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September 2013

Global warming confirmed by scientists

di Aurora D'Aprile
Pubblicato il 30/09/2013
Environment
Climatology

On Friday, 27 September, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) gathered in Stockholm closed the Twelfth Session of Working Group I and approved the final document on the climate “Physical Science Basis”. The results fall close to the former IPCC report of 2007, and largely confirm the official previews released in the last days. The results rely on broader and more detailed observations, especially on regional scale, and on improved climate models (Earth System

Italian universities: ranking, scientific prestige and politics

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Read time: 4 minsSubmitted by Mauro Degli Esposti on 26 September, 2013 - 17:00
Research evaluation
Scheda
Fonte: 
VIA-Academy
Intervallo dati: 
1 January, 2004 to 31 December, 2010

In questi dati vengono sintetizzati i 3 nodi essenziali del mondo accademico italiano, che rientrano ora in un contesto più internazionale dopo la conclusione del processo VQR2004-2010.

 

The conclusion of the VQR2004-2010 evaluation process carried out by ANVUR highlighted some essential themes about the Italian academic world. 



                     Realizzazione grafica: redazione Scienzainrete dai dati forniti dall'autore  
fonte: Via-Academy

The conclusion of the evaluation process carried out by ANVUR highlighted some essential themes about the Italian academic world. For the first time in Italy, we have official data from a systematic evaluation of scientific production and other activities of Italian universities and research institutions.

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di Mauro Degli Esposti
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Research evaluation
Scientific research policy
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Competitiveness, education and wealth: the Italian anomaly

di Pietro Greco
Pubblicato il 25/09/2013

Paola Annoni – from the Econometrics and Applied Statistics Unit of the Joint Research Centre, Ispra –  and Lewis Dijkstra – from the Economic Analysis Unit of the DG Regio, Bruxelles – recently published the EU Regional Competitiveness Index 2013, a competitiveness analysis of European regions. They also measured the regional

UK takes the lead of the global fight against tubercolosis

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di redazione
Submitted by redazione on 24 September, 2013 - 16:43

One billion pounds. This is the sum pledged by the United Kingdom to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. With such a donation, Great Britain joined France and the European Nordic countries in the battle to defeat some of the world’s top infectious disease killers.

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Bioscience in Europe, which role for Italy?

di Vittorio Sgaramella
Pubblicato il 24/09/2013
Research and development
Biology
Scientific research policy

Adriano Buzzati Traverso will be remembered as scientist, professor and, above all, as manager of a research with no boundaries: during his frequent journeys abroad - on this or the other side of the Atlantic - he rapidly realized that bioscientific research in Italy had to get rid of any provincialism, empowering the exchanges with more advanced countries. Establishing the International Laboratory of