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Research and Markets: RFID for Postal and Courier Services 2011-2021
Live-PR.com (press release)
has announced the addition of the " RFID for Postal and Courier Services 2011-2021 : " Detailed ten year forecasts are given plus a full explanation of the technologies. In detail, there are 40 new case studies of RFID in action in the postal and ...
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Medtronic Acquires Rights to a Gel Technology
Twin Cities Business (blog)
The Fridley-based medical device maker bought the technology from Adelaide Research & Innovation Pty Ltd., in Australia, Robinson Squidgel, Ltd., and Otago Innovation, Ltd., in New Zealand. Financial terms were not disclosed. Medtronic hopes to use the ...
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US FDA, Georgetown University Medical Centre enter research partnership
pharmabiz.com
Terms of the partnership are spelled out in a Memorandum of Understanding, signed earlier today, that supports a range of new activities including: joint research and public health activities in areas such as novel technologies, public health ...
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Fourth generation of roller slag processing device settled in POSCO
SteelGuru
... Baosteel Co Ltd leaders organized experts to carry out thematic studies. Baosteel Science and Technology Development Department, Baosteel Engineering, Baosteel Research Institute, steel mill and MCCBTS sent out experts and formed a project team. ...
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Professors talk museum March 3 at Belmont's NAASR
Belmont Citizen-Herald
By Anonymous The National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR) will host a presentation entitled Traces: A Museum Without Artifacts — Design, Projection, and the Armenian Genocide, at 8 pm on Thursday, March 3. ...
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Technology offers help treating painkiller abuse
NewsOK.com
One in five adult Americans reports having chronic pain that lasts several months or longer, studies show. Research shows that painkiller prescriptions are rising nationwide. Hydrocodone retail sales alone rose 178 percent from 1997 to 2004, a study in ...
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'King's Speech' Draws Attention to New Stuttering Research
NewsHour
We now know that's not true, Ratner said, speaking on a panel of researchers last week at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Over the past two decades, scientists have been using new technologies and tools to ...
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NewsHour
Study looks at how homeless kids' use of online social networks can affect ...
UC Los Angeles
"This is one of the first studies demonstrating that homeless youth use online social networking technologies, and it is the first to document the influence of these technologies on their sexual risk behaviors." Young and co-investigator Eric Rice, ...
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Smaller class sizes, better achievement: School board studies appropriate ...
Stillwater Gazette
The ISD 834 School Board has six areas of focus for Vision 2014: appropriate class size, support staff, grade configuration, program options, technology and facilities. Thursday night the board received a report on appropriate class sizes for schools ...
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Vestas opens Chennai wind power facility
REVE
Vestas opened a new research and development test wind energy center on Rajiv Gandhi Salai, in Chennai city, India, adjacent to the company's existing technology office. Vestas has expanded its Technology R&D capabilities in India with the opening of a ...
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Researchers capture complexities of breast cancer tumours to improve treatment ...
Biomed Middle East
At Oslo University Hospital and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim, researchers are capturing the complexities of breast cancer tumours. Their projects receive funding under the Research Council's National Programme ...
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Roundtable to Launch Government Transparency and Online Hubs Recommendations
PR-USA.net (press release)
Dr. Nicol Turner-Lee , Vice President and Director of the Media and Technology Institute for the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies. She has produced path breaking research on broadband adoption among minority and disadvantaged populations ...
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NYT columnist to Republicans: Your tribe is willfully ignorant on global warming
American Thinker (blog)
The politicization of science isn't particularly new; the Bush administration was famous for pressuring government agencies to bring their vision of reality in line with White House imperatives. Warner , to her credit, traces the rise of an ...
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Lanka goes for new climate change policy
Sunday Observer
One of the main objectives of the Climate Change Secretariat is to facilitate climate change related research and distribution of research results to trigger policy reforms and actions, he said. According to a spokesman four research studies were ...
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Sunday Observer
Viral Infection Not Responsible For Exacerbation Of Lung Disease In Most Patients
RedOrbit
By more clearly defining the relationship between viral infection and acute exacerbation of IPF, Dr. Collard hopes this study will help focus future research on other possible causes of the condition. "This study uses the most current genomics-based ...
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Those are some great ideas!
Huron Daily Tribune
Students said young people really gravitate to music, and having songs integrated into their classroom studies would increase the students' attention span and comprehension, thereby increasing test scores. The Laker team said any type of music could be ...
