ConsumerReports.org
A new study published May 18 in the journal Environmental Science & Technology found that 80 of 101 samples of baby products researchers tested—including nursing pillows, changing table pads and car seats—contained chemical flame retardants. ...
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Research and Markets: Elsevier Science and Technology Notes - Handbook of ...
SunHerald.com
Handbook of Modern Pharmaceutical Analysis, Second Edition, synthesizes the complex researchand recent changes in the field, while covering the techniques and technology required for today's laboratories. The work integrates strategy, case studies, ...
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Scripps Research Institute salutes grads, Lerner
La Jolla Light
From left, James R. Williamson, Ph.D., Dean, Graduate & Postdoctoral Studies, Kellogg School ofScience and Technology; Professor, Department of Molecular Biology; Pick-Wei Lau, Ph.D., and William Roush, Ph.D., Associate Dean, Kellogg School of Science ...
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Tracking the flow of knowledge
MIT News
Or, in today's highly networked world, does research flow around the globe without regard to its point of origin? According to a study co-authored by an MIT economist, location still does matter — a finding with implications for technology transfer, ...
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MIT News
Scientists Misjudged Potential for Megaquake in Japan
Wall Street Journal
Of three related studies appearing in the journal Science, one also warns that the recent quake could have altered the underground stresses in a way that heightens the risk of another big quake occurring 200 kilometers east of Tokyo. ...
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Mammals first evolved big brains for better sense of smell
EurekAlert (press release)
Mammals first evolved their characteristic large brains to enable a stronger sense of smell, according to a new study published this week in the journal Science by paleontologists from The University of Texas at Austin, Carnegie Museum of Natural ...
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Case Studies on Information Management Technology and Policy 2011
Triple Pundit
Students in the first cohort of the MPA class at Presidio Graduate School have authored casestudies centered on information management technology and policy. Student research and analysis highlights and illuminates problems, successes, ...
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It's time to put a price on carbon, NRC says
Science News
Finally, there was that brouhaha — and embarrassing retraction by the IPCC — over the scienceorganization's acceptance of unvetted claims about the extent of glacier melting in the Himalayas. These events “left a lot of people confused over what to ...
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Alcatel-Lucent Releases a Study on Virtual Meeting and Collaboration Tools
TMC Net
To better understand how communications technologies are being used to improve business performance, the findings come out of two global research studies the company commissioned in first quarter 2011. The input was taken from nearly 2000 knowledge ...
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Advanced Technology from GD
Zacks.com
The unit will conduct research and development studies on technology areas relating to manufacturing, maintainability, survivability, hydrodynamics, acoustics and materials. Other areas ofresearch would include manning, hull integrity, performance, ...
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Cold Virus Attacks Brain Tumors
KMGH Denver
Dr. Andrew Brenner, neuro-oncologist, at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio's Cancer Therapy & Research Center, discusses a new way to fight brain tumors. Can you discuss brain tumors and ultimately how they grow and evolve? ...
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Life at the SETI Institute: Janice Bishop -- Mars: Back through the Looking Glass
Huffington Post
Dr. Bishop studies the spectral fingerprints of minerals and rocks in the lab in order to generate a spectral library for identification of these in the Martian data. Her research also involves collecting and studying Mars analog rocks and soils at a ...
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New method 'confirms dark energy'
BBC News
By Paul Rincon Science reporter, BBC News First results from a major astronomical survey have confirmed the existence of mysterious dark energy using a cutting-edge technique. Dark energy makes up some 74% of the Universe and its existence explains why ...
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BBC News
Robert Rathbone, MIT professor emeritus, dies at 95
MIT News
Writer and editor helped shape Institute's humanities program, taught skills for communicatingscience and technology. Pierre Azoulay, associate professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Study shows scientists' location influences how widely ...
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Experts Call for Expanding Boys' Career Options
Education Week News
Thomas Mortenson, a senior scholar who studies male economic and academic achievement at the Pell Institute for the Study of Opportunity in Higher Education, based in Washington, found that as of 2006, men earned a smaller share of the bachelor's ...
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Taking the classroom to the forest
Concordiensis
By Joshua Ostrer in Science and Technology | May 19, 2011 | Views: 11 Shown above is the north end of Piseco Lake, NY. Union is currently in the process of acquiring land on the eastern shore and access to the Irondequoit Inn at the northern end of the ...
