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This course is required for all science, technology, engineering and mathematics majors and is the type of course that typically is the last STEM class for many women -- even those who have done well and shown interest in math and science. The study ...
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Central State gets $3.9M STEM grant
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The Department of Defense awarded the grant to establish the University Center of Excellence in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics at the Dayton-area college. “Central State is one of only three minority institutions to receive this ...
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ATS issues report recommending research priorities in treatment of sleep apnea
EurekAlert (press release)
"There is also a need to develop clinical sleep research networks capable of performing large, prospective studies." Recommendations were developed regarding research study design and methodology, including the need to standardize technology, ...
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Need Begets Innovation for University of Kentucky Professor
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She's currently engaged in research on questions of modernity and the social and cultural implications of urban planning. "I'm interested in how discourses of science and technology work their way into film, literature and culture in general," she said ...
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Oui! ISU Comes To USA
SatNews Publishers
The International Space University (ISU) will hold its 25th annual Space Studies Program (SSP) session at the Florida Institute of Technology and the NASA Kennedy Space Center, in Melbourne, Florida, USA from June 4 to August 3, 2012. ...
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Article One Partners Launches Public Review of Interval Licensing LLC Patent ...
PR Newswire (press release)
Article One Partners has conducted similar high profile requests for research, known as Patent Studies, including patents held by NTP Incorporated. Interval is a non-practicing entity (NPE) that is owned by Paul Allen, the co-founder of Microsoft. ...
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Marijuana Use Precedes Psychotic Symptoms
Medscape
"The major challenge," they write, "is to deter enough young people from using cannabis so that the prevalence of psychosis is reduced." The study was funded in part by the German Ministry of Research, Education, and Technology. The study authors, Dr. ...
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Mechanical Turk to the Rescue of Psychology Research?
PsychCentral.com (blog)
Perspectives on Psychological Science, 6(1), 3-5. Dr. John Grohol is the CEO and founder of Psych Central. He has been writing about online behavior, mental health and psychology issues, and the intersection of technology and psychology since 1992.
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Market research opens up opportunities for women
Arab News
These women carry out research studies about consumer preferences, their opinions about a specific product and spending habits, among others. A large number of qualified young Saudi women are in this vocation, which gives them money and entertainment ...
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California islands give up evidence of early seafaring
EurekAlert (press release)
The newly released study focuses on the artifacts and animal remains recovered, but the implications for understanding the peopling of the Americas may run deeper. The technologies involved suggest that these early islanders were not members of the ...
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Crappy case studies and other inappropriate language
ZDNet (blog)
Prior to, Dennis was technology and tax partner in a British firm of Chartered Accountants for 10 years. Prior to that held various senior finance roles across a broad range of industries. In 1996 I was part of a small team that launched Information ...
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UPI NewsTrack Health and Science News
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"In the not-so-distant future, the technology may be customized to address many critical inspection needs," Zoughi says. The research team completed the first prototype in 20907 and has spent the past three years decreasing its size while improving its ...
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In the Literature: HM-Related Research You Need to Know
The Hospitalist Online
Synopsis: Comparing patient fall rates in four acute-care hospitals between units providing usual care (5104 patients) and units using a health information technology (HIT)-linked fall prevention toolkit (5160 patients), this study demonstrated ...
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Sangamo BioSciences Announces Four Data Presentations at CROI 2011 of Novel ...
PR Newswire (press release)
The work is part of a California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) Disease Team Research Award which is funding IND-enabling studies of this approach. Dr. Cannon provided an update on progress in this program, demonstrating that the CCR5 gene ...
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La Jolla couple gives $10 million to UCSD Clinical and Translational Research ...
La Jolla Light
The CTRI recently received a five-year, $37.2 million Clinical and Translational Science Award from the National Center for Research Resources (NCRR), part of the National Institutes of Health, allowing UCSD to join an elite consortium of institutions ...
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Brigham and Women's Hospital researcher named National Space Biomedical ...
EurekAlert (press release)
The overall research project is funded by a research grant from the National Institutes of Health to Dr. Scheer. Funded by NASA, NSBRI studies the health risks related to long-duration spaceflight with peer-reviewed science, technology and education ...
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Minnesotans get crash course in Chesapeake Bay TMDL
Agri News
The Minnesota Soybean Research & Promotion Council gave $48800 to a University of Minnesota study that looked into the sources of sediment that winds up in the Minnesota River and Lake Pepin. MSR&PC Research and Technology Transfer Committee chairman ...
