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SCIENCE News, Studies, Research, Technology, Aug 05, 2011


Domestic sci-tech needs revampViet Nam News
He noted that most science and technology products being sold in the domestic market had foreign origins. A survey by the National Institute of Science and Technology Policy and Strategy Studiesshowed that domestic science research institutes could ...
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John Noble to explore fringe research on Science Channel -- EXCLUSIVE
Entertainment Weekly
John Noble is the perfect tour guide to escort viewers through this sordid world of research gone horribly wrong, but in some cases, led us the technology and science that we enjoy today.” Dark Matters has an initial series order of six episodes and ...
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Earth System Science Organization of India
Washington Bangla Radio
Currently, a project document of 10-MLD plant is being prepared after conducting the prefeasibilitystudies. The LTTD technology does not require any chemical pre and post-treatment of seawater. Due to the safe drinking water which is being supplied by ...
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New Tool Jumpstarts Search for Parallel Universe
Voice of America (blog)
Dr. Herzog's article is set to be published in a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. In it, he argues that existing research on pet ownership has produced very conflicting results. While there are studies that do suggest that pet ...
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Voice of America (blog)
Entrepreneurship and technology
The Economist
There would be less truth in that caricature if British graduates in disciplines such as science and engineering gained some familiarity with business as part of their studies (it is noteworthy that the best British universities discourage students ...
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Mobile technology helps patients with diabetes
Nurse.com
"This is one of the first large, reported, randomized clinical studies examining the mobile health industry, which is rapidly growing. The US Food and Drug Administration just last month released draft guidance on how it intends to regulate the field ...
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Springer launches new open access journal with Beijing Normal University
PhysOrg.com (press release)
The International Journal of Disaster Risk Science publishes research articles addressing theoretical and methodological issues in disaster science, emergency response technology, and risk management; large-scale disaster risk governance; ...
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PhysOrg.com (press release)
Video games may help with boys' classroom struggles
Penn State Live
Studies from the US Department of Education and elsewhere have shown that girls have closed the gap in academic success in math and science, while boys still trail far behind in reading and writing. While it is important to recognize girls still need ...
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Five University of Waterloo graduate students win coveted Vanier Canada awards
Exchange Morning Post (press release)
Henry has already published a paper at the 10th Privacy Enhancing Technology Symposium, and has four other technical reports in preparation. He serves as a mentor for new graduate students in the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science. ...
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Taken for Granted: Everything Money Can Buy
ScienceCareers.org
The state-of-the-art, 300-bed Sidra research hospital, slated to have a large basic and clinicalscience arm, is nearing completion. The Qatar Science and Technology Park, located in Education City, houses labs of a number of international companies. ...
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Students awarded competitive scholarship
Fort McMurray Today
Samantha Brown, Michee-Ana Hamilton and Kendall McLaughlin are working at the University of Alberta research labs, part of its annual Women in Scholarship, Engineering, Science andTechnology summer research program. They are among only 60 Grade 11 ...
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Delight e-toilet bags award
The Hindu
The award has been jointly instituted by the Centre for Science, Development, and Media Studies; the Department of Information Technology (DIT), Ministry of Communications and InformationTechnology; and the Department of Science and Technology, ...
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Turning Thoughts into Action for Millions of Prosthetic-dependent People
Scientific Computing
In two earlier studies, they showed similar results for 3-D hand movement, and they also showed subjects wearing a brain cap could control a computer cursor with their thoughts. Contreras-Vidal's previously demonstrated technology allowed test subjects...
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Scientific Computing
Nerd News Roundup: Paying Attention So You Don't Have To
Huffington Post (blog)
Nerd News Roundup is culled from tech and science blogs, with special attention given to trends in media, politics, and journalism. It is designed for those who do not have the time or inclination to search for this stuff on their own. ...
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Briny water may be at work in seasonal flows on Mars
EurekAlert (press release)
Sites with liquid brines could be important to future studies of whether life exists on Mars and to understanding the history of water. The features are only about 0.5 to 5 yards or meters wide, with lengths up to hundreds of meters. ...
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LEGO Figures Flying On NASA Jupiter Probe
Space.com
The LEGO crew's mission is part of the Bricks in Space project, the joint outreach and educational program developed as part of the collaboration between NASA and the LEGO Group to inspire children to explore science, technology, engineering, ...
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Space.com
Screening effort turns up multiple potential anti-malaria compounds
EurekAlert (press release)
The NHGRI Division of Intramural Research develops and implements technology to understand, diagnose and treat genomic and genetic diseases. Additional information about NHGRI can be found at its website, www.genome.gov. About the National Institutes ...
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PG&E to Now Offer Opt Out SmartMeter Option
Patch.com
Snapper further added that the California Council of Science and Technology has also backed this claim. Some local detractors, however, question the efficacy of the FCC requirements. “The FCC does not consider the non-thermal effects,” said Karl Maret ...
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Dokka, pioneering Louisiana scientist, dies
San Jose Mercury News
To this debate, Dokka added his studies of the deep geologic forces at play under the soft delta muds of Louisiana. He argued that deep-seated faulting and the sheer load of sediment coming down the Mississippi River had caused Louisiana to slowly sink ...
