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CBD News: Message of the Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, Dr. Cristiana Pasca Palmer, on the occasion of International Mountain Day 11 December 2017: "Mountains under pressure: climate, hunger and migration"




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CBD News: Today we celebrate World Wildlife Day. CITES (the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora) has chosen the theme of "Big cats: predators under threat."




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CBD News: For this year's International Women's Day, I join my voice to the call to action to empower women in all settings, rural and urban, and to draw inspiration from the activists working to achieve women's rights and gender equality.




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CBD News: Dr. Cristiana Pasca Palmer, CBD Executive Secretary, said: "These assessments are sobering. They show that the pressures on biodiversity and its associated ecosystem services from human activities, including climate change, are increasing.




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CBD News: Statement of the Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, Cristiana Pasca Palmer, on the occasion of the Seventeenth Session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, United Nations Headquarters, 16 to 27




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CBD News: Rachel Carson, the late American biologist and conservationist, suggested "there is symbolic as well as actual beauty in the migration of the birds... something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature - the assurance that dawn




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CBD News: New surveys of more than 5,000 consumers in five countries indicate that the majority (79 per cent) feel that "companies have a moral obligation" to have a positive impact on people and biodiversity in their sourcing of natural ingredi




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CBD News: Online platform allows policymakers and other partners to access global data layers, upload and manipulate their own datasets, and query multiple datasets to provide key information on the Aichi Biodiversity Targets and nature-based Sustainable




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CBD News: Germany has published the first report on the utilization of genetic resources through the Access and Benefit-sharing (ABS) Clearing-House by issuing a checkpoint communiqué concerning research on ants from South Africa. This was rapidly fo




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CBD News: Statement by Ms. Cristiana Pa?ca Palmer, Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, on the occasion of the African Ministerial Summit on Biodiversity: "Land and ecosystem degradation and restoration: Priorities for incre




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CBD News: Blog post prepared by the Executive Secretary for the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting: We need to understand the nature and gravity of the collective crisis that now confronts human civilization if we are to answer the questions it poses.




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CBD News: Opening statement by Ms. Cristiana Pasca Palmer, Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, on the occasion of the eighteenth session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, United Nations Headquarters, Ne




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CBD News: Message from the Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, Dr. Cristiana Pasca-Palmer, on the occasion of the World Environment Day, 5 June 2019: "Beat Air Pollution".




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CBD News: Message from the Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, Dr. Cristiana Pasca Palmer, on the occasion of the World Oceans Day, 8 June 2019: "Gender and the Ocean".




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CBD News: "Ecological Civilization: Building a Shared Future for All Life on Earth" is set to frame next year's UN Biodiversity Conference, to be held in October in Kunming, Yunnan Province, China.




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CBD News: This year, World Food Day calls for action across sectors to make healthy and sustainable diets affordable and accessible to everyone. It is a reminder that without healthy nature and biodiversity, we cannot have quality nutrition, and without q




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CBD News: This year's World Cities Day theme, "Changing the world: innovations and better life for future generations", focuses on how urban governance can be used to achieve sustainable development.




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CBD News: In the "Beijing Call for Biodiversity Conservation and Climate Change", French President Emmanuel Macron and Chinese President Xi Jinping on 6 November reaffirmed their commitments to enhance international cooperation on climate change




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CBD Notification SCBD/SSSF/AS/SBG/JA/JMQ/88545 (2019-113): Submission of Information on Experiences in the Implementation of Marine Spatial Planning




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CBD News: Elizabeth Maruma Mrema, CBD Acting Executive Secretary, welcomes announcement that biodiversity will be theme of the next year's World Environment Day: "We are delighted to see that biodiversity will be the focus of World Environment Da




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CBD Notification SCBD/SSSF/AS/SBG/ESE/88552 (2019-116): Request to Identify and Submit Data on Other Effective Area-Based Conservation Measures




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CBD News: Over 1000 delegates from more than 140 countries started negotiations today at FAO headquarters, Rome on the zero draft of a landmark post-2020 global biodiversity framework and targets for nature to 2030.




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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/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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Topological Phases of Matter and Quantum Computation

Paul Bruillard, Carlos Ortiz Marrero and Julia Plavnik, editors. American Mathematical Society, 2020, CONM, volume 747, approx. 240 pp. ISBN: 978-1-4704-4074-9 (print), 978-1-4704-5457-9 (online).

This volume contains the proceedings of the AMS Special Session on Topological Phases of Matter and Quantum Computation, held from September...




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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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Axially symmetric solutions of the Allen-Cahn equation with finite Morse index

Changfeng Gui, Kelei Wang and Jucheng Wei
Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 373 (2020), 3649-3668.
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Sharp Adams and Hardy-Adams inequalities of any fractional order on hyperbolic spaces of all dimensions

Jungang Li, Guozhen Lu and Qiaohua Yang
Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 373 (2020), 3483-3513.
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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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Equidistribution on homogeneous spaces and the distribution of approximates in Diophantine approximation

Mahbub Alam and Anish Ghosh
Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 373 (2020), 3357-3374.
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Approximation of solutions of the wave equation driven by a stochastic measure

V. M. Radchenko and N. O. Stefans’ka
Theor. Probability and Math. Statist. 99 (2020), 229-238.
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Estimation of the rate of convergence in the central limit theorem for a sequence of series in terms of averaged pseudomoments

M. M. Kapustei and P. V. Slyusarchuk
Theor. Probability and Math. Statist. 99 (2020), 101-111.
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Modified Euler scheme for the weak approximation of stochastic differential equations driven by the Wiener process

S. V. Bodnarchuk and O. M. Kulyk
Theor. Probability and Math. Statist. 99 (2020), 53-65.
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Solutions in Lebesgue spaces to nonlinear elliptic equations with subnatural growth terms

A. Seesanea and I. E. Verbitsky
St. Petersburg Math. J. 31 (2020), 557-572.
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Survey on gradient estimates for nonlinear elliptic equations in various function spaces

S.-S. Byun, D. K. Palagachev and L. G. Softova
St. Petersburg Math. J. 31 (2020), 401-419.
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Discontinuous critical Fujita exponents for the heat equation with combined nonlinearities

Mohamed Jleli, Bessem Samet and Philippe Souplet
Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 148 (2020), 2579-2593.
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Deleting or adding arrows of a bound quiver algebra and Hochschild (co)homology

Claude Cibils, Marcelo Lanzilotta, Eduardo N. Marcos and Andrea Solotar
Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 148 (2020), 2421-2432.
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Korean quintet concert set

Ensemble SU from Korea will stage a concert at Sha Tin Town Hall in December.

 

The quintet breaks boundaries by merging both traditional Korean musical instruments with Western instruments to bring music to life.

 

The world touring group plays works ranging from Arirang Rhapsody to Bohemian Rhapsody and from Bul-no-ha to the jazz classic Take Five.

 

The concert will be held at 8pm on December 6 and tickets are available at URBTIX.

 

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20 Questions–Job Interview, or First Date?

We are now in the peak of job season. Depending upon your branch, applications may have been due as early as October 1. Big deadlines are November 1, November 15, and December 1.  Still, you should basically be done applying now—see … Continue reading




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