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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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Trying Too Hard to Track Spending Counterproductive for Grocery Shoppers

“When shopping in a grocery store, the chaotic, information-rich environment can tax a shopper's ability to mentally calculate the total basket price,” says…

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KfW IPEX-Bank Introduces Financing for Small Exports

KfW IPEX-Bank will now also be able to offer long-term financing for small export transactions. For this purpose it will be using an instrument of Northstar…

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"Virtuous Circle" of regional development

Even international companies are embedded in their regional context; this is one of the main messages of the CURE project. They depend on regional workforces,…

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Siemens Wind Power Expands Market Presence and Innovation

Siemens has confirmed its objective to become one of the world’s top providers of wind turbines. Siemens entered the wind power market five years ago with its…

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Research Finds That Even After the Bubble, Real Estate Remains Part of a Strong Portfolio

Jay Sa-Aadu and Ashish Tiwari, finance professors in the Tippie College of Business, and Jim Shilling, a finance professor at DePaul University, analyzed the…

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Mondi Coatings chooses production monitoring system from Siemens

In comparison with conventional production monitoring systems, Sipaper IT MES features direct interfacing to the automation system and monitors all processes…

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Exporting Western Market Economies to Russia: Key Challenges

When the Iron Curtain fell 20 years ago, there was considerable hope that the countries in Eastern Europe, including Russia, would introduce a market economy…

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Don’t Worry, be Angry – Marketing Study Shows Angry Negotiators Walk Out with a Better Deal

After an hour or so, Ho walked out of the store with the $380 painting – for only $120. Negotiation, Ho knows, is an art, too. In new research conducted with…

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Joslin Research Wins Spot on Discover Magazine's Top 100 List

Unlike white fat, which stores energy and comprises most body fat, this good fat, called brown fat, is active in burning calories and using energy. In a paper…

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Financial Restructuring Insights in Chapter 11 Reorganizations

But are these firms really getting the “fresh start” they need? In a recent edition of Financial Management, researchers Randall Heron, Erik Lie, and Kimberly…

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2010 Economic Forecast: Slow Growth with Chance of Stagnation

Consumer spending, the engine that fueled economic growth for the past two decades is “out of gas” according to Fazzari. “I continue to worry that the…

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Five-Day Delivery: Is It Enough to Solve Postal Challenges?

Seung-Hyun Hong says projected savings from weekday-only delivery could wither if the move chases away lucrative business customers who count on the mail to…

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KfW Launches First Seven-Year Euro-Benchmark Bond

Having already placed a ten-year, a five-year and a three-year bond in the classical maturities earlier this year, KfW has now launched a seven-year…

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Balzan Prize Winners 2009: Celebrating Innovation in Science

TERENCE CAVE FOR LITERATURE, MICHAEL GRÄTZEL FOR NEW MATERIALS, BRENDA MILNER FOR NEUROSCIENCES AND PAOLO ROSSI FOR THE HISTORY OF SCIENCEAn appeal to…

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Future of Internet Retail: Competing with Niche Products

Management Insights, a regular feature of the journal, is a digest of important research in business, management, operations research, and management science….

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Examining Illegal Corporate Behavior Under Pressure

MSU’s Yuri Mishina and colleagues argue that unrealistically high pressure on thriving companies increases the likelihood of illegal behavior, as the firms are…

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