Thursday, September 16th, 2010
SABS – Each year the SABS, together with over 160 of its international counterparts, celebrates “World Standards Day.” The celebrations take on different forms, whether they take place in Copenhagen, Nairobi, Vienna, Caracas or Beijing – all the organisations share a feeling of common purpose even though the specific challenges of the day-to-day standards work
Thursday, September 16th, 2010
What works on a small scale also works on a large scale. For the last several years, a helicopter-mounted measuring instrument developed by the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) has been hard at work detecting methane leaks from natural gas pipelines. Read More
Thursday, September 16th, 2010
IRISH TIMES – Building computer versions of our bodies and using them to diagnose symptoms, anticipate future illnesses and predict side effects of treatment is at the heart of a new international project. Read More
Thursday, September 16th, 2010
L’EXPRESS FRANCE – According to a CSA poll, the economic considerations are paramount ecology in the choice of using public transport. With the economic crisis present since 2005, the main concerns are the parking problems (37%) and congestion (35%) as the main reasons for using networks. Read More
Wednesday, September 15th, 2010
archiBLOG – Cluster focuses on innovative forms of urban planning that respond to the needs of the ‘mutating’ city and the impact that new technologies have had on transforming (even extending) city life. We are interested in mobilising new ideas and encouraging intercultural and interdisciplinary dialogue on issues related to the built environment. Read More
Wednesday, September 15th, 2010
UNIV SOUTHAMPTON – ECS researchers are developing intelligent medical sensors which can be worn by patients to monitor their symptoms and which will alert GPs if medical intervention is needed. Read More
Wednesday, September 15th, 2010
ALL AFRICA – Poor diagnostics and weak surveillance are hampering government efforts to stem cholera in Nigeria says a government health worker. The disease is most severe in the north; as of 8 September 781 people have died and 13,000 cases were reported. Onyebuchi Chukwu, Nigeria’s health minister, said Katsina State in northern Nigeria had the
Wednesday, September 15th, 2010
EU – I have often said that energy is the lifeblood of a modern society. We need a reliable source of electricity to fuel development. However, today 1.6 billion people worldwide have no access to electricity, most of them in sub-Saharan Africa and Southern Asia and that, with business as usual, the number of people without
Tuesday, September 14th, 2010
BARENTS OBSERVER – Arctic Centre in Rovaniemi will head the network together with Russian, Norwegian and Swedish colleagues. A two year grant is given to the Arctic Centre at the University of Lapland in Finland to build a research network focusing on political and economic development in the Barents Region from the perspective of sustainable development. Read
Tuesday, September 14th, 2010
DEFRA UK – There’s nothing new about the weather affecting business; nor about business protecting itself against weather risks. Farmers were insuring themselves against hail damaging their crops two hundred years ago. But, as we all here know, we’re encountering a step change in weather risk. Climate change, and the extreme weather events it brings,
