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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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New Model Reveals Insights Into Foreign Exchange Market

Physicist Guannan Zhao, Ph.D. student at the University of Miami, and his collaborators have developed a mathematical model to describe the timing of price…

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Asia-Pacific Economic Group Highlights Standards Education Necessity

Meanwhile, those already involved in standardization, particularly in the engineering and technology sectors, and increasingly those with policy, legal, and…

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Health Insurance Crisis: 9 Million Adults Uninsured Since 2010

An estimated nine million working-age adults—57 percent of people who had health insurance through a job that was lost—became uninsured in the last two years,…

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Trade-Off Budgeting is a Good Money-Saving Technique

Deena Katz, associate professor of personal financial planning, has a philosophy she calls trade-off budgeting. Trade-off budgeting is meant to encourage…

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Suppliers’ Dilemma: Top-down Versus Bottom-up; New Study Examines the Value of Point-of-Sale Data in Forecasting

A new study by a University of Arkansas logistics researcher confirms that relying on retail point-of-sale data can increase the accuracy of predictions and…

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Gas Prices Rise: Impact on Grocery Retailers Revealed

A University of Alberta researcher says grocery retailers need to take heed that a jump at the pumps will be a blow to their bottom line. Alberta School of…

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EU Tariffs Hinder Global Trade Opportunities for Consumers

Increased imports often mean cheaper products for EU consumers and greater opportunities for producers in other countries to export their products, but also…

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Underemployment: Rising Trend Ignored Amid Recession Talks

While unemployment has been a frequent topic of discussion during the recession, underemployment and its effects have not, even though the number of…

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Open University MBA: Boost Job Skills and Salary Prospects

However, in the first place, for most students the salary increase is not the most essential aspect. They want to increase their knowledge for global…

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Siemens Launches International CT Image Contest 2011

Following on from the amazing success of the first computed tomography (CT) image contest in 2010, Siemens Healthcare has announced the “International CT Image…

Business and Finance

Small Businesses Turn to Personal Assets for Financing

Small businesses are seen as an important part of the American economy. These businesses often rely heavily on loans to stay afloat. The recent economic…

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Balzan Prizes 2011: Key Subjects Announced by Committee

The General Prize Committee of the International Balzan Foundation “Prize”, chaired in Milan by Salvatore Veca, has announced the subject areas for the 2011…

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St. Georg Medical Center First to Achieve Siemens Green+ Check

Achieving and maintaining high quality entails a process of continuous improvement and development, as part of which the St. Georg Medical Center commissioned…

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Siemens Provides MRI Scanner for Brains Unlimited Research

The MRI scanners are to be dedicated to the renowned research project Brains Unlimited conducted by Maastricht University.How human brains work can become even…

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Effects of Winter Storms Will Take Time to Work Through Cattle Markets

“Significant snowfall and record low temperatures, especially with the wind chills, have disrupted markets and pushed both cattle and cattle managers well out…

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Brupbacher Prize goes to B. Vogelstein & J. Hoeijmakers for research on colorectal and skin cancer

Oncologist Bert Vogelstein has demonstrated how sequential accumulation of mutations leads to colorectal cancer, and Jan H. Hoeijmakers has conducted…

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