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Deal Takes Nuvilex to the Next Level
Small Cap Network
By Goldman Small Cap Research Earlier this morning, Nuvilex, Inc. (NVLX: OTC:QB) announced that it is engaged in advanced discussions with one of the world's most experienced cell therapy companies to acquire its pancreatic cancer treatment technology. ...
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Liquid crystal droplets discovered to be exquisitely sensitive to an important ...
PhysOrg.com
So Abbott and his graduate students I-Hsin Lin and Dan Miller along with colleagues in the NSF-sponsored UW-Madison Materials Research Science and Engineering Center determined that "the transition was not driven by adsorption of endotoxin over the ...
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New research finds no plausible land use change from ethanol production
Southwest Farm Press
“Unless they can present clear and compelling data, they need to realize that technology andscience are not on their side. We're growing much more corn per acre, and this – along with shifting demands – eliminates the need to significantly increase ...
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Overview of CSL Behring Innovations in Recombinant Technologies Presented at...
PR Newswire (press release)
Therefore, CSL Behring seeks to further expand its broad portfolio of products for the hemophilia community, starting with research into a single-chain rFVIII and other promising therapies." Theresearch leading to the initiation of the studies that ...
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Pitt researchers build a better mouse model to study depression
EurekAlert (press release)
As one of the nation's leading academic centers for biomedical research, the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine integrates advanced technology with basic science across a broad range of disciplines in a continuous quest to harness the power of ...
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On the shore or below the sea, Monterey Bay enchants
OCRegister
OPEN HOUSE: The Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute will hold an open house from noon to 5 pm June 25. Activities will include science and technology exhibits, deep-sea videos, researchpresentations, robotic submarines, children's activities, ...
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Nepotism suspected in budget allocation for accelerators
동아일보
... Science and Technology Ministry Thursday. “Noise was made over the allocation of the budget.” The Korea Accelerator and Plasma Research Association is a research center that studiesaccelerators located in Cheorwon, Gangwon Province, ...
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Listening to the Universe
Cordis News
The European Commission has allocated EUR 3 million under the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) through the 'Research Infrastructures' Action of the 'Capacities' Programme for preliminary studies for the development of the Einstein Telescope, ...
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Cordis News
Solazyme Pre-IPO Report: Synthetic Nanobiology Comes of Age
Seeking Alpha
Professor James Richardson, an agricultural economics professor at Texas A&M, has evaluated many different types of conventional algae technology using advanced statistical techniques. Dr. Richardson's research shows that most conventional biofuel ...
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Four professors honored for excellence in mentoring graduate students
Princeton University
Since coming to Princeton most of Gordin's research has focused on the history of early nuclear weapons, both American and Soviet. Gordin's course topics include the history of modern science,technology and society, translation in the history of ...
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Every School Every Thursday - West Des Moines, Clive, Waukee
DesMoinesRegister.com
She also attended the state science and technology fair and received the senior outstanding botany award and the Iowa Biotechnology Association Scholarship, while placing second in the senior high biological seminar. The AP art show has been an annual ...
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Dr. Knut Stamnes at Stevens Receives NASA Grant for Environmental Monitoring
PR.com (press release)
In this capacity, Dr. Stamnes' NASA research dovetails with his work as Director of the Light and Life Laboratory, which studies the interaction of light with the environment. "The algorithm work is generic, which means that it can be applied to a wide ...
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Some sold on stem cells
OCRegister
"Clinical experience outweighs scientific evidence until science catches up," said Dr. Hamid Towhidian of Irvine, who offers a stem-cell breast augmentation. "Numerous European studies have shown stem cells are the future of cosmetic surgery," he said. ...
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Hurricane Experts at The Florida State University
Newswise (press release)
His research is on developing the science and technology for modeling the risk of a catastrophic storm along the nation's coastline. He studies the relationship of hurricanes to climate factors including El Niño and global warming. ...
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Research shakes up seismic knowledge near Northwest nuclear plant
KING5.com
Among the questions: Why did Energy Northwest continue to use 15-year-old studies as the basis for its earthquake preparations, when much more up-to-date information about the region's seismic profile were available from the USGS and Hanford itself? ...
