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Canada slips further in innovation rankings
Globe and Mail
In a report being released Tuesday in Ottawa, the Science, Technology and Innovation Council says Canada's innovation performance has slumped on most key measures in the two years since its last report card. The conclusions are familiar to those who ...
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IISER cut-off for state board HSC students is 83.50%
Times of India
PUNE: The application cut-off for state board students is set at 83.50% for std XII students for admissions to the Masters of Studies five-year dual degree programme at the Indian Institute ofScience Education and Research (IISER). ...
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When science is hidden behind a smokescreen
The Guardian
The opposition prompted by new technology or harmful products often triggers the same mechanisms. A familiar example is the publicity given by the US tobacco industry to misleading studies on the alleged benefits of smoking. ...
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The Guardian
idoodlesoftware Supplies Innovative STEM Education Software To Virginia Space ...
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
VSGC acts as an umbrella organization, coordinating and developing aerospace-related and hightechnology educational and research efforts throughout the Commonwealth, and connecting Virginia's effort to a national community of shared aerospace ...
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Agilent Technologies and National University of Singapore Form Alliance in ...
Nanowerk LLC
This facility will provide NUS researchers with state-of-the-art instrumentation to conduct studies on water, air, soil, food and biospecimens, leading to applications that will benefit the research community, industry and society at large. ...
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Nanowerk LLC
New And Unexpected Uses For Credit Scoring Technology
Business Insider
The art and science of leveraging a consumer's information to predict different types of behavior is continually evolving as the amount of available information on people increases—and the technologyto mine that data for predictive insights is ...
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Lindau Nobel Meeting--If HIV is attacked, it adapts
Scientific American (blog)
Our mission is to develop new technologies that use information science to advance basic science. The idea is that Microsoft will gain as technology becomes more useful and ubiquitous in our everyday lives. The nice thing about working on HIV vaccine ...
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Scientific American (blog)
Rankings can't measure this century's research
The Australian
The National Science Foundation in the US has a head start, having been supporting it since the 1980s. The agency has many IDR programs, including creating networks of interdisciplinaryresearch centres focused on new technologies. ...
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Cooperative Robots That Learn Mean Less Work for Humans
RedOrbit
By Miles O'Brien, Science Nation Correspondent Learning a language can be difficult for some, but for babies it seems quite easy. With support from the National Science Foundation (NSF), linguist Jeffrey Heinz and mechanical engineer Bert Tanner have ...
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Success story
Frontline
He was the Vice-Chancellor of Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala, and Cochin University of Science and Technology, Kerala, the Executive Director of the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC), Bangalore, the Vice-Chairman and Acting ...
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Frontline
Cybercrime Surveys Aren't Telling Us What We Need to Know
MIT Technology Review
And in March 2009, Edward Amoroso, AT&T's chief security officer, submitted written testimony to the US Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation estimating that cybercrime was bringing in illicit revenues of approximately $1 trillion a...
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MIT Technology Review
Grape extract gives sourdough rye bread antoxidant shot in the arm, study
BakeryAndSnacks.com
Writing in the International Journal of Food Science and Technology, the Polish researchers found that grape powder-enhanced sourdough mixed rye breads showed considerably higher dietary fibre contents than in the control, and had significantly higher ...
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Duke to Overhaul Humanities With Support From Mellon Foundation
Duke University
Combined with a public perception that science and technology are the key drivers to a competitive economy, Duke faculty and administrators are committed to supporting the critical role of the humanities in a global world, said the initiative's ...
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'Techbooks' replacing science textbooks at 8 Rapides elementary schools
Alexandria Town Talk
Passmore said the initiative fits well with the national effort to boost students' interest in STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) sciences. Local teachers who will be using the techbook will be receiving professional training in early ...
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Gambia: Higher Education Minister Clarifies On Country's College Principal's Issue
AllAfrica.com
The minister of Higher Education, Research Science and Technology, Dr Mariam Sarr-Ceesay has told deputies that the Gambia College Council entrusted the functions of the principal of the Gambia College to the University of The Gambia (UTG) vice ...
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India Turns To China To Fight Cyberspies
Fast Company
The text of the agreement specifically states that “In order for (the Indian Institute ofScience) to perform certain studies in respect of telecom equipment, IISc shall be requiring detailed understanding about various features, standards and related ...
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Fast Company
To Heal a Heart, Train Harder
Wall Street Journal
"What our group has done is to train these patients a bit harder," says Trine Moholdt, a postdoctoral fellow at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Her team presented a 107-patient study at a scientific meeting last fall in Stockholm. ...
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Landmark editorial denounces 'poor publication practices' in spine research
EurekAlert (press release)
"We work under a burden of suspicion that new technology research and publication is simply a 'broken system' as currently practiced. Our professionalism. . . . is fundamentally challenged by the threat of 'tainted science.'" The editorial goes on: "It ...
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Can TSA's scans give you cancer? Is government covering up disease 'clusters'?
Daily Mail
The agency added: 'In addition to regular maintenance, each individual machine that uses X-ray technology is regularly tested to ensure the radiation emitted falls within the national safety standards.' The agency claims it has the science to prove the ...
