• 牙科新聞

    Updated: 2012-03-31 03:34:23
    16 - 31 March 2012 香港   1.            醫療新知:口腔細菌引發心臟病 [蘋果日報] 2012-03-29 A18 健康與醫療 2.            牙醫申覆核挑戰牙管會 [太陽報] 2012-03-29 A15 港聞 3.            牙科醫護染愛滋 衛生署建議轉職 [明報] 2012-03-28 A06港聞 4.            口氣刷不走 [太陽報] 2012-03-28 E21副刊 5.            剛長門牙 嘔吐發燒 0-1歲 [明報] 2012-03-21 G08 Happy PaMa 育兒百科 姚樂兒   [Source: Wisenews] addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Fobelix.lib.hku.hk%2Fcdblog%2F%3Fp%3D12669'; addthis_title = '%E7%89%99%E7%A7%91%E6%96%B0%E8%81%9E'; addthis_pub = '';

  • Development blog: World Bank Presidency: Jose Antonio Ocampo Nomination a Breakthrough, Too

    Updated: 2012-03-30 22:18:59
    By Nancy Birdsall - Some excellent candidates to head the World Bank and the IMF never get nominated because they lack the support of their own country—usually because the party they are affiliated with is not in power at the critical moment.  Consider, for example, Ernesto Zedillo, a former president of Mexico who now heads the Yale Center for [...]

  • Path to the Farm Bill: 164 Organizations Call On Congressional Leaders to Increase Agricultural Market Competition

    Updated: 2012-03-30 22:08:16
    On Thursday, NSAC joined with a total of 164 organizations on a letter to the Chairs of the Senate and House Agriculture Committees and the Senate and House Judiciary Committees urging them to make the issues of increased agricultural market transparency, fairness and access for farmers and ranchers a top priority in the next Farm Read the Rest...

  • Path to the Farm Bill: Senator Harkin Introduces Rural Energy Investment Act

    Updated: 2012-03-30 22:04:08
    On Thursday, March 29, Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) introduced the Rural Energy Investment Act (S. 2270) which would reauthorize and provide mandatory funding for several programs in the Farm Bill’s Energy Title.  The bill would provide $1.285 billion in farm bill mandatory funding over five years, including support for two farmer-based programs (see below) plus Read the Rest...

  • Path to the Farm Bill: Former Agriculture Secretaries Support Conservation Requirements

    Updated: 2012-03-30 21:32:51
    Former U.S. Secretaries of Agriculture Dan Glickman (1995-2001) and Ann Veneman (2001-2005) delivered a letter to the chairs and ranking members of the House and Senate Agriculture Committees on Wednesday, March 28, urging them to reattach basic conservation compliance requirements to federally subsidized crop insurance in the next farm bill. The letter states: As you renew Read the Rest...

  • Senate Subcommittee Holds Hearing on FY 2013 Agriculture Appropriations; NSAC Delivers FY 2013 Appropriations Testimony to Senate

    Updated: 2012-03-30 21:13:44
    On Thursday, March 29, the Senate Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittee held its first hearing on USDA’s fiscal year (FY) 2013 budget request.  The Subcommittee will consider USDA’s requests as it writes its funding bill for the year. Individual funding requests by Senators and outside groups were also due yesterday.  You can download and read our FY Read the Rest...

  • Path to the Farm Bill: New Bill Proposes Private Foundation to Fund Agricultural Research

    Updated: 2012-03-30 20:38:23
    On Thursday, March 29, leaders of the Senate Agriculture Committee introduced a bill to expand funding for food and agricultural research through the creation of a private research foundation.  The bill (S.2274) was introduced by Senate Agriculture Committee Ranking Member Pat Roberts (R-KS), along with Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) and Sen. Kent Conrad (D-ND), who Read the Rest...

  • Quick Take: Farm Bill Field Hearing Jonesboro, Ark.

    Updated: 2012-03-30 18:59:14
    Four GOP members of the House Agriculture Committee (Chairman, Frank Lucas (Okla.), Randy Neugebauer (Tex.), Marlin Stutzman (Ind.), and Rick Crawford (Ark.)) held a Farm Bill field hearing on Friday at Arkansas State University in Jonesboro, Ark. At the opening of the hearing, Chairman Lucas pointed out that, “Today, we’ll hear from a wide variety [...]

