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Chemistry cuts will do 'irreparable' damage
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This article was amended on 15 August 2011. The original stated that seven Nobel laureates had signed the letter. This has been corrected.ChemistryResearch fundingHigher educationResearchScience funding crisisScience policyAlok JhaIan Sampleguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2011 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - August 14, 2011 Category: Science Authors: Alok Jha, Ian Sample Tags: Chemistry Research funding Higher education Science funding crisis Science policy Politics UK news The Guardian Source Type: news
Disappearing act: Job approval ratings for Congress, Obama sinkingEmail this article to a colleague.
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(NaturalNews) In past election years, there was a joke that the choices for president were so bad someone ought to put Mickey Mouse on the ballot because he'd probably win. Based on the most recent public opinion polls, Mickey is looking better and better.A sinking economy, coupled with stagnation in Washington, a downgraded credit rating, a devalued dollar, a declining stock market and stubbornly high unemployment are among the most prominent reasons why President Barack Obama's job approval numbers are at historic lows.As bad as Democrat Obama's numbers are getting - and they are bad - that doesn't necessarily translate ...
Source: NaturalNews.com - August 14, 2011 Category: Consumer Health Advice Source Type: news
Searching for spin liquids: Much-sought exotic quantum state of matter can existEmail this article to a colleague.
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The world economy is becoming ever more reliant on high tech electronics such as computers featuring fingernail-sized microprocessors crammed with billions of transistors. For progress to continue, for Moore's Law -- according to which the number of computer components crammed onto microchips doubles every two years, even as the size and cost of components halves -- to continue, new materials and new phenomena need to be discovered. Researchers have now discovered a "kaleidoscope" of phases, which represent the lowest-energy states that are allowed given the magnetic interactions.
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - August 12, 2011 Category: Science Source Type: news
Economy Woes Hit Chemical MakersEmail this article to a colleague.
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Finance: Observers fear the economic soft patch is looking more like another recession.
Source: Chemical and Engineering News - August 12, 2011 Category: Chemistry Source Type: research
Ex-senator Lincoln leads advocacy campaignEmail this article to a colleague.
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The National Federation of Independent Business launched Small Businesses for Sensible Regulations, an advocacy campaign chaired by former Sen. Blanche Lincoln, D-Ark.
NFIB President and CEO Dan Danner said the purpose of the campaign is to "give greater voice to small businesses who are being crushed by new regulations in an already difficult economy."
The effort, which will focus on six states initially, will use the personal stories of small business owners to explain how existing regulations – and fear of new regulations coming down the pike – are making businesses hesitant to hire more workers and expand their operations...
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines - August 12, 2011 Category: American Health Authors: Kent Hoover Source Type: research
Going private: Clinicians’ experience of working in UK Independent Sector Treatment CentresEmail this article to a colleague.
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Conclusions: Clinicians’ experience of moving between sectors reveals mixed experiences. Although some improvements might legitimise the growing role of the independent sector, there remain doubts about the commercialisation of services, the motives of managers and the impact of clinical roles and capabilities. With policies looking to expand the mixed economy of public healthcare services, the study suggests clinicians will not automatically embrace a move between sectors.
Source: Health Policy - August 12, 2011 Category: Health Management Authors: Justin Waring, Simon Bishop Tags: Focus on Hospitals Source Type: research
Is The Economy Downgrading Your Sex Life?Email this article to a colleague.
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Ian Kerner, a sexuality counselor and New York Times best-selling author, blogs about sex on Thursdays on The Chart. Read more from him at his website, GoodInBed.
Source: WDSU.com - Health - August 11, 2011 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: WDSU.com Source Type: news
Audit Commission report: NHS Financial Year 2010/11 - A summary of auditors' workEmail this article to a colleague.
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This report produced by the Audit Commission provides a view of the overall financial performance of the NHS in 2010/11. The report summarises the audit of the 2010/11 accounts for strategic health authorities (SHAs), NHS trusts and primary care trusts (PCTs), and examines the auditors' conclusion on the value for money (VFM) arrangements in place in each organisation. It also reviews the progress made by PCTs and NHS trusts in delivering their cost improvement programmes (CIPs). For the 2010/11 report the auditors focussed their review on whether:
. the organisation has proper arrangements in place for sec...
