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6 Mar 2009: The event, in Cambridge, has been organised by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Gender Equality Network as part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science. ... thousands of people which has been charting the effects of social and economic

28 Sep 2009: However, globalisation and socio-economic change exert complex pressures on smaller communities, eroding expressive diversity and transforming culture through assimilation to more- dominant ways of life.

1 Sep 2009: The single largest and most important collection of medieval Jewish manuscripts in the world, and one of the greatest literary treasures of Cambridge

27 May 2009: It’s also well recognised by government and funders as an important return on the UK’s investment in academic research, one that provides a significant driving force for enhancing economic

1 May 2009: Careful study of the statistics of these alternations has been used to determine the strength of the fluid dynamical coupling that drives synchronisation, providing the first quantitative test of emerging theories

4 Jan 2009: It turns out that the difference lies in ancestry. The lower socio-economic groups of La Paz are almost entirely made up of Aymara Indians, an ancient ethnic group with a ... On the other hand, individuals of higher socio-economic status in Bolivia

21 Aug 2009: Studies at the University of Cambridge have revealed that many of us use musical taste both as a means of expressing our own identity, and to form and refine

2 Oct 2009: Michael Scott reveals how the implosion of Ancient Athens occurred amid a crippling economic downturn, while politicians committed financial misdemeanours, sent its army to fight unpopular foreign wars and struggled to ... Many of its economic problems

1 May 2009: controlled environment and to test treatments to improve integration of the transplanted cells.

26 May 2009: The collective expertise of the Consortium will be required to construct and test the prototypes of a C.

12 Feb 2009: smoke. A range of neuropsychological tests were then used to assess aspects of brain function such as verbal memory (recalling words immediately and after a delay), numerical calculations, time orientation, and

1 Dec 2009: Funding from the Wellcome Trust (WT) and Medical Research Council (MRC) has been announced for a £5 million research programme on Alzheimer’s disease (AD) in

30 Mar 2009: The increased risks acquired from these faults are small, but as more are found it will be possible to create tests for combinations of genes that significantly increase the risk. ... Such tests could help doctors make better decisions about prevention,

1 Jan 2009: The excavated finds (including marble and pottery) hold great potential for writing the economic and social history of the port, thereby making an important contribution to our understanding of its role

15 Oct 2009: The report is the culmination of a three year enquiry which received more than a thousand submissions from organisations and individuals, drew on more than

1 Aug 2009: We are often taken aback by the sudden appearance of a new innovation that has clear economic or clinical impact. ... ordinary people and that bring economic benefit to the country.

13 Feb 2009: He curates the database Inherited Diseases in Dogs, and has produced a number of DNA based tests for canine inherited diseases.

27 May 2009: Over the past decade, Dr Peter Smielewski and Dr Marek Czosnyka in the Neurosurgery Unit of the Department of Clinical Neurosciences have been developing

5 Oct 2009: They have won in every category, with 29 Nobel Prizes in physics, 24 in medicine, 19 in chemistry, seven in Economics, two in literature and two in peace.

13 Jan 2009: The Efficient Market Hypothesis in economics has long claimed that markets select for rational expectations. ... As such the study belongs to a growing body of research showing how the body plays a role in economic risk-taking.

1 May 2009: Dr David Tuveson has set up a facility in the clinic for treating patients with pancreatic cancer and a matching experimental system in the laboratory to test and refine potential new

14 Aug 2009: Dr Dharmintra Pasupathy of the University's Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology and colleagues used data from more than 1 million births between 1988- 2007

1 Jan 2009: Multiple sclerosis (MS) affects almost 100,000 people in the UK and several million worldwide, many of whom develop the illness between the ages of 20 and 40.

1 Jan 2009: Parkinson’s disease (PD) is one of the most common neurodegenerative diseases in the elderly population. Usually diagnosed after the age of 50, PD has a

24 Nov 2009: The study by John Coates and Lionel Page of the University of Cambridge offers a rare glimpse into how biology, experience and compensation schemes work

1 Sep 2009: The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) last year launched a multimillion pound scheme to help universities ensure that their academics’ discoveries are turned into tangible economic and societal benefits

26 May 2009: In further tests, the rooks were able to use a hook tool to get food out of a different tube and even creatively bent a straight piece of wire to make

28 Jan 2009: Improving their upward social mobility, it says, is made more difficult still by the fact that most European Muslims come from relatively poor socio-economic groups.

17 Apr 2009: This international region, which lies beyond the exclusive economic zones of the surrounding Arctic States, is classed as "high seas".

9 Mar 2009: It will also work to accelerate innovation and generate wider economic and social benefits in the Greater Cambridge area as well as nationally.

22 Dec 2009: The study sheds new light on insects' ability to perform complex tasks, such as visually-guided limb control, usually associated with mammals. According to

15 May 2009: There is a mixture of serenity - because we have done every test that we can do - but also anxiety - because it is always risky to launch such satellites towards deep space.".

2 Apr 2009: to formulate hypotheses on its own and test them. ... The robot then devised experiments to test these predictions, ran the experiments using laboratory robotics, interpreted the results and repeated the cycle.

14 May 2009: To test this, the researchers used artificial flowers cast from epoxy resin, half with conical cells and half with flat surfaces. ... To test this, the researchers used snapdragon plants, which have conical petal cells, and mutant snapdragons, lacking