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SCIENCE News, Studies, Research, Technology, Feb 25, 2011

S&T students to participate in research poster presentation
Missouri S&T News and Research
28, 39 students from Missouri University of Science and Technology will participate in the Chancellor's Fellows Research Poster Presentation from 11 am to 1 pm in the upper level of the Havener Center on campus. All participating students are ...
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Fact-Free Science
New York Times
That questioning of authority veered in a more radical direction in the academy in the late 1980s and early 1990s, when left-wing scholars doing “science studies” increasingly began taking on the very idea of scientific truth. ...
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New York Times
Study Uncovers Mechanisms that Control Rb2/p130 Gene Expression in Lung Cancer
Newswise (press release)
In a new study, researchers from the Sbarro Health Research Organization Center for Biotechnology Research (SHRO), a cancer, cardiovascular and diabetes research center located in the College of Science and Technology at Temple University in ...
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Fertility treatment 'unaffected' by stress
NHS Choices
The difficulty with this sort of review is that the studies included are likely to have differed in some ways. For example, the populations studied and the methods and technology used may have differed between studies. In particular, emotional distress ...
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A study shows all coral reefs may be gone by 2050
Salon
In 2009, for instance, one of its officials even demanded a "twenty-first century Scopes monkey trial" for global warming: "It would be the science of climate change on trial," the chamber's senior vice-president for environment, technology, ...
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Salon
Energy Commission Awards Nearly $3.5 Million for Research Projects
YubaNet
-UC Merced will receive $142747 to perform a comprehensive life cycle analysis study of algae biofuels. The study fits into PIER's transportation research, which is to help support technology innovation that can result in reducing petroleum use in ...
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Scientific Learning Launches Virtual Brain Seminars: Accelerated Learning and ...
TMCnet
Daggett is the CEO of the International Center for Leadership in Education, and author of numerous books about learning and education, textbooks and research studies, reports and journal articles. The April 12th Virtual Brain Seminar features Alan ...
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Studies to Enable Wireless Control of Prosthetic Arms on Humans
AZoRobotics
Ongoing research has proved that animals can perform simple tasks such as turning doorknobs using the BCI technology. Andrew Schwartz, a professor of neurobiology at the Pitt School of Medicine, has worked on several projects that study about ...
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GSA Bulletin highlights: New research posted Feb. 4-11, 2011
PhysOrg.com (press release)
This study was supported in part by a grant from the US National Science Foundation. David Gómez-Ortiz et al., ESCET (Escuela Superior de Ciencias Experimentales y Tecnologia) Área de Geología, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, 28933 Móstoles, Spain. ...
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Science budget cuts threaten high-tech jobs
Chicago Tribune
Rolling back funding for basic science would dim our nation's spirit of discovery and entrepreneurship. It would curtail research into how our world works — research that spurs new theories and technologies. And the cuts would be felt across Chicago's ...
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BioWatch: Celsion gets OK to continue trial of cancer treatment
The Gazette
The vaccine candidate originally was identified and developed by scientists at the Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases at Fort Detrick. DynPort further developed and manufactured the vaccine. BioSurface Engineering Technologies of ...
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High frequency irrigation may reduce leaching, increase efficiency
The Prairie Star
But producers with access to irrigation use the technology on some or all of their fields to be able to grow those kind of crops. For them, land grant university research studies such as those going on in Sidney, Mont., at the Eastern Ag Research ...
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Singapore Scientists Perform The First Asian-Based Genome-Wide Association ...
Medical News Today (press release)
... association study (GWAS) on optic disc area ever to be conducted on Asians, was jointly conducted by scientists from the Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS), an institute of Singapore's Agency of Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), ...
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Virtual Reality Technology at City Tech Lab
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
“Currently, there are two research studies spearheaded by psychology faculty being conducted in this lab as well as several collaborations with faculty from City Tech's School of Technology and Design and students from all three of the college's ...
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Ugly medical experiments from US past uncovered
San Francisco Examiner
To focus on federally funded international studies, the commission has formed an international panel of about a dozen experts in ethics, science and clinical research. Regarding the look at the Guatemala study, the commission has hired 15 staff ...
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San Francisco Examiner
Reuters Daybook
Los Angeles Times
Participants include Jon Grant, fellow at the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies; Nicol Turner-Lee, vice president and Director of the Media and Technology Institute for the Joint Center; Adam Thierer, senior research fellow in the ...
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Whole-Genome sequencing simulated on supercomputers
PhysOrg.com
To make genome sequencing a routine procedure, however, the time must be reduced to less than a day and the cost to less than $1000 -- a feat not possible with current knowledge and technologies. In 2008, a research team led by Aleksei Aksimentiev, ...
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PhysOrg.com
Can geoengineering put the freeze on global warming?
USA Today
On the pro-research side, this October the US House Committee on Science and Technology called for more research into geoengineering, "to better understand which technologies or methods, if any, represent viable stopgap strategies for managing our ...