Source: NeLM - News - August 11, 2011 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Source Type: news
Mass. — the economic envy of the nation?Email this article to a colleague.
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If only the rest of the national economy were more like Massachusetts'.
It feels a little strange to write such a thing about a high-cost, high-regulation state, but the numbers don't lie. Massachusetts is beginning to kick butt just as the world winces from a massive stock market migraine.
It’s not entirely clear why Massachusetts is enjoying a recovery that most expected would be firmly in place by now around most of the country. President Obama, for one, would love Massachusetts’ numbers...
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Hospitals headlines - August 11, 2011 Category: Hospital Management Authors: George Donnelly Source Type: research
Prospects & Possibilities for South DakotaEmail this article to a colleague.
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Presents the results of surveys conducted in 35 community conversations in 29 communities across South Dakota. Discusses many rural issues including the economy, education, health care access and costs, race relations, demographics, and population. -- Bush Foundation
Source: Rural publications via the Rural Assistance Center - August 11, 2011 Category: Rural Health Source Type: news
Food Anxiety in Tough Economic Times: Should Americans Start Stockpiling Food?Email this article to a colleague.
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Today's second steep stock market crash coupled with wallet-draining food prices have many Americans wondering, "Should I start stockpiling food?" During times of economic uncertainty, people become anxious about the main stays of living: food, shelter and clothing.read more
Source: Psychology Today Food and Diet Center - August 10, 2011 Category: Nutrition Authors: Martina M. Cartwright, Ph.D., R.D. Tags: Behavioral Economics Diet Politics economic recession economic uncertainty economy food emergencies including natural disasters emergency food storage fast food restaurant food anxiety food banks food insecurity food on the table Source Type: news
First fuel-efficiency and greenhouse-gas emissions standards for trucks announcedEmail this article to a colleague.
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President Obama and truck makers reach agreement on fuel economy and pollution standards for big rigs, work trucks and other heavy-duty vehicles.President Obama announced the first fuel-efficiency and greenhouse gas standards for long-haul rigs, work trucks and other heavy-duty vehicles Tuesday, the second mileage pact with manufacturers in less than a month.
Source: Los Angeles Times - Science - August 10, 2011 Category: Science Source Type: news
Economy Woes Hit Chemical MakersEmail this article to a colleague.
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Finance: Observers fear the economic soft patch is looking more like another recession.
Source: Chemical and Engineering News - August 10, 2011 Category: Chemistry Source Type: research
The association between psychosocial work environment, attitudes towards older workers (ageism) and planned retirementEmail this article to a colleague.
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Conclusion Ageism, lack of recognition and lack of development possibilities are associated with older male workers’ retirement plans
in our analyses. Workability has the strongest association with retirement plans for both genders.
Content Type Journal ArticlePages 1-9DOI 10.1007/s00420-011-0689-5Authors
Sannie Thorsen, The National Research Centre for the Working Environment, Lersø parkallé 105, 2100 Copenhagen, DenmarkReiner Rugulies, The National Research Centre for the Working Environment, Lersø parkallé 105, 2100 Copenhagen, DenmarkKatja Løngaard, The National Research Centre for the Wor...
Source: International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health - August 10, 2011 Category: Occupational Health Tags: International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health Source Type: research
Projected growth in pharmacy education and research, 2010 to 2015.Email this article to a colleague.
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Conclusions. Substantial growth is expected from 2010 to 2015 in all areas of pharmacy education. External factors and how well the profession is able to demonstrate its contribution to resolving healthcare problems may influence the actual growth rates achieved.
PMID: 21931446 [PubMed - in process]
Source: American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education - August 10, 2011 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Knapp KK, Manolakis M, Webster AA, Olsen KM Tags: Am J Pharm Educ Source Type: research
ForewordEmail this article to a colleague.
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Arthroplasty is widely recognized as the most successful surgical procedure for eliminating pain and restoring function in severely affected joints. It is more standardized now than ever before and is practiced globally including in Asia. As the most populated continent, Asia has both a rapidly aging population and an expanding economy. It is likely that Asia will soon have the highest incidence of arthroplasty procedures in the world. Therefore, it is crucial to assess the issues involved in performing arthroplasty in Asian patients and to refine its procedures in this region.
Source: The Journal of Arthroplasty - August 10, 2011 Category: Orthopaedics Authors: Jun-Dong Chang Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research
Workplace increasingly hostile, study findsEmail this article to a colleague.
