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DISCOVERIES, Inventions, May 03, 2011

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Our product, Relecura, stands for Relevance to Creativity or Innovation. ... Guidance for Innovation and Search Relecura provides suggestions on concepts related to the ... Empowers the inventor to transform ideas into inventions without ... Patent analysts: Performs comprehensive novelty and prior art searches ...
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Innovation Assistance - INDUS TechInnovations
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Invention - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Inventors believe in their ideas and they do not give up in the face of one or ..... that the American invention concept includes discoveries (35 USC § 100(a)), ... In the social sciences, an innovation is anything new to a culture, ...
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Innovation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Inventions
Inventors many have various motivations. Some work for economic gain or ... Inventions require a wide range of skills beyond the creation of novelty. ... The dividing lines among inventions, innovations, and discoveries are not clearly .... A how-to book for those with inventive or innovative ideas; explains how to ...
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Want to know about the latest inventions, innovations and interesting ideas? Learn more about us and our resources for inventors. ... Texas yesterday after the New England Journal of Medicine published the discovery that the mysterious .... Neutral Compact Hand Drill Concept Puts A Twist Into The Power Tool Market ...
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Protect Your Ideas, Innovations and Inventions
Home > How We Help Inventors > Protect Your Ideas, Innovations and Inventions ... improvement on it and steal the basic concept and design from you. ...
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Gene Woodle / Intellectual Properties: Patent Tests
Other ideas, inventions, or discoveries found not patentable include: abstract ideas, ... Although the novelty test has prevented many inventions, ... The difference must be in the concept or the operation of the invention rather than ...
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Research administration and management - Google Books Result
Elliott C. Kulakowski, Lynne U. Chronister, Research Enterprise - 2006 - Medical - 916 pages
At this point it is also useful to explore the inventor's ideas regarding the potential commercial aspects of the invention. To begin, the technology ...
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καινοτομία: An Old Word for a New World, or, The De-Contestation ...
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During the Renaissance, the concept of innovation shared a place with heresy in religious ..... also, since Antiquity, used as a substantive: a novelty (new ideas, ... French inventor published a Dictionnaire chronologique et raisonné in seventeen ..... discovery/invention, basic/applied science. With innovation ...
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Schumpeter and the Concept of Social Evolution: Role of Innovation ...
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nothing other than a discovery that was based on critical analysis of the existing ..... The inventor produces ideas, the entrepreneur 'gets things ... Thus, entrepreneurs and inventors, or innovation and invention are .... to explain the emergence of novelty in every layer from the unconscious formation of ...
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Jerome Lemelson biography :: Smithsonian Lemelson Center
Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation, Smithsonian · Beanie Illustration ... Studying the history of invention? Check out the Modern Inventors ... to novelties, gadgets, and toys--undoubtedly one of the most versatile. .... Lemelson developed and refined this concept, writing a 150-page ...
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Protecting a Small Business Idea
The concept of protecting a small business idea with regard to ... The patents system provides inventors of a legal mechanism to make public their small ... laws of mathematics such as new discoveries, theories or mathematical models. ... sure that there is an 'inventive step' And that the invention as a 'novelty'. ...
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Inventing - How To Information | eHow.com
In the 1940s, scientific research, discoveries and inventions were carried along ... From 1800 to 1900 much innovation was brought about, thanks to a .... Inventors are sometimes thought of as eccentric because of the ideas they come up with. ... or presenting an element of novelty that will be of use to someone. ...
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INVENTIONS AND PATENTS
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inventors, their inventions and patents through games, ..... Remember that novelty is one of the conditions for obtaining a patent. .... It is now faster and easier for people and ideas to travel around the world. ..... EUREKA ² World Exhibition for Innovation, Research and New Technology ...
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Early Twentieth Century Inventors and Inventions ...
Inventors and Inventions from 1901 to 1950: .... His ideas revolutionized the medical profession and saved many, many lives. ... pecans, and soybeans; his discoveries greatly improved the agricultural output and the ..... Gerstenzang started the Infant Novelty Company to sell Q-tips (which he then called Baby Gays) ...
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Invention and innovation as problem solving activities: a ...
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V.4 Integrating invention and innovation in an evolutionary concept of ... proviso one has to deny, that a discovery of a novelty in an economic context does ..... results, and the struggles of countless inventors to get someone to finance or ..... When the generated ideas or concepts are explored and thereby ...
