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Breakthrough to Circular and Emission-Free Building - Technology Org

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Breakthrough to Circular and Emission-Free Building - Technology Org

The building industry faces enormous challenges. By 2050, the built environment must not only be emission-free, but also circular.

Within the NWA programme titled ‘Transition to a circular and emission-free building industry’, UT is contributing to research to facilitate the transition required to meet these challenges. UT researcher Marc van den Berg (Faculty of Engineering Technology) and colleagues are focusing on the digital aspects of supporting material reuse and recycling processes as part of this research.

Building ��� illustrative photo. Image credit: Pixabay (Free Pixabay license)

Renovation projects are complex challenges characterised by intensive decision-making and organisational activities. Such projects connect a variety of otherwise fragmented disciplines, including designers, builders and demolition companies.

Crucial for fostering more circular renovation practices with lower emissions is the availability of information on reusable materials and design strategies which factor in the preservation of existing value.

Collaborative, Digitised and Integral Processes to Achieve Circular and Emission-Free Renovation (PACER)

The PACER (Collaborative, Digitised and Integral Processes to Achieve Circular and Emission-Free Renovation) project, in which UT is represented, aims to provide collaborative, digitised, integral processes, tools, and legal and economic frameworks to achieve circular and emission-free renovation practices.

Dutch Research Agenda (NWA)

This programme of the Dutch Research Agenda (NWA) focuses on existing buildings and invites interdisciplinary consortia to investigate how buildings can be renovated in a circular and emission-free manner by studying a concrete case at the street or neighbourhood level. Societal and technical perspectives of circular and emission-free construction are jointly included.

Transition of the construction sector

The aim of the thematic NWA programme titled ‘Transition to a circular and emission-free building industry’ is to achieve breakthroughs and develop action perspectives that contribute to the transition of the building industry, primarily in relation to renovation projects. The NWA programme is organised in association with the Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations, NWO and the Taskforce for Applied Research SIA.

Within the NWA programme, two broad multidisciplinary consortia will spend the next five years carrying out research to advance the transition to circular and emission-free building, with significant involvement of professional experts in the sector. The total funding awarded under the programme is approximately €2,865,000.

Read also the press release accompanying Marc van den Berg’s PhD research titled: ‘UT provides tools for circular demolition and design of buildings (utwente.nl)’

Source: University of Twente

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Boston Institute of Analytics: A Top Destination for Artificial Intelligence Courses in Dubai

In today’s rapidly evolving technological landscape, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is no longer just a buzzword — it's a necessity. From smart city infrastructure and healthcare diagnostics to self-driving vehicles and predictive analytics, AI is transforming every industry. And as AI adoption skyrockets in the UAE and globally, the demand for professionals skilled in AI and Machine Learning is growing faster than ever.

Dubai, a global leader in innovation and digital transformation, is quickly becoming one of the most sought-after destinations for tech education. Among the top institutions offering AI training, the Boston Institute of Analytics (BIA) stands out as a premier choice for students and professionals seeking an Artificial Intelligence course in Dubai.

In this article, we’ll explore why BIA is considered one of the top destinations for AI education in Dubai, what makes their courses unique, and how enrolling at BIA can accelerate your career in artificial intelligence.

Why Choose an Artificial Intelligence Course in Dubai?

Before diving into why the Boston Institute of Analytics is a top choice, let’s understand why Dubai is the perfect city to study AI:

Global Tech Hub

Dubai is home to Dubai Future Foundation, Smart Dubai, and many government-led AI initiatives. The city’s focus on becoming a leader in AI and emerging tech has created a thriving ecosystem of innovation.

Career Opportunities

The UAE government’s National Strategy for Artificial Intelligence 2031 aims to make the UAE a global AI leader. This means a massive increase in job opportunities for AI professionals in sectors like finance, healthcare, logistics, aviation, and energy.

International Environment

With professionals and students from all over the world, studying in Dubai offers a multicultural learning environment ideal for global networking.

Why Boston Institute of Analytics?

The Boston Institute of Analytics (BIA) is a globally recognized education provider with a mission to empower the next generation of AI and data science professionals. With training centers across the world and strong industry partnerships, BIA delivers future-focused programs that blend academic depth with practical application.

Here’s what makes BIA one of the top destinations for Artificial Intelligence courses in Dubai:

1. Industry-Aligned Curriculum

BIA’s Artificial Intelligence course is meticulously designed by experts from top companies like Google, IBM, Amazon, and McKinsey. The curriculum is regularly updated to reflect the latest industry trends and real-world applications.

Core Topics Covered:

Python for AI

Machine Learning Algorithms

Deep Learning with TensorFlow and Keras

Computer Vision

Natural Language Processing (NLP)

Model Deployment & MLOps

AI Ethics & Bias Mitigation

Whether you're a beginner or looking to upgrade your skills, BIA’s modular learning approach ensures you gain both foundational knowledge and advanced expertise.

2. Hands-On Learning with Real-World Projects

BIA’s AI course emphasizes practical experience, not just theory. Students work on live projects, case studies, and industry datasets to build models, solve problems, and deploy solutions.

Examples of Real-World Projects:

AI-powered fraud detection for banks

NLP-based chatbot development

Image classification for healthcare diagnostics

Predictive analytics for retail and e-commerce

This hands-on exposure ensures students graduate with a portfolio that impresses employers.

3. Expert Faculty and Mentors

At BIA, you're not just learning from academics — you're learning from AI practitioners, data scientists, and industry leaders. Many instructors hold PhDs or have worked with global organizations, bringing deep insights and mentorship to the classroom.

Live sessions, workshops, and 1:1 mentoring opportunities allow students to receive personalized guidance and career advice.

4. Global Certification

Upon successful completion of the course, students receive an internationally recognized certificate from the Boston Institute of Analytics. This certification validates your AI proficiency and is respected by employers across the globe, giving you a competitive edge in the job market.

5. Flexible Learning Options in Dubai

Whether you're a full-time student or a working professional, BIA offers flexible formats to accommodate your schedule:

Weekend Batches for working professionals

Weekday Sessions for full-time students

Hybrid Learning (online + classroom) for maximum convenience

Located in central Dubai, BIA’s campus is accessible, modern, and designed to promote collaboration and innovation.

6. Strong Placement Support

BIA goes beyond education. Their career support services ensure that every learner is job-ready. Services include:

Resume and LinkedIn optimization

Mock interviews and technical assessments

Internship assistance

Job referrals and placement drives

Networking opportunities with hiring managers and alumni

Graduates have been placed in top companies like IBM, Deloitte, PwC, Emirates, Etisalat, and tech startups across the UAE and beyond.

7. Affordable Investment in a Future-Proof Career

Compared to courses in the UK, US, or even central Dubai, BIA offers high-quality AI education at a much more accessible price. Payment plans and EMI options make it even more manageable for students and working professionals.

Given the earning potential of AI professionals, this is a high-ROI investment in your future.

Who Should Enroll?

BIA’s AI course in Dubai is ideal for:

Fresh Graduates looking to enter the AI/ML field

Software Developers and Engineers upskilling into AI roles

Business Analysts or Data Analysts wanting to transition into data science

Managers and Entrepreneurs aiming to build AI-enabled products

Career Switchers from non-tech backgrounds (BIA offers foundational modules too!)

Final Thoughts

If you're serious about building a successful career in AI, choosing the right institute is key. The Boston Institute of Analytics in Dubai offers an ideal blend of:

Cutting-edge curriculum

Hands-on training

Global certification

Expert mentorship

Job-focused outcomes

Whether you're starting from scratch or looking to take your AI expertise to the next level, BIA equips you with the skills, tools, and confidence to succeed in one of the most in-demand tech careers of the future.

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Webs

I have started committing fully to the process of, while I am reading a book or into a topic, creating a web of each element that interests me via Clip Studio.

This formed, like many academic practices, as a solution to a problem. I wanted to see which ideas/people/events were linked to each other, and by making the connection, what new ideas emerged. Sort of like doing chemistry in the dark, I would grab two elements on different sides of the spider diagram, and ask the question ‘how are these connected?’.

Sometimes, there is none, or at least none that do not make me come across as someone rambling to themselves on the bus. Though, when there are, its impossible to un-see the connections.

Originally, this process was done with mostly my (digital) notes, with some multimodal elements such as screenshots.

What stopped me from embracing this type of learning method in the past was 2 primary concerns.

Searchability: with this type of web, there is no ‘ctrl + f’ to quickly find specific words or themes, meaning that for a quick reference it does not do as well as a word document. Though, I have come to learn that this is its strength. By looking at the web, and following its connections, new ideas are continuously forming with each inspection. In a way, it is a living document.

Finite Space: since these files exist as images, there is a limit to how large they can become. This is due to: the time it takes to save an image causing potential corruptions/crashes, what file types it can be saved as becomes reduced as the file size increases, space between connections becomes too compact. Etc.

There are solutions to the finite space problem, such as using an alternative software that is built for spider diagrams, but that always tends to result in some form of freedom-restriction, e.g. dealing with its method of classing/hierarchy, not having certain mediums allowed.

Also, from an authorship standpoint, using these systems felt less me. Less personal. I want to be able to doodle, be silly, or include images of people and concepts on tangentially related without the entire system feeling off.

Then, something happened to me which had not happened before. I realised, that a lot of my works, from lots of separate university modules and projects, had two shared elements — the theme of chance, and the medium of film. As such, I decided to write a PhD proposal looking into a merging or these 2 domains.

With this, I had to write a 6000 word piece in a short time, so I did not have as much time to prep and make a new web like I normally would. So, I instead looked at all of my previous webs I had made in the past. To my surprise, I was making connections between different webs, and a new meta-web formed. This, in effect, pulled the bandage off of worrying about sticking to one shared web with everything.

...

When reading around ‘chance’, I had stumbled upon the nouveau réalisme movement. It sounded interesting, so I did something relatively new to me, and I just started a new document looking into the same topic of ‘chance’, but from a different place. Rather than writing out my ideas first, I copied and pasted multiple Wikipedia articles.

When I read about an artistic work that sounded interesting, I would look it up and paste it in for extended context. Same with locations, publications, etc. It moved more away from word connections, to a type of Dada collage of things.

...

Now, when it comes to reading a book, I do the same thing as the Wikipedia articles.

Read the work

Create Physical Note

Insert both ‘the book’ and ‘the physical note’ into digital web.

Make connections between concepts within web.

Create digital notes around the nature of the connections, as well as include other image elements where appropriate.

...

I’m sure this process will evolve further in the future, but I am having a lot of fun with it.

I hope this maybe gave you some ideas of how to manage theme connections. Let me know if you have any thoughts regarding this!

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The Interlace Project - What is it and meet the volunteers

On the 15th of February this year I sat in on a workshop held at the Museum and Art Gallery as part of the Interlace Project. With the buzz of Pangolin Day happening in the World Collections gallery, I got to see a small group of museum volunteers getting to grips with the weaving work they were undertaking as part of the project, which will eventually form an art installation to go into the new Museum of Making. This was being led by artist Toni Buckby and museum volunteer Ruth Winterbottom. Scroll further down to find out more about the wonderful volunteers involved.

More recently I had the pleasure of talking again with Toni, and asked her some more in-depth questions about Interlace.

Please introduce yourself.

“My name is Toni Buckby and I'm an artist and PhD researcher based in Sheffield. My work spans the seemingly diverse but oddly related fields of textiles, electronics and computer art. I specialise in hand embroidery, with a particular focus on the 16th Century technique of blackwork, and the creation of experimental interactive electronics. I also spin, weave, draw, code, laser cut, 3D print... I spend most of my time attempting to get impractical ideas to function! I love to collaborate, so I often work with other artists on projects, as well as running public workshops and making a lot of my work available online for others to use. I see a parallel between the making of textiles and the making of digital work – both are logical processes of building complex structures through simple components. There is certainly a conceptual similarity, but I also create hybrid works, like embedding electronics into fabric or creating computer simulations based on textile techniques. I’m quite playful in my approach to my work – I take great delight in mashing (often disparate) materials and ideas together to see what happens - it’s why I like to collaborate so much. There's joy in the attempt to get something working (or not!).”

Image: Toni introducing museum volunteers to the bare cocoon bodies they will be weaving onto

Image: The wooden structures are modelled on silk moth cocoons, these being intrinsic to the silk weaving that took place at the Museum of Making site during the 18th Century. ©Toni Buckby

What is the Interlace Project?

