Month: June 2022

Satellite radar and machine learning publicly reveal previously unseen vessel activity around the world

Washington, D.C., June 08, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Global Fishing Watch has developed and publicly released the first ever global map of previously undetected dark fleets, or vessels that do not broadcast their location or appear in public monitoring systems.

Powered by satellite radar imagery and machine learning, the map layer is updated daily within the main Global Fishing Watch map application. The portal is available for free to anyone in the world with an internet connection, helping arm authorities, researchers and the public alike with the power to monitor vessel activity in all coastal waters, identify dark fleet patterns and build the necessary understanding to quantify threats to the ocean. The user-friendly new map layer helps create equitable access to marine-related data in time for World Ocean Day on June 8.

The lack of information pertaining to how and where vessels are fishing has clouded our understanding of the true global footprint of fishing activity. This makes meaningful change difficult. To see these impacts, satellite radar technology, known as synthetic aperture radar (SAR), functions day and night in all types of weather and can generate imagery despite cloud cover or storm systems, resulting in detection capabilities that are significantly advanced over other satellite-mounted sensors.

“It is surprising how little we have known to date about the true scale of human activity on the water,” said David Kroodsma, director of research and innovation at Global Fishing Watch. “If you combine vessels that intentionally shut off their signal with the significant number of boats that don’t make their whereabouts known in public systems at all, you end up with gaps in data, monitoring and accountability. We are using satellite radar imagery to reduce that information gap and put our findings at the fingertips of those who want to ensure our ocean is managed equitably and sustainably.”

The new global map layer draws from a massive data-processing pipeline and uses machine learning to crunch petabytes, or millions of gigabytes, of radar imagery taken by the European Space Agency’s Sentinel-1 satellites. By analyzing the entire archive of Sentinel-1 radar imagery, Global Fishing Watch has made 20 million detections of sea-going vessels greater than approximately 10 meters in length—and matched these detections to 100 billion GPS points from vessels broadcasting their position on the automatic identification system. This matching differentiates vessels that broadcast their position from those that remain dark in public monitoring systems, resulting in more comprehensive views of vessel movements across the global ocean. This information can help authorities pinpoint areas with suspicious activity and identify vessel patterns that may indicate illegal activity or previously unquantified fishing pressures.

Global Fishing Watch used satellite radar and optical imagery to reveal around 900 vessels of Chinese origin fishing illegally in North Korean waters in violation of United Nations sanctions—the largest known case of illegal fishing by an industrial fleet operating in another nation’s waters. Global Fishing Watch has since improved and expanded its use of satellite radar to study previously unseen fishing activity near marine protected areas in the Mediterranean Sea and hotspots of previously hidden activity in coastal waters around Africa. This emerging method of “seeing” vessels is revealing that the ocean is far busier than conventional monitoring systems show.

“While there are often legitimate reasons for not broadcasting a vessel’s location—not all governments require it—illegal operators will often turn off their signals to conceal their activity,” added Kroodsma. “The use of satellite radar to detect and map previously hidden and potentially illegal or harmful activity has opened a new realm of possibilities for remote sensing and big tech’s battle for the environment.”

Amplifying the potential of satellite radar technology, Global Fishing Watch partnered with the Defense Innovation Unit in July 2021 to host the xView3 competition. The challenge invited machine learning developers from all over the world to create and submit computer algorithms to help detect dark vessels, drawing 1,900 registrants from 67 countries. Global Fishing Watch is using the winning entries announced earlier this year to refine and advance dark vessel detection methods at global scale, and expects to be able to shed light on many human activities on the ocean in the near future.

“By seeing and characterizing the activity of these expansive dark fleets, we can begin to better understand and quantify not just illegal fishing but a great deal of human activity that is impacting our marine environment,” said Paul Woods, chief innovation officer at Global Fishing Watch. “These are exciting times when it comes to open, accessible data that anyone can use for free to understand and advocate for the fragile marine areas they care about most.”