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Preliminary Research on Classification of Independent Innovation ...
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On the basis of concept Shi Peigong put forward, this paper thinks that ... “novelty” and “the first discovery”, and then it will induce a chain reaction ... (1) Original technical invention. It's a new technical idea, and opens up a new .... discoveries of scientists. Independent technical invention of inventors ...
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What do Inventors Patent
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the same criteria of “novelty and usefulness”. Jurors assigned prizes to the best .... inventions—concepts of such products and processes. ... of innovations if inventors are less likely to patent their inventions in some ...... Property in Ideas: The Patent Question in Mid-Victorian Britain, Kirksville, MO: ...
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Review of Theories of Invention and Innovation - KTH
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different types of ideas of why inventions and innovations emerge with variable .... inventions and discoveries. Some historians and sociologists, ..... this sense, both theories of individual inventors and theories regarding innovative ... organizational production and handling of novelties tend to list ...
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Patent technology: transfer and industrial competition - Google Books Result
Juanita M. Branes - 2007 - Business & Economics - 162 pages
If discoveries were universally available without the means for the inventor to realize a return on investments, there would result a ". . . much lower and ...
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Inventions of The 20th Century
There is no single inventor accredited with the invention the computer, ... Charles Babbage is credited with the actual concept of the computer, ... nearly all the inventions of the 20th century have transformed from novelty to necessity. ... And Discoveries · Invention Convention Ideas · Inventions of the 1920s ...
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INVENT ON INVENT ON INVENT ON INVENT ON Opportunities for Young ...
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Since inventions play such a vital role in our lives, it is important to help ... innovations and their inventors. As the technology of the 21st century evolves and ..... between two objects, ideas or concepts. Invite students to answer the following ..... discoveries have radically changed the world. Students ...
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Invention Disclosures and the Role of Inventors
31 Mar 2010 ... The process of taking an invention or discovery to the marketplace. .... that is, it satisfies all aspects required of an invention (novelty, ... Those individuals who contribute to an enabling concept are known as the inventors. ..... inventors share ideas and innovations in the service of the well ...
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TUM IP Policy
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discoveries provide the basis for technological innovations that add value ... defined in the University's structural concept entitled TUM. The Entrepre- .... parameters such as, for example, novelty, inventive step, commercial poten- ... Inventors of inventions for which patent applications are ...
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Ideas by Creativity Pool
A free database with new ideas and possible inventions. ... The Creativity Pool is the home of future innovation and tomorrow's most (in)famous inventions. ... The main menu contains an introduction to the Creativity Pool concept, ...
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Scientific Discovery and the Rate of Invention
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tion considered as concepts and as phenomena. The two entities are ... Novelty is to be determined from the standpoint of a nation or a ... or inventor actually enters in medias res, from the standpoint of his .... that lead to discovery, invention, and innovation. Furthermore, they ...
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The Idea of Software Patent Protections
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exploitation of the inventor's innovation. .... inventors of new, useful, and nonobvious inventions.18. The primary ... meets the requirements of (i) novelty, .... inventions or discoveries that can be granted utility patents in the United ... ideas constituting disembodied concepts or truths that are not “useful. ...
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Famous Inventions/Inventors
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MODULAR INNOVATION. “an innovation that changes a core design concept without changing the product‟s architecture.” ... Novelty = „the way in which the components work together‟ ... competition, inventions & discoveries of next phase ... Insight through bringing together unconnected ideas.  Adaptation ...
Vacuum Cleaner History - Invention of the Vacuum Cleaner
27 Apr 2007 ... This event was such a novelty that society ladies in England ... he developed his concept of a vacuum cleaner. His first cleaner .... (URL: inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blvacuum.htm) ... Over 200 patents and products still in use today are a tribute to Jim Kirby's success and innovation. ...
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SPORTS, Athletics News, May 03, 2011

Community field turf meeting set Wednesday at CHS
Chesterton Tribune
Not only will it become a game and practice field for the football, boys soccer and girls soccer teams, the field will get use from groups outside CHS Athletics. “We're talking about soccer, band, football, PE, youth programs and lots of other things,” ...
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college welcomes new athletic director
Seymour Herald
As athletic director at King, Hicks will be responsible for overseeing 24 intercollegiate sports, including men's and women's basketball, men's and women's cross country, men's and women's cycling, men's and women's golf, men's and women's soccer, ...
