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INVESTOR VIEW: Fastest route to cleaner batteries runs through Asia Original
Increased Western capital in minerals processing in Asia could offer faster access to clean technology with a smaller, more traceable carbon footprint. August 10 - Western governments have responded to a dependence on imported critical minerals by seeking to develop more mines at home. That remains important for long-term supply security, but it will also take time. Major mining projects in Western markets frequently require a decade or longer to permit, finance and construct.
Hidden Kingdoms - Im Königreich der kleinen Tiere
Unter freiem Himmel zu leben, ist für manche Tiere ein täglicher Überlebenskampf. Für kleine Rennmäuse sind Elefantenkothaufen ein haushohes Hindernis. Doch in dem Fall gibt es zum Glück die Mistkäfer, die den Haufen wieder beseitigen.
L&G: Perché l’azionario europeo potrebbe essere una trappola
Ultime notizie 06/05/2025 Simon Bell, Rates and Inflation Assistance Portfolio Manager di L&G L’elezione di Donald Trump come presidente degli Stati Uniti ha rappresentato un punto di svolta significativo anche per l’azionario europeo.
We changed the game allowing psychedelics to treat mental illness
A landmark decision by the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) in 2023 authorised psychiatrists to prescribe MDMA and psilocybin for the treatment of PTSD and treatment-resistant depression outside of clinical trials.
Virtual Imaginative Geographies: Generative AI and the Representation of Landscape Imagery
1. Introduction and Background In the fields of geography and landscape planning, it is increasingly common to undertake various forms of land or landscape classification and description. For instance, under the European Landscape Convention, signatory states are expected to conduct comprehensive inventories of the landscapes of their country, urban as well as rural [1].
The Role of Self-Awareness in Effective Leadership Coaching
The demand for skilled and effective leaders has never been higher. Organizations are constantly searching for individuals who can inspire teams, drive innovation and rise to complex challenges in ever-changing environments. But great leadership is not just about strategic thinking or technical expertise; it is deeply rooted in self-awareness. For those engaged in leadership coaching, understanding the role of self-awareness can make the difference between good and exceptional coaching outcomes.
Transformational Leadership Coaching: Inspiring Change
What separates a leader who merely manages from one who truly inspires? Today’s leaders must do more than oversee operations: they need to ignite passion, cultivate innovation and drive meaningful change. Transformational leadership coaching is a powerful tool that helps leaders develop the mindset, skills and strategies to lead with vision, purpose and authenticity.
How financial inclusion unlocks innovation
I recently attended an SME Conference in Jordan around SME Finance and Employment – extremely important issues in a troubled region. All participants agree that much more needs to be done to address the lack of jobs in the region and to increase financial access at all levels, to individuals, households and small and medium scale enterprises (SMEs). The Middle East remains the most financially excluded region in the world despite being a middle income region.
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Increasing hexokinase 1 expression improves mitochondrial and glycolytic functional deficits seen in sporadic Alzheimer’s disease astrocytes - Molecular Psychiatry
Abstract Abnormalities in cellular metabolism are seen early in Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Astrocyte support for neuronal function has a high metabolic demand, and astrocyte glucose metabolism plays a key role in encoding memory. This indicates that astrocyte metabolic dysfunction might be an early event in the development of AD.
Land | Free Full-Text | Your Favourite Park Is Not My Favourite Park: A Participatory Geographic Information System Approach to Improving Urban Green and Blue Spaces-A Case Study in Edinburgh, Scotland
1. Introduction Many cities in the United Kingdom have seen a significant decline, over the past decade, in the capital and revenue budgets for investment, management, and maintenance of public urban green and blue spaces (UGBSs). This has resulted in a decline both in their condition and in user satisfaction [1].
The protective role of carnosine against type 2 diabetes‐induced cognitive impairment
The copper-carnosine complex Copper is involved in the regulation of inhibitory synaptic transmission, while carnosine binds to copper to reverse these effects (Trombley et al., 1998). The Cu2+-carnosine complex also has similar activity to SOD—preventing the production of superoxide in the brain under oxidative stress, suggested to be an efficient treatment for neurodegenerative diseases (Kohen et al., 1991).
Gene Expression Studies in Down Syndrome: What Do They Tell Us about Disease Phenotypes?
