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No photos of the war. No photos of its victims. No mention of the hundreds of photographers who have died taking them. We are a group of activists and artists who believe the future will be shaped by those who can see it. We stand…

Shantay Robinson Museum…

Latest developments around artificial intelligence (AI) have triggered excitement about the potential to replace and complement human activities while also raising concerns about possible risks to society. Dramatic effects are…

The Autism Society of America Mourns the Tragic Loss of a Young Autistic Man and Calls for a Shift Towards Mental Health-Focused Emergency Response March 14, 2024, Rockville, MD – In the wake of the heartbreaking incident that led to the…

1. IntroductionAlthough the concept of systemic vascular resistance (SVR) has long been recognized through experimental and human studies on hypertensive and cerebrovascular patients , only recently it gained popularity in chronic heart…

At exactly 9 a.m. Pacific Time on every third Friday of March, anxious graduating medical students around the country tear open envelopes to reveal where they matched for their residencies. These three- to seven-year residency…

Microsoft has released a new version of the Teams desktop and web apps called “New” Microsoft Teams. New Teams will become available to everyone beginning March 8th, and individuals are encouraged to start using and transitioning from…

Microsoft has released a new version of the Teams desktop and web apps called “New” Microsoft Teams. New Teams will become available to everyone beginning March 8th, and individuals are encouraged to start using and transitioning from…

Microsoft has released a new version of the Teams desktop and web apps called “New” Microsoft Teams. New Teams will become available to everyone beginning March 8th, and individuals are encouraged to start using and transitioning…

Could you lead the new DPC Americas program of work? In collaboration with the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC), ITHAKA is seeking a Senior Manager for DPC Americas to lead a new program of work in the USA, which will support…

Writing this Editorial for our second collection of papers on “International Perspectives on Mental Health Social Work”, we reflected upon the content of our First Edition . In this edition, we sought to highlight a range of selected…

Topics Leadership Leading Change Column Our expert…

Celebrating 100 years since the birth of Scottish pop artist Sir Eduardo Paolozzi, a new exhibition at Edinburgh’s National Galleries Scotland explores some of the artist’s most popular works. Eduardo Paolozzi (1927-2005) was a…

Factors such as habitat loss, invasive species, and non-native predators have been fueling the birds’ decline for centuries. However, introduced diseases, particularly avian malaria spread through mosquitoes, which are not native to the…

The USS Portland test-fires a laser weapon. The photo captured infrared light to make the beam visible. Credit: Staff Sgt. Donald Holbert/Marine Corps…

Entrepreneurship Monday, May 18, 2020 - 03:45

Gaze-tracking devices normally rely on cameras, but a new system uses reflected sound to track where someone is looking based on the shape of their eyeballs

Hexagonal frames called reef stars are installed in degraded areas to stabilise loose rubble and kickstart rapid coral growthThe Ocean Agency Restored coral reefs can grow just as quickly as healthy reefs in as…

March 8, 2024—Texts. Emails. Video meetings. Texts to remind you of upcoming video meetings.And on and on it goes, until what technology experts and psychologists call the digital dark side of technology — stress, anxiety, a feeling of…

March 7, 2024 – Ottawa, Ontario – Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada / Canadian Food Inspection Agency By protecting Canadian livestock through proactive prevention and preparedness measures for diseases, we’re supporting the…

The tragic loss of life from the 19-story apartment building fire that occurred in New York City on Jan. 9 reminds us of the fire and life safety challenges that tall buildings present to the emergency services and to the occupants who…

Two weeks into January 2024, Nigerian authorities took steps to curb environmental degradation caused by plastic pollution in the country. The Federal Ministry of Environment and the Lagos State government both announced bans on…

Event Highlights Efforts of Early-Career ResearchersBy Brandon LevyMonday, March 4, 2024 The IRP’s reputation as a leader in biomedical research attracts scientists in all stages of their careers and from all corners of the U.S. and the…

Building on on-going collaboration and dialogue, USGS aquatic ecologists, biologists, and social scientists presented on various topics of relevance to TU’s conservation efforts including Priority Waters planning, stakeholder and…

We’re still years away from seeing physical quantum computers break into the market with any scale and reliability, but don’t give up on deep tech. The market for high-level quantum computer science — which applies quantum…

1. “Beyond the Buzz: A Look at Large Language Models in Production,” PDF (San Francisco: Predibase, 2023), https://go.predibase.com. 2. A. Rosenbaum, S. Soltan, and W. Hamza, “Using Large Language Models (LLMs) to…