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Seymour Herald
Lenzora and Harmon Sweep WAC Softball Player of the Week Honors
Utah State Aggies
Fans can follow USU softball at Utah State athletics at http://twitter.com/USUAthletics. Nominees from other sports included: WOMEN'S TENNIS - Senior Hailey Swenson (North Salt Lake City, Utah) won both of her matches at the 2011 Western Athletic ...
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Utah State Aggies
Hill-Murray senior takes Athena Award
Vadnais Heights Press
The award honors seniors who excel in both academics and athletics. Paul has lettered in three sports: soccer, Alpine skiing and track. In soccer, she is a captain, a three-year letter winner and was twice named All Conference in addition to earning ...
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Dickerson's essay about how athletics impacted his life recognized by NIAAA ...
Moberly Monitor Index
“I also wrote about how high school athletics in general, no matter the sport, ties a community together. I really believe that in each of the three high school seasons we have, it makes our Moberly community stronger and come together. ...
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SMU Athletics Announces Annual Awards
SMUMustangs
He was recently one of nine college scholar-athletes honored The National Football Foundation & College Hall of Fame (NFF) and continues to garner honors. Soccer player Juan Castillo and swimmer Nina Rangelova took home the Freshman of the Year Awards. ...
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The Ridge Review: Sports Fees on the Rise
my.hsj.org
As of next school year there will be a sports ticket available for $75 that will allow free entry into any Dakota game for the 2011-12 school year. The sports fees aren't enough to stop those dedicated to athletics from playing. Soccer athlete ...
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Sports Minister to launch National Sports Festival on Friday
Myjoyonline.com
The disciplines are colts soccer, Volleyball, Basketball, Handball, Netball, Boxing, Table Tennis, Badminton, Tennis, Athletics and Karate Do. The others are Taekwondo, Judo, Hockey, Chess, Scrabble, Swimming, Cycling, Disabled sports and Weightlifting ...
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Myjoyonline.com
Laurier axes varsity volleyball
Canadian University Press Newswire
The discontinued programs are part of several measures taken by the department to ease the growing costs and facility usage of an exploding recreational and intramural sport-engaged student body, as well as to re-allocate finances to the soccer, ...
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Canadian University Press Newswire
Hyddmark Wins Scholar Athlete Award at Annual Banquet
FGCU Athletics
Men's soccer redshirt senior Adam Glick (Leola, Pa./Conestoga Valley HS) was presented the award after FGCU President Dr. Wilson Bradshaw, Director of Athletics Ken Kavanagh and Senior Associate AD Butch Perchan presented the Swanson family, ...
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Soccer facility great news for coaches
Huntington Herald Dispatch
It's all a part of the Marshall Board of Governors-approved $30 million project, which also includes an indoor practice facility with an indoor track, an academic center and a sports medicine research center. Marshall soccer will eventually move from ...
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Between the Lines
Tbo.com
There will be cash prizes and trophies, as well as door prizes. BROOKSVILLE - If you love sports – all kinds of athletics – perhaps you would like to write about local games for Hernando Today. We are always looking for aspiring sports writers. ...
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OHSAA boundary proposal has schools choosing sides
Springfield News Sun
If the proposal passes, eight sports would be affected: football, boys and girls soccer, girls volleyball, boys and girls basketball, baseball and softball. Each member school would be placed into one of five categories and given a percentage to be ...
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What's Going On: Collins is one to watch for next two years
The Daily Citizen
Neither of the first two teams in North Murray athletics history to qualify for state tournaments have been happy just to be there, with boys tennis and boys soccer both pulling first-round upsets despite being No. 4 seeds and having to knock off a ...
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Wittenberg Student-Athlete Advisory Committee Hosts Fifth Annual Tiger Awards
Wittenberg University
Worcester Academy), a women's soccer and lacrosse standout. She earned multiple all-conference awards in each sport, highlighted by the 2010 NCAC Women's Soccer Defensive Player of the Year and All-America awards, while serving as a team captain for ...
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Wittenberg University
Chaneta confirms to field team in All Africa Games
The Citizen Daily
Other sports the athletes compete in are: boxing, swimming, table tennis, Paralympics, Judo, athletics and women's soccer. The national women's soccer team, Twiga Stars, secured a slot into the Maputo Games without even kicking the ball after their ...
