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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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Breast Lifts Surge Ahead: 2-to-1 Growth Over Implants

New statistics released today by the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) show that breast lift procedures are growing at twice the rate of breast…

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Siemens Delivers Direct Drive Tech to Japan’s Eurus Wind Farm

Siemens Energy secured a total 51 MW wind power order from Japan's largest wind power developer, Eurus Energy Holdings Corporation. Siemens will provide 17…

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Siemens Invests EUR190M in Offshore Wind Factory in Britain

Siemens is investing more than EUR190 million (GBP160 million) in new offshore production facilities in Great Britain. Production of rotor blades for offshore…

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Heidelberg University Researcher Wins Animal Welfare Prize

Professor Thomas Korff of the Department of Physiology and Pathophysiology at Heidelberg University, Germany, was awarded the German Research Foundation…

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Apply Now: 2014 European Health Award Open for Entries

The International Forum Gastein initiated the European Health Award on the occasion of the European Health Forum Gastein´s tenth anniversary in 2007. The Award…

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Investment Delays in European High North Amid Financial Crisis

Some investment projects in the European High North are postponed and some are totally turned down.The energy sector is facing new challenges and changes. The…

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JEC Europe 2014: Multi-Material Technology for Small Businesses

The so-called “Multi-material head” is particularly useful for smaller businesses, which want to process all the most common semi-finished materials on only…

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Transforming Manufacturing for Industry 4.0: The Networked Factory

How can companies evolve their manufacturing activities in the direction of a smart, networked factory in line with Industry 4.0? In the MetamoFAB project,…

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Foreign First-Semester Students Increase by 5.8% in 2013

Based on provisional figures, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports that, compared with the previous year, their number increased by 5.8% to…

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ESMT Earns Two Prestigious Case Centre Awards 2014

Together with Harvard Business School and INSEAD, ESMT is one of only three business schools honored with two prizes this year. As one of the world’s largest…

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School-Leavers with Higher Education Qualifications Rise 3.8%

Based on provisional results, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports that this is 3.8% more than in the previous year.

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Siemens Launches Three Continuous Slab Casters for Tisco

In the last quarter of 2013, three continuous slab casters from Siemens Metals Technologies were put into operation at Chinese steel producer Taiyuan Iron and…

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ERC Consolidator Grants Awarded to Dr. Felicity Jones

This year the highly esteemed grants go to Dr. Felicity Jones, Max Planck Research Group Leader from the Friedrich Miescher Laboratory of the Max Planck…

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Inducing Climate-Smart Supply Networks: Key Insights and Impacts

So far, however, the effects on global production and consumption webs are missing from most assessments. This is a serious deficit, argues Anders Levermann…

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AGU welcomes entries for 2014 journalism awards

This year, AGU plans to present the two awards listed below. The authoritative statements of the rules governing these awards and the awards’ nomination forms…

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Not so ‘evil’: Finance study makes case for hedging

None other than Warren Buffet has attacked derivatives as “time bombs – both for the parties that deal in them and the economic system.”But now, for the first…

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