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Head first: reshaping how traumatic brain injury is treated |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/head-first-reshaping-how-traumatic-brain-injury-is-treated29 Jan 2014: The burden incurred by TBI provides a strong medical, social and economic imperative to motivate this concerted effort.
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Cuts to mental health services putting young people at risk, say…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/cuts-to-mental-health-services-putting-young-people-at-risk-say-experts15 Sep 2017: would therefore yield personal, economic, and societal benefits over an individual’s lifespan.
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UK online alternative finance market grows to £3.2 billion in 2015 |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/uk-online-alternative-finance-market-grows-to-ps3-2-billion-in-201517 Feb 2016: These areas of finance are increasingly becoming part of our everyday economic life. ... As the sector grows and matures it is sure to face challenges - investors will be keen to see returns, and another financial crisis would certainly test the
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Opinion: Aliens, very strange universes and Brexit – Martin Rees |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/discussion/opinion-aliens-very-strange-universes-and-brexit-martin-rees3 Apr 2017: When science impacts on public policy, there will be elements of economics, ethics and politics where we as scientists speak only as laymen.
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Big Data – getting to the heart of the Information Revolution |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/discussion/big-data-getting-to-the-heart-of-the-information-revolution1 Jun 2015: Big Data’ has also been highlighted by the UK government as among the country’s ‘Eight Great Technologies’ that will help drive economic growth. ... Cambridge is home to Wilkes, one of the world’s most energy-efficient supercomputers, while
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Opinion: Speaking dialects trains the brain as well as bilingualism…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/discussion/opinion-speaking-dialects-trains-the-brain-as-well-as-bilingualism-does23 May 2016: Comparisons between the three groups were performed in two stages and the socio-economic status, language proficiency and general intelligence of all children taking part were factored into the analyses. ... That is, if presented with “three, nine, five
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Cambridge's Chemistry of Health programme awarded £17 million in…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/cambridges-chemistry-of-health-programme-awarded-ps17-million-in-funding25 Mar 2015: Seven university research projects from across the UK will receive over £100 million of investment in 2016-17, to drive innovation and economic growth. ... UK universities tackle major national and global challenges, and make a significant contribution
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Women much less likely to ask questions in academic seminars than men …
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/women-much-less-likely-to-ask-questions-in-academic-seminars-than-men27 Sep 2018: Women are two and a half times less likely to ask a question in departmental seminars than men, an observational study of 250 events at 35 academic
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Cambridge awarded £18 million in funding to support UK infrastructure …
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/cambridge-awarded-ps18-million-in-funding-to-support-uk-infrastructure-research24 Mar 2015: base. Robert Mair. The University of Cambridge will receive £18 million in funding to ensure that the UK’s infrastructure is resilient and responsive to environmental and economic impacts, as announced ... B) A national ‘Observatory’ and living
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Research Horizons
https://www.cam.ac.uk/system/files/issue_36_research_horizons.pdf11 Jun 2018: in technology and science at Cambridge with the economic and political dimensions of policymaking. ... Thwaites will continue to test equations in Kymata, sourced from collaborations with researchers around the world and the public domain. -
What's the point of midges - and how do you stop them biting? |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/whats-the-point-of-midges-and-how-do-you-stop-them-biting26 Aug 2015: What more is there to learn about midges? Some insects have economic and medical importance. ... We used to test these against alternatives when running the annual field course at my field centre in Yorkshire for the London School of Hygiene and Tropical
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Harsh discipline increases risk of children developing lasting mental …
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/harsh-discipline-increases-risk-of-children-developing-lasting-mental-health-problems31 Mar 2023: Children’s mental health is shaped by multiple risk factors, including gender, physical health, and socio-economic status.
