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Another city bird only in New York?
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At reader request, I’ve added these daily charts from 91-DIVOC. The data is the Johns Hopkins CSSE data. Here is the site. I feel I’m engaging in a macabre form of tape-watching…. (A reader asked the source of the data: Johns Hopkins CSSE. DIVOC-91 does allow other data sets to be used, like Our World in Data and The Atlantic, and where they provide visualizations similar to those below, a cursory comparison shows that the shape of the curves is the same.)
Northeast up, others flattening or down. I’d hate to think that was a zero sum game of short supply. More on vaccination:
AUSTRALIA/NEW ZEALAND – Market research agency Fiftyfive5 has extended its graduate programme and appointed eight graduates.
Samuel Carrick, Janelle Fandialan, Vince Lam, Alice Harris, Jack Ryan and Christy Johnston will join the firm’s Sydney team, while Franziska Deitert will be based in the firm’s office in Auckland, New Zealand.
The company also said it would retain Caelan Bistram as a graduate, having joined the agency last year as an intern.
The group have come from various backgrounds, including marketing and media at Macquarie University; business at University of Technology Sydney; arts, media and communications, marketing and design and commerce degrees from Sydney University; and commerce from the University of Auckland.
From tenured academics to podcasters: Universitiesâ move to online goes permanent
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Australian universities are outsourcing their online teaching to private companies to reduce costs and reach greater numbers of students, as temporary changes made in response to the pandemic become permanent.
Education technology companies are expected to double their $36 billion global online market within five years as public universities increasingly form commercial partnerships with them to help deliver online courses.
Universities are increasingly partnering with private companies to deliver online courses.
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After surviving almost six months in a secret detention facility, experts fear Australian journalist Cheng Lei’s journey through China s opaque legal system is only just beginning.
Chinese authorities formally arrested the popular television anchor on Monday on suspicion of “illegally supplying state secrets overseas” but provided no details about the nature of her alleged crimes
Even the Australian government is in the dark, with Foreign Minister Marise Payne telling ABC Radio she was “not privy” to the circumstances behind the journalist’s arrest.
At the time of her sudden detention, on 13 August last year, Ms Cheng had worked as a business anchor for the Chinese government s English-language broadcaster CGTN for more than eight years.
Skeletal age calculator aims to better identify individuals at risk of bone fractures
Researchers at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research have developed a computational model to calculate skeletal age , a personalized estimate of an individual s risk of bone fracture and premature death.
The skeletal age calculator, which will be accessible to doctors and health professionals, aims to better identify those at risk of a first bone fracture and subsequent fractures, and also estimates how fractures impact life expectancy.
Osteoporosis, a disease which reduces bone strength and increases bone fracture risk, is a major national health issue and estimated to affect over 900,000 Australians. The cost of osteoporosis and fracture in Australia is $3.4 billion annually.