New Hampshire University Research and Industry Plan: A Roadmap for Collaboration and Innovation

This University Research and Industry plan for New Hampshire is focused on accelerating innovation-led development in the state by partnering academia’s strengths with the state’s substantial base of existing and emerging advanced industries. These advanced industries are defined by their deep investment and connections to research and development and the high-quality jobs they generate across production, new product development and administrative positions involving skills in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM)

Partners in Leadership

Baltimore lawyer Benjamin Civiletti had led a life of public service and personal accomplishment. Now a scholarship in his name delivers his legacy to a new generation of lawyers

Doing Business in Malaysia

[Excerpt] Malaysia is a federation of thirteen states and two federal territories in West (Peninsular) Malaysia and East Malaysia with a population of over 20 million. It is rich in natural resources (including oil and natural gas) and is a major producer of palm oil, natural rubber, tin and tropical hardwoods. The Government encourages industry and foreign investment, particularly in high technology and resource-based export-oriented industries. Malaysia has attracted much interest from multi-national companies due to its economic growth and future potential

Partner’s and own education: does who you live with matter for self-assessed health, smoking and excessive alcohol consumption?

This study analyses the importance of partner status and partner’s education, adjusted for own education, on selfassessed health, smoking and excessive alcohol consumption. The relationship between socio-economic factors and health-related outcomes is traditionally studied from an individual perspective. Recently, applying social–ecological models that include socio-economic factors on various social levels is becoming popular. We argue that partners are an important influence on individual health and health-related behaviour at the household level. Therefore, we include partners in the analysis of educational health inequalities. Using data of almost 40,000 individuals (with almost 15,000 Dutch cohabiting couples), aged 25–74 years, who participated in the Netherlands Health Interview Survey between 1989 and 1996, we test hypotheses on the importance of own and partner’s education. We apply advanced logistic regression models that are especially suitable for studying the relative influence of partners’ education. Controlled for own education, partner’s education is significantly associated with self-assessed health and smoking, for men and women. Accounting for both partners’ education the social gradient in self-assessed health and smoking is steeper than based on own or partner’s education alone. The social gradient in health is underestimated by not considering partner’s education, especially for women.

Έκθεση αναφοράς για τις συνεντεύξεις των μελών ΟΜΕΑ

Στην παρούσα έκθεση παρουσιάζονται οι στάσεις και αντιλήψεις των μελών ΟΜΕΑ για την παροχή έργου της ΜΟΔΙΠ ΕΚΠΑ, καθώς και τα απομαγνητοφωνημένα πρακτικά της συνάντησης του εξωτερικού αξιολογητή με τα μέλη της Ομάδας Επιστημονικής και Διοικητικης Υποστήριξης της ΜΟΔΙΠ ΕΚΠΑ

Παραδοτέο 1.1: Μελέτη αποτύπωσης του συστήματος αξιολόγησης της ΜΟ.ΔΙ.Π ΕΚΠΑ

Στην παρούσα μελέτη περιγράφεται συνοπτικά το φιλοσοφικό και μεθοδολογικό πλαίσιο αξιολόγησης, με το οποίο θα εναρμονιστεί το σύστημα αξιολόγησης της ΜΟ.ΔΙ.Π ΕΚΠΑ, καθώς επίσης και οι Βασικές Αρχές Αξιολόγησης που οφείλουν να τηρούν όσοι διενεργούν τις αξιολογικές δράσεις

Παραδοτέο 3.1: Επικαιροποιημένη μελέτη αποτύπωσης του συστήματος αξιολόγησης της ΜΟ.ΔΙ.Π ΕΚΠΑ

Στην παρούσα μελέτη περιγράφεται συνοπτικά το φιλοσοφικό και μεθοδολογικό πλαίσιο αξιολόγησης, με το οποίο θα εναρμονιστεί το σύστημα αξιολόγησης της ΜΟ.ΔΙ.Π ΕΚΠΑ, καθώς επίσης και οι Βασικές Αρχές Αξιολόγησης που οφείλουν να τηρούν όσοι διενεργούν τις αξιολογικές δράσεις

Press articles related to subproject 4 (laying hens) of the LowInputBreeds project

To this eprint a number of press articles related to subproject 4 (laying hens) are attached

Predictability of conversation partners

Recent developments in sensing technologies have enabled us to examine the nature of human social behavior in greater detail. By applying an information theoretic method to the spatiotemporal data of cell-phone locations, [C. Song et al. Science 327, 1018 (2010)] found that human mobility patterns are remarkably predictable. Inspired by their work, we address a similar predictability question in a different kind of human social activity: conversation events. The predictability in the sequence of one's conversation partners is defined as the degree to which one's next conversation partner can be predicted given the current partner. We quantify this predictability by using the mutual information. We examine the predictability of conversation events for each individual using the longitudinal data of face-to-face interactions collected from two company offices in Japan. Each subject wears a name tag equipped with an infrared sensor node, and conversation events are marked when signals are exchanged between sensor nodes in close proximity. We find that the conversation events are predictable to some extent; knowing the current partner decreases the uncertainty about the next partner by 28.4% on average. Much of the predictability is explained by long-tailed distributions of interevent intervals. However, a predictability also exists in the data, apart from the contribution of their long-tailed nature. In addition, an individual's predictability is correlated with the position in the static social network derived from the data. Individuals confined in a community - in the sense of an abundance of surrounding triangles - tend to have low predictability, and those bridging different communities tend to have high predictability.Comment: 38 pages, 19 figure