School of CS newsletter

We will be having new furniture delivered for the senior common room in the Kilburn building this week and therefore need to remove the furniture that is currently there. 


Please note that on Monday and Tuesday this week (27th & 28th) the common room will be being emptied and so seating availability will be minimal.  The new furniture is scheduled to be installed on Wednesday 29th and the common room will be closed on that day.

If you have any questions please contact Karen Varty.
 

Database trial of S&P Capital IQ’s Compustat Global

 

The Library’s Business Data service is conducting a database trial of S&P Capital IQ’s Compustat Global until Sunday 16th August 2015.

 

This Database is of use across a breadth of disciplines and we’d be keen to determine its value to colleagues in the EPS Faculty. Our objective is to provide you with the opportunity to help shape our future Research Services offering.

 

Compustat Global is accessed via WRDS (Wharton Research Data Service). The University of Manchester has taken a subscription to its sister product Compustat North America, also accessed via WRDS. Compustat Global will complement Compustat NA. A brief description of the product from WRDS is attached at the end of this email.

 

If you are interested in taking a look at Compustat Global during the trial, you need first to have a WRDS account. You can register one account following this link http://wrds.wharton.upenn.edu if you don’t already have one.

 

If you do try it out, feedback is very important to us in order to consider this product. Please take this short survey when you have tried it!

 

https://qtrial2015az1.az1.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_3agpWIuO8zhTVXL

 

Please contact Xia Hong, Research Service Librarian for Business Data Service (Xia.hong@mbs.ac.uk) if you have any questions.

 

S&P Capital IQ's Compustat Global

 

S&P Capital IQ's Compustat Global is a database of non-U.S. and non-Canadian fundamental and market information on more than 33,900 active and inactive publicly held companies with annual data history from 1987.  S&P Capital IQ's Compustat Global is a database of non-U.S.data is unique in that it is normalized to provide comparability across a wide variety of global accounting standards and practices. Accounting standards vary considerably among countries, making accurate comparisons of as-reported data somewhat difficult. Rather than adopt one country’s set of accounting principles as the standard for collecting data from all countries, we have created consistent sets of financial data items for the Global database by examining financial statements from a variety of countries and identifying items that are widely reported by companies, regardless of their geographic location, business activity or accounting practices. Within these uniform data sets, we normalize the data to local accounting principles, disclosure methods and data item definitions. As a result, you can make more meaningful comparisons among industries and countries.

If you’d like a good introduction to writing for the media, then consider an article for the Conversation.  This news website features articles written and approved by academics.  Writers gain access to their readership numbers and articles are often picked up by national media outlets.

Unwanted packaging

When having goods delivered ask the supplier to take back the packaging materials or ask colleagues who are EBay users if they can make use of the packaging. Reuse is preferable to unwanted packaging going in the University’s waste system and landfill.
Find out more about our sustainability approach on our website: http://www.procurement.manchester.ac.uk/procurementexcellence/responsible-procurement/

Aerosols recycling

Aerosols can be deposited with food tins and drinks cans. These items can be placed in the can recycling bins around the campus or in the “can” section of the external recycling bins. Please remove plastic lids where possible. Find out more about the University’s recycling approach on the website: http://www.estates.manchester.ac.uk/services/operationalservices/envsvcs/waste/
 

Exhibit your work to the public and policymakers next year
Applications to exhibit at the 2016 Summer Science Exhibition are now open. This year over 13,000 people including MPs, peers and policymakers visited during the week-long event. It is a great opportunity to raise the profile of your work and talk about how it may change people’s lives in future.
 

Deadline: noon 18 Nov 2015

Innovate UK is to invest up to £1 million to establish new Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTPs) in developing modelling approaches to support the use of stratified medicine in the UK, across bioinformatics, systems biology, health economics and analytical algorithms.

We are seeking proposals to develop new modelling systems that:

• integrate healthcare and science data to better predict if a new product is likely to have an effect and improve patient outcomes

• provide new multi-parameter algorithms that can be commercialised to diagnose treatments

• provide health economic models for innovative products that will create new clinical care pathways

This targeted competition for KTPs aims to help businesses achieve access to modelling expertise that will allow development of new diagnostic approaches and improve the earlier evaluation of diagnostic products.

KTPs must involve a business partner able to fund some of the costs. For more information, visit the Innovate UK website.

Contactless payments was the topic of a morning's interview on Shane O'Connor's Breakfast Show on BBC Radio Coventry Warwickshire! (c08:50) - 23 Jul 2015

After many months embargo, the molecular pathology node funding has finally been formally announced by the MRC-

read the full story through: www.mrc.ac.uk/news-events/news/six-major-projects-to-bring-innovative-pathology-tests-to-patients/ 

At Manchester, the Manchester Molecular Pathology Innovation Centre (£2.9m) will be developing biomarker based molecular pathology tests with the initial work aimed at creating tests to diagnose, pick the right treatment and asses the response to treatment for a range of inflammatory conditions including rheumatoid arthritis, lupus and psoriasis.

Prof. Sophia Ananiadou is a Co-I on the project, which also involves NaCTeM RA for 4 years.