“The Interlace Project began in 2017, when I was invited by Derby Museums to design and produce simple weaving looms that could be manufactured in the maker space at The Silk Mill. All the loom designs and instructions for how to use them were made available for free online (click here), and I've also run many public workshops in the basics of weaving using the looms. Inspired by the building's history as a silk spinning mill, I have now designed a large interactive textile sculpture, which is being made in collaboration with museum volunteers. The sculpture consists of nine woven silk moth cocoon shapes that have fibre optic light strands running through them; all being made by museum volunteer Ruth Winterbottom and her team of amazingly skilled volunteer weavers. The pattern of the lights will be programmed by visitors using punch cards (similar to the ones that were used to create weaving patterns on Jacquard looms in the 19th Century), and the colours will be controlled by touching small woven panels, a mixture of different fibres plus rows of conductive metal thread, that have been made by over 100 volunteers during several group workshops.”

Image: An early cardboard mock-up gives an indication of what the installation will look like. ©Toni Buckby

Image: An example of the fabric and metal touch panels that will form the interactive controls for the installation. ©Toni Buckby

What drew you towards wanting to work with Derby Museums and the Museum of Making?

“Two of my key interests as an artist are showing and sharing the processes of making. I love the fact that Derby’s Museum of Making will celebrate manufacturing processes as well as getting people involved through its events, workshops, volunteer programme and maker space. I've met so many brilliant, enthusiastic people over the course of developing The Interlace Project and it's been a real pleasure working with an organisation that has such similar interests.”

Are there any thoughts or feelings you would like Interlace to provoke?

“I think, firstly, I hope visitors to the museum will be delighted by the piece - it's very playful! Secondly, I hope that people will take the time to appreciate the effort and skill of the volunteers who have made the work. I've been genuinely blown away by the quality and creativity of all those who have contributed so far - both the experienced weavers and those who had never woven before getting involved in the project. Everyone should be immensely proud of their work!”

Image: One of the cocoons approaching completion, fibre-optic and organic threads interspersed

Image: An example cocoon with the fibres illuminated. ©Toni Buckby

How will people be able to get involved with the project?

“Visitors to the museum will be able to interact with the sculptural installation by programming the light patterns and colours. Additionally, the online resources (designs and instructions) are available on the projects Instructables site, if people would like to have a go at weaving themselves. Finally, as the interactive woven panels are going to need to be replaced every few months, we are also (hopefully) going to have more workshops in future where people can have a go at weaving their own panel, which will then become (temporally) part of the installation”.

It will be very exciting to see this artwork in action when it takes its place in the Museum of Making, and to see how it will very physically link the first use of Derby’s Silk Mill as a factory with it’s new iteration as the Museum of Making, showcasing our regions industrial heritage and innovative future.

Check back for more posts from Oliver!

Interlace Volunteer Responses

We asked some of our wonderful volunteers about their experience on the Interlace project and here’s what they had to say.

Ruth

We asked Ruth why she decided to start volunteering with Derby Museums: 

‘I enjoy art, heritage and involvement with people and always relished my visits to the Museum.  When we moved into an apartment next to the Silk Mill, it was a no-brainer!’

What about Ruth’s involvement on the Interlace project?:

‘I’ve been working with Toni Buckby to help realise, with a team of local skilled craftspeople, her vision for a textile installation in the new Museum of Making. Toni references the silk cocoon and weaving in her computer-controlled light display.’

Ruth shared what she has got from being involved in the Interlace project:

‘It has been a pleasure and rare privilege to be part of such a professional textile project!  I’ve revisited old skills, learned new ones and interacted with lovely people, not least Toni herself.  She is a wonderful artist and generous person. It’s humbling to be part of the start of a new Museum’s journey.’

Barbara

Barbara responded to a Derby Museums call out asking for volunteers for a weaving project; she said:

‘Weaving sounded right up my street! I love designing and making things particularly with textiles of all types.’

Just before the lockdown Barbara was able to take home a piece of the project to work on:

‘It took many hours of peaceful meditative activity which was marvellous occupation in the circumstances that was very good for me; also providing a topic of conversation with friends and family that was positive and different from the constant Covid coverage and shared anxious feelings of being separated from much loved and familiar people and activities’.

Hazel

Hazel met volunteer project coordinator Ruth at a Derbyshire Guild of Weavers, Spinners & Dyers meeting where Ruth presented Toni Buckby’s concept:

‘I jumped at the chance [to be involved] - what a great idea and to be part of the museum redevelopment.’

Hazel has been weaving one of the cocoons:

‘This was something new for me and a bit of a challenge, but after over 60 hours of weaving I’m really pleased with the results [and have got] a huge sense of satisfaction from the weaving process and immense pride in what I’ve achieved. I can’t wait to see it installed.’

Sandra

Sandra joined as a volunteer through the Derbyshire Guild of Weavers, Spinners and Dyers and has woven one of the cocoons:

‘As the silk mill was an important, past Derby industry I felt it was relevant, as a member of The Derbyshire Guild, to represent the group by using my weaving skills on a piece of the installation. It has been a great opportunity to work on a creative form using materials, especially the lighting, which I wouldn’t normally have used.’

Bibi

Bibi explains why she got involved with the project:

‘The idea of weaving a cocoon was irresistible to me. I am also excited about the development of the Museum of Making and what it is going to offer to the community.’

However it wasn’t without its challenges:

‘This cocoon was a challenge. The design is so good and the whole exercise was very rewarding in its outcome. I am delighted to be part of the project as a group effort. I am looking forward to seeing them all illuminated.’

Joan

Joan, as a weaver, was interested in helping with this project:

‘[I have] never undertaken a project of this sort before. I certainly found this an interesting challenge with the optical fibre being a difficult addition and always at the back of my mind the fact that my work was going to be on public display.’

Thank you to all of our volunteers who are helping to make the Museum of Making, we really wouldn’t be able to do it without you!

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Digital Image Processing is to perform Image Processing on images with the help of Algorithms. Now a day's Image processing technique

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Image bank could help advance diabetes research

- By Nuadox Crew -

An extensive image bank of pancreas samples could greatly advance global diabetes research.

The most extensive image bank of samples of the pancreas from children who developed diabetes shortly before death has gone live at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, with the aim to advance global medical research in the diabetes field.

The University of Exeter and Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) teamed up to make high-resolution images of pancreatic tissue available in Pancreatlas, the world’s first on-line imaging database of human pancreatic tissue created and housed at VUMC.

The pancreas contains the beta cells that produce the insulin that controls blood sugar and because of this is implicated in diseases such as diabetes. The image bank is a valuable asset to researchers because the human pancreas cannot be safely biopsied, and study of the cellular changes that cause type 1 diabetes can only be undertaken in pancreas specimens from individuals with the disease following their death.

The Exeter Archival Diabetes Biobank (EADB) includes 345 images of post-mortem tissue procured by former University of Glasgow professor Alan Foulis in the 1980s. These images represent the largest collection of pancreas samples recovered from patients who died shortly after the diagnosis of type 1 diabetes.

Foulis bequeathed the tissue collection to the University of Exeter Medical School upon his retirement, and the specimens were then digitized by Professor Peter In't Veld of Vrije Universiteit Brussel. The collection’s curators, Exeter professors Noel Morgan, PhD, and Sarah Richardson, PhD, contacted the Pancreatlas creators to see if the images could be added to the online database and made available to anyone in the world. The Exeter professors then facilitated the image transfer.

The EADB’s 345 images represent 189 different donors ranging in age from three month up to 17 years. The onset of type 1 diabetes ranges from within days of their death to 19 years’ duration. The images are of tissue sections stained using hematoxylin and eosin (H&E) or by immunohistochemistry targeting protein biomarkers to hormones and other signaling proteins.

In total, Pancreatlas currently hosts 2,180 images, representing several biobanks and research initiatives. The site provides the scientific community access to annotated images of human pancreas tissue and associated donor characteristics with the hope of advancing the understanding of diseases such as diabetes, pancreatic cancer and pancreatitis.

The online database of images was designed on the principles of automation and scalability as well as ease of use. Images are grouped into curated collections for easy exploration of specific topics or disease states, or alternatively, users can search for images of interest across all collections. Filtering menus allow users to view and refine images based on experimental information (e.g., tissue processing, biomarkers visualized) as well as clinical details (e.g., disease status and duration).

Comprehensive image datasets from across the human lifespan are also included in Pancreatlas to provide context for investigators working, for example, to understand how development of the pancreas may relate to diabetes progression or the origins of pancreatic cancer.

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Source: University of Exeter

Full study: Pancreatlas / Applying an Adaptable Framework to Map the Human Pancreas in Health and Disease. Patterns.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patter.2020.100120

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RCA New Battersea Campus, Royal College of Art London

Royal College of Art Battersea New Campus, RCA London Building News, Design Image

RCA New Battersea Campus, Royal College of Art London

23 + 20 + 7 Sep 2021

The Landmark Building For The Royal College Of Art

Design: Herzog & De Meuron Architects

Address: Riverside, 1 Hester Rd, London SW11 4AN, England, UK

Royal College of Art, London, UK: pictures © Herzog & deMeuron

Royal College of Art – new Battersea campus

Thursday 23 September 2021 – The Royal College of Art, the world’s leading university of art and design, will launch its new campus in Battersea, London, on 11 January 2022. The state-of-the-art building, designed by internationally renowned Swiss architects, Herzog & de Meuron, will provide a new home for innovation and design, embodying the RCA’s academic vision to interweave art and design with STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths).

The new Battersea campus is the largest development in the College’s 184-year history, enabling it to expand the frontiers of knowledge in art and design through innovative research, teaching and knowledge exchange. The RCA’s internationally recognised specialism in art and design has influenced generations and shaped our current world, encompassing both large-scale industry and common place objects, from the cars we drive and the buildings in which we live and work, to the clothes we wear and the art that lifts us out of the mundane. Its mission to imagine the future can now be fully realised with outstanding new facilities, incorporating cutting-edge technologies across the disciplines of computer and materials science, robotics, advanced manufacturing and intelligent mobility.

With a focus on ‘action’ research, students will be empowered to foster new design approaches to real-world problems and create innovations that lead to demonstrable impacts on a global scale to improve and change lives. Areas of application will include safer and better health services, designs for a more inclusive society, new products for the global longevity economy, and advances in design for mobility through emerging technologies. Alongside this research focus, the College’s centre for entrepreneurship, InnovationRCA, will spearhead the commercialisation of new human-centred design products and sustainability initiatives within industry. The new campus will ensure the College continues to play a vital role in driving innovation in the UK and beyond by providing answers to the challenges of rapid urbanisation, the effects of climate change, an ageing population, and the need for ethical responsibility within all creative practices.

Located to the south of the existing RCA buildings in Battersea, the 15,500 square-metre landmark new building will act as a radical spatial catalyst, embracing a greater cross-disciplinary dialogue between vehicle designers and architects, animators and ceramicists, fashion designers and textile students, sculptors and jewellery designers, performance artists and filmmakers within new make-spaces to push the boundaries in developing ground-breaking research.

Comprising two connected building blocks, the first four-storey Studio Building will focus on postgraduate teaching, making and learning with enhanced studios and workshops for Sculpture and Contemporary Art Practice, Design Products and Robotics. Designed as social and educational spaces of creative transfer and collaboration, the studios will also accommodate temporary exhibitions and large-scale works. The Design Studios will consist of the Design Product Studios, Innovation Design Studios, an Engineering Studio, the Immersion Lab, the Materials Nature Lab, the Manufacturing Lab and the Computer Science Lab, while the Moving Image Studio will be a highly specified, flexible working space allowing film and video production activities to be performed at the most advanced technical level, facilitating students to produce industry standard work.

A dramatic double-height covered street Hangar lies at the heart of the building, providing a multifunctional activity space for large-scale automotive and sculptural objects to be assembled and exhibited. The Hangar will become the focal point for RCA artists and makers, and their interactions with the public, including events, screenings, performances, exhibitions and graduate shows. The smaller Robotics Hangar and gallery space will provide flexible research testing and assembly areas for intelligent mobility, design engineering, sculpture, and aquatic and aerial robotics.

