Month: September 2011

Energy and environment issues of the neighbourhood Commission of Colombia and Panama

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Bogota, 7 sep (EFE).-the issues concerning energy, health and the environment will be the points to be addressed in the 14th neighbourhood Commission of Colombia and Panama, which will be installed in Bogota Thursday, reported today the Chancery Colombian.

The Commission will be installed by the director of Territorial sovereignty and development Fronterizo de Colombia, Francisco Coy, director of policy outside of the Chancery Panamanian, Ambassador Alfredo Castillero Hoyos, and the representative of the Corporación Andina de Fomento (CAF), Hernando Arciniegas.

A statement from the Colombian Foreign Ministry requires that the Commission will continue to progress in the project of interconnection between both countries.

The Commission will address the recovery of the Katíos National Park (Colombia), the creation of a protected area in the Caribbean for the conservation of endangered species in both countries, border area as well as the proposed binational aqueduct Sapzurro – the honey.

Health, strengthen cross-border cooperation through a project of epidemiological surveillance, while communications establish commitments to share reports of theft of mobile phones in both countries.

Also expect progress in the project of electricity interconnection between Colombia and Panama, as well as effective mechanisms for the control of boats circulating waters bordering.

By his side, the Sub Commission on migration, Labor Affairs and judicial cooperation will work issues as a cross-border displacement, fight the against and judicial cooperation drugs.

The meeting is also expected progress in the project of interconnection between Colombia and Panama, as well as effective mechanisms for the control of boats circulating bordering waters. EFE/file

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They show that the intelligence “is contagious”

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Research in Spain found that intelligence could “catch” to a large extent, depending on the environment and incentives offered by the children.

Such a study, in which participated the Faculty of psychology of the University of Malaga, Spain in collaboration with the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, the CSIC and the University of Zaragoza, took as a basis more than 2,000 children Spanish aged between 13 and 18 years.

All them them tests were conducted for the purposes of assessing their skills verbal, numerical and intelligence reasoning.

Also investigated the educational and professional level of the parents, which the researchers included three categories: management, worker qualified or not, unemployment or housewife who is rated as high, medium and low.

In addition it was taken into account, if the formation of the students was carried out in public schools or private.

As it relieves the work released by the world of Spain, “cognitive skills or intelligence in the teens predict an important physical and health psychological of a child in the future”

And continues: “in addition, academic accomplishments relate to positive variables from the psychological point of view, as having a better self-esteem.” “Enjoy a lesser intellect in childhood, however, is associated with problems of anxiety in adulthood”.

The results

According to conclude the researchers, “the likelihood that adolescents should have a high cognitive performance and his parents had a high educational level was between 1.6 to 1.7 times higher than those with parents with low-level training.”

“Just – add – the possibilities were of 1.8 to 2.4 times higher for teens with parents of high professional level”.

In the educational field, the work determines that “the likelihood of greater intellectual capacity was 1.5 times higher in those who attended private schools as compared with those who instruct in public”.

These findings confirm that parents have a key role in their children’s intellectual development. Experts point out that “a higher educational level of parents is related to greater attention from the child and with a better acquisition of language and memory”.

Likewise, socio-economic factors include another aspect which most influence on language and memory.

 

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The EC wants to new cars to integrate the emergency call by 2015

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Brussels, 8 sep (EFE).-the Vice-President of the European Commission (EC) and the Digital Agenda, Neelie Kroes, responsible reported today a proposal for the mandatory adoption of the “eCall”, the European system of emergency call, it should be integrated into all new invoice of EU cars by 2015.

“We believe that the mandatory introduction is necessary,” he said Kroes in a speech in the Committee on transport and tourism of the European Parliament, where he presented the new recommendation community.

“eCall” consists of a device incorporated in the car that is activated when you have an accident and automatically connects with the 112, the phone number of European for the emergency services, to broadcast a minimum of essential data, such as the coordinates of the exact location of the vehicle.

According to estimates by the EC, this device has a cost of less than 100 euros per car and you could save up to 2,500 lives on the European roads.

“Pan-European eCall service has the potential to reduce the number of victims on the roads in at least one 4%, and the seriously wounded, in at least one 6%.” “This means that you could save a life every six hours if the eCall is deployed”, said Kroes to MEPs.

In addition, this technology can accelerate the arrival of emergency teams approximately 40 per cent in urban areas and 50% in rural.

Document adopted by the Commission today is a call to the Member States, automakers and telecommunications operators support this system of emergency calls

The goal is to ensure that the countries of that network operators give the same treatment to notices of eCall that any call to 112: giving priority and without charging any fee.

