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9 Apr 2011: The study, Does oil abundance harm growth?, published in the journal Applied Economics Letters, argues that previous assumptions that oil abundance is a curse were based on methodologies which failed to ... The researchers from the University of Cambridge

11 Mar 2011: The first successful sports doping test for amphetamines was developed by British scientists, in the 1960s, and tested at the 1966 Football World Cup.

21 Mar 2011: The economic situation in 1980, discussed constantly in backbench committees, was grim.

21 Jun 2011: They will be working towards doctorates in a wide range of subjects – Economics, Education, Engineering, Physics and Public Health.

7 Mar 2011: Many of the speakers stressed the need to focus on more than the measurable economic benefits of the arts and humanities when making the case for their continued support. ... humanities.". Fenella Cannell (Reader in Social Anthropology, London School of

2 Sep 2011: This globalised consumerism is the product of a system which is based on an addiction to economic growth.

31 Jan 2011: It shows that, despite the economic downturn, the Colleges and the University have maintained the momentum of this important fundraising campaign.

7 Jun 2011: The justification for placing greater emphasis in selection decisions on AS Level scores and public examination results than on aptitude tests or special exams. ... AS and A Level UMS (marks), GCSEs, aptitude tests, school background and gender were all

17 Mar 2011: An in-depth analysis of these dynamics requires not only the kinds of accounts provided by political science and economics, but also the information and insights that anthropology can furnish. ... Although this 4,400-mile border is not an area of global

22 Nov 2011: Often perceived as the 'do-gooders’ of Danish art, their projects are related to economic forces, democratic production and self-organisation. ... Among other works, they've developed methods of producing bio-gas or soft drinks in collaboration with

27 Jun 2011: In the austere economic climate (not least in Greece itself), and amid growing concerns about the environmental impact of trade and commerce, he believes that luxury should not simply be associated

9 Mar 2011: Gender and level of education both had a significant impact on people’s taste in music, literature and film, but the strongest correlations came from the personality test.

14 Jul 2011: Her research on commonplace books is based largely on a collection belonging to renowned book historian Professor William St Clair, a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for History and Economics,

16 Feb 2011: Lord Turner, who will present the 2011 Clare Distinguished Lecture in Economics and Public Policy, will be joined by Paul Tucker, Deputy Governor, Financial Stability at the Bank of England. ... And he will suggest that the 30-year phenomenon of

22 Nov 2011: The very scale of the City's office market attracts foreign investors, even in these difficult economic conditions. ... The latest report reveals that the City of London office market has displayed remarkable resilience to the 2008 global economic

16 Nov 2011: He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences, a Fellow of the Spanish Royal Academy of Economics, and a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy.

18 Oct 2011: The network has since committed almost $450 million to for-profit and not-for-profit companies that foster economic advancement and individual participation.

24 Jan 2011: By the twentieth century the culture of display had become a strategy not only of emerging avant-gardes but also of international cultural and economic politics, of commerce, and of globalization.

13 Oct 2011: The 1960s was a period of joy, music and optimism. By the early 1970s, there was a huge change in the economic and educational climate. ... By the early 1970s, there was a huge change in the economic and educational climate, culminating in the Oxford and

24 Jan 2011: As American expeditions were eroding imperial claims to Antarctica; the British government supported the BGLE in an attempt to reassert British sovereignty, to undertake scientific research and to investigate the economic

11 May 2011: The Centre for Rising Powers will bring together academics from different subject areas whose research touches on one of the most important questions in

17 Mar 2011: More than 100 people attended the event and heard how policy and regulatory frameworks can help assist high-tech economic growth.

20 May 2011: the Economic and Social Research Council, is systematically studying these unrivalled documents for the first time to chart the history of how poor economies improve living standards. ... of economic development, lower child mortality, a better position

3 Jun 2011: responsible for methicillin resistance (the mecA gene) - the tests came back negative for MRSA. ... PCR based testing, or slide agglutination testing - be upgraded to ensure that the tests detect the new mecA gene found in the new MRSA.

22 Feb 2011: The nay-sayers argued that the eurozone could not survive the impact of the first real economic shock to hit it. ... But monetary union has survived. And as we have seen, economic policy coordination is being reinforced.