The Rausing Research and Innovation Building will comprise eight floors of dedicated independent research space, including new research centres for Materials Science, Textile Circularity, Design for Ageing and Computer Science, alongside InnovationRCA, the Clore Innovation Centre and the renowned Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design. Two of its floors will unite the Mobility Design Centre with the MA in Intelligent Mobility. New laboratories will include a lab for advanced modelling and manufacturing processes along with the Visualisation Lab, an immersive visual and acoustic virtual cocoon capable of modelling complex constructed environments and digitally capturing the real world, opening-up new ways of working with simulation, virtual reality and immersive technology. At the pinnacle of the building, commanding views across London, the Knowledge Exchange Centre will offer a suite of seminar and conference facilities for cross-disciplinary use by students, academics, researchers and industry partners, furthering the RCA’s close collaboration with the industry sector.

Sustainability and energy efficiency are central to the new development, certifying the continuation of the RCA’s global contribution as the number one university for art and design. Approximately £3 million will be invested in making the building BREEAM excellent, using a combination of integrated design and most significantly a commitment to low and zero carbon technologies.

Through Herzog & de Meuron’s architectural vision, the campus will increase the RCA’s overall footprint in Battersea to create a united the 26,000 square-metre campus, providing a new hub for innovation and design within the wider Battersea Creative Quarter.

Dr. Paul Thompson, Vice-Chancellor, Royal College of Art, said: “The opening of our new campus in Battersea, is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to realise our academic ambition to become a STEAM university, combining innovative new technologies with the traditional disciplinary practices to provide exceptional experiences for designers, artists and storytellers who will go on to enhance the world.”

Jacques Herzog, Founding Partner, Herzog & de Meuron, said: “Our experience with designing many museums in the last 20 years tells me that art institutions increasingly tend to blur the traditional boundaries between the collection, presentation, preservation, and even the production of art. In addition, such institutions want to be great social spaces and focal points for public life. Our design for the new RCA and its programming at Battersea traces a path not so dissimilar to this new ideal. Students, teachers, and visitors will find themselves in a kind of village built around the topic of art, with an architectural atmosphere that encourages the entire community to engage in a constant process of teaching and learning, producing, presenting, and discussing art.”

About the RCA

The Royal College of Art is the world’s leading university of art and design. Specialising in teaching and research, the RCA offers degrees of MA, MPhil, MRes and PhD across the disciplines of architecture, arts & humanities, design and communications.

A small, specialist and research-intensive postgraduate university based in the heart of London, the RCA provides 2000 students with unrivalled opportunities to deliver art and design projects that transform the world.

The RCA’s approach is founded on the premise that art, design, creative thinking, science, engineering and technology must all collaborate to solve today’s global challenges.

The University employs around 1000 professionals from around the world – professors, researchers, art and design practitioners, advisers and visiting lecturers – to teach and develop students in 30 academic programmes. RCA students are exposed to new knowledge in a way that encourages them to experiment.

The RCA runs joint courses with Imperial College London and the Victoria & Albert Museum.

InnovationRCA, the university’s centre for enterprise, entrepreneurship, incubation and business support, has helped over 70 RCA business ideas become a reality that has led to the creation of over 750 UK jobs.

Alumni include David Adjaye, Christopher Bailey, Monster Chetwynd, David Hockney, Tracey Emin, Thomas Heatherwick, Lubaina Himid, Clare Waight Keller and Rose Wylie.

The RCA was named the world’s leading university of art and design in the QS World Rankings 2021 for the seventh consecutive year.

For more information visit: www.rca.ac.uk

picture courtesy of architecture practice

About Herzog & de Meuron

Established in Basel in 1978, Herzog & de Meuron is a partnership led by Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron together with Senior Partners Christine Binswanger, Ascan Mergenthaler, Stefan Marbach, Esther Zumsteg, and Jason Frantzen. An international team of nearly 500 collaborators including the two Founders, five Senior Partners, ten Partners, and 41 Associates work on projects across Europe, the Americas and Asia. The main office is in Basel with additional offices in London, New York, Hong Kong, Berlin and Copenhagen.

The practice has designed a wide range of projects from the small scale of a private home to the large scale of urban design. Many projects are highly recognized public facilities, such as museums, stadiums, and hospitals, and they have completed distinguished private projects including offices, laboratories and apartment buildings. Awards received include the Pritzker Architecture Prize (USA) in 2001, the RIBA Royal Gold Medal (UK), the Praemium Imperiale (Japan), both in 2007, and the Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize (USA) in 2014.

Website: https://www.rca.ac.uk/more/building-battersea/

Previously on e-architect

10 Nov 2016 Herzog & de Meuron wins Royal College of Art Design Competition Design: Herzog & de Meuron, Architects image © 2016, Herzog & de Meuron Royal College of Art Design Competition

Royal College of Art Battersea Award

Dyson Building wins a RIBA London Award Design: Haworth Tompkins Architects image courtesy of architects practice Royal College of Art Battersea building design by Haworth Tompkins

10 Aug 2016 Shortlist for Battersea South Architect London: RCA

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Mars Mania means Opposition, Closest Approach, and a Thunder Moon Meet-up!

(Above: Mars imaged on July 21, 2018 by Damian Peach, showing that the recent global dust storm is abating.)

Astronomy Skylights for this week (from July 22nd, 2018) by Chris Vaughan. (Feel free to pass this along to friends and send me your comments, questions, and suggested topics.) I post these with photos at http://astrogeoguy.tumblr.com/ where the old editions are archived. You can also follow me on Twitter as @astrogeoguy! Unless otherwise noted, all times are Eastern Time. Please click this MailChimp link to subscribe to these emails. If you are a teacher or group leader interested joining me on a guided field trip to York University’s Allan I. Carswell Observatory, or another in your area, visit www.astrogeo.ca.

If you’d like me to bring my Digital Starlab inflatable planetarium to your school or other daytime or evening event, visit DiscoveryPlanetarium.com and request me. We’ll tour the Universe together! 

Public Events

On Monday evenings, York University’s Allan I. Carswell Observatory runs an online star party - broadcasting views from four telescopes/cameras, answering viewer questions, and taking requests! Details are here. On Wednesday evenings after dark, they offer free public viewing through their telescopes. If it’s cloudy, the astronomers give tours and presentations. Details are here. 

At 6:30 pm on Tuesday, July 24, the S. Walter Stewart Library will host a free public talk by U of T Professor Roberto Abraham entitled Finding Your Place in Space and Time. Check here for details. 

On Tuesday, July 24, starting at 9 pm, the RASC Mississauga will host a free public star party at the Riverwood Conservancy. Details are here. 

At 6:30 pm on Thursday, July 26, the Brentwood Library will host a free public talk by U of T PhD Candidate Yvette Cendes entitled Supernovae – Witnessing Cosmic Explosions. Check here for details. 

If it’s sunny on Saturday morning, July 28 from 10 am to noon, astronomers from the RASC Toronto Centre will be setting up outside the main doors of the Ontario Science Centre for Solar Observing. Come and see the Sun in detail through special equipment designed to view it safely. This is a free event (details here), but parking and admission fees inside the Science Centre will still apply. Check the RASC Toronto Centre website or their Facebook page for the Go or No-Go notification. 

On Friday, July 27, starting at 7 pm, the U of T AstroTour will present their planetarium show entitled Grand Tour of the Cosmos. Tickets and details are here. 

Here are the Mars-themed events for this week: 

This weekend, July 28-29 at the Ontario Science Centre, kids are invited to participate in a fun activity to develop and deploy a Mars rover mission. Check here for details. This event is free with your admission to the science centre, on a first come-first served basis. 

York University’s Allan I. Carswell Observatory will turn their telescopes on Mars all week, with free public viewing from Tuesday through Friday between 9 and 11:45 pm. Details about this Mars Extravaganza are here. 

This Friday night from 8 pm through 1 am, the Ontario Science Centre will hold Mars Fest, with a talk by Mars expert Dr. Tanya Harrison and (weather permitting) telescope viewing of the Red Planet, the full moon, and all of the other bright planets. The event is free, but parking fees will apply. Details are here. 

The next RASC Public Event at the David Dunlap Observatory will be on Saturday, July 28 – a celebration of Mars’ close approach. There will be a Mars lecture by Mars expert Dr. Tanya Harrison, sky tours in the Skylab planetarium room, space crafts, a tour of the giant 74” telescope, and viewing through lawn telescopes (weather permitting). The doors will open at 8:30 pm for a 9 pm start. Attendance is by tickets only, available here. If you are a RASC member and wish to help us at DDO in the future, please fill out the volunteer questionnaire here. And to join RASC, visit this page. 

Some mid-July Sights

If you missed last week’s sampling of some celestial sights available in mid-July when the young moon is also in the sky, I posted some sky charts and images here. 

The Moon and Planets

This week, the moon remains prominent in the evening sky worldwide, waxing towards its full moon phase on Friday. Tonight (Sunday) will find the gibbous moon above the stars of Scorpius (the Scorpion) and its bright, reddish star Antares, the “Rival of Mars”. On Tuesday night, the moon will land about two fingers to the upper right of yellowish Saturn. And on Friday, the Full ���Buck Moon”, “Thunder Moon”, or “Hay Moon” will grace the sky to the upper left of Mars. 

This full moon is occurring only 13 hours after apogee, the farthest point from Earth in the moon’s orbit. That will give us the smallest apparent full moon size of 2018. Meanwhile, a total lunar eclipse will be visible from Africa, the Middle East, India, and western Australia. Eastern Australia and Southeast Asia will see a portion of the eclipse before the moon sets and morning twilight arrives, while for Europe and Eastern South America the eclipse will already be in progress when the moon rises. North America will not see any of this eclipse. Maximum eclipse occurs just east of Madagascar at 20:22 UT. The moon will cross just north of the center of Earth’s darker umbral shadow, setting up conditions for an extra long and very dark eclipsed moon. At greatest eclipse, the moon will be sitting a palm’s width north of Mars – that’s two reddish objects for the price of one!

(Above: Venus gleams in the western sky after sunset as shown here for 9:15 pm local time on July 22, 2018) 

Brilliant Venus continues to brighten in the western evening sky this week – easily visible until it sets at 10:45 pm local time. The descending evening ecliptic is now pulling Venus a bit lower each night. In a small telescope, the planet’s disk will exhibit a waning gibbous (60% illuminated) phase, lit on the sunward side (although your telescope might flip the view). 

This week, Jupiter continues to be the object shining very brightly in the southwestern sky after dusk. It will set in the west-southwest at about 1 am local time. The bright star sitting just to the left of Jupiter is Zubenelgenubi, the brightest star in Libra (the Scales). In binoculars, you’ll plainly see that it is a pair of stars. While you have them out, can you also see Jupiter’s four Galilean moons (Io, Europa, Callisto, and Ganymede) flanking the planet? Astronomers recently announced the discovery of another 12 moons around the giant vacuum-cleaner of a planet – bringing the total to 79! Many of the smaller moons are former asteroids captured by Jupiter’s strong gravity.

(Above: All month long, Jupiter will sit to the upper right of the easy-to-see double star Zubenelgenubi in Libra, as shown here for 10 pm local time on July 22 2018.) 

On Sunday, July 22, Europa’s shadow will begin a crossing (transit) of Jupiter’s disk at 10:46 pm that ends when Jupiter is setting at about 1 am. On Tuesday, July 24, Io’s shadow will complete a transit at 10:04 pm that began earlier in twilight. A reasonable backyard telescope will show the black shadows, but a very good telescope is needed to see the moons themselves. More shadow transits are available in other time zones around the world. 

The Great Red Spot (or GRS, for short) takes about three hours to cross Jupiter’s disk. But the planet’s 10-hour rotation period (i.e., its day) means that the spot is only observable from Earth every 2-3 nights. If you’d like to see the GRS, use a medium-sized telescope (or larger). You’ll have your best luck on evenings with steady air – when the stars are not twinkling too much. Try to look within an hour before or after the following times: Thursday, July 26 at 9:52 pm and Saturday, July 28 at 11:31 pm. All times are given in Eastern Daylight Time (EDT), so adjust for your local time zone.

(Above: A trio of planet images captured and processed by award-winning RASC member Rick Foster, taken from his home in Markham, Ontario.) 

This week medium-bright and yellowish Saturn will be visible from dusk, when it’s shining over the southern horizon, until it sets in the west at 4 am local time. The ringed planet is spending this summer just east (to the left of) the Milky Way, and just above the Teapot-shaped stars that form Sagittarius (the Archer).  Once it’s dark, a small telescope should be able to show you some of the ringed planet’s larger moons, especially Titan. Because Saturn’s axis of rotation is tipped about 27° from vertical (a bit more than Earth’s is), we can see the top surface of its rings, and its moons can appear above, below, or to either side of the planet. 

