Science Now
Yesterday's sessions, for example, looked at factors that affect public acceptance of newtechnologies and how to incorporate human decision-making research into economic modeling and policymaking regarding energy. With public opposition to windmills, ...
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5 UH graduates receive NSF fellowships for further study
EurekAlert (press release)
Recognizing outstanding students pursuing research-based master's and doctoral degrees in NSF-supported science, technology, engineering and mathematics disciplines, the three-year fellowships cover tuition and include a $30000 annual stipend. ...
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DFG establishes 18 new research training groups
EurekAlert (press release)
This Research Training Group will expand the economic concept of innovation to include social scientific aspects, as well as examining social innovation. The team will study practices and processes in science and technology, industry and service, ...
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New Scientific Studies on Bad Breath
Huffington Post (blog)
According to a study published in the Journal of Breath Research, it found that 100 percent of participants who had bad breath had traces of the Solobacterium moorei on their tongues. Conversely, only 14 percent of participants without bad breath had ...
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Salk Institute Successfully Edits Diseased Genes
SanDiego.com
For years, medical science has sought a means to make repair at the fundamental levels – in a patient's DNA - by exchanging defective genes for healthy ones. But it's easier said than done. Gene-splicing technology is available, but the transplanted ...
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SanDiego.com
CHS Seniors honored
Chesterton Tribune
Mathematics, Ryan Gorman; Music, Elena Lutze; Physical Education, Romeo Marcinkowski;Science, Nathan Schuster; Social Studies, Salvador Mujica; Special Education, Jacob Karnick; Visual Arts, Abigail Lindstedt. Military Cords were presented to Matthew ...
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Sloppy (Dangerous) Journalism at Scientific American MIND Undermines Promise ...
Forbes (blog)
But this promise is undermined by science journalists who present irresponsible clinical examples, celebrate conceptual incoherence, and misrepresent research. Unfortunately for the promise of tele(mental)health, the usually reliable Scientific ...
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Talking about brain cancer
National Post
Their conclusions — depending on what they are — could be used by authorities in various countries to implement new safety regulations, simply trigger more research or give the technology a clean bill of health for the time being. ...
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Confronting the coming American worker shortage
CNNMoney
Late last month, the group gave each state a report card on its science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education based on various factors including teacher licensing test results and student advanced placement test scores. ...
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Deal signed to study bluefin and yellowfin tuna
FIS
The joint project will be implemented under the Science and Technology ResearchPartnership for Sustainable Development (SATREPS). The studies conducted in Japan will be supported by the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) and Kinki University, ...
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FIS
Placing Landmarks on the Genome Map
LiveScience.com
Published in the journal Science in 2010, their research was one of the first studiesto use next-generation sequencing and supercomputers to explore the expression of genes related to a specific regulatory transcription factor (called CTCF). ...
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LiveScience.com
Seeing Through the Eyes of the Colorblind
PR Web (press release)
For example, our so-called 'spiral-up curriculum' was devised to address the individual needs of our undergraduate and graduate students as they progress in their studies. Needless to say a fundamental understanding basic theories underlying science ...
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PR Web (press release)
A burning issue
Nature.com (subscription)
The research that triggered this media storm, and published this week in Environmental Science and Technology 1 , does highlight a major issue with toxicology research, consumer products and chemical regulation. But not in the way that might be ...
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Nature.com (subscription)
Dolphins, Whales Harbor Chemicals in Blubber
Discovery News
As expected, levels of pollutants in dolphins varied greatly from site to site, the researchers reported recently in the journal Environmental Science & Technology. And certain chemicals showed more drastic patterns than others. ...
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Frack Study's Safety Findings Exaggerated, Bush EPA Official Says
New York Times
Preliminary results from the $12 million research are expected next year, with a final report in 2014 (E&ENews PM,, May 11). EPA officials have said they plan to take a "life cycle" approach to the fracturing study, an approach promoted by ...
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UPI NewsTrack Health and Science News
UPI.com
Doctors cautioned that much more research will be required before many other paralyzed patients could attempt the treatment or before they could predict how much movement might be restored. SAN DIEGO, May 20 (UPI) -- US researchers say they may have ...
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Paraplegic Man Stands, Steps with Assistance and Moves His Legs Voluntarily
PR Newswire (press release)
Dr. Edgerton is a member of the Reeve Foundation's Science Advisory Council and its InternationalResearch Consortium on Spinal Cord Injury. Drs. Harkema, Edgerton and their colleagues envision a day when at least some individuals with complete spinal ...
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NIH Funded Pain Research Fosters Public-Private Collaborations
Newswise (press release)
She added that NINR promotes multidisciplinary pain management within its broad program of basic and clinical research. One area of emphasis is exploring technologies such as gene chips in painstudies that can allow researchers to study ...
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Children's Hospital, USC form new pediatric tech center
Bizjournals.com
“We believe this discovery is of immediate relevance to patient care,” said Dr. Markus Müschen, an investigator at The Saban Research Institute and lead author on the study, published in the May 19 issue of Nature. Investigators working at Children's ...
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New Fellows of The Royal Society
University of Bristol
He has pioneered the field of atomic force microscopy (AFM) of biomolecular structures including the development of video AFM and AFM with holographic tweezers for studies at the nanoscale. Professor Jon Keating, Dean of the Faculty of Science at the ...
