent or fight infections.
Disponível em: http://library.cqpress.com/cqresearcher/document.php?id=cqresrre 2015021300 Acessado em 20 de outubro de 2015.It is false to affirm that
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In pictures 3, 5 and 6, the expressions that, respectively, fit in the blanks are
Why Restoring Nature Could Be the Key to Fighting Climate Change
For decades, scientists and policymakers have focused on changing human behavior to address climate change. Regulations have mandated reduced carbon emissions,subsidies have supported the development of renewable energy and individuals have worked to make their lifestyles more sustainable.
Disponível em: <http://time.com/4070683/nature-climate-change> Acesso em: 20 out. 2015.
The words sustainable and subsidies can be best understood as
A ironia é um recurso muito frequente nas histórias de Garfield, personagem da tirinha. Levando esse fato em consideração, o que ele quer dizer com a frase: “Oh, that panel isn’t very biased”?
One Direction’s Niall Horan has a main role in J.K. Rowling’s newest book
J.K. Rowling had an idea that might bring the One Direction’s fans running to the store to pick up her newest book, the “Career of Evil.” The Harry Potter author is one of the most successful writers and moneymakers, but she just can’t stop surprising everybody as she takes another step forward. After the great success of Harry Potter and all the merchandising associated with it, J.K. Rowling sparks another magical touch by introducing the One Direction’s subject to her fiction books.
It’s a whole new readers’ market that she’s trying to explore, as she’s claiming the One Direction’s fans attention to her books. J.K. Rowling introduces a character, Kelsey, who is in love with Niall Horan, the One Direction’s Irish singer. [...]
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The message in the comicstrip claims that by having:
He is ridiculed for his mendacity and ostracized by his
peers. He presides over a free-falling currency and a rapidly
shrinking economy. International sanctions stop his
kleptocratic friends from holidaying in their ill-gotten
[5] Mediterranean villas. Judged against the objectives Vladimir
Putin purported to set on inheriting Russia´s presidency 15
years ago – prosperity, the rule of law, westward integration –
regarding him as a success might seem bleakly comical
But those are no longer his goals, if they ever really were.
[10] Look at the world form his perspective, and Mr. Putin is
winning. He remains the Kremlin´s undisputed master. He has
a throttlehold on Ukraine and domesticating Ukraine through
his routine tactics of threats and bribery was his first
preference, but the invasion has had its benefits. It has
[15] demonstrated the costs of insubordination to Russians. The
conflict has usefully shown who is boss in Russia. Best of all,
discord has been sown among Mr. Putin´s adversaries: among
Europeans and between them and America.
His aim is to divide and neuter that alliance. From his
[20] tantrums over the Middle East to his invasion of Georgia and
Ukraine, Mr. Putin has sometimes seemed to stumble into
accidental disputes with the West, driven by a paranoid fear of
encirclement. In hindsight it seems that, given his outlook,
confrontation may have been inevitable. Either way, the
[25] contest he insists on cannot be dodged. It did not begin in poor
Ukraine and will not end there. Prevailing will require far more
resolve than Western leaders have so far mustered.
(from The Economist, February 14th, 2015.)
In the passage, “bleakly” (line 8) means
Emerging Infectious Diseases
Is an unstoppable global pandemic possible?
From the deadly Ebola outbreak in West Africa to a mysterious new illness that killed a Kansas farmer last summer, emerging infectious diseases — illnesses never seen before or that reappear in new places or with new severity — threaten people around the world. About five new infections emerge in humans each year, typically three crossing over from animals. Many new kinds of infections also strike wild and domestic animals. Fifty years ago many medical scientists believed widespread use of antibiotics and vaccines would all but eliminate infectious disease. But factors such as environmental change, population growth, poverty and globalization are spurring new, often deadly, infections. Disease scientists urge policymakers to pay much more attention to animal health and to boost funding for public-health agencies here and abroad, but many conservatives say more money is not the answer. Meanwhile, scientists are gaining new insights into the genetic makeup of disease-causing microbes, giving them hope of discovering more ways to prevent or fight infections.
Disponível em: http://library.cqpress.com/cqresearcher/document.php?id=cqresrre 2015021300 Acessado em 20 de outubro de 2015.Emerging infectious diseases are
Corruption
Corruption is drawing a lot of attention worldwide. The paper surveys and discusses issues related to the causes, consequences, and scope of corruption and possible corrective actions. It emphasizes the costs of corruption in terms of economic growth. It also emphasizes that the fight against corruption may be costly and cannot be independent from the reform of the state. If certain reforms are not made, corruption is likely to continue to be a problem regardless of actions directly aimed at curtailing it.
(https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/wp/wp9863.pdf)In the abstract above, there are the following ideas
Consumer data protection and the need for alternative new responses
The Internet and the innovations have given rise to have delivered unprecedented benefits for billions of consumers. Data is the commodity that is powering much of this innovation and the digital economy more widely. Handing over personal data is now as key to facilitating an online transaction as handing over money. While enjoying the benefits, consumers are expressing increasing unease over how personal data is being used.
Today’s smartphone era is characterised by the ease and efficiency with which data can be collected, processed, stored and transmitted; and also by the range of data that is collected including: location, browsing history, contacts and purchases made to name a few. And yet much of the current data protection legislation around the world was framed as response to the era of mainframe computers and early databases. Consumers’ growing sense of powerlessness and loss of control in relation to the collection of our personal data is therefore an understandable response.
Source: Adapted from Consumers International Blog
(http://consumersinternational.blogspot.com.br/2015/08/consumer-data-protection-and-need-for.html)
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