• Access to Intelligent Buildings International

    Updated: 2010-04-30 02:10:38
    Do you know that HKUL has a subscription to the Intelligent Buildings International via the ProQuest aggregator? The journal as described by EarthScan “With an international editorial board representing 20 countries, Intelligent Buildings International examines new methodologies and tools for intelligent buildings, smart materials and systems, and explores the wider context beyond theoretical foundations, linking [...]

  • Africa Related Events at OU this Week

    Updated: 2010-04-29 20:21:48
    Thursday April 29 African Studies at Noon will be at the Multi-Cultural Center, Baker University Center. Dr Francis Godwyll, Assistant Professor of Cultural Studies in the College of Education will speak on “The Saga of the Trokosis in Ghana.” Check out these titles at Alden Library for more information on this topic; African women and children : crisis [...]

  • China’s Research Output More Than Doubled

    Updated: 2010-04-28 14:42:37
    China’s explosive scientific growth continues to reshape the international research base. What fields offer nations the best opportunity to align with Chinese interests? Thomson Reuters provides powerful visualizations to document China’s vast expansion and highlight areas of future growth. The report notes China’s unique innovation platform in physical science, while also exploring a rise in [...]

  • BibMe: Free, Fast & Easy Bibliography Maker

    Updated: 2010-04-28 14:42:35
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  • The Fifth Axis of Competition and Sustainable Value Management

    Updated: 2010-04-28 02:32:31
    Green innovation and the pursuit of sustainability have become the fifth axis of competition for corporations in today's marketplace.

  • CiteUlike : Everyone’s library

    Updated: 2010-04-27 14:22:36
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  • The Green Economy: The Race Is On

    Updated: 2010-04-27 02:12:29
    Government policy regimes around the world have identified climate change and clean technology as a megatrend and have begun accelerating policies to address it.

  • The Reverend Claude L. Pickens, Jr. Collection on Muslims in China

    Updated: 2010-04-26 14:02:40
    During his long life, the Reverend Claude L. Pickens, Jr. spent many years as a Christian missionary in China. Working with his wife, Elizabeth, he maintained a particular interest in China’s Muslim population. Pickens spent time in central China as the Canon of St. Paul’s Cathedral, and he also spent time making surveys of Muslims [...]

  • Hogenberg: Franz and Abraham Hogenberg Engravings

    Updated: 2010-04-26 14:02:36
    The Princeton University Library was the recipient of 1986 graduate Bruce Willsie’s collection of 155 engravings, from the Geschichtsbldtter (History Sheets) published between 1570 and 1610.  The engravings, by Franz and Abraham Hogenberg depict the Eighty Years War of 1568-1648, and have been made accessible online by the Princeton University Library Digital Collections.  Visitors should [...]

  • Art Through Time: A Global View

    Updated: 2010-04-26 14:02:34
    How do people understand art? What is the relationship between art and the society from which it comes? These are but a few of the questions explored by the fine thirteen-part series produced by the Annenberg Media group. The motivating principle behind the series is to explore “diverse cultural perspectives on shared human experiences.” Visitors [...]

  • ESG Update April 2010: Oil Sands, UK REITs, Health Care Reform & US Retailers

    Updated: 2010-04-26 14:02:32
    RiskMetrics (through ISS Governance Services) provides corporate governance data and we subscribe their Directors Data through WRDS:   RiskMetrics. Directors data request [electrionic resource]. http://library.hku.hk/record=b4187090   It includes variables related to individual board directors, such as name, age, tenure, gender, committee memberships, independence classification, primary employer and title, number of other public company boards serving on, shares owned, etc. The [...]

  • New Evaluation of Rapid Tests Helps Malaria Control

    Updated: 2010-04-26 14:02:30
    Note for the Media WHO/10   24 APRIL 2010 | GENEVA - A new evaluation of malaria rapid diagnostic tests will help health workers quickly identify which patients have the disease and need immediate treatment, putting into action recent World Health Organization recommendations to confirm diagnosis of malaria before treatment.   Malaria kills 860 000 people a year worldwide, [...]

  • Operationalizing a Business and Human Rights Framework

    Updated: 2010-04-24 01:11:59
    United Nations Special Representative John Ruggie delivers his latest report on human rights and business, suggesting a method for operationalizing the "protect, respect and remedy" framework.