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Herbal microbeads may boost antioxidant intakes: Study
NutraIngredients.com
Led by Drazenka Komes from the Faculty of Food Technology and Biotechnology at the University of Zagreb in Croatia, the researchers investigated the antioxidant activity of a variety of herbal extracts in alginate-chitosan microbeads. ...
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NutraIngredients.com
Pulling the plug, briefly, on an overwhelming Web | Philadelphia Inquirer ...
Philadelphia Inquirer
Yantis said that not much research has been done on people who take regular breaks from heavy use of information technology, though there has been some research done on the positive effects of spending time in natural environments, as opposed to ...
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NASA GRC Solicitation: Solar Electric Propulsion Demonstration Mission Concept...
Space Ref (press release)
NASA GRC intends to issue a Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) for Solar Electric Propulsion Demonstration Mission Concept Studies. The BAA will be available not sooner than 15 days from the posting of this notice, by opening the NASA Research ...
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Mott MacDonald wins funding for building performance study
The Construction Index
“There is also the potential to widen the scope of the proposed study to include research into the sociological and behavioural effects of occupants on the carbon emissions from buildings. “The findings of these studies should help establish greater ...
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Research and Markets: Up to 2.3 Billion Mobile Finance Users are Forecast in ...
SunHerald.com
In recent years most technology-focused discussions in the Asia-Pacific mobile industry have centered on 3G deployments in emerging markets and the evolution to LTE in developed markets. On the services side, the main topic of discussion is how to ...
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IU students and faculty receive Sony scholarships
Indiana University
He plans to use the laptop to further his academic success and utilize its capabilities to assist with his research. Dustin Dannerhauer, an IU Bloomington informatics and computer science junior who also works as an undergraduate instructor. ...
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Indiana University
Women pull ahead in Rochester-area advanced degrees
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
As the nation tries to steer more students into the fields of science, technology, engineering and math (often referred to as STEM), experts say special efforts are needed to reach out to women and dispel stereotypes about what people in these fields ...
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UCSB Localizing Fruit, Vegetable Consumption Doesn't Solve Environmental ...
RedOrbit
The results of their research, conducted in 2009-10, were recently published in the journal Environmental Science & Technology (http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/es1040317?journalCode=esthag). The research was supported by funding from Cleveland's ...
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Going to college: realities and opportunities for Asian Americans
Spot.Us
She also discovered that Asian Americans, as a whole, apply disproportionately to study the most competitive disciplines, namely science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Fifty-eight percent of Asian Americans chose such majors at UCLA, ...
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China to provide funds for agricultural centre in Boane, Mozambique
Macauhub
The spokesman for the Ministry for Science and Technology, Rufino Gujamo, said that CITAU would also carry out studies and research and demonstration work on agricultural technologiesand techniques, set up an area for teaching good agricultural ...
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New institute on Health Care Policy, Innovation Planned at U-M's North Campus ...
PR Newswire (press release)
Many UM researchers currently are involved in ground-breaking studies into the delivery of health care services, including support for patients with chronic conditions, insurance design and preventative care. But the NCRC offers a chance to bring them ...
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Alaskan well to test innovative hydrate production
R & D Magazine
Laboratory studies indicate that the CO 2 molecules will replace the methane molecules within the solid hydrate lattice, resulting in the simultaneous sequestration of CO 2 in a solid hydrate structure and production of methane gas. ...
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General Dynamics Awarded $34 Million for Development of Advanced Submarine ...
PR-USA.net (press release)
Under the terms of the modification, Electric Boat will perform advanced submarine research and development studies in support of a wide range of technology areas including manufacturability, maintainability, survivability, hydrodynamics, acoustics and ...
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Middle East desert solar plan criticised
Environmental Expert (press release)
The symposium was organised by the Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY) and the German Aerospace Center (DLR), with Egypt's Academy of Scientific Research and Technology and the Synchrotron-light for Experimental Science and Applications in the ...
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Quick-Med Technologies Signs New MultiStat(R) Manufacturing & Distribution ...
GlobeNewsWire (press release)
The agreement with BASF covers Ilomastat, a Quick-Med advanced and patented compound that has been shown to significantly benefit the appearance and maintenance of skin in more than 250research studies and academic papers. "We are very pleased to have ...
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UPI NewsTrack Health and Science News
UPI.com
"We've added a camel to the mix, and we're just getting started," said Kirk Johnson, vice president ofresearch and collections and chief curator for the Denver Museum of Nature & Science. "This just keeps getting better." Excavation began at the site ...
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CoAS Students, Faculty Win Awards - ASK, The News Source of the ...
The News Source of the College of Arts and Sciences at Drexel University ... Science, 2013), and Daniel Tedesco (B.A. International Areas Studies, 2011). ... and Technology, one of the world's leading aquatic ecology research institutes ...
https://ask.coas.drexel.edu/index.../students-faculty-win-award...
Arts and Sciences Academy Tackles Social Science and Green ... - News
A 3-day workshop in Washington, D.C., this week on "Social Science and the ... new technologiesand how to incorporate human decision-making research into ...
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