10 Oct 2011: It takes place as universities are facing a period of huge change, of turbulence and uncertainty; they find themselves at the heart of economic and social policy and referred to as ... terms than the clichés about ‘contributing to economic growth’,

11 Nov 2011: demand information about the firm’s economic situation, staffing, contractual plans and more.

10 Oct 2011: The study combined authoritative Greece healthcare reports with an analysis of representative household surveys of over 10,000 people, taken in 2007, before the economic crisis began, and again in 2009. ... Overall, the report concludes that the data

21 Nov 2011: Cambridge psychologist Professor Nicky Clayton is passionate about two things: birds and dance. Until recently, these apparently disparate strands of her life

9 Nov 2011: The manuscripts, written in centuries that spanned momentous political and economic change, are an invaluable and untapped source for understanding the pre-colonial past of South Asia, and therefore its present.

22 Apr 2011: Unlike other online marketing tools, LikeAudience combines the information people share about themselves on Facebook with data about their personalities gathered from the same profiling tests used in psychological research. ... We think this will

30 Jun 2011: The testing method developed by the CUSF team costs only £1000 per launch to test one of the 1/10. ... Slow motion video footage shows the parachutes flight during one of the low-speed system development tests.

2 Jun 2011: That inconsistency, and the need to make legal systems fairer, was the subject of a compelling talk by the Cambridge social and developmental psychologist

17 May 2011: story. The surveys were carried out by the Centre for Business Research (CBR) at Cambridge Judge Business School as part of a research initiative funded by the Economic and Social Research ... disciplines conventionally given little emphasis in relation

20 Dec 2011: kilometres. Different species of locust continue to inflict severe economic hardship on large parts of Africa and China.

10 Feb 2011: They used the 'Reading the Mind in the Eyes' task as the test of mind reading, which tests how well someone can infer what a person is thinking or feeling from ... The decision to test just females was to maximize the possibility of seeing a reduction in

8 Apr 2011: A wide range of tests were carried out over the course of the five year study. ... to test the children’s aptitude with language, their planning skills, working memory and inhibitory control.

31 Oct 2011: I was given a detailed glucose tolerance test which gave more information than the standard prenatal test and provided some additional blood samples throughout the pregnancy.

21 Dec 2011: A new study shows that children as young as three or four years old can talk informatively and accurately about experiences – including incidents of abuse – if

18 Mar 2011: Once we know what the rules are, we can test how drugs alter cell behaviour and apply this to understanding how to prevent cancers developing and improve cancer treatment.’.

29 Jun 2011: Professor Emma Rothschild is Director of the Joint Centre for History and Economics, a Fellow of Magdalene College, and Honorary Professor of History and Economics at the University of Cambridge.

29 Jun 2011: would you prefer £20 today or £35 in two weeks?) to test impulsivity.

30 Apr 2011: During these tests, the team found that a cut-down version of the shield helped significantly to keep the bomb spinning during flight. ... On the next flight, the bomb bounced perfectly and after a few more test runs the dam was destroyed.

9 Dec 2011: Unfortunately even at this remote site, there was no longer enough of the key grouper species he needed to test his theory about the tight relationships between eels and groupers.

14 Jul 2011: This is the culmination, if not the acid test, of three days of scholarly discussion about what performers do, how they do it, and how people respond to it. ... John Rink, Professor of Musical Performance Studies at the University of Cambridge, said:

20 Jul 2011: were based on economic data and stopped short of tracing the length of each energy chain from fuels all the way to consumers, halting instead at sectors. ... Ultimately we want to be able to ask global questions such as: what are the resource

17 Mar 2011: Shaped by indigenous cultures and colonial influences, and with a contemporary history that encompasses acute political competition, social unrest and economic change, Latin America is a stimulating region for academic enquiry. ... His work asks what the

5 Oct 2011: After a delay, a memory test was given where participants tried to remember whether they had seen or imagined the second word of each previously-encountered word-pair, or whether they

18 Nov 2011: the information, looking for patterns and connections between facts, and then generating hypotheses to test.

18 Mar 2011: Moreover, outbreaks of disease can sometimes reach epidemic proportions, wiping out entire crops, often with substantial social and economic consequences. ... element of uncertainty: ‘Dealing with complicated systems that have a biological, economic