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Paratus Namibia has signed its first ‘fibre open access’ agreement with Africa Online. As part of the deal, Paratus will share its infrastructure with licensed operators in delivering fibre connections to the broader business and domestic market in Namibia. By removing the main barrier to enter the market, Open Access allows multiple operators to share […]

Published March 1, 2021, 7:00 AM At least 13 new customers – mostly buildings and water pumping stations in Metro Manila that include Maynilad Water Services Inc. – have switched electricity suppliers following the threshold lowering of the Retail Competition and Open Access (RCOA) policy by February this year. In a briefing with reporters, Jonathan Dela Viña, market operations development manager of the Independent Electricity Market Operator of the Philippines (IEMOP), indicated that the...

Researchers review data related to high number of cancer deaths in China The past century or so has seen unprecedented technological, scientific, and sociological evolution worldwide. These have accompanied global shifts in peoples lifestyles and rapid changes in the environment, both natural and man-made. An unfavorable consequence of these alterations has been the increasing burden of cancer on human society. As the country with the largest population, China has borne this burden heavily. Des...

 E-Mail IMAGE: A comprehensive review of the recent cancer incidence, mortality, and risk factor data in China shows that it is possible to prevent the disease to a large extent, partly erasing... view more  Credit: Cancer Biology & Medicine The past century or so has seen unprecedented technological, scientific, and sociological evolution worldwide. These have accompanied global shifts in peoples lifestyles and rapid changes in the environment, both natural and man-made. An unfavorab...

Published February 25, 2021, 8:00 AM The country’s electric cooperatives (ECs) are prodded to undertake their competitive selection process (CSP) on power supply agreements (PSAs) to guarantee that they will not suffer supply shortages in the immediate term, especially with the portended economic recovery post-pandemic. To ensure that power supply auctions are carried out in a timely manner, National Electrification Administration (NEA) Chief Edgardo R. Masongsong has issued Memorandum No. 20...

Date Time New Signaling Pathway in Neurons A new signaling pathway has been identified that can prevent the overproduction of certain RNA-protein complexes in neurons. These complexes play an important role in neurodegenerative diseases. The molecule Larp7 plays an important role in the assembly of snRNP complexes. It accumulates in nerve cells (arrow) where the complexes are formed. (Image: Changhe Ji / Universität Würzburg) Neurodegenerative diseases, such as various forms of senile dement...

Associate Editor Paula Jauregui shares her take on the strengths of PLOS Biology, recommended reads, and more.

Through an agreement with the Tulane University Libraries, newly published articles by Tulane researchers appearing in any of nearly 500 academic journals from Cambridge University Press and the American Chemical Society will be freely available to all readers under an Open Access model. (Photo by Sally Asher)   The Tulane University Libraries have signed two Publish and Read agreements with two major scholarly journal publishers. Under these recent agreements, newly published articles by ...

Credit: Alzheimer Europe Luxembourg, 23 February 2021 - At an online European Parliament workshop hosted by Deirdre Clune MEP (Ireland), Alzheimer Europe launched a new report "Data Sharing in Dementia Research", which reviews recent changes in EU research policy and sets out recommendations to improve data sharing in dementia research. In this report, Alzheimer Europe evaluates the legal and policy landscapes that dementia researchers have had to navigate since the launch of Horizon 2020 in 2...

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