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14 Oct 2014: Whether or not banks and their staff deserve this reputation, in the post-crash economic winter there are few, if any, professions and institutions as universally reviled.

3 Oct 2014: BBSRC is paving the way for an explosion in new economic sectors and bioscience that will change the way we live our lives in the twenty-first century.

7 Mar 2014: The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge has been granted £87,582 by Arts Council England to allow greater permanent access to its collections of illuminated

16 Dec 2014: External risk relates to those economic, political and environmental shocks which may be difficult to predict but should, with the right mitigation capabilities in place, be possible to withstand. ... External economic slowdown, for example, can trigger

25 Apr 2014: In each of the sessions we encountered facts that normally would not be brought up in normal curriculum activities. ... James, Redborne Upper School. “The science built on things I had learned in the GCSE curriculum, but I found that the activities

23 May 2014: Clearly, emotional assets have an obvious appeal beyond being simply a refuge from equities, bonds and gilts during difficult economic times – you can hang them on a wall and play, drink

3 Feb 2014: back to their homes in developing countries in the form of remittances, subsidising new educational institutions, healthcare and economic enterprise. ... There are many contemporary questions we want to answer:. How do economic globalisation and

8 Jul 2014: Highlights of the Festival of Ideas include the following:. Leading economist Ha-Joon Chang discusses the idea that economics is a science and addresses the failures in economics thinking that he

22 Oct 2014: When Eyjafjallajӧkull erupted in 2010 in Iceland, the ash cloud it emitted stranded around half of the world’s air traffic, with an estimated global economic cost of US $5 billion.

10 Feb 2014: James considered whether population growth was the principal cause of economic change in early modern Europe.

5 Feb 2014: Their mental health is also at risk. Forced migrations are often the result of violent events or economic hardship, which can have profound psychological consequences. ... In terms of economic forced migration, we find that both labour-receiving

9 Mar 2014: Today Anqing is a conurbation of 5.3 million people – a place where there is comparatively little evidence of either its turbulent history or modern China’s economic boom.

30 Jan 2014: Synthetic biology has the potential to drive economic growth but still remains relatively untapped and these new centres will ensure that the UK is at the forefront when it comes to ... Social scientists on the OpenPlant project will help map feasible

26 Feb 2014: Data extrapolated from BHPS (1991–2008) and its successor survey, Understanding Society, which is run from the University of Essex’s Institute for Social and Economic Research and funded primarily by ... the Economic and Social Research Council, can

10 Feb 2014: For others, a moral and political principle of freedom of movement accompanied this more expedient economic rationale.

20 Aug 2014: The research, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, used data drawn from the Avon Longitudinal Survey of Parents and Children (ALSPAC), a study of 13,998 births in the

21 Feb 2014: The authors of the paper acknowledge that Greece’s healthcare system was in need of reorganisation well before its economic plight came to the world’s attention.

3 Oct 2014: The team included controls for the average disaster fatality risk and non-disaster geographic characteristics, such as economic conditions, crime rates and the quality of education.

14 Feb 2014: The ways in which EAL pupils are able to access and respond to key subject areas right across the curriculum, and to feel included in school life, are also significant factors ... EAL pupils may come to the maths curriculum, for example, having learnt a

8 Mar 2014: This data is seen as crucial for understanding the economic role of the household, and individual household members, within the wider formal economy.

4 Dec 2014: Founded by Ludlow-Palafox, with Chase as R&D Director, Enval is using the plant to demonstrate the capabilities and economics of the process to investors and waste handlers. ... By demonstrating the societal and economic benefits of green technologies,

7 Apr 2014: She continued: “The conference will look at the major surge in record-keeping in the early modern world against the backdrop of wider technological, intellectual, political, religious and economic developments.

