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Living in China: Financial crisis weighs heavily on Shanghai female workers
Most female workers in Shanghai suffer from anxiety connected to the global financial crisis, according to a recent survey [...]
Posted in China, economics Also tagged depression, electronics, Employment, food, food industries, insomnia, Labor, Labour law, Labour relations, media, Shanghai, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, Shanghai Labor Union, Social Issues, therapist, Unemployment, Wales Psychological Clinic, Wang Wei, Yan Zhengwei, Yao Lan Leave a comment
Watch Ben Shneiderman’s “Science 2.0: The Design Science of Collaboration” Seminar on People, Computers, and Design at Stanford University
Advancing Science 2.0 will require a shift in priorities to promote intense collaboration, integrative thinking, teamwork-based education/training, and case study ethnographic research methods. Science 2.0 will reduce the gulf between basic and applied research, while bringing theory and practice closer together. This talk lays out an ambitious vision that will impact research funding, educational practices, and democratic principles [...]
Posted in design, innovation, software, trends Also tagged American Association for the Advancement of Science, Association for Computing Machinery, author, Ben Shneiderman, CHI, Creativity, energy sustainability, Human-computer interaction, Information Visualization, Interaction Design, John M. Carroll, Maryland, Spotfire, Stanford University, technical advisor, United States, University of Maryland Leave a comment
Health in China: Output of medicine industry expected to increase by 20% in 2009
Output of China's medicine industry would increase by 20 percent in 2009, a senior legislator has said. The output figure is expected to hit one trillion yuan (146 billion U.S. dollars) in 2009 despite the severe domestic macroeconomic situation, Sang Guowei, vice chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, told a biological industry forum on recently.
Watch Bill Gates’ “A New Kind of Philanthropy” talk at TED
Bill Gates hopes to solve some of the world's biggest problems using a new kind of philanthropy. In a passionate and, yes, funny 18 minutes, he asks us to consider two big questions and how we might answer them [...]
Posted in economics, trends Also tagged AIDS, artist, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Bill Gates, disaster, education, founder, HIV, HIV/AIDS, internet, leadership, microsoft, Personal Computing, TED conference 1 Comment
Living in China: Shanghai’s Cancer Casualties
Cancer was contracted by 350 people in every 100,000 in Shanghai, according to new figures issued recently by the city's Center for Disease Control and Prevention [...]
Posted in China Also tagged Breast Cancer, cancer, Health Checks, Living In Shanghai, Report, Shanghai, Survey Results Leave a comment
Living in China: Shanghai soon to be city of geriatrics
Shanghai's permanent population graph is likely to dip further this year, the authorities said recently. The births of 96,700 children were registered with the city's hukou, or household registration, system last year while 107,000 died, following a 15-year negative natural growth, a report from Shanghai Municipal Statistics Bureau said [...]
Posted in China, trends Also tagged age group, Asia, Fudan University, Hukou, Large Numbers, Living In China, Living In Shanghai, Report, Shanghai, Shanghai Municipal Statistics Bureau, Statistics, Yuan 1 Comment
Living in China: Young need psychological help
Shanghai schools should monitor their students' psychological health and educate them about psychological problems to prevent them from falling into depression because of the economic crisis [...]
Posted in China Also tagged depression, Financial Crisis, health services, income, Living In China, Living In Shanghai, psychology, Shanghai, Shanghai Daily, Shen Xiaoming Leave a comment
Twitter Daily Updates for 2009-05-01
Since I’ve handed in my thesis, I can finally go back to playing Bass! Come check it out: May 3rd (Sunday), 54 Hengshan Road, from 2 to 6PM # [Typography] Univers Revolved (Characters designed be read in both left-to-right and right-to-left) http://www.cpluv.com/www/feeditem/7586 # [China, Shanghai] The Shanghai World Expo Theme Song: ?? (lots of dancing that doesn’t [...]
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Living in China: Shanghai’s AIDS cases increase fivefold since 2005
The number of known AIDS victims among people holding Shanghai residency has increased more than fivefold since 2005, according to a report released recently [...]
Posted in China, trends Also tagged AIDS, Health Checks, HIV, HIV/AIDS, Living In China, Living In Shanghai, public relations, Report, Shanghai, Shanghai Health Bureau, Unhealthy Lifestyle Leave a comment
Health in China: HIV/AIDS hits 740,000