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New FOX Study Identifies Opportunities for Family Offices to Contain Costs
PR Newswire (press release)
Family Office Exchange (FOX) is a global membership organization dedicated to supporting high net worth families and their advisors with research studies, consulting services, collaboration opportunities, and education on key topics such as managing ...
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Novel Collaboration between VA Research and Communities Benefits Maryland's ...
DigitalJournal.com (press release)
“The Howard County Department of Aging is dedicated to keeping the exercise program open as a service to its seniors disabled by stroke, even after the research study has ended,” Macko said. Plans are being made to expand the programs to Baltimore ...
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Social innovation to be assessed in measuring the impact of publicly-funded R&D
Science Business
Japan also is active in social entrepreneurism through the Research Institute of Science and Technology for Society (RISTEX), a Japanese government-backed think-tank focused on social systems. “We have more than 60 projects going on. ...
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Aerie Pharma, with Research Facility in N.C., Passes $75M in Financing - cbl
Citybizlist (press release)
Prior to J & J, Dr. Conway was a Senior Scientist in Allergan's Discovery Research organization, Dr. Conway received BA and MA degrees from Northeastern University, earned a Ph. D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in visual ...
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Are America's Best Days Behind Us?
TIME (blog)
What we see today is an American economy that has boomed because of policies and developments of the 1950s and '60s: the interstate-highway system, massive funding for science and technology, a public-education system that was the envy of the world and ...
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What the science of sound tells us about the world
SmartPlanet.com (blog)
Up to now, we've had a lot of great science in the area of bio-acoustics and environmental acoustics. Bio-acoustics has been the study of the vocalization of animals, studying behavior, physiology, anatomy related to that. We've had a lot of research ...
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6 UW faculty members win Sloan Fellowship
The Daily of the University of Washington
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has annually awarded the Sloan Research Fellowship to promising scholars and scientists early in their career in areas of science, education and economics since 1955. This year, a total of 118 scholars from 54 colleges ...
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20 hot IT security issues
IDG News Service
That's why the US Secret Service said it has developed a software system that uses gaming technology and 3D modeling to offer high-tech training for its personnel. With funding from Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science & Technology Directorate ...
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Sarsia grants BerGenBio NOK7 million to continue CellSelect advanced ...
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BerGenBio has secured NOK7 million from local Sarsia Seed and Development funds to continue its leading research and development activities into new and original cancer treatments. The company's CellSelect™ advanced technology platform is gaining ...
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Rats' mobility restored in CU spinal-cord study
Denver Post
"We are working hard to translate this technology in the next one to two years. It's difficult to predict." The stem cells used in the latest research come from aborted fetal tissue. The dissection is done in Rochester, and cells are then sent to ...
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Govt think tank pushes for new taxes by 2012 to cut poverty
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MANILA, Philippines - If the government fails to legislate new tax measures in 2012, state think tank Philippine Institute of Development Studies (PIDS) said the government might not have enough funds to meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by ...
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ATS issues report recommending research priorities in treatment of ...
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Recommendations were developed regarding research study design and methodology, including the need to standardize technology, identify patients who would be “ best fit” for ambulatory management of OSA, ensure patient safety and identify ...
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Student innovation at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute could lead ...
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Discrimination against the obese contributes to health problems ...
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — The discrimination that obese people feel, whether it is poor service at a restaurant or being treated differently in the workplace, may have a direct impact on their physical health, according to new research from ... “We've seen considerable progress to address racial and gender discrimination in the United States, but the iceberg of weight discrimination still receives relatively little attention,” said Ferraro, who studies obesity and aging. ...
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Has The Earth's Sixth Mass Extinction Already Arrived
In a study to be published in the March 3 issue of the journal Nature, University of California, Berkeley, paleobiologists assess where mammals and other species stand today in terms of possible extinction, compared with the past 540 ... "The modern global mass extinction is a largely unaddressed hazard of climate change and human activities," said H. Richard Lane, program director in the National Science Foundation's Division of Earth Sciences, which funded the research. ...
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Dont expect genome breakthroughs yet, expert says | Science ...
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But Green predicts the study of the human genome, called genomics, will eventually pay off in a big way. He and other experts wrote about the 10th anniversary of the sequencing in the journals Nature and Science this week. ... INFORMATION OVERLOAD. Green said the technology allowing researchers to sequence the genome and read all the little bits of code -- the A, C, T, G sequences that are the building blocks of DNA and of life -- have deluged scientists with information. ...
