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SCIENCE News, Studies, Research, Technology, Oct 12, 2011


MorphoSys AG : AbD Serotec, Moredun Research Institute and Roslin Institute ...
Reuters (press release)
The project is funded through an Industrial Partnership Award from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) under a joint initiative with the Scottish Government's Rural and Environment Science and Analytical Services Division ...
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Seaching for Better Treatments for Multiple Sclerosis (Part 2)
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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Minister wants modern library set up at Dar varsity
IPPmedia
By Correspondent Communications, Science and Technology minister Prof Makame Mbarawa has called upon the University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM) to establish a spacious modern library that meets expectations of students enrolled at the university. ...
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IPPmedia
Scotland Shares Funding to Develop Food & Drink Innovation
Scotland Food and Drink (press release)
Over 50 research projects and studies aimed at developing healthier, safer and more nutritious food are to share over £7 million of government investment. The projects andstudies - one being led by food ingredients company Macphie of Glenbervie - will ...
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OpGen's Whole Genome Mapping Technology Provides Critical Genomic Information ...
MarketWatch (press release)
OpGen's proprietary de novo technology has none of the limitations of sequencing-based methodologies, PCR or gels. The company's technology is used by public health agencies and research labs worldwide to rapidly analyze microbial genomes, ...
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Autism Linked With Lack of Concern for Personal Reputation, Study Finds
Fox News
"We know that individuals with autism have social difficulty, but we are not sure what 'social difficulty' exactly means," said study researcher Keise Izuma, of the California Institute of Technology. "I think our results provide one answer for it," ...
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Fox News
Government must allocate part of GDP to scientific research- CSIR
Ghana News Agency
Prof Amonoo-Neizer who is also former Vice Chancellor of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, announced that the country would soon get a horticultural institute to make the industry viable. He noted that through Government's ...
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Mouthpieces Gather Impact Data from Football Players
Technology Review
The company is partnering with Bite Tech to make the mouth guards commercially available next year. Robert Cantu, who codirects the Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy at Boston University, says that all impact-sensing technologies have ...
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Technology Review
Rocking discovery: Boulders rub shoulders during quakes
msnbc.com
Believe it or not, gay birds are quite a research topic ... not that there's anything wrong with that. Geoff MacFarlane, a biologist at the University of Newcastle in Australia, and colleagues reviewed studies of 93 bird species and suggested that ...
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msnbc.com
'Thinking Machines' Will Guide Future Power Grids, Expert Says
Newswise (press release)
“Several research studies have reported using CI-based technologies to dynamically forecast wind and solar power, monitor voltage stability, and assess real-time stability” of power systems, he writes. “In combination, CI and ACD technologies can ...
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2011 Nobel Prize Awarded for Discovery of Innate Immunity Pathways -- Research ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Hemispherx's platform technology includes components for potential treatment of various severely debilitating and life threatening diseases. Hemispherx has patents comprising its core intellectual property estate and a fully commercialized product ...
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India may join mega telescope project with Rs800 cr aid
Livemint
“We are now partnering the project”, after having joined it last year as an observer, said T. Ramasami, secretary, department of science and technology (DST). “This upgrade will involve around Rs800 crore worth of technology as contribution from the ...
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No Evidence that Public Funded Research is Public Benefit
Big Sky Business Journal
Studies have also discredited the idea that it is more costly to innovate than to apply a new idea. In practice – “to access [a new technology], costs as much as to produce it in the first place.” Kealy said, “Science is almost perfect in the way it ...
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Government of Canada Launches New Industrial Research Chairs for Colleges Grants
MarketWatch (press release)
The Honourable Gary Goodyear, Minister of State (Science and Technology) announced that applications are now being accepted for the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council's (NSERC) new Industrial Research Chairs for Colleges (IRCC) Grants. ...
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The Future Of Time
NPR (blog)
Today it's time to close the loop and imagine the future of time-keeping science andtechnology, while keeping our own best interests squarely in view. There is a time-pocolypse coming. One way or another, we are already reinventing time through our ...
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UW study finds songbird declines in high-density well sites
Billings Gazette
Cindy Wertz, public affairs specialist with the BLM in Cheyenne, said research from university partners plays a role in decisions made by the agency on public lands. "We take all the information we get from studies and factor them into our land use ...