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Experts point to stress over job security, and research says workers blame leadership, other employees, economy for rudeness
Source: Health News: CBSNews.com - August 9, 2011 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
New technology revives biofuelsEmail this article to a colleague.
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(EUREKA) Started three years ago, EQUIMOTOR PLUS, an R&D project financed through the EUREKA initiative, benefited from the brains of some of the brightest researchers in the four corners of Europe. Together, technicians from Spain, the Czech Republic, Finland, Germany and the United Kingdom worked together to overcome one of the main technological obstacles to an economy based on green energies.
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - August 9, 2011 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
Study: Patients delaying care in bad economyEmail this article to a colleague.
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Study: Patients delaying care in bad economy
Source: MD Consult: News: Top Stories - August 8, 2011 Category: Journals (General) Source Type: news
EPA set to miss deadline on ozone rulesEmail this article to a colleague.
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Under Obama, the agency has delayed action repeatedly on a 2010 vow to set tougher smog standards, as critics in industry and the Republican Party argue that regulations kill jobs.The Obama administration, facing withering criticism from industry that environmental rules are behind the stalled economy, appears poised to miss another key deadline for new standards to clean up smog, lobbyists and environmentalists contend.
Source: Los Angeles Times - Science - August 8, 2011 Category: Science Source Type: news
How to Deal with the Stress of Tough Economic TimesEmail this article to a colleague.
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The Wall Street Journal reported today that "U.S. stocks tumbled in a Monday rout that sent the Dow Jones Industrial Average down 5.5%, plunging below 11000." The economic and psychological reverberations of this loss, layered on a the housing collapse & prolonged unemployment are being felt throughout the world.read more
Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center - August 8, 2011 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Melanie A. Greenberg, Ph.D. Tags: Anxiety Spirituality Stress addictions body awareness collapse current economic situation deep breath dow jones dow jones industrial average economy effects of stress mental health mental health problems mindful attention min Source Type: news
We Need a Bipolar PresidentEmail this article to a colleague.
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Those of us who have done the work to change our bipolar condition from disorder to IN order can be tremendous assets to society instead of burdens.read more
Source: Psychology Today Depression Center - August 8, 2011 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Tom Wootton Tags: Depression Politics Psychiatry Barack Obama Bill Gates bipolar Bipolar Advantage bipolar economy Bipolar in order boom and bust bust cycles delusions of grandeur economic turmoil excessive risk great depression indecisiveness Source Type: news
Taking a Leap to Reach 'Sustainable'Email this article to a colleague.
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Daily Yonder article tells how in one of the premier coal counties of Appalachia, a new initiative is pushing for an alternative foundation for the local economy and culture.
Source: News stories via the Rural Assistance Center - August 8, 2011 Category: Rural Health Source Type: news
AHRMM: Technology, cost analyses key to supply chain managementEmail this article to a colleague.
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BOSTON—A faltering economy, coupled with loss of consumer confidence and the added pressure of healthcare reform has created a “perfect storm” in the healthcare industry; thereby, increasing the need for supply stream improvement to help manage costs, according to presenters Aug. 8 at the 2011 Association for Healthcare Resources & Materials Management (ARHMM) annual conference.
Source: Cardiovascular Business News - August 8, 2011 Category: Cardiology Tags: Latest News Source Type: news
Energetic consequences of seasonal breeding in female Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata)Email this article to a colleague.
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AbstractJapanese macaques inhabit a relatively cold environment and females of this species could have developed strategies of energy economy to face the sometimes‐harsh seasonal conditions of temperate climates, as well as reproductive costs, and thus regulate their energy balance. Here, we explore the relationship between nutritional status, body composition, seasonality, and reproductive status using isotope‐labeled water, anthropometric measurements, and leptin assays from 14 captive female Japanese macaques. Our results indicated that body mass provided the best predictor of fat‐free mass and fat mass. These fem...
Source: American Journal of Physical Anthropology - August 7, 2011 Category: Physiology Authors: Cécile GarciaMichael A. HuffmanKeiko ShimizuJohn R. Speakman Tags: Research Article Source Type: research
Library and Information Science Education and Training in Uganda: Trends, Challenges, and the Way ForwardEmail this article to a colleague.
