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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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KfW: Ensuring Stability Amid Volatile Capital Markets

“This year it was the European sovereign debt crisis in particular that shaped the mood of the international capital markets for long stretches. The markets…

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DASGIP Celebrates Award for Groundbreaking iApp Innovation

DASGIP has applied with the DASGIP iApp, the world’s first application for monitoring and controlling parallel biotechnology cultivation processes with the…

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Smartphone Litigation Surge: Strategy and Court Specialization

Business professor Deepak Somaya says that this current wave of patent litigation is a “clash driven by company strategies.””Smart phones combine lots of…

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The Seven Deadly Sins of Business: Researchers Document Effects of Supervisors' Misdeeds on Employee Health and Productivit

To better understand this deteriorating relationship, Wayne Hochwarter, the Jim Moran Professor of Business Administration in Florida State’s College of…

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EMBO Installation Grants Boost Six Scientists in Europe

EMBO Installation Grants are awarded annually and aim to strengthen science in selected member states of the EMBC, the intergovernmental funding body of EMBO….

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Siemens Expands Anaerobic Digestion Solutions for Enhanced Methane Production

This proprietary system agitates sludge within the anaerobic digestion process, optimizing digestion and methane production. The latter can be captured and…

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Employer Health Insurance Premiums Soar 41% from 2003-2009

Premiums for employer-sponsored family health insurance increased an average of 41 percent across states from 2003 to 2009, more than three times faster than…

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Stock Market ‘Flash’ Crashes Now Can be Predicted, Thanks to Cornell Metric

The new “Volume-synchronized Probability of INformed trading” – or VPIN – metric looks at the imbalance of trade relative to the total volume of the market. The developers: David Easley, Cornell professor of social sciences and chair of the Department of Economics, and Maureen O’Hara, professor of finance at Cornell’s Johnson Graduate School of Management, in collaboration with Marcos Lopes de Prado of Tudor Investments….

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Siemens increases patents granted to nearly 58,000

All in all, it’s another demonstration of the innovative power of the more than 30,000 R&D employees who work at Siemens. The total number of patents granted…

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Siemens to Provide 21 New Underground Trains for Munich

Munich City Utilities (SWM) have placed an order with Siemens Mobility for 21 new C2 type underground trains worth about 185 million euros. At the same time,…

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E.ON Research Award 2010 Honors Dresden’s Fraunhofer Institute

Researchers of the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Technology and Advanced Materials (IFAM) in Dresden, Germany, succeeded at this year’s presentation…

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College Job Market Set for 3% Growth in 2024

Overall hiring is expected to increase 3 percent, with bachelor’s-level and MBA-level hiring both surging 10 percent, said Phil Gardner, director of MSU’s…

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Tightwads vs. Spendthrifts: Black Friday Shopping Trends 2023

Every year about this time, on Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving that traditionally begins the holiday shopping season, early-morning consumers stand in…

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New England economic outlook precarious; government fiscal woes threaten region's recovery

Gittell will release his fall 2010 economic forecast at the New England Economic Partnership economic outlook conference, “Deficits as Far as the Eye Can See:…

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Factors That Help Lift People Out of Poverty in Developing Countries

What factors contribute to poor people in developing countries lifting themselves out of poverty?A paper by economists Anan Pawasutipaisit of Thammasat…

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Quality management takes aim at attraction

“It’s both desirable and necessary to complement modern quality management with a stronger focus on consumers’ positive emotions,” says Johan Lilja, who…

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