Behandelbar sind immunvermittelte entzündliche Neuropathien, besonders die chronisch entzündliche demyelinisierende Polyneuropathie (CIDP) – im Gegensatz zur diabetischen Polyneuropathie. Polyneuropathien sind eine Gruppe von Erkrankungen, die das periphere Nervensystem befallen. Symptome sind vorwiegend Sensibilitätsstörungen (Kribbelmissempfindungen, Schmerzen, herabgesetzte Sensibilität) und  Muskelschwäche. Die  häufigsten Ursachen in der westlichen Welt sind Diabetes mellitus, erhöhter Alkoholkonsum und Immunerkrankungen.

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This panel addressed the right to be forgotten (RTBF) from a global perspective, presenting points of view from relevant stakeholders and academic researchers from different regions.

Este 9 de enero se realizó la puesta en marcha del Proyecto Académico Parque Laguna Carén en Pudahuel, espacio que será una plataforma donde el conocimiento, las ciencias naturales y sociales, la tecnología y el arte, se integrarán para resolver de manera transdisciplinar, las demandas que enfrentan Chile y el mundo. La iniciativa emplazada sobre un paño de más de mil hectáreas en la salida poniente de Santiago, significa una inversión de $20 mil millones en esta primera fase, que incluye dos institutos CORFO y un edificio institucional, y estará lista en 2021.

Académicos y representantes de organizaciones ciudadanas debatieron este lunes 8 de enero sobre los conflictos socioterritoriales que han tenido en el archipiélago de Chiloé, sus oportunidades de desarrollo y sus necesidades y posibilidades de autonomía.

I had a week off, and being a security domain researcher, I started working on automating security rules in network security components. The goal was to read the existing security rules of the IPv4 protocol and deploy parallel security rules for the IPv6 protocol in the same security component for the newly configured protocol in a network. For this purpose, I started to develop an automation service. The service was intended to use the IPv4 address in a DNS query to resolve the corresponding IPv6 address.

It’s the wild west out there, folks!
Every week new ICOs are riding the wave of the crypto craze.
Billions of dollars worth of investments this year… Yet many don’t know about the darker dynamics fueling the process. Why is so much flowing into these offerings? Could it be that exchanges can’t cash out the bitcoin whales so they need to dump into new coins just to diversify holdings? And bonus for them if they can seize control of enough of a coin’s supply to manipulate its value.

If data is freed into the open, but no one uses it, can we consider it open data? This is one of the questions we need to ask ourselves is we want to promote data use. And what better day to promote data use than Open Data Day (ODD)?
So what is Open Data Day?

Maria Bareli-Gaglia: Our story begins in 2006, during my fieldwork at the Greek island of Ikaria in the Aegean sea, when I picked up a hitchhiker, a woman named Frosini. As we began to talk, we realized that we were both anthropologists riding in the same car. This encounter was the start of a discussion on the commons, which still continues. It also marked the beginning of a collaborative endeavor to understand how commons are tied to land and local culture. What do the commons mean to people? What happens when people lose access to their commons?

Michael Latzer @ Techniksoziologie TU Dortmund

Alex Foti, General Theory of the Precariat—Great Recession, Revolution, Reaction, Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam, 2017. (Free download)
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Das Universitätsorchester der HHU feiert in diesem Jahr sein 30-jähriges Bestehen. Unter der Leitung der Akademischen Musikdirektorin Silke Löhr bringt es zu diesem Anlass an zwei Terminen ein musikalisches Feuerwerk zu Gehör: Im Programm "Hexensabbat" drehen sich die verschiedenen märchenhaften, tänzerischen und mystischen Kompositionen alle um das Thema Hexen.
Jetzt 6x2 Karten für das Konzert am 3. Februar 2018 in der Düsseldorfer Tonhalle gewinnen!

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Nithin Coca: Loconomics is a platform cooperative that allows service professionals working in areas like dog walking, home care, child care, massage therapy, and tutoring to connect and offer their services on a platform that they own.

Article on the European JRC Open Day Experiment by Gioia Ciro; Tarchi Dario; Vespe Michele and Sermi Francesco: “The research pointed out the feasibility of crowd monitoring through WiFi data. A methodology has been developed and tested using real data. The data were collected during the JRC Open Day 2016 by 20 WiFi access points deployed on the Ispra site.

Paper by Rhys Jones and Mark Whitehead There has been a growing academic recognition of the increasing significance of psychologically – and behaviourally – informed modes of governance in recent years in a variety of different states.

A few things you might not know about Holo’s ICO strategy.

Introduction by Leye Wang, Vincent Gauthier, Guanling Chen and Luis Moreira-Matias of Special Issue of the Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing: “With the prevalence of ubiquitous computing devices (smartphones, wearable devices, etc.) and social network services (Facebook, Twitter, etc.), humans are generating massive digital traces continuously in their daily life.

Merlin Stone and Eleni Aravopoulou in The Bottom Line: “This case study describes how one of the world’s largest public transport operations, Transport for London (TfL), transformed the real-time availability of information for its customers and staff through the open data approach, and what the results of this transformation were.

On January 17, the Minnesota Supreme Court issued its opinion in State v. Diamond. It affirmed the appellate court’s holding that compelling a defendant to provide a fingerprint to unlock a seized cellphone (for which police had a warrant) did not violate the Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination.
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