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Feb 21, 2011

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Choice of smart phone apps helps define your computing style
Daily News & Analysis
The applications you add to your smart phone can define your computing style, suggests a new study. The applications you choose can label you as a specific "appitypes," said Trevor Pinch, professor of science and technology studies, who worked as a ...
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Mathematics and Science Center's move downtown will enhance opportunities
Battle Creek Enquirer
Many BCAMSC graduates have gone on to prestigious universities and stellar careers in science, medicine, technology, research, math and more. Unfortunately, many, if not most, have had to leave the community to launch those careers. ...
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Robot sharpshooter
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette
The research center, launched in 1993, pays a staff of eight and covers the costs of office visits, X-rays, CT scans and other tests needed by patients participating in clinical trials. Some studies are fully funded, but most aren't. ...
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Schools flunk foreign student management
Korea Times
According to the research, there was one school that failed to manage foreign students with over 50 percent of them failing in their studies for the past two years. At the same time, 10 schools were found to have let expelled students go on with their ...
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Oral sex linked to cancer risk
AFP
"When the number of partners increases, the risk increases," she told reporters at the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Washington. Previous studies have suggested that people who have performed oral sex on six or more ...
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Ink-jet printers inspire scientists to make skin
AFP
Studies using the technology in animals have shown promise, particularly with printed cartilage, which is relatively simple in its construction and is tough so it can withstand the rigors of printing. "There are very severe limitations," Lipson said. ...
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Gluck Center Graduate Spotlight: Kadie Vanderman, MS
TheHorse.com
She later chose to concentrate her graduate school studies on equine musculoskeletal science after veterinarians diagnosed her horse, Cody, with osteoarthritis. "When I learned that osteoarthritis is an incurable, degenerative disease, ...
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KBC to open translation centre in biotechnology
Express Buzz
"Kerala has the largest number of research institutes in the public sector, where active research is going on in biotechnology. Unfortunately, these studies merely conclude with some publications or may be a patent. There is a need to translate these ...
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A Genuine Jolt to the Memory
Miller-McCune.com
The research seems to confirm previous studies that suggest that the right anterior temporal lobe's function is related to name recall; when that section of the brain is removed to alleviate seizures in patients with epilepsy, a common side effect is ...
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Do Your Gadget Lights Harm Your Health?
PCWorld
The number of gadgets we use keeps growing, and each device seems to have more and brighter lights. Since I wrote that column, new research has emerged that reveals how incredibly bad all of those lights can be for our health. New science has shed ...
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Scientist finds Gulf bottom still oily, dead months after BP spill
Salon
... for the Advancement of Science annual conference in Washington. Her research and those of her colleagues contrasts with other studies that show a more optimistic outlook about the health of the gulf, saying microbes did great work munching the oil. ...
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Salon
Another Dog Sniffs Cancer – So Why Aren't There Dogs In The Clinic?
Singularity Hub
Hossam Haick at the Russell Berrie Nanotechnology Institute, Israel Institute of Technology, has built such a screen. Described in a study last August, Dr. Haick's group developed a kind of “electronic nose” that can “smell” VOCs. ...
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Singularity Hub
Polytechnics assured of ready market for their graduates
Modern Ghana
19 GNA-Mr Patrick Nii Odoi Yemofio, Board Chairman of Architectural and Engineering Services Limited (AESL), assured that graduates of Higher National Diploma (HND) in Civil Engineering, Building Technology and Secretaryship and Management Studies were ...
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Modern Ghana
Exceptional faculty named Regents' and President's Professors
Media Newswire (press release)
Her many books and articles have won the respect and recognition of scholars in a variety of disciplines, including history, American Studies, cultural anthropology and literary studies. Ana L. Moore's important contributions in science stem from her ...
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Worldclass standards and boosting
The Nation
Pirom said many faculties had been granted money to carry out studies about biodiversity, Thai democracy and the elderly. CU has research centres in Saraburi and Nan provinces, 81 research units and 21 centres of excellence that have done 102 projects ...
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The Nation
OPINION: Educator Says Look for Colleges With High Percentage of Full-time ...
Patch.com
Editor's Note: Bonnie Diehl lists her credentials as a provost for SANS Technology Institute, as well as having a Ph.D. in biology, an MS in biochemistry, and a BS in psychology. Diehl also is a declared Democratic candidate in this year's Township ...
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Jane Adams helps shape Florida's future
Gainesville Sun
The chamber also has a "huge interest" in UF's technology transfer efforts to commercialize research inventions. As chairwoman of the foundation's board of trustees — a two-year term that started in October — her role is to oversee the board that ...
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Global Economy on the Edge of Chaos
The Market Oracle
Barker was also founder and CEO for ten years from 1997 to 2007 of a successful life sciences research and marketing services company, serving a majority of the top 20 global life science companies. Barker holds a bachelor's degree in finance and a ...
