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• Don't call me birdbrained.

  - 2007-06-27

  Byline: Joanna Dally Jun 27, 2007 (New Scientist - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Research into the corvid family of birds, which includes crows, challenges the view that only great apes have complex social intelligence. Several of the 120-odd species of corvid have been known...

  Tags: crow, food, Manufacturing, species, University of Cambridge

• Food from Britain.(appointment of Lizzy Hawkins )(Brief article)

  - 2007-03-01

  FOOD FROM BRITAIN FFB -- T: 020 7233 5111--the market development consultancy for British food and drink companies, has boosted its communications team by appointing experienced public affairs manager Lizzy Hawkins to the role of Communications Executive. Cambridge University graduate Lizzy joins FFB from...

  Tags: beverage, Government, Manufacturing, University of Cambridge

• Australian history

  - 2007-03-01

  A History of New South Wales, by Beverley Kingston. Cambridge University Press, Melbourne 2006 [our copy from Cambridge University Press, Private Bag 31, Port Melbourne 3207]. 299 pp., ill., index. Pbk. Price: $A 36.95. Beverley Kingston is the author of several of books on Australian history, and she is...

  Tags: Australia, Manufacturing, Sydney, University of Cambridge

• Silent knight.(NEWS WATCH)(Massachusetts Institute of Technology and University of Cambridge's environmentally friendly passenger plane)(Brief article)

  - 2006-12-01

  MIT and Cambridge University researchers have unveiled the model for a silent, environmentally friendly passenger plane. This collaboration was launched three years ago "to develop a conceptual design for an aircraft whose noise was almost imperceptible outside the perimeter of an airfield in an urban environment."...

  Tags: aircraft, Manufacturing, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Cambridge

• New guidebook for international business.

  - 2006-09-06

  Sep 06, 2006 (Food Week - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Bernie Bishop and Justin Malbon are the authors of a new book aimed at Australian companies that want to get involved in exporting. "Australian Export: A Guide to Law and Practice" is published by Cambridge ...

  Tags: agent, food, Manufacturing, University of Cambridge

• A new history of Christian worship

  - 2006-06-22

  A Sociological History of Christian Worship. Martin D. Stringer. Cambridge University Press. [pounds sterling]40.00 (US$75.00). viii + 268 pages. ISBN 0-521-81955-5. This rather unusual book is by a social anthropologist who is Head of the Department of Theology and Religion in Birmingham University. Recognising the size of 'liturgy' as...

  Tags: Church, Manufacturing, SECURITY, University of Cambridge

• Why honeybees never forget a face.

  - 2005-12-13

  Dec 13, 2005 (New Scientist - ABIX via COMTEX) -- The honeybee's brain is the size of a pinhead. However, the insect can not only count but, as recent research shows,...

  Tags: Manufacturing, University of Cambridge, University of London

• Tide turns for UK trade.

  - 2005-06-30

  Jun 30, 2005 (The Age - ABIX via COMTEX) UK Trade & Investment has reported the number of Australian companies moving into the British market doubled to 42 in 2004. It was noted a substantial proportion of these investments were made by the Australian...

  Tags: FINANCE, Manufacturing, Tide, University of Cambridge

• Descent with modification: a great-grandson of Charles Darwin's opens new vistas into the voyage of the Beagle

  - 2005-04-01

  Born in 1919, Richard Darwin Keynes is one of Charles Darwin's twenty-five great-grandchildren and one of Darwin's hundred or so living descendants. His mother was Margaret Elizabeth Darwin, daughter of Darwin's son George, and his father was Geoffrey Langdon Keynes, a prominent surgeon and the brother of the economist John...

  Tags: Government, Keynes, Manufacturing, University of Cambridge

• On The Outsourcing Dynamics In The Electronics Sector

  BNET - 2005-04-01

  Outsourcing of manufacturing and distribution operations has a longstanding history as a means of minimizing operational risk in a dynamic marketplace is a well-established strategy. In particular in fast-clockspeed industries such as electronics, we have observed how responsibility for manufacturing and distribution operations has increasingly been handed to third parties,...

  Tags: University Of Cambridge, Electronics, Product Development, Manufacturing, Outsourcing, Product Marketing, Supply Chain, Strategy, Research & Development, Business Operations, It Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Marketing, Management