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Searching for Life Quality? Cairo, Alexandria Just Made It to Africa’s Top 10 Cities
Surveying 100 capitals and major urban centres in Africa, the research body Communaute d’Etudes pour l’Amenagement du Territoire at the Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) looked at seven categories: society, housing, spatial development, infrastructure, environment, governance and economy. “I wish this was true, but it’s difficult to understand how Cairo that has been, for example,…
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Egyptian researchers turn shrimp shells into biodegradable plastic
Six months into their two-year project, the research team has managed to create a thin, clear prototype using chitosan, a material found in the shells of many crustaceans. “If commercialised, this could really help us decrease our waste… and it could help us improve our food exports because the plastic has antimicrobial and antibacterial properties,”…
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Wikipedia Robots Fight Over Alexander the Great
The research show that bots behave more like humans than one would expect, “unleashing” a war in cyberspace concerning what to include in the Wikipedia entries. Alexander the Great has always been such a controversial issue and the bots have gone to a cyber “war”. Researchers at the Institute of Internet of Oxford University and…
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Hellene, Romios, Greek: Collective Identifications and Identities
The proceedings of the international conference “Έλλην”, “Ρωμηός”, “Γραικός”: Collective Identifications and Identities, which took place from 19 to 21 January 2017, shed broad light on the complex process of the construction of these collective identifications. The speakers of the Conference, which was organized by the Department of History and Archaeology of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens…