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SCIENCE News, Studies, Research, Technology, Oct 11, 2011


UCSB lab gets $15M from Dow Chemical Co.
Pacific Coast Business Times
The recent five-year gift comes just weeks after the research lab received $20 million from the National Science Foundation to fund its studies through at least 2017. The latest award will establish the Dow Materials Institute at UCSB, a center that ...
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Building world class research universities is significantly more complex - WB
Myjoyonline.com
For example, the authors show that in late 2007, Saudi Arabia announced plans for a new $10 billion graduate research university; Pakistan plans to spend $750 million for each of its new universities of engineering, science, and technology during the ...
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Scientists Continue Their Search for Better Treatments for Multiple Sclerosis ...
Voice of America
TIMOTHY COETZEE: “With the advent of technology and genetics and the ability to mine massive quantities of information and also to engage hundreds of thousands of people in the movement, I think we will see new lines of research that will help us ...
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Mayo Clinic and Indian Science Leaders Formalize Collaborations
Newswise (press release)
Mayo Clinic and the top science and technology organization in India have signed an agreement to collaborate on research. Leaders from Mayo and Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), India today signed a memorandum of understanding to ...
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Q1 Productions Announces Life Science Technology Forum
Newswire Today (press release)
Held next month, November 13-15 in Phoenix, Arizona, and featuring presentational insight from the likes of GlaxoSmithKline, Merck and NuVasive along with several other life science technology innovators, Q1's Life Science Technology Forum will host ...
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Warren Parker: Science and the keys to growth
New Zealand Herald
Warren Parker says the primary industry is definitely high-tech. Photo / Glenn Jeffrey Dr Warren Parker is chief executive of Scion, a crownresearch institute focused on forest industry research and development. NZ needs state-of-the-art manufacturing ...
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New Zealand Herald
IBM Study: Digital Era Transforming CMO's Agenda, Revealing Gap in Readiness
PR Newswire (press release)
"The inflection point created by social media represents a permanent change in the nature of customer relationships," said Carolyn Heller Baird, CRM research lead for the IBM Institute for Business Value and the global director of the study. ...
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$300K study will examine if green energy helps N.J. students learn, saves tax ...
newjerseynewsroom.com
“The New Jersey Sustainable Schools Project will assess the financial benefit of converting older schools to green energy, the contribution of a healthier physical environment to student achievement and the opportunities in STEM (Science,Technology, ...
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Leicester Based Research Study Highlighted in National Report
Loughborough News
The use of the self-assessment tool, developed by our Diabetes Research Team as part of CLAHRC for LNR, in combination with cutting edge technology gives people the information they need on their diabetes risk at once and, if it is high, ...
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QSTP entity ties up with Italian research institute
Gulf Times
Rasad, the ICT platform developed by Qatar Science and TechnologyPark (QSTP), yesterday announced a collaboration with the leading Italianresearch institute, Polytechnic University of Torino (Politecnico di Torino). Joint research projects on sensors ...
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Gulf Times
Government must allocate part of GDP to scientific research- CSIR
Ghana News Agency
Prof Amonoo-Neizer who is also the former Vice Chancellor of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology and a past Diplomat announced that the country would soon get a horticultural institute to make the industry viable. ...
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Access unveils the future of technology at Softworld
PR Web (press release)
Access, the consulting, software and solutions company is celebrating its 20th anniversary at this year's Softworld exhibition by unveiling the findings of research that has been commissioned with the Centre for Future Studies. ...
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Cameron's science panel urges NHS over medicines uptake
Pharma Times
Central to the NHS innovation strategy needed for the UK to become world-class at developing, testing and rapidly diffusing the best new medical technologies and practices, is the requirement for the Service to work with research funders to create a ...
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Nuvilex Advances Studies Combining Its Encapsulation and Live Stem Cell ...
MarketWatch (press release)
... research and in a variety of clinical therapeutic applications and treatments. In combining our encapsulation technology with live stem cells, we are able to place the encapsulated live stem cells into specific locations or organs in the body. ...
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Research of the UNB with Petrobras helps to identify areas in the pre-salt
PreSalt.com News
The approach between companies and universities is the goal of the Brazilian government in programs such as Science Without Borders. Evaluation at the Ministry ofScience, Technology and Innovation is that Brazil's position in the global ranking of ...
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Shangraw appointed CEO, president of ASU Foundation
Arizona State University
Prior to joining ASU, Shangraw was the founder and CEO of Project Performance Corporation (PPC), a research and technology consulting firm specializing in environmental, energy and information management issues. During his tenure, PPC received the ...
