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New Open Knowledge Hub Launches At Open Development Camp
IDS launches new open knowledge hub at this year's Open Development Camp. A key aspect of the hub’s design is to raise the profile of diverse perspectives on development, paying particular attention to research content from developing countries...
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New open source tools available for openEHR archetype development
As part of an effort to expand the global openEHR community, Marand has decided to open source ADL Designer, a web -based archetype development tool. The tool allows visual authoring of ADL 2 archetypes and templates including full archetype parsing, validation, flattening and serialisation. Backward compatibility for existing ADL 1.4 archetypes and export to Operational Template (1.4 OPT) is also supported. Previously, Marand had also open sourced ADL2 core libraries to provide a java based reference implementation of the Archetype Definition Language ADL 2.0 and AOM specifications.
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New Open-Source Tool Makes It Easy To Tap Into Docker, The Cloud’s Next Big Thing
...[N]ow Docker has a helper of its own, an open-source project called Panamax that makes it easier to use Docker on the cloud. Docker packs applications into software “containers,” which contain everything required to run the application...
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New Platfora Release With Open Data Access And Flexible Workflow Options Makes Big Data Analytics Available For All
Platfora today announced an update to its full-stack analytics platform with significant feature enhancements to tightly couple Big Data Analytics into core production workflows within the enterprise.
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New Resource Aims To Provide Quality Insight Into OA Resources
Ever since the concept of open-access journals began gathering steam, the question of journal quality has been an issue for sceptics and advocates alike. It has become a normal part of our daily lives to delete emails inviting submissions to a new open-access journal with obscure origins and questionable relevance to the email recipient.
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New Smartphone App Promises Easy Eye Testing Worldwide
The team behind a smartphone-based portable eye examination kit have just launched a crowdfunding campaign to raise money for new innovation...
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New Software Traces Origins of Genetic Disorders 20 Times More Accurately
In a bioinformatics breakthrough, iMinds-STADIUS - KU Leuven researchers have successfully applied advanced artificial intelligence to enable the automated analysis of huge amounts of genetic data. Read More »
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New Species Of Metal-Munching Plant Found In Philippines
Scientists in the Philippines have discovered a plant that can absorb large amounts of metal without itself being poisoned, a species called the Rinorea niccolifera, that can be used to clean up polluted soils and harvest commercially viable metals.
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New Study: 'Cloud Of Things' Could Make Customer Service Better, Humanity Worse
Experts predict technology will improve daily transactions by 2025, but there are major caveats...
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New Surveillance Whistleblower: The NSA Violates The Constitution
John Napier Tye is speaking out to warn Americans about illegal spying. The former State Department official, who served in the Obama administration from 2011 to 2014, declared Friday that ongoing NSA surveillance abuses are taking place under the auspices of Executive Order 12333, which came into being in 1981, before the era of digital communications, but is being used to collect them promiscuously...
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New Tool Takes Measure Of Public Health
It has historically been difficult for public health officials — especially at cash-strapped state and local departments — to gauge whether their outreach and initiatives really work. A new tool from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Health Partners aims to change that...
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New UN-Backed Open-Source Tool Will Support Community Resilience-Building
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Programme (FAO) is teaming up with a coalition of partner agencies to develop a new data crunching tool to help national governments, development and relief organizations in their efforts to prevent and respond to crises such as animal diseases, plant pests and even conflict...
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New V.A. Secretary Says Hiring Spree Is Needed To Meet Patient Demand
The new secretary of Veterans Affairs said Monday that the department needed to hire “tens of thousands of new doctors, new nurses, new clinicians” — emphasizing the significance of a shortage of employees who are directly involved in treating patients, a factor many experts said was a main driver in the waiting-list scandal that rocked the agency this year...
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New VA Secretary Sets Sights On Major Agency Reforms
Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert McDonald outlined for the first time Monday his strategic vision for a new, efficient and innovative VA that is no longer hamstrung by old-fashioned hierarchy and a complex maze of websites and systems that prevent veterans from accessing VA medical services...
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New York Police To Carry Heroin Antidote As Overdoses Double
New York City police will begin carrying large amounts of anti-opiate drugs in an effort to combat a recent spike in heroin deaths, law enforcement officials said on Tuesday...
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