About satellite radar imagery: Satellite radar is able to overcome limitations of other satellite-based monitoring systems with its ability to see through rain, darkness and cloud cover. Radar can detect at-sea vessels and structures in any weather conditions and its imaging capabilities make it one of the most powerful tools of remote sensing. Satellite radar is an active sensor that shoots microwaves to the earth surface and measures the amplitude and phase of the signals that are reflected back from objects on the ground and water, known as backscatter. The images formed from this backscatter contain rich information about size, orientation, composition, condition and texture of the features on the water. These imaging systems hold an advantage over passive satellite sensors, such as electro-optical imagery, which is similar to taking a picture with a camera and relies on sunlight and/or the infrared radiation emitted by objects on the ground. This latter method can be confounded by cloud cover, haze, weather events, and seasonal darkness at high latitudes. Satellite radar by comparison has proven to be the most consistent option for detecting vessels at sea.

Global Fishing Watch is an international nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing ocean governance through increased transparency of human activity at sea. By creating and publicly sharing map visualizations, data and analysis tools, we aim to enable scientific research and transform the way our ocean is managed. We believe human activity at sea should be public knowledge in order to safeguard the global ocean for the common good of all.

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Global Fishing Watch
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هونغ كونغ، 7 يونيو، 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — China Renaissance Holdings Limited (“China Renaissance” أو “الشركة”، رمز التداول: 1911.HK) يسرها أن تعلن أن الشركة قد تم تكريمها ضمن أكبر عشر مجموعات للأسهم الخاصة في بر الصين الرئيسي، وكان ترتيبها 150 على مستوى العالم في قائمة PEI 300، وهو تصنيف من Private Equity International (PEI)، وهي مجلة رائدة في مجال الأسهم الخاصة. وتقوم PEI 300 بتصنيف المجموعات حسب حجم رأس مال الاستثمار المباشر الذي تم جمعه أو تكوينه على مدار الأعوام الخمسة الماضية.

تم إطلاق Huaxing Growth Capital (“HGC”) في عام 2013، وهو الصندوق الرئيسي لقطاع إدارة الاستثمار التابع لشركة China Renaissance والذراع الاستثماري الرئيسي في الأسهم الخاصة التابع للشركة. واعتباراً من 31 ديسمبر، 2021، كان قطاع إدارة الاستثمار التابع للشركة يملك حوالي 7.7 مليار دولار أمريكي من الأصول الخاضعة للإدارة، بينما وصلت الأصول الخاضعة للإدارة لدى HGC إلى 5.8 مليار دولار أمريكي. ويركز HGC على الاستثمار في الشركات في مراحل النمو والنضج، مع التركيز على الاستثمارات “عالية الضمانة” في الصناعات الذكية، والتكنولوجيات الذكية، والرعاية الصحية الذكية، والاستهلاك الذكي، والمؤسسات الذكية.

من بين أكثر من 100 صفقة استثمر فيها HGC، أكملت بعضها اكتتاباتها العامة، بما في ذلك Meituan، وKE، وWuXi AppTec، وBilibili، وLi Auto، وPop Mart، وMGI، وSenseTime، وNavitas، بينما يمثل الآخرون الجهات الفاعلة الرائدة في قطاعاتهم مثل SVOLT، وDreame، وCalterah وهكذا.

يدير HGC أربعة صناديق مقومة بالدولار الأمريكي وأربعة صناديق مقومة باليوان الصيني ويتمتع بشبكة صناعات لا نظير لها وتغطية أسواق واسعة من خلال الاستفادة من المصادر الشاملة المقدمة من منصة الشركة. وعلاوة على أنها الشريك المختار ومستثمر شبه استراتيجي لرواد الاقتصاد الذكي الصيني، ويعمل HGC بمثابة جسر يساعد المستثمرين العالميين على الوصول إلى فرص الاستثمار الجذابة في الصين. ويواصل HGC العمل عن كثب مع المبتكرين من المؤسسين والشركات التي تجلب القيمة والراحة لحياة الناس اليومية، وتقدم عائدات قوية للمستثمرين.