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Circadian Technologies: Van Leeuwenhoeck places share price target of $1.97
Proactive Investors Australia
Circadian Technologies (ASX: CIR) has received a glowing valuation from Van Leeuwenhoeck Research, which is a firm specialising in bio technology and lifescience sectors, and based in The Hague and in New York. The following is an extract from the ...
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Space on Earth: Testing extraterrestrial habitats
CNN (blog)
NASA's Desert Research and Technology Studies (RATS) team spends time in the Arizona desert every summer in order to test technology, robotics systems and extravehicular activity equipment. The desert's extreme temperature swings and rough terrain ...
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Evangelicals and the nonreligious don't differ in science literacy
ScienceBlogs (blog)
They are as likely as the nonreligious to have majored in science or to have a scientific occupation. While other studies have shown that the elite scientists who work at the 20 top research universities are less religious than the public, ...
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ScienceBlogs (blog)
IT Changing How SMEs do Business
MarketWatch (press release)
Seth Robinson, CompTIA's Director, Technology Analysis, who conducted theresearch, says: "Tablets will open new challenges for IT staff, as employees use them outside work. Tablets can get infections from home networks, which can spread to the ...
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Is education software failing our schools?
Bend Bulletin
Those tests, Cator said, cannot gauge some skills that technology teaches, like collaboration, multimedia and research. In Augusta, Allen, the math coordinator, said her district did not have the means to study the effectiveness of Cognitive Tutor ...
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(PRESS RELEASE: Study Shows That Roche's Investigational Drug for Alzheimer's ...
Wall Street Journal
For more information: http://www.scarletroadstudy.com/ Gantenerumab is an investigational fully human anti-A beta antibody, identified and optimized by phage display technology in cooperation with MorphoSys AG, a Munich-based Biotech. ...
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Mind alone lifts unattached robot arm
News24
"We really are at a tipping point now with this technology," says Michael McLoughlin of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, which developed the human like arm in a $100m project for Darpa, the Pentagon's research agency. ...
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Social Media For Scientists Part 3: Win-Win
Scientific American (blog)
Diffusion of News about Research Science Communication, 25 (1), 3-13 DOI: 10.1177/1075547003255297 About the Author: Christie Wilcox is a science writer and blogger who moonlights as a PhD student in Cell and Molecular Biology at the University of ...
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Startup OvaScience to 'energize' egg cells to improve fertility
Mass High Tech
At the conference, co-founder and Scientific Advisory Board Chairman Jonathan L. Tilly will talk about the science that can help older women who have failed at a couple IVF procedures to get pregnant. Tilly also is chief of research for the MGH Vincent ...
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Mass High Tech
Mudd: Research a window to the future
Richmond Times Dispatch
This means that what vision loss studies accomplish today is a window into what may be possible for other diseases as technology and processes advance. During the necessary, ongoing efforts to reduce our national debt, we must remember the critical ...
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Rockport-Fulton High School grad named Arctic coordinator for Scripps ...
Corpus Christi Caller Times
"After I got out of the Navy, the Cold War was over, and all the money was going intoscience and research so I started pursuing places that were doing research on the ocean, and the biggest place was Scripps," he said. For the past 20 years, ...
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The journey of 100 years begins with a single weekend
The Space Review
“If we are going to go to the stars, we are going to need to use the resources of the solar system,” said Geoffrey Landis, a scientist at NASA's Glenn Research Center who is also a science fiction author. “The nuclear thermal rocket will probably not ...
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The Space Review
Centre to take classical Kannada texts across borders
Times of India
The CIIL director Rajesh Sachdeva said the centre will research, document, propagate and teach classical Kannada. Along with the centre's focus on classical Kannada, the CIIL announced the setting up of a Centre of Excellence of Studies in Classical ...
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Buckingham center offers latest technology
phillyBurbs.com
The center's location was the result of studies to determine where the most demand would be. Since it opened, Fox Chase Buckingham has treated nearly 400 patients, and the numbers are increasing every month. While primarily treating breast and ovarian ...
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Upcoming Skidmore College talks to address world food supply, future of cities
The Saratogian
According to Gruissem, plant research, consumer education and broader acceptance of modern breeding methods, including gene technology, will help reach sustainable food security for future generations. David Domozych, Skidmore professor of biology, ...
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Here's an engine we still need
Santa Rosa Press Democrat
So now might be a good time to remember an advanced technology that is often forgotten, the combustion engine, and the promise it still holds for helping the United States meet its short-term objectives regarding oil consumption. Studies have ...