  • Rising Tigers, Sleeping Giant

    Updated: 2010-04-24 01:11:58
    This report provides the first comprehensive comparison of public investments by the United States and key Asian competitors in core clean energy technologies, including solar, wind, and nuclear power, carbon capture and storage, advanced vehicles and batteries, and high-speed rail.

  • New Video and Updates on AccessMedicine this Month

    Updated: 2010-04-23 13:02:00
    Highlights of updates in the April AccessMedicine Newsletter:-   Videos & Animations Uterine Artery Ligation at Cesarean Delivery via new WILLIAMS OBSTETRICS ANIMATION   New Editions Endocrine Physiology, 3e provides comprehensive coverage of the basic science and anatomy behind endocrine function, offering a basis for understanding the physiologic mechanisms involved in the neuroendocrine regulation of organ function.   Click here to see the [...]

  • Maternal Deaths Decline Sharply Across the Globe

    Updated: 2010-04-14 21:59:13
    A New York Times article reports that a research study funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation has seen a significant decline in maternal deaths around the world. The findings,  published this week in the early online publication of the medical journal The Lancet, challenge the prevailing view of maternal mortality as an intractable problem that has [...]

  • Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s Keynote Speech

    Updated: 2010-04-14 21:59:12
    Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s keynote speech at the Baker Peace Conference last week brought a lot of reactions on campus. Dr Steve Howard wrote a letter in reaction to the speech in the Tuesday, April 13 Post that Ali promotes “intolerant” views of Islam.  Prosper Tsikata wrote a letter in the Wednesday, April 14 issue of the Post [...]

  • H-Net Review: Sacred Waters: Arts for Mami Wata and Other Divinities in Africa and the Diaspora

    Updated: 2010-04-13 21:32:42
    Henry John Drewal, ed. Sacred Waters: Arts for Mami Wata and Other Divinities in Africa and the Diaspora. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2008. Illustrations, DVD. xxiii + 681 pp. $75.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-253-35156-2. Reviewed by Joyce M. Youmans (independent scholar) Published on H-AfrArts (February, 2010) Mami Wata Reconsidered and Redefined This review was commissioned by Jean Borgatti for H-AfrArt. [...]

  • Webster fellows finish Africa assignment

    Updated: 2010-04-11 20:41:05
    : MAIN CONTACT EDITOR SUBSCRIBE RSS Today is Sunday April 11, 2010 Webster fellows finish Africa assignment By Don Cayo 10 Apr 2010 COMMENTS(0 Globalization : for better or worse Filed under : Jack Webster Foundation CIDA Uganda Zambia LUSAKA , Zambia The five 2010 Jack Webster Foundation CIDA fellows young journalists from British Columbia who have an interest in interational development finished their Zambian assignments today April 10 Three of the five are headed home to Canada , and two are extending their stay as tourists at their own . expense The five were competitively awarded fellowships to spend two weeks in the field one week in Uganda , and one week here . They work on individual assignments , which they choose themselves , and their work will be published back in Canada by

  • Don't confuse southern Africa with South Africa

    Updated: 2010-04-11 20:40:59
    : MAIN CONTACT EDITOR SUBSCRIBE RSS Today is Sunday April 11, 2010 Don't confuse southern Africa with South Africa By Don Cayo 6 Apr 2010 COMMENTS(1 Globalization : for better or worse Filed under : South Africa Jack Webster Foundation Lesotho CIDA Zambia Canadian International Development Agency Malawi LUSAKA , Zambia I can't remember the last time or , for that matter , the first time a senior Canadian banker asked me to lunch at his . home But that's just what happened on my first working day on my first visit to this southern Africa country . So , after my last cranky post about South Africa , I thought I should write something about the other face of this huge . continent The lunch invitation a spur-of-the-moment informal social affair with a charming host and hostess and good food

  • Africa Related Events at OU this Week

    Updated: 2010-04-11 20:40:27
    Kalabari Londoneer Lecture by artist Sokari Douglas Camp CBE “People are forever telling me what I am… My work as an artist, confirms my heritage and my life in London as a person of African descent”. The artist discusses her political work about the oil situation in the Niger Delta, the Iraq war, her relationship with England [...]

  • Most Searched New York Times Words and Phrases The New York Times

    Updated: 2010-04-08 09:07:44
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