Socrates Almanac

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Authors: John W. A. Netting

My initial proposition is that, in its current form, higher education through the ‘university structure’ is no longer fit for purpose. The author H.G. Wells commented, ‘We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organisation, education, graduation, for a century – in fact, for several centuries.’ Eighty years on from H.G. Wells comment, the situation remains largely the same; in fact, in recent years we have probably, whilst retaining a largely fifteenth century administrative structure within our universities, exacerbated the increasingly uncomfortable life within universities by subjecting them to unmitigated new stresses. I will come to some of those stresses later in the lecture.

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Authors: Krishnamurthy Venkateswaran

Krishnamurthy Venkateswaran. Sanitas hospitals. Limited innovation and investment projects

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Authors: Rui Verde

World – 2030: scientific progress or turbulence and cataclysms? The path to Mars

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Authors: Rami Al-Hadeethi

AL-Rasikh

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Authors: Duraid Aziz. Mohsin Haider Darwish

Duraid Aziz. Mohsin Haider Darwish

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Authors: Argyri Vagiona

Argyri Vagiona. Anagennisi SA

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Authors: Syrma Theodora

MUNICIPALITY OF ALIMOS

39

Authors: Felix Sally

USC WORLDWIDE GROUP PRESENTATION HIGH VALUE SERVICES AND KEY INVESTMENTS CULTIVATING

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Authors: Fadi F. Bitar

Fadi F. Bitar. The Children’s Heart Centre at the American University of Beirut Medical Centre

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Authors: Alexandra den Heijer

At the beginning of the 21st century many thought that bricks would be replaced by clicks on campus. However, the universities’ estate managers had a different story to tell. Indeed, there were more clicks to facilitate, but not to replace the bricks. The virtual campus would emerge, but the traditional campus would stay. And they were right: today, students stand in line to get a silent library study place and unions plead for the rediscovery of a 9-to- 5 working day to protect knowledge workers from burn-outs and unhealthy work-life balances.

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Authors: Shijie Yu

Education develops with social progress. Since the dawn of man, there has been education. The level of productivity has had a decisive impact on the development of education. At the same time, politics and culture are also important influence factors. At the end of primitive society, the level of productivity increased, social classes formed, and culture and writing developed. Thus it was that schools began to appear. With developments in productivity and the political cultural environment, our education has gone from oral tradition to the age of scribes, and from the printing era to the digital age.

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Authors: Lt Col G.R. Jahangir

Chetona Model Academy (CMA) is an English version school and college from play group to intermediate level that started its journey in 2005 with the purpose of spreading standard global education from play group to intermediate levels. CMA has been keeping the flag flying with its visionary aims and objectives.

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Authors: Alla Kulikova

Today, the main task of the people survival is to determine energy resources of the man, their situation and quality, the life power reserve, according to the age and other factors, which ensure the normal creative life. This task lies on our shoulders, too: we are responsible for the mankind health. The medicine passes through its stages of development: from the ancient human knowledge of the nature and the world to the modern

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Authors: Boris Bleskin, Konstantin Ivanov, Ekaterina Churakova, Oleg Mashkov, Nikolay Trushkin, Yuriy Hlestkov, Dmitriy Verbov

Nowadays increase of power hunger on Earth is observed. It is expected that in 2050 the population of Earth will be up to 9.5 billion, the need for electric power will double, and sources of hydrocarbons will cease to satisfy it. The modern power was created and is developing without understanding of the fact that our Earth is a living being, allocated with reason, a growing being (for the last 3 billion years the mass of Earth increased by 56%) sensitively reacting to what occurs on its surface and the space surrounding it now (as the living being our planet was considered by V.I. Vernadsky, A.L. Chizhevsky, V.N. Yagodinsky). Power sources, which are now in use, have a destructive influence upon Earth. The Earth became the slave to ruthless exploitation of people and shows “Spartacus’s effect” – maintains the increasing resistance to people in the ways inherent in it: natural, technogenic, social, and epidemic disasters.

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Authors: Julia Merkulova

Use of the digital technologies is new and very productive approach for balance of supply and demand. It is very important and significant for increase of competitiveness of products. Various types of digital models were developed as a result of scientific research, they found reflection in article. Digital models for the description of the list of the sequences of steps and operations of various stages and process in general allow installing system of interrelations between operations and steps and reaching necessary logic, increasing of effectiveness of any process. Object-relational models for establishment of communications between data of various blocks of databases and functional models of the choice of strategy of data balance form analytical base for justification of the choice of the direction of transformation of data. Models of a combination of a plurality of various data of the offer of products in the form of matrixes of multi-purpose optimization have double effect, because they allow not only developing various options of data combination, taking into account opportunities of change of location of products over the markets and temporary phases, but also estimating aggregate useful effect from products. These models together with models of comparison of various options and the choice of optimal solutions allow generating compatible strategic and current programs of the offer of products as a plurality of the output data balanced with each other and with data of demand. It is providing the best synergetic result. The developed methodology of creation of system of the interconnected digital models for transformation of data and generation of the output data of the situational-strategic program of the offer of products is a cornerstone of formation of new digital economy – of data economy.

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Authors: Boris Bleskin, Konstantin Ivanov

Since 1921 the method of replacement insulin therapy, offered by F. Banting, a Nobel Prize laureate, and Ch. Best, remains the main remedy for diabetes of type 1. Since the beginning of eighties of the XX century the search of new ways of treatment has been conducted: 1. Creation of an artificial endocrine pancreas 2. Transplantation of a donor pancreas 3. Transplantation of cultures of the insulin-producing beta cells allocated in the special way from a pancreas of the donor. Problem of treatment of diabetes of type I by endocrinologists wasn’t set and will not be set.