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IIT, IIM faculty not world class: Ramesh
Times of India
NEW DELHI: The outspoken environment minister Jairam Ramesh kicked up yet another controversy rubbishing the Indian Institutes of Technology and Indian Institutes of Management on Monday at a public event in Delhi. "There is hardly any worthwhile ...
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Tissue culture can improve agriculture production
New Vision
In order to advance basic science there must be a contradiction and or a problem with the current research findings. A hypothesis is developed to address this crisis. Endophyte technology cannot be commercialised until more study shows stability of the ...
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New Vision

POPAI Launches Shopper Engagement Study
PR Newswire (press release)
Having pioneered studies that demonstrated the impact of display materials and impulse decision rates as they relate to in-store displays, POPAI will once again pave the path for in-store researchby adding a combination of groundbreaking EEG and ...
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How technology is influencing families
Kingsport Times News
Panelists receive unique log-in information for accessing surveys online and are sent emails each month inviting them to participate in specific research studies. Potential panelists are randomly selected from the population at large to join the panel; ...
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Remanufactured Products Use More Energy?
EarthTechling
Wrong, according to a new study from researchers at MIT, recently published in Environmental Science & Technology [PDF]. The research team, led by Professor of Mechanical Engineering Timothy Gutowski, conducted 25 case studies on products in eight ...
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EarthTechling

New Resource Developed to Encourage Undergraduate Research Experiences
Science Daily (press release)
Before earning her bachelor's degree she has already co-authored several studies, won a Google Scholarship, a graduate fellowship from the National Science Foundation, and earned national recognition in her field. "My undergraduate research experience ...
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NASA/University Japan Quake Study Yields Surprises
Space Daily
The work was funded by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, National ScienceFoundation grants, the Southern California Earthquake Center, and NASA's internalResearch and Technology Development program.
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Space Daily

AmorePacific to showcase skincare at its best
Korea Times
In April, a memorandum of understanding with the Institute of Medical Biology at Singapore's Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) was signed to jointly develop a new type of an anti-aging material. More than $100000 has been budgeted ...
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Korea Times

Urban Education Ph.D. approved for IU School of Education at IUPUI
IUPUI Newscenter
CUME is the research arm of the IU School of Education at IUPUI which has conducted several major program evaluations, including the National ScienceFoundation-funded Noyce Scholars Program and the Woodrow Wilson Indiana Teacher Fellowship Program. ...
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IUPUI Newscenter

Steve Milloy Advises Republicans To Spread Climate Misinformation
Media Matters for America
An inquiry conducted by the UK House of Common's Science and Technology Committee concluded that "insofar as we have been able to consider accusations of dishonesty ... we consider that there is not case to answer. Within our limited inquiry and the ...
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Del Mar science professor tackles 'unfinished business' of writing thriller...
Del Mar Times
Meyers is a Distinguished Professor of Materials Science at the University of California San Diego. He heads a materials science group at UCSD: he is an expert in explosives, but for the past 10 years has concentrated on applying his research to ...
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Del Mar Times

Do-it-yourself data centres in decline, according to annual study
PRWire
The study, conducted by the respected research firm Campos Research & Analysis, is based on a detailed survey of senior decision-makers at large corporations in North America who are responsible for shaping their companies' data centre strategies. ...
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Research scores low
Hindustan Times
Faculty members who undertake research projects are supposed to give a third of their consultancy fee to the university. The Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies, the university's most prestigious management institute, contributed only Rs1 ...
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Spending will increase for smart energy
Boulder County Business Report
Pike Research LLC, a market research and consulting firm that studies that global cleantechnology industry, has found investment in "smart cities" will total $108 billion between 2010 and 2020. The report takes stock of the ideas that are shaping the ...
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Peering deep into a stem cell
Deccan Herald
Effective amalgamation of these two technologies offers immense potential for the human race. Nanotechnology is defined as the science and technology of nanoscale (one billionth of a meter), typically in the range 1-1000 nm. ...
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Earliest Signs of Life, BC Research Team Shows
Boston College Chronicle
That can only ring a bell and require us to ask if we need to reconsider earlier studies.” Nearly 4000-million years old samples from Greenland have been used to develop the dominant time line regarding the emergence of the earliest biosphere. ...
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Are our kids addicted to technology?
Salon
Research studies do not show an increase in overall sexual predation as a result of Internet use among young people. The kids most at risk of online harms are the same as those at risk for offline harms -- victims of sexual or physical abuse, ...
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Salon

Fire Research Agenda Discussed
Firehouse.com
Seven committees were appointed to look at topics that included health and wellness, emergency services delivery, wildland firefighting, community risk reduction, science and technology, data collection and tools and equipment. "We are here to review, ...
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Probing Question: Has technology made life easier for working moms?
Penn State Live
... international affairs; labor studies and employee relations; society, technology and society; and management and organization. She can be reached at etrauth@ist.psu.edu. For more Probing Questions and other features about research at Penn State, ...
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A better way to see molecular structures
PhysOrg.com
Much of that research would not be possible without the pioneering nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) work of John Waugh, MIT Institute Professor Emeritus. When Waugh first came to MIT, in 1953, NMR was already a valuable tool for the study of molecular...
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PhysOrg.com

