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SCIENCE News, Discoveries, Inventions, Technology, Jul 06, 2011


Does abolition of CICT matter?
Manila Bulletin
PDS provides a road map for leveraging technology to enhance national competitiveness, contribute meaningfully to economic development, and empower people to live productive lives. Studiesundertaken by the Broadband Commission on Digital Development ...
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DST plans big push to Research
IBNLive.com
CHENNAI: The Department of Science and Technology plans to address the declining trend in registration of PhDs and provide an impetus to research in private sector, according to T Ramasami, Union Science and Technology Secretary. ...
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Gov't in R&D: From Tiki-Tiki to nanotechnology
Malaya
BY PAUL ICAMINA In 110 years of research and development, the Industrial TechnologyDevelopment Institute (ITDI) has produced cutting edge-science, from Tiki-Tiki to nanotechnology. ITDI was established by the American colonial government on July 1, ...
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Innovative Curriculum Helps Teachers Meet NJ Standards for 21st Century ...
MarketWatch (press release)
"With today's global competition for talent, we need to find ways to better prepare our students for thescience and technology careers of tomorrow," he says. "RxeSEARCH helps students learn and practice the skills they need to think critically, ...
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Developing countries warn against unethical drug trials
FierceBiotech
Drug companies hope to do studies for less money, gaining a big population of treatment naïve patients to choose from. Developing countries hope for better access to meds and a shot at gaining some cutting-edge technologies for their economies. ...
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Cellular Dynamics and MCW Win $6.25M to Develop iPSC-Derived Ventricular Cells ...
Genetic Engineering News
Cellular Dynamics is exploiting its iPS 2.0 cell technology to generate fully functional human cells derived from iPSCs, for applications in targeted drug discovery, toxicity testing, and life science research. The firm's flagship iCell ...
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Genetic Engineering News
Plastic solar cells have efficient structures
+Plastic Electronics
The research was funded by a grant from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). A new grant has been awarded to the team to carry out further studies into the structure and function of polymer solar cell materials. ...
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Environment key to autism
Health24.com
Researchers pointed out, however, that unlike the Stanford study, those studies did not include standard clinical assessments for autism diagnoses. The Stanford study is published in the Archives of General Psychiatry. The research is interesting and a ...
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Anchovy rich in calcium – FNRI
Manila Bulletin
The Department of Science and Technology's Food and Nutrition Research Institute (FNRI) found in one of its studies that although a daily cup of milk is indeed rich as it gives 340.55 milligrams (mg) of calcium, but a smaller amount of fresh anchovy ...
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Outlook: Five Myths about NASA
Washington Post
Sterner earned a BA in International Studies and USSR Area Studies from The American University and separate MA degrees in Political Science and Security Policy Studies at The George Washington University. In his recent Outlook piece, "Five Myths about ...
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Chromatrap Technology Assists Development Of State-Of-The-Art
BioResearch Online (press release)
Their expertise in a wide range of media and the dedication of their design, manufacturing, sales, test and research teams ensure they are at the forefront of filtration technology, delivering world class performance to the Life Science, Aerospace, ...
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Is Michael Gove's concept of learning in the digital era outdated?
The Guardian (blog)
Instead of dividing up the curriculum into separate disciplines (maths, science, socialstudies, language), we should focus on themes and projects that cut across the disciplines taking advantage of the rich connections among different domains of ...
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The Guardian (blog)
'My Wee' no more: From sing-along to speak-along
Inquirer.net
The Department of Science and Technology (DoST) has hit on the idea of using the Filipino's skill in imitating western singers down to their twang to develop a speech-training software that would enhance the speaking skills of call center agents. ...
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Neptune Technologies & Bioressources Inc. Welcomes Dr. Anthony Holler to Its ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Neptune is an industry-recognized leader in the innovation, production and formulation of science-based and clinically proven novel phospholipid products for the nutraceutical and pharmaceutical markets. The Company focuses on growing consumer health ...
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Research and Markets: How to Write a Grant Application Is Ideal for Healthcare ...
Business Wire (press release)
Some, such as the National Science Foundation, channel a significant proportion of their resources only to young applicants. Others limit the number of submissions, so that competing researchinstitutions mandate pre-screening of applications so that ...