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The Week in Cary-Grove Athletics
Patch.com
The Trojan girls soccer team started the week with a 2-0 win over Grayslake North. Mary Schneider and Jae Jay Usab each scored for Cary. Korey Kronforst scored Cary's lone goal on Thursday night as the Trojans fell to Huntley 3-1 and come into the week ...
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Your Sports calendar for Monday, May 2
GoErie.com
Applications can be picked up at Villa Maria or online at villa maria.com/athletics. For information, call Chuzie at 490-3643. - The AND1 Mixtape tour will come to Erie on May 21. The AND1 Streetball Legends will take on Shan Pull's All-Stars at 7 pm ...
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Sports schedule for Tuesday, May 3+
Albuquerque Express
TOKYO, May 2 (AP) - (Kyodo)-;Major sports events scheduled in Japan for Tuesday, May 3: ATHLETICS Shizuoka International Meet. Ecopa Stadium. 10 am ----- BASEBALL Central League Yomiuri vs Hanshin. Tokyo Dome. 2 pm Yakult vs Chunichi. Jingu Stadium. ...
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Oakland Raiders and A's to Play in Overstock.com Coliseum
Auctionbytes
The six-year deal covers the stadium facility that is home to both the NFL Oakland Raiders and the MLB Oakland Athletics. As part of the new alliance Overstock.com receives branding opportunities through stadium signage, Internet, television, ...
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Auctionbytes
Bishop Kelley boys soccer draws from student support
Tulsa World
With a number of successful sports, the student body takes a "one-for-all, all-for-one" attitude in athletics, especially in the playoffs. "I like to see Bishop Kelley win in everything, and I like to follow all of our sports to state championships," ...
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Winter Haven AD Morrison Stepping Down
The Ledger
Just the overall sports programs have gotten better, and that's not (because of) me.” Morrison said athletics at Winter Haven is special. “We are Winter Haven and we're going to win. It's in our genetics. That's just our attitude,” Morrison said. ...
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Our Social Networks
Scranton Times-Tribune
As a member of the football and baseball teams, Ryan Grande obviously finds sports play a big role in his life. So much so, in fact, that he quite possibly is setting himself up for a life around athletics. "I'm going to attend Penn State-Worthington ...
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On The Home Front
Winnipeg Free Press
HéCTOR Vergara was named the Manitoba official of the year at the Sport for Life Gala on April 28 at CanadInns Club Regent. Vergara, the Manitoba Soccer Association executive director, was selected to represent Canada on the FIFA International List of ...
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Utah trio to represent USA in handball
Deseret News
Instead of giving up organized athletics, he found a new passion for a sport that is somewhat obscure but growing sport — at least in the US The 18-year-old and another friend who didn't make the baseball team decided to look into the sport they'd ...
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Deseret News
Officially Speaking: Trish Herrera Spencer responds
San Francisco Chronicle (blog)
Some of the hard choices suggested in the past have been school closures, increased class sizes, fewer instructional days, elimination of AP classes, elimination of athletics, elimination of art, music and drama, reducing student support and counseling ...
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San Francisco Chronicle (blog)
Cowra ladies given a lesson by students
Cowra Guardian
“I hope the girls recover OK because some of the girls had an athletics carnival on Friday and were looking worn out.” The introduction of the Ladies team gives the junior girls an avenue to continue to play soccer rather than be lost to the sport due ...
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AFL To Induct 2011 Hall of Fame Class
Boxscore News
It is a collective effort of individuals that make arena football successful. Those people should be recognized for their efforts and leadership.” Foster, who created the game of arena football on a manila envelope during a Major Indoor Soccer League ...
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Costello's plan to fix the deficit
UWM Post
“I think it brings great spirit to this campus … and memories that will last a lifetime are formed at athletics events, whether it's a basketball game with 10000 people or maybe it's a soccer game over at Engelmann field.” First on Costello's to-do ...
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Police probe Horsham break-ins
ABC Local
Offenders forced their way into the Scout hall in Bailey Street, as well as a storage shed at the Dudley Park Reserve which is used for Little Athletics and soccer. Police are praising users of both facilities for not leaving valuables on the sites but ...
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Everett, Clarke Selected for 2011 NCAA Career in Sports Forum ...
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Scorpions from all sports gather for athletics banquet | student ...
UTB-TSC Capsules: Scorpions from all sports gather for athletics banquet | student, ... The other special award presented was to the women's soccer team for ...