10 Oct 2014: Therefore, OCD is not just a personal issue; it is also an economic problem for society.

28 Mar 2014: If Russia invades beyond Crimea, Ukrainians will defend themselves. And Europe will be witness to a war between its largest countries, with dire economic and human costs for us all. ... Even despite economic disparity with its powerful neighbour, most

10 Jun 2014: For centuries, indigenous peoples in the Arctic navigated the land, sea, and ice, using knowledge of trails that was passed down through the generations. Now,

22 Dec 2014: The researchers say that economic policy reforms advocated by the IMF have undermined the capacity of health systems in these three nations – systems already fragile from legacies of conflict and state ... Firstly, the IMF required economic reforms

12 Apr 2014: Many contemporary commentators identified the debasement of the coinage as a root cause of England’s economic problems, and they also went much further linking it to widespread social disorder, disruption

20 Nov 2014: A team of researchers from the UK, USA, Germany and China have discovered an ancient, deep canyon buried along the Yarlung Tsangpo River in south Tibet, north

1 Dec 2014: Research undertaken by Hargreaves also examined the relationship between socio-economic disadvantage and household crime such as burglary and car theft. ... The research incorporated data from a ‘Multiple Deprivation Index’, a ten-tier classification

7 May 2014: It was not until the advent of the Second World War, ten years after the initial stock market crash, that economic output in the US recovered its pre-1929 levels. ... This devastating period of economic meltdown caused untold hardship to millions in the

21 Oct 2014: Outbreaks can cause significant economic losses – in UK hospitals alone, the cost of treating outbreaks is estimated at over £100 million a year, and foodborne outbreaks in the US lead to ... economic losses of  around $2 billion per year.

11 Nov 2014: The environmental science community’s response to the awards has been outstanding, with 82 applications of an exceptional standard submitted across four categories of impact: economic, social, early-career and international,

19 Sep 2014: Two eminent scientists have made an impassioned appeal to the world’s religious leaders for help in curbing the potentially catastrophic effects of the ongoing

13 Jun 2014: The Honorary Professor of Social and Economic Geography received the Victoria Medal “for conspicuous merit in human geography”.

6 Nov 2014: Elsewhere, he perhaps surprisingly argues that the widespread view that England is in a state of post-Imperial political and economic decline is a myth. ... Another eye-catching argument within Tombs’ extensive survey is that “declinism” – the

30 Oct 2014: The half century covered by Houghton-Walker’s study was a time of rapid social and economic change in both town and country as the growing population put pressure on all

4 Nov 2014: If similar artistic computing approaches became widely embedded within the curriculum, it could boost the future health of the UK’s creative economies, they say, and enable classrooms to help build ... Simon Peyton Jones from Microsoft Research and the

14 Feb 2014: Shana Cohen and Ed Kessler. In December 2011, when economic turmoil was sweeping through Europe, the Woolf Institute and the Cardinal Bea Centre for Judaic Studies of the Pontifical Gregorian University ... The economic crisis in Europe since 2007 has

10 Sep 2014: This was the second year of operation for the Enterprise Fund, which was announced as part of the SEIS programme in the government’s 2012 budget, established to stimulate economic growth.

29 Jan 2014: The burden incurred by TBI provides a strong medical, social and economic imperative to motivate this concerted effort.

20 Oct 2014: rare insight into the material culture of the coffeehouse, an institution which was booming as a hub of social, political and economic life. ... Coffeehouses played a central role in social and economic life from the mid-17th century to the late 18th

11 Mar 2014: The research, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, culminated in a major report by Gelsthorpe and Hales – The Criminalisation of Migrant Women.

2 Jun 2014: if basic materials research is to have a positive impact on UK economic growth. ... The economic importance of advanced materials was recently highlighted by a key Government statement as one of the “eight great technologies” crucial for the UK’s

9 Oct 2014: Although many programmes suggest economic opportunity as the major motivation behind livelihood choices and success of alternatives, it may not be enough on its own. ... Working with local communities to help them find effective and sustainable solutions

21 May 2014: The Price of Wine, by Dimson, Peter L. Rousseau (Vanderbilt University), and Christophe Spaenjers (HEC Paris) makes a unique contribution to the study of the economics of wine, built on a

2 Jul 2014: The researchers did not consider the practicalities or economics of implementing control measures.

7 Aug 2014: This research forms the basis for future economic development in the UK and improvements for everyone's health, lifestyle and culture. ... The Energy Programme brings together the work of EPSRC and that of the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences

20 Nov 2014: According to the WHO, seasonal influenza causes between 3 and 5 million cases of severe illness each year worldwide, up to 500,000 deaths, as well as significant economic impact. ... The seasonal flu vaccine has been described as one of the most

21 Jan 2014: In a series of three public lectures at Cambridge University during the first week of February, the eminent historian and author Margaret MacMillan will look at the political, social and economic

11 Nov 2014: Many of the original artists – and even performers still today – came from areas of high social and economic deprivation and this is often reflected in their lyrics, for example The Message