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Revival in smartphone demand in India expected from Q3: IDC

The smartphone market registered 1.5 per cent year-on-year growth in the March quarter with shipments touching 32.5 million units, IDC said in a statement. Despite the low figure, India was the only country among the top three nations to see any growth.




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The Quarantine + Pandemic Survival Map: 'It's escapism, with a lot of humour'

No longer able to walk hundreds of miles to create his hand-drawn maps, the Beijing-based artist Fuller is charting his thoughts – and the global crisis – while stuck indoors

I’m interested in the psychology of a place and how it makes you feel. So I don’t really see myself as a map-maker – even though I draw maps. It’s about the process of travelling through a place to capture a sense of it. First, I walk for hundreds of miles and make all sorts of notes, and then take thousands of photos to use as triggers for my memory.

I walked more than 840 miles around Beijing when researching the map that became part of my Purposeful Wandering series. I circumnavigated the city and then walked around each ring road. Beijing (where I’ve lived for three years) is built on a Central Axis, and the map is, too. A lot of the drawing is literal, but I also built in personal experiences, references, visual puns and semiotics.

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Talking Heads: Jodie Comer and Martin Freeman to star in Alan Bennett's BBC revival

'Talking Heads' was first broadcast in 1988 and 1998




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Gary Neville makes 'significant' donation to help non-league club Brighouse Town in bid for survival

Gary Neville has made a "significant" donation to help non-league outfit Brighouse Town in their battle to survive.




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Alan Pardew urges ADO Den Haag to donate his £100,000 survival bonus to Dutch health service

Alan Pardew has told ADO Den Haag to keep the survival bonus he is entitled to, and has instead encouraged the club to donate it to the Dutch health service.




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BBC's The Primates expert claims eco tourism is gorillas' best hope for survival

EXCLUSIVE: As BBC documentary The Primates hits our screens, experts warn there are only a few ways




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Immune system discovery paves way to lengthen organ transplant survival

A new discovery in mice shows the innate immune system has 'memory,' previously thought to be a unique feature of the adaptive immune system. Blocking this memory prevented transplanted organs from being rejected, providing a way to more specific drugs that could lengthen organ transplant survival.




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Ten shocking survival stories that real people lived to tell

Some of the scariest, true-life stories you can tell over a campfire or a beer—featuring shark attacks, snake bites, spider bites, and lightning strikes.




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Frustration and fear turn to hope as WA flags economic revival in roadmap

Local businesses forced to close by the pandemic are offered a glimmer of hope, as the WA Government flags the state could be more "economically progressive" than others due to its low COVID-19 case numbers.




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‘This is a Time for Survival’

A restaurant owner in small-town Michigan wonders whether the government is as much of a threat as the coronavirus itself.




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Bioclinical, VivaLNK unveil remote patient monitoring technology

The solutions enable continuous remote monitoring of body temperature and other vitals, either at home or in care centers, for clinical trials.




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Phase 3 trial of Libtayo® (cemiplimab) as monotherapy for first-line advanced non-small cell lung cancer stopped early due to highly significant improvement in overall survival

- Libtayo decreased the risk of death by 32.4% compared to chemotherapy




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The lysine methyltransferase SMYD2 is required for normal lymphocyte development and survival of hematopoietic leukemias




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Identification of gene modules associated with survival of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma treated with CHOP-based chemotherapy




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Surrogate endpoints for overall survival for patients with metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer in the CHAARTED trial




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NF-kappa B interacting long noncoding RNA enhances the Warburg effect and angiogenesis and is associated with decreased survival of patients with gliomas




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Does the presenting phenotype predict survival in ALS–FTD?




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Living with Uncertainty: Modeling China's Nuclear Survivability

A simplified nuclear exchange model demonstrates that China’s ability to launch a successful nuclear retaliatory strike in response to an adversary’s nuclear first strike has been and remains far from assured. This study suggests that China’s criterion for effective nuclear deterrence is very low.