With respect to the issues of privacy, this system does not allow the tracking of vehicles you are “asleep” and does not send any signal until the vehicle suffers a shock, moment in which active.

Currently, only 0.7 per cent of cars in the European Union are equipped with such devices, which does not offer sufficient interoperability or continuity in the whole of the EU.

Given the “slowness” that Member States are incorporating this service, that in 2009 Brussels urged to voluntarily adopt the Commission has decided to take legislative action to deploy mandatory in all new vehicles by 2015.

Kroes also indicated that the EC was preparing an awareness campaign and that a working group is considering the introduction of these devices in older cars. EFE

car producer Daimler, Dieter Zetsche, CEO presents a new vehicle in Stuttgart, Germany. EFE/file

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Some 7,000 children die each year in Zimbabwe due to lack of access to treatment

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Harare, 8 sep (EFE).-up to 7,000 children die every year in Zimbabwe because they have no access to ARVs, said today the State newspaper The Herald.

“Between 6,000 and 7,000 children die each year as a result of the virus of human immunodeficiency (HIV, cause AIDS) and, in most cases, because without access to paediatric antirretroviales”, said Peter Salama, representative in Zimbabwe of the United Nations Fund for children (UNICEF).

In statements obtained by the newspaper, Salama said, during a National Conference on AIDS held on Wednesday, part of the problem is that he is not practiced the HIV test to children when they are born.

“It is important to have an early diagnosis, since half of the children not analysed will not arrive in the two years,” said the head of UNICEF in Zimbabwe.

Salama said that the lack of technology, in particular from that used for the analysis of HIV, also influenced this high rate of deaths children.

Only 30 percent of the HIV-positive children have access to antiretrovirals, below the average for the region.

Zimbabwe is one of the countries with the highest rate of HIV-infected, with 14.3 per cent in its population aged 15 to 49, according to recent data from the United Nations agency on AIDS (UNAIDS), 2009. EFE

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Argentina expand its scientific participation at CERN

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(www.neomundo.com.ar) the Minister of science, technology and productive innovation, Dr. Lino Barañao, visited the facilities of the CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) where it is located the large Hadron Collider in Switzerland installed

There agreed with the director general of the Centre, Prof. Rolf Heuer, broaden the Argentine participation in the experiment that seeks to reproduce the first moments of the universe.

In particular, Barañao and Heuer talked about increasing the amount of Argentine research groups working at CERN and the role that our country can have in the provision of new equipment of the Collider accelerator hardware.

TRAVELED

During his tour facilities at CERN, Barañao was accompanied by Argentine scientists DRA. María Teresa Dova and Dr. Ricardo Piegaia.

In addition, in the center of the computer Control the Minister spoke with Argentine PhD students who are to carry out monitoring of the functioning of the Hadron Collider. The Ministry of science, technology and productive innovation has contributed more than $1,500,000 since 2007 to finance projects and support the participation of Argentine researchers in this initiative

After his visit to Switzerland, the Minister Lino Barañao met in France with his pair of higher education and research, Laurent Wauquiez. There, both officials agreed the establishment an Argentine associated research laboratory in the area of the development of new methodologies for the production of drugs.

This lab will include the participation of CONICET and its French equivalent of the CNRS, among others.

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Surah Al-Rehman – The Ultimate Free Remedy for Incurable Diseases

(By Listening Only- 20 Minutes Only)

Kindly download the Surah “AL-REHMAN” (recited by Qari Abdul Basit without translation) from here.


Treatment Plan

Just Listen to it three times a day (morning, afternoon, evening) for seven consecutive days using following procedure:-


    Before listening:

  • Close your eyes
  • Feel your self in front of ALLAH Almighty/ God
  • Then listen to it with greater concentration and closed eyes

    When the recitation/ AUDIO is finished:

  • Open your eyes and take half glass of water
  • Close your eyes again and say “ALLAH” three times in your heart with deep affection/ love
  • Then drink the water with closed eyes in three sips

Surah Al-Rehman – The Ultimate Free Remedy for Incurable Diseases

(By Listening Only- 20 Minutes Only)

Kindly download the Surah “AL-REHMAN” (recited by Qari Abdul Basit without translation) from here.


Treatment Plan

Just Listen to it three times a day (morning, afternoon, evening) for seven consecutive days using following procedure:-


    Before listening:

  • Close your eyes
  • Feel your self in front of ALLAH Almighty/ God
  • Then listen to it with greater concentration and closed eyes

    When the recitation/ AUDIO is finished:

  • Open your eyes and take half glass of water
  • Close your eyes again and say “ALLAH” three times in your heart with deep affection/ love
  • Then drink the water with closed eyes in three sips