Blue-green coloured Uranus is visible in binoculars and telescopes between midnight and dawn. The ice giant planet is located in the eastern sky, about four finger widths to the left of the modestly bright star Torcular (Omega Piscium), which is above the “V” where the two starry cords of Pisces (the Fishes) meet. The major asteroid Juno is about a palm’s width below Uranus, in the same region of sky. 

Distant blue Neptune, among the modestly-bright stars of Aquarius (the Water-bearer), is observable in telescopes in the eastern sky after it rises after 10:30 pm local time. This week, look for the magnitude 7.9 planet sitting one finger width to the right of the naked eye star Phi (φ) Aquarii and about 4.5 finger widths to the left of brighter Hydor (Lambda Aquarii). 

Mars at Opposition and Closest Approach

Well, this is it. It’s finally here! The week when Earth’s orbit will bring us closer to Mars than we’ve been in 15 years. This is a worldwide event, although people viewing Mars from low latitudes and from the Southern Hemisphere will see the Red Planet much more clearly than the folks in mid-northern latitudes. Let’s break it all down.

(Above: The orbits of Mars and Earth as viewed from high above the northern pole of the sun. The radial lines are drawn through the two planets at opposition dates from March, 2012 through January, 2015. The current opposition is among the closest the two planets ever get.) 

Mars has an orbit that is about 50% farther from the sun than Earth’s, on average. That causes Earth to complete an orbit of the sun faster than Mars does. In fact, Earth circles the sun almost two times in the time Mars takes to complete one orbit. If the planets were placed at the same starting line on an imaginary racetrack around the sun (as they will be this Friday), when Earth returned after lap one, slowpoke Mars would be out of sight on the opposite side of the sun. When Earth completed its second lap, Mars would be back on the same side of the sun and a bit ahead of us along the track. The outcome of all this is that we end up on the same side of the sun as Mars every 2 years and 50 days. 

There’s one more twist to all this. Our orbit is fairly circular, while Mars’ orbit is much more elliptical. Its distance from the sun varies quite a bit - between 206.7 million km and 249.2 million km, or about 20%. Every 15 years or so, the geometry works out that we pass Mars while we are near aphelion (our farthest distance from the sun) and Mars is near perihelion (its closest distance from the sun). When that happens, our two planets are at their minimum distance from one another. That’s what is happening this week. We have not been this close to Mars since 2003 and won’t be again until 2035! 

When Earth passes a more distantly orbiting planet on the “inside track”, that planet appears in our sky opposite to the sun, a term astronomers call opposition. That planet will rise in the east as the sun sets in the west. And because we are closer to it, it will shine brighter than at any other date and look larger in binoculars or a telescope. The 2018 Mars opposition occurs at 1 am Eastern Daylight Time on Friday, July 27. At that time, Mars will shine brighter than any planet except Venus and show a disk that is 24.2 arc-minutes across. That’s about two-thirds of the size of Jupiter! A very good telescope, or a long exposure photograph taken through one, might even show Mars’ two tiny moons, Phobos and Deimos (Greek for Fear and Dread). 

Because both Earth and Mars will be continuing to run their “race” after opposition night, and Mars’ true perihelion isn’t until mid-September, our actual minimum distance from Mars will occur on the night of Tuesday, July 31. At that time, the Red Planet will be 57.6 million km (or 0.385 astronomical units) from Earth. That translates to only 3 minutes and 18 seconds for radio signals to reach the planet, or vice versa.

(Above: The dramatic size difference in Mars’ disk between January 1, 2018 and closest approach on July 31, 2018.) 

Here’s how to find and see Mars this week. Tonight (Sunday) Mars will rise at about 9:35 pm local time (depending on your latitude). It will climb until nearly 2 am local time, when it will reach an elevation of about 20° (or two outstretched fist diameters) above the southern horizon. This is the best time to view the planet in a telescope because it will then be shining through the least amount of Earth’s distorting atmosphere. 20° is lower than many trees and buildings, so a clear southern vista is essential. 

Since Mars is close to opposition, it will descend into the west in the wee hours and set around dawn. Mars will be rising about 5 minutes earlier every night, so by Friday night it will rise by about 9:15 pm local time, and the following Tuesday it will rise before 9 pm. Opposition occurs at 1 am EDT on Friday morning, so Thursday evening will be a fine time to look at it, too. 

(Above: The arrangement of the sky at Mars opposition, shown for 1:25 am EDT on July 27, 2018. Hours earlier on the other side of Earth, the moon will have undergone an especially dark total lunar eclipse.)

If the clouds stay away, the planet will be impossible to miss. It will be brighter than anything nearby, except the moon. The red coloration will be obvious - as opposed to Saturn’s mere tint of yellow. The planet will not rapidly move location, or flash or blink. Anything doing that is a plane – keep hunting. 

The farther south you live, the higher Mars will climb. An observer in Florida will see Mars nearly halfway up the sky after midnight. And someone at the latitude of Sydney, Australia will see Mars directly overhead at midnight! 

Wherever you are at opposition, even with a small telescope on a night of good seeing (i.e., with clear, steady air), you should be able to see Mars’ southern polar cap of frozen CO2 and water ice, and also some darker and lighter regions on the planet. Because Mars’ rotational period (its day) is about 38 minutes longer than Earth’s, by viewing the planet over many nights you can see different parts of its surface. In fact, it would take you 41 nights of observing to see the entire globe of Mars. But since we have about 7 hours of darkness during nights in late July, you could also observe Mars from about 10 pm local time, soon after it rises, until 4:30 am just before it sets, and see about one-quarter of the globe in a single night.

(Above: The poles, prime meridian,and equator of Mars, plus labels for some of the features it will exhibit on opposition night. Viewing the planet all night long in July will show you about one-third of Mars’ globe.) 

A global dust storm has recently enveloped the planet – hiding its surface. But skilled planetary imagers like Damian Peach have reported that the storm is abating. Fingers crossed! 

Don’t worry if your Mars viewing is clouded out this week. After the close encounter, Earth will slowly begin to pull away from Mars, but Mars will decrease in apparent size more slowly than it has been increasing. In fact, it will look 90% as large for the next month! Its visual brightness will also remain intense for weeks to come. Keep an eye out on the media for the many Mars viewing parties that science centres, universities, and amateur astronomy clubs will be hosting.

Keep looking up to enjoy the sky! I love getting questions so, if you have any, send me a note.

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Task 1: Reporting for digital media

Reporting for digital media task 1 – Identify and research a news story to report on chosen digital media Research: The articles analyzed (informative news): 

Article 1: ‘’Anonymous ‘doctors’ support abortion’’ on Newsbook https://newsbook.com.mt/en/maltese-abortion-laws-are-violation-of-human-rights-ngo/ 

Article 2: ‘’Doctors For Choice: Maltese Medical Professionals Band Together To Advocate For Safe Access To Abortion’’  on Lovin’ Malta 

https://lovinmalta.com/news/local/doctors-for-choice-maltese-medical-professional-band-together-to-advocate-for-safe-access-to-abortion/

 B: 

In terms of narrative construction, Lovin’ Malta’s article follows an easily legible structure by starting with the lead which hooks the reader and encapsulates the scope of the article: ‘’An anonymous group of independent medical professionals have banded together to form a group advocating for the safe access to abortion in Malta.’’ In comparison, Newsbook provides the sentences ‘’A new NGO called Doctors for Choice (DFCM) has been set up to lobby for the introduction of abortion in Malta. The press release sent by the organisation was not signed by anyone.’’ In regards to treatment, the Newsbook article is much more negative with diction such as ‘’not signed by anyone’’ and ‘’could not verify…doctors or not’’. 

The tone is doubtful with Newsbook’s article, whereas Lovin’ Malta’s article is positive and informative. Lovin’ Malta’s article introduces the subject, the organization: ‘’Doctors for choice’’ through two quotes: the first quote stating their mission, accompanied by a second paragraph which explained their reasons firmly and through testimonies by other women and reference to the legal climate. This method holds the reader’s attention due to proximity and usual subject matter, eventually provoking discussion. Underneath the paragraph, Lovin’ Malta places a photo which redirects the reader to their Facebook page, an effective method of promotion and an easy way to share information. 

The photo displays diversity and feminism, with ‘’absolute’’ words such as ‘’should’’, following the rule of threes which states that statements and subjects are more interesting when they come in threes. The photo is minimalistic in design and easy for the mind to process, using checkmarks to represent future goals. The world health organization logo in the bottom right denotes reliability and the reader feels obliged to listen to the message. A stock photo of a pro-choice rally in Ireland is inserted and captioned as ‘’stock photo’’, with the words ‘’not a walking womb’’ written on a sign carried by a woman, which may shed light on the message being pushed by Doctors for Choice, with the intention of highlighting their agenda through a similar event (another pro-choice rally). 

 On the other hand, Newsbook did not label their stock image, which sends the wrong connotations in regard to the thought put into the article and the quality, as a journalist should always cite their sources. A survey is utilized in both articles, however in the case of Lovin Malta’s article, the survey details were not disclosed. ‘’Surveys shown’’ does not offer any means to research the said survey properly, however, the conclusion that the survey came to (that both political parties are against abortion) was confirmed through use of the hyperlinks ‘’ PN Leader Adrian Delia has repeatedly suggested’’. In this case, the survey findings’ conclusion was explained through another article. The Lovin’ Malta article ends with a powerful statement with the insertion of a hyperlink, stating that the president George Abela said that he will resign before signing abortion into law. This type of statement encourages debate and perhaps shock in readers as such a decision has news value. 

The press release by Doctors for Choice is inserted at the end along with their logo redirecting to their Facebook page, giving the reader a second opportunity to visit their page. In regard to quality, the Lovin’ Malta article trumps the Newsbook article as there is more attention paid to enclosing detail, exposing the subject’s mission statement and actual reporting of the issue. The title names the organization and the mission statement, instead of the vague and rather ‘’accusing’’ and disapproving tone that Newsbook utilizes. One can see the difference when comparing: Maltese Medical Professionals Band Together To Advocate For Safe Access To Abortion versus ’Anonymous ‘doctors’ support abortion’’. Lovin’ Malta calls them ‘’medical professionals’’ and Newsbook calls them ‘’anonymous ‘doctors’’’, with doctors in inverted commas implying a sarcastic overcast on the term. 

Additionally, Lovin’ Malta calls for ‘’safe access to abortion’’ whilst Newsbook writes ‘’support abortion’’ which has different connotations, ‘’safe access’’ has more positive connotations as it encourages safety and reduction of mortality (regardless of subject matter), and ‘’support abortion’’ drives different conclusions to mind in comparison with the former. It is interesting the note the structure of Newsbook’s article, as there is not much depth to the writing, with the information on surface level. Newsbook, in this article, would report news, and then interject their opinion discreetly through hyperlinks. The journalist wrote a paragraph consisting of quotes said by the organization but would instantly ‘’counter’’ these quotes by use of hyperlinks to other articles which negatively respond to the quotes, revealing a true agenda. One can say that the older and religious Maltese audience has a negative outlook on the topic, as one would gather from the comments they leave on articles about abortion. Therefore, the role of the journalist in this case was to ‘’reassure’’ the audience that they do not hold a view in favor of abortion. 

 In comparison, Lovin’ Malta’s article which did not reveal any bias but informed appropriately with multiple social media links and reference to the organization. Most of the article was quoted from other sources and did not feature emotional adjectives towards the subject. Culturally, the ‘’share on social media’’ buttons on articles are used abundantly when it comes to the topic of abortion as it always generates response over social media. Therefore, journalists treat the topic carefully and stay away from it all together if possible; hence Newsbook writing in a vague manner and pushing their agenda against the topic. Writing positively about the topic, or provoking discussion, leads to negative comments which override the positive due to the ‘unusual’ nature of the topic. 

Lovin’ Malta’s intention was to inform the public and advertise Doctors for Choice, which was accepted by the intended audience: young people, due to their use of journalese and younger writers, but rejected by the older generation who slammed the article.

 C. 

The article ‘’Anonymous ‘doctors’ support abortion’ was written by Fr Joe Borg, PhD, a university of Malta lecturer and winner of the Gold award for journalists. Whilst Fr.Joe Borg is a qualified source, he is not a reliable source in regards to this topic as he fails to be neutral by writing with a negative agenda and withholds information which pertains to the 5 W’s. The first indication of bias is from the author’s title of ‘Fr’, as Catholics cannot be pro-choice (Catholic Answers, 2014), which provides the reader with the indication that the article may lean heavily towards an anti-abortion stance and in that case would picture the topic and the news surrounding it with a different angle, mostly a negative one. 

