Centre是什么意思？

Guy Grant, now a research associate at the Unilever Centre for Molecular Informatics at the University of Cambridge, spent two years working for a pharmaceutical (制药的) company before returning to university as a post-doctoral researcher.

Its key objective is to place at the centre of recovery efforts measures that would generate high levels of employment and provide basic social protection for the most vulnerable.

The former head of the UNESCO World Heritage Centre, which oversees heritage sites, is Francesco Bandarin, a Venetian who now serves as UNESCO' assistant director- general for culture.

A study by the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters finds that, between 1980 and 2007, nearly 8,400 natural disasters killed more than twomillion people.

We worry most about now because if we don't survive for the next minute, we're not going to be around in ten years' time, says Professor Elke Weber of the Centre for Research on Environmental Decisions at Columbia University in New York.

We need to understand what motivates people, what it is that allows them to make change, says Professor Neil Adger, of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research in Norwich.

Recent polls by the Pew Research Centre in Washington, DC, found that 75-80 per cent of participants regarded climate change as an important issue.

According to the Centre for Strategic and International Studies,about three quarter of energy we use to move things, including ourselves, accomplishes no useful work.

Even so, the shift in the centre of gravity to older age groups is bound to have a profound effect on societies, not just economically and politically but in all sorts of other ways too.

Ronald Lee, director of the Centre on the Economics and Demography of Ageing at the University of California, Berkeley, puts it briefly and clearly: "We don't really know what population ageing will be like, because nobody has done it yet.

It is at the centre of the fashion industry.

It will be used as a centre for athletic training

"We worry most about now because if we don't survive for the next minute, we're not going to be around in ten years' time," says Professor Elke Weber of the Centre for Research on Environmental Decisions at Columbia University in New York.

"We need to understand what motivates people, what it is that allows them to make change," says Professor Neil Adger, of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research in Norwich.

Hawking was speaking at the opening of the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (LCF) at Cambridge University, a multi-disciplinary institute that will attempt to tackle some of the open-ended questions raised by the rapid pace of development