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Hitachi Social Innovation Forum 2021 Americas (HSIF) will bring executives and experts from Hitachi Group businesses and will be joined by digital leaders from different sectors of society to tell how “the pandemic accelerated data-driven initiatives” and the “story of how organisations adapted to the new normal.”
Hitachi America and its digital solutions subsidiary Hitachi Vantara, announced Hitachi Social Innovation Forum 2021 Americas (HSIF), a free three-day virtual event showcasing visionaries and practitioners who lead and deploy strategies to solve today’s problems, will be held on May 25-27. (May 26-28 for Australia and New Zealand and can be attended live or viewed on-demand).
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Politecnico di Milano: Horizon 2020 project to provide public authorities with tools to design commuter oriented urban policies
Nicola Colaninno (Department of Architecture and Urban Studies, Politecnico di Milano) was awarded a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship 2020 for the MultiCAST project: Multiscale Thermal-Related Urban Climate Analysis and Simulation Tool. The project will be funded with more than €250,000 under the European Union s Horizon 2020 programme.
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Father’s Early-Life Exposure to Stress Associated with Child’s Brain Development
The FinnBrain research of the University of Turku has demonstrated for the first time that the stress the father has experienced in his childhood is connected to the development of the white matter tracts in the child’s brain. Whether this connection is transmitted through epigenetic inheritance needs further research.
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Evidence from multiple new animal studies demonstrates that the changes in gene function caused by environment can be inherited between generations through gametes. In particular, nutrition and stress have been proven to cause these types of changes. However, these do not alter the nucleic acid sequence of the DNA; environment appears to alter function of the genes through so-called epigenetic mechanisms.