نبذة عن China Renaissance

تأسست شركة China Renaissance (“CR”) في عام 2005 وهي تعد من المؤسسات المالية الرائدة التي تقدم خدمات الاكتتاب الخاص واستشارات الاندماج والاستحواذ، والاكتتاب في الأسهم، والمبيعات والتداول، والبحث، وإدارة الاستثمارات، وغير ذلك من الخدمات. وعلى مدار 17 عاماً مضت، كرّست الشركة جهودها لتحديد الشركات التي لديها إمكانات كبيرة لتحقيق النمو، علاوة على كونها شريك موثوق به لدعم عملائها في رحلتهم في خلق القيمة.

للشركة مكاتب في بكين وشنغهاي وهونغ كونغ وسنغافورة ونيويورك، ويعمل لديها أكثر من 650 موظفاً. واعتباراً من 30 يونيو 2021، قدمت China Renaissance المشورة واستثمرت في أكثر من 1,125 معاملة بقيمة إجمالية تتجاوز 1.4 تريليون يوان صيني (ما يعادل تقريباً 220 مليار دولار أمريكي). واعتباراً من 31 ديسمبر 2021، كانت لصناديق الأسهم الخاصة للشركة أصول مدارة (“AUM”) بلغت أكثر من 49 مليار يوان (أي ما يعادل 7.7 مليار دولار أمريكي تقريباً).

تعد CR Securities (المعروفة سابقاً باسم “Huajing Securities”) واحدة من أولى شركات الأوراق المالية التي تأسست وفقاً للملحق العاشر “وثيقة شراكة اقتصادية أوثق بين البر الرئيسي وهونغ كونغ (CEPA)”. ومنذ تأسيسها، قدمت شركة CR Securities خدمات استثمارية مصرفية قوية، ودخلاً ثابتاً، وإدارة أصول، وإدارة ثروات، وسمسرة في الأوراق المالية، وفرقاً بحثية لتقديم الخدمات للعملاء الحاليين والجدد.

جهة الاتصال الإعلامية

China Renaissance

العلاقات العامة
Yuki Zhao
yukizhao@huaxing.com

علاقات المستثمرين
huaxingcapital@chinarenaissance.com

أو

Sard Verbinnen & Co
ChinaRenaissance-SVC@sardverb.com

NAIROBI, Kenya, June 08, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — A Nobel Prize-winning economist has confirmed ‘learning gains among the largest ever measured’ in schools by any major study in emerging markets.

The study, led by Professor Michael Kremer, 2019 Nobel Prize winner, finds children living in underserved communities receive over 53% more learning in NewGlobe supported schools throughout their early childhood and primary education compared to students in other schools.

The findings were announced by Professor Kremer at the Education World Forum and suggest a potential solution to learning poverty.

Replicated across public education systems, the gains would put African children from underserved communities on track to outperform or match peers in countries with incomes four times higher.

The groundbreaking study finds children taught using New Globe’s methods are three times more likely to be able to read at age seven. The World Bank estimates 90% of 10 year olds in Africa can’t read.

The most disadvantaged students gain the most. Girls make the same learning leap as boys.

NewGlobe delivers a standard deviation increase of 1.35 in pre-primary learning and 0.81 in primary learning, easily in the top 1% of learning gains ever rigorously studied at scale in emerging markets.

The results are an affirmation of NewGlobe’s integrated learning system – used by governments across Africa and South Asia to support a million students today and growing year-on-year.

The two-year study is based on a large-scale randomized control trial of more than 10,000 students from low socioeconomic backgrounds in Kenya.

• After two years, primary students taught using NewGlobe’s methods are nearly a whole additional year of learning ahead of students in other schools.
• For pre-primary students, two years’ teaching using NewGlobe’s methods puts them a year-and-a-half of additional learning ahead of other students.