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In today's public and private sectors, corporate governance is a key focus, and management of libraries, records, archives, and information centers is an increasingly important preoccupation. This implies that the issue of LIS education should not be taken lightly. As the economy grows, the demand for information will propel the demand for LIS professionals because of the need to manage different kinds of documents. This paper, based on relevant literature review and the authors' experience as LIS practitioners and educators, aims at discussing this subject and highlights important issues to be addressed. The paper...
Source: Clinical and Developmental Immunology - August 7, 2011 Category: Allergy & Immunology Source Type: research
Tattered economy has a silver lining for conservationistsEmail this article to a colleague.
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With developers and speculators on the sidelines, desirable property is on the market for a fraction of its former price.The news is distressing: A cratering real estate market, tight-fisted banks unwilling to make loans and no appetite among elected officials to let go of a dime.
Source: Los Angeles Times - Science - August 6, 2011 Category: Science Source Type: news
Neurology at the airportEmail this article to a colleague.
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Conclusion
In our series of neurological problems among air travellers, drug-induced seizures and ischaemic strokes due to large-artery atherosclerosis were the commonest observed diagnoses.
Source: Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry - August 6, 2011 Category: Neurosurgery Authors: Alonso-Canovas, A., de Felipe-Mimbrera, A., Gonzalez-Valcarcel, J., Garcia-Barragan, N., Corral, I., Masjuan, J. Tags: JNNP Patients' choice, Epilepsy and seizures, Stroke, Radiology Research paper Source Type: research
Work, worklessness and the political economy of health inequalitiesEmail this article to a colleague.
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This essay argues that work, and the socioeconomic class polarities it creates, plays a fundamental role in determining inequalities in the distribution of morbidity and mortality. This is by means of uneven exposure to physical hazards and psychosocial risks in the workplace, as well as by inequalities in exclusion from the labour market and the absence of paid work. Furthermore, this essay shows that the relationships between work, worklessness and health inequalities are influenced by the broader political and economic context in the form of welfare state regimes. This leads to the development of a model of the politica...
Source: Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health - August 5, 2011 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Bambra, C. Tags: Epidemiologic studies, Mortality and morbidity, Health service research Essay Source Type: research
Welfare regimes, labour policies and unhealthy psychosocial working conditions: a comparative study with 9917 older employees from 12 European countriesEmail this article to a colleague.
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Conclusion
Active labour policies and reliable social protection measures (eg, Scandinavian welfare regime) exert beneficial effects on the health and well-being of older workers. More emphasis on improving quality of work among this group is warranted.
Source: Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health - August 5, 2011 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Dragano, N., Siegrist, J., Wahrendorf, M. Tags: Epidemiologic studies, Longitudinal studies, Sociology Research reports Source Type: research
When Irrational Thinking and Emotion Prevail, the Economy SuffersEmail this article to a colleague.
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The threat of a “double dip” back into an economic recession looms, but if this comes to pass, the reasons would be much different from the body blow the U.S. [More]
Source: Scientific American - Official RSS Feed - August 5, 2011 Category: Science Tags: Mind & Brain,Technology Source Type: research
What's worse than colonic irrigation? The know-alls queueing up to laugh at it | Suzanne MooreEmail this article to a colleague.
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Plenty of detox therapies may be nonsense, but we shouldn't automatically slam anyone who veers from the mainstreamNew studies show sticking a tube up what I had better call your back passage, flushing gallons of water into it, then, er … letting it all out again does not have miraculous health benefits. This news may not be as significant as the collapse of the global economy, but neither is it a total surprise. Both depend on sets of completely irrational beliefs.I am no expert in the flushing out of debt from the rich to the poor, but I do unfortunately know something about the up-your-bum stuff. C...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - August 5, 2011 Category: Science Authors: Suzanne Moore Tags: Alternative medicine Life and style Health Society Medical research Science The Guardian Features Comment Comment is free Source Type: news
Which South Florida stocks are taking a pounding?Email this article to a colleague.
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South Florida stocks were pounded by a general downturn in the stock market as worries over the global economy pushed the Dow Jones Industrial Average down by 376.72 points, or 3.17 percent, shortly before 2:30 p.m.
Infrastructure companies, such as Dycom Industries and MasTec, and banks, including OptimumBank Holdings and BankAtlantic Bancorp, were among those most heavily impacted. But the list also includes companies with health care operations, such as Opko Health and Catalyst Pharmaceutical Partners, and consumer products, such as memorabilia company Dreams Inc...
