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Climate change sentiment could hit global investment portfolios in…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/climate-change-sentiment-could-hit-global-investment-portfolios-in-the-short-term12 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.
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New study shows artificial pancreas works for length of entire school …
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/new-study-shows-artificial-pancreas-works-for-length-of-entire-school-term17 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
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Study highlights possible knowledge gap over effects of some diabetes …
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/study-highlights-possible-knowledge-gap-over-effects-of-some-diabetes-drugs18 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
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Bad air day? Low-cost pollution detectors to tackle air quality |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/bad-air-day-low-cost-pollution-detectors-to-tackle-air-quality2 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.”.
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Forests could play a vital role in efforts to end global hunger |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/forests-could-play-a-vital-role-in-efforts-to-end-global-hunger6 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.
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New initiative to train specialists in risk, mitigation and Big Data…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/new-initiative-to-train-specialists-in-risk-mitigation-and-big-data3 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.
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Order matters: sequence of genetic mutations determines how cancer…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/order-matters-sequence-of-genetic-mutations-determines-how-cancer-behaves11 Feb 2015: Most of the genetic mutations that cause cancer result from environmental ‘damage’ (for example, through smoking or as a result of over-exposure to sunlight)
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The war that fed itself - and the hollow democracy it left behind |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/the-war-that-fed-itself-and-the-hollow-democracy-it-left-behind14 Oct 2015: By the time it ended, it had become synonymous with child soldiers, human rights atrocities, landmine victims and blood diamond economics.
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New research allows doctors to image dangerous ‘hardening’ of the…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/new-research-allows-doctors-to-image-dangerous-hardening-of-the-arteries10 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.”.
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Stem cells likely to be safe for use in regenerative medicine, study…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/stem-cells-likely-to-be-safe-for-use-in-regenerative-medicine-study-confirms18 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
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Cancer-associated DNA changes exist in a quarter of normal skin cells …
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/cancer-associated-dna-changes-exist-in-a-quarter-of-normal-skin-cells21 May 2015: The study revealed that each cell in normal facial skin carries many thousands of mutations, mainly caused by exposure to sunlight. Around one in four skin
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Stressed young birds stop learning from their parents and turn to…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/stressed-young-birds-stop-learning-from-their-parents-and-turn-to-wider-flock23 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
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Opinion: ‘Difficult’ Latin risks remaining a qualification for elite…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/discussion/opinion-difficult-latin-risks-remaining-a-qualification-for-elite-pupils2 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
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Bunnies in children’s books: from Alice in Wonderland to Peter Rabbit …
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/bunnies-in-childrens-books-from-alice-in-wonderland-to-peter-rabbit30 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
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Link between proteins points to possibilities for future Alzheimer’s…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/link-between-proteins-points-to-possibilities-for-future-alzheimers-treatments23 Apr 2015: dementia, and crucially, to test new drugs that halt disease progression.
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Use of TV, internet and computer games associated with poorer GCSE…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/use-of-tv-internet-and-computer-games-associated-with-poorer-gcse-grades4 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
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“Not just another commodity”: Leading economist backs Pope’s stance…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/not-just-another-commodity-leading-economist-backs-popes-stance-on-poverty-and-environment29 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
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Tasmanian Devils and the transmissible cancer that threatens their…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/tasmanian-devils-and-the-transmissible-cancer-that-threatens-their-extinction14 Oct 2015: Scroll to the end of the article to listen to the podcast. In 1996 a wildlife photographer working in a remote part of Tasmania noticed a ‘Tassie devil’ (the
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‘Pill on a string’ could help spot early signs of cancer of the…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/pill-on-a-string-could-help-spot-early-signs-of-cancer-of-the-gullet20 Jul 2015: The ‘Cytosponge’ sits within a pill which, when swallowed, dissolves to reveal a sponge that scrapes off cells when withdrawn up the gullet. It allows doctors
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How hallucinations emerge from trying to make sense of an ambiguous…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/how-hallucinations-emerge-from-trying-to-make-sense-of-an-ambiguous-world12 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
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Astronomers witness assembly of galaxies in the early Universe for…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/astronomers-witness-assembly-of-galaxies-in-the-early-universe-for-the-first-time22 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
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Opinion: Building Hitler’s supergun: the plot to destroy London and…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/discussion/opinion-building-hitlers-supergun-the-plot-to-destroy-london-and-why-it-failed23 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
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From Chinese milk to Indian chocolate, behind the world’s…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/discussion/from-chinese-milk-to-indian-chocolate-behind-the-worlds-fast-expanding-markets21 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
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Opinion: How tasty forest foods can help solve the global hunger…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/discussion/opinion-how-tasty-forest-foods-can-help-solve-the-global-hunger-crisis27 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
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Four decades after Haile Selassie’s death, Ethiopia is an African…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/discussion/four-decades-after-haile-selassies-death-ethiopia-is-an-african-success-story27 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
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'Spin' or be lost: how Corbyn rejected New Labour PR for a…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/discussion/spin-or-be-lost-how-corbyn-rejected-new-labour-pr-for-a-more-civic-vision29 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
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Here’s looking at you: research shows jackdaws can recognise…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/heres-looking-at-you-research-shows-jackdaws-can-recognise-individual-human-faces11 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.”.