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Pioneering figure in the worlds of informatics and computing
Irish Times
Foster published many reports and technical papers on probability theory, applied statistics, computer systems performance modelling, information systems design, information technology assessment, operations research and management science. ...
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Unigene Accelerates the Development of its Lead Proprietary Anorexigenic ...
Live-PR.com (press release)
Longer term oral studies with UGP281 in dog models are currently ongoing. Dr. Nozer Mehta, Unigene´s Vice President of Research and Development commented, "UGP281 is a custom designed, potent amylin receptor super agonist and is an analog of naturally ...
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WRONG KIND OF COMMITMENT CAN WRECK ROMANCE
The Cypress Times
Collaborating with Knee were Amber L. Bush of UH, Amy Canevello of the University of Michigan and Astrid Cook of Idiro Technologies. Included in these studies was a 14-day diary procedure in which 198 participants recorded the most positive and ...
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Simpler way of making proteins could lead to new nanomedicine agents
Chem.Info
By Science Daily Friday, February 25, 2011 Led by Jianjun Cheng, a professor of materials science and engineering at the University of Illinois, the research team will publish its findings in the Feb. 22 edition of the journal Nature Communications. ...
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Previous studies have suggested that people who have performed oral sex on six or more partners during a lifetime of facing an eight times higher risk of acquiring HPV related head and neck cancer than those less than six partners, .... BioMed Central (http://www.biomedcentral.com/) is a leading STM (science, technology and medicine) that has pioneered the open access model.All articles peer-reviewed research published by BioMed Central are immediately and freely ...
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Eddo Stern discusses Dark Game hardware at Art Center Media Design ...
By THMNews
Her research involves collaborations with local and on-line communities, which exploit information and communications technologies as new sites for "public art ." Daniel's role as an artist is that of “context provider”—assisting ... His primary research interests lie at the intersection of computer science and social science; he draws liberally on material from computer science, science and technology studies, cultural studies, humanities, and social sciences in order to ...
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Lanka goes for new #climate change policy « GCC News Brief
By Shiva
According to a spokesman four research studies were identified by 19 research proposals submitted to the Climate Change Secretariat. They were studies on carbon sequestration by coconut plantations in Sri Lanka, establishing the solar ... He said the action plan has emphasised policies and action for climate change mitigation, technology transfer, financing and investment mechanism, education, training and awareness, monitoring, assessment and management of impact risks ...
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Oregon HSU STOP Torturing Monkeys for Human Obesity! - Care2 News ...
By Joanna D.
6 hours ago - news.change.org. Oregon health and Science University is practicing the barbaric act of using primates to test largely preventable human conditions: OBESITY & DIABETES. Please act today to help the monkeys. .... “ Doing primate studies is about as difficult as doing human studies from an ethical standpoint,” said Dr. Lee M. Kaplan, director of the weight center at Massachusetts General Hospital, who is one of the researchers in the bariatric surgery study ...
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North Carolina's biotech industry gets wakeup call « Science in ...
By Sabine Vollmer
Only 2 percent of the studies analyzed which treatments were better values. Indeed, of the more than $2 trillion in annual U.S. health expenditures, only an estimated 0.1 percent is spent on researching the comparative effectiveness of medical ... University in Munich, Germany, and a M.A. in journalism from Indiana University. Prior to joining SITT, Sabine wrote for the News & Observer, covering life sciences from the bench to the bedside with an eye on the patient. ...
Science in the Triangle - http://scienceinthetriangle.org/
The Trail from Trail: New Challenges for Historians of Technology ...
By Joe Schultz
One example is the commons theory developed by Elinor Ostrom and other political scientists. Another is the field of international law as exemplified by studies of the Trail smelter arbitration. The other international research project ...
Technology and Culture - http://etc.technologyandculture.net/
Australian Health Information Technology: Weekly Overseas Health ...
By Dr David More MB, PhD, FACHI
The two-part study, titled "How Strong Are Passwords Used to Protect Personal Health Information in Clinical Trials?," was led by Khaled El-Emam, Canada research chair in Electronic Health Information at the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) ..... and a work group they both constituted to study the recommendations that the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology made in a 108-page report (PDF) on the federal health IT promotional program. ...
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Fellowships for International Students in USA- 2011 : Blog ...
By shivangi
Applicants for this program must be senior or well-established academics currently employed by an institution of higher education, or remaining closely associated and still active in teaching and research at a university; recent degree ... Applicants must be currently enrolled and pursuing either an undergraduate or graduate degree in International Trade studies, such as political science, international relations, economics, international business, international law, ...