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Living with Uncertainty: Modeling China's Nuclear Survivability

A simplified nuclear exchange model demonstrates that China’s ability to launch a successful nuclear retaliatory strike in response to an adversary’s nuclear first strike has been and remains far from assured. This study suggests that China’s criterion for effective nuclear deterrence is very low.






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Living with Uncertainty: Modeling China's Nuclear Survivability

A simplified nuclear exchange model demonstrates that China’s ability to launch a successful nuclear retaliatory strike in response to an adversary’s nuclear first strike has been and remains far from assured. This study suggests that China’s criterion for effective nuclear deterrence is very low.




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Living with Uncertainty: Modeling China's Nuclear Survivability

A simplified nuclear exchange model demonstrates that China’s ability to launch a successful nuclear retaliatory strike in response to an adversary’s nuclear first strike has been and remains far from assured. This study suggests that China’s criterion for effective nuclear deterrence is very low.




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Living with Uncertainty: Modeling China's Nuclear Survivability

A simplified nuclear exchange model demonstrates that China’s ability to launch a successful nuclear retaliatory strike in response to an adversary’s nuclear first strike has been and remains far from assured. This study suggests that China’s criterion for effective nuclear deterrence is very low.




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Living with Uncertainty: Modeling China's Nuclear Survivability

A simplified nuclear exchange model demonstrates that China’s ability to launch a successful nuclear retaliatory strike in response to an adversary’s nuclear first strike has been and remains far from assured. This study suggests that China’s criterion for effective nuclear deterrence is very low.




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Living with Uncertainty: Modeling China's Nuclear Survivability

A simplified nuclear exchange model demonstrates that China’s ability to launch a successful nuclear retaliatory strike in response to an adversary’s nuclear first strike has been and remains far from assured. This study suggests that China’s criterion for effective nuclear deterrence is very low.




viva

Living with Uncertainty: Modeling China's Nuclear Survivability

A simplified nuclear exchange model demonstrates that China’s ability to launch a successful nuclear retaliatory strike in response to an adversary’s nuclear first strike has been and remains far from assured. This study suggests that China’s criterion for effective nuclear deterrence is very low.




viva

Living with Uncertainty: Modeling China's Nuclear Survivability

A simplified nuclear exchange model demonstrates that China’s ability to launch a successful nuclear retaliatory strike in response to an adversary’s nuclear first strike has been and remains far from assured. This study suggests that China’s criterion for effective nuclear deterrence is very low.




viva

Living with Uncertainty: Modeling China's Nuclear Survivability

A simplified nuclear exchange model demonstrates that China’s ability to launch a successful nuclear retaliatory strike in response to an adversary’s nuclear first strike has been and remains far from assured. This study suggests that China’s criterion for effective nuclear deterrence is very low.




viva

Living with Uncertainty: Modeling China's Nuclear Survivability

A simplified nuclear exchange model demonstrates that China’s ability to launch a successful nuclear retaliatory strike in response to an adversary’s nuclear first strike has been and remains far from assured. This study suggests that China’s criterion for effective nuclear deterrence is very low.




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Pennsylvania Economic Revival Lies in its Metro Assets

In the long run-up to the Pennsylvania primary, there's been a good deal of candidate discussion of the state's economy and how to fix it.

But missing from the prescriptions of what the federal government would do and how it would do it has been a discussion of where it will happen.

That needs to change because place matters. For all the ink spilled on the declining fortunes of the commonwealth, there are many bright spots around the state that could be catalysts to growth and prosperity.

Recent Brookings research shows strength in varied fields across the state:

Advanced health care, pharmaceuticals, and information technology in Greater Philadelphia.

Health care, architecture and engineering, and banking in Pittsburgh.

Heavy construction, machinery and food processing in Lancaster.

Industrial gases, health care and higher education in the Lehigh Valley.

The state's economy is an amalgam of its 16 metropolitan areas that generate 92 percent of its economic output.