Logos Technologies partners with Medidata Solutions
Pharmaceutical Business Review
Logos Technologies, a provider of clinical trial solutions to pharmaceutical, biotechnology and clinical research organizations, has entered into a partnership with Medidata Solutions to integrate data from its ALPHADAS Phase I solution with Medidata ...
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IPv6 Transition Still a Low Priority for Most Organizations
eWeek
Despite the increased interest and awareness in IPv6, companies are still just talking about making the switch, according to recent research studies. Ever since the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) distributed the last remaining blocks of ...
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Nectec joins effort to save coral reefs
The Nation
"This is a test bed for evolving technologies in the capture of environmental and biological data and communicating these data for analysis and long-term studies of marine ecology," Krisanadej said. The Racha Yai Island site will use several ...
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The Nation

Air Force Hospital Eliminates Equipment Loss, Reduces Labor Hours
RFID Journal
A research team with Keesler Air Force Base's 81st Medical Group received approval last week for additional studies, to include the implementation of asset tracking at Columbus AFB, temperature monitoring and infant tracking, as well as bar-code and ...
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A Breakthrough in Backyard Biology
Flathead Beacon
The National Science Foundation recently awarded Bonham's one-man business Hawk-Owl Systems, in partnership with Craighead Beringia South, a $260000 grant to continue efforts to improve technology for wildlife research transmitters. ...
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Flathead Beacon


Sareum's positive research will attract potential development partners - analyst
Proactive Investors UK
Furthermore Genis said that Sareum's proprietary technology platform, known as 'SKIL', has proven successful in generating potential new drug candidates. “Sareum's SKIL technology platform will likely provide for a generous amount of new research ...
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Proactive Investors UK

Vitamin D linked to sperm quality
NHS Choices
The study was carried out by researchers from The University of Copenhagen, Denmark and was funded by various research organisations, including the Danish Agency for Science, Technologyand Innovation, and the Novo-Nordisk Foundation of the ...
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HFC: Benefit for Some HF Patients in Telemonitoring
MedPage Today
TIM-HF was funded by the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology. Boyne and Stevenson reported having no conflicts of interest to declare. Köhler reported research funding from the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology. ...
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Innovative solar dish to address energy crises in Pakistan
Pakistan Observer
Lahore—First prototype Solar Dish Stirling Generator has been developed indigenously in Pakistan by an independent Think Tank “Brains for Innovative Research Development & Strategic Studies a gathering of experts for the betterment of society. ...
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Oak Hill student places fourth at social studies fair
Beckley Register-Herald
By Sarah Plummer Register-Herald Reporter OAK HILL — A fifth-grader from Sts. Peter and Paul Catholic School was awarded fourth place in the State Social Studies Fair for her research on the history and evolution of the West Virginia State Police. ...
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EHRs and Health Care Quality: Correlation With Out-of-date, Differently ...
Archives of Internal Medicine
Health Care Manage Rev. 2011;36(1):86-94. WEB OF SCIENCE | PUBMED 6. Amarasingham R, Plantinga L, Diener-West M, Gaskin DJ, Powe NR. Clinical information technologies and inpatient outcomes: a multiple hospital study. Arch Intern Med. ...
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Dr. Andrew Weil versus evidence-based medicine
ScienceBlogs (blog)
Before Dr. Oz told Steve Novella that "Western" science and medicine can't study woo like acupuncture, Dr. Weil was there, paving the way for such arguments, previously considered ludicrous, to achieve a patina of respectability. ...
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Using our brains: Neuromarketing, no-hands gaming and the arrival of the EEG ...
Gizmag
This type of testing has been attracting growing interest but it also has its critics who see it as junkscience and suspect market research. Indeed, whether such studies produce valid, reliable, marketresearch results is a question that is currently ...
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Proteonomix, Inc. (PROT) Animal Studies Confirms Potential Use of UMK-121
Marketwire (press release)
The pre-clinical studies were conducted in rodents and a large animal model to confirm the potential of the UMK-121 technology to mobilize Stromal Stem Cells ("SSCs") into the peripheral blood of animals, thereby making the SSCs available for ...
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Scientific Research Studies on Spiritual Science and Philosophy ...
Scientific Research Studies upon Spiritual Science as great as Philosophy. Today's epoch predominates with a tall intellect. Every aspect of a reason up is ...
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Studies from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology ...
Studies from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) Reveal New Findings... Computer Weekly News. Article: Research Conducted at Korea . ...
www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-256538249.html?key=01...

Science and technology research news | Sixteenth century Egyptian ...
... and magazine dedicated to research and development, science, technology and ... “Recentstudies have shown that by not smoking, having a lower blood ...
www.projectsmagazine.eu.com/.../sixteenth_century_egyptian...

Science: Studies from Royal Veterinary College Yield New Data on ...
BioInformant is a specialty research company that uses technology to track and ... Imagingstudies - research papers, news, reports and clinical trials ...
www.bioportfolio.com/.../Science-Studies-From-Royal-Veterin...


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