Cerca de 200 mil personas sufrirían esta enfermedad hoy en nuestro país, cifra que se elevaría por el medio millón para 2050, conforme la población envejece y se enfrenta al principal factor de riesgo de esta enfermedad: la edad. En la siguiente entrevista, la neuróloga, académica de la Facultad de Medicina y coordinadora de la Clínica de Memoria y Neuropsiquiatría de la U. de Chile, entrega las claves de una enfermedad sobre la que hay que tomar cartas en el asunto con urgencia.

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Das Schlichtungsverfahren ist das Ergebnis eines Vermittlungsgesprächs, zu dem NRW-Wissenschaftsministerin Isabel Pfeiffer-Poensgen und NRW-Gesundheitsminister Karl-Josef Laumann alle Beteiligten am Montag (20. August) eingeladen hatten.

Sunil Abraham will participate as a speaker at the event organized by Digital Asia Hub, Hans-Bredow-Institut, University of Hamburg, Institute for Technology & Society of Rio de Janeiro - ITS Rio and Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University from August 22 - 24, 2018 at Azure Room, Pullman, Jakarta in Indonesia.
Sunil Abraham will make a presentation on Disinformation and Online Recruitment. He will also be chairing the Roundtable on Platforms, Publics and Policies.

The Online Trust Alliance (OTA) is an Internet Society initiative that aims to enhance online trust, user empowerment, and innovation through convening multistakeholder initiatives and developing and promoting best practices, ethical privacy practices, and data stewardship. One of OTA’s major activities is the Online Trust Audit & Honor Roll, which promotes responsible online privacy and data security practices and recognizes leaders in the public and private sectors who have embraced them.

Africa’s dream of Cape Town to Cairo fiber connectivity has moved closer, with Liquid Telecom announcing that it has made considerable progress is signing agreements with regulatory authorities and partners within the route.
Liquid Telecom has an ambitious plan of reducing latencies in connectivity between Cape Town and Cairo. Currently, traffic is routed through Europe, with latencies of 209ms, and it will be reduced to 97ms.

With over 1.5 billion users a month, YouTube is the world’s biggest social media platform. It is also the communication and information backbone for the far-right in the United States. In this blogpost, Jonas Kaiser, associate researcher at HIIG and Adrian Rauchfleisch, assistant professor at National Taiwan University, share some preliminary results of their analysis…
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Obwohl viele Patienten an Polyneuropathie leiden, weiß man derzeit relativ wenig über ihre Entstehung, was auch die therapeutischen Möglichkeiten begrenzt. Bislang ist bekannt, dass Entzündungsprozesse zu anderen diabetischen Komplikationen wie Herzinfarkt oder Schlaganfall beitragen. Ziel dieser neuen Studie war daher die umfangreiche Analyse von Biomarkern, die Entzündungsprozesse als Risikofaktor für die sogenannte distale sensorische Polyneuropathie charakterisieren. Dabei wurden sowohl Menschen mit Typ-2-Diabetes als auch Menschen in der älteren Allgemeinbevölkerung untersucht. 

In the run-up to OPEN 2018, the conference which explores the ideas of co-operative vision and the evolving politics of a world of abundance and inclusivity, Oliver Sylvester-Bradley interviewed Cadwell Turnbull. Cadwell is a ‘social fiction’ writer who is exploring ideas about how collaborative narrative and a co-operative vision can help create the spaces needed for a more equitable economy – which works to put people and planet before profit.
Oliver Sylvester-Bradley: What do you do and how did you get to where you are now?

Die Bildergalerie "HHU-Nostalgia" stellt interessante Archiv-Motive vor und wird kontinuierlich ausgebaut und ergänzt: Viel Spaß! 
Hier geht es zur kompletten Galerie (Übersichtsseite).
Haben Sie vielleicht auch noch ein interessantes "historisches" Foto der HHU? Die HHU-Bildredaktion freut sich über jede Einsendung: Dieter Joswig, Tel. +49 211 81-14861E-Mail senden

The Internet is at risk. Once thought of as the global equalizer, opening doors for communication, work opportunities, commerce and more – the Internet is now increasingly viewed with skepticism and wariness. We are witnessing a trend where people fare feeling let down by the technology they use. Fueled by unease and uncertainty about the growing scope of threats to security and privacy that come with an always-on, tech-driven world, people are now looking for ways to disconnect and are placing greater emphasis on values and human interaction.

