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SCIENCE News, Studies, Research, Technology, Aug 06, 2011 (2)


LAUNCHING NEW LESSONS: DES science teacher attends Space Academy
Destin Log
In mid-spring, the fifth grade science and social studies teacher was invited to attend the 2011 Boeing Educators to Space Camp Program in Huntsville, Ala., July 18-22 alongside 90 other teachers from 11 countries. 'It was a fabulous time with other ...
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Govt studies forecast less water, lesser yield
Hindustan Times
Climate change impact on agriculture is the highlight of the studies to be published in CurrentScience on Monday with recorded fall in per acre production of wheat and rice. the rural India and 50% in the urban India. A study by PK Aggarwal of the ...
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Research linking autism to internet use is criticised
The Guardian
She said that she also had several scientific studies to back up her concerns about the impact technology may be having on young minds. "I'm not just sitting here staring out of my window and making something up to talk about," she said. ...
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The Guardian
Harvard professor calls for shake-up of Taiwan academia
Focus Taiwan News Channel
6 (CNA) Taiwan lacks scholars that are capable of conducting in-depth research on fundamentalscience and interdisciplinary science, a world-renowned mathematician said in Taipei Saturday. "Taiwan has to go the extra mile if it wants to catch up with ...
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Concordia changes science learning
Montreal Gazette
The teaching methods developed through years of research will be fully tested around the world next year, Kalman says, in Montreal, Ontario, BC, Vietnam, Portugal and China. "We have tested our teaching activities against other studies, ...
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Researchers Evaluate NanoString's Breast Cancer Intrinsic Subtyping Assay
AZoNano.com
By Cameron Chai A developer of molecular diagnostics and provider of life sciencetools for translational research, NanoString Technologies, has announced the initiation of the first study which will be followed by further studies to assess the ...
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AZoNano.com
Is Constant 'Facebooking' Bad for Teens?
LiveScience.com
Now, a set of new studies reveals the psychological effects of constant Facebooking. The news is both good and bad, according to Larry Rosen, a social media researcher at California State University, who is presenting his recent work on digital natives ...
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LiveScience.com
Milton Garces named 2011 PopTech Science and Public Leadership Fellow
UH System Current News
Visible scientific leaders shouldn't be a rarity and we believe the Science and Public Leadership Fellows program helps to fill this gap.” “Microsoft Research is thrilled to continue its support for PopTech's Science and Public Leadership Fellows ...
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UH System Current News
'Delight' Delights Public, Bags Award
Yentha
Trivandrum: Delight, e-toilet developed by Eram Scientific solutions, has bagged the Public Choice Award instituted by the Centre for Science, Development and Media Studies in association with Department of Information Technology (DIT), ...
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Ten Movies That Predicted the Future
The Times Herald
Modern science may not be able to reanimate the dead, but until they do there are plenty of ways to get spare parts. Movies such as 1956's Forbidden Planet have long stoked imaginations with visions of robot pals. A less friendly vision came later, ...
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Happy 20th Birthday, World Wide Web
Science 2.0 (blog)
It was a message that laid the groundwork for a new technology that revolutionized commerce and communication. You might also want to blame the WWW for spam but, no, the first spam message was in 1978 when Gary Thuerk, a marketing guy for Digital ...
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Mingo schools post 63 job vacancies
Williamson Daily News
Ed. 1-6 or Multi-Subjects K-4); Science teacher (Science 5-8); Social Studies teacher (SocialStudies 5-8). Mingo Central High: Technology Integration Specialist (12 qualifications including West Virginia certification and Advanced 'Credential as a TIS ...
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NIBM awards world-class BSc (Hon) degrees in Management /HRM NIBM
Sunday Times.lk
NIBM with the collaboration of University College Dublin (UCD) offers a Bachelor ofScience in Management Information system, Bachelor of Science Business Management and Bachelor of Science Human Resource Management , this degree programme has been ...
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Sunday Times.lk
Honorable mentions
Foster's Daily Democrat
Honored with a scholarship to participate in the Summer Institute for French Organ Studies, Emerson traveled to France in late May where she studied under the tutelage of Jesse Eschbach, professor of organ at the University of North Texas, ...