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The Market Oracle
Does This Light Make Me Fat?
Brain Blogger (blog)
Years ago, Richard and Judith Wurtman, a husband and wife research team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) warned that the consumption of excessive snack carbohydrates at night might be “leading to severe obesity” in a form that very ...
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Clean-tech energizes Eilat
Israel 21C
Making the event even more attractive, the conference practices what it preaches by offering guests tours to the region's clean technology beta sites, like the Arava Power installation at Kibbutz Ketura, Aora's massive "flower" solar collector in the ...
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Rosemary Fisher's recipes enhanced lives of husband, others
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
She took some refresher courses, and began to pore over research studies at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry library. From the findings, she developed comprehensive but simple, low-fat, low-cholesterol recipes that formed ...
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New assessment of black carbon and tropospheric ozone's role in climate change
EurekAlert (press release)
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) was requested to urgently provide science-based advice on actions to reduce the impact of these pollutants and the Integrated Assessment of Black Carbon and Tropospheric Ozone is the result. ...
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Echo Therapeutics Reports Symphony™ tCGM System Ahead of Schedule
PR-USA.net (press release)
Echo said it anticipates that upon completion of the development work no further changes will be made to the Symphony tCGM System, and that the device will be the one used for sale, subject to positive clinical studies and FDA market clearance of the ...
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MALDIVES: First national university inaugurated
University World News
The faculties are of health science, education, engineering technology, arts, Sharia and law, hospitality and tourism studies, Islamic studies, and management and computing. With the upgrading, the university also hopes to introduce masters courses in ...
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University World News
Almac Announce Launch of Bioinformatics Consultancy
PR-USA.net (press release)
It utilises its proprietary technology, extensive experience and expertise to offer solutions to biotech and Pharma partners. Almac focus on providing a range of services including exploratory biomarker discovery studies, verification studies for ...
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Whole genome sequencing informs cancer therapy
PHG Foundation
Although this particular report is not very informative, we are certain to see more and more examples of the use of WGS in clinical settings (as opposed to research studies), to improve characterisation of rare genetic causes of disease, ...
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Man Vs. Machine: I'll take "Dread of the Future" for $1000, Alex
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Ferrucci told "Nova" to imagine the possibilities in medicine alone — a computer programmed not only with past medical knowledge, but one programmed to keep up with all the latest medical research and studies. A doctor could input some simple clues ...
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Machines That Run on Human Thoughts
Science AAAS
Millan listed a number of uses for this technology for bedridden and locked-in patients; joining their families virtually without leaving their beds, participating in research studies, and controlling their own wheelchairs. ...
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Autism and IEPs: When Knowledge is Power
Autism Key (blog)
Her struggles to have her child use assistive technology had merit. A recent Japanese study involving middle and high school aged children showed that children with autism, along with Tourette's Syndrome, ADD and other co-morbid diagnoses, ...
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Autism Key (blog)

Weddings and Engagements for Sunday, Feb. 20, 2011
MetroWest Daily News
The future groom is a 2006 graduate of Algonquin Regional High School and a 2010 graduate of Mercyhurst College in Erie, Pa., with a bachelor of arts degree in intelligence studies. He is employed as an intelligence analyst by SRA International Inc. in ...
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Wind-energy issues a focus at meetings
Morning Sentinel
... is involved in wind-energy studies in town, including a study that places a monetary value on wind energy produced near property he owns. While Eastler said he believes the turbine noise rules are appropriate, wind-energy technology and research is ...
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Medtronic touts CoreValve study | Research roundup | MassDevice ...
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Zimmer also announced that results from two clinical studies reinforce the clinical advantages of the company's proprietary Trabecular Metal Technology. The studies, conducted by researchers at Osaka City University in Japan, continued investigations ... announced today publication of results of a five- patient pilot study evaluating the safety and effectiveness of autologous fibroblasts to treat vocal fold scarring in The Laryngoscope, a peer reviewed scientific journal. ...
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Family planning programs have success in developing countries, but ...
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Casterline said that the good news is that his research shows how the success of contraception has played a large role in the fertility decline in low-income countries, even more than the more widespread desire for smaller families. ... Studies have shown that about one in four women (who are currently married or in a union) in Africa have an unmet need for family planning. That means that they report in surveys that they don't want any children in the near future, ...
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OU researchers tapping the potential of radar technologies to ...
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Filed under: News. University of Oklahoma researchers are part of a growing cross-disciplinary collaboration that seeks to tap the potential of radar technologies to advance aeroecology—a field that integrates atmospheric science, ... Jeffrey Kelly, professor in the OU Department of Zoology and Oklahoma Biological Survey, studies animal migration and is particularly interested in using radar data as a measure of the phenology of animal movements and aggregations, ...
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QinetiQ to work with scientists in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia on ...