Proof.  Let D ( t ) = { d : ω ( d , t ) > 0 } be the support defender set of target t. Similarly, we also denote by T ( d ) = { t : ω ( d , t ) > 0 } the support target set of defender d. We divide the set of…

Rae Anderson never set out to have a career with NASA, but the pursuit of opportunities around her interest in computer science led the Union City, Tennessee native to the agency that explores the secrets of the universe for the benefit…

What kind of ghostbuster do you want to be? Each year, Halloween becomes less of a kids’ holiday and more of an adult holiday. One reason is there are so many ways to celebrate. You can eat candy, engage in cosplay, throw a party or…

Microscopy image of beta cells making IAPP (left) and IAPP plus one of the team’s synthetic peptides (right). Credit: Protein Science (2023). DOI: 10.1002/pro.4854…

A Denver County Court manager resigned last year while facing an internal investigation over the misuse of court money, fraud and inappropriate workplace behavior in an incident that some employees now say undermined their confidence in…

Bengaluru, India — After years of working at a salon in Bengaluru, Shakeela Banu made a major life change in 2018 and joined Urban Company (UC), an app-based home services platform that has more than 52,000 workers across Indian cities,…

The MIT Shaping the Future of Work Initiative, co-directed by MIT professors Daron Acemoglu, David Autor, and Simon Johnson, celebrated its official launch on Jan. 22. The new initiative’s mission is to analyze…

More than three years after pandemic shutdowns forced employers and employees to shift toward remote work if they could, it seems that for a portion of working Californians, remote and hybrid work is here to stay. The…

A series of wildfires swept across the Texas Panhandle early Wednesday, prompting evacuations, cutting off power to thousands, and forcing at least the temporary shutdown of a nuclear weapons facility as strong winds, dry grass and…

© Jerome Bossuet / CIMMYT GENEVA (ILO News) – A new publication on the expansion of digital economic activity in developing economies, published by the International Labour Organization (ILO), examines what digitalization means for the…

Revised law requires government agencies to protect pieces of information ‘that are not state secrets but will cause certain adverse effects if leaked,’ state media says.Chinese lawmakers have expanded Beijing’s state secrets law for the…

Thanks to this third and final wave of investment from President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, EPA is funding all the construction work that is ready to begin at Superfund sites…

An Interview with Antoine Martin Antoine Martin, an economist and financial stability advisor in the New York Fed’s Research and Statistics Group, will soon take up a new post at the Swiss National Bank (SNB), as head of its…

© Staton Winter / UN Women GENEVA / ROME (ILO News) – A new multi-stakeholder partnership to advance labour and human rights, decent jobs and fair and adequate incomes and wages within the agri-food sector has been formed by the…

GENEVA (ILO News) – More needs to be done to protect workers’ eye health, says a new report by the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB). According to Eye Health and…

NEW YORK (ILO News)- ILO Director-General, Gilbert F. Houngbo, has welcomed a new partnership between the United States and Brazil to protect decent work in a rapidly changing labour market. The U.S.-Brazil Partnership for Workers'…

1. IntroductionSocial differences in health reflect an unfair distribution of health risks and resources; therefore, they are considered as an unjust and avoidable systematic cause of differences in health . Young people from…

1. IntroductionSocial differences in health reflect an unfair distribution of health risks and resources; therefore, they are considered as an unjust and avoidable systematic cause of differences in health . Young people from…

1. IntroductionSocial differences in health reflect an unfair distribution of health risks and resources; therefore, they are considered as an unjust and avoidable systematic cause of differences in health . Young people from…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Snn7-gW96XM GENEVA (ILO News) – The 21st International Conference of Labour Statisticians (ICLS) has opened with key discussions timetabled on measuring informality, earnings, violence and harassment at…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Snn7-gW96XM GENEVA (ILO News) – The 21st International Conference of Labour Statisticians (ICLS) has opened with key discussions timetabled on measuring informality, earnings, violence and harassment at…

The back of your phone is useless. There. I said it. Sure, the cameras are back that, but what about all of that blank real estate monopolizing 90% of the surface area? Honestly, it needs to start carry its weight around here. A…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnBXbayUIZ8 GENEVA (ILO News) – Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) measures are key to building an inclusive, integrated and gender-responsive approach to preventing and eliminating violence and…

GENEVA (ILO News) – Representatives of governments, employers and workers have called for comprehensive and evidence-based policies that could address the root causes of decent work challenges vis à vis digitalization, as well as on…