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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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Outlaws, trolls and beserkers: meet the hero-monsters of the…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/discussion/outlaws-trolls-and-beserkers-meet-the-hero-monsters-of-the-icelandic-sagas22 Oct 2015: And such a threat to economic growth and social stability has to be removed.
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Fish born in larger groups develop more social skills and a different …
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/fish-born-in-larger-groups-develop-more-social-skills-and-a-different-brain-structure7 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
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Feeding food waste to pigs could save vast swathes of threatened…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/feeding-food-waste-to-pigs-could-save-vast-swathes-of-threatened-forest-and-savannah10 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
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Motion dazzle: spotting the patterns that help animals outsmart…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/discussion/motion-dazzle-spotting-the-patterns-that-help-animals-outsmart-predators-on-the-run9 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
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Bacteria in the world’s oceans produce millions of tonnes of…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/bacteria-in-the-worlds-oceans-produce-millions-of-tonnes-of-hydrocarbons-each-year5 Oct 2015: The researchers stress the need to test if their findings are supported by direct measurements on cyanobacteria growing in the oceans.
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Exploiting the Government's education data could help to bridge…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/exploiting-the-governments-education-data-could-help-to-bridge-the-uk-skills-gap30 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
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Earliest church in the tropics unearthed in former heart of Atlantic…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/earliest-church-in-the-tropics-unearthed-in-former-heart-of-atlantic-slave-trade6 Nov 2015: The human remains give us the opportunity to test this representation of the first people in Cabo Verde,” said Evans.
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Alternative ways of protecting urban water supplies must be…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/alternative-ways-of-protecting-urban-water-supplies-must-be-considered-in-light-of-worsening4 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
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Supermarket promotions boost sales of less healthy foods more than…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/supermarket-promotions-boost-sales-of-less-healthy-foods-more-than-healthier-foods11 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
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Computer model of blood development could speed up search for new…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/computer-model-of-blood-development-could-speed-up-search-for-new-leukaemia-drugs9 Feb 2015: The human body produces over 2.5 million new blood cells during every second of our adult lives, but how this process is controlled remains poorly understood.
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Flashmobs and flamenco: how Spain’s greatest artform became a tool…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/discussion/flashmobs-and-flamenco-how-spains-greatest-artform-became-a-tool-for-political-protest23 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
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Listen to your heart: why your brain may give away how well you know…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/listen-to-your-heart-why-your-brain-may-give-away-how-well-you-know-yourself21 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
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Opinion: Paying people to stay away is not always the best way to…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/discussion/opinion-paying-people-to-stay-away-is-not-always-the-best-way-to-protect-watersheds24 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.
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Computers using digital footprints are better judges of personality…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/computers-using-digital-footprints-are-better-judges-of-personality-than-friends-and-family12 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:
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Study of half a million people reveals sex and job predict how many…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/study-of-half-a-million-people-reveals-sex-and-job-predict-how-many-autistic-traits-you-have3 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.
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Two-thirds of studies on 'psychosocial' treatments fail to…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/two-thirds-of-studies-on-psychosocial-treatments-fail-to-declare-conflicts-of-interest26 Nov 2015: Health services in many countries increasingly rely on prescribed 'psychosocial interventions': treatments that use counselling techniques to tackle mental
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Paying farmers to help the environment works, but ‘perverse’…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/paying-farmers-to-help-the-environment-works-but-perverse-subsidies-must-be-balanced9 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.
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King’s College Chapel: an architectural masterpiece and the man who…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/kings-college-chapel-an-architectural-masterpiece-and-the-man-who-told-its-story16 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
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“Never was so much owed by so many to so few”: Could phrases like…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/never-was-so-much-owed-by-so-many-to-so-few-could-phrases-like-this-hold-clues-about-universal16 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
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Baboons prefer to spend time with others of the same age, status and…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/baboons-prefer-to-spend-time-with-others-of-the-same-age-status-and-even-personality13 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
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Cambridge announced as one of five key partners in new national Alan…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/cambridge-announced-as-one-of-five-key-partners-in-new-national-alan-turing-institute28 Jan 2015: economic questions that are critical to making data science work in practice.
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Teaching machines to see: new smartphone-based system could…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/teaching-machines-to-see-new-smartphone-based-system-could-accelerate-development-of-driverless-cars21 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
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