The author writes for Newsbook. The website in itself is authentic and written by professionals in their respective fields, however, exudes conservative bias in the way that ‘Lovin Malta’ is a news outlet of liberal bias. As Newsbook holds a predominately conservative agenda and approach, this requires the author to be liable to the negative agenda that surrounds abortion in Malta, and in the case of the article: show distrust towards doctors who support abortion in Malta as a result of the stigma. Placing the word ‘doctors’ in the title inside quotation marks is derogatory and aims to discredit the doctors by creating an aura of distrust and mockery. The doctors which the author was referring to are qualified and registered, but by looking at the title one does not receive the same reassurance. The negative agenda pertaining to abortion is clear as traditional society aims to silence all debate and flow of information surrounding the topic, therefore the author claims that he could not verify the names of the ‘’anonymous doctors’’. 

However, the names of the administrators were found on their online website along with photos on their Facebook page. Doctors for Choice’s Facebook page was founded on the same day the article was written, therefore it is Newsbook’s journalistic duty to update their article with more information and photos which were available on all Doctors for Choice’s platforms (Doctors for Choice, Malta, 2020). The wording of the title ‘’doctors support abortion’’ creates internal conflict as it insinuates that a ‘’good’’ doctor does not support abortion and aims to shame an individual for thinking otherwise due to the connotations of this phrase and the tone surrounding it. The article solidifies its stance through a survey completed by University of Malta students over whether students are for or against legalization of abortion. The results favored the article’s agenda and initially impact the reader by hitting close to home, where out of 733 students, 58.4% of those were against legalization of abortion in Malta. On the other hand, 41.6% were in favor. Furthermore, Newsbook came to the conclusion that university students are against abortion. However, Newsbook included a hyperlink: Majority of university students oppose abortion – KSU survey which stated that 11,000 students took part, therefore the conclusion reached is invalid as only a minuscule fraction contributed, hence one cannot say that 733 out of 11,000 is the majority.

 Additionally, due to the stigma surrounding the topic and the lack of education without negative bias, one cannot assume that all survey responses are accurate and educated. 2019 was a historical year in Malta, where the topic of abortion was debated and addressed by the president, politicians and young people (such as the pro-choice rallies in September. The news value rests on the unusual nature, the proximity of it all and the prominence of the topic, as Malta is the only EU country to ban abortion in all circumstances, therefore opening a discourse is not normal for the country and has never evolved to this degree. (Cacciottolo, 2018). 

The article was published in May, rendering it two months after an important event where president George Vella stated his stance against abortion where he made a ‘’pledge to respect life from start to finish’’ in his first speech after oath. It is interesting to note the persistent use of ‘’Pro-abortion’’ and ‘’Pro abortionists’’ as a depiction of liability. ‘’Pro-abortion’’ and ‘’Pro abortionists’’ are applied more than once in lieu of ‘’pro-choice’’, the proper term. This choice was calculated and purposely done to demonize the pro-choice movement by placing their topic of interest, abortion, to the forefront. This practice is apparent in the sensationalist hyperlink ‘’Pro-Abortionists say they are passionate about reproductive rights’’, intended to garner a strong reaction where ‘’pro-abortionists’’ is the first thing one sees which solidifies the ‘’mocking’’ aura. This leads to another Newsbook article which utilized an unattractive picture (not posed, taken in the spur of the moment) and furthers the agenda conservative, right-wing news sources hold.

 References 

Anonymous ‘doctors’ support abortion - Newsbook Borg, J. (2019). Anonymous ‘doctors’ support abortion - Newsbook. [online] Available at: https://newsbook.com.mt/en/maltese-abortion-laws-are-violation-of-human-rights-ngo/?fbclid=IwAR0IxDjERrs3c7jTSpUm_PpeIrX8GnktR40QjlyWG7PnRkt8eKBIr_KL-C8 [Accessed 17 Mar. 2020] 

 Pro-Abortionists say they are passionate about reproductive rights - Newsbook Debono, S. (2019). Pro-Abortionists say they are passionate about reproductive rights - Newsbook. [online] Available at: https://newsbook.com.mt/en/pro-abortionists-say-they-are-passionate-about-reproductive-rights/ [Accessed 17 Mar. 2020]. 

 The Journalists' Questions: 5 Ws and an H ThoughtCo. (2020). The Journalists' Questions: 5 Ws and an H. [online] Available at: https://www.thoughtco.com/journalists-questions-5-ws-and-h-1691205 [Accessed 17 Mar. 2020]. 

 'Fake news' isn't the problem — mainstream news with an agenda is TheHill. (2016). 'Fake news' isn't the problem — mainstream news with an agenda is. [online] Available at: https://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/media/307783-fake-news-isnt-the-problem-mainstream-news-with-an-agenda-is [Accessed 17 Mar. 2020] 

 Cacciattolo, M. (2018). Malta sets stage for abortion debate. [online] Available at: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-45900815 [Accessed 17 Mar. 2020].

 Why Catholics Can’t Be Pro-Choice Catholic Answers. (2014). Why Catholics Can’t Be Pro-Choice. [online] Available at: https://www.catholic.com/magazine/print-edition/why-catholics-cant-be-pro-choice [Accessed 17 Mar. 2020]. Reproductiverights.org. (2020). [online] Available at: https://reproductiverights.org/sites/default/files/documents/European%20abortion%20law%20a%20comparative%20review.pdf [Accessed 17 Mar. 2020].

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20 Top Quality Blogs That Every researcher and Ph.D. Students Will Love

In this post, I’d like to share 20 popular blogs by academics. Each listing gives you a brief idea of what you will find in the blog. Aside from being avid bloggers, these academics also have a prominent Twitter presence. For this reason, I’ve also included their twitter account URL. I hope you like this list and find an academic blog that you really enjoy reading!

1. Scientific Editing (@ScientificEdit1)

Scientific Editing was established with a goal to accelerate international scientific research communication. At Scientific Editing, we take great effort to understand our authors’ needs. We aim to help scientists and academic authors break through the language barriers, bridge the gap between authors and peer-reviewed journals, and accelerate the process of publishing high-quality articles.

Visit: https://www.scientific-editing.info

Armed with an in-house editing team, we provide high-quality services to academic, publishing, and pharmaceutical communities. All of our editors are native English-speakers with a Ph.D., or extensive editing and publishing experience in different fields, and have been carefully screened and selected.

2. Academics Write (@academicswrite):

As the name suggests, Academics Write is a blog about “academic writing in all disciplines.” Blog owner, Kim Mitchell, is from a nursing discipline and is an instructor at Red River College, Winnipeg Manitoba, Canada. Academics Writ hosts an interesting mix of blog posts that includes research-based information, experience-based stories and anecdotes, and opinion pieces. Kim writes for an audience of post-secondary instructors, academic writers and students, and blogs on topics such as the value of writing, self-efficacy, myths about academic writing, and deciding when it is right to give a student an extension.

Do you need Scientific Editing service? Visit: https://www.scientific-editing.info

3. Athene Donald’s Blog (@AtheneDonald):

Athene Donald is a Physics Professor at the University of Cambridge and has been a professor for over 20 years. Unlike some of the other blogs in this list that have adopted a coaching-oriented approach, Professor Donald’s blog seems to offer researchers’ opinions and perspectives. Her blog posts cover topics such as what to do and avoid doing at academic conferences, gender disparity in academia, etc. She also attempts to maintain a balance by sharing a few blog posts about her personal life and interests.

4. Beyond the Doctorate (@FionaEWhelan):

Beyond the Doctorate is a blog managed by Dr. Fiona Whelan, Academic Standards and Quality Officer at the Queen Mary University of London. Dr. Whelan’s blog goes beyond discussions about her academic career. She started this blog for the purpose of sharing her experiences with other doctoral students as she made “a transition away from pure research into a practical job in the real world.” advises students on dealing with different stages of academic life, exploring alternative academic careers, etc.

5. Dan Cohen (@dancohen):

Dr. Dan Cohen is a Vice Provost, Dean, and Professor at Northeastern University. He blogs about topics such as current trends in library and information science, digital libraries, ebooks, the influence of digital technology on various aspects of life today, web cultures, digital humanities, digital public libraries, science communication trends, and science publishing. In an interesting post, Dr. Cohen talks about a concept that he has called “essay.” According to him, the essay is “a manifestation of the convergence of journalism and scholarship in mid-length forms online.” He further explains that an essay avoids academic jargon as it is written for “both specialists and an intelligent general audience.”

6. Diary of Dr. Logic (@SaraLUckelman):

Diary of Dr. Logic is a blog managed by Sara L. Uckelman, Assistant Professor at Durham University. Diary of Dr. Logic offers blog posts on several topics related to scientific publishing and life as an academic. More specifically, Uckelman blogs about her approach to teaching logic and philosophy, maintaining a healthy work-life balance and tips for being productive and more.

7. DoctoralWritingSIG (@DocwritingSIG):

DoctoralWritingSIG is moderated by Dr. Claire Aitchison, Doctoral Writing Consultant; Dr. Cally Guerin, Research Training Scheme Officer, University of Adelaide; and Dr. Susan Carter, Senior Lecturer, University of Auckland. DoctoralWritingSIG is an informative forum where those interested in doctoral writing can “share information, resources, ideas, and dreams,” irrespective of where they stand in their academic careers. With a view to build a base of knowledge and skills around research writing, the blog covers topics such as grant writing, tips on writing the different sections of a thesis or dissertation, grammar advice, and academic publishing guidance.

8. Dr. Raul Pacheco-Vega, Ph.D. (@raulpacheco):

Dr. Raul Pacheco-Vega is an Assistant Professor in the Public Administration Division of the Centre for Economic Research and Teaching. His blog is populated with insightful articles on various aspects of academic life, such as academic writing, reading strategies, and surviving and thriving in academia. He also has posted on his own research and public policy issues that interest him. Dr. Pacheco-Vegas blog posts that offer interesting text, mixed with relevant images and tweets, provide a very exciting reading experience.

9. Dr. Catherine Pope (@catherinepope):

Dr. Catherine Pope is a freelance research and writing skills, trainer. She blogs about academic writing; focusing on topics like overcoming delays, implementing planning techniques before writing, etc. Her blog also offers posts dedicated to helping readers learn about tools for researchers to improve their productivity. Dr. Pope maintains separate categories for blog posts that provide tips for using Evernote and Zotero. Both of these are digital tools designed to facilitate various aspects of conducting research and writing research articles.

10. Dr. Nadine Muller (@Nadine_Muller):

Dr. Nadine Muller is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature and Cultural History at Liverpool John Moores University. Her blog is about academia and her experiences in academia. She says, among other things, that her blog is about “redefining what it takes to be an academic and how academics are expected to present themselves, their lives and their work.” Muller aims to provide support, education and development resources to postgraduate and early-career researchers. She blogs on topics in preparation for an academic job interview, prioritization during doctoral studies, and academic mental health within academia.

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11. Ellie Mackin (@EllieMackin):

Dr. Ellie Mackin Roberts is a Teaching Fellow in Ancient History at the University of Leicester and a Research Associate at the Institute of Classical Studies, London. She is also one of the moderators of the @ECRchat — Twitter feed for early career researchers. Her blog consists of a rich reserve of posts covering a wide range of topics relating to academic life. She blogs about academic writing, post-doctoral life, academic conferences, job applications, and many other interesting topics.

12. Explorations of Style (@explorstyle):

Explorations of Style is a blog that “offers an ongoing discussion of the challenges of academic writing.” The blog is managed by Rachael Cayley, associate professor in the Graduate Center for Academic Communication, University of Toronto. Professor Cayley aims to provide her readers with strategies to help them improve their skills in research writing. To this end, she blogs on topics such as. Managing writing anxiety, creating inverted contours, and writing process.

13. Feral Librarian (@mchris4duke):

Feral Librarian is a blog managed by Dr. Chris Bourg, Director of Libraries at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Bourg blogs about research libraries, higher education, and scientific publishing. Occasionally, her blog post also discusses some of her personal interests — issues of sports, music and social justice. Among the blog’s latest posts is a text version of Dr. Bourg’s exciting keynote address at the 2018 Creative Commons Global Summit — “Open as in Dangerous.”

