SCIENCE News, Studies, Research, Technology

Device Review Process Faulted
Wall Street Journal
The study by a Washington health-research group and the Cleveland Clinic's chairman of cardiovascular medicine Steven Nissen comes after the Food and Drug Administration proposed changes to tighten the faster approval system, known as 510(k), ...
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NHTSA Launches Second Study of SCRAM Alcohol Anklets
PR Newswire (press release)
That study is being conducted by the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation (PIRE). NHTSA also did an early-phase evaluation of the SCRAM technology in 2004, aimed at determining the accuracy and reliability of the technology. ...
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Obama's 'innovation' agenda would get only small spending hike
MiamiHerald.com
The US Global Change Research Program's funding would rise more than 20 percent, to $2.6 billion, focusing more research on climate change. Obama also is calling for spending $100 million this year on a plan to prepare 100000 science, technology, ...
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LIFE AFTER GOOGLE: Eric Schmidt's $60 Million Ocean Adventure
San Francisco Chronicle
Over the past few years, Schmidt and his wife Wendy have accumulated some $60-odd million in assets for "ocean studies," according to IRS filings for the Schmidt Research Vessel Institute and Marine Science and Technology Foundation. ...
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Minister Clement Celebrates Canadian Research Excellence
PR-USA.net (press release)
The award celebrates Canada's most outstanding scientists and engineers, raising public awareness about the major contributions that Canada's top researchers make to international science and technology, and to improving the lives of Canadians. ...
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Independent Studies Show Student Achievement Jumps with New "Interactive ...
Benzinga
Findings from two recent independent research pilot studies reveal that Pearson's Interactive Science program significantly enhances students' grasp of science concepts while creating an engaging, hands-on learning environment. (See video. ...
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Brain Balance Achievement Centers
WWLP 22News
(Mass Appeal) - New research is happening everyday in the medical industry, and Brain Balance Centers is staying at the forefront of new technology and groundbreaking research. To tell you about current studies and it's correlation to Brain Balance is ...
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Sentries in the garden shed
EurekAlert (press release)
The stuff of science fiction you say? Not so, says a Colorado State University biologist whose research is funded in part by Homeland Security's Science and Technology Directorate (DHS S&T), as well as by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency ...
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Stevens Institute of Technology Announces First Master of Arts Degree Program
Benzinga
The University's students, faculty and partners leverage their collective real-world experience and culture of innovation, research and entrepreneurship to confront global challenges in engineering, science, systems and technology management. ...
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Aeolus Awarded Contract Fully Valued at $118 Million from BARDA to Develop ...
Montreal Gazette
Such statements include, but are not limited to, those relating to Aeolus' product candidates, as well as its proprietary technologies and research programs and any potential future submissions or applications to the FDA. ...
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Bruker Installs NMR Metabolic Profiling Systems at Norwegian University of ...
Business Wire (press release)
The NTNU MR Metabolomics Laboratory will be headed by Professor Ingrid S. Gribbestad, a leading researcher in MR technology and biomolecular medicine. Her research team has worked with MR cancer tissue characterization for a decade, and has pioneered ...
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Scientists brace for leaner times
Boston Globe
By Carolyn Y. Johnson President Obama's budget proposal includes increased funding for biomedical and basic science research, but scientists and institutions in Massachusetts are bracing for leaner times. House Republicans have proposed aggressive cuts ...
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Boston Globe
CLEAR Health Information offers recommendations, assistance in response to ...
Indiana University
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- The release of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) report on health information technology is just the latest in a series of calls for sweeping changes to the nation's most extensive federal health ...
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Texas Hosts the Inaugural UT Energy Forum
Discover Magazine (blog)
Her work includes a unique blending of technology and policy in the field of energy systems research. Melissa studies the economic and environmental tradeoffs of energy systems, including electricity generation (power plants) and transportation fuels. ...
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Scientists Delve Into 'Hotspot' Volcanoes along Pacific Ocean Seamount Trail
National Science Foundation (press release)
Koppers led the expedition aboard the scientific research vessel JOIDES Resolution, along with co-chief scientist Toshitsugu Yamazaki from the Geological Survey of Japan at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology. ...
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National Science Foundation (press release)

NASA Proposes Group to Manage Research on Space Station
Wall Street Journal
Despite mounting pressure from some House Republican leaders to reduce emphasis on climate-change research and slash spending on other environmental monitoring programs, the proposed NASA spending blueprint includes $1.8 billion for earth science ...
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Environmental Health Trust Board Member Harry V. Lehmann Urges Further Study ...
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
This was further substantiated in the Lund University studies of 2005. For societal reasons, including a frequent choice of mobile technology over landlines, the Hispanic immigrant community-just to name one specific segment of society-has within it ...
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10 Recent Studies on Infection Control and Prevention
Becker's ASC Review
The American Society for Microbiology and the American Cleaning Institute released a study in Sept. 2010 reporting that 85 percent of people washed their hands in public restrooms in 2008, the highest levels observed since the research began in 1996. ...
