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Shadow banking is on the rise in China. This begs some important questions. Among them: Why? How is the shadow banking scene different in China vs. the U.S.? Do government regulations do what they intend to? Given the nature of shadow banking and the importance of the Chinese economy to the global economy, the situation bears examination.

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The 2019 University of Virginia Investing Conference, hosted by the Richard A. Mayo Center for Asset Management at the Darden School of Business, turned its attention to the prospects for differentiated returns with a conference themed around “the future of alpha.” T

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The University of Virginia Darden School of Business today announced a new gift to support members of the military through full scholarships to the School.

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From energy to water to food, civil engineering projects greatly impact natural resources. One engineer hopes that other engineers can step up to the challenge to help make decisions clearer, if not easier. Using a sustainability-based optimization algorithm, a Michigan Tech team examines biofuels, sea level rise, and other challenges.

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Keywords: Michigan Technological University, Brian Barkdoll , Hossein Tavakoli, Climate Change, Sustainability, Algorithm, Civil Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Decision Making

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New and innovative approaches to value assessment that aim to move beyond traditional metrics and better incorporate the patient voice were on display at a conference in Washington, DC. Jointly hosted by the PhRMA Foundation and the National Health Council, The Next Generation of Value Assessment: Including the Patient Voice conference brought together leading health economics researchers and patient advocates to discuss value assessment research.

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Keywords: patient voice, value assessment

A team of environmental and computation scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory are collaborating to use deep neural networks, a type of machine learning, to replace the parameterizations of certain physical schemes in the Weather Research and Forecasting Model, an extremely comprehensive model that simulates the evolution of many aspects of the physical world around us.

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Keywords: Computational Science, Modeling And Simulation, Machine Learning, Environmental and Earth Science, Atmospheric Science, Instrumentation, Sensors And Detectors, Weather, earth systems, Scientific User Facilities, Argonne Leadership Computing Facility, Computing, Environment & Life Sciences, Environmental Science

The Virginia Murray Sowell Center for Research and Education in Sensory Disabilities at Texas Tech University will train scholars as teachers of students with visual impairments, or orientation and mobility specialists, and allow them to complete a master’s degree in special education.

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Keywords: Special Education, special education teachers, special education teaching, Visually Impaired, Graduate School, College Of Education, Texas Tech University, Texas Tech University College of Education, Virginia Murray Sowell Center for Research and Education in Sensory Disabilities, Sowell Center, neurological visual impairments, Visual impairments, orientation and mobility specialists, rural initiatives, Rural Health, Education

In a study of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, or IPF, recruited macrophages with increased mevalonate-pathway flux were able induce lung fibrosis in mice without any prior lung injury. In humans, three hallmarks of the fibrosis mechanism were also found in bronchoalveolar cells from IPF patients.

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Keywords: Ideopathic pulmonary fibrosis, IPF, Monocyte, macrophage activation , Lung Disease, reactive oxygen species (ROS) , alveolar macrophages , r, Fibroblast, Myofibroblasts, Fibrosis