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What determines whether people accept climate science? Politics, politics, politics

2016-02-24 02:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Grist: What kind of person doesn`t believe that climate change is a problem? What kind of person does? Behold a new set of answers to this thorny social science question, released earlier this week in the journal Nature Climate Change. Or rather, a whole lot of old answers, derived from data assembled over the last eight years: 12 Pew surveys, 3 British polls collected by the U.K. Department of Energy and Climate Change, an International Social Survey conducted across 32 countries, 8 Australian polls,...

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Madrid, Spain System Software Engineer for Science Operations 1616029

2016-02-23 11:11:31| Space-careers.com Jobs RSS

Solenix is specialized in the provision of highquality software engineering, technical consulting and operations services in the aerospace domain. This vacancy note concerns an onsite consulting position at ESAC in Madrid, Spain. Madrid, Spain System Software Engineer for Science Operations 1616029 Job Description We are looking for a System and Software Engineer to support our client ESAC, in Spain. You will be part of the Science Operations team and provide support to the Mission Analysis and Payload Planning System MAPPS. Your tasks will include Providing the MAPPS software deliveries following the existing maintenance and release procedures. Improving these procedures where needed also considering the long lifetime of the software. Verification and validation of the software and execution of the test procedures. Further evolution of the test software, e.g. extending the test cases to cover new features and improving the level of automation. Implementation of new MAPPS features, in the area of the Graphical User Interface, and in backend processing software. System and software engineering tasks such as design, development, testing installation, deployment, operations, maintenance with associated documentation according to the ESA software engineering processes. Daily execution of the software development and maintenance tasks, including the monitoring of the progress and the reporting to management. Coordination various development efforts, such that these fit into the overall MAPPS architecture, following the strategy imposed by the MAPPS engineering board. Furthermore, participation in working groups, workshops, conferences and meetings might be required. Required Skills and Experience A University degree or equivalent in computer science or related fields Specific knowledge in the following areas Software engineering and objectoriented programming Programming languages CC, others Graphical User Interface programming Qt toolkit, others Java and or Python for GUI desirable Software Engineering Standards, such as ECSSEST40C Software bug reporting systems, specifically JIRA or others Software versioning systems, specifically GIT or others Windows and Linux, others Experience with operational software development will be an advantage Linux and PCWindows environment Desirable Skills and Experience Experience on ESA software engineering processes and software configuration control tools and some scientific background would be an asset. Work Location Madrid, Spain Dates Application Deadline 07 March 2016 Start of Work May 2016 Important Notes Before applying to this position, please read the page Notes to Applicants on the Solenix website under Career. Applicants must be EU citizens or have a valid work and residence permit in the Netherlands. Security, identity and reference checks on the candidates are part of the recruitment process. Job Application Please send your applications electronically to careersolenix.ch before the application deadline 07 March 2016 Learn more about us in Facebook

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Do we HAVE to cull genetic defect cattle? Science says no

2016-02-22 22:27:00| Beef

By Jared E. Decker Science can help us tackle many issues in the beef business. When it comes to genetic defects, are we turning to science fast enough? read more

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