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As collaboration goes social, where will it thrive?
ZDNet (blog)
The newest McKinsey research on the specific benefits of Web 2.0 technologies in the enterprise breaks its finding down in a way that gives us special insight into where the value happens. Most notably, benefits are highest in organizations that have ...
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Viral Genetics' Researcher and Advisor Set to Share Award
PR Newswire (press release)
M. Karen Newell Rogers, Ph.D., is currently the Raleigh R. White Jr. Endowed Professor of Surgical Research at Scott and White Hospital's Department of Surgery, affiliated with Texas A&M University Health Science Center's College of Medicine, ...
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Iran to Build its First Supercomputer
Hamsayeh.Net
Supercomputers are used in various fields of research and studies including intensive calculations in physics, molecular modeling, computations in nanotechnology and simulations of aiplanes in wind tunnels among others. China recently built its first ...
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Market Probe Announces Major Global Expansion into Developing Countries; Adds ...
Benzinga
Rao notes that technology companies are among those with the greatest potential for global growth. Recent Market Probe studies for various B2B and B2C services in the US, Europe, South America and Asia identified clear opportunities to monetize ...
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Palatin Technologies, Inc. Reports Second Quarter Fiscal Year 2011 Results
PR Newswire (press release)
The net loss for the quarter ended December 31, 2010, compared to net income for the same period last fiscal year, was primarily attributable to a decrease in revenue recognized under Palatin's research collaboration and license and clinical trial ...
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Density of neighborhood liquor stores is especially risky for African ...
EurekAlert (press release)
The study was funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. This release is supported by the Addiction Technology Transfer Center Network at http://www.ATTCnetwork.org.
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Alcohol's disruptive effects on sleep may be more pronounced among women
EurekAlert (press release)
The study was funded by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, and the National Center for Research Resources. This release is supported by the Addiction Technology Transfer Center Network at http://www.ATTCnetwork.org.
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Plan unable to save study of Indonesian
The Australian
Curtin, Griffith and Queensland University of Technology have all closed courses since the 2006 policy was introduced as a response to earlier closures. Although students affected by closure can pursue Indonesian at another institution, ...
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"Alone Together": Is technology ruining our ability to be alone?
Salon
In October 2009, the author, an MIT professor of the social studies of science and technology, went to her local synagogue for Yiskor, the special Yom Kippur service that remembers the dead. There she heard the rabbi deliver a sermon about the ...
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Salon
Pentagon Budget May Omit Funds for Promised ICBM Modernization Study new
Global Security Newswire
The initial study of potential technology alternatives for replacing today's ICBMs was to begin in fiscal 2011 and continue into 2012, according to the Nuclear Posture Review. "This study will consider a range of possible deployment options, ...
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Science alone does not establish source of anthrax used in 2001 ...
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Georgia Institute of Technology Seeks Participants with ...
By Snow
CATEA and RERC are currently are looking for Georgia residents with disabilities as participants for a paid research study.
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Sentries in the garden shed | Science Codex
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The stuff of science fiction you say? Not so, says a Colorado State University biologist whose research is funded in part by Homeland Security's Science and Technology Directorate (DHS S&T), as well as by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the Office of Naval Research ... Once the research achieves a point where it may be possible to deploy, there are other considerations that will have to be taken into account and additional studies to be conducted. ...
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OSP News - Funding and More!: 'Tough Love' Budget for Science
By Jill Mortali
Obama's $3.7 trillion total budget calls for dedicating billions of additional dollars to energy research, information technology, and science, technology, engineering and mathematics education. In all, the president's budget includes ...
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Heptastic science news
By David Bradley
Recycling carbon – Technologies that can use carbon dioxide as a chemical feedstock are high on the agenda in the face of rising atmospheric levels of the greenhouse gas. A novel iron-based catalytic process studied using inductively coupled plasma (ICP) atomic emission spectrometry ... Enzymes against cocaine – The interaction of novel substrates for the enzyme butyrylcholinesterase (BChE) and mutants have been investigated using computational and correlation studies. ...
Sciencebase Science Blog - http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/
Multi-tasking Protein Provides New Opportunities For Anti ...
By Teacha Hamilton
Scicasts Resource Library is a rich science and technology research library providing vital information for scientists, lab/research managers, business professionals, engineers, entrepreneurs and investors. Go to Scicasts Resource Library ... In the current study, Matthias Wilmanns and his group at EMBL identified a multi-tasking enzyme from Mycobacterium tuberculosis that catalyses reactions on two different molecules, or substrates. In most organisms, cells need two ...
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Anthrax in 2001 Scare: Scientists Say Anthrax Source in Mailings ...
By Alton Parrish
Office of News and Public Information 202-334-2138; e-mail news@nas.edu. Copies of Review of the Scientific Approaches Used During the FBI's Investigation of the 2001 Anthrax Letters are available from the National Academies Press on the ... NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL Division on Earth and Life Studies Board on Life Sciences Division on Policy and Global Affairs Committee on Science, Technology, and Law Committee on Review of the Scientific Approaches Used During the FBI's ...