14. From Ph.D. to Life (@FromPhDtoLife):

From Ph.D. to Life is a blog run by Dr. Jennifer Polk, History Ph.D. turned academic, life, and career coach for graduate students and PhDs. Summing it up herself, Dr. Polk says she helps “PhDs launch meaningful careers” by helping them delve deeper into their own interests, explore their opportunities and deal with academic pressure. The Ph.D. for Life offers a wide range of resources for PhDs, all aiming to help them maneuver their academic careers effortlessly and live a better life. Dr. Polk recommends his transition question and answers as a must-read section! This section shows inspiring stories about PhDs as they take us through their fulfilling post-doctoral journeys.

15. From The Lab Bench (@FromTheLabBench):

The Lab, Bench is a blog about “all things science.” It is administered by Dr. Paige Brown Jarreau, a science communication specialist for the College of Science, Louisiana State University. As she continued her doctorate, Dr. realized Jarreau that although she enjoyed time on the lab bench, she loved writing and communicating about her research even more! And that’s how “From the Lab Bench” was born. Dr. Jarreau blogs on topics such as science blogging, social media consulting and science journalism.

16. Get a Life, Ph.D. (@tanyaboza):

Get a Life, Ph.D. is a blog managed by Tanya Golash-Boza, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Merced. The main theme of her blog succeeds in academia, while also living a rich life outside academia. In this blog, she shares advice that will help readers “balance life and work and achieve a happier life on the fast track.” Get a Life, Ph.D. offers a number of informative blog posts on academic writing and publishing. Professor Golash-Boza blogs on topics such as writing a literature review, responding to revising and submitting a journal decision, and presenting at academic conferences. She also writes about academics’ work-life balance, how academics can find time to train, make the most of academic travel, and be an academic parent.

17. Green Tea and Velociraptors (@Protohedgehog):

Green Tea and Velociraptors is a blog managed by Dr. Jon Tennant, Founder, Open Science MOOC. The blog’s exciting name is being revived by its fascinating theme and imagery — it’s not every day you see a dinosaur wearing a top hat at a fancy tea party! Green tea and velociraptors offer you a wide variety of interesting topics to choose from. Dr. Tennant blogs about his learning as a Ph.D. student, his research interests, and other topics relevant to academic life, such as peer review and open science and science communication. The blog also has a section that includes all of his own research publications.

18. Helen Kara (@DrHelenKara):

Dr. Helen Kara is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and a Visiting Fellow at the UK’s National Centre for Research Methods. She has been an independent researcher since 1999 and instructs researchers and students in research methods. Dr. Kara blogs about research methods, academic writing, and publishing, research ethics, research collaboration, etc.

19. James Hayton, Ph.D. (@jameshaytonphd):

Former physicist Dr. James Hayton works with Ph.D. students to help them through the Ph.D. research and writing process. He aims to make the lives of Ph.D. students a little easier when embarking on their journey towards their Ph.D. students. His main focus is to help them develop the skills needed to do a Ph.D. In light of this, his blog offers a rich reserve of blog posts covering topics such as academic writing, doctoral survival, choosing a topic for your thesis, and dealing with Ph.D. mistakes.

20. Jo Van Every (@JoVanEvery ):

Dr. Jo Van Every is an academic career guide who loves “helping others love their academic work.” Her blog provides advice on academic writing; more specifically, it aims to help you develop effective writing skills. She also blogs about publishing to scientific and non-scientific audiences and making decisions throughout the academic journey, addressing procrastination, the need to maintain work-life balance and peer review among many others.

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Startuppers Hitting Us Up With Their Prototypes

A company on Váci Street takes a conscious approach to assisting healthcare startups in achieving international reputation. Its long-term goal is to make sure that great ideas no longer have to travel to the USA to become world-famous – as ten original ideas out of ten do nowadays – but that they can take off from Europe, too. Even from Budapest, the capital city of Hungary. Let us introduce you to Health Venture Lab, power by GE Healthcare, and to four startups destined to make it big in the world of healthcare.

Based on the Forbes interview written by Emese Fekete; Forbes, 2019. November Issue

On the artificial turf flooring, there stands a professional table-tennis table – it’s not every day that you get to see a large Hungarian corporation having such fancy stuff on the second floor of its office building. Here, at the Váci Street headquarters of GE healthcare, this is just another of the many atmospheric elements. No wonder that the place was named ‘Office of the Year’ three years ago – as a matter of fact, the US-based multinational company, which has undergone extensive streamlining for some years now, doesn’t even call it ‘office building’ but ‘campus’.

The cool factor has been added knowingly and intentionally to the work environment as some 700 people come to work here every day. The place hosts a regional service center, along with sales, financial, legal and marketing hubs, and also a think tank comprising more than 400 software development engineers. As we speak, they are the largest development team in GE Healthcare all over Europe.

“This is a hub in Europe,” GE Hungary Vice President Endre Ascsillán says. “Our developers are assigned with global tasks. They keep getting assignments from other European countries and the USA, and we do our best to retain these customers and attract even more from abroad. We’re growing continuously and a year from now, we’ll employ as many as 600 developers.”

In the past few years, the environment has become more and more attractive for European startups geared for healthcare innovation. This trend has intensified since the company’s business accelerator program, the Health Venture Lab (HVL), sponsored by GE and EIT Health, was launched. Today, Health Venture Lab is considered as one of the top 10 healthcare startup schemes on the continent (at least it was ranked as such by the Financial Times, with HVL being the only one among Easter European accelerators to receive such a distinction). In the context of consecutive semi-annual programs, the business incubator sponsors dozens of fresh ideas each year and helps startups develop these ideas into marketable products.

“When startuppers hit us up to join the program with their prototypes under their arm, they also bring their ideas with them and what they get is business training and mentoring” says Endre Ascsillán, adding that this is a decidedly narrow-gauged ‘medtech accelerator’, supporting healthcare related software and hardware solutions for applicants that already have a well-developed prototype.”

Ascsillán emphasizes that what his company offers is professional assistance: admitted applicants enter a world that comprises both the Budapest hub and the environment that the hub has consciously built around itself over the years. This environment includes GE’s global professional infrastructure and a host of clinical and academic partnerships (from the University of Debrecen through Sorbonne to Boston MIT). For a period of six months, each participant receives customized coaching on marketing and pricing, or software development issues, depending on the individual needs of the startup concerned.

Within the framework of this program and during the above stage, startups do not receive any funding from GE because, as Endre Ascsillán puts it, that is not what the Lab is all about. “There’s plenty of cash lying around in the market. So much, in fact, that it’s made the operation of the system somewhat counterproductive.” What the market really needs is ‘smart money’, that is, investment combined with expertise – this is something that the startups participating in the recently closed program have also confirmed. Each of them says that even though they are constantly looking for investors that would help them proceed with the development of their ideas, coaching and mentoring is just as important for them. They crave smart money.

As a next step following Health Venture Lab, GE is developing a financial platform that would bring together high-quality and reliable venture capital investors with investment-worthy startups. “We represent the ’smart’ part of the platform, while venture capital investors will add the ‘money’ Ascsillán describes the direction that GE is headed, as the long-term goal is to make sure that great ideas no longer have to travel to the USA to become world-famous – as ten original ideas out of ten do nowadays – but that they can take off from Europe, too. Global success stories of the future may even get a head start in Budapest, Hungary.

The second accelerator program was completed on October 18. 23 start-ups joined the program, including 17 international and 6 Hungarian teams . We will introduce four of them.  

HOW TO GET PREGNANT USING SALIVA AND SMART PHONE

A tiny microscope, a drop of saliva, a smartphone and an application with imaging analytical algorithm - Babyndex's saliva test shows you fertile days in minutes.

On that Sunday morning on the porch of the Bodós’ family home, it was not only a father and son sitting down to talk – it was fifty years of gynecological experience and a keen interest in IT innovation meeting with fresh expertise in digitization. The experience and interest was brought to the table by Ákos Bodó, obstetrician-gynecologist at Hatvan Hospital, while digitization was his son Zajzon Bodó’s thing who had worked for the European Commission as an economist for many years, analyzing electronic infrastructures and market competition. This combination in itself would not automatically have resulted in the establishment of a healthcare startup aimed at helping people get pregnant, but Zajzon Bodó had always been interested in process automation and when he noticed that healthcare was one of the least digitized industries, the idea of Babyndex came to the fore in family conversations on Sundays.

After having discussed the central issue, namely, things that were still done ‘analog’ in gynecology, it did not take long for father and son to arrive at the topic of the saliva test that, in theory, would reliably indicate a rise in estrogen level, that is, the fertile window, a few days prior to ovulation. However, since the analog method for analyzing a saliva sample is difficult for the uninitiated, this method – even though more reliable than urine pregnancy tests, not to mention the calendar method – has not become widespread. Anyone can get a microscope, and there are special applications for the results of the microscopic examination, read with the naked eye, to be entered into, but a solution for the necessary image analysis – in other words, a precise identification of the crystal structure of saliva – is yet to be found.

But that is the very essence of the entire process: the Babyndex application uses an image processing algorithm to analyze saliva samples, and applies artificial intelligence to extract information from the image and arrive at a conclusion whether the crystal structure signaling a rise in estrogen level is present or not. This part of the application is being developed by a friend of Zajzon Bodó’s, Slovenian bioinformatician Tilen Kranjc (who has a PhD in image analysis), who met Zajzon at a professional conference and joined the team as a co-owner earlier in the year.

Here is how it will work in practice. Firstly, you buy a microscope about the size of a lipstick (an analog device you can find in stores), unscrew the cap and place a drop of saliva (possibly in the morning, before eating or drinking) on the integrated microscope stage. Wait 10 minutes for the saliva to dry, and then place the camera of your smartphone on the microscope and take a photo of the sample, lit by a built-in LED lamp. You can now have the application to immediately analyze the sample by using the image processing algorithm and come to a conclusion on whether the crystal signaling a fertility window is present.

Zajzon Bodó has filed for an international patent, and he is very confident about the marketability and future prospects of the idea. He has been even more confident since Harvard University conducted a research study on the subject last year and predicted ovulation with an accuracy of 99%. International market interest in the prototype of Babyndex is high: the company is in negotiations with an Austrian clinic and, among others, the German pharmaceutical manufacturing company Bayer. They are not only interested in Babyndex because it is expected to be a hit among women trying to conceive (there is a market for that that is worth about half a billion euros at the moment) but also because the application will theoretically be usable as a contraceptive method. The latter market comprises an even bigger customer base, worth about twenty billion euros.

COMPUTER GAME TO IMPROVE EYESIGHT

A Slovenian team is working on an exciting way for kids to cure lazy eye.

Even Žan Menart himself was skeptical at first when eye specialists advised him to focus on finding solutions for amblyopia. By then he and his team had already developed a free application that offered 15 different additional tests for optometrists, supplementing the range of basic vision tests. In the span of a few years, a hundred thousand eye doctors registered as users for the application but Žan still regarded optometry as a niche market. When experts from the Slovenian medical school approached him to develop a computer game that would help with the treatment of a certain vision development disorder called amblyopia, commonly known as ‘lazy eye’, he failed to see the business potential at first.

Five percent of children around the world have amblyopia, but only half of them experience actual vision problems in their everyday lives. The dominant opinion is that this condition can be effectively corrected and cured before the age of 7 or 8 by doing eye muscle exercises daily. The traditional method is to cover the eyeglass lense in front of the person’s good eye so that the muscles that control the movement of the lazy eye are forced to get to work. Also, children who have this condition are asked to do stimulating eye exercises by drawing on a piece of paper and making various hand gestures. Such exercises will only be effective if they are done with discipline and on a daily basis, but, as the doctors will warn their patients, they are very time-consuming and require active involvement on the part of parents, and, most of all, kids tend to find them really boring.

Žan and his team – including two doctors and two developers – decided to use their efforts toward finding a solution, and by today they work on the development of Amblyoplay full time. So far, they have developed ten computer games, with another two coming up this year, and they are planning to add to the software a new feature/new functions each month. Their products are not meant to substitute or replace doctors – they will just make eye exercising at home easier and more exciting as part of the overall therapy.

Based on the experiences gained by a testing team of 40 or 50 people, feedback from partner clinics and initial market response, Žan and his team have created something exciting both from a medical and business point of view, and the highest initial demand seems to come from the world’s biggest market, the USA and Canada. “There are lots of eye clinics in the US and Americans are very open to healthcare equipment, gadgets and therapies,”  Žan says. He has just returned from a trade fair in Las Vegas where he saw that his product was in high demand.

