European space science: Two more projects planned

Scientific autonomy and planned research: the case of space science

Scientific research that requires space flight has always been subject to comparatively strong external control. Its agenda has often had to be adapted to vacillating political target specifications. Can space scientists appeal to one or the other form of the widely acknowledged principle of freedom of research in order to claim more autonomy? In this paper, the difficult question of autonomy w...

European Projects

Traditional numerical methods for polynomial root computation are fast but they sometimes return wrong results. Algorithms from computer algebra, on the other hand, guarantee correctness but tend to require long computing times. The computing time can, however, be dramatically reduced if exact arithmetic is carefully replaced by floating point arithmetic and if, moreover, ways are found to empl...

Better and more efficient care through ICT-enabled integration of social care and healthcare services: experiences from two European projects

Unsynchronised social and health care service delivery leads to inefficiencies, duplication of resources and reduced levels of quality of care. Older people are particularly affected by this situation. They often need both types of services, such as support with daily living activities and chronic disease management. ICT has the potential to support integrated service delivery to achieve high q...

Kids' Science Projects

Kids' Science Projects