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One year after the coronavirus was officially declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization, health professionals have decried moves to go maskless.
Date Time Recognition for two outstanding teachers Two Sydney academics were awarded citations for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning in the Federal Government’s Australian Awards for University Teaching. Deputy-Vice Chancellor (Education) Professor Pip Pattison congratulated Dr Stanaway and Dr Shirvanimoghaddam on their citations. “The awards recognise and celebrate the impact of educators on student outcomes and are an outstanding testament to the innovative approaches taken to support and engage students with their learning,” said Professor Pattison. “Congratula...
March 2, 2021 Cornell researchers found no evidence of students transmitting COVID-19 to employees or the broader community during the fall semester, but students who traveled were eight times more likely to test positive within two weeks of their return, according to a new report that is helping the university shape its ongoing pandemic response. The Cornell epidemiological modeling team, led by Peter Frazier, associate professor in the School of Operations Research and Information Engineering in the College of Engineering, has updated their mathematical model to reflect data from the fall s...
Share New Delhi: Fresh graduates from the Class of 2020 at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU) continue to be in demand and are drawing higher starting salaries, despite a tough economic environment due to the COVID-19 pandemic. More than nine in 10 NTU fresh graduates in the labour force reported that they were employed within six months after completing their final examinations, comparable to the previous cohort. 4,636 NTU graduates responded to the 2020 Joint Autonomous Universities Graduate Employment Survey (JAUGES), jointly conducted by NTU and the other Autonomous Univer...
FRANCESCA ZANIER AND STEFANO CIONI, ESA/ESTEC The time-to-first-fix (TTFF) is the time that a GNSS receiver takes to make available for the first time from switch-on an indication of the user position. Smaller TTFFs have become a premium performance metrics for any receiver, particularly as smartphones, tablets and location-based services have expanded so rapidly. The TTFF depends on a number of factors, some specific to receiver design, others depending on the particular conditions the receiver operates in (urban canyon, indoors, foliage, etc.). Still others depend on GNSS system design. Co...