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28 May 2015: The tests due to be introduced in September are not what teachers need: they are labour-intensive and potentially stressful for four-year-olds. ... These tests seek to provide baseline assessments of a child’s ‘school readiness.’ However, the

23 Dec 2015: of Standards and Technology, to develop and test their material over the next 12 months.

12 Nov 2015: Each scenario was linked to a series of economic and market confidence factors used to explore macroeconomic effects within a global economic model. ... Seeing climate change as a short-term financial risk as well as a long-term economic threat.

17 Sep 2015: The lives of the 400,000 UK people with type 1 diabetes currently involves a relentless balancing act of controlling their blood glucose levels by finger-prick blood tests and taking

25 Jun 2015: Around 16,000 people in the UK are estimated to be affected by frontotemporal dementia (also known as Pick’s disease). Patients are often affected at a young

23 Apr 2015: dementia, and crucially, to test new drugs that halt disease progression.

4 Sep 2015: In a study published today in the open access International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, researchers also found that pupils doing an

18 Sep 2015: Although a limited number of previous studies had suggested that this was not possible, the team’s lab-based tests discovered that in certain conditions, GLP-1 can bind to the ... Tests in mice have, however, shown that its levels vary in different

12 Oct 2015: When the researchers presented the same task to a larger group of 40 healthy people, they found a continuum in task performance that correlated with the participants’ scores on tests of

2 Jun 2015: CITI-SENSE provides a test-bed for both rolling out the new technologies that are coming online and for drawing on the ‘power of the Citizen’ to guide how society responds.”.

6 May 2015: Thomas Gass, Assistant Secretary‐General for Policy of the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs, added: “this report reminds us of the vital role of forests in building food security.

3 Feb 2015: Two of the studentships in the 2016 cohort will be interdisciplinary and co-funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and NERC.

7 Dec 2015: Researchers, from the MS Society Cambridge Centre for Myelin Repair, identified that the ‘vitamin D receptor’ protein pairs with an existing protein, called

14 Oct 2015: By the time it ended, it had become synonymous with child soldiers, human rights atrocities, landmine victims and blood diamond economics.

10 Jul 2015: In addition, after further work, it may be possible to use this technique to test how well new medicines perform at preventing the development of atherosclerosis.”.

18 Dec 2015: The best way to test how well stem cells would incorporate into the body is to transplant them into an early-stage embryo and see how they develop. ... The gold standard test, developed in Cambridge in the 1980s, involves putting the stem cells into a

23 Jul 2015: To test whether these stress-hormone induced differences in social network positions affected who learned from whom, Boogert devised a food puzzle for the birds, and recorded exactly when each bird ... In the new test, the birds had to learn to flip the

2 Nov 2015: What this data instead shows is that these GCSEs test different levels of skills, some of which may be more readily acquired in a lower number of contact hours and some

25 Nov 2015: Even with 20/20 vision in broad daylight on a clear day, our peripheral vision can be surprisingly poor, particularly when the scene in front of us is

30 Sep 2015: Scroll to the end of the article to listen to the podcast. Dr Zoe Jaques (Faculty of Education) is a lecturer in children’s literature. Her research spans

10 Jun 2015: New research using high-speed gambling experiments shows that, for most of us, the last experience we’ve had can be the defining one when it comes to taking a

29 Jun 2015: the planet as purely an economic issue about how we use these commodities is a limiting vision. ... Natural capital has features that most commodities around which we build economic modelling – such as infrastructure, or the products of industrial

22 Jul 2015: These observations have enabled us to test with unprecedented detail theories of galaxy formation in the early Universe.”. ... Finally to be able to test predictions and hypotheses on real data from ALMA is an exciting moment and opens up a new set of

29 Oct 2015: A common characteristic of neurodegenerative diseases – such as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and Huntington’s disease – is the build-up of ‘misfolded’ proteins,

21 Aug 2015: The notion of a dementia epidemic has been a big concern in ageing societies across the globe for some time. With the extension of life expectancy it seems to

23 Nov 2015: It had to remain stable without the benefit of spin (the barrel was not rifled) but in early tests the projectile was found to tumble uncontrollably. ... But from a purely engineering perspective I’m sorry that it was never test-fired (though it’s

