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Routledge to Co-Publish Two Book Series for HKU’s Comparative Education Research Centre. Routledge and The University of Hong Kong’s Comparative Education Research Centre (CERC) have announced a new partnership for two established book series. The leading education publisher will now co-publish both the CERC Studies in Comparative Education and CERC Monograph series, supporting the global […]

New Study Launches Following the Discovery of a Second Case of Avian Influenza Spreading from Cows to Humans   Vaccination remains the most effective strategy for avian influenza prevention and control in humans, despite varying vaccine efficacy across strains. That’s according to the authors of a new review which delves into existing research into bird […]

Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology could offer companionship to lonely people amid an international epidemic of loneliness, says a robotics expert. Tony Prescott, a professor of cognitive robotics at the University of Sheffield, argues in his new book The Psychology of Artificial Intelligence that ‘relationships with AIs could support people’ with forms of social interaction. Loneliness […]