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CBD Notification SCBD/IMS/JMF/JBF/NP/CR/WS/IH/88601 (2020-023): Postponement of the 2020 Global Youth Biodiversity Summit in Miyazaki




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CBD News: Governments advance in the preparation of a New UN Biodiversity Framework; Negotiations in Rome demonstrate engagement across government and society




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CBD Notification SCBD/OES/EM/DC/88726 (2020-025): Registration and Credentials for Fifteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP 15), Tenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting




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CBD News: Joining the global celebration of the United Nations World Wildlife Day, representatives of UN Member States, UN System organizations, international and non-governmental organizations, rural communities and youth gathered at the UN Headquarters




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CBD Notification SCBD/SSSF/AS/SBG/JSH/AER/88592 (2020-026): Postponement of the Global Taxonomy Initiative Forum - Berlin, Germany, 7-9 April 2020




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CBD Notification SCBD/IMS/JMF/NP/CR/IH/88710 (2020-027): Final Call for Nominations for the MIDORI Prize for Biodiversity 2020




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CBD Notification SCBD/NPU/DC/WY/BG/RKi/88737 (2020-028): Peer review of a study related to Article 10 of the Nagoya Protocol




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CBD News: Statement by Ms. Elizabeth Maruma Mrema, Acting Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, at the opening of the Subregional Exchange for the Caribbean on the Restoration of Forests and Other Ecosystems, 9-13 March 2020




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CBD Notification SCBD/OES/EM/DC/88792 (2020-029): Update regarding COVID-19 and upcoming CBD meetings




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CBD News: Due to the evolving nature of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) has moved to hold many meetings virtually and has postponed others.




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CBD Notification SCBD/SSSF/AS/SBG/JSH/VA/JM/AER/88592 (2020-031): Postponement of the Global Taxonomy Initiative Forum and selected participants




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CBD Notification SCBD/NPU/DC/WY/BG/RKi/88737 (2020-030): Extension of deadline: Peer review of a study related to Article 10 of the Nagoya Protocol




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CBD Notification SCBD/OES/EM/DC/88792 (2020-033): Dates and venue: Twenty-fourth Meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice (SBSTTA 24), 17 to 22 August 2020, and Third Meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Implementation




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CBD News: Two meetings of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity's (CBD) permanent subsidiary bodies originally scheduled for May 2020 and then rescheduled for August/September 2020 will now take place in August 2020.




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CBD News: Statement by Elizabeth Maruma Mrema, Acting Executive Secretary, Convention on Biological Diversity, on the occasion of World Health Day




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CBD Notification SCBD/OES/EM/DC/IS/88838 (2020-034): Summit on Biodiversity




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CBD Notification SCBD/OES/DAIN/MB/FD/88610 (2020-035): Logo for the International Day for Biological Diversity 2020: "Our solutions are in nature"




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CBD News: Statement by Elizabeth Maruma Mrema, Acting Executive Secretary, Convention on Biological Diversity, on the occasion of Earth Day




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CBD Notification SCBD/SSSF/AS/BB/ML/GD/88853 (2020-036): Launching of the UNEP Strategy for Private Sector Engagement







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A linearly convergent majorized ADMM with indefinite proximal terms for convex composite programming and its applications

Ning Zhang, Jia Wu and Liwei Zhang
Math. Comp. 89 (2020), 1867-1894.
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High order explicit local time stepping methods for hyperbolic conservation laws

Thi-Thao-Phuong Hoang, Lili Ju, Wei Leng and Zhu Wang
Math. Comp. 89 (2020), 1807-1842.
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Stability of Semi-Lagrangian schemes of arbitrary odd degree under constant and variable advection speed

Roberto Ferretti and Michel Mehrenberger
Math. Comp. 89 (2019), 1783-1805.
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Motivic Homotopy Theory and Refined Enumerative Geometry

Federico Binda, Marc Levine, Manh Toan Nguyen and Oliver Röndigs, editors. American Mathematical Society, 2020, CONM, volume 745, approx. 286 pp. ISBN: 978-1-4704-4898-1 (print), 978-1-4704-5455-5 (online).

This volume contains the proceedings of the Workshop on Motivic Homotopy Theory and Refined Enumerative Geometry, held from May 14–18, 2018, at...




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Advances in Harmonic Analysis and Partial Differential Equations

Donatella Danielli and Irina Mitrea, editors. American Mathematical Society, 2020, CONM, volume 748, approx. 210 pp. ISBN: 978-1-4704-4896-7 (print), 978-1-4704-5516-3 (online).

This volume contains the proceedings of the AMS Special Session on Harmonic Analysis and Partial Differential Equations, held from April 21–22,...




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TripActions moves into travel payments with Liquid launch

The fast-growing travel tech startup is moving into payments after securing $500 million in debt financing from Silicon Valley Bank, Goldman Sachs and Comerica Bank




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North Korean elite increasingly turning to VPNs, Tor

While only a small group of North Koreans have access to the global internet, usage patterns are changing among the elites of Pyongyang – with those in military intelligence circles now exhibiting stronger security chops, a report from Recorded Future has found




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Babylon Health releases coronavirus Care Assistant

Telehealth and GP service Babylon has rolled out a "COVID-19 Care Assistant" with a raft of features designed to help subscribers cope with symptoms during the pandemic, from the safety of their phone screen




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How are UK tech startups helping fight coronavirus?

Health startups are being corralled by the NHS and the government to point their talents at the COVID-19 pandemic, while others are volunteering services to help stymie the spread of the infectious new disease




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British startups locked out of COVID-19 business continuity schemes

Many startups in Britain either do not intend to or cannot access the government's Coronavirus Business Interruption and Loan Scheme, and may be forced to respond with furloughs or layoffs, warns a report




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Developer models COVID-19 sneezing simulation on Gran Turismo software

A lone developer from the company that provided aerodynamic analysis for the cars in the PlayStation game Gran Turismo has applied the tooling to demonstrate the spread of germs with and without wearing a mask




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Privacy concerns raised by NHS and KCL COVID-19 apps

While coordinated action is urgently needed, should we be racing to download everything that promises a solution?




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Soldo supports COVID-19 'digital foodstamps' response

The London-headquartered fintech startup Soldo has repurposed its spend management tools for local authorities in Italy to support its COVID-19 emergency response measures











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Uniqueness for the inverse boundary value problem of piecewise homogeneous anisotropic elasticity in the time domain

Cătălin I. Cârstea, Gen Nakamura and Lauri Oksanen
Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 373 (2020), 3423-3443.
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Analyticity up to the boundary for the Stokes and the Navier-Stokes systems

Guher Camliyurt, Igor Kukavica and Vlad Vicol
Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 373 (2020), 3375-3422.
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On the computational complexity of algebraic numbers: the Hartmanis–Stearns problem revisited

Boris Adamczewski, Julien Cassaigne and Marion Le Gonidec
Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 373 (2020), 3085-3115.
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