Article by Mickael Temporão, Yannick Dufresne, Justin Savoie and Clifton van der Linden in International Journal of Forecasting: “People do not know much about politics. This is one of the most robust findings in political science and is backed by decades of research. Most of this research has focused on people’s ability to know about political issues and party positions on these issues. But can people predict elections?
Im Fokus stehen chemoresistente Tumoren und Infektionen mit chemoresistenten mikrobiellen Krankheitserregern. Beide Krankheitsformen zeichnen sich durch vielfältige Resistenzen gegenüber etablierten Arzneistoffen aus, die die Therapie stark eingrenzen oder völlig außer Kraft setzen. Als Pool für neue Leitstrukturen und als Ideengeber für potentielle neue Wirkstoffe zur Aufklärung von molekularen Wirk- und Resistenzmechanismen spielen Naturstoffe sowie davon abgeleitete Verbindungen eine zentrale Rolle.
P.B.Anand and JulioNavío-Marco in Special Issues of Telecommunications Policy: “This editorial introduction to this special issue provides an overview and a conceptual framework of governance and economics of smart cities. We begin with a discussion of the background to smart cities and then it focuses on the key challenges for consideration in smart city economics.
Chapter by Laure Morel, Laurent Dupont and Marie‐Reine Boudarel in Collective Innovation Processes: Principles and Practices: “Innovation is a complex and multifaceted notion, sometimes difficult to explain. The category of innovation spaces includes co‐working spaces, third places, Living Labs, open labs, incubators, accelerators, hothouses, canteens, FabLabs, MakerSpaces, Tech Shops, hackerspaces, design factories, and so on.
Chava Gourarie at StoryBench: “Early this summer, at the height of the family separation crisis – where children were being forcibly separated from their parents at our nation’s border – a team of scholars pooled their skills to address the issue. The group of researchers – from a variety of humanities departments at multiple universities – spent a week of non-stop work mapping the immigration detention network that spans the United States.
Dani Rodrik at Project Syndicate: “New technologies reduce the prices of goods and services to which they are applied. They also lead to the creation of new products. Consumers benefit from these improvements, regardless of whether they live in rich or poor countries.
Sara Fisher at Axios: “Dozens of new initiatives have launched over the past few years to address fake news and the erosion of faith in the media, creating a measurement problem of its own.
Am 14. Oktober startete die Gruppe via Pisa zur italienischen Insel Elba. Bis zum 24. Oktober werden dort die Studierenden und Schüler, unterstützt von Biologen des Instituts für Molekulare Evolution der HHU, den Grad der Plastikkontamination sowohl an Land als auch im Meer untersuchen. Ihr Ausgangspunkt ist das Forschungsinstitut „Hydra“, welches ihnen Arbeitsräume, Expertise und notwendiges Equipment wie Mikroskope und Tauchgerät zur Verfügung stellt.
A conversation with Karl Sigmund at Edge: “…Now, I’m getting back to evolutionary game theory, the theory of evolution of cooperation and the social contract, and how the social contract can be subverted by corruption. That’s what interests me most currently. Of course, that is not a new story. I believe it explains a lot of what I see happening in my field and in related fields.
In this panel session from OPEN 2018 Arthur Brock, Co-founder, HOLO; Matthew Slater, Co-Founder of Community Forge and Emma McGuirk, Co-founder of Dunedin Timebank in New Zealand discuss the potential of a Co-op Coin and global mutual credit systems and consider whether any of the existing trading networks and models could be used to bring the co-operative economy to scale.
See the shared notes from this session too.
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Author(s): Danielle CitronPublication Date: October 16, 2018Publication Type: Other WritingIntroduction
La Sociedad Chilena de Ciencias Geográficas (SOCHIGEO) otorgó este martes 2 de octubre esta distinción a los académicos de la Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanismo (FAU) Enrique Aliste Almuna, director del Departamento de Geografía, y al profesor Belisario Andrade Johnson, quien además es egresado de nuestro plantel.
Elevar los estándares en el control de emisiones contaminantes -para cumplir al menos con el mínimo exigido por la Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS)- y avanzar en un diseño institucional para la materialización del desarrollo sostenible en las empresas son algunas de las principales propuestas del estudio elaborado por el Observatorio de Sostenibilidad de la Facultad de Economía y Negocios de la Universidad de Chile.Las más de mil personas intoxicadas que a la fecha registra la crisis ambiental y sanitaria de Quintero y Puchuncaví es el último episodio
On September 26, attorneys general from multiple U.S. states settled with the ride sharing company Uber over a data breach that revealed personal information about both Uber’s riders and drivers. The drivers suffered the brunt of the exposure: the release of their names and driver’s license numbers. Uber did not disclose the breach when it occurred in 2016 (in violation of California’s security breach notification law), and it became public after the company’s then new CEO, Dara Khosrowshahi, announced it shortly after his arrival at the company in 2017.
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Introduction to the Special Issue of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society by Sandra Wachter, Brent Mittelstadt, Luciano Floridi and Corinne Cath: “Artificial intelligence (AI) increasingly permeates every aspect of our society, from the critical, like urban infrastructure, law enforcement, banking, healthcare and humanitarian aid, to the mundane like dating.
Joshua New at the Center for Data Innovation: “…the Trump administration announced the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), the trade deal it intends to replace NAFTA with.