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How 9,000 lists written over 300 years are helping to test theories…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/how-9000-lists-written-over-300-years-are-helping-to-test-theories-of-economic-growth3 Jul 2018: Search. Search. How 9,000 lists written over 300 years are helping to test theories of economic growth. ... Research. How 9,000 lists written over 300 years are helping to test theories of economic growth.. -
“All this cancer talk is new to me, but I do know there isn’t a stage …
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/cancer-early-detection8 Feb 2018: NHS. For this to happen, it will be essential to build health economics into their programme. ... You should be building this into your clinical trials.”. Fitzgerald expects that the economics “should stack up”, particularly if the tests are low -
Cambridge's 2017 admissions statistics published | University of…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/news/cambridges-2017-admissions-statistics-published10 May 2018: Admissions of students identified using other measures of socio-economic disadvantage are also up. -
Research Horizons
https://www.cam.ac.uk/system/files/issue_37_research_horizons.pdf9 Oct 2018: Kalium DiagnosticsA simple home finger-prick test could help kidney patients check their potassium levels are not dangerously high or low. ... Entomics is currently working with partners including the University of Stirling, who are world-leading salmon -
Reproduction, from Hippocrates to IVF
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/reproduction17 Dec 2018: The book’s authors show how this more abstract view gave us the sperm and egg, “test-tube” conception outside bodies, and all the language and ethical dilemmas we live with ... The horn of plenty and the breast-feeding mother symbolically linked -
Humans need not apply | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/humans-need-not-apply5 Jul 2018: Disruptive technologies, the rise of the ad hoc ‘gig economy’, living longer and the fragile economics of pension provision will mean a multistage employment life: one where retraining happens across the ... and a thriving economic democracy. -
New research facility for neurodegenerative disorders opened in…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/news/new-research-facility-for-neurodegenerative-disorders-opened-in-cambridge21 Sep 2018: While the number of cases of Alzheimer’s diseases and other neurodegenerative disorders continues to rise, so too do the costs to society, both economic and emotional. -
Why we just can't stop eating
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/cannot-stop-eating23 Jul 2018: They can also be used to test their responsiveness to current drugs in use for obesity and diabetes, and to screen for new drugs. ... What’s more, there is evidence that people from lower socio-economic groups are more susceptible to the effects of -
Gardeners and carpenters: the ‘skill’ of parenting | University of…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/gardeners-and-carpenters-the-skill-of-parenting8 Nov 2018: These two things go hand in glove,” explains Hughes, whose research is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council. ... By following a group of 117 children from toddlerhood to adolescence, and developing a new battery of tests – including an -
Inside the mind of a young person
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/young-minds15 Nov 2018: Trust. So far, 2,300 healthy volunteers aged 14 to 24 years have been recruited by the University of Cambridge and University College London for analysis through behavioural questionnaires, cognitive tests, ... and medical and socio-economic history. -
How could multilingualism benefit India’s poorest schoolchildren? |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/how-could-multilingualism-benefit-indias-poorest-schoolchildren20 Nov 2018: By looking at the mismatch between home and school languages, and by using tests and other socio-economic and educational variables, we try to find out whether these children are advantaged ... What we would recommend for everyone, not just low -
Mental health disorders: risks and resilience in adolescence |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/mental-health-disorders-risks-and-resilience-in-adolescence10 Oct 2018: Trust. So far, 2,300 healthy volunteers aged 14 to 24 years have been recruited by the University of Cambridge and University College London for analysis through behavioural questionnaires, cognitive tests, ... and medical and socio-economic history. -
The stresses and strains of work and unemployment | University of…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/the-stresses-and-strains-of-work-and-unemployment26 Jun 2018: Business leaders are beginning to pay attention. In an article earlier this year following the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum, Clifton Leaf, Editor-in-Chief at the influential business ... As part of her mandate with the World Economic Forum -
Cambridge to appoint DeepMind Chair of Machine Learning | University…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/cambridge-to-appoint-deepmind-chair-of-machine-learning24 Jul 2018: The interdisciplinary environment in the University will help the development of ethical and sustainable AI-based solutions to complex social, economic and environmental challenges.”. -
We are all 'others': teaching children to celebrate…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/we-are-all-others-teaching-children-to-celebrate-differences23 Nov 2018: Europe is transforming: migration, economic crises and Brexit are shaking the continent’s sense of identity, and debate has turned quickly to division and misunderstanding, to angry Twitter exchanges and -
Research Horizons