  • Development blog: Allow Time for Countries to Evaluate Candidates for World Bank President

    Updated: 2012-03-30 17:45:16
    By Lawrence MacDonald - Why the unseemly rush to select the next president of the World Bank? Three candidates have now been nominated: Jim Yong Kim (nominated by the United States); Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala (nominated by Nigeria); and Jose Antonio Ocampo (the former finance minister of Colombia, nominated by the Dominican Republic). The World Bank board has announced that it [...]

  • Global Health blog: Banker at the Global Fund, Doctor at the Bank?

    Updated: 2012-03-30 14:55:51
    By Amanda Glassman - During one of my many virtual and real-time conversations this week on the contest for the World Bank presidency, John Paul Fawcett from RESULTS reminded me that we in global health world had just had a similar conversation about the transportability of leadership skills across disciplines and institutions when Gabriel Jaramillo -formerly of Banco Santander- [...]

  • Development blog: The World Bank Gets Open

    Updated: 2012-03-30 14:33:44
    By Owen Barder - The World Bank has responded to concerns about its recent agreement with Google with a welcome announcement that it will only support mapping collaborations which make crowd-sourced data publicly available – and that means not collaborating this way with Google. This is important because the World Bank is a leader in the use of maps [...]

  • Farm Bill; Ag Economy; and Regulations

    Updated: 2012-03-30 10:33:06
    Farm Bill Issues Naftali Bendavid and Damian Paletta reported in today’s Wall Street Journal that, “The House approved a Republican budget Thursday after a heated two-day debate that underlined the nation’s political divide and forecast a battle at year’s end over an array of scheduled spending cuts and tax increases.” The article noted that, “The [...]

  • Isaac Newton’s papers online – Open Access

    Updated: 2012-03-30 04:37:25
    “Cambridge University Library holds the largest and most important collection of the scientific works of Isaac Newton (1642-1727).  The Library presents an initial selection of Newton’s manuscripts, concentrating on his mathematical work in the 1660s. Over the next few months the Library will be adding further works until the majority of our Newton Papers are [...]

  • Isaac Newton’s papers online – Open Access

    Updated: 2012-03-30 03:46:15
    Emerald Group Publishing would like to share with you a short paper that examines the current state of play for UK trauma informed mental health services: ‘Despite the evidence - why are we still not creating more trauma informed mental health services This short policy analysis, published in the Journal of Public Mental Health, outlines research [...]

  • North Central Region SARE Seeks Regional Coordinator

    Updated: 2012-03-29 23:53:43
    The University of Minnesota College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences (CFANS) has announced it is seeking a  Regional Director of the North Central Region Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (NCR-SARE) program.  Funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture (USDA-NIFA), NCR-SARE houses two main programs: the Research and Read the Rest...

  • Development blog: Interested in Global Food Security? Two New Acronyms You Should Know

    Updated: 2012-03-29 22:08:18
    By Kimberly Ann Elliott - As we approach the May G8 summit in Chicago, the June G20 meeting in Los Cabos, and Rio+20 in June, agriculture and food security promise to be high on the international agenda; and once again, we will be awash in jargon that is rife with acronyms indecipherable to the uninitiated. Some acronyms are impossible for [...]

  • Congressional Briefing on Perennial Biomass Crops in the 2012 Farm Bill

    Updated: 2012-03-29 21:39:11
    On Monday, March 26th, the Environmental and Energy Study Institute hosted a congressional briefing entitled Conservation, Energy Security and Jobs with Biomass Crops? – A Question for the Next Farm Bill.  The briefing focused on how the establishment of perennial biomass crops can increase both environmental quality and economic opportunities in rural America.  Presentation slides Read the Rest...

  • Development blog: Why Democracies Fail: Lessons from Mali?

    Updated: 2012-03-29 20:17:55
    By Ethan Kapstein - The recent coups in the Maldives and Mali against democratically elected leaders, and the continuing political struggles in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya following the Arab Spring, are potent reminders that democracy is a fragile institution. In fact, of the 120 attempts at democratization that have occurred around the world since 1960, nearly half have been [...]

  • Court Orders FDA to Resume Hearings Examining Antibiotic Use in Animal Feed

    Updated: 2012-03-29 04:24:34
    On Thursday, March 22, U.S. District Court of Southern New York Judge Theodore H. Katz ordered the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to reissue its proposal to examine the use of certain antibiotics in animal feed. According to the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), nearly 70 percent of all antibiotics used in this country are given Read the Rest...

