It's time to wake up to the fact that making smart buildings, cities and homes will dramatically improve our quality of life in the years ahead.

现在是时候清醒地认识到，建造智能建筑、城市和住宅将极大地改善我们未来几年的生活质量。

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Prolonging life at the expense of its quality can rob elderly people of meaningful years, Muriel Gillick tells Les Olson.

穆里尔·克里克对雷·奥尔森说，毫无质量可言地延长生命，无异于使老年人失去了最后几年有意义的生活。

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But later years may come with a diminished quality of life.

但随后的几年生活品质会下降。

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For example,one question they wanted to answer was whether the loss of quality life years was due to people dying sooner - mortality - or living in poor health - morbidity.

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City College of New York professor Erica Lubetkin is one of the authors of a new study that looked at the loss of quality life years due to obesity and how that changed between 1993 and 2008.

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It compared losses in what are called "quality-adjusted life years."

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The Circulation paper uses an esoteric measure called QALYs (pronounced quallies) that stands for quality life years.

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This decision makes sense in terms of quality life years, and certainly the terrible shortage of organs leads inevitably to some kind of rationing.

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We hide the allocation of scarce resources behind phraseology such as "quality adjusted life years, " but at the end of the day, it is allocation.

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