https://www.cam.ac.uk/system/files/issue_36_research_horizons.pdf11 Jun 2018: in technology and science at Cambridge with the economic and political dimensions of policymaking. ... Thwaites will continue to test equations in Kymata, sourced from collaborations with researchers around the world and the public domain. -
Carrying Tasers increases police use of force, study finds |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/carrying-tasers-increases-police-use-of-force-study-finds20 Dec 2018: It also holds national responsibility for economic crime and prioritises counter-terrorism, violent crime and public order due to its central location. ... The force was the first in England and Wales to test “extended deployment” of Tasers – -
Mother’s attitude towards baby during pregnancy may have implications …
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/mothers-attitude-towards-baby-during-pregnancy-may-have-implications-for-childs-development12 Jun 2018: The study was funded by the Economic and Social Research Council. -
Six months of Herceptin could be as effective as 12 months for some…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/six-months-of-herceptin-could-be-as-effective-as-12-months-for-some-women17 May 2018: Targeted therapies, while effective, come at a huge health economic cost to the NHS as well as potentially causing side effects such as heart problems. -
Online atlas explores north-south divide in childbirth and child…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/online-atlas-explores-north-south-divide-in-childbirth-and-child-mortality-during-victorian-era15 May 2018: It displays various demographic and socio-economic measures calculated from census data gathered between 1851 and 1911, a period which saw immense social and economic change as the population of the ... The research was funded by the Economic & Social -
Cost and scale of field trials for bovine TB vaccine may make them…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/cost-and-scale-of-field-trials-for-bovine-tb-vaccine-may-make-them-unfeasible7 Jun 2018: A vaccine (BCG) exists, but can cause some vaccinated cattle to test positive falsely. ... If we could consider replacing test-and-slaughter with vaccination, then the economics becomes much more attractive, particularly those in lower income -
Online tool can measure individuals’ likelihood to fall for internet…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/online-tool-can-measure-individuals-likelihood-to-fall-for-internet-scams4 Apr 2018: The test, called Susceptibility to Persuasion II (StP-II) is freely available and consists of the StP-II scale and several other questions to understand persuadability better. ... Modic and his colleagues at the University of Exeter designed an initial -
Location, location, location: researchers develop model to predict…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/location-location-location-researchers-develop-model-to-predict-retail-failure9 Oct 2018: Uncontrollable factors might include unemployment rates of a city, overall economic conditions and urban policies. ... To test the predictive power of their model, the researchers first had to determine whether a particular venue had closed within the -
Women much less likely to ask questions in academic seminars than men …
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/women-much-less-likely-to-ask-questions-in-academic-seminars-than-men27 Sep 2018: Women are two and a half times less likely to ask a question in departmental seminars than men, an observational study of 250 events at 35 academic -
Research Horizons
https://www.cam.ac.uk/system/files/issue_35_research_horizons_new.pdf1 Mar 2018: With prosperity for some, comes pressure for others.”. Research supported by the NERC-ESRC-DFID Ecosystem Services for Poverty Alleviation Programme and an Impact Acceleration Account from the Economic and Social ... This close proximity between the -
Transition Time - 3 Options for a New Transitional Period
https://www.cam.ac.uk/sites/www.cam.ac.uk/files/transition_time_-_3_options_for_a_new_transitional_periodths.pdf25 Oct 2018: During this period the new economic and security partnership would also be agreed. ... avoid a hard border on the island of Ireland then this test would be met. Results that match 1 of 2 words
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The fifty-percenters: the economic value of education | University of …
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/the-fifty-percenters-the-economic-value-of-education22 Jun 2018: Search. Search. The fifty-percenters: the economic value of education. Research. The fifty-percenters: the economic value of education.. ... Medical students were the highest earners ten years after graduating, followed by economics graduates. -
Test can identify patients in intensive care at greatest risk of…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/test-can-identify-patients-in-intensive-care-at-greatest-risk-of-life-threatening-infections13 Jun 2018: Research. Test can identify patients in intensive care at greatest risk of life-threatening infections.. ... I also have a clinical project evaluating a new molecular diagnostic test for pneumonia, which aims to deliver more rapid and accurate tests for -
Spitting Image archive comes to Cambridge University Library
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/spitting-image13 Nov 2018: through the social, economic and political upheaval of the 1980s and 1990s. -
Releasing the imagination
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/primaryschool23 Nov 2018: While UCPS, as a free school, does not have to adhere to the National Curriculum, pupils do have to sit the UK’s national tests, known as SATs. -
Plucky underdogs, sausages in space and the winter that never ended