The top six metropolitan areas alone - Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Harrisburg-Carlisle, Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, Scranton/Wilkes-Barre, and Lancaster - constitute 68.4 percent of the state's population and produce 80.5 percent of the state's economic output.

The research underscores that four key assets overwhelmingly located in metropolitan areas - innovation, modern infrastructure, strong human capital, and quality places - are needed today to drive productivity of firms and workers, improve the wealth and opportunities of families, and ensure sustainable growth. America's metropolitan assets - the universities, the health-care concentrations, and the skilled-labor pools - are the drivers of our national economy and the key to future American competitiveness and success.

So what does this mean for Greater Philadelphia? And what would a more thoughtful federal role look like?

Two realms with extensive current federal involvement are transportation infrastructure and innovation. Cogent efforts from Washington in both these areas could significantly leverage state and local efforts.

Rather than thinly spreading transportation-infrastructure dollars across the country, the federal government should spend strategically.

For Greater Philadelphia, supporting its competitive advantage as the linchpin of Amtrak's Northeast Corridor with federal dollars for more frequent and reliable service would strengthen the region as a rail hub, as has been championed by the Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce.

Additionally, federal transportation policy should empower metropolitan areas with the discretion to spend funds flexibly, whether that's improving the aging SEPTA system, beginning the work of reinventing and burying Interstate 95 to increase access to the Delaware waterfront, or increasing transit access of city residents to suburban jobs.

Regarding innovation, unfortunately, the federal government currently has no unified national strategy to maximize high-quality jobs and spread their benefits throughout the Philadelphia region. Instead, it has a series of highly fragmented investments and programs.

Current programs put strong emphasis on research, but are insufficiently attentive to the commercialization of that research and blind to how innovation and jobs arise from the intense interaction of firms, industry associations, workers, universities and investors - a nexus ready to be capitalized on in Greater Philadelphia as documented by the Economy League of Philadelphia in a report for the CEO Council for Growth.

To this end, the federal government should reorganize its efforts and create a National Innovation Foundation, a nimble, lean organization whose sole purpose would be to work with industries, universities, business chambers, and local and state governments to spur innovation. Similar, successful national agencies are already up and running in competing nations, such as Britain, France, Sweden and Japan.

This effort should include R&D and support for technology-intensive industries such as information technology and pharmaceuticals, but it also must make small and medium-size manufacturers more competitive and train workers in manufacturing and low-tech services to work smarter.

Looking forward, our federal government must realize this is a "Metro Nation" and value and strengthen economic juggernauts such as Philadelphia.

Only by organizing our currently fragmented investments in transportation and innovation - and targeting them where they will provide the greatest return, metropolitan America - will the United States continue not only to compete, but also to lead.

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Publication: The Philadelphia Inquirer
     
 
 




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An Integrated Scientific Framework for Child Survival and Early Childhood Development

Editor's Note: This article was originally published in Pediatrics, a subscription-only journal. To obtain a subscription or log in to access the full article, click here.

ABSTRACT

Building a strong foundation for healthy development in the early years of life is a prerequisite for individual well-being, economic productivity, and harmonious societies around the world. Growing scientific evidence also demonstrates that social and physical environments that threaten human development (because of scarcity, stress, or instability) can lead to short-term physiologic and psychological adjustments that are necessary for immediate survival and adaptation, but which may come at a significant cost to long-term outcomes in learning, behavior, health, and longevity. Generally speaking, ministries of health prioritize child survival and physical well-being, ministries of education focus on schooling, ministries of finance promote economic development, and ministries of welfare address breakdowns across multiple domains of function. Advances in the biological and social sciences offer a unifying framework for generating significant societal benefits by catalyzing greater synergy across these policy sectors. This synergy could inform more effective and efficient investments both to increase the survival of children born under adverse circumstances and to improve life outcomes for those who live beyond the early childhood period yet face high risks for diminished life prospects.