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Opinion: The science, drugs and tech pushing our brains to new limits …
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/discussion/opinion-the-science-drugs-and-tech-pushing-our-brains-to-new-limits6 Oct 2016: Recently developed computerised tests, such as EMOTICOM, which assesses a range of cognitive functions, will also make it easier to combine state-of-the-art neuroscience techniques with objective measurement of ... This piece is co-published with the
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Pioneering research from the University of Cambridge Research…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/system/files/issue_30_research_horizons.pdf20 May 2016: 5 Research Horizons. Green goldA unique facility will test ways of turning algae into fuel and food. ... The Department is in the process of recruiting 400 patients for a randomised controlled trial to test this technology. -
Digital records could expose intimate details and personality traits…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/digital-records-could-expose-intimate-details-and-personality-traits-of-millions11 Mar 2013: Facebook Likes were fed into algorithms and corroborated with information from profiles and personality tests. ... Just the possibility of this happening could deter people from using digital technologies and diminish trust between individuals and
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Full report:www.cam.ac.uk/annual-report Annual Report 2012Brief…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/system/files/annual20report20overview.pdf13 Mar 2013: Professor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz. Vice-Chancellor. Vice-Chancellor’sForewordServing society through innovation New ideas are crucial, not just to address the current economic situation, but to also ensure our future wellbeing, ... It requires the -
Talkin' 'bout a revolution: how to make the digital world…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/discussion/talkin-bout-a-revolution-how-to-make-the-digital-world-work-for-us3 Oct 2016: time. Jon Crowcroft and John Thompson. New information and communication technologies are having a profound impact on many aspects of social, political and economic life, raising important new issues of social
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Buried Roman theatre sets the stage for new understanding of ancient…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/buried-roman-theatre-sets-the-stage-for-new-understanding-of-ancient-town20 Sep 2013: The discovery of the theatre remains follows the first-ever test excavation of the site this summer and adds new weight to the team’s theories about Interamna Lirenas’ growth and ... It bears witness to the social and economic dynamism of the town in
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Killer flies: how brain size affects hunting strategy in the insect…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/killer-flies-how-brain-size-affects-hunting-strategy-in-the-insect-world9 Feb 2016: Paloma Gonzalez-Bellido. As in economics, there is a law of diminishing returns in neuroscience – doubling the investment going in doesn’t equal double the performance coming out.
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Open-source toolkit helps developing countries meet demand for…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/open-source-toolkit-helps-developing-countries-meet-demand-for-covid-19-research-and-diagnostics8 Dec 2020: These enzymes are also useful for tests like LAMP, which is faster and simpler than RT-qPCR and is rapidly being adopted by more labs. ... Control DNA is also included in the toolkit to validate that tests will specifically detect SARS-CoV-2 but not
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Assessments of thinking skills may misrepresent poor, inner-city…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/assessments-of-thinking-skills-may-misrepresent-poor-inner-city-children-in-the-us12 Oct 2022: Children with good executive functions tend to have better test scores, better mental health and greater employment potential. ... Researchers have previously pointed out that these assessments tend to be modelled on children who are mostly from
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Mother’s attitude towards baby during pregnancy may have implications …
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/mothers-attitude-towards-baby-during-pregnancy-may-have-implications-for-childs-development12 Jun 2018: The study was funded by the Economic and Social Research Council.
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Children from disadvantaged backgrounds and certain ethnic minorities …
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/children-from-disadvantaged-backgrounds-and-certain-ethnic-minorities-do-less-vigorous-physical28 May 2019: The research was funded by the British Heart Foundation, Department of Health, Economic and Social Research Council, Medical Research Council, and Wellcome. ... Socio-economic and ethnic differences in children’s vigorous intensity physical activity: a
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Cambridge-authored book explores how artificial intelligence could…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/cambridge-authored-book-explores-how-artificial-intelligence-could-help-address-climate-change30 Aug 2021: By acknowledging such digital technologies and AI could also pose existential threats to humanity, the book also shows how to maximise their economic and environmental use, while minimising the risks they ... Cambridge CARES is dedicated to developing
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School segregation by wealth is creating unequal learning outcomes…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/school-segregation-by-wealth-is-creating-unequal-learning-outcomes-for-children-in-the-global-south27 May 2020: worse in basic literacy and numeracy tests than those from more affluent backgrounds. ... Importantly, in cases where children from the wealthiest 20% and poorest 20% of families attended the same school, there was almost no difference in their test
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Pandemic restrictions aggravating known triggers for self-harm and…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/pandemic-restrictions-aggravating-known-triggers-for-self-harm-and-poor-mental-health-among-children10 Mar 2021: The more socioeconomically deprived respondents had consistently worse mental health in both surveys, note the authors - a stark warning given that economic recession is expected to increase the numbers of families ... We’re calling on policymakers to
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Food for the Soul and the Planet: Measuring the ...
