Authors Deputy Regional Director, Regional Bureau for Africa RIAD MEDDEB Senior Principal Advisor for SIDS PRADEEP KURUKULASURIYA Director and Executive Coordinator, Nature, Climate and Energy, UNDP One of the most striking features upon descent into Comoros’ Moroni Airport is the breathtaking view of the magnificent ocean. The beauty of the grey beaches is intense, juxtaposed with the effects of cooled lava, carcasses of used cars and uncollected waste — a reminder of the underlying development challenges that lay ahead. From the airport, we set off to visit a government-led initiative on livelihoods and economic empowerment in the agriculture sector supported by UNDP. En route, we see groups of women waiting to fetch water with their jerrycans. Plastic waste strewn by the roadside, a feature of the road that hugs the shoreline. However, when we arrived at the Centre Rural de Development Economique (Rural Centre for Economic Development – CRDE) in Diboini, we saw firsthand how some of the challenges just observed can be turned into opportunities, bringing transformative change for the people. An automatic weather station system (also covering other parts of the island) deployed through financing from the Global Environment Facility (GEF) for the Reinforcement of Comoros’ Resilience […]

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Global Deep Learning Market Report 2023: Industry Size, Share, Trends, Opportunity, and Forecast, 2017-2022 & 2023-2027 Dublin, Feb. 17, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The "Deep Learning Market – Global Industry Size, Share, Trends, Opportunity, and Forecast, 2017-2027 Segmented By Offering (Hardware, Software, and Services), By Application, By End-User Industry, By Architecture, and By Region" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com’s offering. The global deep learning market is expected to grow at an impressive CAGR in the forecast period, 2023-2027 Reduction in hardware costs, improvement of computational power, and rise in adoption of cloud-based technology are the primary factors driving the demand for the global deep learning market for the next five years. Deep learning is a subset of machine learning which involves a neural network with three or more layers. Deep learning learns by processing large amounts of data to extract meaningful information. Deep learning technology enhances the automation process, drives artificial intelligence applications, and services, and performs analytical and physical tasks without human intervention. Deep learning technology is expected to witness massive demand in the forecast period due to an increase in demand for convenience services and applications aiming to improve the consumer experience. Increased Awareness about Deep […]

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Hawaii is home to some of the most unique landscapes, most biodiverse oceans, and a beautiful culture. The natural abundance found here has enabled the people of Hawaii to feed their families, create economic opportunity, and build thriving communities. These same resources attract millions of tourists here every year and are at risk of being lost forever from an escalating set of threats we are ill-equipped to respond to, given the vast under-investment made toward management and stewardship. If we want to protect these vital resources that make our home so special, we need to take urgent and innovative action now. Visitor green fees offer a unique solution to these challenges. They create a mechanism to generate large-scale funding that will help us offset visitor impacts, invest in ecosystem stewardship and the visitor experience, and create high-value green jobs in our communities. More than a dozen visitor destinations already implement this approach, including Palau, the Galápagos Islands, and Aotearoa New Zealand. In places where annual visitors significantly outweigh the number of year-round residents, it is only fair to ask visitors to contribute to conserving the places they experience during their stay. As Hawaii residents, we see the consequences of […]

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Invesco Municipal Opportunity Trust Wolverine Asset Management LLC boosted its position in Invesco Municipal Opportunity Trust ( NYSE:VMO – Get Rating ) by 38.7% in the 3rd quarter, according to the company in its most recent Form 13F filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The fund owned 72,745 shares of the investment management company’s stock after buying an additional 20,290 shares during the quarter. Wolverine Asset Management LLC owned approximately 0.11% of Invesco Municipal Opportunity Trust worth $662,000 at the end of the most recent quarter. Other hedge funds and other institutional investors have also recently bought and sold shares of the company. Bramshill Investments LLC increased its holdings in Invesco Municipal Opportunity Trust by 53.7% in the second quarter. Bramshill Investments LLC now owns 4,281,530 shares of the investment management company’s stock valued at $44,228,000 after buying an additional 1,496,032 shares during the last quarter. Berkeley Capital Partners LLC bought a new stake in Invesco Municipal Opportunity Trust in the second quarter valued at about $107,000. JFS Wealth Advisors LLC increased its holdings in Invesco Municipal Opportunity Trust by 2,643.0% in the third quarter. JFS Wealth Advisors LLC now owns 253,621 shares of the investment management company’s […]

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Libertine Holdings PLC (AIM:LIB) chief executive Sam Cockerill speaks to Proactive’s Thomas Warner after announcing the signing of a term sheet with Azelio AB to jointly integrate and licence Libertine’s HEXAGEN platform for energy-storage applications. The deal represents a continuation of Libertine’s strategy of striking deals with partners overseas, where Cockerill says he "sees a huge amount of opportunity". Add related topics to My Proactive NO INVESTMENT ADVICE This record is published on behalf of Libertine Holdings PLC, which is a paid client of ProactiveInvestors. You understand that ProactiveInvestors receives either monetary or securities compensation for our services,… ProactiveInvestors is a publisher. You understand and agree that no content in this record or published on ProactiveInvestors’ website (the “Site”) constitutes a recommendation that any particular security,… FOR OUR FULL DISCLAIMER CLICK HERE