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Your Favourite Park Is Not My Favourite Park: A Participatory Geographic Information System Approach to Improving Urban Green and Blue Spaces - a Case Study in Edinburgh, Scotland[v1] | Preprints.org
Preprint Article Version 1 This version is not peer-reviewed Version 1 : Received: 23 February 2024 / Approved: 26 February 2024 / Online: 26 February 2024 (10:51:04 CET) Wendelboe-Nelson, C.; Wang, Y.; Bell, S.; McDougall, C.W.; Thompson, C.W. Your Favourite Park Is Not My Favourite Park: A Participatory Geographic Information System Approach to Improving Urban Green and Blue Spaces – a Case Study in Edinburgh, Scotland. Preprints 2024, 2024021427.
Land | Free Full-Text | Analysis of Landscape Character Assessment and Cultural Ecosystem Services Evaluation Frameworks for Peri-Urban Landscape Planning: A Case Study of Harku Municipality, Estonia
1. Introduction Landscape character assessment (LCA) is a well-established tool in understanding the physical, aesthetic, and perceptual features of an area encompassing various types of landscapes, including urban, peri-urban, and rural settings.
Mitigating Permanent Establishment Risks as Remote Work Prevails
Can an employee’s business trip to another country to service a client create a Permanent Establishment (PE) for the employer? Yes, it is possible! A previous blog explained the general concept of permanent establishment, which provides the right for a country to tax a business on the income earned in or allocated to the country.
Ecosystem Spotlight: PC Housing
We are delighted feature PC housing as this month’s ecosystem partner spotlight. PC Housing offers unparalleled solutions for short and long term housing needs worldwide, with expert knowledge and a comprehensive toolkit that provides clients a smooth transition into fully furnished temporary homes.
Manage All Mobility Types in AssignmentPro For Greater Productivity, Insights and Compliance
Long gone are the days when global mobility teams managed only long-term traditional assignments. Today, working circumstances are diverse and involve everything from one-way relocations and international new hires, to business tripsand remote workers. Increasingly, global mobility teams are finding themselves responsible for numerous types of employee mobility with many still using basic tools such as Excel spreadsheets to manage them.
Tackling Procrastination – at the Root - Mind Tools
I suppose I first realized that I had a major problem with procrastination when my mum was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. With her agreement, I assumed responsibility for her finances. Oh boy. What a mess. Long story short, she hadn't been able to organize her affairs for quite a while. And now they were my responsibility. I took one look at the heap of bills and unanswered correspondence, rolled my sleeves up, and... found something else to do. Anything else. All the time.
Understanding the autonomy of adults with impaired capacity through dialogue
http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3614-6346Alistair Wardrope1,2, Simon Bell2,3, Daniel Blackburn2,3, Jon Dickson4, Markus Reuber1,2, Traci Walker5 1Academic Neurology Unit, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK 2Department of Clinical Neurology, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Sheffield, UK 3SITraN, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK 4Academic Unit of Medical Education, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK 5Division of Communication Sciences, The University of...
Simon Bell: Good mental health is characteristic of a good employer!
“Not only is the promotion of good mental health characteristic of a good employer, it can also have long-term benefits for an organisation”, says Simon Bell, founder and Director of Careermap. With mental health issues affecting more than one in four people at some point in their lives, employers must take steps to prioritise the wellbeing of their workforce. By doing so, you’ll see reduced absenteeism and a more cohesive team spirit.
Deficits in mitochondrial function and glucose metabolism seen in sporadic and familial Alzheimers disease derived Astrocytes are ameliorated by increasing hexokinase 1 expression.
Abstract Background: Astrocytes have multiple roles including providing neurons with metabolic substrates and maintaining neurotransmitter synaptic homeostasis. Astrocyte glucose metabolism plays a key role in learning and memory with astrocytic glycogen a key substrate supporting memory encoding. The neuronal support provided by astrocytes has a high metabolic demand. Deficits in astrocytic mitochondrial metabolic functioning and glycolysis could impair neuronal function.
Knowledge, attitude, and practice toward pre-diabetes among the public, patients with pre-diabetes and healthcare professionals: a systematic review
Discussion To our best knowledge, this is the first systematic review that critically evaluated KAP toward pre-diabetes among patients and healthcare providers. We noted that there were knowledge deficits around pre-diabetes among patients, such as misinformation around pre-diabetes among patients and cultural misconception, especially within low-income and middle-income countries. This may also be related to their reluctance to change lifestyle behaviors as observed from the results.
