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15 Mar 2016: Rather than addressing the root causes of Germany’s social and economic problems, they blame migrants for everything that is going wrong. ... Baden-Wuerttemberg is considered one of Europe’s economic powerhouses, and has the lowest unemployment rate

19 May 2016: App-based ride company Uber has been battling the “establishment” around the world, from traditional black taxi drivers in London to regulators in Australia.

18 May 2016: It was written within the tradition of ‘stadial’ theories of economic development; these ‘universal histories’ sought to understand all cultures in all places and times.

11 Oct 2016: For example, based on indirect evidence in one geographical region in the UK, the introduction of faecal occult blood test in the UK is likely to have reduced the proportion of

24 Feb 2016: assesses biophysical and socio-economic consequences of sea level rise and socio-economic development, taking into account coastal erosion, coastal flooding, wetland change and salinity intrusion.

9 May 2016: To conclusively test this hypothesis, researchers would need to follow individual birds between their breeding and non-breeding grounds and monitor changes to their song and their breeding success.

28 Oct 2016: Pregnant mothers – particularly older mothers, whose offspring are at greatest risk of developing such disorders – are offered tests to predict the likelihood of genetic abnormalities.

4 Oct 2016: Carrick Therapeutics Ltd, a company which is developing new treatments for the most aggressive and resistant forms of cancer, launched today having secured $95

20 May 2016: Adolescence is a key time in an individual’s development, and is a period where some teenagers begin to show signs of major depression. One of the major risk

28 Oct 2016: Our researchers have used Batten disease sheep to validate behavioural tests which will now be used to investigate Huntington’s disease, a more common, but equally devastating disease.

13 Oct 2016: Borrowing a technique widely used in biomolecular simulations, called the Multistate Bennett Acceptance Ratio, they developed a method which systematically tests the limits of one particular basin of attraction. ... To test this, the team modelled an

23 May 2016: economic and ethical considerations associated with the public funding of new drugs.

8 Jul 2016: Our skin is kept healthy by a constant turnover, with dying skin cells being shed and replaced by new cells. The process is maintained by ‘progenitor’ cells –

8 Aug 2016: So the uncertainty over the status of non-UK nationals from the EU and European Economic Area is especially disquieting. ... Here is a challenge that the government needs to meet squarely head on if it values national research excellence and its

7 Oct 2016: the University of East Anglia, the University of Sheffield and the University of Exeter, and supported by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC).

11 Jul 2016: In 1967 the British government decided to devalue sterling after several years of poor economic performance, mirroring the declining role of Britain in the world. ... 30%. The world order had changed after the war and the US had a stronger economic

21 Sep 2016: A new study of human genomic diversity suggests there may have in fact been two successful dispersals out of Africa, and that a “trace” of the earlier of these

7 Mar 2016: The system could help machines understand language more effectively. In tests against commercial crossword-solving software, the system, designed by researchers from the UK, US and Canada, was more accurate at

15 Apr 2016: As more economic and cultural activity moves online, the data centres which house the servers needed to handle internet traffic are consuming increasing amounts of energy.

4 Feb 2016: The idea that different populations of cells compete within the body, with winners and losers, was discovered in the 1970s and is thought to be a ‘quality

1 Apr 2016: Both minority groups suffer from deep-seated prejudices and discrimination.”. One possible reason for raised levels of psychotic disorders in minority groups is their lack of economic and social status.

28 Oct 2016: and food-sharing in jackdaws, to tests of what jays and rooks understand about tools.

30 Aug 2016: To understand this, the researchers conducted lab tests in which they added each of the five mutated forms of alpha-synuclein, as well as a standard version of the protein, to ... The first round of tests examined the initiation of aggregation, using

19 Dec 2016: The lesson from our study is simple and clear: because confirming this diagnosis has implications for therapy, we should test all patients with suspected genetic dystonia for mutations in KMT2B.”.

23 Sep 2016: Here’s what I found…. Rising employment for women partly reflects macro-economic changes. ... Similar changes have occurred in Zambia. From the mid-1980s, families' economic security worsened due to trade liberalisation, resulting factory closures,

12 Sep 2016: Scientists have identified where a four-stranded version of DNA exists within the genome of human cells, and suggest that it may hold a key to developing new,

16 Nov 2016: Ultimately, ‘racial’ discourses developed partly because the French needed to justify discrimination and segregation towards people who were viewed as a threat to French socio-economic and imperialist ambitions. ... Researchers have shown that this

6 Jun 2016: Water is an issue that cuts across all aspects of social and economic life in India.

17 May 2016: tests in different kinds of places. ... doing these tests in different kinds of places.

28 Apr 2016: died. While history painting – the depiction of epic scenes of historical, biblical or mythological content – was seen initially by the Academy as the supreme test of an artist’s skill, portraiture

8 Apr 2016: Women are screened for the condition through a blood glucose test at around 8-12 weeks into pregnancy. ... Current guidelines in the UK and the USA recommend that mothers found to be at greatest risk should then be offered a full test at between 24 and

19 Apr 2016: To test whether the gene functions in the same way in skate embryos, Gillis and his colleagues inhibited Sonic hedgehog at different points during their development.

22 Dec 2016: His work led to the first ever 'test tube baby', Louise Brown.

27 Oct 2016: In September 2009 he sent Hillary Clinton to the UN’s Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) conference.

3 Feb 2016: The converts were from a diverse range of geographical and socio-economic backgrounds.

25 Jan 2016: Marshall and her colleagues used visual modelling to test how conspicuous individual lizards would be to a bird’s eye against the backgrounds they had chosen to sit on.

22 Nov 2016: This idea was put to the test: after a surgical accident, a one-year old boy was castrated and given a vagina.

18 Jun 2016: When King’s College was bequeathed a library of some 4,000 books by George Thackeray, who was its Provost from 1814 to 1850, the gift arrived as a mixed

9 Aug 2016: A new study has found that having a positive relationship with a teacher around the age of 10-11 years old can markedly influence the development of

11 Feb 2016: The behaviour of our cells is determined by a combination of the activity of its genes and the chemical reactions needed to maintain the cells, known as

25 Jul 2016: In a study published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers from the University of Cambridge and University College London

16 Jun 2016: In a study published today in the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, researchers used magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) methods to look at the brain

6 Jul 2016: Computer models of the expanding Universe use the distribution of cluster masses as an observational test of whether they are correct.

24 Oct 2016: The equipment, funded by the Medical Research Council (MRC), Wellcome Trust and Cancer Research UK, sits within the newly-refurbished Wolfson Brain Imaging

4 Jan 2016: We set out to test the idea that a decrease in ocean density resulted in a rise in CO.

3 Aug 2016: In Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, J M Barrie describes a moment when a young girl, seeking to comfort a tearful Peter, gives him her handkerchief. But he

24 May 2016: There have been claims made about the negative health effects and economic costs of GM crops – claims later shown to be unsubstantiated.

12 Apr 2016: effects, which include economic growth.

5 Aug 2016: It’s hard to pinpoint the exact time in history when genre labels were used to classify music, but the fact is that over the past century, and certainly still

14 Apr 2016: Rosemary Ostfeld, a land economist, explores the social, environmental and economic aspects of palm oil production and it is crucial for her to liaise with stakeholders particularly to determine the effectiveness