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Hospitals headlines - August 4, 2011 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: research
Attributional Style and Depression: How Your Explanations Influence Your MoodEmail this article to a colleague.
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Several weeks ago I took my four-year-old son camping in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness for the first time. At home, when he sleeps, his body takes on the appearance of a wayward compass needle that rotates this way and that until his feet land on his pillow or he headbutts the wall. The first night in the tent was no different; in the wee hours of the morning he woke up, crumpled in a ball at the foot of the tent.
Being four, he is still unlikely to wake up in the middle of the night without sharing his insomnia with someone. That night, upon waking up in the pitch black, he declared with a note of rising pani...
Source: Psych Central - August 4, 2011 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Sandra Sanger, PhD Tags: Depression Disorders General Psychology Self-Esteem Self-Help 100m Dash Attributions Boundary Waters Canoe Area Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness Compass Needle Correct Attribution Explanations Feet Land First Night Flash Source Type: news
The Government on Birth ControlEmail this article to a colleague.
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The Obama administration?s decision to require health insurers to cover all FDA-approved contraceptives, and several other related services, free of charge to the patient goes a long way in explaining why the economy is struggling. It?s the same pattern we?ve seen repeatedly from this president:
Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News - August 4, 2011 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Merrill Matthews Source Type: news
Presidential Science Advisors Recommend Accounting of Ecosystem ServicesEmail this article to a colleague.
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A new report by the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) urges the federal government to periodically assess the condition and value of the nation’s ecosystem services. A Quadrennial Ecosystems Services Trends Assessment could build upon existing monitoring efforts, and could be conducted in conjunction with the quadrennial National Climate Assessment.
“It is common wisdom in business that economic growth depends on regular inventories of capital and assets, along with assessments of risks. Given that so much of our Nation’s economy is underpinned by our ecosystems, it ...
Source: Public Policy Reports - August 4, 2011 Category: Biology Authors: AIBS Source Type: news
Biologists To Meet with Members of CongressEmail this article to a colleague.
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The American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS) is pleased to announce the launch of the 3rd Annual Biological Sciences Congressional District Visits event. This nationwide initiative intends to spur individual biologists and research centers to meet with their members of Congress during the August congressional district work period. The event helps participants to demonstrate the importance of their research to the individuals responsible for casting the votes that shape the nation’s science policy.
“Scientists engage in policy because many issues facing human populations, including global climate change...
Source: Public Policy Reports - August 4, 2011 Category: Biology Authors: AIBS Source Type: news
Globaloney: Why the World Is Not Flat...YetEmail this article to a colleague.
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Fast-forward to the year 2100. Computers, writes physicist and futurist Michio Kaku in Physics of the Future (Doubleday, 2011), will have humanlike intelligence, the Internet will be accessible via contact lenses, nanobots will eliminate cancers, space tourism will be cheap and popular, and we’ll be colonizing Mars. We will be a planetary civilization capable of consuming the 1017 watts of solar energy falling on Earth to meet our energy needs, with the Internet as a worldwide telephone system; English and Chinese as the contenders for a planetary language; a unified culture of common foods, fashions and films; and a...
Source: Scientific American - Official RSS Feed - August 4, 2011 Category: Science Tags: More Science,Mind & Brain,Technology,Society Policy,Everyday Science,Computing,Environment,Science Education,Language Linguistics,Language Linguistics,Communications,Energy Sustainability Source Type: research
NTU hosts top economic minds to contribute ideas for global growthEmail this article to a colleague.
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(Nanyang Technological University) The world's top economic minds are gathering in Singapore over these three days at the Singapore Economic Review Conference to exchange fresh ideas on how to accelerate the global economy. They include Professor Edward Lazear from Stanford University, Princeton Universitys Professor Gregory Chow, and Professor Danny Quah from the London School of Economics and Political Science UK. This is the biennial flagship event of the Singapore Economic Review, a leading economics journal housed at NTU.
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - August 4, 2011 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
Global warming is a litmus test for US Republicans | Raymond S. BradleyEmail this article to a colleague.