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Anonymous Hacking | Protests Middle East | The Daily Caller ...
Scott Andes, Research Analyst at The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, commented, “The Internet has emerged as the most freedom-promoting medium of communication in world history, if 'just-in-time' Internet shutdowns become ... News Corp launches new iPad news source: The Daily · Solar system with six exoplanets, others in habitable zones found by NASA's Kepler · Verizon unveils pricing details for iPhone service · Who is the iPad's 'Daily' newspaper for? ...
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February 26, 2011
By ellegood
The idea of beaming down power from outer space has surfaced in science-fiction stories and government studies for decades now. Commercial deals have been struck, prototype satellites have been proposed, international initiatives have been announced. ... “The action of the Governor to not allow the private sector to make public proposals on high speed rail is not only unfriendly to business but also shows a lack of vision toward new and emerging technologies. ...
FLORIDA SPACErePORT - http://spacereport.blogspot.com/
Symposium on Bio-X-funded research projects set for March 11 ...
By Bruce Goldman
Bio-X, a joint project of the Schools of Humanities and Sciences, Engineering, Earth Sciences, and Medicine, was created in 1998 to promote interdisciplinary research in the biosciences. For more detail, contact Fiona Sincock, 724-3616, ...
News from Stanford's School of Medicine - http://med.stanford.edu/news/
Vatican moves towards rapprochement with Science? - The Lead
By Nicholas Knisely
There was news this week that the Vatican is planning a collaboration with the Italian Space Agency to do a web-based study to examine the origins of the Universe "through science, theology, philosophy and art". ... "Priya Shetty is among those to note that the Vatican is hosting an Aids conference on 28 May, but wonders whether a forthcoming update on bioethics issues in stem cell research and reproductive technology will be as 'pragmatic' as its new stance on condom use ...
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NEW PUBLICATION - News & Events | INSS | Institute for National ...
In a Defense and Technology Paper (DTP) entitled “A Methodology for Assessing the Military Benefits of Science and Technology Investments,”1 the National Defense University ... As a follow-up to the methodology study that generated the DTP, ... At the end of each day, ARL Human Research and Engineering Directorate ...
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Justifying Research, Basic Or Otherwise - Science News
Though the work ranged from preliminary studies on the neural networks of songbirds ... “The other part to that is that we are in an era of rich technology… ...
www.sciencenews.org/.../On_the_Scene__Justifying_research,...
Harvard Kennedy School - STS 20+20: Science and Technology Studies ...
Harvard Kennedy School Insight. HKS campus. Interviews about research and public policy. ... STS 20+20: Science and Technology Studies: The Next Twenty ...
www.hks.harvard.edu/news-events/.../1301976000
NIH study finds 2 pesticides associated with Parkinson's disease
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) — The Nation's Medical Research Agency — includes ... 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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Study Uncovers Mechanisms that Control Rb2/p130 Gene Expression in ...
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Laser Technology Might Help Doctors Diagnose Melanoma - Laser ...
Laser Technology: WEDNESDAY, Feb. 23 (HealthDay News) -- Researchers say ... but related studies in Toronto, and Boston, the scientists proved that two ...
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NASA - Discovering Discovery's Payloads for the STS-133 Mission
NASA Home; > Missions; > International Space Station; > Research; > News ... Also part of human research are two nutritional studies and an immune study, which look at ... Studies completed in the BXF may generate new technology for energy production and the ... International Space Station Program Science Office ...
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John Law Science Studies - Cheap Blog
In academic research, science studies (also known as sociology of ... New York: Macmillan. What did John Law study in Europe? ... John Law is Professor of Sociology and STS (Science and Technology Studies) at Lancaster University. ...
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ICPSR Summer Program is Now Open for Registration | University ...
If you are, ICPSR, the world'slargest social science data archive, annually hosts a summer program in quantitative methods of social science research. ...
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Turn off more accessible mode News Home > OAR News ... Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies at the University of ... Cooperative Institute for Climate Science at Princeton University provides expertise and ... Cooperative Institute for Ocean Exploration, Research and Technology at Florida ...
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Ogmius Newsletter :: Center for Science and Technology Policy Research
This Research Highlight describes the work of Gesa Lüdecke, a Ph.D. student ... Gesa studied Environmental Sciences with an emphasis on informal learning, ...
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