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Bucs Host 45th Annual Awards Banquet :: CSUsports.com
CHARLESTON, S.C. – The Charleston Southern athletics department gathered one final time as a ... banner year in CSU athletics during the 45th Annual Athletic Awards Banquet. ... The football team won the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee's Team ... Marky Boyce (Women's Soccer) and Katie Tull (Women's Basketball). ...
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Wartburg College Sports
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News - NJCAA | Home
National, |, News Archive ... EMCC's Joe Rowell posthumously inducted into Mississippi Community College Sports Hall of Fame. May 2, 2011 ...
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Video - Kentucky Blog - University of Kentucky Official Athletic Site
The CATSPY Awards were introduced at UK in 2003, when athletics director Mitch Barnhart ... and finale of each academic year and features student-athletes from all 22 sports. ... cross country (4); football (565); general athletics news ( 136) ... men's soccer (29); men's tennis (45); performances of the week (53) ...
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MLB Pick: Athletics vs. Angels | BangTheBook Sports News
MLB Pick for the Athletics vs. Angels on April 27 2011. ... Check your state and /or country laws to know if nfl football betting is legal. ...
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SPACE, Astronomy News, May 03, 2011

Dawn dance of the planets
WTOP
What's Up The Space Place has a new look on WTOP's website. Now entering my 7th year writing and reporting on all things space and astronomy I hope you like the format. You can join me and other astronomers at George Mason University Observatory this ...
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This Week On The Space Show
Space Fellowship
Ian Brewster returns for news on developments in physics, commercial space and related topics. Mr. Ian Brewster is a science enthusiast and writer and the author of “The Simple Universe.” He has been actively studying physics and astronomy from a very ...
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Rotating Sunspots Triggered Massive Solar Flare
Space.com
[Amazing New Sun Photos From Space] Brown presented the findings on April 20 at the Royal Astronomical Society's National Astronomy Meeting in Wales. The flare erupted at 8:50 pm EST on Feb.14 (0150 GMT Feb. 15), sending a massive wave of charged ...
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Space.com
Search for aliens shuts down because of shrinking budgets
NOLA.com
Dozens of radio dishes that make up the Allen Telescope Array in the mountains of Northern California have scanned deep space since 2007 for alien signals. Cash-strapped governments, it seems, can no longer pay the interstellar phone bill. Astronomers ...
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NOLA.com
Society for Science & the Public Re-Launches Science News for Kids
PR Newswire (press release)
With hundreds of archived articles on topics ranging from weather to fossils to space and astronomy, Science News for Kids continues to serve as an invaluable resource for students researching a science topic and for teachers looking to augment their ...
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What Earth would look like with Saturn's rings
The Guardian
Since the rings would be so bright, we might not have seen (m)any stars and planets, so how might this have affected astronomy? Would we even have a Copernicus, Galileo, or Kepler? Would Brahe have seen "his" famous supernova? In this brilliant fusion ...
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Marin outdoor calendar for the week of May 2, 2011
Marin Independent-Journal
MOUNT TAM ASTRONOMY PROGRAM — Cushing Memorial Amphitheatre, Mount Tamalpais State Park; 455-5370; www.mttam.net. May 7: Franck Marchis discusses "Tiny Moons Around Small Asteroids," followed by telescope viewing. 8:30 pm Free. ...
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Islam Phobia Of The West: Historic Perspective
PakTribune.com
They had gained enviable prominence in several branches of science, especially medicine, chemistry, optics, mathematics, astronomy and philosophy. After the long rules of Ummayads (661-750) and Abbasids (750-1258), the Ottoman Empire (1290-1566) ...
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Benefits cuts will cause faculty flight, profs warn
CU Columbia Spectator
“I don't shop at grocery stores in Cambridge, Massachusetts,” astronomy professor Jim Applegate said. “I care about my salary here in New York City.” Steele said that tuition benefits would still be among the best in the country after the cuts, ...
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14000 quasars build 3-D map of the universe
Cosmos
This new technique turns the standard approach of astronomy on its head. “Usually we make our maps of the universe by looking at galaxies, which emit light,” said Slosar. “But here, we are looking at intergalactic hydrogen gas, which blocks light. ...
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Cosmos
Astro Space News 5 May 2011 « David Reneke
By Dave
Here we present a number of breaking space/astronomy news stories and those that were a little too late to present in the current newsletter. Stories originate from any country engaged in space research and cover the entire spectrum ...