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Teens' Tiffs Affect Life at Home
UC Los Angeles
Fonarow, UCLA's Eliot Corday Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine and Science and director of the Ahmanson–UCLA Cardiomyopathy Center, is quoted today in a Reuters article about research showing that smokers tend to suffer from heart attacks years ...
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NYU's Sargent Wins 2011 Nobel Prize in Economics
MarketWatch (press release)
In awarding the prize, the Nobel Committee cited "their empirical research on cause and effect in the macroeconomy." A professor at NYU's Faculty of Arts and Science and its Stern School of Business, Sargent is widely acknowledged as a pioneer of the ...
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KBB Poll: While Consumers Enjoy Tech in Cars, It's Performance They Really Want
Auto Remarketing
“Studies have found that there's actually psychological value to being able to touch the product, especially when you're making such a large purchase.” That said, more people are going online to do car research and use the Web in tandem with an ...
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Seven Tech visionaries: The Web, wireless and code-breaking
Firstpost
Probably the best-known technology entrepreneur in the world, Bill Gates co-founded Microsoft with Paul Allen in the mid-70s. Like Steve Jobs, he never finished his universities studies. Microsoft began with Gates and Allen developing a BASIC ...
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MD Anderson Cancer Center Initiates Orders of IsoRay's Cesium-131 for ...
MarketWatch (press release)
My expectation is that this research study will be significant in identifying Cesium-131's improved cancer control for intermediate risk prostate cancer. I feel strongly that it will demonstrate Cesium-131's superiority over other isotopes and its ...
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Pfizer stem cell study highlights sea change for a controversial field
FierceBiotech
It's a personal choice," Paul Whiting, executive director of the Pfizer unit in charge of the prospective study, tells The Wall Street Journal. Ellen Feigal, vice president of researchand development at the California Institute for Regenerative ...
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the 2011 Mutationelles study, carried out for Orange, shows that the digital ...
WebWire (press release)
... with the support of the French Ministries of National Education and Higher Education and Research. High-school students are invited to form project teams and report back on what they would love to invent or create using science and technology. ...
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Accreditation Renewed for Engineering Programs
ValpoLife.com
ABET Inc. is the recognized accrediting agency for college and university programs in applied science, computing, engineering and technology. Covered by the action are programs leading to bachelor of science degrees in civil engineering, ...
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RemedyMD and the Children's Rare Disease Network to Announce Winner of $50000 ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Attendees can hear the winner and watch an educational demonstration of the unique rare disease research technology for free by registering at http://remedymd.com/RemedyMD-Live-Webinars.php . The RemedyMD medicalresearch software allows for the ...
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New Way to Screen for Killers of Brain Cancer Stem Cells
HealthNewsDigest.com
One of the nation's largest comprehensive cancer centers, the Jonsson center is dedicated to promoting research and translating basic science into leading-edge clinical studies. In July 2011, the Jonsson Cancer Center was named among the top 10 cancer ...
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Triple Asteroid Crash Created Sudan Meteorites
LiveScience.com
The research was presented today (Oct. 7) at a joint meeting of the European Planetary Science Congress and the American Astronomical Society's Division of Planetary Science in Nantes, France. Infrared image taken by the Meteosat 8 satellite of ...
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Online Video Market Research Report Now Available at MarketPublishers.com
MarketWatch (press release)
The study gives an in-depth coverage of revenue models (ad, pay, freemium, bundling) and offers key player and event case studies. It evaluates the key technology for online video delivery (including CDN) and presents the main solutions regarding ...
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California's Electric Policy is Not a Model for the United States
Electric Light & Power
California is well-positioned to lead on climate policy, said Daniel Sperling, founding director of the Institute of Transportation Studies at the University of California, Davis, and a member of the California Air Resources Board. ...
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Science and Technology Studies at York offers Research Seminars!
Offered on Tuesdays from 12:30pm - 2:00pm in 203 BC, it features a variety of speakers.
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New Report Urges U.S. to Fund Research on ... - News - Science
ScienceInsider - breaking news and analysis from the world of science policy ... that the White House's Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) should begin to coordinate "climate remediation" studies across a range of agencies. ...
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Population study suggests we're still evolving - Technology ...
New research suggests that even in relatively modern societies, humans are still ...Science on msnbc.com ... More science news from MSNBC Tech & Science ...
www.msnbc.msn.com/.../population-study-suggests-humans-ar...
Researchers study link between diesel fumes and destruction of bee ...
SCIENTISTS are investigating the possible link between pollution found in diesel fumes and the global collapse of honey bee colonies.
www.dailyrecord.co.uk/.../researchers-study-link-between-dies...
Some Biofuel Mandates ... - National-Academies.org | Newsroom
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