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USA Today
Medtronic acquires rights to technology that can help in sinus surgery
MedCity News
Medtronic hopes that the technology it acquired can help in alleviating such complications. In animal studies, the chitosan?dextran gel technology has demonstrated an ability to control the bleeding and facilitate wound healing following the surgery. ...
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Mike Adams discovers the placebo effect
ScienceBlogs (blog)
Indeed, he makes this clear from the very first paragraph: A new study in Science Translational Medicine has cast doubt over the scientific validity of nearly all randomized, double-blind placebo controlled studies involving pharmaceuticals used on ...
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NRC weighs new study of cancer risks near nuclear plants
TheDay.com
Dr. Brian Sheron, director of the NRC's Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research, said the goal of the study would be to provide public assurance. "Right now, we believe our regulations are perfectly adequate. We're trying to be responsible to public ...
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Airbus looks to South Africa in its search for titanium
DefenceWeb (press release)
Dale King, Airbus senior manager for international research and technology partnerships, notes that a new low-cost continuous titanium powder production process has successfully passed laboratory trials and that it will now need to progress to a ...
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DefenceWeb (press release)
Cleveland Clinic researchers honored for contributions to science and technology
FirstScience
By Lerner Research Institute Wednesday, February 23, 2011 – Cleveland – Three Cleveland Clinic researchers were recently named as Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), which seeks "to advance science, engineering, ...
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Scientists Say Ocean Currents Cause Microbes to Filter Light
VAdvert Press Center (press release)
Funding: Funding was provided by grants from the National Science Foundation and the Australian Research Council and by a Hayashi Grant from MIT's International Science and Technology Initiatives Program. Source: “Microbial alignment in flow changes ...
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FRIDAY INTERVIEW: Four Questions For Arn Boezaart
Offshore Wind Wire
First, it takes a real-time, hub height wind measurement research project onto the Great Lakes. A number of reports and studies done by others including the state of Wisconsin and the Michigan Great Lakes Offshore Wind Council (GLOW) have all commented ...
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McKesson Foundation Awards $1.3M Grants for Chronic Disease Improvement
Becker's Hospital Review
Each $250000 grant will support studies on diabetes care and management. The studies will examine a range of mobile-health technology options, including sending SMS text messages to patients reminding them to take their medications and comprehensive ...
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2010 was an excellent year for GfK
The FINANCIAL (press release)
In Germany, the increase in sales was largely attributable to the new TC Score measurement technology, which was introduced to GfK Fernsehforschung's TV panel in 2009. In the area of multimedia studies, a study was conducted for the British ...
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Social Media and Traditions of Prestige | Peer to Peer Review
Library Journal
This study was conducted by CIBER, also known as the Centre for Information Behaviour and the Evaluation of Research, based in the Department of Information Studies at University College London. In the first phase of the study, the investigators ...
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Viral infection not responsible for exacerbation of lung disease ...
By News
In this study, the researchers enrolled 43 patients with acute exacerbation of IPF from two medical centers between 2006 and 2009. In addition, 69 patients with either stable IPF or acute lung injury (ALI) were enrolled from a single medical ... the possible infectious etiology of acute exacerbations of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, and the majority of cases in this study demonstrate no evidence of viral infection when subjected to these technologies, " Dr. Collard said. ...
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Discussion sparked by KPCC's 2-day series on medical and ...
If the peer review process is tainted by such widely shared values, can the conclusions of years worth of social science research be trusted? One listener, Gerlad Fnord, answered: "Every human process is subject to flaw, and peer review is no exception. ... Later on "Patt Morrison," Patt and guests Diana Zuckerman, president of the National Research Center for Women and Families; David Nexon, senior executive vice president of the Advanced Medical Technology Association; ...
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Overfertilizing corn undermines ethanol | Science Blog
By bjs
A new paper in today's online edition of the American Chemical Society's journal Environmental Science and Technology shows how farmers can save money on fertilizer while they improve their production of feedstock for ethanol and alleviate damage .... A Tier One research university known for its “ unconventional wisdom,” Rice has schools of Architecture, Business, Continuing Studies, Engineering, Humanities, Music, Natural Sciences and Social Sciences and offers its 3485 ...
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TPACK Newsletter 8 (Feb 2011) | Punya Mishra's Web
By Punya Mishra
Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) in action: A descriptive study of secondary teachers' curriculum-based, technology-related instructional planning. Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 43(3), 211-229. ..... Even better, have them subscribe to the TPACK newsletter by sending a blank email to sympa@lists.wm.edu, with the following text in the subject line: subscribe tpack.news FirstName LastName (of course, substituting their own first and last ...
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Four candidates selected for the next medium-class mission in ...
By ESA Science & Technology
The candidates cover very different areas of scientific research, ranging from investigations of black holes and general relativity to near-Earth asteroid sample return and studies of planets orbiting distant stars. ...
PTTU News - http://www.portaltotheuniverse.org/news/recent/
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FDA Issues PGx Draft Guidance | GenomeWeb Daily News | DxPGx ...