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Daily Mail
Instruction on 'The Art and Science of Wilderness Survival'
Rapid City Journal
Tom Brown III is one of the world's foremost instructors of primitive technology and primitive wilderness survival. Brown will be offering a free talk at the Hot Springs Public Library on at 5 pm on July 5. HOT SPRINGS - The Wild Woods Center, ...
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On campus: Sun Post-Herald
Sun Star Courier
Lauren Rosul was named to the dean's list at Florida Institute of Technology. She is pursuing a bachelors degree in environmental science. Barbara Summers graduated cum laude with a bachelor of arts in environmental studies and interdepartmental from ...
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Genetic map gives devil research a boost
ABC Online
By Branwen Morgan for ABC Science Online Cedric, who was euthanased last year, is one of the devils whose genome has been sequenced. (University of Tasmania: Alex Kriess) Efforts to save the Tasmanian devil from extinction have been given a boost by ...
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Community members talk it out: end-of-life care and face transplants
Newsworks.org (blog)
Maybe, if more research is done and face transplant surgery becomes more widespread. As part of its commitment to fostering public dialogue, WHYY's Health and Science Desk sponsored a community ethics discussion Monday night. ...
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Durham grads walk the walk
Oshawa Express
Graduating classes from the schools of Health & Community Services, Interdisciplinary Studies & Employment Services, Justice & Emergency Services, Business, IT & Management, Continuing Education, Media, Art & Design, Science & Engineering Technology ...
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Largest oil deposit yet to be discovered in Ada Prof
GhanaWeb
*Professor Akpanglo Nartey the Vice Principal of Regent University of Science and Technology in Accra has said oil deposit next to be discovered in Ghana in a very large quantity is in Ada. He said in lieu of this all GaDangmes must ensure that good ...
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New brain centre at Surrey SFU
Surrey Leader
They're among more than 70 SFU researchers to receive NSERC funding for new and existingresearch this month totaling more than $3 million. In addition, SFU biomedical physiologist Glen Tibbits and engineering science professor Carlo Menon have each ...
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Entrance test for UoP's MTech-PhD on July 31
Education Times
Over the last one year, the UoP initiated several steps, including creation of an independent faculty oftechnology; appointment of dean for the new faculty; formation of four boards of studies for the specified areas; designing of course curriculum, ...
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Singularity University Appoints Visionary Philanthropist and Entrepreneur ...
PR Newswire (press release)
As Jain is known as a man who follows his passion, his company Intelius recently awarded two Singularity University Scholarships for the Graduate Studies Program to African leaders in business and science to solve poverty and gender disparity. ...
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Are Amazon Reviews Corrupt?
PC Magazine
Here is the gist in a nutshell: In the first academic study of its kind, Trevor Pinch, Cornell University professor of sociology and of science and technology studies, independently surveyed 166 of Amazon's top 1000 reviewers, examining everything from ...
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Research consortium starts study on flood risk management in Bangladeshi and ...
PreventionWeb (press release)
A research consortium led by Flip Wester of the Irrigation and Water Engineering group of Wageningen University and Shah Alam Khan of the Institute of Water and Flood Management of the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology will receive ...
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KNUST makes slight change in re-opening date for year-one students
GhanaWeb
Kumasi, June 28, GNA - Professor William Otoo Ellis, Vice Chancellor of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), has spoken of a change in the re-opening date for first year students to allow for the admission of Senior High ...
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Florida Biologix® Announces Manufacturing Agreement with Altor BioScience
Business Wire (press release)
Florida Biologix will manufacture ALT-803 for clinical studies planned for early 2012. “We are appreciative of Altor's confidence in Florida Biologix' capability and are excited to be a member of the team to develop this potentially life-changing ...
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Exploring health care
Frontline
There are a number of fieldwork-based analyses from India, mainly micro-level community studies, and very little from Nepal, while the rest of the countries in the region go more or less unrepresented. However, according to the editors, ...
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Frontline
Supreme Court's Brown v. EMA opinions: A digest
Joystiq
California relies primarily on the research of Dr. Craig Anderson and a few other researchpsychologists whose studies purport to show a connection between exposure to violent video games and harmful effects on children. These studies have been ...
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$6.9m bequest a lifeline to Sydney archeologists
The Australian
Myles McGregor-Lowndes, director of the Australian Centre for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Studies at the Queensland University of Technology, said the main issue facing institutions that hoped to attract bequests was "a pretty aggressive legal ...
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Flood center pushes for national counterpart
Iowa City Press Citizen
Last month, the IFC applied for a federal grant from the National Science Foundation to establish aScience and Technology Center to research what it would take to start a national flood center. "No matter how it's established, the important thing is ...
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Pharmaceutical Industry Must Seize Opportunity to Improve Access to Global ...
Cambridge Network
The project demonstrates the importance of academic and industry collaborations in maintaining a close link between science and technology research and the commercialisation of medical products. It involved specialists in drug delivery and front end ...
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ASL Science Director Kobayashi Featured in SPIE News Video ...
The ASL brings together biologist, physicists, materials scientists, chemists, and other researchersto develop next-generation technologies that address ...
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