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Cass Business School to track performance of private equity backed IPOs on London market
AlphaGalileo 09/11/2007Mario Levis, Cass Professor of Finance, is collaborating with the London Stock Exchange and the British Venture Capital Association (BVCA) to research the success of private equity backed Initial Public Offerings (IPOs) when they float on t...
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Around the world in 80 minutes?
EUROPA 09/11/2007The European Union is helping to make faster air travel a real possibility for the future by funding LAPCAT II, the second stage of the European Space Agency?s studies into a hypersonic, suborbital civil means of transport capable of flying...
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President Bush meets Italian ESA astronaut Nespoli.
AlphaGalileo 09/11/2007Tonight's ESA TV relay includes footage today's spacewalk and also of astronaut Paolo Nespoli at the greeting ceremony for the STS-120 crew in Houston. ...
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How Global Is the Global Biodiversity Information Facility?
AlphaGalileo 09/11/2007A study, funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), and conducted by biologists at the University of Reading and computer scientists at the University of Cardiff, has revealed large gaps in data available ...
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Nature Study:Scientists discover biological mechanism for enhanced carbon consumption in the ocean
AlphaGalileo 09/11/2007Microscopically tiny marine organisms known as plankton increase their carbon uptake in response to increased concentrations of dissolved CO2 and thereby contribute to a dampening of the greenhouse effect on a global scale. An international...
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India strengthens cancer links with Northern Ireland
AlphaGalileo 09/11/2007An international research partnership to develop new ways to understand and treat cancer has been established between India and Northern Ireland. The agreement was signed between Queen's and the Ministry of Biotechnology, Government of Indi...
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The BioSapiens project: Unravelling the secrets of the human genome
CORDIS 08/11/2007When the human genome was sequenced in 2003, it was rightly hailed as a major breakthrough. However, for many scientists, obtaining the three billion letter sequence of our DNA was just the first step of a much greater challenge, namely &#...
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ERA§NET proposes Regional Programme for Cooperation with South§East Europe
CORDIS 08/11/2007The SEE§ERA§NET has published a raft of recommendations aimed at bringing the scientific community in the Western Balkans closer to that of the EU. Proposals include the establishment of a Regional Programme for Cooperation with ...
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New service to improve ice monitoring in Europe
CORDIS 08/11/2007The Danish Meteorological Institute, the Finnish Institute of Marine Research and the Norwegian Meteorological Institute (met.no) are to join forces in order to improve operational ice monitoring and forecasting in the Arctic Ocean and the ...
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Rib and tooth x§rays to make age estimates more reliable
CORDIS 08/11/2007Researchers at the University of Granada (UGR) have developed a new system to determine the age of living subjects using chest and dental x§rays. The new technique could help to judge the age of immigrant minors more reliably. In curr...