  • Global Health blog: More Products but Still Limited Incentives for Neglected Disease R&D

    Updated: 2012-03-28 20:29:56
    By Amanda Glassman - This is a joint post with Kate McQueston. Products to combat neglected diseases in low-income countries generate low profit margins and—without an obvious end market—research and development tend to be underfunded.  In recent years, R&D funding for neglected diseases has remained low—$3.1 billion in 2010—and substantially less than the almost $150 billion price-tag over seven years recommended by [...]

  • Global Health blog: Healthization of Development

    Updated: 2012-03-28 20:25:24
    By Amanda Glassman - The U.S. nominee to the World Bank presidency is attracting criticism from those worried about the “healthization” of the development field.  In Bloomberg, my colleague Arvind Subramanian is quoted: “Someone who comes to the bank has to be much more than a health economist or a health person.” “Healthization” has been going on since the [...]

  • McMaster University Archive for the history of economic thought — Open Access

    Updated: 2012-03-28 09:18:09
    McMaster University presents the History of Thought Archive, which offers material for the study of the history of economics. Notes that the Archive includes primary texts and studies of those texts. Includes the electronic texts of authors such as Aristotle, Jeremy Bentham, Roger Coke, Joseph Davis, Irving Fisher, William Godwin, Thomas Hobbes, Charles Hull, David [...]

  • Cultural and Academic Films

    Updated: 2012-03-28 05:16:48
    For those people who might be interested in little-seen films, the Cultural & Academic Films section of the Internet Archive is a site of great importance. The collection currently contains over 1,000 films that deal with everything from leper colonies in Burma to experimental films from the personal collection of Timothy Leary. Visitors can check out [...]

  • Journal of the Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science

    Updated: 2012-03-28 05:15:28
    The Journal of the Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science is published by Division of the Humanities, The University of Chicago. It collects and publishes peer-reviewed papers and posters presented at the annual Chicago DHCS Colloquium. The goal of the colloquium is to bring together researchers and scholars in the humanities and computer science to examine [...]

  • Open Journal of Modern Linguistics (OJML)

    Updated: 2012-03-28 05:14:34
    Published by Scientific Research Publishing Inc., Open Journal of Modern Linguistics (OJML) is an international journal dedicated to the latest advancement of modern linguistics. The goal of this journal is to provide a platform for scientists and academicians all over the world to promote, share, and discuss various new issues and developments in different areas of modern [...]

  • Peak Meat: US Meat Consumption Falling

    Updated: 2012-03-27 20:52:33
    U.S. meat consumption has peaked. Data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture show that meat eating across the country fell from the 2004 high point of 184 pounds (83 kilograms) per person to 171 pounds in 2011. Early estimates for …

  • Development blog: Fresh Ideas for New U.S. Ambassador to Haiti

    Updated: 2012-03-27 17:09:34
    By Christopher Molitoris - Assuming she is confirmed by the Senate, Pamela White is set to become the next U.S. ambassador to Haiti. In her March 14 confirmation hearing, White and the senators agreed on one message: Haiti’s unstable government is impeding post-earthquake recovery, including U.S. aid efforts. But White could consider alternative approaches—from migration policy to mobile money—that [...]

  • Ag Economy; Policy Issues; and Regulations

    Updated: 2012-03-27 10:27:42
    Agricultural Economy Katie Micik reported yesterday at DTN that, “Farmers are coming off one of their most profitable years in history and few expect a repeat, according to the latest DTN/The Progressive Farmer Agriculture Confidence Index. “They remain cautiously optimistic, with an overall survey value of 108.5, but show great divides when asked about their [...]

  • MIT OpenCourseWare - Free

    Updated: 2012-03-27 03:42:21
    “MIT OpenCourseWare is a free publication of MIT course materials that reflects almost all the undergraduate and graduate subjects taught at MIT.” addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Fobelix.lib.hku.hk%2Fcdblog%2F%3Fp%3D12658'; addthis_title = 'MIT+OpenCourseWare+-+Free'; addthis_pub = '';

  • Development blog: The Time of His Life: Why Kim and the Bank Could Be Good for Each Other

    Updated: 2012-03-26 14:42:30
    By Vijaya Ramachandran - On Friday, President Obama surprised the international development community with the news that Jim Yong Kim would be his choice for the presidency of the World Bank. Kim is a distinguished medical doctor and anthropologist, the president of Dartmouth College, and the co-founder and former executive director of Partners in Health. There is some skepticism about [...]