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Valley View University Makes Strides
Modern Ghana
The university also offers Bachelor of Science (BSc) in Computer Science and Religious Studiesunder its Institute of Computer Science programme and runs Master of Science (MSc) in Administration (International Development) with Andrews University in ...
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Fellowships Encourage Medical, Dental, Veterinary Students to Enter Research ...
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
“These programs have been shown to have a measurable impact on students' decisions to enter aresearch-oriented medical career,” says Sean B. Carroll, HHMI's vice president for scienceeducation. For the first time, three students in the Fellows ...
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Infocast's 9th Annual Biodefense Vaccines & Therapeutics Conference
Marketwire (press release)
First, the "Animal Models and Regulatory Science" symposium will highlight the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) regulatory science initiatives and efforts, and feature case studies of ongoing animal efficacy studies for medical countermeasures. ...
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Nineteen receive Fulbrights to study abroad in 2011–2012
The JHU Gazette
Jackson received a Master of Arts in International Studies degree from the Hopkins-Nanjing Center for Chinese and American Studies in June. Daisy Kim, a graduate student in the Krieger School's Department of Political Science, will be in South Korea, ...
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Germany invites Indian students
Economic Times
... who we hope to attract to Germany for higher studies to begin with," Mr Buntjen said. Working with the German Academic Exchange Service or DAAD , the government will highlight courses inscience, technology and liberal arts which are available in ...
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Final space shuttle to carry 5 CU-Boulder-built payloads
EurekAlert (press release)
BioServe is a nonprofit, NASA-supported center founded in 1987 at CU-Boulder to develop new or improved products through space life science research in partnership with industry, academia and government. Since 1991 BioServe has flown payloads on 37 ...
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Telcocell Forms Advisory Board
Marketwire (press release)
Tom is a veteran of the Information Technology field of more than 40 years. He was a professor of Computer Science and Mathematics at York University in Toronto for 25 years and has consulted to major corporations in Canada, the US and the Caribbean ...
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Procter & Gamble/IAMS Company to Provide Hands-On Training to Veterinary ...
Zoo and Aquarium Visitor News
In this novel program, the veterinary student scholars will receive training in identifying critical conservation issues affecting wildlife species, designing hypothesis-based scientific studies and using state-of-the–art technologies for data ...
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Zoo and Aquarium Visitor News
Southern Sudan has many lessons to learn from Juba University
The Guardian
For more than two decades before the state was created, Technion (Israel Institute of Technology) helped to lay the foundations of the modern state of Israel. The identity of the country as a player in the field of science and technology can be traced ...
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Woman leaps to her death
Bangkok Post
A former National Science and Technology Development Agency employee faced with family and money difficulties leapt to her death from an apartment building in Bangkok's Bang Kho Laem district yesterday. The woman, identified as Daranee Watcharinkul, ...
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Glasgow on a fast track to lead the space race
Glasgow Evening Times
The Centre for Future Air-Space Transportation Technology (FASTT) will design what it hopes will be the space shuttles and technologies of tomorrow with a multi-disciplinary team of engineers and scientists to research future technologies. ...
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Glasgow Evening Times
Cleaning up water
Chemistry World
Dion Dionysiou is professor of environmental engineering and science at the University of Cincinnati, US, where he works on advanced oxidation technologies for water treatment. After my national service in the army I studied chemical engineering at the...
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Chemistry World
With Huntsman Gay's Robert Gay on Board, General Resonance Raises $13.8M - cbl
Citybizlist (press release)
She is the architect of the company's Resonance Science research, and the ethical and responsible use of the Resonance Science technologies. Dr. Mortenson was formally educated in the sciences, with a BS in microbiology, an MD degree, and post-graduate ...
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Citybizlist (press release)
The Skeptical Search Engine
ScienceBlogs (blog)
From research to sketches to completed digital art, she'll explain how her process engages the people in the DNA portraits in genetics--becoming informed advocates for science. See examples on her website www.fellmanstudio.com. ...
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Workout of the week: Whole Body Vibration
Daily Camera
And all proceeds go to the nonprofit center, to support its free clinics, educational workshops and speakers from across the world who talk about healing, science and spirituality and consciousnessstudies. Who does it? The machine is safe for almost ...
