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Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center on Mobile Rehabilitation: State of the Science Conference Report-Future Directions for mRehab for People with Disabilities

3 weeks ago | mdpi.com | John Morris |Mike Jones |Frank Deruyter |Amanda Rabinowitz

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Is the economy responding to interest rate cuts?

Dec 12, 2024 | newsroom.co.nz | Mike Jones

Opinion: There is a general expectation that cuts in interest rates will eventually pull the economy out of recession. The Official Cash Rate (OCR) has been slashed 125bps since August. It’s early days, but folk are starting to ask if we’re seeing a response. Below, we check in on some of the economy’s more interest rate-sensitive sectors. At a high level, the reaction to rate cuts, to date, appears consistent with an economy shifting out of reverse and into neutral.
Soul im TV Programm: 07.12.

Dec 6, 2024 | hoerzu.at | Pete Docter |Mike Jones |Kemp Powers

» Bildschöne, fantasievolle Ode an das Leben « BeschreibungJoe ist Musiklehrer, der mit dem Auftritt im besten Jazzclub der Stadt die Chance seines Lebens bekommt. Doch ein kleiner Fehltritt katapultiert ihn ins ""Davorseits"", einen fantastischen Ort, an dem alle neuen Seelen ihre Persönlichkeiten, Eigenarten und Interessen erhalten.
Holdin’ on - the NZ housing market stirs

Dec 1, 2024 | newsroom.co.nz | Mike Jones

Opinion: We’ve held the same 2025 house price view for some time. After a flattish 2024, we see the cycle turning into the new year, delivering around a 7 percent lift in house prices over 2025. Recent developments have given us no reason to change this view. Housing activity is slowly stirring, and the consensus has shifted closer to our view. Still, kicking the tyres on our forecast, as we do below, leaves us with a smidgen of downside risk.
Riding the merry-go-round of budgets and Presidential elections

Nov 17, 2024 | propertysoup.co.uk | Mike Jones

A Budget and a Presidential Election just weeks apart have shaken the financial world to its core with further volatility pretty much guaranteed for the months ahead. Rumours of a tough Budget had been circulating for weeks when Chancellor Rachel Reeves finally delivered it to the House of Commons on Wednesday 30 October, with plenty of jeering from both sides of the chamber.
Where are we all going? Our population trends in 10 charts

Nov 12, 2024 | newsroom.co.nz | Mike Jones

Opinion: The shape of NZ’s changing regional population profile is always a popular point of discussion. Since we wrote on it last year, population growth has peaked and turned rapidly lower. Here, we take another tour of the regions to see how this slowing has been experienced, and what the impacts might be. NZ’s population increased by 1.8 percent in the year to June 2024*. That’s still above average but a decent come down on last year’s 2.5 percent year-on-year.
Future perspectives on mRNA technology in the UK

Nov 5, 2024 | imperial.ac.uk | Mike Jones

The UK stands at the cusp of a new era in medical innovation and can be a global leader in this rapidly developing area Professor Paul Kellam Professor of Virus GenomicsMore than 75 of the UK’s leading scientists, clinicians and industry experts gathered at an Imperial Business Partners’ event in September to discuss the latest advances in mRNA technology and the UK’s role in progressing this technology as a global leader in the life sciences.
New Innovation Lab launched with industry partner Fetch.ai in White City

Oct 10, 2024 | imperial.ac.uk | Mike Jones

Fetch.ai, a company at the forefront of agent-based artificial intelligence, have been members of I-X Business Partners since last autumn, and this new addition marks nearly a year of collaborative innovation across Imperial’s ecosystem. The new lab, located in Imperial’s White City Campus, will be a hub for advancing AI, machine learning, and autonomous systems, driving the creation of innovative solutions that address some of the world’s most pressing challenges.
Rates to the rescue

Aug 28, 2024 | newsroom.co.nz | Mike Jones

Opinion: We see recent falls in mortgage rates as more about preventing a deeper correction in house prices than providing the fuel for an immediate lurch higher. Interest rates aren’t the only game in town and there are also timing considerations to think about. We do expect housing demand and sales activity to lift from here.
The economy in 10 pics

Aug 16, 2024 | newsroom.co.nz | Mike Jones

Comment: There was nothing in the Reserve Bank’s announcement to greatly challenge our view of the world. The Official Cash Rate was lowered 25bps to 5.25 percent as we expected. The interest rate brake is still on, just less so than before. The most important aspect of the meeting in our view was the confirmation that the OCR will move a lot lower over the coming 18 months. It needs to.