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Egg Strategy's Digital Research Tool Revolutionizes Market Research
Virtual-Strategy Magazine
... in-home interviews and online studies. Egg Strategy developed Over the Shoulder (www.overtheshoulder.com) as an extension to its already- sophisticated and proven marketresearch strategies. With mobile and Smartphone technology being the fastest ...
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Cellphones may harm male sperm quality
Globe and Mail
One of the chief difficulties in understanding that link, Dr. Agarwal said, is that there haven't been any comprehensive, rigorous scientific studies. It's possible that might soon change, however. Dr. Jarvi said there has been an explosion in interest ...
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Globe and Mail
Audacious Israelis race to the Moon
Israel 21C
We want to do the same, to get kids to pursue careers in technology and science," he tells ISRAEL21c. From left, SPACE IL's Yonatan Weintraub and Kfir Damari with Lori Garver, deputy administrator at NASA, at Tel Aviv University. ...
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ImageIQ Spins Out of CCI
Drug Discovery & Development
Consequently, research based studies or clinical trials that previously limited dataset sizes to accommodate for time required for pathologist/radiologist reads, are now able to increase study sizes, throughput and statistical power with the aid of ...
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General Dynamics gets $33.5M Navy contract
BusinessWeek
Electric Boat will conduct research and development studies on technology areas including manufacturing, maintainability, survivability, hydrodynamics, acoustics, and materials. The modification is part of a contract the company received in November. ...
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Richmond's Post-Industrial East End Is Focus of Study
University of Virginia
I believe his understanding and ability to balance research and design made for a more meaningful project." With the research of the Community History Workshop students to inform their decisions, the design students respected the history of the site ...
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Breakthrough Research Method for the Detection and Absolute Quantification of ...
Labmate Online
Using this advanced triple stage quadrupole GC-MS/MS-MRM technology, scientists are now able to conduct both discovery phase analysis and selective identification and quantification analysis with a single instrument. The high sensitivity and ...
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The Shadow Knows: Thomas Drake, NSA, and SECRET Psychic Espionage
American Chronicle
"Recently, reports from various sources on life science research in the Soviet Union have been called to my attention," wrote Helms, "These reports indicate a current preoccupation by an important sector of Soviet biological science with cybernetics, ...
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Homing In On Genetic Signature Of Esophageal Cancer
Medical News Today (press release)
The study, led by Tony Godfrey, Ph.D., a research associate professor of Surgery at the James P. Wilmot Cancer Center at URMC, was published by the journal Clinical Cancer Research. It explores the chromosomal abnormalities that influence poor survival ...
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Inova Health System Joins Johns Hopkins Clinical Research Network
Medical News Today (press release)
Rapid startup and timely completion of research studies, aided by widespread access to the clinical trials, will make promising therapies available for patient use more quickly. Initially, the JHCRN focused on expanding cancer-related clinical trials ...
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Enzon Announces Discontinuation of PEG-SN38 Program in Metastatic Colorectal ...
EON: Enhanced Online News (press release)
Enzon continues to enroll studies for the Company's other PEG-SN38 programs, which include a soon-to-be fully enrolled Phase II study in metastatic breast cancer, a Phase I study in pediatric cancer, and a Phase I study in combination with Avastin ...
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American Academy of Arts & Sciences Names New Members
San Leandro India West
... prestigious honorary societies and a leading center for independent policy research. Members contribute to Academy studies of science and technology policy, global security, social policy and American institutions, the humanities, and education. ...
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The Princeton Review Partners with International Association of Fire Fighters ...
PR Newswire (press release)
"Partnering with the IAFF to deliver our custom-designed Fire Science AS Degree is an honor for Penn Foster College and aligns with our tradition and mission of providing affordable, accredited education to America's working adults. ...
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Salk researchers find way to 'edit' genes
La Jolla Light
Researchers have found a method of safely replacing defective genes with healthy ones through a process called “gene editing,” the Salk Institute for Biological Studies announced Thursday. Researchers were able to introduce molecules with healthy DNA ...
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Carbon Black Nanoparticles Can Cause Cell Death | Scicasts ...
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She said the research showed that the intake of carbon black nanoparticles from sources such as diesel fuel or printer ink caused an initial inflammatory response in lung cells. The surprising results came when the team discovered .... Stay Informed with Scicasts™ eNewsletters and Daily NewsFeeds Produced in Partnership with Leading Sci-Tech Corporations, Trade Associations and Institutions ...
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