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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.

25 May 2015: Pain perception is an evolutionarily-conserved warning mechanism that alerts us to dangers in the environment and to potential tissue damage. However, rare

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

16 Dec 2015: Saltmarsh was the perfect man for the task: he was an economic historian with a particular interest in the medieval world; he was a meticulous researcher; and he was a gifted

16 Dec 2015: One solution is to study language properties that might give us a clue, and the Verb Second constraint seems to be one of the best examples available – a lens to test ... The researchers believe that the Verb Second constraint could be used to test

13 May 2015: Essentially, it’s the same in baboons.”. To test for the personality traits of ‘boldness’ – essentially an assertive curiosity – the researchers planted unfamiliar foods on the edge of paths commonly used

28 Jan 2015: economic questions that are critical to making data science work in practice.

16 Feb 2015: Dementia affects over 830,000 people in the UK and costs the UK economy £23 billion a year. Increasing political focus on improving the outlook for people with

17 Mar 2015: In a study published recently in Genome Research, scientists from University of Cambridge, Estonian Biocentre, University of Tartu, Arizona State University

18 Dec 2015: The latest research on robots is often described as if it were a step on the inexorable march toward a robot apocalypse straight out of the Terminator films.

3 Dec 2015: Human-level intelligence is familiar in biological “hardware” – it happens inside our skulls. Technology and science are now converging on a possible future

16 Jul 2015: The researchers used their ‘miniature bile ducts’ to test new drugs for biliary disease, leading to the discovery that VX809 – an experimental compound originally designed to treat the effects of cystic

6 Nov 2015: Our many partnerships with industry support the continued economic success of the region and the UK more broadly, and the Cambridge Graphene Centre is an important part of that – working with

31 Mar 2015: The researchers were initially looking for chemical compounds of natural origin: they wanted to test whether the oceans around Borneo were a source of bromine and chlorine, compounds which can affect

19 Jan 2015: An in-depth study of mothers and young children living in multicultural areas of London found that many of the women interviewed had prepared children for

22 Sep 2015: way. To test whether the males really are more visible to feathered predators, the researchers had to develop clay models that accurately replicated the lizards’ colour to a bird’s eye.

6 Mar 2015: However, global economic uncertainties have emerged more strongly in recent months and returns at the target levels look challenging over the near future. ... the support by benefactors for endowment, capital expenditure and for current use; and• the