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Klinische Forschung: DDZ- und UKD-Wissenschaftlerin erhält Ferdinand-Bertram-Preis

Bis heute sind die Mechanismen der Insulinresistenz in den Skelettmuskeln und anderen Geweben von Typ-2-Diabetes Patienten nicht vollständig verstanden. Die Diabetologin Szendrödi erforscht in diesem Zusammenhang, welche Auswirkungen eine hyperkalorische Ernährung und wenig Bewegung auf Patienten mit einem Typ-2-Diabetes haben können. So konnte sie ableiten, dass ein manifester Typ-2-Diabetes durch eine verminderte Verbrennung des Nährstoffangebots an die Muskulatur gekennzeichnet ist.

Google Employees Resign in Protest Against Pentagon Contract

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The Intellectual Dark Web, Explained: What Jordan Peterson Has In Common w/ The Alt-Right w/ Henry Farrell

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United States

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Trump’s U-turn on Chinese mega-firm ZTE damages U.S. power and credibility

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Author(s): Henry FarrellPublication Date: May 14, 2018Publication Type: Other WritingThe Trump administration made two very different policy statements on sanctions Sunday. President Trump said in a tweet that an earlier decision to impose massive U.S. sanctions on the Chinese telecommunications behemoth ZTE, for selling equipment to Iran, might be open to renegotiation.

When the workers nearly took control: five lessons from the Lucas Plan

Back in the 1970s, with unemployment rising and British industry contracting, workers at the arms company Lucas Aerospace came up with a pioneering plan to retain jobs by proposing alternative, socially-useful applications of the company’s technology and their own skills. The ‘Lucas Plan’ remains one of the most radical and forward thinking attempts ever made by workers to take the steering wheel and directly drive the direction of change.

Aadhaar Remains an Unending Security Nightmare for a Billion Indians

Yesterday was the 38th and last day of hearings in the Supreme Court case challenging the constitutional validity of India’s biometric authentication programme. After weeks of arguments from both sides, the Supreme Court has now reserved the matter for judgement.
The article by Karan Saini was published in the Wire on May 11, 2018.

Brianna Wettlaufer & Nuno Silva on Stocksy United

Creative workers in the so-called ‘passion industries’ are likely to have no control other their artistic work, experience precarity, and be poorly paid. While artist co-operatives have a long history, Stocksy, a multistakeholder co-operative, are combining an inclusive legal structure with a globally distributed membership.

Persuasori Social: trasparenza e democrazia nelle campagne elettorali digitali

Page Type: Event30 maggio 2018, Roma
image: Super sticky: 0Featured Event: 0Data evento: Wed, 30/05/2018 - 16:00 to 18:00luogo: via della Dogana Vecchia 5, Roma

The promise and peril of military applications of artificial intelligence

Michael C. Horowitz at the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists: “Artificial intelligence (AI) is having a moment in the national security space.

Navigation by Judgment: Why and When Top Down Management of Foreign Aid Doesn’t Work

Book by Dan Honig: “Foreign aid organizations collectively spend hundreds of billions of dollars annually, with mixed results. Part of the problem in these endeavors lies in their execution. When should foreign aid organizations empower actors on the front lines of delivery to guide aid interventions, and when should distant headquarters lead?

61° Nexa Lunch Seminar - ICT4D alla prova dei valori socio-culturali

Page Type: Eventlunch27 giugno 2018
Diego Mariani (Fondazione Arbor)
e Antonio Vetrò (Nexa Center)
image: Super sticky: 0Featured Event: 0Data evento: Wed, 27/06/2018 - 13:00 to 14:00luogo: Via Boggio 65/a | Torino (primo piano)

60° Nexa Lunch Seminar - Game jam e game storm: innovativi workshop didattici basati sull'ideazione di giochi

Page Type: Eventlunch23 maggio 2018
Matteo Uggeri (Fondazione Politecnico di Milano)
image: Super sticky: 0Featured Event: 0Data evento: Wed, 23/05/2018 - 13:00 to 14:00luogo: Via Boggio 65/a | Torino (primo piano)

Connecting.nyc: Managing a top-level domain as a commons

Adrien Labaeye: Here’s the problem: The internet was initially built as a peer-to-peer network, but commercial interests changed it into a highly market-driven system over time. Domains are one reason for this change. Top-level domains such as .com and .net became resources that were used to make a profit. In the past couple of years, this phenomenon has extended to other domains like .nyc and .paris.

Consilience 2018

National Law School of India University, Bangalore organized The Future of Blockchain Technology: Evolving a Framework for its Adoption and Regulation in India on May 5, 2018. Swaraj Barooah panel on "e-Governance and Public Service Delivery using Blockchain Technology" at Consilience 2018.

Comment: India's NTP 2018 gets digital makeover but needs complimentary policies

Criticism notwithstanding, Indian bureaucratic mandarins—babus as they are referred to in local lingo—do come up with draft policies that are contemporaneous, and at times when it’s least expected.

Comment: India's NTP 2018 gets digital makeover but needs complimentary policies | Indian Television Dot Com

The blog post was published in Indian Television on May 8, 2018.

India's National ID Project Brings Pain to Those it Aims to Help

Poor management, corruption and fraud are threatening to derail the world’s largest national identity project.
The blog post by Aayush Soni was published in Ozy.com on May 11, 2018.

Eleição de foro em contratos internacionais online


Coordenador do CTS da FGV Direito Rio fala sobre projetos de desenvolvimento nacional a partir do uso de dados

Trabalhos visam contribuir para o melhor desenvolvimento nacionalA FGV Direito Rio vem desenvolvendo pesquisas aplicadas que utilizam dados para produção de um conhecimento embasado, inclusive para fins regulatórios. Exemplos dessas iniciativas são o Supremo em Números, Congresso em Números e Regulação em Números. Neste sentido, os pesquisadores do Centro de Tecnologia e Sociedade (CTS) da Instituição estão desenvolvendo dois trabalhos que visam contribuir para o melhor desenvolvimento nacional.

Palestra: "Transparency's Ideological Drift"

Palestra: "Transparency's Ideological Drift"14h30O Evento: O Prof. David Pozen (Columbia Law School) analisará as transformações do sentido político-ideológico de demandas por transparência governamental nos Estados Unidos e no mundo, desde suas origens progressistas no início do século XX à recente captura da agenda de transparência por movimentos sociais mais à direita do espectro político.
Local: Sede FGV - Auditório 12º andar
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Professor: Diego Werneck Arguelhes

Curso International Business Law está com inscrições abertas

As aulas serão de 21/07 a 5/08 na Universidade da CalifórniaO curso International Business Law, que oferece experiência educacional e cultural nos EUA, está com inscrições abertas. O programa é voltado para profissionais e executivos da área de Direito que cursam ou já cursaram a graduação ou pós-graduação/MBA na FGV Direito Rio. As aulas serão realizadas de 21 de julho a 5 de agosto na instituição parceira Universidade da Califórnia, em Irvine.