Hollie Russon Gilman, K. Sabeel Rahman, & Elena Souris in Stanford Social Innovation Review: “How can civic engagement be effective in fostering an accountable, inclusive, and responsive American democracy? This question has gained new relevance under the Trump administration, where a sense of escalating democratic crises risks obscuring any nascent grassroots activism.
Do you want to co-create the next European Ecovillage Conference? Here’s your chance! The following was sent in by Francesca Whitlock through the European Commons Assembly‘s mailing list and you can find out more about the conference in this link: The Wisdom of Conscious Communities.
„Ich freue mich auf die Tätigkeit mit den motivierten Kolleginnen und Kollegen in der ZNA und den Kliniken am UKD, die die anschließende Weiterbehandlung der Notfallpatienten übernehmen“, so der Notfallexperte. Nach dem Studium in Hamburg war die Universitätsklinik in Heidelberg die erste klinische Station, bevor PD Dr. Bernhard 2009 als Leitender Oberarzt nach Fulda und dann 2011 nach Leipzig wechselte. Er ist auch in mehreren medizinischen Fachgesellschaften aktiv.
I highly recommend this work done by several organizations I think highly of. These highly accessible and thoughtful resources can help us more effectively reframe the dominant economic narratives that have gripped the public imagination and paved the way for regressive economic, social and environmental policies. Without the framing resources and co-ordination to challenge these narratives, people working as campaigners, educators, and community builders will not be as effective as they could be when engaging around the economy. Great research, excellent resource.
In October 2015, a 3-judge bench of the Supreme Court of India referred challenges to the Aadhaar program to a constitution bench. One of the primary concerns of this petition was to decide on the existence of a fundamental right to privacy, which has since been upheld. Other similar petitions, concerned with the legitimacy of […]
No dia 28 de fevereiro o site Github foi alvo de um dos maiores ataques DDOS (negação de serviços) da história. O ataque utilizou uma vulnerabilidade do memcached, sistema distribuído utilizado para acelerar sites dinâmicos que utilizam banco de dados, esse serviço basicamente têm a função de criar um cachê de dados na RAM para reduzir o número de vezes que uma fonte de dados externa (como um banco de dados) deva ser acessada. E foi justamente essa funcionalidade e facilidade de cacheamento na RAM que foi utilizada para causar um gigantesco ataque de negação de serviço.
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COMPAS is a software used across the country to predict who will commit future crimes. It doesn’t perform any better than untrained people who responded to an online survey.
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O título deste artigo pode causar a impressão de que o autor incorreu numa tautologia. “Se os dados são meus, obviamente sou o dono/a dona deles!”, é o que os leitores e leitoras podem estar pensando. Porém, não é o que ocorre.
Con más de mil matriculados en la primera hora de abierta la plataforma, y con un 92 por ciento de vacantes ocupadas al cerrar el primer periodo de este proceso, autoridades valoraron y relevaron el desarrollo de las matrículas de estudiantes nuevos 2018, marcada por un incremento de 445 cupos respecto del año anterior. Primer balance fue presentado hoy ante el Consejo Universitario.Uno de los ejercicios de articulación institucional más grande que despliega la U. de Chile.
Los norteamericanos colaboraron junto a alumnos chilenos en un workshop organizado por el Centro de Modelamiento Matemático (CMM) de la Universidad de Chile y otras seis instituciones, donde trabajaron con grandes volúmenes de información astronómica. Las técnicas desarrolladas podrán utilizarse en el futuro en otras áreas que exijan Big Data como la minería y la agricultura.
Luego de que se descartara la alarma de tsunami tras el terremoto afectó en la madrugada del pasado martes al Golfo de Alaska, el CSN explicó el mecanismo que tuvo que ver con ese evento, el que a juicio de los profesionales del área, es "distinto a lo que sucede en Chile habitualmente".El sismo que se produjo esta madrugada a unos 250 kilómetros de la costa y a 10 kilómetros de profundidad en el Golfo de Alaska es un evento diferente a los sismos que comúnmente suceden en Chile, informó esta mañana el Centro Sismológico Nacional.
Con la mayor exposición de la población a zonas rurales durante el verano, los casos de contagio por virus Hanta vuelven a aparecer. A días de comenzar febrero, mes en que la gran mayoría de los chilenos toma sus vacaciones, el jefe del Servicio de Infectología del Hospital Clínico de la U. de Chile, da detalles sobre esta enfermedad y ofrece las medidas básicas para su prevención. En época estival las campañas de prevención sobre virus Hanta proliferan.
Los expertos de la Universidad de Southampton, Chris Sinclair y Robert Baird, impartieron este curso que busca fortalecer las capacidades pedagógicas y comunicativas en inglés para los académicos que imparten estos programas.
John Thornhill at the Financial Times: “The internet’s original sin was identified as early as 1993 in a New Yorker cartoon. “On the internet, nobody knows you’re a dog,” the caption ran beneath an illustration of a pooch at a keyboard. That anonymity has brought some benefits. But it has also created myriad problems, injecting distrust into the digital world.
Tomatoes, apples and bread can be ‘organic.’ But search results? Anna Jobin and Malte Ziewitz wonder about the currency of agricultural metaphors in web search and show how they do... MORE
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Prof. Dr. Andrea von Hülsen-Esch, Prorektorin für Internationales der HHU, unterzeichnete am 03.03.2018 mit Prof. Dr. Hoshang Talebi Habib-Abadi, Präsident der Universität Isfahan, eine Kooperationsvereinbarung zwischen beiden Universitäten.
Weitere Informationen zur aktuellen HHU-Kooperationsoffensive im Iran: Prof. Andrea von Hülsen-Esch, prorector of international relations at the HHU, on the 3rd of March signed a contract of cooperation with Prof. Hoshang Talebi Habib-Abadi, president of the university of Isfahan, sealing the cooperation between the two universities.
Hintergrund: Reißt ein Aneurysma der Bauchschlagader ein, überleben nur 20 Prozent der Patienten den massiven Blutverlust, der dadurch in kürzester Zeit eintritt. „Männer über 65 erkranken sechsmal häufiger als Frauen an einem Aneurysma der Bauchaorta. Zudem steigt das Erkrankungsrisiko mit dem Alter.
Julie Gilgoff: While billion dollar development companies eat up affordable housing units throughout the Bay Area, dedicated teams of organizers, nonprofit service providers, community development corporations, and others fight a relentless battle along side and on behalf of those at threat of displacement. Some are seeking to transform the current system of land ownership, removing profit incentives, and assuring that the land is used for the benefit of longtime community residents.
Here’s a new publication that we co-created with the Tactical Technology Collective – a group specialised in Big Data, digital security and data driven technologies. It is meant as a contribution to an emerging and important debate on the role of technologies in shaping our societies and an attempt to begin to spell out.