QinetiQ has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) in Saudi Arabia to collaborate on a range of research and technology... ... more QinetiQ news. By collaborating under the MOU, QinetiQ and KACST will develop technology solutions to meet Saudi Arabia's needs in the twenty-first century. KACST, based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia is an independent scientific organization administratively reporting to the Prime ...
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Daily Kos: Overnight News Digest: Science Saturday (Wisconsin ...
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Antonio Simonetti, a research associate professor in the Department of Civil Engineering and Geological Sciences at the University of Notre Dame, is the coauthor of an important new paper describing a novel method for age dating dinosaur ... The study, published today (Feb. 10) in the journal Public Library of Science (PLoS) Genetics, by an international team led by UW-Madison bacteriology professors Cameron Currie and Garret Suen, illustrates how lifestyle can remake an ...
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Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup | Watts Up With That?
By Anthony Watts
By Eli Kintisch, Science Insider, Feb 15, 2011 [H/t Toshio Fujita] http://news. sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2011/02/wi… [SEPP Comment: If DOE believes its research can make electricity from photovoltaic cost- competitive with electricity from .... The true reason for the increase in production is new faster growing wheat strains and plain old technology. There is little doubt that the increase in production will continue, regardless of the amount of atmospheric CO2, ...
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Nasdaq nears 10-year high; should you be nervous? | The Daily ...
Technology companies in the S&P 500, a close proxy for the Nasdaq composite, are up 8.4 percent so far this year, about 2 percentage points more than the index as a whole. Last year, tech companies returned 10 percent after dividends, ...
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Gulf Oil Spill Update: Scientist Finds Gulf Bottom Still Oily, Dead
By The Huffington Post News Editors
Her research and those of her colleagues contrasts with other studies that show a more optimistic outlook about the health of the gulf, saying microbes did great work munching the oil. "Magic microbes consumed maybe .... You probably wouldn't want commercial airliners to employ the technology at 1918 levels either. Fortunately for fliers technology improved. Fortunately for electricity users, nuclear power technology continued to improve after it's first 15 years as well. ...
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glycemic control to prevent diabetic diseases | Daily Health Reviews
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Car Insurance Computer Technology | Computer Technology News
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Although research on the use of computers in education plods along slowly compared to the progression of the technology itself, there are already positive correlations between children's education and computer use. If employed effectively and within a comprehensive .... Areas of study may include courses in database management, information technology, business communications, JAVA programming and computer operating systems. Careers at this level of education can include: ...
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Biomed Middle East » Oral sex linked to cancer risk Biomed Middle East
By ameilia
Researcher Diane Harper of the University of Missouri said such studies will take time, but the oral cancer field may move more quickly by using technology already developed for detecting HPV in cervical cancer patients. ... A study published earlier this month in the New England Journal of Medicine found that the HPV vaccine could prevent 90 percent of genital warts in men, and the vaccine has also been approved against anal cancer in men and women. ...
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Gluck Center Graduate Spotlight: Kadie Vanderman, MS | BloodHorse.com
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In December 2010 Kadie Vanderman completed her master's degree under the supervision of James MacLeod, VMD, PhD, John S. and Elizabeth A. Knight chair and professor of veterinary science at the Maxwell H. Gluck Equine Research Center ... chose to complete her master's at the Gluck Center, explaining that " it has a great reputation and amazing resources in the form of senior scientists , laboratory equipment, current technology, and a relationship with the equine industry. ...
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Study says Gulf bottom dead, oil still present
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HRH Prince Salman launches Chair for Charitable Housing | King ...
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The Chair will focus on providing resources that can support executive bodies to conduct housing studies and research, holding workshops, seminars and lectures, and carry out fieldwork. ... Swedish firm, ABV Rock Group, awarded construction of Prince Naif Center for Health Science Research · Cornerstone Ceremony takes place for Prince Sultan Advanced Technologies Research Institute · Prince Sultan Chair gives 18 month-old Palestinian girl the gift of hearing ...
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Scientists Fatten Up Monkeys to Study Human Obesity | Impact Lab
By Zeus
While this research is not entirely new and has been the target of some animal rights' group complaints, demand for the overweight primates is growing as part of the battle against the nation's obesity epidemic, according to Dr. Grove and ... To that end, the study will do what cannot be done with people — kill some of the monkeys to examine their brains and pancreases. The primate center here, which is part of Oregon Health and Science University, has more than 4000 ...
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Dr. Charla Griffy-Brown Named Editor-in-Chief of 'Technology in ...
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News & Events. Sunday, Feb 20, 2011 ... She currently serves as part of an international research team examining technology and business development issues . A former researcher at the Foundation for Advanced Studies on International Development, Tokyo, she has also served as associate professor at the Tokyo ...
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Wan Gang, the minister of science and technology, had earlier vowed that there would be a “zero tolerance” policy toward research frauds and academic ...
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