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SCIENCE News, Studies, Research, Technology, Aug 09, 2011


Ghanaian youth need firm foundation in science and technology
Ghana News Agency
She appealed to District Assemblies to institute scholarships to support students who would excel in the Basic Education Certificate Examination to pursue higher studies inscience-related courses. Forty-four students received awards for outstanding ...
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Ghana News Agency
Has Susan Greenfield been misrepresented?
The Guardian
It's worth noting that if Greenfield put forward the same, balanced arguments for more research made by Bavelier, few of her critics would have a problem with it. It's sensible to look at the impact oftechnology on our brains, it's not sensible to ...
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Historian of science Roger Hahn dies at 79
UC Berkeley
At UC Berkeley, Hahn was a founding member and served as director of the Office for History of Science and Technology at from 1993 to 1998. He also served as co-chair of the French Studies Program from 1987 to 1990, and was chair of the selection ...
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UC Berkeley
Public Choice Award for Delight e-Toilets
IBNLive.com
... Development and Media Studies in association with Department of Information Technology (DIT), Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, and Union Department of Science andTechnology for innovations in the health sector. ‘Delight’ ...
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NASA Invests in Far-Out Space Tech for Future Missions
Space.com
8) the space agency awarded 30 contracts, worth $100000 each, to support one-yearstudies into novel spaceship power technologies, radiation shielding for astronauts, methods to combat the growing threat of space junk, and more. ...
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Space.com
2 Georgia Tech faculty named Fellows by the American Chemical Society
PhysOrg.com (press release)
Houston's research involves figuring out how molecules that are involved in combustion or atmospheric chemistry react after they absorb light. "In the case of combustion, the studies give us information about what intermediate species might be involved ...
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Marine Studies Center Gets LEED Status
Lab Manager Magazine
WHR's recent and current projects include: The Methodist Hospital Research Institute in the Texas Medical Center, Houston; The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Mid-Campus Building One in Houston; University of Texas Health Science Center ...
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UNB prof studies water on Mars
CanadaEast.com
by polly leger Satellite photos of the arid, desert surface of Mars may show signs of a creeping oasis, according to research from a team of scientists in the United States. John Spray, chair of the Planetary and Space Science Centre at the University ...
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Commentary: The intellectual side of food production
CattleNetwork.com
... Needs Sound IP: To meet the agricultural demands of the growing population, appropriatetechnology transfer incentives are a must,” Dr. Howard Grimes and colleagues address the challenge of protecting the fruits of animal and food science research, ...
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Apathy to science worries Himanta
Calcutta Telegraph
Speaking at a freshers' social at Lakhimpur Balika Mahavidyalaya here, Sarma said the trend didn't bode well for Assam's future at a time when the world had witnessed a sea change in different spheres because of a revolution in science and technology. ...
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Calcutta Telegraph
American Water Receives 'Green' Building Grant from WateReuse Research Foundation
MarketWatch (press release)
Our expertise ranges from studies to design, permitting to construction, operations to maintenance, resource management, and innovative research to expand the limits of technology. If you're trusted to protect the public health or the environment, ...
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Women more likely to recruit other women for political office
EurekAlert (press release)
Political Research Quarterly (PRQ), the official journal of the Western Political Science Association (WPSA), publishes scholarly political science research. Focusing on local, national and global levels, the journal promotes the study and teaching of ...
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The Science of Glass Breakage
PropertyCasualty360
Belron Technical, the research and development arm of Belron, has learned through its research how chips occur and how they spread. One statistic our studies have revealed is that the majority of stone damage is located in the bottom half of the ...
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PropertyCasualty360
People on the Move, Aug. 7, 2011
Scranton Times-Tribune
Andrew P. Miller, assistant professor of political science, has received a federal Department of Education summer library research fellowship in Latin American studies at the University of Pittsburgh. The fellowship, which includes a $2500 stipend, ...
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Research and Markets: Data Mining in Grid Computing Environments - A ...
Business Wire (press release)
This book provides a simultaneous design blueprint, user guide, and research agenda for current and future developments and will appeal to a broad audience; from developers and users of data mining and grid technology, to advanced undergraduate and ...
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Medical Technology—Still an Adjunct to Clinical Skills in Making a Diagnosis
Archives of Internal Medicine
Over the years there have been many previous studies 1-3 performed on ambulatory patients supporting the major contribution of the history and physical examination in making the correct diagnosis in patients with medical diseases, with laboratory ...
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Spinal fusion dangers: Are injuries from bone growth-promoting INFUSE being ...
InjuryBoard.com
"This is very troubling," said Richard Deyo, a physician and professor with the Oregon Health andScience University who has done research on spinal fusion. "If we can't trust the scientific medical literature to be accurate, we can't provide the best ...
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Christina Riley tackling technology to improve our world
The Bridgeton News - NJ.com
Between her recent graduation from Villanova and entering her post-graduate studies, Christina and two colleagues have become entrepreneurs in the technology-business-education field. They've developed and are beginning to market a syllabus and ...
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The Bridgeton News - NJ.com
Super week for science
The Age
Another example of educational interactives based on new research is the aptly named Paintasaurus. Here, visitors will be encouraged to colour in their choice of dinosaur by touch-screentechnology, using some of the shades found in modern-day birds. ...
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KVH Awards Technology Scholarship to Mersina Simanski
Patch.com
Simanski, a graduate of Middletown High School, will begin her civil and environmental engineeringstudies at Stanford University in the fall of 2011, according to the announcement. The $1000 scholarship is awarded annually to a deserving Aquidneck ...
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Critics Slam Asthma Risk, Magnetic Fields Link
MedPage Today
But an article about the study in Great Britain's Daily Mail newspaper attracted the attention of the country's Science Media Centre, a private organization that seeks to inform journalists about medical and scientific studies getting heavy coverage in ...
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MedPage Today
Research round-up: funding up despite economic downturn
The Guardian (blog)
Ever used social media to crowdsource data, or the semantic web to conduct yourresearch? Our panel have, so join them this Friday at 1pm to talk research andtechnology To encourage a more collaborative research culture, the University of Sussex has ...
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The Guardian (blog)
Survey says: Jonathon Moses offers views on Langley issues
PNW Local News
Education: MA and Ph.D in political science from UCLA; BA in Russian/E. European Studies, University of Washington. Occupation: Professor of Political Science at the Norwegian University ofScience and Technology. Volunteer work: Previously on the ...
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Hawaii Students Have Trouble Seeing the Big Picture
Honolulu Civil Beat
As a professor in computer science, I am very concerned about the reduction in Hgh School SocialStudies requirements, including civics, currently being considered by the Board of Education as part of Policy 4540. Why would an educator in the sciences ...
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ARISS ham radio contact planned with Caribbean Youth Science Forum, Nat.Inst ...
Southgate Amateur Radio Club
The National Institute of Higher Education, Research, Science and Technology (NIHERST) is a quasi-governmental body under the Ministry of Science Technology and Tertiary Education (MSTTE) in Trinidad and Tobago, which has the mandate to promote the ...
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Green-Energy Arms Race Heating Up
National Defense Magazine (blog)
According to studies, the majority of US military installations are powered by public electrical grids, which are vulnerable to blackouts, terrorist attack or natural disasters. The Defense Department, said Marks, has to be able to “go off the grid and ...
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