https://www.cam.ac.uk/sites/www.cam.ac.uk/files/food_for_the_soul.pdf27 Oct 2022: The survey. includes some demographic and economic control variables.23 Unfortunately, the dataset does. ... tests using Rademacher weights. These weights are recommended for use when there a small. -
Helping adolescents to feel competent and purposeful – not just happy …
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/helping-adolescents-to-feel-competent-and-purposeful-not-just-happy-may-improve-grades6 Jul 2023: These results held true even when accounting for potentially confounding factors, such as school attended, gender, socio-economic status, or special educational needs. ... Students said they often felt worthless, inadequate or 'dumb' if they failed to
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Hospitality and real estate sectors have highest rates of common…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/hospitality-and-real-estate-sectors-have-highest-rates-of-common-mental-health-problems14 Feb 2023: It is estimated that economic losses caused by mental health problems account for about 4.1% of UK GDP, and that better mental health support in the workplace can save UK
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Year 8 students work with Cambridge researchers to help their peers…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/year-8-students-work-with-cambridge-researchers-to-help-their-peers-learn-about-the-census13 May 2021: These interviews were recorded as podcasts. The collaboration is part of the ‘Engaging the Public in Census 2021 project’, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and Economic and
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Running on autopilot: scientists find important new role for…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/running-on-autopilot-scientists-find-important-new-role-for-daydreaming-network23 Oct 2017: This new study supports an idea expounded upon by Daniel Kahneman, Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics laureate 2002, in his book Thinking, Fast and Slow, that there are two systems that
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Artificial intelligence could be used to triage patients suspected at …
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/artificial-intelligence-could-be-used-to-triage-patients-suspected-at-risk-of-early-stage15 Apr 2021: Sensitivity is the ‘true positive’ rate – that is, how often a test correctly generates a positive result for people who have Barrett oesophagus. ... Specificity, on the other hand, measures a test’s ability to correctly generate a negative
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Playing croquet with the examiner: “he was much like other people” |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/playing-croquet-with-the-examiner-he-was-much-like-other-people26 Sep 2013: Her [candidate] no was 1540.”. There is no record of any reply from John Neville Keynes (whose son John Maynard Keynes went on to change the face of economics) but the ... As the tests came to an end, Amy is invited to a croquet party where the
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Responsibility | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/about-the-university/how-the-university-and-colleges-work/people/vice-chancellor/speeches/address-to-university-201431 May 2023: We have evolved a Collegiate approach which has stood the test of time. ... There is no ‘right background’ for Cambridge, no right school to have attended, no hidden test of social and economic circumstances. -
Cod bones from Mary Rose reveal globalised fish trade in Tudor…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/cod-bones-from-mary-rose-reveal-globalised-fish-trade-in-tudor-england9 Sep 2015: th. century. Test results from one of the sample bones has led archaeologists to suspect that some of the stored cod came from as far away as Newfoundland in eastern Canada. ... Within a century the Newfoundland fishery had become a major economic concern
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https://www.cam.ac.uk/system/files/uc_annual_report_2016_1.pdf3 Feb 2017: Reports andFinancial Statements. for the year ended 31 July 2016. www.cam.ac.uk/annual-report. Contents. Annual Report of the Council for the academical year 2015–16 1. Annual Report of the General Board to the Council for the academical year -
‘Mental rigidity’ at the root of intense political partisanship on…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/mental-rigidity-at-the-root-of-intense-political-partisanship-on-both-left-and-right-study29 Aug 2019: Participants completed three psychological tests online: a word association game, a card-sorting test – where colours, shapes and numbers are matched according to shifting rules – and an exercise in which participants ... These are established and
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Physical activity may help to close the wealth gap in school…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/physical-activity-may-help-to-close-the-wealth-gap-in-school-attainment-by-improving-self-control20 May 2021: Standardised test scores and teacher reports were used to measure academic attainment, and a survey of standard risk factors, taken when the children were very young, to establish socio-economic status. ... When the researchers factored in low
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Opinion: Climate change, pandemics, biodiversity loss – no country is …
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/opinion-climate-change-pandemics-biodiversity-loss-no-country-is-sufficiently-prepared1 Nov 2019: Some countries may even need grand changes to their political and economic systems, a level of change that typically only occurs after a catastrophe.
