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Being ready for H2020: the Denmark's success story

di Giacomo Destro
Pubblicato il 13/12/2013

An effective and practical expenditure of public funds can lead to excellence: Denmark can be seen as a case study for this. The small north European country is known for being the country with the highest public spending on education relative to GDP, namely 8.7% of the total. And probably will be known for being the most efficient country in gaining funds from Horizon 2020 (H2020).

Global cancer burden rises to 14.1 million new cases in 2012

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di redazione
Submitted by redazione on 12 December, 2013 - 21:07

The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), the specialized cancer agency of the World Health Organization, today released the latest data on cancer incidence, mortality, and prevalence worldwide.[i]The new version of IARC’s online database, GLOBOCAN 2012, provides the most recent estimates for 28 types of cancer in 184 countries worldwide and offers a comprehensive overview of the global cancer burden.

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Global Health
Global Problems
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Ethics and science in China

di Pietro Greco
Pubblicato il 12/12/2013

The investigative report Science published the last week documented something has been known for a long time: in China there is a thriving trading of scientific articles. Some researchers are even willing to pay 10,000 dollars for putting their names on articles that will be published on peer-reviewed international journals. There are proper agencies that manage this kind of trading. Besides, as stated on New Scientist by the free-lance