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BBS-Bioactive Bone Substitutes Plc, Company Announcement on 1 February 2021 at 3:35 pm (UTC +2:00)
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Liisa Hukka from Talenom Plc. has been appointed chief financial officer (CFO) of BBS-Bioactive Bone Substitutes PlC (”BBS”, ”the Company”). Hukka will take up her position on 1 February, 2021, when the Company’s current CFO
Hannu Säynäjäkangas retires. Hukka works on BBS’ Management Team and reports to the CEO.
Hukka has extensive experience in industrial financial management in both international listed companies and domestic growth companies. She is specialized in financial management in transition and growth phases of companies. For the past 5 years, Hukka has worked as a financial administration consultant at Talenom. Prior to that, she worked as CFO at Nestor Cable and in various financial management and business support positions at the Dutch Draka Holding BV Group. Hukka holds M.Sc. in Production Management. She also holds MSc from C
3 Tips For Designing At-Home Monitoring Devices That Deliver Actionable Information
By Anna (Ronning) Cohen and Hilde Viroux, PA Consulting
We’re all seeing it in real time: Healthcare is increasingly shifting from clinical settings to our homes. The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the development of at-home monitoring products and many are collecting data in the background without requiring specific user action. This acceleration is not likely to slow down post-pandemic. In this article, we define “passive at-home monitoring tools” as non-invasive products that continuously monitor elements of health and collect the user’s data without the direct supervision of a healthcare professional. Take, for example, smart devices such as the Apple Watch or a biosensor patch neither requires operation from the user to collect data, so we consider them to be passive at-home monitoring tools.
UK consortium launches InCEPTion project to develop integrated electric aircraft propulsion module
Unmanned aerial systems (UAS) specialist Blue Bear Systems Research, a UK Small to Medium Enterprise, has formed a seven-strong consortium to develop a next-generation, all-electric propulsion module to enhance aircraft performance while reducing operating costs. The propulsion module is a scalable design and is the first in a range of products that can be used for aircraft less than 5 tonnes in the near term.
The project Integrated Flight Control, Energy Storage and Propulsion Technologies for Electric Aircraft (InCEPTion) is supported and co-funded by the UK’s Aerospace Technology Institute and Innovate UK and was launched this month. The 24-month project will deliver a highly power-dense, quiet and efficient propulsion module with zero emissions out.
A reflection on Toyin Falola’s ‘Is the diaspora now about rubbishing those at home?’
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Thu Jan 28 2021
Professor Toyin Falola noted in his recent essay titled: “Is the diaspora now about rubbishing those at home?” that universities in the cultural West would not grant faculty positions to people holding Nigerian university doctorates unless they demonstrate exceptional talents. To support his point, I know a few people from Nigeria who had to do a doctorate again in Western universities for them to be employed as academics in the West. Professor Wale Adebanwi of the University of Oxford is a famous case in point. Adebanwi obtained a doctorate at the University of Ibadan and had to get another doctorate at the University of Cambridge to be employed at the University of Oxford. This does not suggest that Adebanwi is intellectually more curious than the rest of us that he opted for another doctorate. In fact, doing a second doctorate does not demonstrate intellectual curio
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A leading academic expert on national security has called for a radical shake-up in how the UK deals with major crises on the scale of the current pandemic.
Former industrialist and MoD official Dr Simon Harwood said it was time for a new body which does not just try and spot what could go wrong, but also sets out the steps which need to be taken so the UK can cope with the country s next extraordinary / extreme event.
This could be another pandemic or for other major risks , such as a serious terrorist attack, cyber-biological threat, space-weather or the potential catastrophic impact of man-made climate change - such as flooding or other extreme weather events.