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Bremerton's STEM school to open this fall
PNW Local News
Since the winter, teachers have created study units that revolve around a central question that use current science and social studies curriculum, said Amy Archuleta, instructional coach with the school. They have planned lessons for each week of the ...
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When the Pentagon gets the axe
Washington Post
He is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with both a Bachelor of Science and Master of Science in Aeronautics and Astronautics. Chat with Todd Harrison about possible cuts to the defense budget, including where the cuts might ...
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Alliance calls for action to protect the Great Lakes
ConnectMidMichigan.com
The report says addressing the emerging contaminant issue requires focus on four main areas: newresearch, new technologies, behavioral changes in the marketplace and policy reforms. It calls specifically for a national comprehensive plan to address ...
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10-Q: SEQUENOM INC
Middle East North Africa Financial Network
We are a molecular diagnostic testing and genetics analysis company committed to providing products, services, applications, and genetic analysis products that translate the results of genomicscience into solutions for biomedical research, ...
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Kids can’t get enough of library’s new tech
EastBayRI.com
It features a ful keyboard, a tiny mouse, a touch screen and 50 software titles that help educate children in seven different curricular areas including reading, math, science, social studies, reference and arts and music. ...
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FDA Approves First-Ever Antivenom for Scorpion Stings
Medscape
"We discovered we needed each other as partners in a major collaboration that would use their biotechnology and science together with our translational medical technology and ability to do medical studies." The antivenom, which has been available in ...
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It's been an education
Khaleej Times
He decided that UAEU would be for both men and women, that it would include both general studiesand professional schools, and that it would carry out both teaching and research. He also decided that UAEU would be in Al Ain, in the heartland of the ...
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Reengineering IT in Higher Education
Campus Technology
The idea, McCartney said, is to help students to be more successful by allowing them to be more engaged in their academic studies. McCartney also talked about the innovative HUBzero, Purdue's platform for creating Web sites for scientific research. ...
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Carleton PhD Candidate Wins Prestigious Northern Studies Scholarship
Exchange Morning Post (press release)
Cousens adds that the honour will give Mumford “instant credibility in Arctic science.” “Thomas has a tremendous work ethic. His organizational skills are superb. Thomas comes to me with progress reports, has already thought out his next research step ...
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Insulin Pumps, Monitors Vulnerable To Hacking
NPR
Yoshi Kohno, a University of Washington professor of computer science who was a co-author of that study, said that Radcliffe's new research reinforces the urgency of addressing security issues in medical devices before attacks move out of research labs ...
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Nepal to look for uranium near Tibet border
Daijiworld.com
... more than two decades after preliminary studies suggested the mineral is present in northern, southern and central Nepal. "The science and technology ministry has been given approval by the cabinet to conduct preliminary explorations in a 150 sq km ...
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'Never be afraid to question'
Nursing Times
We talk to Theresa Shaw, Foundation of Nursing Studies chief executive and honorary seniorresearch fellow in nursing and applied clinical studies at Canterbury Christ Church University. She has been a nurse for 30 years. Why did you decide to become a ...
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Multicultural Canada: a haven from Norway-style violence?
CBC.ca
There's no reason for Canadians to be smugly confident, says Barbara Perry, associate dean of the faculty of social science and humanities at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology. Pockets of resistance to changing demographics exist in ...
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CBC.ca
New thermodynamic model predicts plutonium solubility with iron
PhysOrg.com
The team's strategy was to move beyond bulk studies of plutonium/iron interactions. They explored the microscopic and molecular processes involved in the reaction. Thisresearch has not been tried before because of the samples' radioactivity, ...
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PhysOrg.com
A patient's own skin cells may one day treat multiple diseases
HealthCanal.com
He also studies how control systems go awry in developmental disorders and cancer. One key direction for the Knoepfler lab is using leading genomics technology to better understand why stem cells behave the way they do and how to change that behavior ...
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Biological weapons expert Tucker, 56, was known for fluency in politics
Washington Post
Last year, Dr. Tucker stepped down after nearly 15 years as a research fellow in Washington at what is now the Monterey Institute's James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies. At his death, he was awaiting a security clearance for a new job at ...
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Now Hiring Materials, Tech Contributors
Jetson Green
You would be a great materials contributor. Are you keyed in to the latest advances with solar, small wind, mechanical systems, lighting, and building science? You would be a great technology contributor. We'd like to have you on our team. ...
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Jetson Green
Tanzania: DR Chijoriga - a Woman Scholar Against All Odds
AllAfrica.com
Mr Chijoriga is the Director of Finance and Administration at the Commission for Science andTechnology (COSTECH). Dr Chijoriga is also against a "patriarchal perception" that educated women are tough to marry and start a family with. ...
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Science News Daily || 1st large-scale map of a plant's protein ...
Daily coverage of the most popular science and technology news ... proteins were previously identified through studies involving genome sequencing. ... Researchers funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council ...
www.sciencenewsdaily.org/microbiology.../cluster107828154/

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