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Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) began temporarily allowing international students with an off-campus work authorization to work more than 20 hours per week while class is in session. Starting in October 2022, international students in Canada will be permitted to work up to 24 hours a week during the academic year. This is unexpected as last December IRCC said it would, “continue to examine options for this policy in the future”. A single study permit applicant who wishes to study in Canada as an international student must
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1 year ago Read more at Canada Immigration News

The intervention performed for 30 minutes twice a week for 10 weeks with 66 third-grade English language learners who displayed math learning difficulties. Key components include number sense, decoding, language comprehension and working memory. Utilizing direct and explicit teaching methods enhances understanding and enables students to effectively connect these skills to solve math problems.
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1 year ago Read more at Phys.org

SAFEDUC is a research project which conducts a prevalence study on gender-based violence in a very interesting setting. I wanted to see how it is done, what are the methods and practices of collecting this kind of data, to see the process from within and of course be useful in bringing the knowledge acquired from my work on this topic from the Czech context.
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1 year ago Read more at Sciences Po

Brazil’s Ministry of Finance has published an ordinance on the implementation of new regulations for sports betting. The new bill will ultimately be policed by a new National Gaming and Betting Secretariat. CAF says local providers best positioned to ensure compliance, launches Bet ID In a blog post for Brazilian facial recognition and identity verification firm CAF.
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1 year ago Read more at Biometric Update

The Sports Bra has successfully tapped into a meteoric rise of interest in women's sports, embodied most recently by the frenzy over University of Iowa basketball phenomenon Caitlin Clark's records-smashing feats. The bar announced plans last week to go nationwide through a franchise model. One aspiring partner is Jackie Reau, who is married to tennis legend Serena Williams.
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1 year ago Read more at NBC New York

Dozens of residents have supported a petition calling for the Wembley murals to be ‘enjoyed again’ by the public when the current advertising lease runs out. The Bobby Moore Bridge and subway were constructed in 1991 to pedestrianise Olympic Way ahead of the Euro 1996 football tournament. However, in 2013, the council agreed a lease with property developers Quintain, which allowed them to put up advertisements, including vinyl and LED lighting, that hid the murals.
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1 year ago Read more at Harrow Online

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is investigating Ford's hands-free BlueCruise driver assistance technology. In both cases, the Ford car was traveling and crashed into a stopped vehicle in traveling lanes. If the NHTSA and Ford were to issue a recall, it would have wide-reaching implications.
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1 year ago Read more at Tom's Guide

Harmonic is extending the capabilities of its virtualized access network platform with a new application designed to boost the performance of hybrid fiber/coax (HFC) networks in real-time as plant network conditions fluctuate. The Beacon ISM gathers existing upstream and downstream data from modems and the vCMTS. As such, it follows that modes that are tuned to higher modulation profiles deliver the best performance and vice-versa. Companies such as OpenVault and ZCorum have developed new
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1 year ago Read more at Light Reading

Details released by the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet reveal New Zealand officials have been considering involvement in AUKUS from the outset. At the time, New Zealand’s non-involvement was put down to the pact’s central purpose of supplying nuclear-powered submarines to Australia. Then Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said: “We weren’t approached, nor would I expect us to be.” It wasn’t until March 2023 that possible “non-nuclear”
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1 year ago Read more at The Conversation Indonesia

Governor Greg Abbott announced this week as 2024 Small Business Week in Texas. The week, lasting from April 28 to May 4, is a recognition of the 3.2 million small businesses that contribute to the state’s economy. Small businesses are the very backbone of the Texas economy, Governor Abbott said.
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1 year ago Read more at KAUZ