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Leading, Independent Researchers Report Significant Advantages of Pressure ...
MarketWatch (press release)
The studies involved such important areas as biomarker discovery, therapeutics, and vaccine development. Dr. Nathan Lawrence, Vice President of Marketing for PBI, said: "We believe that PCT is a powerful technology platform that can be of meaningful ...
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Ethanol mandate debate
AG Week
Coleman said the study is correct in identifying technology and government policy as two major hurdles advanced biofuels growth is facing. Coleman said if the RFS goals are supported by policy that helps push it forward, the industry will emerge and be ...
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International Stem Cell's Research Scientists Successfully Completed the First ...
MarketWatch (press release)
International Stem Cell Corporation is focused on the therapeutic applications of human parthenogenetic stem cells and the development and commercialization of cell-basedresearch and cosmetic products. ISCO's core technology, parthenogenesis, ...
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Market Rates Insight and myCUsurvey Partner to Deliver Better Market ...
MarketWatch (press release)
myCUsurvey is a division of PinPoint Research Corporation, a market research firm that has been using computer and IVR (interactive voice recording) technology to powerresearch studies since 1986. Today, PinPoint Research manages more than 20 million...
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Tetra Tech Extends Contract
Zacks.com
Its solutions may span the entire life cycle of the project and include applied science,research and technology, engineering, design, construction management, construction, operations and maintenance, and information technology. ...
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Business Events Sydney research demonstrates the broad benefits of business events
ITCM
This research is a huge step in the right direction: we believe this is the first quantitativeresearch examining this subject.” The Beyond Tourism Benefits research, undertaken by the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) on behalf of BESydney, ...
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Smart Utilities are Embracing Social Media as a Key Part of their Customer ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Pike Research's report, "Social Media in the Utility Industry", highlights the key drivers and barriers that are defining the development of social media in the utility industry, and offers case studies from utility companies that have found success in ...
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What is it about Israel that wins Nobels?
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
“One of the things you need to do well in science and high tech is to think outside the box, and we as Israelis are not familiar with any boxes,” said Professor Dan Ben David, director of the Taub Center for Social Policy Studies in Israel. ...
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Will Physicists Have to Rewrite The Special Theory of Relativity?
Voice of America
Tom Krupenkin hopes the technology can provide an environmentally friendly way to power mobile electronic devices anywhere. But first, we hear about a research center where scientists are busy studying the many forms of life that call the tropical ...
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Energy Planning and Analysis Unit established in Nepal
Himalayan Times
It was established with the investment of the Austrian Partnership Programme in Higher Education and Research for Development (APPEAR) and will start studies on energy system planning and economics on masters level from the next academic session, ...
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Senate Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee Hearing
Insurance News Net (press release)
At Imagine RIT, NTID Laboratory Science Technology students present their research; the NTID Electric Bike Club shows off their no-carbon-emission bicycles; and students present applications they have developed for deaf and hard-of-hearing users of ...
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CMOs unprepared to handle digital data explosion: IBM Global CMO Study
Campaign Asia-Pacific
The IBM Global CMO Study is the technology giant's first study of CMOs, and the 15th in the ongoing series of C-suite studies developed by the IBM Institute for Business Value. The study conducted face-to-face interviews with over 1700 CMOs between ...
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Australian gamers getting older and wiser
Sydney Morning Herald (blog)
Over 1200 households and 3500 people across Australia were surveyed for theresearch, which was conducted on behalf of the Interactive Games and Entertainment Association (iGEA). It is the fourth report in the Bond University series of studies, ...
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Mellon Foundation Invests in Dance Studies
Broadway World
"The summer seminars will engage rigorous thinking about the live body as archive as well as engage efforts to develop digital technology for teaching and research in dance," said Rebecca Schneider, co-director of the project and chair of theater arts ...
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College draws on GV, Sahuarita for adjuncts
Green Valley News
Thousands of students at Pima Community College are immersed in studies ranging from health, applied arts and business services to trade, engineering and science technologies. Helping them succeed are about 350 regular faculty members and 1158 adjunct ...
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Danforth Plant Science Center Awarded Major Bioenergy Grant from U.S. ...
CisionWire (press release)
Sixty grants, totaling $156 million, were awarded by the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), an agency within the DOE, for cutting-edge energytechnology projects aimed at dramatically improving how the US produces biofuels. ...