The specific goals of this document, “Clinical Pharmacogenomics: Premarketing Evaluation in Early Phase Clinical Studies" is to provide advice related to general principles of study design, data collection, and data analysis when using pharmacogenomic approaches in pharmaceutical development. .... Grimley recently was senior director of Genomics Marketing at Agilent Technologies, and he spent 14 years working in various senior management positions at Applied Biosystems. ...
- http://www.genomeweb.com/newsletter/10910
Jacobs/PRPD Survey Finds Listeners Embrace Technology - PRPD News ...
By Hollis
As with all Internet-based research studies of this kind, the results reflect only those who chose to participate in the survey, and do not necessarily represent the views of all public radio listeners in the country. ...
PRPD News for Programmers - http://prpd-news.blogspot.com/
News from Middle Tennessee State University: [330] National ...
By MTSU News & Public Affairs Office
“When Civil War is Waged by Women” is the title of the final Women's and Gender Studies Research Series presentation of spring 2011. Dr. Nancy Rupprecht, professor of history, will deliver the presentation at 3 p.m. Thursday, ... D.C. , acclaims MTSU's Master of Science in Professional Science degree—the only one in Tennessee—as a model program. Recently, MTSU unveiled three new doctoral degrees in the sciences. Posted by MTSU News & Public Affairs Office at 2:36 PM ...
News from Middle Tennessee State... - http://news-from-mtsu.blogspot.com/
SEI has key role in blueprint to cut pollutants' impact on climate ...
The study commissioned by the United Nations, in consultation with international partners provides science-based advice on ways to cut the impacts of these pollutants. It was discussed at a UNEP Governing Council, Global Ministerial ... developed and run by the NASA-Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) and the other was developed by the Max Planck Institute in Hamburg, Germany (ECHAM), and run at the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission in Ispra, Italy. ...
University of York - Latest news - http://www.york.ac.uk/news-and-events/news/
NorTech, Crain's Cleveland Business Announce 2011 Innovation Award ...
By ABMN Staff
Judges include: Martin Abraham, Founding Dean, College of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, Youngstown State University; Dianne Anderson, Executive Director, Great Lakes Energy Institute, Case Western Reserve University ... of Graduate Studies, NEOUCOM; Max Lewis, Vice President – Global Innovation (Corporate Division), Sherwin-Williams Company; and Kathy Needham, Deputy Chief of the Business Development and Partnership Office, NASA Glenn Research Center. ...
American Banking News - http://www.americanbankingnews.com/
Biology Library News: Dealing with data
By wubiolibrarian
Science has a special issue on data Feb. 11th. It includes Challenges and Opportunities of Open Data in Ecology which might be especially interesting to some biofolk. Sharing Data in Biomedical and Clinical Research is another interesting article that ... Editorial in Nature Medicine: The scientific social network doi:10.1038/nm0211-137 - "A joint statement from 17 funding agencies urges biomedical researchers to openly share data obtained from population-based studies. ...
Biology Library News - http://wulibraries.typepad.com/bionews/
Hashimoto's Thyroiditis Can Affect Quality of Life Even When ...
Hashimoto's thyroiditis (HT), an inflammatory disorder of the thyroid, is the most common cause of hypothyroidism, but a study has suggested that even when thyroid function is normal, HT may increase symptoms and decrease quality of life. ... Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. is a privately held, fully integrated media company known for establishing authoritative peer-reviewed journals in many promising areas of science and biomedical research, including Diabetes Technology ...
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Biomed Middle East » Researchers study on how mobile technology ...
By Nadia
Researchers study on how mobile technology can help patients manage diabetes. Written By: Nadia on February 25, 2011 0. The McKesson Foundation today announced the six recipients of $1.3 million in research grants as part of its ...
Biomed Middle East - http://biomedme.com/
Assessing Military Benefits of S&T Investments..... - News ...
As a follow-up to the methodology study that generated the DTP, ... It explored the potential operational benefits of the MAST technologies by attempting ... At the end of each day, ARL Human Research and Engineering Directorate (HRED) ... what the Army's science and technology community is trying to do for them. ...
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Upper Valley Students Share Results of Mercury Research at ...
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IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca: International Scouting ...
The Voice of Political Science around the World. Political Science News · About IPSA ... IMT's identity as an Institute of Technology is defined by the aim of integrating ... Stein Rokkan Prize for Comparative Social Science Research ...
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AFCEA Expands Teacher Education Scholarships Supporting Science ...
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Study shows rapamycin reverses myocardial defects in mouse model ...
BIDMC is a clinical partner of the Joslin Diabetes Center and a research partner of the ... Their study, reported in ACS's journal Environmental Science ... 11.02.2011 | Event News. The Value Creation Potential of High-Tech Materials ...
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Missouri researcher studies fly ash in concrete
A researcher at Missouri University of Science and Technology is studying ways ... Sign up now to get news by email! Missouri researcher studies fly ash in ...
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Valuable Vestige: Usable 5.25 inch floppy drive | University ...
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