Of pirates, ports and poverty!
A hard-scrabble, drought-prone small African country; youth unemployment at 70 percent; poverty rates of 40 percent; highly dependent on the port which services much of Ethiopia’s imports and exports; a few foreign military bases which have little connectivity with the local economy.
India, Malaysia share experiences how to support start-up SMEs
Both Malaysia and India are countries steeped in innovation with a strong desire to foster new, innovative start-up enterprises. With a global focus on providing more support to Small and Medium Scale Enterprises (SMEs) – and recognizing that start-ups play a crucial role in creating jobs, growth, exports and innovation within most economies – Asian countries are keen to learn from each other’s experiences.
Incentivizing Bangladesh’s shoemakers to be greener
“200 pieces of Selfie are ready, please call them to collect,” Nurjahan, an entrepreneur selling a local brand “Selfie” shoes, tells her husband to call a local shop owner to pick up his order. We recently visited Bhairab to get a first-hand look at one of the important industrial clusters in Bangladesh, where Nurjahan’s shoe microenterprise is located.
Government procurement - a path to SME growth?
In many countries Government is the biggest procurer of goods and services, which makes them an attractive client for small and medium scale enterprises (SMEs) seeking to get a leg up in business.
Re-igniting SME development in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe is not known as an economic dynamo in Africa. In fact, most people who know anything about the country probably have the opposite impression. Yet not so long ago, Zimbabwe was the bread basket of Africa – endowed with amazingly fertile land, abundant mineral resources, and one of the best educated populations on the continent.
Do Credit Guarantee Schemes encourage banks to lend to SMEs?
Countries everywhere are focused on supporting Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). From successive G20 presidencies (Turkey, China, Germany) to many of our emerging country clients, supporting SMEs has become a clarion call.
Easy business exit is as important as easy business entry
How to identify and support fast-growing firms that can take off, create jobs, and yield significant value in a short period of time is one of our biggest dilemmas in nurturing private sector development in emerging markets. The Sustainable Development Goals (#8) include the need for decent jobs as an important developmental priority, and small and medium size enterprises (SMEs) are expected to create most jobs required to absorb the growing global workforce.
Learning from Korea: The Story of Korea’s Credit Guarantee Agency
South Korea today has the fourth largest economy in Asia, is a member of the OECD’s “Rich Club,” and is part of the G20. Despite sharp economic shocks emanating from the Asian financial crisis in the late 1990s, the global financial crisis in 2008, and the more recent slowdown in the Chinese economy – Korea has bounced back and continues to grow.
South-South Learning: South Africa learns from Malaysia’s experience with credit guarantee schemes to finance SMEs
The global fascination with Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), and their ability to generate jobs, has increased focus on ways how commercial banks and other financial institutions can be encouraged to lend to this class of companies.
Dominant parietal lobe ischaemic stroke presenting as alien hand syndrome
Abstract We describe an unusual case of stroke manifesting as alien hand syndrome (AHS) causing sudden onset of abnormal hand movements. The patient reported his left arm would move outside his control and grab things in his surroundings without his conscious will. He felt his arm did not belong to him. Examination showed left arm brisk reflexes, astereognosis, and agraphesthesia in the left hand. Imaging revealed an established right parietal lobe ischaemic stroke.
CEO Perspectives: Stephen Leguillon, CEO of Seyna
I had the pleasure of hosting the Tech Showcase at Insurtech Insights Europe. The companies pitching their innovations were nothing short of inspiring. This year’s winner, Seyna, an all-in-one platform for insurance brokers, proved once again, that there continues to be momentum around digital transformation in our industry Our team had a chance to interview Seyna’s CEO to get his story and insights on how his company is approaching innovation.
Who We Are and How We Govern: The Effect of Identity Orientation on Governance Choice
Could Peloton’s woes have been caused by incompatible relationships with suppliers? As pundits rush to explain the cause of Peloton Interactive Inc.’s recent share price collapse, undue focus has been placed on the ‘return to normal’ exercise behaviors of its existing and potential customers post pandemic as well as the uptick in pressure from competitors such as NordicTrack, Mirror, and Bowflex.
3 Ways Hospitals Can Boost Worker Engagement
An analysis of six years of data from more than 80 hospitals and more than 192,000 employees in Victoria, Australia, adds to the evidence that employee engagement in their jobs matters. It found that happier workers improved hospital performance in terms of hospital costs, treatment effectiveness, and hospital-acquired infections and conditions.
