Paper by James Owen Weatherall, Cailin O’Connor, and Justin Bruner: “In their recent book Merchants of Doubt [New York:Bloomsbury 2010], Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway describe the “tobacco strategy”, which was used by the tobacco industry to influence policy makers regarding the health risks of tobacco products.
Open Access book edited by Pierre-Philippe Mathieu and Christoph Aubrecht: “Over the past decades, rapid developments in digital and sensing technologies, such as the Cloud, Web and Internet of Things, have dramatically changed the way we live and work. The digital transformation is revolutionizing our ability to monitor our planet and transforming the way we access, process and exploit Earth Observation data from satellites.
The Fourth Circuit has issued its decision in BMG v. Cox. In case you haven’t been following the ins and outs of the suit, BMG sued Cox in 2014 alleging that the broadband provider was secondarily liable for its subscribers’ infringing file-sharing activity.
Paper by Anastasios Noulas, Colin Moffatt, Desislava Hristova, and Bruno Gonćalves: “Understanding how ambulance incidents are spatially distributed can shed light to the epidemiological dynamics of geographic areas and inform healthcare policy des
Our ultimate challenge is use realistic assumptions of human beings and human design to engender collaborations that support the rhythms of the human experience with all its notions of beauty, meaning and desire.
Special edition of Sur International Journal on Human Rights on crackdowns on civil society around the world: “As shown by both the geographic reach of the contributions (authors from 16 countries) and the infographics to this edition, the issue is clearly of global concern. The first section of the journal seeks to address why this crackdown is happening, who is driving it and whether there is cross-fertilisation of ideas between actors.
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featuring John Bracken, newly appointed executive director of the DPLA, and colleagues
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Please join DPLA's new executive director John Bracken and colleagues to reflect on the DPLA’s past, present and future and explore the way in which libraries can contribute to a stronger civic life in the midst of disruptive times.
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„Für uns ein zauberhaftes Projekt“, freut sich Prof. Dr. Tobias Stupp, Vorsitzender des Fördervereins. „Mit der Aktion konnten wir Kinder aus aller Welt zusammen bringen und gleichzeitig die Wartezeit hier in der Sehschule bunter gestalten.“ Viele Bilder von Kindern zwischen fünf und zehn Jahren finden sich in der Ausstellung. Die kleinen Künstler stammen aus Peru, Kambodscha, Kenia, einem Kindergarten im australischen Queensland und dem Bethanien Kinder-und Jugenddorf am nahen Niederrhein. Ihre bunten Farben sind eine fröhliche Erweiterung für die Sehschule, erklärt Dr.
Lydia Morgan[1] Despite Security Minister Ben Wallace’s attempts to downplay it,[2] the Court of Appeal’s ruling in the Watson case (SSHD v Watson & others)[3] continues the drip of cases finding the Government’s draconian attempt to access bulk communications data
The Internet Society Nominations Committee has announced the candidate slates for Chapter and Organization Member elections for the Board of Trustees. Find out who the candidates are.
The post Slates of candidates announced for 2018 Internet Society Board of Trustees elections appeared first on Internet Society.
Eine Vielzahl von Mikroorganismen lebt in und auf Pflanzen, unterstützt diese etwa bei der Umsetzung von Nährstoffen, schützt sie, kann sie aber auch in Form von Krankheitserregern schädigen. Die Gesamtheit all dieser Mikroorganismen einer gesunden Pflanze bezeichnet man als Mikrobiom. Wie sich dieses unter verschiedenen Umweltbedingungen entwickelt, interessiert Dr. Ruben Garrido-Oter. Er hat dazu Computermodelle entwickelt und diese für biologische Fragestellungen angewandt.
2017 was one of the most active hurricane seasons in the Caribbean on record. Five months after the major storms Irma and Marie devastated parts of the Caribbean, there are still far too many people without access to the Internet and everything it offers.
The G20 member states account for 85 percent of the global economy and are home to half of the world’s Internet users. From artificial intelligence to personal data protections, our physical world is being shaped by our digital world. As current president of the G20, Argentina has put a range of digital challenges on the table. But to tackle these, we need credible commitments and a long-term roadmap.
Der Dekan der Fakultät, Prof. Dr. Nikolaj Klöcker, übergibt 84 Human- und sieben Zahnmedizinern und – medizinerinnen ihre Promotionsurkunden. Traditionell werden auch die Goldpromovenden geehrt, in diesem Fall aus dem Promotionsjahrgang 1967, die das 50. Jubiläum ihrer Promotion feiern. Sie erhalten spezielle Goldpromotionsurkunden, dazu den eigenen handschriftlichen(!) Lebenslauf und das Gutachten zu ihrer Doktorarbeit.
Our friends at Artfarm in Hvar pinged us to highlight their donations campaign. Read the text below to get a feel for their project, or visit them at the fantastically named starwingartists.com
ArtFarm: Since 2013, when we bought 1300 m2 of land and small stone house, Artfarm has been our international project combining art and organic agriculture on the Croatian island of Hvar.
Ob der richtige Zugang zum Thema fehlt, die Fülle der Informationen erdrückend oder alles andere gerade wichtiger erscheint – die Probleme bei Anfertigen von Hausarbeiten sind mannigfaltig. Bei der Schreibnacht wird diesen begegnet. Angeboten werden neun Workshops und individuelle Beratung. Dabei geht es um "Aufschieberitis", Zeitmanagement, Literaturrecherche und -verwaltung, Academic English und vieles mehr.
Bitcoin was created to be a new kind of money rooted in a vision of a market not bound by geography, banks and governments. Despite the intentions of its creators, Bitcoin is not money. It was designed with a faulty understanding of money, and as a result has a bug, a kind of a short circuit that kick-started an asset bubble and that will eventually turn Bitcoin into a toxic asset. In order to to fix this bug we need to employ the labour theory of value.
Segundo painel “Perfis dos litígios transnacionais de internet e atuação das autoridades brasileiras” do Workshop Interinstitucional de Pesquisa: Jurisdição e cooperação jurídica internacional nos conflitos da internet.