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Severe storms over U.S. seen from space | Bad Astronomy | News for ...
On April 27, 2011, huge storms spawned enormous tornadoes which swept across the southeastern U.S., doing severe damage and killing over 200 people.
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Space Fan News #20(!): 20000 Subs; JWST Mission Update - Deep ...
Space Fan News #20(!): 20000 Subs; JWST Mission Update. Creative Commons License ... Deep Astronomy · Visit show page › All episodes › ...
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NASA and USAID to Promote SciTech Collaboration1 - World Astronauts
Posted 9 hours ago by Scientific American - Space Exploration ... Posted 13 hours ago by PHYSorg.com: Astronomy News ...
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Beagle 2 Mars probe - Astronomy News
The UK government spent £188m on civil space activities in 2003/04. ... Jump To: --- News ---, Astronomy News, Meteorite News, Mission News, Cosmology News ...
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Past Missions of the Space Shuttle Endeavour (ContributorNetwork ...
News: Space/Astronomy. ContributorNetwork – Currently the space shuttle Endeavour is scheduled to launch on Monday on the STS-134 mission, the last of the ...
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Galaxy Geeks: Amp up Your Astronomy Cred - Topix
Well, you can apply for time on the Hubble Space Telescope. ... Astronomy News · Squids In Space--Seriously · People You Meet: Mike Holstine ...
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Endeavour Launch Postponed Until Next Week - Space & Astronomy at ...
Due to a technical glitch the final launch of Space Shuttle Endeavour has been scrubbed. The next available launch ... Free Space / Astronomy Newsletter! ...
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SCIENCE News, Studies, Research, Technology, May 03, 2011


Animal Testing: Crucial or Cruel?
ABC15.com (KNXV-TV)
After a panel discussion on “Why it is unethical NOT to continue animal research” held during the February meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Washington, during which several scientists said they dropped out of animal ...
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ABC15.com (KNXV-TV)
UW study: Kindle DX long way from being BMOC
TechFlash
Last spring -- seven months into the study -- the UW research study said less than 40 percent of the students were regularly doing their academic reading on the Kindle DX. They said it lacked support for taking notes and make it difficult to look up ...
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Gaming systems drive learning in project
Marion Star
Students are required to put together a presentation that relates to their studies in English, science, algebra and world history. The science, for example, may be how the motion sensors work in each wireless game. The history includes how the use of ...
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Studies: Smart Meters are Safe Meters
NBC Bay Area
The problem is that the technology is still very new, and there are still a few unanswered questions about the utility meters' long-term effects. That's why scientists have launched a massive research project into the impact of wireless devices. ...
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Global warming won't harm wind energy production
7thSpace Interactive (press release)
Wind farms are nearly carbon neutral, and studies show that a turbine pays for itself after only three months of energy production. A typical turbine lasts about 30 years, Pryor says, not because parts break, but because advances in technology make it ...
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Our Plastic Brains
T.H.E. Journal
The promise of neuroscience research does not stop at reading--it can help identify and treat children with math and other learning issues. It turns out that the neural architecture children need to be good at math, social studies, science, ...
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Professional Architects Face Obstacles in Employing Solar Strategies
Newswise (press release)
IEA-SHC Task 41's Team Canada is led by Professor Miljana Horvat of the Department of Architectural Science at Ryerson University and Professor Marie-Claude Dubois of the École d'Architecture at Université Laval. The research team is made up of faculty ...
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23 Studies Find Positive Link Between Library Spending and Student Learning
Newswise (press release)
“Quality school library programs impact student achievement,” says Debra E. Kachel, a professor in the School Library and Information Technologies Department at Mansfield University. “The research shows clearly that schools that support their library ...
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Study: USPSTF guidelines may impact survival in younger women
Health Imaging & IT
Excluding women aged 40 to 49 from annual screening mammography exams under the revised US Preventative Service Task Force (USPSTF) mammography guidelines would have a negative effect on survival, according to research presented last week at the ...
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MIT Report: Spent Nuclear Fuel Storage More Crucial Than Ever
VAdvert Press Center (press release)
While there has been no change in the basic conclusions of the study, called “The Future of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle,” the study's executive director Charles Forsberg, a research scientist in MIT's Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering (NSE), ...
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MPI Research Adds Gyrolab Workstation
Drug Discovery & Development
Gyros AB, a leader in utilization of microfluidic technologies to miniaturize and automate immunoassays, announced today that MPI Research, a contract research organization (CRO) based in Mattawan Michigan, has implemented a Gyrolab xP workstation into ...