I am a Culinary Activist - By Simon Bell
It was after my shift, late on a Friday when it hit me. I was sitting in a park, just a block or so from where I worked as the Chef of a very busy and popular restaurant. I had just finished a long twelve hours in the kitchen and I had positioned myself on a park bench in what you could only describe as “upright fetal position”, just sort of staring into the middle distance, with exhaustion.
5 key factors to consider before applying for an apprenticeship
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Transforming Office Buildings to Livable Spaces
Our Insights Key drivers of change for commercial conversions to residential uses By: Bruce McKenzie, Ross Roy, George Sorich, Simon Bell The pandemic has been a key driver for reimagining our relationship with the built environment and is presenting new opportunities across portfolios and sectors.
Sneaky Malware Reconfigures Hive OS Wallet for Profit
Thursday 8th July 2021 While sifting through my SSH honeypot logs recently, I noticed a suspicious file drop. The file's payload is on trend with other popular cryptomining malware attacks (Insikt Group: 2020 Q3 Malware Trends). However, this particular attack goes after miners running Hive OS: a popular management and monitoring tool for mining rigs. The attack's modus operandi changes the wallet configuration of Hive OS to ensure the attacker receives all mined coins.
Staying the course
With record amounts of stimulus still gushing through global markets, and the economic cycle at a relatively early stage, we remain positive on risk assets. Risk assets have notched strong and even spectacular returns from their pandemic lows, prompting the question: how much upside remains? While a lot of good news has certainly been priced in, we expect markets to grind higher – albeit with quite a bit of volatility along the way.
GRASS Cliftonville
March 16, 2021March 8, 2021 Simon Bell architecture, Cliftonville, conservation, conservation areas, heritage, Margate, planning, planning permission By Jeremy Richardson, GRASS committee member and conservation specialist at BCR Surveyors. In 2018 we needed to have a complete change of scene and having looked at our options settled on Cliftonville West. It is very different from our previous area – textbook suburbia on the Surrey London borders – but just what we needed.
T. Rex's Rock Hall Induction By Marc Bolan's Former Manager Simon Napier-Bell
Simon Napier-Bell, who managed T. Rex’s Marc Bolan early in his career after he showed up on his London doorstep in 1966, wrote this first-person homage on the occasion of T. Rex’s induction into this year’s Rock & Roll Hall of Fame class of 2020. Napier-Bell, whose clients included The Yardbirds, Japan, Ultravox, Boney M, Wham! And Candi Staton, is also an author. Marc Bolan would have loved his induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
r/tattoos - Hanji Zoe - The latest on my AoT leg - By Simon Bell, Black Waltz, Liverpool UK
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r/tattoos - Adding Levi to my AoT leg - By Simon Bell, BlackWltz, Liverpool UK
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A sporting chance for branded entertainment
When sport was abruptly brought to a halt back in March we didn’t know when, or in what form, it would return. After an almost complete pause on live sports in the UK for the last three months we are now entering into the early stages of a ‘project restart’, where sport is starting to return under controlled circumstances. Engaging the population’s passion for sports has the potential to give us a huge collective lift.
Blog on Creating Better Charts, Graphs, Dataviz
Back in the day, I worked at a large corporate publishing company. As such companies do, we underwent a restructure. A big one. The place was invaded by management consultants. Our shiny, happy future was laid before us in a succession of slick presentations, which made extensive use of graphs and charts. There were many, many graphs and charts, each one more confusing than the last. We had diagrams of new organizational structures. There were growth projections.
From advertising hoardings to centre stage: the evolution of brands in sport
Above: Carling's documentary about Black Country Fusion FC, an LGBT+ Sunday League football team. It starts with taking the time to understand what is important in the sports culture you want to be a part of - what do fans care about? What are the problems that need solving? Once this is understood, it’s then a matter of identifying what role your brand can genuinely play that adds value or solves the problem.
How to Use Temporary Organizations Effectively
4.24.2019 Allègre L. Hadida, Jan B. Heide and Simon J. Bell What? Firms are increasingly using temporary organizations to achieve desired outcomes. These organizations can be stand-alone, hybrid, or fully embedded. So what? These different organizational forms have varying selection and enforcement mechanisms available, which may help achieve targeted results. Now what?
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