The University of Oxford is the oldest university in the English-speaking world. Teaching has taken place at Oxford since 1096. Oxford has the largest volume of world-leading research in the country, rating top in the REF power rankings published by Research Fortnight. Oxford’s research involves more than 70 departments, almost 1,800 academic staff, more than 5,000 research and research support staff, and more than 5,600 graduate research students. The University has 38 independent colleges to which undergraduate and graduate students belong. Oxford has the highest research income from external sponsors of any UK university: £478.3m in 2013/14. The University has pioneered the successful commercial exploitation of academic research and invention, creating more than 100 companies, and files more patents each year than any other UK university.
Les professionnels de santé quittent les pays pauvres pour rejoindre les pays riches, une tendance qui suit de près les frontières tracées par l'histoire coloniale.
Strong stellar wind from a supergiant star pushes the jets launched by the black hole away from the star.
International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research
Astronomers have discovered stellar winds can cause black hole jets to change direction – just like wind on Earth can blow around the water in a fountain.
Rebecca Payne, Bangor University; University of Oxford
Les diagnostics des patients qui utilisent des IA pour essayer de déterminer la cause de leurs symptômes ne sont pas plus pertinents que ceux établis grâce à des sources d’information plus classiques.
Even in more peaceful times, oil is considered to be one of the world’s most volatile commodities.
Au Nigeria, dans l’État d’Ekiti, où ont été menées ces recherches, la majorité des cacaoyères sont de petites exploitations.
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Face à la flambée du prix du cacao, de nouvelles plantations s’étendent dans les zones forestières tropicales. Mais des recherches menées au Nigeria montrent que conserver des arbres peut être utile… et rentable.
Artist’s impression of Earth’s earliest complex animals during the late Ediacaran period – before the ‘Cambrian explosion’.
Xiaodong Wang
Did Earth’s major diversification event really happen in one sudden explosion? Our fossil discovery suggests not.
Estudo mostrou que interagir com um chatbot não ajudou as pessoas a tomarem melhores decisões de saúde, mas não necessariamente porque os sistemas não tinham as respostas certas, mas porque interação médica-paciente é muito mais complexa que isso.
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Rebecca Payne, Bangor University; University of Oxford
Um chatbot pode saber o que há de errado com você, mas quando as pessoas tentam usá-lo para entender os sintomas, podem acabar não ficando nem um pouco mais perto da resposta