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Toxic chromium found in Chicago drinking water
Chicago Tribune
Chemical companies have sponsored their own studies, many of which downplay the potential dangers. "The interests of public health and industry are best served by ensuring that our chemical assessments are based on the best science," said Cal Dooley, ...
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Chicago Tribune
Does class size really matter?
Salon
Ordinarily, these would be juicy studies, but how kids ended up in classes with small teacher-student ratios created some confounding factors. Children who attended elementary school in affluent Wilmette, Illinois, for example, may have been educated...
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Salon
Putting himself out there
TODAYonline
Then in 2007, five months before starting his studies at NTU's School of Art Design and Media, the ex-Victorian science student attended a one-year mentorship programme at visual arts centre Objectifs - which opened his eyes to fine art photography. ...
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This is not your father's GED
Coos Bay World
The English test focused on the correctness and effectiveness of expression, while success in socialstudies, science and literature depended on interpreting reading material. By the mid-1970s, the closing cusp of the industrial age, ...
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Nutrition workers honored Aug. 3
Philippine Information Agency
This was substantiated by the program's speaker Department of Science and Technology Director (DOST) Mario Capanzana, represented by fellow nutrition researcher Dr. Imelda Agdeppa; who spoke of studies done on “careful motherhood” and babies. ...
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New doctors have shorter hours, better work-life balance
Plain Dealer
But Nasca backed the accreditation council's decision, citing several studies that looked at the relationship between errors and sleep deprivation, as well as a 2008 Institute of Medicine report that found the old 30-hour shift system to be "out of ...
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Plain Dealer
Pacgen Reports Annual Financial Results
MarketWatch (press release)
Pacgen is a life science technology transfer company focused on the commercial development of novel therapeutic drug candidates up to Phase II, proof of concept efficacy in human. Pacgen sources innovative therapeutic drug candidates globally, ...
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Quakes' many stories to go on the record
Stuff.co.nz
Teaching courses will be built around the material. There will be funds for relatedresearch. There could be longitudinal studies and geospatial mapping. In other words, how do perceptions change over time and how did location affect experience? ...
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Stuff.co.nz
Failing grade for trailers
Montreal Gazette
Larry Tanner, a wind science specialist at Texas Tech University, was "suspicious" when he heard that trailers were to be used as hurricane shelters in Haiti, and put the odds that Clayton Homes had developed a mobile home that could be safely used as ...
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Deaf professor proves skeptics wrong
TheChronicleHerald.ca
Campbell started at Queens University in 2004, using a sign language interpreter to help explain the intricacies of mercury on fish development, or climate change on the world's water, or other complexities of environmental studies and biology. ...
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Bioweapons expert found dead
Bio Prep Watch
Tucker left his job of close to 15 years as a research fellow at the Monterey Institute's James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies. He had also previously worked as an editor at the magazine Scientific American. He was often used as a source by ...
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Automakers balk at EPA plans for higher-ethanol fuel
Chicago Tribune
Sensenbrenner, vice chair of the House Space, Science, and Technology Committee, has introduced legislation to block the EPA from allowing E15. The automakers who have responded so far raising concerns include: Ford, Chrysler, Honda, Mazda, ...
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E-Shakti' Bags Accolades at 'E-World Forum 2011
itVARnews.net (press release)
Studies (CSDMS) and Elets Technomedia Private Limited and supported by Department of Information Technology (DIT), Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, and Department of Science and Technology, Government of India.
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Like St. Peter he was the rock for family and associates
Sunday Times.lk
Although he was the Minister of Justice, he was demoted to State Minister of Science& Technology, a non-Cabinet appointment, when the new Ministers were sworn! However when there was an attempt to impeach President Premadasa, my father supported the ...
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Sunday Times.lk
Foster youth get a taste of college at a special summer academy at UCLA
UC Los Angeles
And we can do it — this is not rocket science. We can save lives, we can save money. It's a win-win." The Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services endorsed the academy as a way to afford foster youth "opportunities that would ...
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Winner - Research Fellowship
UCL Department of Science and Technology Studies ... Award winning teaching and research. Rated as outstanding by students at every level. ...
www.ucl.ac.uk/sts/sts-publication-news/2011_08_01

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