Read the full article at Pediatrics »

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Publication: Pediatrics
      
 
 




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Man converts van into off-grid, all-terrain, submersible survival vehicle (Video)

This wilderness explorer transformed this van into a mobile, solar-powered home that has all the amenities.




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Citing threat to human survival, doctors divest from fossil fuels

Climate change is already killing people around the world. Now the British Medical Association has vowed to do something about it.




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Survival Skills Are Still Sustainable, Even If You'll Never Need Them

A beautiful film celebrates doing things, like starting a fire entirely by hand, that are no longer necessary. There are lessons for us all.




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Gogoro launches the VIVA, a lighter, cheaper, electric scooter with a swappable battery

This could take a lot of smelly gas mopeds off the road.




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Bahama Breeze Kicks off Viva la 'Rita and Margarita Mondays on National Margarita Day - Grilled Pineapple Margarita

Featuring one of our new sweet and tangy margaritas, the Grilled Pineapple Margarita is a mix of grilled pineapple, tequila and Falernum syrup. Learn how to make your own!




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Viva® Brand and Monica Potter Team Up with Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Ventura to Unleash Clean for Families in Need - Viva® and Monica Potter Unleash Clean Event Video

Viva® and Monica Potter Unleash Clean Event Video




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Bahama Breeze Kicks off Viva la 'Rita and Margarita Mondays on National Margarita Day - Grilled Pineapple Margarita

Featuring one of our new sweet and tangy margaritas, the Grilled Pineapple Margarita is a mix of grilled pineapple, tequila and Falernum syrup. Learn how to make your own!




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Viva® Brand and Monica Potter Team Up with Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Ventura to Unleash Clean for Families in Need - Viva® and Monica Potter Unleash Clean Event Video

Viva® and Monica Potter Unleash Clean Event Video





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She fled coronavirus-stricken Brooklyn to live in Oklahoma: 'You're just in this survival mode'

Lindsey Marvel, 38, moved to New York because, she said, "I'm literally going big or going home." Now she's going home to Tulsa, Oklahoma. The effect that Covid-19 has had not just on her personal life, but on the city she loves, was simply too much.




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Fleeing NYC for Oklahoma: 'You're just in this survival mode'

CNBC's Diana Olick reports on a woman's tough decision to flee Brooklyn, New York for Oklahoma.




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Middle East companies are 'fighting for survival': AlixPartners

Firms in Gulf Cooperation Council countries are facing "very severe liquidity problems" and "very uncertain times" amid the coronavirus crisis, says Gabriel Chahine of AlixPartners.





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QUERY REGARDING VIVAAD SE VISHVAS SCHEME

IN OUR CASE, THE CIT(A) ORDER HAS BEEN PASSED ON 17.12.2019 AND ON THE DAY OF 31.01.2020, THE TIME LIMIT FOR ITAT APPEAL IS STILL PENDING. BUT TILL TODAY THE ASSESSEE HAS NOT FILED ANY APPEAL.
CAN THE ASSESSEE OPT FOR VSV SCHEME ? AND IF YES, THEN GUIDE US THE PROCEDURE FOR THAT.




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Survival of the richest? In US, being confined is a 'white-collar privilege'

In the United States, the Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted glaring social inequality. Many workers cannot afford to be confined to their homes because they are not eligible for unemployment benefit and have not been able to put money aside. Those who have to go to work must find their own face masks. A Covid-19 test costs $150, while being hospitalised with the disease costs $70,000 on average. For the millions of Americans without health insurance, these amounts are beyond their means. Our correspondents report from California.





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Tiger survival threatened by mass road-building in precious habitats

Over half the world’s wild tigers now live 5 kilometres from a road, and infrastructure projects planned in Asia could fragment their habitat further




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Postecoglou ready for Russian revival

The Australia coach is ready to be measured against the very best as the Socceroos prepare to return to the FIFA Confederations Cup after a twelve year absence from the tournament.