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Bruker Installs NMR Metabolic Profiling Systems at NTNU Trondheim ...
The new NMR systems will enable scientists at NTNU's Faculty of Medicine, working in partnership with clinicians at St. Olavs University Hospital, to investigate tissue samples and biofluids from patients taking part in studies, ... The NTNU MR Metabolomics Laboratory will be headed by Professor Ingrid S. Gribbestad, a leading researcher in MR technology and biomolecular medicine. Her research team has worked with MR cancer tissue characterization for a decade, ...
Nanowerk Nanotechnology News - http://www.nanowerk.com/
Space Technology Research Fellowships
By Paul Gilster
This fellowship program is coupled to a larger, national research and development effort in science and technology that will lead to new products and services, new business and industries, and high-quality, sustainable jobs. ... For the last five years, this site has coordinated its efforts with the Tau Zero Foundation, and now serves as the Foundation's news forum. In the logo above, the leftmost star is Alpha Centauri, a triple system closer than any other star, ...
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Hand movements may give clues to ADHD severity | Science / Technology
By Tanushree
News at your tips ... “Despite its prevalence, there is a lack of understanding about the neurobiological basis of ADHD,” said Dr. Stewart Mostofsky, the study's senior author and Director of the Laboratory for Neurocognitive and Imaging Research at the Kennedy Krieger Institute in Baltimore. In the first study, ...
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The FDA's real record on medical device recalls | MassDevice ...
By MassDevice staff
Soon after the report hit the airwaves yesterday, the Advanced Medical Technology Assn. responded to the study by calling it "flawed" because it only looked at recalls alone, rather than the overall safety of the 510(k) program. ... author of the study, is president of the National Research Center for Women & Families. Zuckerman, a vocal proponent of disqualifying implantable devices from the 510(k) process, did not immediately return requests for comment on the study. ...
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Exposing The Fake Scientists | Real Science
By stevengoddard
... Space Studies Board (2003-2004), Member, Committee on Surface Temperature Reconstructions for the last 2000 years, National Research Council (2006), Distinguished Professor of Atmospheric Science, University of Alabama in Huntsville ... Visiting Professor of Dynamic Meteorology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1975), Lady Davis Visiting Professor, Department of Meteorology, The Hebrew University (1979), Director, Center for Earth and Planetary Physics, ...
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Official google.org Blog: Making sense of science: introducing the ...
By Parag Chokshi
That meant previous training in science communication; research in topics related to understanding or managing climate change; and experience experimenting with innovative approaches or technology tools for science communication. ... Brendan Bohannan, Associate Professor of Environmental Studies and Biology, University of Oregon; Edward Brook, Professor, Department of Geosciences, Oregon State University; Julia Cole, Professor, Department of Geosciences, University of ...
Official google.org Blog - http://blog.google.org/
Professional development makes teaching “a way of life” DFM News ...
By Pam George
Wilmington Montessori School, meanwhile, focuses on Montessori-oriented training and the best practices that support the Montessori method, which promotes mixed age groups, individual choice of research and work, and uninterrupted ... Teaching methodology, student-learning styles, studies on the brain, and early childhood development are popular topics. Interest in classroom technology spans both sectors and all grades. Wilmington Friends teachers last August attended a ...
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Research Papers | Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies ...
Marketing Science, Vol 18, No.4, 1999,pp.547-568; Finalist for John D. Little ... Tellis, Gerard J. (2008) “Important Research Questions in Technology and ...
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Omega-3 bioavailability boosted by gel emulsion: Study
Source: European Journal of Lipid Science and Technology ... Latest news in Research. Nanoparticles may allow controlled release of vitamin D3 ...
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Sri Lanka must join rest in Nano-science research - Prof ...
Home > News > Sri Lanka must join rest in Nano-science research - Prof ... and Nano-technology research, Institute of Fundamental Studies (IFS), ...
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Education Program - What We Do, Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Bioacoustics Research Program · Bird Population Studies · Citizen Science ... Washington County News : Tualatin Valley Academy students show, sell bird ... Crossing Boundaries helps science teachers use emerging technologies to engage ...
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msnbc.com technology & science - Polygamous mice are better breeders
Another study to give an excuse to fool around on your partner. Studies show promiscuity breeds better sperm in mice, next behavioral scientists will want ...
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Professor Jian Sun Named Director of Center for Future Energy ...
Breaking News Channels provide a rapid response to major news events. .... More specifically, his studies include power conditioning and grid integration of ... CFES is one of 15 Centers for Advanced Technology (CAT) designated and funded by NYSTAR. ... research and technology transfer in a range of technologies. ...
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'Introduction to IEEE Xplore' workshop at the library | University ...
For more information about IEEE, checkout the Computer Science research guide- click .... (5.00 out of 5); Moving Image Studies program hosts Rendering the ...
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