A new paper in Oxford Open Economics, published by Oxford University Press, indicates that, while digital financial services are often proposed as a vehicle to lower inequality, the cost and infrastructure barriers to accessing ...
Economics & Business
Mar 1, 2022
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The legal requirement to self-isolate when infected with the coronavirus will end in England on February 24, the UK prime minister has announced. It's been two long years since the start of the pandemic, and during that time, ...
Social Sciences
Feb 22, 2022
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CABI has today launched a new product—the Crop App Index—aimed at paving the way for a smoother route to existing agricultural decision support tools to help navigate issues related to plant health.
Biotechnology
Feb 15, 2022
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Researchers at The University of Manchester may have cleared a significant hurdle on the path to quantum computing, demonstrating step-change improvements in the spin transport characteristics of nanoscale graphene-based ...
Nanomaterials
Feb 11, 2022
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Smaller chips, faster computers, less energy consumption. Novel concepts based on semiconductor nanowires are expected to make transistors in microelectronic circuits better and more efficient. Electron mobility plays a key ...
Nanophysics
Feb 7, 2022
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Agriculture entrepreneurs are bringing the digital age to Pakistan's farmers, helping them plan crops better and distribute their produce when the time is right.
Agriculture
Jan 30, 2022
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Social networks are used more often in poor neighborhoods than in affluent neighborhoods, while the latter tend to consume more information from traditional online media. This is one of the conclusions of a scientific study ...
Social Sciences
Jan 20, 2022
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Students who are the first in their family to attend college tend to see it as a means to improve their personal lives and as an opportunity for social mobility. That contrasts with the main message students get from policymakers ...
Social Sciences
Jan 13, 2022
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Researchers from Paragraf and Queen Mary University of London demonstrated the successful fabrication of an Organic Light-Emitting Diode (OLED) with a monolayer graphene anode, replacing ITO in organic light-emitting diodes. ...
Nanomaterials
Jan 7, 2022
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3D holograms, previously seen only in science fiction movies, may soon make their way to consumer technology. Until now, 3D holograms based on phase shifting holography method could be captured using a large, specialized ...
Nanophysics
Jan 5, 2022
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