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SCIENCE News, Studies, Research, Technology, Apr 29, 2011

Honda's ASIMO Demonstrated at FIRST® Championship for First Time
Business Wire (press release)
“Honda and FIRST share many of the same values, including inspiring students to pursue opportunities in science, technology and engineering,” said Erik Wedin, ASIMO North American project leader. “We think a student robotics competition is the perfect ...
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Utilities Gird for New Regs as EPA Studies Toxicity of Hex Chromium
New York Times
Robert Renner of the Water Research Foundation, which conducts studies for water utilities, said hexavalent chromium has been on his group's radar for a decade. "Research on chromium-6 has been conducted and open for years," Renner said, ...
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Biodesix Supports Unique Lung Cancer Research Initiative
PR Newswire (press release)
VeriStrat has been validated in clinical studies with over 1500 patients. Biodesix is engaging in additional studies to further validate the test and to explore the clinical utility of VeriStrat in other solid epithelial tumors and with other EGFRIs. ...
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Peabody Energy Appoints Randy M. Tucker Vice President - Information ...
PR Newswire (press release)
Tucker earned a Master of Science degree in management from Baker University School of Professional and Graduate Studies in Overland Park, Kan., and a Bachelor of Science degree in civil engineering from Missouri University of Science and Technology. ...
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New master's degree in STEM education approved for fall
Boise State University The Arbiter Online
ROBBY MILO/THE ARBITER Liliana Mellor, a post-doc student, grows cell cultures for research with Oxford. The university received permission to offer a new master's degree in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) education from the ...
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Boise State University The Arbiter Online

Acura Pharmaceuticals Reports First Quarter 2011 Financial Results and Product ...
Stockhouse
Marketing expenses during first quarter 2011 and 2010 consisted primarily of Aversion(R) Technology customized market research. Our general and administrative expenses primarily consisted of legal, audit and other professional fees, corporate insurance ...
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European study takes issue with cage free
Feedstuffs
In doing so, HSUS emphasizes that all of the most recent 10 studies drew similar conclusions but fails to disclose that those studies were done in Europe and did not consider US management and technology. To this point, De Vylder said his team was ...
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Universities as Drivers of Innovation and Entrepreneurship
ECNmag.com
Dr. Andreas Pinkwart, the former Minister for Innovation, Science, Research and Technology of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia and new Dean of Leipzig's Graduate School of Management (HHL), shares his insights on the role of the university in a ...
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Driving green costs green, says study
Toronto Star
Quoting other studies, the Conference Board of Canada, a non-profit, independent research firm, said the extra costs could range from a few thousands dollars for a hybrid up to $20000 more for a long-range plug-in model to even a higher expense for a ...
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'Earth observation for ocean-atmosphere interactions science', Frascati, Italy
Cordis News
The project has a range of stakeholders and sponsors, including European Cooperation in Science and technology. SOLAS brings together interdisciplinary research and studies, requiring marine and atmospheric scientists to work together with Earth ...
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'Test tube' reef a key to understanding coral disease
PhysOrg.com
Microbial ecologist and UTS Research Fellow Dr Justin Seymour is part of an international team that will apply emerging technology to investigate the causes of bacterial disease in coral. The Strasbourg based International Human Frontier Science ...
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Exhibition of thesis, research papers held at FUUAST
Daily Times
KARACHI: An exhibition of PhD and Mphil thesis and research papers was held at the Federal Urdu University for Arts, Science and Technology (FUUAST) on Wednesday. Registrar FUUAST Prof Dr Qamarul Haq performed the inauguration. ...
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Reportlinker Adds RFID Case Studies Knowledgebase - the largest in the world
PR Newswire (press release)
By collating this database of case studies, we are able to present a wealth of RFID knowledge to tell you who the main protagonists are, what technologies they are using, what status their projects are, are they succeeding? ...
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Incoming enrollment lags at New Technology High
Sioux Falls Argus Leader
Research a nonprofit and create a proposal for a $5000 grant using written, oral and video elements. Write stories about the first year at New Technology High and create a one-page newspaper that will serve as a personal freshman yearbook. ...
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America's education footprint in the Middle East
Marketplace
It boasts satellite campuses and study abroad programs offering computer science and business studies from Carnegie Mellon University, training in medicine from Cornell University, international affairs from Georgetown University, journalism from ...
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Marketplace

Best Job Market for US Grads Since 2008 Leading to Multiple Offers
Bloomberg
The turnaround is being driven by gains in finance, energy and technology, said Edwin Koc, who heads research at the association. Companies are filling a backlog of jobs after two years of stagnant hiring and looking to younger workers to fill ...
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Stem cell research is threatened by EU morality law
Daily Mail
The scientists claim few, if any, 'new' cells are used in research. Instead studies rely on vast banks of cells that have multiplied in labs for years. But a spokesman for the campaign group Comment on Reproductive Ethics said: 'There are innumerable ...
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Daily Mail

Usability, Enterprise Agility Key ERP Concerns, IFS Study Says
TMC Net
The study was conducted by an independent research company in early 2011 among more than 200 executives with manufacturing operations with greater than $100 million in revenue. Complete study results are now available online at ...
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New Zealand Technologies Facilitate the Care of Elderly and Chronically Ill at ...
Business Wire (press release)
For example, research led by Prof. Olaf Diegel, director of the Creative Industries Research Institute at Auckland University of Technology, has led to the development of user-friendly health monitoring devices, like a blood pressure monitor that ...
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Study finds regular Twitter users have shorter relationships
LSU The Reveille
Lovebirds are not tweeting for daily Twitter users, according to a recent study by OkTrends, a website that compiles research from dating website OkCupid. The study, which compiled data from more than 800000 users, found that people aged 18 to 50 who ...
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Hamilton: Wind turbines don't have to kill bats
Toronto Star
A study published in this month's issue of the journal Science estimated that bats save the agricultural sector many billions of dollars a year in pest-control services — in fact, as much as $53 billion (US). It warned that over the next five years ...
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Epilepsy Therapy Project Invests in ICVrx's Drug Delivery Technology for the ...
PR Newswire (press release)
These investments are unique in that they focus on projects demonstrating a clear path from research in the laboratory to the commercialization of new treatments for epilepsy. ICVrx has completed preclinical work and will now start clinical studies of ...
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Indiana University Supports Researchers, Inspires Innovation and Secures More ...
Marketwire (press release)
High Performance Systems (HPS), part of the Research Technologies division of the Indiana University Pervasive Technology Institute, provides a number of database-related services -- including database hosting, Web services, application building and ...
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Regulus Therapeutics and Collaborators Present New Results from Preclinical ...
Business Wire (press release)
Our studies with Regulus show that miR-33 specifically targets genes involved in HDL-C biogenesis, cholesterol efflux and fatty acid oxidation, and its antagonism results in direct upregulation of these pathways with clear potential for therapeutic ...
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Bio-Path Holdings Appoints Dr. Ana M. Tari Director, Preclinical Operations ...
Business Wire (press release)
Dr. Tari was a key member of the research team that performed the basic research and preclinical development of the liposomal delivery technology that Bio-Path has licensed from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and is at the core of ...
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Snagging a summer job tough for teens
Tullahoma News and Guardian
According to a July 2010 research study by the Employment Policies Institute, a non-profit research organization that studies employment policy issues, the unemployment rate for Tennessee teens ages 16 to 19 is 26.3 percent. ...
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