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UK needs AI legislation to create trust so companies can ‘plug AI…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/uk-needs-ai-legislation-to-create-trust-so-companies-can-plug-ai-into-british-economy-report16 Oct 2023: The UK will only be able to realise the economic benefits of AI if the technology can be trusted, and that can only be ensured through meaningful legislation and regulation.”.
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Mindfulness can improve mental health and wellbeing – but unlikely to …
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/mindfulness-can-improve-mental-health-and-wellbeing-but-unlikely-to-work-for-everyone11 Jan 2021: Mindfulness is typically defined as ‘the awareness that emerges through paying attention on purpose, in the present moment, and nonjudgmentally to the
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Mild-to-moderate hearing loss in children leads to changes in how…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/mild-to-moderate-hearing-loss-in-children-leads-to-changes-in-how-brain-processes-sound1 Oct 2019: The research was funded by the Economic and Social Research Council and the European Union Horizon 2020 Programme.
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University of Cambridge Research magazine issue 23
https://www.cam.ac.uk/system/files/issue_23_research_horizons.pdf3 Jun 2014: will provide the most precise test to date of Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity. ... Actually implementing either of these situations would be fraught with extraordinary economic and political difficulties. -
Stress hormones in financial traders may trigger ‘risk aversion’ and…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/stress-hormones-in-financial-traders-may-trigger-risk-aversion-and-contribute-to-market-crises18 Feb 2014: The finding could fundamentally alter our understanding of risk as, up until now, almost every model in finance and economics – even those used by banks and central banks – rested on the ... In the latest study they combined field work with lab work,
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The Scale of our Ambition | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/about-the-university/how-the-university-and-colleges-work/people/vice-chancellor/speeches/scale-our-ambition31 May 2023: Creating the headroom for this anticipated growth is unquestionably challenging, especially in the current economic circumstances, but failure to do so will significantly weaken our future competitiveness. ... study worthy of their talents; in our -
Online atlas explores north-south divide in childbirth and child…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/online-atlas-explores-north-south-divide-in-childbirth-and-child-mortality-during-victorian-era15 May 2018: It displays various demographic and socio-economic measures calculated from census data gathered between 1851 and 1911, a period which saw immense social and economic change as the population of the ... The research was funded by the Economic & Social
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The anxiety puzzle: why are women in deprived areas more likely to…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/discussion/the-anxiety-puzzle-why-are-women-in-deprived-areas-more-likely-to-suffer3 Sep 2015: This association persisted even after we accounted for individual circumstances, such as socio-economic status and existing medical conditions.
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‘Spill-over’ effects show hidden value of prioritising education of…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/spill-over-effects-show-hidden-value-of-prioritising-education-of-poorest-children-and-marginalised20 Nov 2020: Impact was calculated by comparing the English test scores of children from 81 randomly-selected CAMFED-supported schools with children from 60 control schools that received no support. ... The improvement in English test scores among girls receiving
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https://www.cam.ac.uk/system/files/issue_1_research_horizons.pdf20 Sep 2006: Research atCambridge aims to change this. The research programme is dividedinto three phases: understand, test andtrial. ... Theyhope to test if children who. later develop autism haveunusually high levels of. -
Cambridge scientist shares world’s largest neuroscience prize for…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/news/cambridge-scientist-shares-worlds-largest-neuroscience-prize-for-research-on-the-brains-reward6 Mar 2017: This link between dopamine and prediction error was one of the spurs for an explosion of work using theoretical ideas and computational models to link artificial intelligence, economics, mathematics, engineering and ... The implications of these
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