21 Oct 2015: Those concerns are not confined to China and Brazil. Russia’s economy is contracting this year due to low energy prices; India’s economic recovery too has been slower than expected. ... Khaled Soufani, Senior Faculty in Management Practice

21 Apr 2015: In the final part of the test – after the participants had listened to their heartbeat through the stethoscope and were once again tapping unaided – the researchers found differences in brain activity

27 Nov 2015: A recent study by the Global Forest Expert Panel on Forests and Food Security, which I chaired, shows how forests and trees can complement agricultural production and give an economic boost

27 Aug 2015: Though it built what initially seemed to be an effective dictatorship, it was unable to cope with the economic incompetence of state socialism – symbolised for the outside world by the great ... Most remarkable of all, however, Meles' economic

29 Sep 2015: It strikes me as no coincidence that the biggest economic and political shift that modern Britain has ever seen came in the wake of the new practices of public relations. ... These 1930s innovations were prompted by many of the same types of challenges

11 Aug 2015: It would also be interesting to investigate whether jackdaws are similarly able to recognise individuals of other predator species – although this would be a lot harder to test.”.

22 Oct 2015: And such a threat to economic growth and social stability has to be removed.

7 May 2015: To test for social skills, the researchers reared juvenile fish over two months with either three or nine adult group members, and observed all social behaviours at key experimental points. ... Six month after this test phase, individual fish brains were

10 Dec 2015: zu Ermgassen points out that economic and environmental concern is driving a reassessment of EU animal feed bans that were put in place in the 2000s, as well as attempts to ... The reintroduction of swill feeding in the EU would require backing from pig

9 Sep 2015: However, the zebra study was entirely theoretical and didn’t test whether striped patterns actually affected the judgements of real observers. ... Surprisingly, the first experimental tests of the effectiveness of motion dazzle patterns weren’t

12 Jan 2015: Users of the 'myPersonality' app were then given the option of inviting friends and family to judge the psychological traits of the user through a shorter version of the personality test. ... Take the Facebook personality test yourself here:

5 Oct 2015: The researchers stress the need to test if their findings are supported by direct measurements on cyanobacteria growing in the oceans.

30 Sep 2015: This brings together researchers to address challenges presented by access to unprecedented volumes of data, as well as important issues around law, ethics and economics, in order to apply Big Data

4 Dec 2015: Droughts are ranked second in the US in terms of national weather-related economic impacts, with annual losses just shy of $9 billion. ... With water scarcity likely to increase due to advancing climate change, the economic and environmental impacts of

11 Feb 2015: the case, except within a minority of food categories,” says Dr Ryota Nakamura from the Centre for Health Economics at the University of York, who carried out the research whilst at

6 Nov 2015: The human remains give us the opportunity to test this representation of the first people in Cabo Verde,” said Evans.

11 Sep 2015: Scientists have identified an ingeniously elegant brain circuit consisting of just five nerve cells that allows female crickets to automatically identify the

21 Dec 2015: SegNet was primarily trained in highway and urban environments, so it still has some learning to do for rural, snowy or desert environments – although it has performed well in initial tests

23 Oct 2015: Never more so than today. Spain has suffered immensely in the global economic crisis – especially Andalusia, the southernmost region of the country most associated with flamenco. ... Yet members remain committed to flamenco as a political weapon

3 Nov 2015: This allowed the research team to also test two factors that they predicted would not be linked to AQ: age and geographical region. ... Emily Ruzich said “I am pleased that such big data was available to test these questions.

24 Dec 2015: Such economic impacts are likely to worsen as the century progresses. ... This is the case of the Catskills watershed in New York, where environmentally sound economic development is incentivized.

26 Nov 2015: Health services in many countries increasingly rely on prescribed 'psychosocial interventions': treatments that use counselling techniques to tackle mental

9 Sep 2015: However, less than 1% goes towards mitigating the toll farming takes on the natural world – despite agriculture contributing more to environmental degradation than any other economic sector, say researchers.

4 Sep 2015: By the time they are teenagers, more than two-thirds of young people are not doing enough physical activity. Teenagers spend an average of eight hours every