Also, their business model has been clearly defined by now and looks sustainable. They are offering three-month, six-month and twelve-month subscriptions at a price of €100, €170 and €300, respectively (or the equivalent USD amounts). Of course, subscriptions can be renewed – currently, the average term is seven months. New subscribers are given a box with special eyeglasses in it (one of the lenses is red and the other one is blue – they are required for playing the games) and an access code to the application. Experience has taught Žan that he had to “give people something tangible, some kind of physical item, because they weren’t willing to pay that much for the application in itself.” Bundled with the glasses, however, the application sells well and the profit margin (35 percent on three-month subscriptions) is high enough for the startup to break even in no time.

This means that even though at this moment they do not need additional capital, they are planning to enter the US market to sell high volumes next year, so preparations are being made for raising funds of 1 million euros from investors. Žan believes that making it into the top 3 service providers in the US market for at-home vision therapy within 5 years is a reasonable goal for the startup. Then they will enter the somewhat more conservative European market, but even before that, the application will already be available at the company’s webshop to all kids who are comfortable with doing exercises in the English language.

FIGHTING CANCER WITH DATABASE AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

More data, more life, says a Romanian gynecologic oncologist who builds a platform with his colleagues where all necessary information is available at one place to cure cancer patients.

No one should be doomed to die just because a medical report is lost or takes too long to reach the right specialist, so says gynecologist-oncologist Madalin Margan of Temesvár, Romania. The young doctor knows well how health facilities in Romania – and, to some extent, in Easter Europe – work. The way he sees it, one of the biggest problems is that a huge amount of patient data, files and reports are floating around but these institutions are unable to analyze and process such information quickly and efficiently enough to help patients the way they should.

To that end, Oncochain is building a web-based platform available to all stakeholders that may be involved in any way in the treatment of patients. Such stakeholders include doctors at clinics, medical schools, pharmaceutical companies, researchers at cancer centers, and, of course, the cancer patients themselves for whom each and every day matters and speed is of the essence.

A huge amount of patient data, files and reports are floating around but these institutions are unable to analyze and process information quickly and efficiently enough to help patents. 

Patients are asked to authorize stakeholders to access the platform by signing the necessary consent form, and once they have, all of their existing medical examinations and the results of such tests will be uploaded into the system. “We are fully GDPR compliant,” emphasizes Madalin, referring to the fact that they are dealing with truly sensitive data – it is no wonder that from the very beginning the startup has been working with a major law firm with regard to the furnishing of guarantees and securities.

But the most important thing is to ensure that healing gets done, meaning that the patient and their doctors are always up-to-date and have access to the entire corpus of examination results – and the dots that need to be connected will be connected. Madalin has found that due to the inadequate flow of information, many patients are left out of clinical research programs, the latest therapies, or research studies run by pharmaceutical companies, and even the so-called second medical opinion is slow to arrive as the diagnoses and medical reports relating to a patient can only be collected from multiple sources through a multistage process.

Even the patients themselves are not entirely certain about what is being done to them and how their treatment is progressing. Patients would be able to access their own Oncochain data via a smartphone application free of charge (the application for Android and iOS will be launched at year-end). Also, they will be notified by the system every time someone accesses their data. Healthcare providers, research institutes and pharmacies, however, will have to pay for using the platform.

An up-to-date and big database would be of immense value to pharmaceutical companies, too. Cancer treatment is a dynamically evolving field, but researchers need to analyze a high number and a huge variety of cancer cases in order to be able to come up with improved therapies. For that reason, in addition to Madalin’s fellow doctors, the Oncochain team also includes IT specialists, data miners and developers specialized in artificial intelligence and block-chain technologies, trying to integrate all the latest technologies (such as machine learning, AI, IoT) into their oncological software. As Madalin likes to say, “More data, more research, more lives saved.” 

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Call for Proposals: Amazon Research Awards Program for Colleges or Universities that grant PhD degrees in fields related to Machine Learning

Amazon Research Awards (“ARAs”) are structured as a one-year unrestricted gifts to academic institutions. ARA funding amounts will be determined by Amazon in its sole discretion. ARA funding is not extendable or transferable, but you may submit new proposals for subsequent ARA Program calls.

Focus Areas

Computer vision Recognition: categorization, detection, segmentation Visual search Deep neural network compression and optimization Video understanding: actions, events Large-scale data annotation Computer vision for apparel Human body: detection, tracking, pose Motion: segmentation, tracking 3D modeling: structure-from-motion, slam, stereo and reconstruction Computational photography Computer vision for robotics Faces and gestures Image and video captioning

Fairness in artificial intelligence Transparency, explainability, and accountability in AI systems Theories of computational/algorithm fairness and factors that affect algorithmic trustworthiness Ethical decision-support and decision-making systems Detecting and ameliorating adverse biases in data and algorithms, and fairness-aware design of algorithms Metrics and methods for designing, piloting, and evaluating systems that mitigate against adverse biases and ensure fairness, including the use of human-machine collaboration and decision support Statistical methods for detecting bias in systems as they are operating

Knowledge management and data quality Data cleaning for machine learning Graph mining from knowledge graphs and user behaviors Knowledge embedding Knowledge extraction from unstructured and semi-structured data Knowledge verification Knowledge-based search Large-scale data alignment and integration Leveraging structured knowledge in deep learning and recommendation Quantitative and logical error detection

Machine learning algorithms and theory Active learning and data cleaning Data and resource efficient learning Deep learning and representation learning Fair, explicable and interpretable learning Transfer and meta-learning Online and continual learning Parallel and distributed Learning Robust and privacy preserving learning Reinforcement learning

Natural language processing Advances in neural MT for noisy and user-generated content Chatbots and dialogue systems Detection of inappropriate content Efficient training and fast inference for neural MT Context-aware MT Explainability in neural NLP methods Fact extraction, verification and trustworthiness in unstructured data Multitask and reinforcement learning for MT Named entity translation and transliteration NLP applications in search Question answering Text summarization Narrative understanding Common sense inference

Online advertising AI methods for online advertising Algorithmic marketing Large scale experimentation and testing Learning mechanisms Measurement of brand advertising Online algorithms for targeting, bidding and pricing Optimizing for long term objectives Prediction, forecasting and automated decision making in ad systems Structure of advertising marketplaces

Operations research and optimization Assortment management Management of warehouse operations Marketplace design: incentives/policies for increasing efficiency and growth in a multi-agent marketplace Strategic supply chain management: network design/topology Tactical supply chain management: vendor management (including supplier contract negotiation and procurement), inventory buying, inventory deployment, demand fulfillment Transportation: long-haul operations (including airline operations), last-mile operations Other supply chain optimization topic

Personalization Approaches to estimate quality of recommenders using abundant implicit and sparse explicit feedback Detecting and responding to spam in behavioral data to protect customers in recommendation contexts Scalable NLP approaches for search query understanding for non-English Scalable approaches to detect incorrect catalog information Approaches to identity synonyms in noisy product catalog Item-to-item collaborative filtering using deep learning

Robotics Affective and social interactions Autonomous navigation and mobility Dexterous and reactive manipulation Human machine interaction and collaboration Machine learning and learning from human preferences Motion planning Multi-robot systems and multi-agent pathfinding Object detection and pose estimation Sample-efficient reinforcement learning Semantic scene understanding for robotics Simulation and sim to real transfer SLAM and long-term autonomy Theoretical advances as well as practical applications

Search and information retrieval Multilingual language understanding Conversational search

Security, privacy and abuse prevention ML for malware analysis and detection Browser/device fingerprint and digital forensics Early detection of emerging patterns with limited labeled data (one-shot-learning) Fraud detection and prevention Graph modeling (latent representations from a graph and anomaly detection) Human-in-the-loop machine learning Online and adaptive machine learning Web behavioral modeling, online identity and password-less authentication Threat and intrusion detection for cloud security ML for obfuscation detection from text, image and online behaviors Detection and tracking of online adversarial attempts

Dateline for submission: October 4, 2019, 11:59 PT.

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This Photographer Helps Others Find Therapy with the Art of Photography

Nina Robinson’s phototherapy program harnesses photography’s innate ability to bring about healing and inspiration both for her and her elderly students.

As a documentary photographer, Minneapolis-based Nina Robinson draws inspiration from both the people she has interviewed and fellow photographers whose works explore transformation, family, social issues, and solution-focused journalism. But as an educator, she didn’t realize how the Phototherapy program she helped develop would also cultivate a passion for teaching senior citizens.

Editor’s Note: Visual Momentum refers to the flow of storytelling and its effect on the viewer’s thinking process. This series highlights creators who are successfully using their tools and minds to create an impact on the world through imagery with the intent of inciting action. With the support of Fujifilm, we share their stories. Be sure to also check out the video interview on This Week in Photo

It all started as a two-year program she nurtured and developed independently with the Bronx Lebanon Hospital Department of Family Medicine in 2015. From a beginner’s photography class for senior citizens at the William Hodson Senior Center in the Bronx, Nina’s work organically evolved into a phototherapy course after she decided its structure and impact needed reevaluation. This change came about after several exercises and projects that revealed it was leaning toward a more profoundly personal route. “As the instructor, my goal was to get my students, the elderly population, motivated, engaged and talking about the topics that mattered to them to keep their minds stimulated,” explains Nina to the Phoblographer in an interview. “It was about understanding the human connection and creating a comfortable environment for the seniors to speak openly and honestly, instead of internalizing issues.”

Photographers are no strangers to using the medium to evoke emotions, incite ideas, and tell personal stories. “The depth of some of the discussions about shared photos often evoked concealed emotions and thoughts about self-discovery, experience and social views as a whole for many of the students as well as for me,” noted Nina. She also understood that this program had the potential to add another dimension. Built on the perspectives of senior citizens, it could be a thought-provoking avenue to surface their unique stories waiting to be told.

Unpacking Memories with or Without the Lens

“I felt very drawn to images photographed by my student Sarah Carter, who had a digital point and shoot camera that she would take with her everywhere. From her bus rides through the city, to other events she would attend and the body of work she would bring me to review was amazing. Barry Hardy, he used to be a truck driver and through discussion he revealed how much he missed driving so he chose to incorporate photo taken with his SLR camera by snapping photos out the window while he was driving. He got some incredible shots from that.”

After the icebreakers that are typical of every class, Nina asked her students to bring in family photographs. Those who didn’t have photographs brought in family heirlooms or items of personal significance. Building a discussion about these photos and items forged the bond of the class and helped them identify on a personal level. The phototherapy program eventually became the perfect avenue for her elderly students to confront and explore various personal themes — the most common being memory, family, politics, and race. Some of them had cameras — from digital point and shoots to SLR digital cameras, and even a Polaroid Land Camera — to unpack all these issues and channel them into compelling, straightforward photographs. Others were content to attend the classes just for the discussions about photography, or engage in the discussions about the photos brought in to the sessions.

Two of these students made an impression on Nina — her interactions prompted the realization that she would build emotional, inspirational bonds with them. Their photos provided a glimpse into their daily life and even the seemingly trivial things they missed from an earlier point in life. Despite all its benefits, phototherapy also came with its own set of challenges both for Nina and the participants. She found it mainly revolved around processing many of the responses to the images she was showing during the sessions. These would also often spiral off into discussions about their personal experiences, beliefs, emotions, and memories — topics that she noted had been suppressed for many years but resurfaced with the combination of pain and liberation.

Creative avenues and expressive art activities like photography have always been encouraged for the elderly to enrich their lives and bring about a myriad of benefits to senior health. Among these, according to Barbara Bagan, PhD, ATR-BC in Geriatric Monthly, include reducing depression and anxiety, assisting in socialization, fostering a stronger sense of identity, and offering sensory cognition. These advantages play a notably prominent role in the program Nina developed.

“Our elderly population is often ignored in our society and we need to understand the importance of giving them a platform like this because they still have a lot to say and a lot they can do. Engaging in phototherapy amplifies their voices. It creates a space for them to speak, share, feel empowered and meet new people they may not have met otherwise.”

Students from Nina Robinson’s Photothearpy class at William Hodson Senior Center practice street photography using Polaroid cameras.

Phototherapy Goes Both Ways

It’s no surprise that photography can be a very powerful tool for healing and drawing inspiration, and the Phototherapy program showed how it often goes both ways. For the senior students, a single image could trigger a discussion and tap into emotions they’ve never felt, or haven’t in a long time. Sharing their personal stories helps build their confidence and individuality, encouraged by a safe space built on respect and empowerment. Nina stressed that among the important lessons for her as an educator is to understand that teachers are also students, and each session is a collaborative effort. This perspective shifted her photographic process from simply telling a story about communities to involving communities in the conversation.

