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To see the future of renting, watch the college kids | University Business Magazine Students are cutting out the brokers

To see the future of renting, watch the college kids | University Business Magazine Students are cutting out the brokers by renting direct online. "To rent an apartment on LoftSmart, a website for college students looking for off-campus housing, users browse listings, take a virtual tour, and read...
Source: universitybusiness.com

License agreement provides India with unlimited access to the Cochrane Library | University Business Magazine "The collaboration

License agreement provides India with unlimited access to the Cochrane Library | University Business Magazine "The collaboration between Wiley, Cochrane and the National Medical Library in India offers free access, through IP recognition, to the Cochrane Library across India. This opportunity has been...
Source: universitybusiness.com

Rapid assessment and frailty: Beverley Marriott is a Advanced nurse practitioner working in the Birmingham community healthcare

Rapid assessment and frailty: Beverley Marriott is a Advanced nurse practitioner working in the Birmingham community healthcare foundation trust. She is also a King’s College Older Person Fellow. "There continues to be a growing emphasis on older people and emergency hospital admissions, with Frailty...
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Fake Malaria Meds Meet Their Match in a Handheld Spectrometer: Up to 35 percent of antimalarial drugs are useless. Engineers

Fake Malaria Meds Meet Their Match in a Handheld Spectrometer: Up to 35 percent of antimalarial drugs are useless. Engineers are combatting this counterfeit menace. "The new system uses near-infrared (NIR) spectrometry, directing a beam of NIR light at a pill and recording how the light is absorbed....
Source: ieee.org

Cornwall to tackle traffic emissions at Grampound: Work is to begin on an action plan to improve air quality in Grampound,

Cornwall to tackle traffic emissions at Grampound: Work is to begin on an action plan to improve air quality in Grampound, a village in Western Cornwall, following the declaration of the village as an AQMA. This is a tricky problem to solve (other than diverting all the traffic or going all-electric...
Source: airqualitynews.com

Ghana converts obsolete telecomms dish into radio telescope - physicsworld.com "Scientists in Ghana have successfully converted

Ghana converts obsolete telecomms dish into radio telescope - physicsworld.com "Scientists in Ghana have successfully converted a communications antenna into a Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) radio telescope. The country is the first partner of the African VLBI Network (AVN) to complete a full...
Source: physicsworld.com

The new survivors and a new era for trauma research: Karim Brohi and Martin Schreiber, Guest Editors of the Special Issue

The new survivors and a new era for trauma research: Karim Brohi and Martin Schreiber, Guest Editors of the Special Issue on Trauma, describe a new era in exploration of the biology of injury response and translation of new opportunities into clinical practice. Karim Brohi. Martin Schreiber. PLOS Medicine....
Source: plos.org

Time for the BGS to help in Africa?: Richard Walker is a Consultant Geriatrician at North Tyneside General Hospital, and

Time for the BGS to help in Africa?: Richard Walker is a Consultant Geriatrician at North Tyneside General Hospital, and Honorary Professor of Ageing and International Health at Newcastle University. He has a research interest in non-…
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Unraveling the IT Productivity Paradox — Lessons for Health Care — NEJM: Good article from RAND Corporation. There

Unraveling the IT Productivity Paradox — Lessons for Health Care — NEJM: Good article from RAND Corporation. There is ongoing debate about the wisdom of the $27 billion federal investment driving the adoption of health information technology (IT) under the Health Information Technology for Economic...
Source: nejm.org


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Patterns of change and continuity in ochre use during the late Middle Stone Age of the Horn of Africa: The Porc-Epic Cave

Patterns of change and continuity in ochre use during the late Middle Stone Age of the Horn of Africa: The Porc-Epic Cave record: Ochre is found at numerous Middle Stone Age (MSA) sites and plays a key role in early modern human archaeology. Here we analyse the largest known East African MSA ochre assemblage,...
Source: plos.org

UEA course cut a blow for mental health work | Letters: Letters: Students and former students protest at the end to counselling

UEA course cut a blow for mental health work | Letters: Letters: Students and former students protest at the end to counselling training at the University of East Anglia
Source: theguardian.com

Pearson is pulling back from its deal with Knewton to build its own capabilities in adaptive learning. One of the hazards

Pearson is pulling back from its deal with Knewton to build its own capabilities in adaptive learning. One of the hazards of dealing with big partners in an industry clearly is that they use you for their own innovation. Adaptation and personalisation of learning is an emerging theme in education but...
Source: edsurge.com

Introducing a New Junior Doctor Electronic Weekend Handover on an Orthopaedic Ward Siddharth Maroo. Dipak Raj. BMJ Quality

Introducing a New Junior Doctor Electronic Weekend Handover on an Orthopaedic Ward Siddharth Maroo. Dipak Raj. BMJ Quality Improvement Reports.
Source: bmj.com

A Serious Game for Learning C Programming Language Concepts Using Solo Taxonomy: This paper conducts a study to identify

A Serious Game for Learning C Programming Language Concepts Using Solo Taxonomy: This paper conducts a study to identify pedagogical approaches and gameplay techniques involved in the development of serious games for teaching scientific courses in general especially programming languages. The concept...
Source: online-journals.org

IBM Expanding Cloud Quantum Computer Tenfold: The goal: a 50-qubit commercial universal quantum computer within five years

IBM Expanding Cloud Quantum Computer Tenfold: The goal: a 50-qubit commercial universal quantum computer within five years
Source: ieee.org

Learning to communicate: In this post we'll outline new OpenAI research in which agents develop their own language.

Learning to communicate: In this post we'll outline new OpenAI research in which agents develop their own language.
Source: openai.com

Readers seem willing to pay for news sites centered around a place. What about sites built on an issue?: "There are a lot

Readers seem willing to pay for news sites centered around a place. What about sites built on an issue?: "There are a lot of ways to define 'community.' We know it can be built around geography. But there should also be a community of people who care about climate, a community of people who care about...
Source: niemanlab.org

Amazon deepens university ties in AI race | University Business Magazine

Amazon deepens university ties in AI race | University Business Magazine
Source: universitybusiness.com

Two-thirds of Americans see docs who got paid by drug companies: Drexel University study: A new study led by Drexel University

Two-thirds of Americans see docs who got paid by drug companies: Drexel University study: A new study led by Drexel University found that a majority of Americans visited doctors in the past year who had been paid or given gifts by pharmaceutical or medical device companies -- but very few patients knew...
Source: eurekalert.org