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Research by Chris Nielsen, Executive Director of the Harvard China Project, and colleagues at Nanjing University and Jiangsu Provincial Academy of Environmental Science in China was cited in a Wall Street Journal article titled "China Clean Air Bid Faces Resistance" (January 22, 2013). The research, published in the journal Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics , examined the effect of China's national policies on the emissions of carbon dioxide and atmospheric pollutants from anthropogenic sources over the period 2005 to 2010.

One lies hidden inside a coffin. Another has his face exposed with hands extended at his sides. A third wears a mask over her face.

Rafaa is filling an online library with eye-witness accounts of human rights abuses in Syria. Ibrahim is busy constructing a debating site to enable people to discuss and disseminate issues concerning Yemen’s future.

While some Ivy League professors are clean-cut academics who wear suits with bowties and carry stacks of books from the library, others shatter that image.

Leading policymakers and scholars gathered at a University of Chicago Institute of Politics event on Tuesday, Jan.

Psychiatric disorders are prevalent among current and former inmates of correctional institutions, but what has been less clear is whether incarceration causes these disorders or whether inmates have these problems before they enter prison. A study co-authored by Jason Schnittker , an associate professor of sociology at the University of Pennsylvania , shows that many of the most common psychiatric disorders found among former inmates, including impulse-control disorders, emerge in childhood and adolescence and predate incarceration.

New research from the University of Sydney shows that Australians destroyed more than a million guns in response to shooting massacres but imports have restored the stockpile to the level it was at before the Port Arthur massacre in 1996.

Leslie Freeman, a leading scholar of Paleolithic Spain, died on Dec. 14 in Portland, Ore. Freeman, Professor Emeritus in Anthropology at the University of Chicago, was 77.

Vladimir Fedorovich Markov, a UCLA professor emeritus of Slavic languages and literatures, died Jan.

Labour's latest campaign to attract members has run into the sands because the party has failed to learn the lessons of past failure in the Blair years, according to an article by two University of Bristol academics published today in the journal British Politics.

MIT professor's new book details the overlooked waves of South Asian immigrants to the United States.

In 40 years' time the UK will be a more diverse but more integrated society, according to research at the University of Leeds.

Men and women with mental health disorders, across all diagnoses, are more likely to have experienced domestic violence than the general population, according to new research from King's College London's Institute of Psychiatry, in collaboration with the University of Bristol. Previous studies into the link between domestic violence and mental health problems have mainly focused on depression, but this is the first study to look at a wide range of mental health problems in both male and female victims.

Twitter hashtags: #UnderstandRace, #UMtheme ANN ARBOR-Few subjects provoke as strong a visceral response as the topic of race.

More than half a million adults in California seriously thought about committing suicide during the previous year, according to a new study from the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research. The study, which uses data from the 2009 California Health Survey (CHIS), is the first by the center to focus on suicide ideation.

The contents of a package of Indiana Jones material that mysteriously arrived at the University of Chicago will be on display beginning Thursday, Dec.

Paul Jones writes from China about how urbanisation is affecting heritage neighbourhoods and public spaces.

The risk that young people attempt to commit suicide is highest within two years after a parent has received inpatient care due to a mental disorder or suicide attempt, according to a study of over 15,000 teenagers and young adults. The risk is much higher for teenagers than for young adults. This is reported by a collaborative study between Karolinska Institutet and University of Copenhagen, which is published in the scientific journal PLOS ONE.

A University-designed violence prevention model has been adopted by the Dutch government in an effort to reduce violent behaviour.

10 Dec 2012 The University of Manchester's new research Centre on Dynamics of Ethnicity will also be preparing four separate briefing documents, using the census data, on the growth of ethnic diversity, on integration, immigration, and on segregation.

Symposium speakers assess psychosocial approaches and discuss various interventions to ensure mental health and wellbeing for Africa's children Experts present findings from REPSSI, the Regional Psyc

Legislative proposals aimed at ending violence against women, domestic abuse and sexual violence in Wales have been informed by two Cardiff academics.

