Science And Technology

An Open Platform for Traceability: Accelerating Transparency and Sustainability across Manufacturing Ecosystems

While the manufacturing and production sectors comprise 16% of global GDP and are key drivers for economies around the world,1 the complex network of supply chains on which these sectors rely presents enormous economic, social and environmental risks that must be collaboratively addressed.

Publication Date: 
01/01/2020
World Economic Forum
Tags:
Information, Global, GDP, Economy
Climate Change

2019 state of climate services

The report provides case studies, examples and explanations as to the role of climate information and services to support agriculture in the face of climate variability and change, assesses gaps and makes recommendations.

Publication Date: 
01/12/2019
WMO
Tags:
Climate Change, Information, Agriculture, India, Global
Climate Change

Creating useful and usable weather and climate information: insights from Participatory Scenario Planning in Malawi

For weather and climate information to be used at the grassroots level, it needs to be effectively interpreted and communicated so that it is both useful and usable to decision-makers, farmers and local-level planners. However, to date this information has not always met these requirements.

Publication Date: 
09/09/2019
Dorothy Tembo-Nhlema, Katharine Vincent, Rebecka Henriksson Malinga
Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment
Tags:
Climate, Climate Change, Information, Malawi, Africa
Natural Disasters

Design and implementation of a mobile device APP for network-based EEW systems: application to PRESTo EEWS in Southern Italy

A fundamental feature of any Earthquake Early Warning System is the ability of rapidly broadcast earthquake information to a wide audience of potential end users and stakeholders, in an intuitive, customizable way. Smartphones and other mobile devices are nowadays continuously connected to the internet and represent

Publication Date: 
27/08/2019
Simona Colombelli, Francesco Carotenuto, Luca Elia & et al
Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences
1-19
Tags:
Earthquakes, Italy, Geology, Disaster Preparedness, Mobile Phone, Natural Disasters, Information
Health

Order of the Supreme Court regarding policy on telemedicine in Odisha, 15/07/2019

Order of the Supreme Court of India in the matter of State of Odisha Vs Orissa Trust of Technical Education & Others dated 15/07/2019 regarding policy on telemedicine in the state of Odisha. State of Odisha question the correctness of the interim orders passed by the High Court in a Writ Petition filed by the Orissa Trust of Technical Education seeking to challenge the steps which were initiated by the State Government to formulate and implement a holistic policy for ‘telemedicine’ within the State.

Judgement Date: 
15/07/2019
Tags:
Health Care, Information, Supreme Court, Technology, Odisha, Health Policy
Health

Tuberculosis and social networks: a narrative review on how social network data and metrics help explain tuberculosis transmission

Social network data of tuberculosis (TB) patients could explain the source and pattern of disease spread. A review of the published literature highlights that social network data could identify hidden social or epidemiological links among TB patients and improved TB case finding.

Publication Date: 
10/04/2019
Karikalan Nagarajan, Bagavan Das
Current Science
116
7
1068-1080
Tags:
Tuberculosis, Information, United States Of America (US), Canada, Europe, Australia, Japan, Africa, Epidemiological Studies, India, China, Drugs, Health Care, Infectious Diseases
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Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding monitoring mechanism for compliance of conditions of environment clearance, 14/03/2019

Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Sandeep Mittal Vs Ministry of Environment, Forests & Climate Change & Others dated 14/03/2019. The issue for consideration is the monitoring mechanism for compliance of conditions of environment clearance evolved by the Ministry of Environment Forests and Climate Change (MoEF&CC). The Tribunal had directed MoEF&CC to furnish data in respect of mechanism to periodically monitor the compliance of environmental clearance conditions.

Judgement Date: 
14/03/2019
Tags:
Environment Clearance (EC), Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF), Information, National Green Tribunal (NGT), Court
Health

Metacognitive failure as a feature of those holding radical beliefs

Widening polarization about political, religious, and scientific issues threatens open societies, leading to entrenchment of beliefs, reduced mutual understanding, and a pervasive negativity surrounding the very idea of consensus.

Publication Date: 
17/12/2018
Max Rollwage, Raymond J. Dolan, Stephen M. Fleming
Current Biology
28
4014–4021
Tags:
Mental Health, Politics, Information, Research
Air Pollution

Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding mitigation of air pollution caused on account of crop burning, 15/11/2018

Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Ganga Lalwani Vs Union of India & Others With News item published in “Indian Express” Authored by Mallica Joshi Titled “All fiddle as crop stubble burns, farmers say solutions out of reach” dated 15/11/2018 regarding mitigation of air pollution caused on account of crop burning in the States of Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh.

Judgement Date: 
15/11/2018
Tags:
Air Pollution, Biomass Burning, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, National Green Tribunal (NGT), Court, Delhi, Crop Residues, Farmers, Media, Information, Ministry Of Agriculture
Health

Education can reduce health differences related to genetic risk of obesity

Educational policies may increase or decrease health differences, depending on whether they reinforce or counteract gene-related differences. We investigate whether one such policy affected health differently for people with different genetic backgrounds. We find that the additional education generated by the policy benefited those with higher genetic risk of obesity the most, reducing the gap in unhealthy body size between those in the top and bottom terciles of genetic risk of obesity from 20 to 6 percentage points.

Publication Date: 
02/10/2018
Silvia H. Barcellos, Leandro S. Carvalho, Patrick Turley
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
1-8
Tags:
Obesity, Education, Information, Research, United Kingdom (UK)

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