Nina continues to teach visual and social workshops like the Phototherapy program across the US. While that particular program concluded with her move to Arkansas, it served as her inspiration for the multi-generational photo workshop and youth photo boot camp she facilitated in the state. “I am happy to know that organizations like the Bronx Documentary Center was inspired by my work and developed a photography class supporting the elderly population in the Bronx.” she stated. “My hope is to partner with hospitals and clinics to provide these photo/social workshops to communities across the US who wouldn’t normally have access to a program like this.”

The Creative Process for the Documentary Photographer

A Fujifilm user for the last five years, Nina’s go-to camera is the Fujifilm X-Pro2 for its compact size and electronic shutter mode. “It fits perfectly in my hands and reminds me of my very first camera, the Minolta X 700. What I love most about my X-Pro2 is the electronic shutter mode, which has helped me tremendously as I capture stills on film sets, intimate moments with families, and at the William Hodson Senior Center where I used to teach. I used XF 16-55 mm f2.8 and the XF 35mm f1.4 lenses to capture the portraits of my students and other senior citizens that considered the senior center a second home.”

It’s interesting to note the impact of the Phototherapy program on Nina herself, both as the facilitator of the classes and a documentary photographer faced with the opportunity to draw inspiration from her students’ stories. However, her primary goal as an educator takes precedence, and it’s where she mostly devoted her creative energies. When she did manage to take photos around the senior center, she was able to channel what she learned from her students in terms of visual storytelling.

A portrait of Thelma, a PhotoTherapy student at the William Hodson Senior Center and one of her photographs.

A portrait of Sarah, a PhotoTherapy student at the William Hodson Senior Center and one of her photographs.

A portrait of Mr. Brown, a PhotoTherapy student at the William Hodson Senior Center and one of his photographs.

A portrait of Berry, a PhotoTherapy student at the William Hodson Senior Center and one of his photographs.

“I wasn’t too focused on documenting what I was doing as the purpose of my class was getting my students to talk and interact with each other, getting them excited about image-making or discussing a topic around a photograph— understanding what they see in the image and also how the image makes them feel. Since I was the facilitator, it was quite difficult to document unless we had a speaker, on a field trip or when my students split up in pairs to photograph each other or photograph the neighborhood. I’d often come in early or stay late and photograph around the senior center.”

“This was hands down one of the most rewarding experiences in my photo career I’ve ever had (without picking up my camera). Truly miss my students. I don’t think they know how much they’ve changed my life and what I learned from them. How I view visual storytelling now has a lot to do with what we collectively shared in class.”

Watch Nina’s Podcast Interview on TWiP

About Nina Robinson

Nina’s documentary photography covers stories in the American South, Midwest, and the East Coast. She describes her work as a mixture of her past experiences, with the goal of bridging documentary, personal elements, and fine art. Her visual storytelling style, she said, has been present since she first picked up the camera. It was developing the confidence to pursue what she thought was interesting instead of being told what was acceptable that she had to learn over time.

As a creative, she allows her own artful approach to come out naturally. “I think of the quote by Edward Alby: ‘If you intellectualize and examine the creative process too carefully it will evaporate and vanish.’ My gifts are embedded within me and don’t want to dull or disconnect from my work by thinking too hard about adding them to my work.”

Nina’s current focus falls strongly on underrepresented communities to break the visual prejudices of race, class, age, and gender. The strength of documentary photography, for her, lies in both having a good eye and an understanding and respect for the people in front of the lens. Her photos have appeared in American Photo, TIME Lightbox, Lens Culture, New York Times Lens Blog, and Wall Street Journal. Apart from exhibits, she was one of the three photographers awarded with the Getty Instagram Grant in 2017, and a recipient of a reporting grant from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.

As a visual storyteller, she seeks to reveal the beauty of truth and honesty at its core. For her personal projects, she ensures that each one feels personal and uniquely her by reshaping how she communicates visually, and to whom. ” In this industry, we talk a lot about influencing change with our images, but what does that even mean? By asking that question I became more interested in the non-traditional photographer, the communities I photograph and how individuals see themselves in modern-day photography.”

Editor’s Note: This is a sponsored blog post from Fujifilm

About FUJIFILM North America Corporation (Fujifilm)

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Learning to Teach 2018

Announcing Learning to Teach Conference, January 20th, 2018 in NYC. Tickets

Learning to Teach is a day-long conference for educators teaching computation in creative fields like art, design or digital humanities departments. Led by Taeyoon Choi (SFPC) and Tega Brain (NYU), the conference will feature keynotes by leading educators including Daniel Shiffman, Naomi Clark, Brad Garton. The keynote speakers will share their experiences teaching computer programming and related topics, their strategies for blending critical thinking, engineering, and inspiring creativity in a teaching environment. This year’s program will include a participatory session for attendees to observe the pedagogical strategies of their peers and develop teaching approaches of their own. Join us to explore the intersection of pedagogy and creative practice, and get ready for the year ahead.

Date: January 20th, 2018 (10am ~ 5pm)

Venue: Integrated Digital Media, NYU, 8th floor of 2 Metrotech Center. Brooklyn. 

Organizers: School for Poetic Computation (SFPC), Processing Foundation and Integrated Digital Media, NYU (IDM).

Early Bird Tickets:  General & Full-time faculty: $100, Freelancers and Adjunct faculty: $60, Sponsor ticket (with VIP access to a private reception with speakers on January 19th): $200

Keynote speakers: 

Daniel Shiffman works as an Associate Arts Professor at the Interactive Telecommunications Program at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. Originally from Baltimore, Daniel received a BA in Mathematics and Philosophy from Yale University and a Master’s Degree from the ITP. He is a director of The Processing Foundation and develops tutorials, examples, and libraries for Processing and p5.js. He is the author of Learning Processing: A Beginner’s Guide to Programming Images, Animation, and Interaction and The Nature of Code (self-published via Kickstarter), an open source book about simulating natural phenomenon in Processing. He can be found talking incessantly on YouTube about programming.

Naomi Clark is an independent game designer based in New York City and an Assistant Arts Professor at the NYU Game Center. For more than two decades she's designed, produced, and written for a wide variety of games spanning many platforms and audiences. Among the several dozen released games she's contributed to are early text-based virtual worlds, downloadable and mobile games for mass audiences, and online games for LEGO. She's taught classes on the study and design of games at Parsons: the New School for Design, the New York Film Academy, and the School of Visual Arts, and has contributed writing on games to publications (Feministe) and collections of essays (Videogames for Humans, Queer Game Studies) in addition to co-authoring a textbook entitled A Game Design Vocabulary. For the last fourteen years, Naomi has also served as part of the collective that runs the Sylvia Rivera Law Project, a non-profit legal organization by and for the trans and gender non-conforming communities of New York. Her current design projects are primarily non-digital games: Consentacle, a two-player game of trust, communication and intimacy, and Lacerunner, a 19th-century revision of an existing commercial card game.

Brad Garton received his BS in pharmacology from Purdue University, where he also worked towards an MS in psychoacoustics. He eventually entered the graduate music composition program at Princeton University and was awarded a PhD in music composition in 1989.  He is currently a Professor on the composition faculty of Columbia University, where he also serves as Director of the Computer Music Center. Much of his work has focused upon the development and real-time use of music performance models, especially in collaboration with Terry Pender and Gregory Taylor in the improvisatory group "PGT".  He is an active composer and music software developer, co-authoring the computer music language RTcmix.  He has written a number of 'language objects' for Max/MSP, melding the capabilities of diverse music and general-purpose programming languages with the extensive music and graphics processing of the Max platform.  Recently he has embedded the RTcmix language within the Unity Game engine, enabling extended algorithmic and audio capabilities in the Unity environment.  He has worked as consultant on the design and installation of computer music facilities throughout the world.

Event photo: Kaho Abe at Learning to Teach 2017, Photo by Kira Simon-Kennedy 

Press inquiries and request for accessibility & sign language interpretation: taeyoon@sfpc.io 

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Master of Business Administration (MBA) Capstone Project: From A to Z

What Is a Capstone Project MBA?

The MBA capstone project is a two-semester process with the direction of a staff guide in which understudies seek after free research on an inquiry or issue of their decision, draw in with the academic discussions in the applicable controls, and – create a generous paper that mirrors a profound comprehension of the point. The MBA capstone project ideas by the experts can help you in writing it in a better way. The project is all about the subjects that you have studied in the 2 semesters.

Structure of a Well-Written MBA Capstone Project

You should pursue an extremely organized process once your theme has been affirmed.

You should find and outline unique research that has been directed on your subject that you can incorporate into your venture. What inquire about has just been done on your exploration question?

What kind of research undertaking will you plan? Rather, you should show that the exploration you have led has addressed your inquiry or demonstrated our speculation. Now and again, with a Bachelor’s capstone venture, you won’t be requested.

At the Master’s and PhD levels, in any case, you should plan an examination venture that will expand upon the exploration officially finished by others. You will at that point need to investigate the information you have gathered and confirm that your examination question has been replied.

You will at that point review your task, being mindful so as to keep up an academic methodology and tone/style. Your decision will address our examination question or speculation once more. Did you answer the inquiry or demonstrate your speculation? What may others need to take a gander at to improve the work that you have done? Learn good ideas for MBA capstone project and law capstone project ideas.

MBA Capstone Project Business: How to Choose the Topic?

You have numerous options when it comes to choosing the topic for MBA capstone. Have a look at these topics to get great help for writing the capstone project.

Generate branding through online marketing tools

Brand management for internet-based branding initiatives

The interest rate in the stock market

Brand management for user visibility

Different marketing strategies for different types of industry

Adopting marketing strategies in the digital world

Increase business revenue without the use of technology

Social media marketing in the fashion industry

Healthcare branding strategies tips

Review on consumer buying behavior towards SUV cars

E-Learning: Is it effective in MBA?

Brand communications strategies

Brand promotions on effective marketing methods

Offline and online performance measurement tools and platforms

Impact of website marketing

France marketing strategies for restaurant businesses

Consumer engagement through online classified websites

Marketing for the healthcare industry

Business administration with the present generation

Effective practices for business administration over the years

Steps Timeline of Capstone Project MBA

For writing the capstone project for MBA, you must know about some basics of doing this task. Here are some steps that can guide you well in writing a captivating capstone paper.

Intro

In this segment of the capstone venture, understudies need to expound on the exploration issue, their methodology, points of interest and consequently share their thoughts on the chose subject. The presentation is a fundamental yet an essential piece of each task.

Literature review

You have to make reference to the prior looks into regarding the matter, think about them and give your examination on all the earlier discoveries. This area incorporates a concise depiction of the past data and looks into that had been led on the theme.

Methods

Basically, the whole data about the point and techniques adjusted for the examination should be clarified in this area. The depiction of the whole research is incorporated into this segment. The wellsprings of information, the strategy utilized for information accumulation, unwavering quality issues and so forth are every one of the parts of this area.

Results

You have to give a response to every one of the inquiries proposed toward the start of the capstone venture. It incorporates portrayal and union of information gathered in the examination work.

Concluding part

This is a sensible end must be strikingly confined. Beginning and consummation are critical in any capstone venture. Examination, future suggestions, and constraints make the end eye-catching.

Questions to Ask When Starting an MBA Capstone Project

What is the scope of this project?

What are the findings?

How long would the project take to be completed?

What is the purpose of choosing this topic?

What are the ways to get the precise findings?

The Expert Tips

Intriguing: for yourself as well as for others in your field. You need to choose an issue that is genuine that will take advantage on the off chance that you can unravel it.

Attainable: you just have a specific measure of time and different assets accessible to you for your undertaking. In this manner, you should take care to choose ventures that can be finished with what you have accessible.

Testing: you should have the capacity to exhibit what you have realized through your MBA program so the extent of your task must enable you to demonstrate your insight.

Concentration: your concentration is important if you are not so interested in this task.

One of a kind: on the off chance that the issue has just been examined and arrangements characterized, there is little advantage in your basically duplicating what they have effectively done.

Common Mistakes and How to Avoid Them?

These are the mistakes that you must avoid while working on the capstone project for MBA. Students who don’t pay enough attention to this task confront serious issues of repetitive rejections.

Adding so many quotes without discussing each point properly.

Writing the words and sentences repetitively.

Not covering all the areas that can bring more improvement in the study.

Not adding the brief information under the single heading.

The addition of personal opinions and arguments. This can badly affect the image of your work without any doubt.

Check our list of MBA capstone project ideas and choose the right one for you!