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This year the Zeit-Stiftung Foundation’s Beyond Borders scheme is for PhD students interrogating conflict Top tips These scholarships serve to supplement the work of doctoral researchers by means of joint activities and conferences This is a scheme which requires tailored proposals—do not copy and paste Having the right language competencies to enable the project to be carried out is important Mention what you will gain from the scholarship beyond financial resources The Zeit-Stiftung Foundation is a private charity based in Hamburg, Germany. The foundation runs several fellowship programmes, conferences and exchanges throughout the year, mostly aimed at PhD students. This article is only available to Research Professional News subscribers. If you are a subscriber you can read the article in full on researchprofessional.com Pivot-RP users can log in and view the article via this link . Locked articles can be accessed as part of a Research Professional News subscription. A variety of subscription options are available, allowing you to… Read our full range of news, insight and intelligence. Access our digital magazines, Research Fortnight and Research Europe. Create personalised email alerts to keep up to date on new developments. Learn more

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Source: Shutterstock Today we will run through one way of estimating the intrinsic value of PTC Inc. ( NASDAQ:PTC ) by taking the expected future cash flows and discounting them to their present value. Our analysis will employ the Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) model. Before you think you won’t be able to understand it, just read on! It’s actually much less complex than you’d imagine. We would caution that there are many ways of valuing a company and, like the DCF, each technique has advantages and disadvantages in certain scenarios. If you want to learn more about discounted cash flow, the rationale behind this calculation can be read in detail in the Simply Wall St analysis model . The Model We are going to use a two-stage DCF model, which, as the name states, takes into account two stages of growth. The first stage is generally a higher growth period which levels off heading towards the terminal value, captured in the second ‘steady growth’ period. To begin with, we have to get estimates of the next ten years of cash flows. Where possible we use analyst estimates, but when these aren’t available we extrapolate the previous free cash flow […]

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Estimated read time: 2-3 minutes LEHI – City and business leaders applauded Utah’s deal with Texas Instruments that will result in the company building a second chip factory in Lehi and adding hundreds of high-paying jobs. "This is a great opportunity for Lehi. It’s a great opportunity for the state of Utah," said Lehi Mayor Mark Johnson. Utah Gov. Spencer Cox announced Wednesday that Texas Instruments would create a new semiconductor factory in Lehi, bringing "hundreds of jobs" to the state. The 800 new jobs will have an average salary of $110,000 and Johnson said the area’s highly educated workforce is ready to fill those positions. "Our workforce that we can provide knows what they’re doing and they’re prepared and that’s why they (Texas Instruments) really wanted to come to Utah — even though they looked at several other states," he said. Texas Instruments’ second semiconductor factory will be built to the east of its current factory along Timpanogos Highway. "Great opportunity for us to see another great, big organization really planting their roots here inside of Utah," said Ryan Boswell, the senior director of growth at Silicon Slopes. "We have diligent, hard workers and we’ve got people who […]

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Summary The contrarian opportunity comes as investors are not pricing in the full potential for Sea Limited’s e-commerce business, Shopee. Shopee continues to bring solid market share in its core regions as a result of strong value propositions to customers and sellers. Shopee has been gaining market share at the expense of competitors, bringing increasing scale and better unit economics to Shopee. The company has been focused on profitability and long-term sustainability of the business, driving improvements in margins and accelerating its path to profitability. My 1-year target price for Sea Limited is $94.51 based on a sum of the parts valuation model. This implies 41% upside from current levels. This idea was discussed in more depth with members of my private investing community, Outperforming the Market. Learn More » undefined undefined This article was first posted in Outperforming the Market on January 13, 2023. Investment thesis With misunderstanding and uncertainty comes opportunity. I think that Sea Limited’s (NYSE: SE ) valuation reflects uncertainty. Based on the consensus estimates on Bloomberg, Sea Limited is now trading at 45x FY2024 EBITDA. This is for a company with leading positions in gaming, e-commerce and fintech in the markets that it operates […]

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Todd Pruzan, HBR Welcome to the HBR Video Quick Take. I’m Todd Pruzan, senior editor for research and special projects at Harvard Business Review. Bosch India, a German multinational engineering and technology company, recently partnered with the consulting company Accenture to conduct a large-scale program called the Digital Fluency Program, covering 4,000 employees across all functions. Today, I’m speaking with Karin Gilges, Bosch India’s chief financial officer, to talk about Bosch’s vision for digital transformation, the key success factors, and the outcomes of the digital fluency program. Karin, thank you for joining us today. Karin Gilges, Bosch Thank you very much. It’s my pleasure. Todd Pruzan, HBR Karin, what is Bosch’s vision for digital transformation, and where does the digital fluency program fit into that? Karin Gilges, Bosch Well, as you probably know, Bosch has been an industry pioneer for a very long time. And digitalization and connecting of factories has been one of our key tasks for the last 10 years. What we want to achieve with our products is to spark enthusiasm, sell them to improve the quality of life, and also conserve natural resources. And if you understand this journey, then, in the end, this can […]

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