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| Proportion of English secondary schools in deficit almost trebles The EPI study analysed the balance sheets and budgets of 1,136 secondary and 13,404 primary schools in England over seven years. It said the proportion of local council-run secondaries in deficit fell from 14.3% in 2010-11 to 8.8% in 2013-14. But between then and 2016-17, the proportion increased ...
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| London cheapest it has been for overseas visitors in decades, says study Analysing a basket of more than 150 goods in 133 cities around the world, the report found London was now almost a third cheaper than Paris to visit, and almost a 10th cheaper than Dublin. The UK capital fell six places to 30th in the rankings for the most expensive city in Europe, while Manchester ...
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| Teacher in Ghana who used blackboard to explain computers gets some Microsoft love Teaching kids how to use a computer is hard enough already, since they're kids, but just try doing it without any computers. That was the task undertaken by Richard Appiah Akoto in Ghana, and his innovative (and labor-intensive) solution was to draw the computer or application on the blackboard in ...
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| Import prices rise more than expected in February U.S. import prices rose more than expected in February as the largest increase in the cost of capital goods since 2008 offset a drop in petroleum prices, ... Economists polled by Reuters had forecast import prices climbing 0.2 percent in February after a previously reported 1.0 percent jump in January.
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| After Air Berlin bankruptcy, Lufthansa soars to record profits in 2017 Meanwhile, profits were further boosted by the full integration of Brussels Airlines into Lufthansa's business after a final takeover in late 2016, the addition of aircraft belonging to now-bankrupt Air Berlin to the carrier's fleets, and a surge in the cargo business. Revenues at the group grew 12.4 percent to ...
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Former Walmart exec claims retail giant issued misleading e-commerce results in battle against ... Walmart shares fell more than 1 percent Thursday after a former executive filed a federal court lawsuit claiming the retailer issued misleading e-commerce results. Tri Huynh, a former director of business development at Walmart, who had also worked at Amazon, says in the suit filed in San Francisco that ...
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| Funky Protein in Platypus Milk Could Beat Antibiotic Resistance The milk of the platypus may contain a protein that can fight drug-resistant bacteria. Now, a new analysis of that protein reveals that its shape is as bizarre as the shape of the animal that excreted it. The protein has a never-before-seen protein fold, now dubbed the "Shirley Temple" thanks to its ringlet-like ...
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| Modern humans interbred with Denisovans twice in history In a paper published in Cell on March 15, scientists at the University of Washington in Seattle determined that the genomes of two groups of modern humans with Denisovan ancestry -- individuals from Oceania and individuals from East Asia -- are uniquely different, indicating that there were two ...
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| Primary school children with reduced cognitive skills for planning and self-restraint are more likely ... A new study finds that deficits in executive function -- a measure of cognitive skills that allow a person to achieve goals by controlling their behavior -- predicts later aggressive behavior. The study, published in open-access journal Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, shows that primary school children ...
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| Cryptocurrencies and the Distribution of Power in the Age of Google and Facebook If you think about it, despite how many other technologies will influence, accelerate and improve the overall quality of living, like AI, VR, AR and machine learning, none can compare with cryptocurrency in terms of basic influence on people's lives. This is, in a few years everyone will definitely use some ...
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| Resilient Coric Comes Through In The Clutch Again But Coric remained solid and immediately broke back, and in the third set tie-break, the rising star kept up a trend that has propelled him to his first Masters 1000 semi-final this week in Indian Wells. Coric won his second third-set tie-break of the tournament to advance 2-6, 6-4, 7-6(3). The right-hander ...
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| Origin of Negative Capacitance in Bipolar Organic Diodes Negative differential capacitance (NC) occurring at low frequencies in organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) is a poorly understood phenomenon. We study the origin of the NC effect by systematically varying the number of electron traps in OLEDs based on the polymeric semiconductor ...
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