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Birds that blog their own flightpaths
Independent Online
... return migration as beginning in July. He is now in southern France. He has been followed by Kasper, Chris and Martin; to date, Lyster remains in Norfolk. http://www.bto.org/science/migration/tracking-studies/cuckoo-tracking - . - The Independent.
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Independent Online
Honeywell presents Academic Excellence Awards to King Faisal University students
Al-Bawaba
The awards are part of Honeywell's global academic collaboration program to promotestudies in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) courses. At KFU, Honeywell provides technical support, training, internships, technical seminars and ...
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Al-Bawaba
Gonzales student attends exclusive science camp
Gonzales Inquirer
“We also did some energy studies,” Gray added. “We learned how much energy it takes to make a pot of coffee, and how much you use when you leave your computer on all day! Really just everyday stuff.” Gray also got to take a tour of the weather center ...
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Three More Star Wars-esque Studies (Think: Mind Control)
Boston magazine's Boston Daily (blog)
It was a Q&A about the field of science that he'd more or less invented earlier this century: Optogenetics, in which he crams light-sensitive elements into non-typically light-sensitive cells, and then flips said cells on and off with flashes of ...
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Cyber-Physical Attacks and Drone Strikes: The Next Homeland Security Threat
Brookings Institution
The US National Science Foundation defines cyber-physical systems as “the tight conjoining of and coordination between computational and physical resources.”[1] While the research community has focused on the many beneficial uses of cyber-physical ...
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Review by Charles Mpofu, MHsc (Hons)
Metapsychology
After giving considerable evidence from both animal and human experimental studies they argue for the need for more research to elucidate the link between mental illness, neurological disorder and criminal conduct. They argue that modern brain imaging ...
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Comment: Conflicting science will destroy jobs and clean energy development
Reinforced Plastics
Despite over 100 other studies conducted by “blue ribbon panels,” the European Union, Harvard Medical School and others that showed styrene was not carcinogenic, Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius recently approved the ...
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New Online Bachelor of Science Degree offered by George Brown College and ...
Robotics Online (press release)
George Brown College Center for Continuous Learning is pleased to announce the launch of a new online Bachelor of Science, Technology Management degree program in association with Indiana State University, in Terra Haute, Indiana. ...
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Generex Announces U.S. Congressman Curt Weldon, Co-Founder of the ...
PR Newswire (press release)
During his tenure, Weldon also served as a senior Member of the Science Committee and Chair of the Defense Research Committee where he provided oversight for all funding for the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the National Science Foundation (NSF) ...
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Reviews: Revisiting the Moon and Mars
The Space Review
Chapter 2, which discusses past studies of Mars, is updated to discuss the flotilla of robotic missions that have flown to Mars since book's original publication. Other chapters take into account technology and policy developments, or feature subtler ...
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The Space Review
Early OGT results: Some schools show big gains
Fremont News Messenger
Students must demonstrate performance at the proficient level or above in five subject areas (reading, writing, math, science and social studies) to meet state graduation requirements. Preliminary results were from OGT tests administered in March. ...
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Docs reveal TSA misled public on dangers of airport body scanners
DigitalJournal.com
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." But some scientists are leery of the TSA's science, ...
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Superintendents plan to leave soon
Cherry Hill Courier Post
Lindenmuth, in his 21st year in education, began as a math and science teacher and was most recently superintendent in the Oldmans Township School District. His four-year contract starts at $130000 this year. Shamong: Superintendent Thomas Christenson ...
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History classes might be taking a back seat in Minnesota
Minneapolis Star Tribune
For example, while there are state tests in math, reading, science and writing, there isn't one in US history. Policymakers and officials tend to focus these days on STEM courses -- science,technology, engineering and mathematics -- as the ones ...
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Engineering, along with agricultural science, is also one of the subjects where more students tend to obtain their degrees in a more efficient amount of time, the National Research Council report shows: Where more than half of engineering ... Along with math and engineering, technology, health andscience studies can lead to in-demand fields as those looking into graduate school student benefits will discover. Additional graduate school news with regard to these subject ...
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