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Yvette Raphael Honored with Mani L. Bhaumik Award

Today, Advocates for the Prevention of HIV in Africa (APHA) celebrates an extraordinary milestone as our co-founder and Executive Director, Yvette Raphael, receives the prestigious Mani L. Bhaumik Breakthrough of the Year Award for her pivotal role in advancing HIV prevention through the development and testing of Lenacapavir. The award recognises role of three key contributors to bringing Lenacapavir to market: Wesley Sundquist, chair of the University of Utah’s department of biochemistry, who provided the foundational scientific research; Moupali Das,…

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EU Funds Boost Startups in Smart Cities and E-Learning

The scheme targets businesses active in the fields of Smart City Services, Social Connected TV, Pervasive Gaming and E-Learning. The aim of the project is to…

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Six Innovative Projects Shortlisted for European Health Award 2014

Six cross-border health projects have now been short-listed for the prestigious European Health Award 2014. They cover topics such as management of psychotic…

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Siemens Wins Order for 67 Wind Turbines at Dudgeon Plant

Siemens Energy has received an order from the Norwegian energy utilities Statoil and Statkraft for the “Dudgeon Offshore Wind Farm” in the UK. Siemens will…

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Tax Benefits for Housing: Rethinking Economic Impact

The existing system of tax benefits for housing caused the typical house to be 4 percent too large in 2007, creating a national economic waste of $7 billion…

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Surprising number of older adults weathered the 'Great Recession' without financial strain

Researcher Lindsay R. Wilkinson, an assistant professor of sociology in Baylor University's College of Arts & Sciences, drew on 5,205 respondents from the…

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ESMT Joins GreenTec Awards: Promoting Sustainable Innovation

ESMT European School of Management and Technology is a project partner for the GreenTec Awards 2015. The Berlin-based business school thus joins the ranks of…

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Bernhard Schölkopf Wins 2014 Royal Society Milner Award

The Royal Society (London, UK) just announced that Bernhard Schölkopf will receive the 2014 Milner award “for being a pioneer in machine learning whose work…

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Siemens Secures Order for 72 Wind Turbines at Sandbank Farm

Vattenfall has awarded Siemens Energy an order for 72 Model SWT-4.0-130 wind turbines for its new Sandbank offshore wind farm. The project is being erected 90…

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Stock prices of companies that use the same underwriter tend to move together

“We tested the hypothesis that investment banking networks affect stock prices and trading behavior,” said James Weston, a professor of finance at Rice’s Jones…

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KfW IPEX-Bank Finances Eco-Friendly Plant Exports to Brazil

KfW IPEX-Bank is using a loan worth EUR 51m to finance the export of special equipment to South America for the environmentally friendly production of particle…

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New Award Honors Ocean Drilling Research Innovators

The prize is given in honor of Dr. Asahiko Taira of the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology and is made possible through a generous donation…

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New Devices Enhance Organic High-Capacity Memory Research

With this award, which is endowed with 1.65 million euros, the Humboldt Foundation singles out outstanding research talents with innovative research methods….

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Siemens Electric Arc Furnace Launches at Baku Steel

Azerbaijani steel producer Baku Steel has put into operation an electric arc furnace supplied by Siemens Metals Technologies. The new furnace is part of an…

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Boosting Cost-Effectiveness in Wind Turbine Manufacturing

Siemens focus on a seamless interplay and end-to-end integration of components and systems, and can offer, for example, an integrated protection concept made…

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KfW IPEX-Bank Funds Eco-Friendly Terminal Tech in Long Beach

KfW IPEX-Bank is financing the equipment manufactured by Düsseldorf-based Terex Port Solutions (TPS), including 72 environment-friendly battery-powered…

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Siemens delivers steam turbine-generator sets and I&C components to India

The machines are destined for the coal-fired units of the North Karanpura Super Thermal Power Project (STPP) located in the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand,…

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