The UN general Assembly is devoting 24 days in 2013 to an open working group on sustainable development goals. Of these just part of one day (in November) is devoted to education, with "employment and decent work for all", "social protection", and "youth" also being foci for that session. Read more
I am now over half way through my placement as a Merchandising Intern for Maybelline. I have learnt so much and been exposed to so much of the business.
Last week I got to go to a day of meeting/inductions at the factory of a company who make our stands. Read more
20th May is the day set as the commemoration of the first clinical trial and that of International Clinical Trials Day (ICTD).
Scurvy was a deadly disease in 1700s and there were a lot of conflicting ideas about how to treat it. James Lind carried out his trial whilst serving Read more
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It is nearly over and I can’t believe it, where on earth have the last 10 months gone?! I have had a great time in Manchester and will be really sad to leave work next Thursday, although I do plan to come back for a few days here Read more
There are now a few varients on the original decision tree flowchard from the Publishers Association that was included in the recent RCUK Policy on Open Access and Supporting Guidance. This chart has been criticised for directing researchers towards the Gold route to open access.
The University of Oxford have Read more
Talent Intelligence are looking to hire a New Business Development Executive with a strong academic background in business, as well as professional proficiency in at least one foreign language.
Ideally the successful applicant will have completed a business development oriented placement, although this is not a must. Above all they Read more
Julia Griffen, final year DTC student, undertook a one month internship way back in November at the University of Addis Ababa in Ethiopia. Here’s what she had to say about her experiences:
I thoroughly enjoyed my time spent at the University of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The experience was extremely beneficial Read more
Let \(V\) and \(W\) be vector spaces (over \(k\) ) related by a bilinear pairing \(\langle,\rangle\colon V\otimes W \to k\), which may be degenerate, even trivial. Taking annihilators gives a `functor' between their lattices of subspaces \[\Lambda(V) \to \Lambda(W)\colon A\mapsto A^\circ = \{ w\in W : \langle A,w\rangle =0\}.\] There Read more
This week its something a bit different! Understanding the causes of deterioration is just as important as resolving vectors.
The rail bridge over Westmoreland Road, (on the route of the U18 bus leaving Oldfield Park on the way to uni) Bath, England, is Read more