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Top countries with the most competitive educational systems: Best Schools and Colleges
In World on ஒக்ரோபர் 1, 2012 at 8:09 பிபSource: Can U.S. Universities Stay on Top? – WSJ.com
Education Strength
The Boston Consulting Group’s new E4 index assigns points in four categories, each equally weighted in the final score. Of the 20 countries ranked, here are the top 10.
| Country | Total points | Enrollment points | Expenditure points | Engineering grads points | Elite university points |
| U.S. | 237 | 25 | 73 | 48 | 91 |
| U.K. | 125 | 4 | 26 | 46 | 48 |
| China | 115 | 86 | 17 | 4 | 8 |
| Germany | 104 | 5 | 25 | 37 | 38 |
| India | 104 | 90 | 4 | 3 | 6 |
| France | 87 | 4 | 24 | 41 | 18 |
| Canada | 85 | 2 | 25 | 39 | 18 |
| Japan | 72 | 7 | 31 | 19 | 16 |
| Brazil | 38 | 17 | 16 | 2 | 3 |
| Russia | 32 | 9 | 10 | 10 | 3 |
Source: Boston Consulting Group analysis
Clinical Trial Deaths: Top Countries and New Drug Guinea Pig Patients
In Business, Lists, Science, World on ஓகஸ்ட் 17, 2012 at 9:23 பிபIndia is just one of many developing countries used by leading Western pharmaceutical companies, which spent £40bn in 2010 on research and development. Globally, it is estimated around 120,000 trials are taking place in 178 countries.
India
- 668 deaths were reported in 2010
- 438 in 2011
- 211 deaths till June 2012
In a written reply to a question in the Lok Sabha, Minister for Health and Family Welfare Ghulam Nabi Azad said a total of 1,954 persons died from 2009 till June 2012 due to “serious adverse events of death” in clinical trials.
- South Korea – 2,861
- China – 2,520
- Taiwan – 2,367
- Brazil – 2,521
- Russia – 1,776
- India – 1,727
- Mexico – 1,488
- South Africa – 1,346
- Argentina – 1,223
- Puerto Rico – 1,231
- Thailand – 958
- Turkey – 893
- Romania (876)
- Ukraine – 722
- Chile – 663
- Peru (494)
- Phillipines – 487
- Iran – 387
- Egypt – 274
- Uganda – 163
- Malawi (61)
- Kazakhstan (15)
Top Ten Ethics & International Affairs Articles, 2008
In Blogs, Books, Lists, Misc, Politics on மே 24, 2009 at 2:58 முபThe following is a list of the top ten downloaded articles on the Blackwell Synergy site in 2008:
1. Toward a Moral System for World Society: A Reflection on Human Responsibilities
Mary Maxwell
A group of statesmen known as the InterAction Council, in consultation with theologians and philosophers representing many cultures, has drafted a proposed Universal Declaration of Human Responsibilities. (Vol. 12, 1998)
2. Responsibility to Protect or Trojan Horse? The Crisis in Darfur and Humanitarian Intervention after Iraq
Alex J. Bellamy
What does the world’s engagement with the unfolding crisis in Darfur tell us about the impact of the Iraq war on the norm of humanitarian intervention? Is a global consensus about a “responsibility to protect” more or less likely? There are at least three potential answers to these questions. (Vol. 19.2, Summer 2005)
3. Justifications of the Iraq War Examined
Richard B. Miller
This paper critically assesses three claims on behalf of the Iraq war made by the Bush administration and by various defenders of the war. Then it steps back from the specifics of these three rationales to ask whether they are in fact of the same sort. (Vol. 22.1, Spring 2008)
4. Whither the Responsibility to Protect? Humanitarian Intervention and the 2005 World Summit
Alex J. Bellamy
This article examines how consensus was reached on the responsibility to protect, given continuing hostility to humanitarian intervention expressed by many (if not most) of the world’s states and whether the consensus will contribute to avoiding future Kosovos and Rwandas. (Vol. 20.2, Summer 2006)
5. The Legitimacy of Global Governance Institutions
Allen Buchanan, Robert O. Keohane
The authors articulate a global public standard for the normative legitimacy of global governance institutions. This standard can provide the basis for principled criticism of global governance institutions and guide reform efforts in circumstances in which people disagree deeply about the demands of global justice and the role that global governance institutions should play in meeting them. (Vol. 20.4, Winter 2006)
6. World Poverty and Human Rights
Thomas Pogge
Despite a high and growing global average income, billions of human beings are still condemned to lifelong severe poverty, with all its attendant evils of low life expectancy, social exclusion, ill health, illiteracy, dependency, and effective enslavement. This problem is solvable, in spite of its magnitude. (Vol. 19.1, Spring 2005)
7. Deliberation and Global Governance: Liberal, Cosmopolitan, and Critical Perspectives
