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22 Feb 2017: Principle. Amartya Sen (Trinity College 1957, 1998): Nobel prize-winning economist. His reputation is based on studies of famine, human development theory and welfare economics.

26 Jan 2017: We’re trying to reduce this time by assessing ways that GPs could carry out the tests by themselves, as long as it’s safe and sensible to do so. ... We are open to assessing many different tests, and we’re excited to hear from potential

22 Feb 2017: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) provides financial assistance to countries in economic trouble. ... The organisation has long been regarded as a tool of the Western economic powers, primarily the US and Europe.

14 Mar 2017: The team used different types of biomass in their experiments. Pieces of wood, paper and leaves were placed in test tubes and exposed to solar light.

13 Feb 2017: Although trypanosomiasis is also a disease of humans, the number of cases is low, and the more serious concerns about the disease relate to the economic impact on agricultural production.”.

13 Jan 2017: And US start-up Hyperloop One recently announced a shortlist of 35 potential hyperloop test projects, which included proposals for routes linking Sydney with Melbourne, London with Edinburgh and Mumbai with

6 Feb 2017: Knowledge lies at the heart of social and economic development, so countries with a thriving knowledge economy and good research infrastructure develop quicker; and the gap between those that don’t

28 Mar 2017: One of the studies is a so-called ‘reversal learning’ test. In this test, the marmoset learns that pressing one button gives it a juice reward, while it gets no reward

29 Aug 2017: The poet John Clare (1793-1864) was a keen natural historian who knew the countryside in all its moods. His various jobs saw him labouring in farms and

16 Jan 2017: If further tests prove to be successful, it is possible that a drug treating at least some of the symptoms of Parkinson’s Disease could be developed from squalamine. ... Further tests, carried out with human neuronal cells, then revealed another key

12 May 2017: Humankind has a longstanding obsession with eternal youth. Stories about elixirs of life and fountains that quench one’s thirst for immortality have stirred

19 Sep 2017: Concerning the null findings on the testosterone levels, the researchers suggested that competition-induced testosterone fluctuations may be hard to detect, and so they are carrying out further work to test

3 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.

10 Oct 2017: For the study, researchers distributed surveys on environmental behavior through conservation, economics and biomedical organisations to targeted newsletters, mailing lists and social media groups.

5 Oct 2017: However, more ancient genomic information from both early humans and Neanderthals is needed to test this idea.

6 Jan 2017: scale. Also, as the researchers acknowledge, they carried out several statistical tests looking for significant associations – ones that have a low p-value (the probablility of finding this difference when there ... While the current analysis ruled out

2 Jun 2017: Making the programs behind the research accessible allows other scientists to test the code and reproduce the computations in an experiment — in other words, to reproduce results and solidify findings.

27 Mar 2017: Published today in the journal Nature Genetics, the findings are the result of work by the OncoArray Consortium, a huge endeavour led by scientists in the UK,

21 Feb 2017: While this development mirrors Accra’s integration into the globalised city concept, accompanying this trend are social, economic, environmental and cultural costs.”. ... His long-term plan is to create an Urban Study Research Centre back in Accra,

20 Sep 2017: The team used genome editing techniques to stop a key gene from producing a protein called OCT4, which normally becomes active in the first few days of human

20 Apr 2017: She said: “We know that trazodone is safe to use in humans, so a clinical trial is now possible to test whether the protective effects of the drug we see on

26 Jun 2017: But the hypothesis was impossible to test – not least because above a handful of grains, the number of possible arrangements becomes unfathomably huge. ... The study, Numerical test of the Edwards conjecture shows that all packings become equally

28 Mar 2017: Schoolchildren who receive words of encouragement from a teacher are significantly more likely to continue their education beyond the age of 16 than those who

16 Jan 2017: They were also asked to rate their reasons for using these words and then took part in a lie test to determine whether they were being truthful or simply responding in

16 Jun 2017: Among the investors in the new funding round is Cambridge Innovation Capital, which invests in companies based on valuable intellectual property in the

31 May 2017: They are:. Professor Diane Coyle – Professor of Economics at Manchester University, former Vice Chair of the BBC Trust and Economics Editor of the Independent. ... Professor Paul Gilroy – currently Professor of English at Kings College London,

8 Mar 2017: By the mid-19th century, scholars and administrators were working through masses of linguistic, economic, ethnographic and criminological data to decode the demography of India, defining groups of people as distinctive

14 Dec 2017: Theresa Marteau. Both the types of alcoholic drink and the amount consumed in England has fluctuated over the last 300 years, largely in response to economic, legislative and social factors.

22 Aug 2017: Maitland Robinson Library, Downing College. Marshall Library of Economics. Christ’s College Library.

21 Sep 2017: Branching patterns occur throughout nature – in trees, ferns and coral, for example – but also at a much finer scale, where they are essential to ensuring that

23 Jan 2017: An archived letter from 1986 detailing plans for a test drive of the new Rover ahead of a press event at Downing Street 5 of 6. ... There were predictable worries,” added Collins. “Her press secretary Bernard Ingham remembered a previous Rover test

12 Sep 2017: The researchers combined remote sensing data with environmental and socio-economic datasets to assess each approach, and controlled for other factors that are expected to affect deforestation and forest degradation. ... The research was supported by the

28 Mar 2017: Together with our partners, the University of Cambridge is hugely excited at the chance to work with NHS staff, patients and carers to identify, design and test improvements.”.

24 Nov 2017: Whether it’s a map showing the coal fields of Lancashire in the 1830s – or revealing how this new science was used for economic and military reasons.”.

22 Mar 2017: Economic opportunities abound. Upon arrival in Kuala Lumpur in late February, national oil and gas company Saudi Aramco signed a US$7 billion agreement with Malaysian oil company Petronas.

27 Apr 2017: The documents paint a picture of economic stability and social growth.

23 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

20 Dec 2017: numbers – more so than economic growth, climate change or even surges in human population.

18 Jan 2017: The study, published in Lancet Psychiatry, found that 14-year-old adolescents who had contact with mental health services had a greater decrease in depressive

20 Mar 2017: It could also mean presenting exploratory research as though it was originally confirmatory (designed to test a specific hypothesis).

8 Nov 2017: The ongoing archaeological project at Interamna Lirenas continues to add new evidence about important aspects of the Roman civilization, stressing the high levels of connectivity and integration (political, social, economic and

11 Dec 2017: The nature of the study was hidden by claims of testing random media messages, with the climate change perception tests sandwiched between questions on consumer technology and popular culture messaging.

13 Feb 2017: The country already has a population of 1.3 billion – and it aspires to both develop as a global economic powerhouse and lift its poorest people out of poverty. ... Kaziranga illustrates the dilemmas of contemporary conservation. If it is to be

13 Nov 2017: Amongst these, education is paramount as it has significant economic, social and individual returns. ... Accessing quality education can improve learning outcomes which leads to positive economic growth.

6 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

20 Apr 2017: This partial recovery has already led to legalised culling of buzzards, to protect the economic interests of a shooting industry that annually releases millions of non-native game birds into the

19 Apr 2017: We’ve shown that our algorithm works for simpler diseases and now the real test will be to determine whether a similar approach can be applied to complex diseases, such as

8 Dec 2017: Read more about how clinical researchers, physicists, engineers and social scientists are among those collaborating as part of the Cancer Research UK Early

7 Jul 2017: To test the use of this revised method of estimating GFR, the researchers focused on the precision of chemotherapy dosing, specifically dosing of carboplatin, which is used to treat multiple cancers,

3 Jul 2017: around 40%, showing that they had correctly remembered the locations of more information at the first attempt on a test of episodic memory.