  • Development blog: Why Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala Should Be the Next Head of the World Bank

    Updated: 2012-03-23 22:02:04
    By Lant Pritchett - The US had a chance to lead.  It abdicated that chance to play domestic politics and put forward a US nominee who is manifestly less qualified to be head of the World Bank than the alternative candidate nominated by African countries: Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala. The World Bank is a full-service development institutions that provides loans and [...]

  • Bill to Improve Rural Energy for America Program Introduced

    Updated: 2012-03-23 19:32:56
    On Thursday, Senators Al Franken (D-MN) and Tom Harkin (D-IA) introduced Senate Bill 2225 that reauthorizes and amends the Rural Energy for America Program (REAP).  REAP provides agricultural producers and rural businesses with grants and loans for renewable energy and energy efficiency projects.  The Program also provides grant funding for energy audits and renewable energy Read the Rest...

  • Wiley Online Library Site Maintenance Notice

    Updated: 2012-03-23 01:31:20
    This message is to alert you of an interruption in the online service for Wiley Online Library. Due to essential site maintenance, access may be interrupted during the indicated date and time. DATE: Saturday - March 24, 2012 TIME: – beginning – 18:00 Hong Kong DURATION: up to 4 hours Thank you for your attention. addthis_url [...]

  • Report: Water shortages increasingly will offer weapon for states, terror groups

    Updated: 2012-03-22 17:44:56
    : , Skip to content Hawaii Agriculture Hawaii Agriculture Blog Faces of Agriculture HI-AG Classifieds Contact Us Origin of lethal tick infection a mystery Report : Water shortages increasingly will offer weapon for states , terror groups Published on March 22, 2012 in General Ag News and Notes Globel Warming and Water By Karen DeYoung , Thursday , March 22, 4:19 AM Fresh-water shortages and more droughts and floods will increase the likelihood that water will be used as a weapon between states or to further terrorist aims in key strategic areas , including the Middle East , South Asia and North Africa , a U.S . intelligence assessment released Thursday . says Although water-related state conflict” is unlikely in the next 10 years , the assessment says , continued shortages after that might

  • Farm Bill; Ag Economy; Regulations; and Trade

    Updated: 2012-03-22 09:47:05
    Farm Bill Issues Chris Clayton reported yesterday at the DTN Ag Policy Blog that, “A bi-partisan group of senators is once again championing tighter farm payment limits as changes are made to commodity programs in the debate over the next farm bill. “Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, and Sen. Tim Johnson, D-S.D., are spearheading reintroduction of [...]

  • Humanities: an Open Access Journal from MDPI

    Updated: 2012-03-22 02:14:38
    Published by MDPI AG, Humanities is an international, peer-reviewed, quick-refereeing open access journal, which publishes works from extensive fields including history, law, literature, philosophy, religion, arts, linguistics and so on. There is no restriction on the length of the papers as they encourage researchers to publish their innovative ideas and results in as much detail as possible. [...]

  • Global Health blog: What Happened to Health at the G-8?

    Updated: 2012-03-21 13:40:42
    By Amanda Glassman - For many years, the G8 was a great place for global health.  In 2010, the G8 committed to US$ 5 billion for maternal, newborn and child health that grew into the US$ 40 billion Global Strategy on Women’s and Children’s Health.  In 2007, G8 members made a $1.5 billion pledge “to reduce the gaps in [...]

  • Farm Bill; Biofuels; Budget; and Regulations

    Updated: 2012-03-19 08:59:55
    Farm Bill Issues Joanie Stiers reported yesterday at The Register-Mail Online (Galesburg, Il.) that, “The No. 1 farm bill issue for David Serven’s family farm is crop insurance. “‘The risk level that is there today that our grandfathers never saw before is immense,’ said Serven, a fourth-generation corn and soybean farmer in southern Knox County. [...]

  • Senate Farm Bill Hearing; Ag Economy; Regulations; and Trade

    Updated: 2012-03-16 09:12:05
    Senate Agriculture Committee Farm Bill Hearing Thirteen witnesses in four separate panels testified yesterday at a Senate Agriculture Committee hearing in Washington, D.C. highlighting risk management issues.  Lawmakers and producers repeatedly indicated that federal crop insurance has emerged as the cornerstone of the farm safety net and should be preserved from additional budgetary cuts. As [...]

