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Creating value in the age of digital transformation

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Dr Jahangir Karimi studies the impact of digital transformation upon the newspaper industry and how firms need to have entrepreneurial agility in order to create value in their business models

The digital revolution has led to more businesses undertaking their own digital entrepreneurship by utilising digital operations, offering new digital products, and generating more profound digital insights. Professors Jahangir Karimi […]

Could a serpin antibody help to treat type 1 diabetes?

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Research from Dr Jan Czyzyk and his team at the University of Minnesota, USA, explores the balance between proteases and serpins, and how their activity can in turn affect the […]

Theory and Experience: Assessing the methodology of physics

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The relationship between theories and experiments is a central concept in physics, providing a robust basis for the sum of our knowledge of how the universe works. Yet despite its […]

Understanding neural networks with neural-symbolic integration

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Dr Joe Townsend, Dr Theodoros Kasioumis, and Dr Hiroya Inakoshi, from the Artificial Intelligence Research Division at Fujitsu Research of Europe Ltd, used Neural-Symbolic Integration to better understand the reasoning […]

Dousing the flames: A model approach to fire management

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Fire management is complex, and strategies that work in one geographic area are unlikely to work in another owing to the unique geographical, ecological, and socioeconomic conditions. Professor Trent Penman […]

Blotches and spots: Understanding blemishes of faba bean

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Dr Biruta Bankina researches into the variety of pathogens that cause blemishes on faba beans

Over the last decade, grain legumes such as faba beans have been cultivated widely in the Nordic and Baltic countries. Faba bean is the world’s second-highest grain-yielding legume, yet the […]

The silent pandemic: Addressing antimicrobial resistance

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The WHO aims to raise awareness of a silent pandemic, antimicrobial resistance, which is causing difficulties and reducing the effectiveness of certain drugs especially after the COVID-19 pandemic.

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a silent pandemic that poses a huge threat to global health and development. The World Health Organization and its partner organisations are seeking to raise awareness […]

A solution-focused project to address the challenges of COVID-19 restrictions on children and young people

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Dr Darren Sharpe studied the various impacts that the COVID-19 restrictions had on children and young people in Zambia and Sierra Leone, providing them with basic goods as well as studying their wellbeing

Apart from the severe health complications, the Coronavirus pandemic has posed other significant challenges to our society: loss of economic stability, social isolation, and deterioration of mental health are among […]

The Platform: A novel non-invasive fish monitoring method

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Dr Joseph Merz has developed a new, minimally invasive fish-sampling method to improve data collection on rare and endangered fish species across multiple habitats, allowing for water data collection at the same time

Estuary environments are incredibly variable, both spatially and temporally, which can make fish monitoring using traditional sampling gear difficult. Dr Joseph Merz, of Cramer Fish Sciences, has developed a new […]

Rethinking the Tree of Life with new tools

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Dr Sung-Hou Kim has applied a new way of thinking to an old model, the Tree of Life, which dates back to Darwin.

Professor Sung-Hou Kim and his colleagues from the University of California, Berkeley, have applied a new way of thinking to the Tree of Life, a concept that has been around […]