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High-Speed Firms Now Oversee Almost All Stocks At NYSE Floor - Slashdot

High-Speed Firms Now Oversee Almost All Stocks At NYSE Floor - Slashdot
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Long-term glycemic control using polymer-encapsulated human stem cell-derived beta cells in immune-competent mice. Arturo

Long-term glycemic control using polymer-encapsulated human stem cell-derived beta cells in immune-competent mice. Arturo J Vegas. Omid Veiseh. Mads Gürtler. Jeffrey R Millman. Felicia W Pagliuca. Andrew R Bader. Joshua C Doloff. Jie Li. Michael Chen. Karsten Olejnik. Hok Hei Tam. Siddharth Jhunjhunwala....
Source: nature.com

Sharing Clinical Trial Data: A Proposal from the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors: In a joint publication

Sharing Clinical Trial Data: A Proposal from the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors: In a joint publication across 14 member journals, the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) proposes to require sharing of deidentified individual patient data underlying published...
Source: plos.org

El Niño Should Be Near Its Peak : Image of the Day: Past events suggest the phenomenon winds down after December and January.

El Niño Should Be Near Its Peak : Image of the Day: Past events suggest the phenomenon winds down after December and January. But will this year follow the pattern?
Source: nasa.gov

Simulated consultations: a sociolinguistic perspective: BMC Medical Education is part of the BMC series which publishes

Simulated consultations: a sociolinguistic perspective: BMC Medical Education is part of the BMC series which publishes subject-specific journals focused on the needs of individual research communities across all areas of biology and medicine. We offer an efficient, fair and friendly peer review service,...
Source: biomedcentral.com

Non-Native Invasive Species in the UK | SINNG Project: SINNG is a local group based at Cornwall College Newquay and is run

Non-Native Invasive Species in the UK | SINNG Project: SINNG is a local group based at Cornwall College Newquay and is run by Nicola Morris and various students, aiming to inform about invasive species in UK
Source: sinng.org.uk

The rise of the robots Excellent read but of a gloomy dystopian future where robots and software take over manual tasks

The rise of the robots Excellent read but of a gloomy dystopian future where robots and software take over manual tasks (as they already have done) and also skilled labour displacing even highly skilled jobs in time. Healthcare might survive a little longer but physicians assistants empowered by...
Source: amazon.co.uk

UK's oldest person Gladys Hooper turns 113 - BBC News: The UK's oldest person, Gladys Hooper, is celebrating her 113th birthday.

UK's oldest person Gladys Hooper turns 113 - BBC News: The UK's oldest person, Gladys Hooper, is celebrating her 113th birthday.
Source: bbc.co.uk

Open journals that piggyback on arXiv gather momentum: Peer-review platforms built around online pre-print repositories

Open journals that piggyback on arXiv gather momentum: Peer-review platforms built around online pre-print repositories spread to astrophysics. Nature News.
Source: nature.com

CDC issues travel advisory for 14 countries with alarming viral outbreaks: Experts scrambling as US sees first birth defect

CDC issues travel advisory for 14 countries with alarming viral outbreaks: Experts scrambling as US sees first birth defect linked to mosquito-spread virus.
Source: arstechnica.com

Dutch police claim they can crack PGP-encrypted BlackBerrys | ExtremeTech: A new report from Dutch authorities claims that

Dutch police claim they can crack PGP-encrypted BlackBerrys | ExtremeTech: A new report from Dutch authorities claims that PGP-encrypted BlackBerrys can be cracked with specialized hardware, illustrating how difficult it is to secure hardware in someone else's possession.
Source: extremetech.com

Ofsted calls The Cornwall College Group a ‘catalyst’ for raising skills levels: STAFF and students across The Cornwall

Ofsted calls The Cornwall College Group a ‘catalyst’ for raising skills levels: STAFF and students across The Cornwall College Group are celebrating after the group was rated good in all categories by Ofsted. The report praises the expertise of teachers on all the campuses, the...
Source: westbriton.co.uk

The idea that there is a welfare-dependent underclass is wrong: A new book by John Hills explores key issues in the current

The idea that there is a welfare-dependent underclass is wrong: A new book by John Hills explores key issues in the current debate about ‘welfare’ and the welfare state. The debate contrasts a stagnant group of people benefiting from it all with the rest who pa…
Source: lse.ac.uk

A wholesale power grab: how the UK government is handing housing over to private developers: The new housing and planning

A wholesale power grab: how the UK government is handing housing over to private developers: The new housing and planning bill is a raft of dangerous measures that will increase inequality and solely benefit the private sector
Source: theguardian.com

The UK has 'one of the worst healthcare systems in the developed world': The UK has one of the worst healthcare systems

The UK has 'one of the worst healthcare systems in the developed world': The UK has one of the worst healthcare systems in the developed world according to a damning new report which said the nation has an “outstandingly poor” record of preventing ill health.
Source: independent.co.uk

How can we use quality data to make Care Homes safer?: Dr Adam Gordon is Clinical Associate Professor in Medicine of Older

How can we use quality data to make Care Homes safer?: Dr Adam Gordon is Clinical Associate Professor in Medicine of Older People at The University of Nottingham and an Honorary Consultant Geriatrician at Derby Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust; he tweets @...
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About RASE Pedagogical Model - Moodle and Pedagogical Design Workshop

About RASE Pedagogical Model - Moodle and Pedagogical Design Workshop
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Junior Doctors’ Strike in England Disrupts Care for Thousands. "heightening tensions over the stewardship of a widely

Junior Doctors’ Strike in England Disrupts Care for Thousands. "heightening tensions over the stewardship of a widely revered health system that has come under growing strain" - NYTimes.com
Source: nytimes.com

In this book Tony Atkinson - Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science - asks the question,

In this book Tony Atkinson - Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science - asks the question, "If we wish to reduce the extent of inequality, how can this be done?" His answer includes looking at history for evidence of what has worked in the past and what could be...
Source: harvard.edu