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Frontiers announces its first partnership with a leading Chinese University

Frontiers

Established in 1984, Zhejiang University Press covers a diverse spectrum of subjects in natural sciences, engineering and technology, the humanities and social sciences, medicine and life sciences. Frontiers is a very innovative publisher with an impressive state-of-the-art publishing platform.

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Fighting algorithmic bias in artificial intelligence

Physics World

In 2011, during her undergraduate degree at Georgia Institute of Technology, Ghanaian-US computer scientist Joy Buolamwini discovered that getting a robot to play a simple game of peek-a-boo with her was impossible – the machine was incapable of seeing her dark-skinned face. 16 e2004956 ).

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Women in electrochemistry put science first

Physics World

While more women are choosing to study science at undergraduate level, a recent analysis by Lokman Meho at the American University of Beirut revealed that worldwide only 30% of professors in science and technology are women, and that between 2016 and 2020 only 19% of the most prestigious research prizes were awarded to female scientists.

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1,198 New Stories In 2021 - REAL Environmental & Conservation Leadership In PA - Is Your Story Being Told?

PA Environment Daily

21 8:30 to 10:30 a.m. -- PG: Study: Great Allegheny Passage Trail Is ‘An Economic Highway’ That Generated $121 Million In 2019 -- PG Editorial: Great Allegheny Passage Bike Trail Leads To Economic Growth -- PG: Pittsburgh Regional Asset District Budget Invests $7.8

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Policy News: June 14, 2021

ESA

This bill creates a new technology directorate at the National Science Foundation and increases NSF’s overall authorized funding level to $29 billion by fiscal year (FY) 2026. 289 ), the Combating Sexual Harassment in Science Act and the Rural STEM Act. Executive Branch.

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