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Edgell Communications Names New Editor-in-Chief for Mobile Enterprise Franchise
MarketWatch (press release)
About Mobile Enterprise Through trend stories, case studies and research, Mobile Enterprise covers the full range of the mobile workforce, from wireless infrastructure to machine-to-machine communications. From supply chain and logistics solutions to ...
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The Michael J. Fox Foundation Awards AFFiRiS $1.5 Million for the Clinical ...
MarketWatch (press release)
"Through MJFF's Edmond J. Safra Core Program for PD Research, we have been able to bring an initial pre-clinical study of PD01 into the clinic. This latest award takes our partnership to the next level, while enhancing the Foundation's presence in ...
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Survey: Enterprise IT Managers and Network Administrators Concerned That ...
MarketWatch (press release)
The 2011 study was administered by Amplitude Research over the period September 7th to September 9th, 2011 among its nationwide technology panel. In total, 350 surveys were completed by respondents who confirmed working as an IT executive, IT manager, ...
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Physicist wins Columbus award
Auburn Citizen
This year, the $25000 prize goes to Michael Sossong, the director of nucleartechnology research at the Decision Sciences International Corporation in southern California. Sossong's specialty is cosmic ray muon tomography. ...
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Hooper Holmes to Lead Biological Sample Collection for Landmark Government ...
MarketWatch (press release)
... in custom research, program evaluation studies, and communications campaign development across a broad range of subject areas, as well as technical expertise in survey and analytical methods, computer systems technology, biomedical science, ...
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Catalog Data Solutions Publishes Tompkins Industries Case Study
MCADCafe (press release)
Tompkins Industries is an industrial supplier of hydraulic adapters and fluid power products, recognized that the buying process had changed because of technology. In response they have used the latest 'Cloud-based' (SaaS) technology. ...
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Caligor Rx to Present at Clinical Trial Supply East Coast Conference
MarketWatch (press release)
Joseph E. Safdie, Esq., Caligor Rx's Vice President and Corporate Counsel, will discuss the logistical and regulatory issues related to providing clinical trial supplies directly to patients for home-based research studies. PAREXEL experts who provide ...
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NIMBUS(R) Antimicrobial Technology Proven to Provide Superior Versatility to ...
MarketWatch (press release)
These studies demonstrate the benefit of BIOGUARD over Kerlix(R) AMD when used with some commonly used wound treatments. As explained by Gregory Schultz, PhD, University of Florida Research Foundation Professor and past president of the Wound Healing ...
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BGI develops first monkey exome sequencing platform for biomedical research
EurekAlert (press release)
Macaque monkeys, in particular, are commonly used in research. Each year, there are thousands of Macaques used in pre-clinical studies throughout the world, includingstudies of pathogenic mechanisms, drug selection, drug dosage, treatment duration and...
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Green HPC Coming to Massachusetts
HPCwire
When the 9-acre site opens, it will provide resources to power a range of academic research projects, including research in protein structure, fluid dynamics, atmospheric studies, sociological phenomena, and galactic evolution.
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HPCwire
Research in Centre for Studies in Science Policy: CfPs ...
By Anup Kumar Das
We need to understand how large educational and research institutions, science andtechnology institutions, corporations, judicial bodies, international intergovernmental organizations (IOs) and large non-governmental organizations have ...
Research in Centre for Studies...
Study: Traffic Emissions Linked To Reduced Fetal Growth, Lighter ...
By Anusuya Das
Traffic emissions have been linked to reduced fetal growth in a study led by researchers at The University of Western Australia and its affiliate, The Telethon Institute for Child Health Research.
AsianScientist.com | Asian Science,...
Studies on the Protection of Technology on China's Grain Security ...
By rain
From ancient times, China's grain contribution to science and technology is recognized throughout the world. However,the development of grain science and technology even by many factors. Therefore, studies on the protection of technology ...
Economics Papers,Economics Term...
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...
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.
yorku.collegiatelink.net/organization/healthaid/news/.../375?...
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. ...
news.sciencemag.org/.../new-report-urges-us-to-fund-rese.htm...
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
Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education · Earth and Life Studies ... Bridge · Institute of Laboratory Animal Research Journal · Issues in Science and Technology ·Research Center Library · More · Office of News and Public Information ...
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