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Artificial cells to trap deadly viruses
Artificial cells to trap deadly viruses...The technique offers a new research tool to study ...The study details how the novel artificial cells a..."We often call them honey pot protocells,&quo..."The lure, the irresistibly sweet bait that y... ... "We often call them honey pot protocells," says National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) materials scientist David LaVan. "The lure, the irresistibly sweet bait that you can use to capture something," adds LaVan, ...
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Solved - The Mystery Of Missing Sunspots
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Nandi, a former assistant research professor at MSU who spent eight years in Bozeman, suggested an idea that was explored using Munoz-Jaramillo's program to study the lack of sunspots. With it, the scientists simulated ... Nandi has returned to his native India where he is an assistant professor at the new Indian Institute of Science Education and Research in Kolkata. Munoz-Jaramillo, a native of Colombia, defended his thesis in July 2010. He is now a visiting fellow at ...
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Agile Sciences Announces Issuance of U.S. Patent for Biofilm ...
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HHS Awards Contracts to Develop New Influenza Vaccine Technology
Through these contracts, both companies will conduct clinical safety and efficacy studies and optimize and validate their manufacturing processes, which are needed to obtain licensing from FDA in order to use the new technologies in ... These recommendations were consistent with a report by the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, titled "Report to the President on Reengineering the Influenza Production Enterprise to Meet the Challenges of Pandemic ...
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The 60 patient Phase II study was conducted by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center in Baltimore, Maryland. The research was funded by the National Institutes of Health and other foundations. ... The company also is seeking opportunities for its other technologies. Additional information is available online at: www.biosantepharma.com. Forward-Looking Statements To the extent any statements made in this news release deal with ...
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Call for papers for the "Engineering Technology & Applied Science ...
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News, Policy actions, Technology. A call for papers for the “Engineering Technology & Applied Science Research” (ETASR) international journal has been launched. ETASR is a wide scope, peer-reviewed open access journal which aims to ...
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Tobacco smoking negatively affects teens' brains
A new study has concluded that tobacco smoking can affect teenagers' brains. While studies have linked cigarette smoking to deficits in attention and memory in adults, UCLA researchers wanted to compare brain function in adolescent smokers and non-smokers, with a focus on the ... The finding is obviously not good news for smokers, said the study's senior author, Edythe London, a professor of psychiatry at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at UCLA. ...
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Roadkill, rat poison: can bobcats survive? - OC Science - The ...
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Tweet Share The nearest bobcat may be closer than you think. And that might or might not be a good thing for the bobcats. Scientists who trap, tag and study... ... But at a bobcat workshop Thursday evening in Newport Beach, the scientists, including U.S. Geological Survey research ecologist Erin Boydston, will reveal the price the animals pay for urban proximity: debilitating outbreaks of ...
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Science and technology research news | A new look into the universe
Projects is Europe's leading website and magazine dedicated to research and development, science, technology and innovation across Europe.
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Macalester grants tenure to two faculty members - News ...
Phadke's research and teaching is at the nexus of environmental studies, international development and science and technology studies. ...
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Information Studies Professor Christine Borgman to Receive Paul ...
Information Studies Professor Christine Borgman is the 2011 recipient of the Paul Evan Peters Award. ... Submit News or Event ... Society for Information Science and Technology Best Information Science Book of the Year award. ... emerging issues in the use of technology to advance teaching, learning, and research. ...
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4-year doctoral position in the History of Science, Technology ...
Umeå Studies in Science, Technology and Environment (USSTE) – a research group ... the history of technology, the history of medicine, or science and technology studies (STS) ... Submit News · The Joel A. Tarr Envirotech Article Prize ...
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Panel told no guarantee against unethical research (AP) | Stock ...
_Examine federally funded international studies to make sure research is ... Filed under Health and tagged Health, Health News, Latest news, Science News. ...
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Dr. Korch is a Senior Science Advisor with the Office of the Assistant Secretary at ... Study: NDSU Research & Technology Park has Positive Economic Impact ...
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Tobacco Smoking Impacts Teens Brains, UCLA Study Shows - News ...
The finding is obviously not good news for smokers, said the study's senior author, ... Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and a member of the UCLA Brain Research Institute. ... Stay updated on the latest technologies and news with Biocompare's newsletters ... OphthalmologyWeb.com; Are you a laboratory scientist? ...
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The research rotation experiences culminate in the selection of the thesis adviser. ... For more information about the new Biomedical Sciences Program, ...
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Institute of Food Technologists Media Update, March 1, 2011
The following news briefs are from the Institute of Food Technologists® , a nonprofit ... New Study Cites Food Science Challenges for NASA Missions to Mars ... Public and private research and development collaborations in agriculture, ...
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