Science for South Africa
This year has been declared the International Year of Plant Health by the United Nations General Assembly. The idea is to raise awareness on how protecting plant health can help end hunger, reduce poverty, protect the environment, and boost economic development.
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The World Health Organization (WHO) is working closely with global experts, governments and partners to rapidly expand scientific knowledge on this new virus, to track the spread and virulence of the virus, and to provide advice to countries and individuals on measures to protect health and prevent the spread of this outbreak.
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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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The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) launched the United Nations’ International Year of Plant Health (IYPH) for 2020, which aims to raise global awareness on how protecting plant health can help end hunger, reduce poverty, protect the environment, and boost economic development.
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Click here for a review of the following books, published in Quest Vol. 15 No. 4 (2019):
The United Nations (UN) International Day of Persons with Disabilities – taking place on 3 Dec. 2019 – aims to promote the rights and well-being of persons with disabilities in all spheres of society and development, and to increase awareness of the situation of persons with disabilities in every aspect of political, social, economic and cultural life.
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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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Can you imagine a world in which we know the information to find a solution to a problem exists, but
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Data scientists are more in demand than any other career. Click on the image below for a better understanding of what the job of a data scientist entails.
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