• 82% of Grade 1 students – six/seven-years-old – in NewGlobe-supported schools can read a sentence, compared with 27% in other schools.
• Students starting from lowest learning levels gain the most. NewGlobe-supported students outperform their peers across all test scores, but with differences greatest for students with the lowest prior learning.

Professor Kremer said:

“The effects in this study are among the largest in the international education literature, particularly for a program that was already operating at scale… attending schools delivering highly standardized education has the potential to produce dramatic learning gains at scale, suggesting that policymakers may wish to explore incorporation of standardization, including standardized lesson plans and teacher feedback and monitoring, in their own systems.”

Full details here

Contact: Marek Pruszewicz, Director, Communications
Company: NewGlobe
Email: Marek.Pruszewicz@NewGlobe.Education

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Nyxoah Joins the Euronext Tech Leaders Initiative, Included in the Euronext Tech Leaders Index

Mont-Saint-Guibert, Belgium – June 7, 2022 4:30pm ET / 10:30pm CET– Nyxoah SA (Euronext Brussels/Nasdaq: NYXH)(“Nyxoah” or the “Company”), a medical technology company focused on the development and commercialization of innovative solutions to treat Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA), is proud to announce that it is part of the newly-formed Euronext Tech Leaders initiative, which is composed of 100+ innovative and high-growth technology companies with greater than 1 trillion Euros in aggregate market capitalization.

Companies participating in the Euronext Tech Leaders initiative will be included in the Euronext Tech Leaders Index and benefit from a suite of exclusive programs, such as dedicated Euronext programs targeting improved trading conditions for retail investors, greater international visibility through marketing and communication initiatives, and access to the C-level club offering exclusive networking events.

“We are proud that our patient-first mission has led to Nyxoah being one of 100 Tech companies to be recognized for innovation and growth through inclusion in the Euronext Tech Leaders initiative and index,” commented Olivier Taelman, Nyxoah’s Chief Executive Officer.

About Nyxoah
Nyxoah is a medical technology company focused on the development and commercialization of innovative solutions to treat Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA). Nyxoah’s lead solution is the Genio® system, a patient-centered, leadless and battery-free hypoglossal neurostimulation therapy for OSA, the world’s most common sleep disordered breathing condition that is associated with increased mortality risk and cardiovascular comorbidities. Nyxoah is driven by the vision that OSA patients should enjoy restful nights and feel enabled to live their life to its fullest.

Following the successful completion of the BLAST OSA study, the Genio® system received its European CE Mark in 2019. Nyxoah completed two successful IPOs: on Euronext Brussels in September 2020 and NASDAQ in July 2021. Following the positive outcomes of the BETTER SLEEP study, Nyxoah received CE mark approval for the expansion of its therapeutic indications to Complete Concentric Collapse (CCC) patients, currently contraindicated in competitors’ therapy. Additionally, the Company is currently conducting the DREAM IDE pivotal study for FDA and US commercialization approval.

For more information, please visit http://www.nyxoah.com/.

Caution – CE marked since 2019. Investigational device in the United States. Limited by U.S. federal law to investigational use in the United States.

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Nyxoah
Loic Moreau, Chief Financial Officer
corporate@nyxoah.com
+32 473 33 19 80

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jeremy.feffer@nyxoah.com
+1 917 749 1494

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Le leader technologique chevronné poursuivra l’alignement de la société afin de générer une valeur accrue pour les clients mondiaux

FLORHAM PARK, New Jersey, 07 juin 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — TrueCommerce, fournisseur mondial de solutions de connectivité, d’intégration et de commerce unifié pour les partenaires commerciaux, a annoncé aujourd’hui la nomination de Randy Curran au poste de président-directeur général et membre du conseil d’administration, à compter du 1er juin 2022.

