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Opinion: Oil Market ShowdownCan Russia Outlast The Saudis?

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and China markets, while the Russian Finance Ministry recently backed away from a tax proposal which Russian crude producers said would reduce their output. At a conference in Moscow on October 14, President Putin said that Russia had reached if not passed the peak of its economic crisis and predicted economic growth in coming years.

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Big Data Could Accelerate Drug Approvals

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The analytics programs use machine learning, statistical modeling, natural language processing, predictive modeling, and related techniques to evaluate information. Ménard and other drug-company quality leads and quality data scientists say advanced analytics could help speed up the QA process. An overview of the findings is now available.

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Opinion: Is Russia Plotting To Bring Down OPEC?

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Even a casual glance at the IMF’s World Economic Outlook statistics for Russia shows the tight correlation since 1992 between GDP growth on the one hand and oil and gas output, exports, and prices on the other (economic series available here ). Dalan McEndree has a BA in history, MA in European History, M.Phil.

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Osage Bio Energy: Winter Barley Ethanol as Advanced Biofuel for RFS-2

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EPA accepted this logic and instead decided to focus on regional and national statistics and trends to make sure virgin land wasn’t being converted to supply biofuel facilities. OBE is working with Perdue’s (the third-largest poultry company in the US) agri business group to supply the plant’s grain requirements. “We

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

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But Goldman was unable to convince the executive to whom Xerox’s Electro-Optical Systems division reported (whose background was accounting and finance) to allow a bid. The next decade of advances in computer science may come from PARC—from “my grown-up baby,” as Goldman puts it.

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