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Postgraduates 'new social barrier'
2013-02-07 08:54:11| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
The cost of postgraduate university courses could become an extra obstacle to social mobility, warns a study from the Sutton Trust charity.
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Mining - not agriculture - is the major worry for the Great Barrier Reef
2013-02-06 16:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The Great Barrier Reef (GBR) is both a national marine park and a World Heritage Area. But next to the reef, a catchment of 400,000km2 is almost completely developed for agriculture, predominantly beef grazing and sugarcane, horticulture, cotton and grains cropping. How does this development affect the integrity of the reef? It is well recognised that pollutant runoff (particularly sediment, nutrients and pesticides) from agriculture to the GBR is causing serious widespread damage to the reef's...
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Barrier Seals protect trailer doors and cargo containers.
2013-02-01 14:32:11| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
Installed on locking rods of shipping container doors to secure both doors, MS-BAR10 CargoShield Barrier Seals provide maximum protection for shipping cargo via trucks and containers. Steel seals resist physical attack from saws, cutting sheers, and bolt cutters, as well as levering by crowbar and impact by hammer. Compliant with ISO 17712:2010(E) as HIGH SECURITY seals, single-use products are removed by severing bar with electric cutting wheel. This story is related to the following:High Security Barrier Seals | Barrier Seals |
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Australian government pledges to protect Great Barrier Reef
2013-02-01 09:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The Australian government pledged to stop coal port or shipping developments that would cause damage to the Great Barrier Reef as it responded to a Friday deadline amid UN warnings that the reef's conservation status could be downgraded. UNESCO warned last June that the World Heritage Site could be listed as "in danger" if there was no evidence of progress by Feb. 1 on protecting the reef from threats that also include climate change and the predatory crown-of-thorns starfish, which is wearing...
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Stanford researchers break million-core supercomputing barrier
2013-01-29 13:53:47| Extremetech
In a world where quad-core computers are currently the norm, and eight-core processors available for purchase are somewhat rare, computers with more cores might a little unimaginable. A team at Stanford has dwarfed that rare eight-core processor by using a supercomputer that employs over one million cores to solve a complex problem.
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