YaleNews features works recently or soon to be published by members of the University community. Descriptions are based on material provided by the publishers.

PA 352/12 A youth offending facility in the East Midlands has been criticised in a new report for taking criminals from rival gangs in Leicester and Nottingham.

Stanford Report, November 27, 2012 Through a survey of the world's major religions, Stanford lecture series gives students the tools to recognize and resist arguments that foster intolerance, hatred and violence.

By Associate Michele Ford. First published in The Canberra Times. November 2012 Only days after his re-election, Barack Obama left for Thailand, Burma and Cambodia on his fifth trip to Asia as President and the first visit ever by a US president to Burma or Cambodia.

The University of Sheffield's Centre for Freedom of the Media (CFOM) and the BBC College of Journalism are today (22 November 2012) urging the United Nations (UN) to address the rising trend of violence against media workers and protect journalists' safety. Supported by more than 40 leading international editors and journalists, representing news organisations around the world, CFOM will present a statement urging the UN and its member states to take stronger action to stop the killing of journalists and other media workers and safeguard the future of free independent media.

People from China's Uyghur minority are struggling to get higher status, higher paying jobs, which in turn is leading to a forced divide between different ethnic groups, according to a new University of Melbourne study.

ANN ARBOR-Consumer confidence remained largely unchanged from last month at its highest level in five years, according to University of Michigan economist Richard Curtin, director of the Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan Surveys of Consumers.

Low muscle strength in adolescence is strongly associated with a greater risk of early death from several major causes, according to a large study led from Karolinska Institutet. The findings, which are published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ), suggest that the effect of low muscle strength is similar to well established risk factors for early death like being overweight or having high blood pressure.

Forced Migration Review ( FMR ), based in the Refugee Studies Centre at Oxford, is marking its 25th anniversary.

The benefits of the Government's This is Abuse campaign will not be reaped unless followed up with compulsory domestic abuse education for all children, they also argue.

The most interesting research sometimes comes from taking the road less travelled, writes ANDREW WALKER.

Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania's Evelyn Jacobs Ortner Center on Family Violence and Philadelphia City Councilwoman Jannie Blackwell have released a report assessing the city's handing of domestic-violence cases and recommending improvements.

In Bangladesh as elsewhere, women are empowered by working outside the home. But new research from the University of Washington shows such work can also increase the threat of domestic violence for some Bangladeshi wives. The study brings to light how the South Asian nation is seeing a change in relations within the household, with both positive and negative consequences for women.

AUSTIN, Texas — "Zerotolerance" policies that rely heavily on suspensions and expulsions hinder teens who have been arrested from completing high school or pursuing a college degree, according to a new study from The University of Texas at Austin.

Best-selling author Steven Pinker kicks off the University of Alberta's 2012 Festival of Ideas Nov. 14 with a talk that will help quell many people's fears that the level of violence in the world will reach a tipping point and consume the planet.

When eight cities and five provinces in China were asked by the central government to develop a plan to become "low carbon," many had no idea what to do.

How best to develop more policy trials and integrate research into policy making has been the theme of a one-day seminar at the University.

President Hu Jintao opened the 18 th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party this week with a stark warning that systemic corruption could spell disaster for China's future.

Emerging economies expert Kamel Mellahi says China's new leader Xi Jinping has to concentrate on expanding domestic consumption if the world's biggest country is to carry on the kind of growth it has become accustomed to.

Nazanin Afshin-Jam speaks with George Stroumboulopoulos in May 2012. How do two women—one in Canada, the other in Iran—become so inexorably bound together that their connection changes both their lives? It all started with an email.

In divided cities, place-based research and activism can enable communities to collectively reclaim their memories." —Wendy Pullan Divided cities such as Jerusalem, Belfast and Nicosia will permanently retain the symptoms of cities at war while the physical features of their division remain, says research announced today.