« Nous sommes extrêmement fiers de la croissance que TrueCommerce a enregistrée », a déclaré Ryan Harper, associé général de Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe (WCAS) et membre du conseil d’administration de TrueCommerce. « Nous sommes convaincus que TrueCommerce accélèrera cette trajectoire ascendante sous la direction de Randy. C’est un leader éprouvé, doté d’une vaste expérience des entreprises de premier plan dans leurs prochaines étapes de croissance et d’excellence opérationnelle. »

La croissance de TrueCommerce est attribuée à plusieurs facteurs. Avec son acquisition de DiCentral, la société a doublé ses effectifs, augmenté sa clientèle de 40 % et étendu sa présence dans les Amériques, en Europe et en Asie-Pacifique. Elle a également investi dans sa plateforme mondiale et dans le développement de ses produits, enregistrant une hausse de 24 % des connexions totales à son réseau mondial en glissement annuel et une augmentation de 25 % du volume global de données sur le réseau commercial TrueCommerce par rapport à 2020.

M. Curran est un leader technologique de longue date qui, depuis des décennies, transforme et propulse des entreprises internationales à forte croissance vers le succès. Il était auparavant partenaire d’exploitation de WCAS, une société de capital-investissement américaine de premier plan, et partie prenante majoritaire de TrueCommerce. Avant de rejoindre Welsh Carson, M. Curran était PDG d’OHL, Inc. (acheté par la suite par GEODIS), le quatrième plus grand entrepôt logistique tiers (3PL) des États-Unis. Il y a créé un alignement au sein de l’équipe de direction et dirigé l’amélioration des systèmes d’information servant les clients et les employés. M. Curran a également occupé des postes de PDG chez ITC^Deltacom, Inc. (aujourd’hui Deltacom), ICG Communications et Thermadyne Holdings, Inc. Il est titulaire d’une licence en économie de l’université DePauw et d’un MBA de l’université de Loyola.

« TrueCommerce est à l’avant-garde du marché des technologies de la chaîne d’approvisionnement et, dans une économie mondiale qui a besoin de solutions de chaîne d’approvisionnement fiables et fluides, les opportunités de croissance pour l’entreprise sont énormes », a déclaré M. Curran. « Je suis honoré de rejoindre cette équipe talentueuse pour favoriser l’alignement de la réussite des clients, de la mise en œuvre et du soutien et faire de TrueCommerce un employeur de choix. »

À propos de Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe
WCAS est une société de capital-investissement américaine de premier plan axée sur deux secteurs cibles : la santé et les technologies. Depuis sa création en 1979, la stratégie de la société a consisté à s’associer à des équipes de direction exceptionnelles et à créer de la valeur pour ses investisseurs grâce à une combinaison d’améliorations opérationnelles, d’initiatives de croissance et d’acquisitions stratégiques. La société a levé et géré des fonds totalisant plus de 27 milliards de dollars de capitaux engagés. Pour plus d’informations, rendez-vous sur notre site www.wcas.com.

À propos de TrueCommerce
TrueCommerce est le moyen le plus complet de connecter votre entreprise à la chaîne d’approvisionnement, en intégrant tout, de l’EDI à la gestion des stocks, en passant par le traitement des commandes, les vitrines et les marchés numériques. Nous avons révolutionné la visibilité et la collaboration de la chaîne logistique en aidant les entreprises à tirer le meilleur parti de leurs initiatives omni-canales grâce à la connectivité P2P professionnelle, à la gestion des commandes, au réapprovisionnement collaboratif, au traitement intelligent, aux analyses inter-fonctionnelles et à la gestion des informations produit.

Le réseau commercial mondial TrueCommerce peut connecter les entreprises à plus de 160 000 détaillants, distributeurs et fournisseurs de services logistiques. Véritable fournisseur de services gérés, TrueCommerce gère également le processus d’intégration des nouveaux partenaires commerciaux, et assure la gestion courante des modifications de mappage et d’étiquetage spécifiques à chaque partenaire ainsi que le suivi de la communication. C’est pourquoi des milliers d’entreprises, des startups aux sociétés du classement Fortune 100, dans différents secteurs, nous font confiance.

TrueCommerce : faites des affaires avec des moyens illimités !
Pour tout complément d’information, veuillez consulter le site https://truecommerce.com/.

Contact auprès des médias
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