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Early warning systems: lost in translation or late by definition..

June 23, 2020 Tsepo Majake

Early warning systems (EWSs) are widely considered to be one of the most important mechanisms to prevent disasters around the

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Early warning systems for biodiversity in South Africa

June 22, 2020June 22, 2020 Tsepo Majake

It is a hard reality that virtually all countries, no matter how well resourced, take conservation and land use decisions

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Early warning systems in medicine

June 18, 2020June 18, 2020 Tsepo Majake

New systematic review shows that early warning systems are effective in improving outcomes for pregnant women. Read more

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April 3, 2020April 3, 2020 Tsepo Majake

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Coming Up: Quest Vol. 16.1 (2020)

January 14, 2020February 11, 2020 Questadmin Food Security

The theme of the March-April 2020 issue will be ‘plant health’, as Quest joins the global community in celebrating the International Year of Plant Health (IYPH 2020).

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Quest Volume 15.4

November 26, 2019March 12, 2020 Questadmin deafness, disabilities, paralympians, paralympics, prosthetic hands

In this issue: Protecting paralympians: Investigating injury and illness in paralympic athletes; A helping hand: Prosthetic hands developed at local universities; Tukkies for the hearing-impaired: University of Pretoria academics assist the deaf; Disability due to neuromuscular disease: Genomics research – Stephen Hawking profile; High-tech aids for the blind and visually impaired and more!

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Quest Volume 15.3 now available!

September 9, 2019November 26, 2019 Questadmin air pollution, astronomy, Basotho medical plants, biomedical engineering, circumnavigation, cosmology, ecological surveys, lego, Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting, lizards, machine learning, math-art, national science week, quantum machine learning, science fair, wood-fungus

This issue of Quest focuses on machine learning across various disciplines. Machine learning is the scientific study of algorithms and statistical models that computer systems use to perform a specific task without using explicit instructions, relying on patterns and inference instead. It is seen as a subset of artificial intelligence.

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Quest Vol 16 No 2 is now available!

July 18, 2019July 14, 2020 Questadmin COVID-19 early warning systems, Flood warnings, Glaucoma, Harmful algal blooms, ITIKI, Jupiter’s water mystery, Mineral resources for energy storage, Nanotechnology for pollination studies, Predicting drought, Science Lens® competition, SuperDARN, Tweaking the timeline of human evolution, Zoonosis

This issue of Quest focuses on early warning systems (EWS), which are designed to reduce the risk to life, livelihoods and health during disasters and other extreme events.