Moderna MRNA Targets
Tuesday, 04 January 2022
A year ago, Moderna Inc. was an unprofitable company with no marketed products and a promising but totally unproven technology. None of its experimental drugs and vaccines had ever completed a large-scale trial. Experts were divided on how well the mRNA-based Covid-19 vaccine it was about to enter in a Phase III trial would stack up against
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Beyond Silicon Valley
Monday, 03 January 2022
The legends of Silicon Valley are well known. HP, born in a garage. Steve Jobs, the domineering icon who reshaped industries. Mark Zuckerberg, whose social media platform engages 2.8 billion monthly active users around the world. Their successes, and many others’, fed back into the myth of Silicon Valley, boosting its reputation as the place to be
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Survey on Understanding Youth Participation in Agriculture and Agri-Businesses in Sri Lanka
Friday, 31 December 2021
Dear All, Institute of Policy Studies (IPS), an apex economic policy research institute in Sri Lanka, in collaboration with the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), is conducting an online survey on understanding youth participation in agriculture. This survey aims to assess the opportunities and challenges for youth participation in Sri Lanka’s agriculture and food
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At least one and half years of life of our students is saved to enter a university or a higher education institution – The Minister of Education Dinesh Gunawardana
Friday, 31 December 2021
The new premises of the faculty of technology of Uva University was handed over to the possession of the students recently with the patronage of The Minister of Education Dinesh Gunawardana and The Minister of Labour Nimal Siripala de Silva. This four storied building constructed spending 316 million is consisted of modern laboratories, lecture halls,
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2022 resolution-robots-amid staff shortages
Monday, 27 December 2021
With crippling staff shortages across numerous industries, the role of robots and automation in our workplaces is becoming increasingly important. But are they taking jobs away from humans or filling essential labour gaps and keeping industry safely on the rails? Click here for more
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ඒකාබද්ධ සේවයේ නිලධාරීන්ගේ වාර්ෂික අභ්යන්තර ස්ථාන මාරුවීම් අයදුම්පත් කැදවීම- 2022
Thursday, 23 December 2021
ඒකාබද්ධ සේවයේ නිලධාරීන්ගේ වාර්ෂික අභ්යන්තර ස්ථාන මාරුවීම් අයදුම්පත් කැදවීම- 2022 ආවරණ ලිපිය විස්තර පත්රිකාව අයදුම්පත්රය
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Education & the New Economy: The Imperative for Good Jobs
Thursday, 23 December 2021
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2022 – Technology Trend Review
Wednesday, 22 December 2021
In the spirit of the last couple of years, we review developments in what we have identified as the key technology drivers for the 2020s in the world of databases, data management and AI. We are looking back at 2021, trying to identify patterns that will shape 2022. Today we pick up from where we started
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What is Artificial intelligence (AI
Wednesday, 22 December 2021
What is artificial intelligence (AI)? It depends who you ask. Back in the 1950s, the fathers of the field, Minsky and McCarthy, described artificial intelligence as any task performed by a machine that would have previously been considered to require human intelligence. That’s obviously a fairly broad definition, which is why you will sometimes see arguments over whether
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Data Scientist Jobs
Thursday, 16 December 2021
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