Neste Bytes de Informação, Davi Teofilo e Luíza Brandão falam um pouco sobre a Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados (GDPR) que entrou em vigor em maio de 2018. Assista e entenda mais sobre seus contornos gerais, impactos e aplicações:

As I wrap up my tenure at the the helm of the Internet Society on September 1,  I want to thank each and all of you for your engagement, support and friendship.  The last five years have been exhilarating—getting to know you, learning so much from you and acting together — to make the Internet better.

Stabat Mater es la obra con la cual estos elencos estables de la Casa de Bello homenajearán al artista. La pieza es una de las composiciones religiosas del afamado músico, reconocido especialmente por su gran legado operístico en el que destaca la obra "El barbero de Sevilla". La cita es para este viernes 10 y sábado 11 de agosto a las 19:40 horas en el Teatro Universidad de Chile.El 13 de noviembre de 1868 y con 76 años de vida, murió en París Gioachino Rossini, uno de los compositores más reconocidos de la ópera.

Que la producción chilena tenga una cara más verde. Ese es uno de los objetivos de dos proyectos que actualmente están realizando investigadores del Instituto de Nutrición y Tecnología de los Alimentos (INTA) a partir de los fagos, elementos presentes en la naturaleza que son capaces de ¿literalmente- comerse las enfermedades de plantas y animales, sin generar efectos negativos para los seres humanos.“Los fagos son probablemente la entidad biológica más abundante del planeta.

La Vicerrectoría de Extensión y Comunicaciones, a través del Archivo Central Andrés Bello, junto a la fundación que lleva el nombre del poeta, creó esta nueva instancia académica que fue presentada en la Casa Central de nuestro plantel, ocasión en la que se realizó el lanzamiento de la reedición del libro "Poemas Árticos", publicado por primera vez hace 100 años.Con la firma de un convenio entre la Vicerrectoría de Extensión y Comunicaciones y la Fundación Vicente Huidobro, se oficializó este 13 de agosto el nacimiento de la cátedra académica encargada de <

Descrição: A pesquisa busca trazer uma contribuição para o aprimoramento do arcabouço jurídico que embasa o exercício das funções regulatórias no país.
Professores Responsáveis: Patrícia Sampaio e Sérgio Guerra
Participantes: Daniele Cavalcante, Gabriel Cozendey, Leonardo Ribeiro, Luís Lopes, Maíra Torres, Mariam Daychoum, Paulo Wunder, Rafael Véras e Romilson Volotão. 
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Capa: Tema: 

The Digital Asia Hub convened a symposium on the topic of Disinformation & Discourse: Rebuilding Trust in Institutions, Platforms, & Civic Spaces on 21 August, 2018, in Jakarta, Indonesia, bringing together over 50 subject matter experts from all over Asia and the world, across academia, industry, government, and civil society.

The Prototype Fund is a public program run by Open Knowledge Foundation Germany that focuses on emerging challenges and radically new solutions. Individuals and small teams can apply for funding to test their ideas and develop open source tools and applications in the fields of civic tech, data literacy, data security and more. The 5th round of the Fund is currently open for applications until 30 September: in this blog Katharina Meyer shares more on its contents and on how to apply.

The Prototype Fund is a public program run by Open Knowledge Foundation Germany that focuses on emerging challenges and radically new solutions. Individuals and small teams can apply for funding to test their ideas and develop open source tools and applications in the fields of civic tech, data literacy, data security and more. The 5th round of the Fund is currently open for applications until 30 September: in this blog Katharina Meyer shares more on its contents and on how to apply.