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/24CamThings201819 Dec 2018: Written neatly inside were thousands of lists that might hold the key to an enduring puzzle in economics – does education fuel economic growth? ... Japan’s economic success in the post-war era was built on a clear gendered division of labour: the -
How Japan's 'Salaryman' is becoming cool
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/cool-japanese-men1 Feb 2018: Japan’s economic success in the post-war era has been built on a clear gendered division of labour: the reproductive housewife and the hard-working man. ... As falling birth rates and news of death by overwork hit the headlines, the economic system and -
Tidings of joy | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/tidings-of-joy8 Jun 2018: The beaches of Singapore are awash with a wealth of marine life, and Cambridge student Pei Rong Cheo is on a mission to promote and conserve it. Read more -
Gates Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/gates-alumni12 Sep 2018: He was also a Visiting Professor at the Institute of Social and Economic Research, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa. -
"We all need to press for progress, in science and beyond"
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/iwd20188 Mar 2018: With the World Economic Forum's 2017 Global Gender Gap Report revealing that gender parity is still another 200 years away, the theme of this year's International Women's Day -
What makes a faster typist? | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/what-makes-a-faster-typist5 Apr 2018: Volunteers from over 200 countries took the typing test, which is freely available online. ... Many informal tests allow users to practice the sentences, resulting in unrealistically high performance.”. -
Root and branch
https://www.cam.ac.uk/alumni/professor-bhaskar-vira21 Nov 2018: Fast forward 35 years and Vira’s work reaches across disciplinary boundaries: economics, geography, public policy, conservation and international development. ... The question in my mind was whether the discipline I was specialising in, economics, -
Bats to the rescue | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/bats-to-the-rescue13 Dec 2018: READ THE STORY HERE -
Spotlight on children | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/spotlight-on-children1 Nov 2018: The importance of supporting children to grow into happy, healthy and inquiring adults is abundantly clear. Physical and mental wellbeing in children is a -
Evolving with the robots | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/news/evolving-with-the-robots25 May 2018: Fear mongering and myth-making about human-like and social robots is stopping us from engaging with the technology behind them and having an input into how -
All in a day's work
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/all-in-a-days-work17 Jul 2018: And a study of a unique historical archive is helping to tell us whether literacy rates or rules governing entry to trades were more important in determining economic growth in early ... One such idea is that governments can help promote economic growth -
Max Planck Cambridge Centre launched | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/news/max-planck-cambridge-centre-launched13 Mar 2018: Samuel Williams will study the social and economic significance of gold in Turkey over recent decades of market-driven development. ... She will focus on how ethical, ritual and spiritual practices and values mediate social and economic change. -
How Churchill Waged War
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/churchill-at-war21 Nov 2018: deadly test of that resolve and fighting spirit - as the collapse of France led to an enormous change in strategy for the British war effort. -
The body in miniature | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/the-body-in-miniature20 Mar 2018: In Cambridge alone, there are groups growing mini-livers, mini-brains, mini-oesophaguses,mini-bile ducts, mini-lungs, mini-intestines, mini-wombs, -
In tech we trust? | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/in-tech-we-trust23 Feb 2018: Dr Jat Singh is familiar with breaking new ground and working across disciplines. Even so, he and colleagues were pleasantly surprised by how much enthusiasm -
Tributes paid to Sir James Mirrlees | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/news/tributes-paid-to-sir-james-mirrlees31 Aug 2018: skills and an unerring eye for building minimalist economic models were reflected in some half-dozen articles that together constructed the theoretical foundations of public economics. ... He was a Wrangler during his mathematics’ degree at Trinity -
Cambridge Festival of Ideas launches today | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/news/cambridge-festival-of-ideas-launches-today15 Oct 2018: new anxieties raised by the economic divergences - spatial, educational and international - that have arisen since the 1980s. ... Professor Nava Ashraf will talk about recent research in economics questioning the assumption that human beings are -
Black researchers shaping the future
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/black-history-month-researchers10 Oct 2018: I hope my research makes a contribution to understanding how vast natural resources can be better managed to achieve sustainable economic growth and prosperity for all. ... I investigate how countries rich in natural resources can better manage them and -
Inside the mind of a young person | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/inside-the-mind-of-a-young-person15 Nov 2018: Read more here. -
Targeting hard-to-treat cancers | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/targeting-hard-to-treat-cancers17 Oct 2018: While the survival rate for most cancers has doubled over the past 40 years, some cancers such as those of the pancreas, brain, lung and oesophagus still have
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