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A Clearer Regulatory Pathway for Cell Therapy May Help Improve Investment
Genetic Engineering News
High treatment costs are one of the key challenges—but not the only one—faced by developers of cell therapies, especially in the US Cell therapy has also struggled to find interest among venture capitalists and other investors—more so since the ...
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Genetic Engineering News
ClearTrial Named a "Cool Vendor in Life Sciences, 2011" by Leading Analyst Firm
Life Science Leader Magazine
"This is really a testament to our vision of helping life science companies manage the increasing complexities of planning and conducting clinical studies to bring new treatments to market more quickly and cost-effectively." Gartner is a registered ...
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Using trees to detect contaminants and health threats
EP Magazine
Such solvents "are all small molecules that are fairly hydrophobic and volatile," says Limmer, who has received a National Science Foundation fellowship for this research and will begin his doctoral studies at S&T in the fall. ...
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NYU Abu Dhabi Institute awards grants to support Abu Dhabi based research ...
Zawya (press release)
Together, the four projects encompass a range of cross-disciplinary subjects, including mathematics, science, engineering, public policy, and information technology. "These research projects have been selected based on their promise to contribute ...
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Out of the Club
Inside Higher Ed
Cantor asserted in an interview that the changes AAU had made in its membership criteria last year had put more emphasis on the volume of federally sponsored science and engineering research and put a particularly premium on biomedical studies. ...
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M. D. Anderson Researchers Demonstrate Power of miRview(TM) mets to Identify ...
Marketwire (press release)
The study, entitled "microRNA-based diagnosis of Carcinoma of Unknown Primary," was published online April 29, 2011, and is set to appear in the print edition of Clinical Cancer Research. This prospective study evaluated the performance of a ...
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USCAR Announces New Fastening Technology
Design News
Initial studies and research in ultrasonic bolt tightening at Oakland University in Rochester, MI, determined that real-time ultrasonic clamp-load measurement could cut manufacturing costs and improve vehicle assembly quality. ...
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Design News
March of Dimes Awards $250000 Prize to Scientists Who Explained Human Sex ...
PR Newswire (press release)
David Page's studies of the Y chromosome revealed its role as a complex genetic system with many specialized functions, far beyond determining male sex. "Taken together, the research of Patricia Ann Jacobs and David Page has expanded medicine's ability ...
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caBIG - 5 Useful Online Biology Research Tools
FierceBiotech IT
The information technology network provides researchers all over the country with free access to numerous collections of biological data as well as tools to manage and analyze the information. Those available data include studies from the Cancer Genome ...
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FCC, FDA pave the way for wireless medical devices
Government Health IT
If a device or technology is going to touch the patient, the FDA steps in to assure patient safety and effectiveness. That means the innovator must conduct clinical studies, and early feasibility studies are undertaken to understand how the technology ...
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Embryo stemcell research is inconclusive
The West Australian
We should be encouraging more research in alternative areas that don't involve the wanton destruction of a living human embryo in the name of science. While debate has raged around the world as to whether or not to use adult or embryonic stemcells in ...
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Israel's Technion Develops 'Electronic Nose' to Detect Cancer
Arutz Sheva
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu Researchers at Israel's Technion (Israel Institute of Technology) are developing an”electronic nose” that can ”smell” head-and-neck cancer, which often is discovered too late. The initial study by the Israeli research team was ...
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Arutz Sheva
Higher Colleges of Technology Maths Conference opens at ADWC
AME Info
Under the patronage of His Excellency Sheikh Nahayan Mabarak Al Nahayan, Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research and Chancellor of the Higher Colleges of Technology, HCT's Abu Dhabi Women's College will host the 8th HCT Maths Conference ...
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Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Reports First Quarter 2011 Financial Results
Business Wire (press release)
Alnylam, Max Planck Society, the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, the University of Massachusetts (UMass), and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) signed a global settlement agreement resolving litigation regarding the Tuschl ...
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iCardiac Awarded Seven Global Cardiac Safety Studies for Oncology Compounds
PR Web (press release)
The studies will be conducted leveraging iCardiac's next generation solutions for cost-effective centralization of digital ECG data as well as COMPAS technology platform for ECG data analysis. “We continue to see accelerating adoption of iCardiac's ...
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