Fully equipped for serious research, it unleashes the potential of low-cost innovation in a field that, until now, has been associated with high costs and long development cycles.

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It's a really serious setback for research in the area.

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The data was collected by a site called myPersonality, which turns serious data gathering for academic research purposes into fun quizzes.

CNN: Heather Kelly,

From that time on, I felt the need for a more continuing scholarly platform that was not only really global but that could also promote ethics education as a serious scholarly issue, open for research and publications in order to improve the quality of ethics education around the world.

UNESCO: THEMES

The Center for Retirement Research at Boston College has released a new report that suggests even more serious problems ahead for future retirees.

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Other potential steps toward 4% include smarter immigration policy, freer trade, more encouragement to entrepreneurship and more domestic energy development, and, for the longer term, serious education reform and substantially more basic research.

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He did not rule it out, but said they would lose a lot of public funding - for teaching, "possibly" for research, for capital programmes - "so it would be a very serious step for any university to take".

BBC: University funding plans delayed again

"Poor governance is a major issue in many African countries, and one that has serious repercussions for long-term food security, " says a statement by the International Food Policy Research Institute.

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