  • Global Health blog: Global Sanitation Targets Risk Missing the Mark on Hygiene and Health Linkages

    Updated: 2012-03-15 18:05:58
    By Victoria Fan - This is a joint post with Claire Chase, an Evaluation Specialist with the Water and Sanitation Program of the World Bank. The recently released report by UNICEF and WHO on Progress on Drinking Water and Sanitation brought both good and bad news. The good news is that the world has ostensibly ‘reached’ part of the United [...]

  • Farm Bill; Ag Economy; Trade; and Regulations

    Updated: 2012-03-15 09:43:29
    Farm Bill: Background for Today’s Senate Ag Committee Hearing DTN Political Correspondent Jerry Hagstrom reported yesterday that, “American Farm Bureau Federation President Bob Stallman will tell the Senate Agriculture Committee Thursday that Farm Bureau will consider supporting farm bill proposals that are alternatives to its catastrophic loss proposal. “In a telephone call to reporters, Stallman [...]

  • How Uncertainty, Speculation Factor Into Gas Prices

    Updated: 2012-03-14 13:13:49
    Watch How Uncertainty, Speculation Factor Into Gas Prices on PBS. See more from PBS NewsHour.

  • Europe’s water resources ‘under pressure’

    Updated: 2012-03-13 17:31:04
    Skip to content Hawaii Agriculture Hawaii Agriculture Blog Faces of Agriculture HI-AG Classifieds Contact Us A bugged life : Warm winter could mean more insects Stink bugs migrating to the Deep South Europe’s water resources under pressure’ Published on March 13, 2012 in General Ag News and Notes and Water Continued inefficient use of water could threaten Europe’s economy , productivity and ecosystems , a report has . warned The European Environment Agency EEA said that the continent’s water resources were under pressure and things were getting . worse It said limited supplies were being wasted , and nations had to implement existing legislation more . effectively The EEA presented its findings at the 6th World Water Forum in . Marseilles The critical thing for us is that we are seeing an

  • Hawaii County police investigate theft of 1,200 pounds of longan fruit

    Updated: 2012-03-10 19:35:13
    Skip to content Hawaii Agriculture Hawaii Agriculture Blog Faces of Agriculture HI-AG Classifieds Contact Us Saving desert tortoises is a costly hurdle for solar projects A bugged life : Warm winter could mean more insects Hawaii County police investigate theft of 1,200 pounds of longan fruit Published on March 10, 2012 in General Ag News and Notes Hawaii County police are investigating the theft of 1,200 pounds of longan fruit from several farms in Kurtistown on the east side of Hawaii . island Twenty longan plants and more than 1,200 pounds of the fruit were reported stolen between Feb . 21 and Thursday , police . said Anyone with information about the thefts is asked to call officers Scott Amaral or Sandor Finkey at 965-2718 or police at 935-3311. Anonymous tips can be made to Crime

  • Global Health blog: Pakistan’s Politicians Play Deadly Games with Patients’ Lives

    Updated: 2012-03-08 14:35:17
    By William Savedoff - There are new reports of casualties in Pakistan but not from terrorism. Instead, some 150 poor patients died after receiving contaminated drugs from a public cardiology pharmacy in Lahore because the country’s politicians abolished the federal health ministry without creating an appropriate national drug regulatory agency, as explained in a recent Lancet article by Dr. [...]

  • DESIGNATING FEBRUARY AS HAWAIIAN GROWN CACAO MONTH.

    Updated: 2012-03-07 05:03:13
    . Skip to content Hawaii Agriculture Hawaii Agriculture Blog Faces of Agriculture HI-AG Classifieds Contact Us Safety concerns , industry changes push U.S . to rethink approach to food inspection South Africa’s last tea farm tries to bounce back after costly pay dispute DESIGNATING FEBRUARY AS HAWAIIAN GROWN CACAO . MONTH Published on March 6, 2012 in General Ag News and Notes HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 1589 TWENTY-SIXTH LEGISLATURE , 2011 STATE OF HAWAII H.B . NO . 1589 H.D.1 A BILL FOR AN ACT BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF : HAWAII SECTION 1 The legislature finds that cacao of the theobroma cacao tree , the dried and fermented seed from which chocolate is made , is native to the central and western Amazon region and is widely distributed throughout the humid tropical

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