https://www.humanconnectome.org/about-ccf

About the Connectome Coordination Facility

Research into the Human Connectome has exploded since the original Human Connectome Project grants were awarded by the NIH in 2011. Over the next decade, we expect to see dozens of new projects at institutions around the world researching aspects of how age, growth, disease, and other factors can affect the ever-changing connections in the human brain.

The Connectome Coordination Facility (CCF) has been chartered to help coordinate these myriad research projects, harmonize their data, and facilitate the distribution and dissemination of results.

http://www.humanconnectomeproject.org/category/news/

https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/435421/New-computer-server-installed-for-brain-simulation-fast-neuroimaging

According to Dr. Reza Khosrowabadi, this server can make the analysis and calculations of brain data, easier and faster.

Installing this server was based on the international Human Connectome Project (HCP).

HCP is a project to construct a map of the complete structural and functional neural connections in vivo within and across individuals.

“The brain mapping data are very large and their analysis in regular computers takes a lot of time, but by using the new calculation server, processing of data will become much faster,” said Dr. Khosrowabadi.

According to him, the project was part of National Brain Mapping Plan and the new server was installed in Iran National Brain Mapping Laboratory (NBML).

The hardware can save large sizes of brain structural and functional images. The Linux software operating system and advanced image processing software also help the researchers in brain mapping, he added.

“Usually when brain images are processed, some noises might interrupt the analysis due to server movement or other reasons, but by using calculation servers, we can clean the process and extract some models to detect many kinds of interruptions,” he said.

“Brain modeling can help us in doing research about a wide range of brain disorders. For example, by designing neuron-feedbacks or using brain stimulations we can better understand brain mechanisms.”

“We are trying to use our findings to find better treatments for disorders such as Autism and Obsessive Compulsive disorders (OCDs),” said Khosrowabadi.

Reza Khosrowabadi is an Assistant Professor at the Institute for Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Shahid Beheshti University.

https://www.thenational.ae/business/markets/vice-media-raises-250m-from-investors-including-george-soros-1.857095

Vice Media, which launched the Middle East’s Vice Arabia platform in 2017, raised $250 million in debt from a group of investors including American financier George Soros as it continues implementing a turnaround strategy.

The collection of investors include sports, music and entertainment finance specialist 23 Capital, investment groups Fortress and Monroe Capital, and Mr Soros’ firm, Soros Fund Management, The Wall Street Journal reported.

Vice, known for its edgy journalism style, had been looking to raise new capital in recent months after suffering a slowdown in revenues, which prompted the company to lay off 250 people – around 15 per cent of its workforce – earlier this year.

https://rmx.news/poland/who-are-you-really-mr-soros

“George Soros’ main ideal is to destroy nation states and to muddle societies so that no one will be convinced of their own identity,” claims MEP Dobromir Sośnierz.

In a debate concerning the billionaire and his impact on world politics on wPolsce.pl television, Sośnierz argued that the reason for identity issues in Europe is because of Soros’ policies. “We can see that Europe is suffering from the loss of identity. It used to rule the world and today it seems lost and flooded with barbarians from each direction,” said Sośnierz.

Journalist Wojciech Biedroń admitted that Soros has strong influence over Poland’s political environment. “Definitely on the level of ideals and those surrounding politics. Those brought up with Soros’ ideals, practiced in the nineties, are present in Poland,” he said.

Rafał Otoka-Frąckiewicz drew attention to Jeffrey Sachs, a former advisor to the president of Yugoslavia and a man regarded as Soros’ own, who advised the dissolution of the state despite warnings of conflict by experts.

“Soros has on his conscience not only the tragedy of British pensioners, but also the millions of refugees and the blood of thousands murdered in Yugoslavia,” Frąckiewicz added.

Biedroń argued that although Soros cannot be underestimated, his influence is weakening. As an example he gave Viktor Orban forcing out a Soros-funded university from Hungary, which “a decade ago would have been “something unthinkable.”