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• Study says Australian Aborigines came from Africa

  - 2007-05-08

  SYDNEY AFP — New DNA evidence shows that Australian Aborigines are descended from a wave of migrants who left Africa about 50,000 years ago, researchers at Cambridge University have found. The researchers said the findings reinforced the "Out of Africa" evolutionary theory, which holds that all modern humans are...

  Tags: Africa, Biotechnology, INTERNET, PRODUCTIVITY, researcher, theory, University of Cambridge

• Strategic Roadmapping: A Workshop-based Approach for Identifying and Exploring Strategic Issues and Opportunities

  - 2007-03-01

  Abstract: Roadmapping has become one of the most widely used approaches for supporting innovation and strategy, at both firm and sector levels. A key benefit is the communication associated with the development and dissemination of roadmaps, particularly for aligning technology and commercial perspectives. This article presents a workshop-based method for...

  Tags: Leadership, PRODUCTIVITY, Strategy, technology, University of Cambridge, workshop

• Energy: Holding Tight

  - 2007-01-29

  Nuclear power is enjoying a renaissance as a green alternative to coal, but what should be done with all the radioactive byproducts? One idea is to combine them with radiation-resistant ceramics and bury them underground until they're harmless--which would take about 240,000 years. Physicist Ian Farnan of Cambridge University has...

  Tags: HARDWARE, PRODUCTIVITY, renaissance, Scanners, technique, University of Cambridge

• Energy: Holding Tight.(Brief article)

  - 2007-01-29

  Byline: Rebecca Hall Nuclear power is enjoying a renaissance as a green alternative to coal, but what should be done with all the radioactive byproducts? One idea is to combine them with radiation-resistant ceramics and bury them underground until they're harmless--which would take...

  Tags: coal, HARDWARE, PRODUCTIVITY, renaissance, Scanners, technique, University of Cambridge

• A Geologic Time Scale 2004

  - 2006-12-01

  A Geologic Time Scale 2004 Edited by Felix M. Gradstein, James G. Ogg and Alan G. Smith Cambridge University Press 2005 ISBN-10 0 521 78673 8 Paperback US$70.00. 610 pages. Ebook format US$56.00. There are many elements of science that invoke wonderment: as...

  Tags: Canada, corollary, Earth, MARKETING, PRODUCTIVITY, University of Cambridge

• Management Of Novel Projects Under Conditions Of High Uncertainty

  BNET - 2006-10-19

  Most R&D projects are confronted with high levels of uncertainty. The management of these projects requires a different approach than the traditional network techniques would prescribe. The project management literature recognises this and offers a series of methods to master uncertainty, in order to extend the domain of application of...

  Tags: Technique, Uncertainty, University Of Cambridge, Project Management Literature, Productivity, Project Management, Strategy, Tools & Techniques, Financial Planning, Financial Services, Security, It Operations, It service Management, Management, Finance

• Mind-reading machines.(NEWS WATCH)(exhibition)(Brief article)

  - 2006-07-01

  Visitors to the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition are being invited to take part in research with 'emotionally aware' computers. Developed by scientists at the University of Cambridge, England, the computer program is connected to a camera, and locates and tracks 24 facial 'feature points' such...

  Tags: computer, England, PRODUCTIVITY, scientist, University of Cambridge

• Forests, Water and People in the Humid Tropics: Past, Present and Future Hydrological Research for Integrated Land and Water Management

  - 2006-04-01

  Forests, Water and People in the Humid Tropics: Past, Present and Future Hydrological Research for Integrated Land and Water Management. Edited by Michael Bonnell and Sampruno Bruijnzeel. International Hydrology Series. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xwii+925 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables. $300. When certain books are published there is a...

  Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Strategy, University of Cambridge

• Assessing The Significance Of Production: A Firm Perspective And Regional Implications

  BNET - 2005-06-27

  This paper focuses on the role of production operations within firms and regions. It is found that whilst there is increasing pressure for firms to offshore and outsource their activities, there is only a poor understanding of the longer-term implications of these movements in theory and practice. Definitions and conceptualisations...

  Tags: Implication, University Of Cambridge, Production, Outsourcing, Strategy, Productivity, Leadership, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Management

• Clendinnen, Inga: Dancing with Strangers: Europeans and Australians at First Contact.(Book Review)

  - 2005-06-22

  Clendinnen, Inga Dancing with Strangers: Europeans and Australians at First Contact Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 324 pp., $21.99, ISBN 0-521-61681-6 Publication Date: June 2005 Inga Clendinnen is an expert on sixteenth century Mexico and has written sensitively about the Holocaust. In this book she...

  Tags: Cambridge, encounter, PRODUCTIVITY, University of Cambridge