A propósito del proyecto de ley presentado por el Ministerio de Salud que regula a los vaporizadores y cigarrillos electrónicos, impidiendo su venta a menores y restringiendo la publicidad y su uso en lugares públicos cerrados, María Paz Bertoglia Arredondo, Magíster en Epidemiología y en Bioestadística, y académica de la Escuela de Salud Pública de la Facultad de Medicina, alerta en la siguiente columna sobre el uso de este tipo de dispositivos.

En un encuentro organizado por la Unidad de Adicciones de la Clínica Psiquiátrica Universitaria del Hospital Clínico U. de Chile, a cargo de la implementación de este proyecto pionero, representantes de las comunas de las Colina, Las Condes, Lo Barnechea, Melipilla, Peñalolén y Renca compartieron su experiencia de adaptación del exitoso modelo a su realidad. Con esto se inicia una nueva etapa que corresponde a la firma del llamado "Compromiso Parental", documento que realiza una serie de recomendaciones dirigidas a los padres y apoderados.

En el Palacio Cousiño se realizó ayer la entrega de este reconocimiento que por votación popular elige a los chilenos y chilenas que destacan por su contribución al país.

Over 36 hours, Jo Barratt and Lilly Winfree from Open Knowledge Foundation’s Frictionless Data team joined 60 people from around the world to develop innovative solutions to open science obstacles at the 2019 eLife Innovation Sprint. This quick, collaborative event in Cambridge, UK, on September 4th and 5th brought together designers, scientists, coders, project managers, and communications experts to develop their budding ideas into functional prototypes.

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Our Data, Our Future: Radical Tech for a Democratic Digital Society
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Die Grafikreihe "HHU Facts" zeigt kurz und knapp interessante Fakten rund um die HHU auf. Heute: Das Alumni-Netzwerk der HHU!
Alle bisher veröffentlichten Motive auf einen Blick finden Sie demnächst auch in einer Bildergalerie (in Vorbereitung).
Haben Sie vielleicht auch ein interessantes Statistik-Thema oder einen Fakt rund um die HHU? Die HHU-Webredaktion ist offen für weitere Motive und freut sich über jede Anregung / Einsendung: Dieter Joswig, Tel. +49 211 81-14861

Mit dem Wissenschaftskommunikations-Tool Research Impact Canvas schult das Alexander von Humboldt Institut für Internet und Gesellschaft (HIIG) während der dreitägigen internationalen Impact School Forschende in der Umsetzung von Wissenstransfer und Wissenschaftskommunikation. Berlin, 26 September 2019 –In modern knowledge societies, researchers are not only expected to produce high quality and replicable knowledge, but also to make…

Gurshabad Grover and Ambika Tandon recorded an episode with the Guardian's podcast on digital culture, called Chips with Everything.

Bhuvana Meenakshi gave a talk on "The revolution of WebXR" at FOSSCON India 2019 organized by KLS Gogte Institute of Technology in Belgaum from August 29 - 31, 2019, where she discussed about the tools used for development and demos.
The Chief patrons included:

Much like Asgard, Wikipedia is not a place but a people. Specifically, an extensive community of volunteers from around the world who donate their time each day to building, curating, and watching over the largest collection of knowledge ever assembled.

Bhuvana Meenakshi was selected as a Rep of the Month (July 2019) by Mozilla for my active contributions.
Reps are community coordinators interested in:

Pallavi Bedi, Akash Sheshadri and Anubha Sinha attended the event organized by Whatsapp and ISPP on 16 September 2019 at Indian School of Public Policy campus, Qutub Institutional Area, Delhi.
Session Schedule
 
2 00 pm - 3 00 pm - Registration
3 05 pm - 4 00 pm - Experiential design exercises
4 00 pm - 4 15 pm - Break
4 15 pm - 5 00 pm - Design Thinking for Policy Insights from Global Design Jams
5 00 pm - 5 20 pm - Q & A
5 20 pm - 6 00 pm - High tea

When 16-year-old Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg burst onto the global scene a few months ago, people underestimated the power this young girl would have to raise awareness and rally the world around climate change. Today, she has become a fearless advocate, boldly speaking out and holding politicians to account for their lack of action on the climate crisis. We need more Gretas.

And they’re
out there.

Centre for Internet & Society's application for membership of the Christchurch Call Advisory Network has been accepted! As a part of this network, we, along with other civil society groups based out of various jurisdictions, would be providing inputs on making the Call a robust, human rights-centred initiative.

Der Preis wird durch den Dekan der Medizinischen Fakultät, Prof. Dr. Nikolaj Klöcker, in Anwesenheit von Monika Zimmermann, Vorstand der MTZ-Stiftung, auf dem Jahrstreffen des Biologisch-Medizinischen Forschungszentrums (BMFZ) der HHU verliehen. Der MTZ-Award ist mit insgesamt 2.500 Euro dotiert.

O professor da FGV Direito Rio, Gustavo Schmidt, acaba de ser nomeado presidente da Comissão Especial encarregada de implementar a Câmara de Arbitragem dos BRICS. Constituída a partir da portaria 1047/2019 do Conselho Federal da Ordem dos Advogados do Brasil (OAB), a comissão tem o papel de harmonizar a cultura (e as regras) da arbitragem praticada nos países integrantes dos BRICS. O objetivo é conferir segurança jurídica aos investidores estrangeiros e, sobretudo, aos investimentos realizados pelo New Development Bank.

Pang übernahm an Lehrstuhl für Computational Cell Biology das Forschungsgebiet evolutionäre Systembiologie des bakteriellen Metabolismus. In der prämierten Arbeit kombiniert Dr. Pang in einem völlig neuen wissenschaftlichen Ansatz die vergleichende Genomforschung mit der Stoffwechselmodellierung. Er deckte so Tausende von Innovationen auf, mit denen sich unterschiedliche Vorfahren heute lebender Stämme des Darmbakteriums E. coli an neue Umgebungen anpassen konnten.