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They promised to help families separated by the Demilitarized Zone for half-a-century meet and to promote exchanges in various fields including economic cooperation.
Aid to agriculture, a declining sector, consumes over 40% of spending and little is spent on the future (R&D) or on fields in which the EU must assume new responsibilities, such as internal and external security.
Harnessing this technology to expand financial inclusion would be economically empowering, particularly for smallholder farmers and merchants in rural communities, who could use their mobile phones to access market-price data, transfer cash, make retail purchases, deposit income, and pay bills – all while tending their fields or shops.
In one of the newest IT fields, cloud computing, where US firms are pioneers, firms and entrepreneurs in many countries are exploring the creation of non-US alternatives.
In the “hard” sciences, such as mathematics and physics, the truth can be established more transparently, making these fields less prone to scientific misconduct.
And the “Internet of things” will rationalize production processes by detecting potential failures early, boost crop yields by measuring the moisture of fields, and dramatically reduce the cost of remotely monitoring patients’ health.
Cancer epidemiologist Geoffrey Kabat identifies several factors, including “the success of the environmental movement; a deep-seated distrust of industry; the public’s insatiable appetite for stories related to health, which the media duly cater to; and – not least – the striking expansion of the fields of epidemiology and environmental health sciences and their burgeoning literature.”
Cohen and Zysman argued that manufactures were related to services like “the crop duster to the cotton fields, the ketchup maker to the tomato patch,” and that if you “[o]ffshore the tomato farm…you close or offshore the ketchup plant….No two ways about it.”
But this is precisely what France and Germany now refrain from doing in many fields of European integration.
The new method spread: chickens disappeared from fields into long, windowless sheds.
Seeing Through Cultural Bias in ScienceMost people now accept that fields like politics and journalism reflect and perpetuate cultural bias.
This is more or less true for some fields - say, chemistry or physics.
Each year, Chinese universities award more PhD’s in science and engineering than US institutions do – and more than twice as many undergraduate degrees in these fields.
Muslims are facing a new racism, and they have to strive for their rights, but they should do so alongside their fellow citizens and in many fields: domestic and foreign politics, education, media, and social activism.
The strategy includes increasing global talent mobility through expanded US visa programs in so-called STEM fields (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics); broadening access to computer science at the secondary-education level; and increasing STEM teacher training and degree programs to equip future generations to meet the needs of a changing labor market.
Are we focusing enough on STEM fields in our education systems, and, if not, how can we strengthen those disciplines?
Few leaders have ever developed management muscle in completely new fields while assembling teams combining previously unknown types of talent.
After oil was discovered in the 1920s, Britain assumed control over the new oil fields, using military force as needed.
Faced with the possibility of invasion and defeat, Saddam threatened to burn Iraq's oil fields.
As the US planned its invasion, securing the oil fields became a critical priority.
Any increase in Iraqi oil production requires developing the oil fields, which means big investments, a legal and representative government, and political stability.
It also needs time to negotiate with the international oil companies and neighboring countries, to perform technical and feasibility studies, and to reconstruct, rehabilitate, and explore its oil fields.
Cyprus is a crucial staging post for American security operations in the eastern Mediterranean, and the gas fields off the Cypriot coast might be developed as an energy source that would – at least after 2017 – reduce European dependence on Russian supplies.
“How nice it would be to conduct our affairs in this august House with the same spirit of sportsmanship that our cricketers exhibit on the playing fields of the sub-continent,” he said.
Furthermore, output from Russia’s existing oil fields is projected to decline by as much as half over the next decade; as it does, access to the technologies needed to exploit harder-to-extract reserves will become increasingly important.
Hawkins’ alternative model of how the brain works has important implications for many fields, including the one that I spend most of my time thinking about: economic-development strategy.
MELBOURNE – After a century that saw two world wars, the Nazi Holocaust, Stalin’s Gulag, the killing fields of Cambodia, and more recent atrocities in Rwanda and now Darfur, the belief that we are progressing morally has become difficult to defend.
But there are many fields where economists’ knowledge is highly imprecise and comes with significant provisos, which may not be fully understood.
Indeed, is allocating huge sums of public money even the right way to stimulate the emergence of smart cities?Government certainly has an important role to play in supporting academic research and promoting applications in fields that might be less appealing to venture capital – unglamorous but crucial domains, such as municipal waste or water services.
Major changes – from grade schools to technology companies – are needed to build gender parity into science-related fields.
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