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Did you know that we produce about 87 million tons of packaging waste per year in Europe? The good news is that a part of this is biobased packaging that is recyclable or biodegradable.
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PhD thesis written by David Bamps.
Throughout history there’s been a search for a moral compass, but a definitive one has never been found. That could change. Humans are no longer alone on the playing field but are surrounded by new star players: artificial intelligence and robotics. Herein appear the contours of a new type of society. -
Dorijn Hertroijs won the Karolinska Medical Management Centre & EHMA Research Award for the best PhD research in the past two years.
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People with pre-existing medical conditions, ‘essential’ professions and virus spreaders should be vaccinated first. That is the result of a study where researchers asked a representative sample of 2000 Belgians who should get the upcoming COVID 19-vaccine first.
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On 11 and 12 November, the Maastricht University School of Business and Economics and Copenhagen Business School hosted the Causal Data Science Meeting. The two-day conference brought together academics and industry experts who work on one of the most fundamental questions in data science: discerning cause and effect from mere correlation.
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The project builds on several technical developments made at M4I in the fields of mass spectrometry imaging (MSI) and lipid analysis.
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Paul Smeets, professor at the School of Business and Economics, has won 67th place on De Dikke Blauwe 100, the annual ranking of 100 'most influential people in Dutch philanthropy'.
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The ongoing mass protests in the streets of Belarus since Alexander Lukashenko’s very decisive and – most agree – very dodgy election victory have been hailed ‘the Telegram Revolution’, after a messaging app. UM’s Mariëlle Wijermars tries to add some nuance to this notion and reflects on the role of social media in distorting our access to information. If you appreciate nuance and reflection, please like and subscribe…