La troisième édition de la Bourse Elizabeth CORTE, destinée à soutenir un(e) étudiant(e) inscrit(e) à temps plein au 2e cycle ou 3e cycle d’une Faculté de droit québécoise (et de l’Université d’Ottawa) menant un projet de recherche en lien avec la déontologie judiciaire ou l’accès à la justice a connu son épilogue à la suite de la délibération du comité de sélection. 

Deux candidates et un candidat ont été désignés comme récipiendaires de cette bourse. Il s’agit de : 

This blog post describes a Frictionless Data Pilot with the Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office (BCO-DMO). Pilot projects are part of the Frictionless Data for Reproducible Research project. Written by the BCO-DMO team members Adam Shepherd, Amber York, Danie Kinkade, and development by Conrad Schloer.

In principle, university management refers to the always up-to-date information provided by the German Foreign Office, the Robert Koch Institute and the expertise of Düsseldorf University Hospital. You will find the links below. According to the Robert Koch Institute, the risk to the health of the population in Germany currently posed by the new respiratory disease from China remains low.

As Chair of the Internet Society Nominations Committee, I am pleased to announce the slates of candidates for the 2020 Board of Trustees elections. The candidates for each slate are listed below in alphabetical order by last name.

Chapters Election (two seats available)

• Satish Babu
• Maymouna Diop
• Luis Miguel Martinez
• Glenn McKnight
• Amir Qayyum
• Roberto Zambrana

Organization Members Election (one seat available)

You can find further information about the project here.

Aufgrund des Sturmtiefs Sabine gibt es keinen generellen Klausur-Ausfall am Montag, den 10. Februar. Jedoch wird allen Studierenden empfohlen, ihre Postfächer zu prüfen, da es vereinzelt zu Ausfällen kommen kann.
Wer zu einer stattfindenden Klausur nicht anreisen kann, muss glaubhaft machen, dass die Prüfungsteilnahme aus triftigen Gründen nicht möglich war.
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About Common Wealth

Just like you, there are others frustrated by “business-as-usual”.  They are frustrated by the “lip service” provided to stakeholders.  Like when a company says “employees are our greatest asset” but means the opposite.  

By contrast, there are organisations where stakeholders have an actual stake.  These include: 

This is an edited excerpt of Part IV and Annexure ‘B’ of CCG’s Comments to the National Security Council Secretariat on the National Cyber Security Strategy 2020 (NCSS 2020). The full text of the Comments can be accessed here. This consolidated organogram is a depiction of cyber security institutions in India as an inter-ministerial and inter-departmental […]

Die Neuronen sind allgemein als die aktiven Zellen bekannt, die im Gehirn ‚das Denken übernehmen‘. Doch ohne die Gliazellen gäbe es gar kein Gehirn, denn sie erst ermöglichen die Arbeit der Nervenzellen. Darüber hinaus weiß man inzwischen, dass Gliazellen auch eine aktive Rolle bei neuronalen Prozessen spielen.

Von dem Gesamtbetrag werden insgesamt 100.000 € nach Düsseldorf fließen, die zur molekulargenetischen Analyse von Tumorerkrankungen bei Kindern und Jugendlichen genutzt werden sollen. Die Düsseldorfer Arbeitsgruppe in der Klinik von Herrn Prof. Dr. Arndt Borkhardt wird insbesondere bioinformatische Analysen von Hochdurchsatz-DNA-Sequenzierdaten durchführen, die auf eine besondere genetische Veranlagung zur Entwicklung von Tumoren von Kindern in Spanien als auch in Deutschland schließen lassen.

In ihrer Dissertation zeichnet Anna Michaelis entlang von jüdischer Demografie und Medizin sowie jüdischen Wohltätigkeitsorganisationen nach, wie das jüdische Bürgertum zwischen 1890 und 1917 angesichts neuer Herausforderungen wie sinkenden Geburtenraten, der jüdischen Einwanderung aus Osteuropa und des erstarkenden Antisemitismus versuchte, die Zukunft seines Kollektivs abzusichern.

MKSW 1001, 10th Floor, Mongkutsamatiwong Building, Faculty of Communication Arts 
on Friday February 7, 2020, from 9.00 a.m. to 12.00 p.m.
 
Steps to officially present yourself to the International Programs Office, Faculty of Communication Arts
1. Registration
– The successful applicant must present themself along with an original/copy of their ID card or passport
2. Submit pay-in slip for the tuition fee; THB 56,000

Russell Newman joins Jasmine McNealy to dicuss his book, The Paradoxes of Network Neutralities (MIT Press, 2019), which sets out to provide an explication of the debates surrounding network neutrality.

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The specificity of both Twitter and Facebook’s rules around disinformation leave room for known disinformation agents to work during elections, said Joan Donovan.

"The fact that a known disinformation operation enjoyed hyper-engagement on Facebook shows that Facebook has not been able to stop the weaponization of their product by those with some well-placed resources.”

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BKC fellow Mutale Nkonde joined Sunday Civics to discuss disinformation targeted towards Black communities.

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Joan Donovan spoke to The Washington Post about the coronavirus and misinformation:

“We’re in a low information zone. Scientists have been looking at this, but there isn’t a ton of well marked patterns around how this particular virus spreads,” said Donovan.

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evelyn douek weighed in on the upsides and shortcomings drawbacks of Facebook‘s new content moderation policy. 

“While it’s unacceptable to be having completely unaccountable and private entities making decisions, we also don’t want governments having their hands all over it. … So the oversight board is a new model for handling this.”

The UK had plenty of opportunities to veto the controversial EU copyright legislation, so why did it wait so long to torpedo Article 13?

Zenzele Best, Program Coordinator for Assembly: Disinformation, offers an inside look at the Assembly Student Fellowship.