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Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney crossed a dangerous party line when he stated his belief in anthropogenic climate changeMitt Romney, arguably the leading Republican candidate for president of the United States in the 2012 election, recently significantly diminished his prospects for obtaining the support he needs from the right wing of his party. How did he do this? He simply declared that he believes the Earth is warming, and that human activities are responsible. To most scientists, such a statement would be considered fairly innocuous, and an accurate assessment of current understanding. But to a large fra...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - August 3, 2011 Category: Science Tags: Climate change scepticism Science Environment Republicans United States US politics World news guardian.co.uk Comment Source Type: news
UK won’t enact site-blocking laws. May legalise format-shiftingEmail this article to a colleague.
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August 2, 201. Vince Cable, the UK business secretary, will say on Wednesday that government plans to block illegal filesharing websites under the controversial Digital Economy Act are in effect unworkable.
Outlining the government’s response to the Hargreaves report on the future of UK copyright law, Cable is also expected to announce legislation to sweep away restrictive rules on file copying and parody works.
In a speech at the British Library on Wednesday August 3, the Liberal Democrat will outline the next steps for the introduction of the delayed Digital Economy Act.
Cable will row back on one of the act’s most c...
Source: News from STM - August 2, 2011 Category: Medical Publishers Authors: jkuta Source Type: news
Charities 'face funding cuts of £100m'Email this article to a colleague.
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Anti-cuts website False Economy says thousands of charities likely to suffer, including providers for elderly and vulnerable
Source: Management in Practice - August 2, 2011 Category: Practice Management Source Type: news
Seven startling things most people still don't know about the national debt, banking and the money supplyEmail this article to a colleague.
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(NaturalNews) Most people, even smart people, know surprisingly little about the way money really works in Big Government. With the debt ceiling fiasco suddenly raising awareness of the possibility of a total global financial blowout, now seems like a good time to remind people of seven disturbing facts about money that are almost never acknowledge in the old media.Fact #1 - There is no FDIC insurance fund.The money at your bank is insured against loss by the FDIC's insurance fund, right? Nope. That's total fiction. There is no actual money in the fund. The FDIC insurance money has already been looted by the U.S. Treasury ...
Source: NaturalNews.com - August 2, 2011 Category: Consumer Health Advice Source Type: news
Soller and Stebbins discuss drug savings and safety in LA TimesEmail this article to a colleague.
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Marilyn Stebbins (left) and William Soller (right)
William Soller, PhD, and Marilyn Stebbins, PharmD, faculty members in the UCSF School of Pharmacy’s Department of Clinical Pharmacy, were sources for a July 25, 2011 Los Angeles Times feature about the safety and effectiveness of saving money by splitting pills or taking medications after their expiration date.
Soller, executive director of the department’s Center for Consumer Self Care, weighed in on which drugs and types of pills were safe to split and why safety is typically not an issue for recently expired medications.
Stebbins, who helps consumers save on...
Source: UCSF School of Pharmacy News - August 1, 2011 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news
Britain must resist Tea Party thinking | Polly ToynbeeEmail this article to a colleague.
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As unreason triumphs in the US, a similar paranoia and refusal to accept scientific fact threaten to invade British politicsTea Party madness has brought the US to the brink of economic mayhem, risking taking much of the world with it. In the face of obdurate unreason, the president of hyper-reasonableness was forced to surrender. The economic credibility of the country that holds the global reserve currency has wobbled. The political credibility of the world's beacon of democracy has failed in the face of an insurgency of unreason. Facts, evidence, probability, possibility – none of that matters to a movement founded on...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - August 1, 2011 Category: Science Authors: Polly Toynbee Tags: Tea Party movement US economy Barack Obama US domestic policy Climate change Climate change scepticism Science US politics Conservatives United States UK news World news The Guardian Comment Comment is free Source Type: news
Smoke-free laws don't impact rural or urban economiesEmail this article to a colleague.
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A recent study shows that smoke-free laws have no impact on the economy in rural or urban communities.
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - August 1, 2011 Category: Science Source Type: news
Exploring the Role of Regional Transportation Projects as Rural Economy DriversEmail this article to a colleague.
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Describes case studies in Alabama, Oregon, and Vermont that demonstrate successful partnerships between regional development organizations (RDOs) and local governments in transportation-led economic development projects. -- National Association of Development Organizations
Source: Rural publications via the Rural Assistance Center - August 1, 2011 Category: Rural Health Source Type: news
