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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

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.

22 Aug 2014: These young people are coming of age in a time of great economic and social change, causing upheaval to traditional family expectations. ... This would allow Hindu property developers and businesses to move in: it might aid economic development, but it

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

9 Jul 2014: The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science recipient, Amartya Sen, received an honorary doctorate in 2009.

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.

8 Apr 2014: given Malagasy lessons to lecturers and post-docs - funding himself by working at a local supermarket.

14 Oct 2014: Arif has been working on issues relating to education and development for several years since finishing an undergraduate and masters programme in economics. ... However, after some time working in development, he soon felt that the problems the poor

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

19 Feb 2014: Lessons from nature such as this might also be useful for inspiring new approaches in man-made devices. ... We investigate these insects to try and understand biological systems, but lessons from nature such as this might also be useful for inspiring new

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,

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

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,

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

4 Jul 2014: I’ve written a fair amount recently on Obama and the lessons of the New Deal because in 2009 explicit comparisons were made between Obama’s administration and Roosevelt’s administration. ... The most obvious lesson of the past for European

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

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

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,

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

27 Feb 2014: We hope that this will hold lessons for us as we seek to find means of dealing with climate change in our own and future generations.”.

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.

10 Apr 2014: Lane, who is a Fellow of St John’s College, Cambridge, and Emeritus Professor of Economic Sociology, said: “Part of the motivation for the study was the need for a better ... In part, the study suggests the evolution has been hindered by a shortage

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

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

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

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

4 Nov 2014: Lessons were a mixture of music and ICT, with a focus on imagination, performance and independent exploration. ... Music educators across the country will be able to access a bank of free online resources including SPL&C lesson plans, films and guidance

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

18 Sep 2014: But many European, Northern American and Asian countries are showing a steep decline in homicide over the past two decades, and the lessons from these nations need to be built upon.

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

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

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

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

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

19 Jun 2014: Effective implementation will, therefore, depend less on legal technicalities than on how powerful such data protection norms are when placed alongside the vast cultural, political and economic power of “internet freedom”.

31 Oct 2014: the work place,” said co-author Dr Claire Crawford, from the University of Warwick’s Department of Economics.