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Florida State University News FSU planning lab awarded state grant for disaster mitigation January 22, 2021 | 12:29 pm | SHARE: Grant funds will be used for projects that will improve public safety, resource management and social equity for a more resilient Florida, said Dennis J. Smith, planner in residence, Department of Urban & Regional Planning. The Florida State University Department of Urban and Regional Planning (DURP) has received an award of $348,898 through  the Florida Departme...

Philips TV Tuner History pt5 Competition and Growth Introduction We have reached the end of the 1980s, probably the turning point in the Philips Tuner history. On the one hand the business has been doing well: constant consolidation of (mainly European and US) competitors has substantially increased the market share and volumes, making it one of the global top3 tuner makers. However, in parallel the emergence of Japanese competition has made the business environment increasingly harsh, with a s...

Details Karen Fite, who served as interim vice president and director of the Enterprise Innovation Institute (EI2), has retired after 27 years of service. David Bridges, director of EI2’s Economic Development Lab (EDL), has assumed the interim vice president role.Download Image David Bridges, Economic Development Lab director, will lead unit as interim VP Posted January 7, 2021 • Atlanta, GA Karen Fite, who, for the past 18 months has led the Georgia ...

Spurring Innovation to Help Venezuelans January 01, 2021 share Print The U.S. Agency for International Development and the Inter-American Development Bank launched the BetterTogether, or Juntos-Es-Mejor, Challenge. Embed share The URL has been copied to your clipboard 0:00 0:03:52 0:00 Pop-out player The mismanagement and corruption of the illegitimate regime of Nicolás Maduro has plunged Venezuela into the worst humanitarian, political, and economic crisis in its history. The United States ha...

By mapping the brain activity of expert computer programmers while they puzzled over code, Johns Hopkins University scientists have found the neural mechanics behind this increasingly vital skill. Though researchers have long suspected the brain mechanism for computer programming would be similar to that for math or even language, this study revealed that when seasoned coders work, most brain activity happens in the network responsible for logical reasoning, though in the left brain region, whi...

Nomawonga Khumalos short film, Five Tiger selected for 2021 Sundance Film Fest Five Tiger, the short film debut of South African writer/director Nomawonga Khumalo has been selected to play in the 2021 Sundance Film Festival. Set in present day South Africa, Five Tiger tells the story of Fiona, a god-fearing woman, who finds herself in a transactional relationship with the leader of her church as she tries to support her sick husband and daughter. An intersectional approach to exploring femini...

 E-Mail IMAGE: The graphic shows the how the brain activates during computer programming, compared to brain activations for logical reasoning and language. view more  Credit: Johns Hopkins University By mapping the brain activity of expert computer programmers while they puzzled over code, Johns Hopkins University scientists have found the neural mechanics behind this increasingly vital skill. Though researchers have long suspected the brain mechanism for computer programming would be...