William Smith, James Brassett
This paper develops a critical analysis of deliberative approaches to global governance. After first defining global governance and with a minimalist conception of deliberation in mind, the paper outlines three paradigmatic approaches: liberal, cosmopolitan, and critical. (Vol. 22.1, Spring 2008)
8. On the Morality of Immigration
Mathias Risse
This essay makes a plea for the relevance of moral considerations in debates about immigration. It offers a standpoint that demonstrates why one should think of immigration as a moral problem that must be considered in the context of global justice. (Vol. 22.1, Spring 2008)
9. Ecological Intervention: Prospects and Limits
Robyn Eckersley
This essay seeks to extend the already controversial debate about humanitarian intervention by exploring the morality, legality, and legitimacy of ecological intervention and its corollary, ecological defense. (Vol. 21.3, Fall 2007)
10. Uganda’s Civil War and the Politics of ICC Intervention
Adam Branch
The International Criminal Court’s intervention into the ongoing civil war in northern Uganda evoked a chorus of confident predictions as to its capacity to bring peace and justice to the war-torn region. However, this optimism is unwarranted. (Vol. 21.2, Summer 2007)
10 game-changing technologies
In Internet, Science, Technology on மே 14, 2009 at 3:50 பிபSource: Computerworld Opinion: 10 game-changing technologies
1. Sensor technology
Hewlett-Packard is developing an early prototype called CeNSE (Central Nervous System for the Earth), which uses microscopic sensors to communicate situational awareness about a city ecosystem. For example, a sensor on a bridge could report unusual vibrations back to a central command and first responders. Sensors in a home could report high levels of mercury, lead or pesticides.
2. Smarter Web
Some call it the Semantic Web. IBM Research has developed a Mozilla Firefox extension called CoScripter that is essentially a macro-recorder for the Web.
3. Network virtualization
Server virtualization is one of the most important game-changers of the past decade.
4. Fuzzy searches
As long as you know the right search term, it’s easy to find hundreds or even thousands of links on almost any given topic. Yahoo Correlator allows you to type in vague terms such as “English poet 1950s” and correlate information.
5. Social network integration
Open standards such as Y!OS and OpenSocial are paving the way for data sharing between services.
One combination that promises to be a game-changer — at least in terms of unifying social network and Web services — is the Palm Pre and the WebOS, which will make it easier to log in once for multiple services. I
6. Netbooks in the enterprise
7. Smart grid
The smart grid is coming — and local utility companies are racing to build it. Sensors located in HVAC and metering equipment connect to networks and can show consumers and companies how power is being used in real-time.
8. SSD RAID
Solid-state drives are already an attractive option in the PC market. In enterprise computing, a solid-state drive RAID array — made up of several linked SSD drives. SSD should be less expensive on an IOPS (Input/output operations per second, or IOPS, are a measurement of overall storage speed.) basis than Fibre Channel.
9. Speech-to-text and e-mail integration
you might have a personal cell phone, a desk phone, a home phone and a business smartphone. Google Voice is a phone-number aggregator that automatically dials whichever phone number you want. The free service’s most-impressive feature, though, is voice-mail transcription.
10. Open PC cases
BMW designed a case for the ThermalTake PC as a prototype called Level 10 and came up with an open architecture that makes it easy to swap components.
Culture of Cussing: Frequently Used Terms
In Books, Life, Lists, Magazines, USA on ஏப்ரல் 12, 2009 at 4:30 பிபTop 10 frequently used terms in most taboo-words:
- Fuck
- Shit
- Hell
- Damn
- Goddamn
- Jesus Christ
- Ass
- Oh My God
- Bitch
- Sucks
Thanks (pdf): Perspectives on Psychological Science – March Issue: Timothy Jay
All Humour is Caused by Just Eight Patterns
In Science on மார்ச் 23, 2009 at 6:33 பிபE-Book: The Eight Patterns Of Humour – pdf
- Positive repetition — Use of a catchphrase
- Qualification — Using a word in a strange way
- Application — Double meaning
- Scale — Tricks with size
- Qualitative recontextualization — When something changes
- Completion — The audience has to complete an idea
- Division — When a joke uses several tellers
- Opposition — Relates to irony and sarcasm
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