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How Do Native Hawaiian Birds Survive in a Fragmented Forest?

Michigan Tech News
He is part of a multi-disciplinary team of scientists from Stanford University, the University of Maryland, the Carnegie Institution for Science, the US Forest Service Institute for Pacific Islands Forestry and Michigan Tech. ...
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Research Shows Thinning Snow Layers in the Rocky Mountains
Voice of America
BOB DOUGHTY: Much research on the subject has been reported during the past ten years. Mister Pederson says those studies identified human activity as the cause of some of the changes in the permanent snow. He says his team's findings support the ...
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SoBran Pre-Clinical Contract Research Facility Receives AAALAC Accreditation ...
SunHerald.com
... research facility in the Science and Technology Park at Johns Hopkins. AAALAC accreditation assures clients that studies performed at SoBran's state-of-the-art facility will be conducted with the utmost regard for the humane treatment of animals. ...
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Are Woman Choosing Romance Over Careers In Science And Tech?
Jezebel
In series of studies partially funded by the National Science Foundation, researchers set out to find why women are underrepresented in these fields, which are abbreviated as STEM. According to Futurity, the research published in Personality and Social ...
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Israel putting money on a relationship between science and Jewish law
Ha'aretz
The Science and Technology Ministry will fund research relating to genetics, economics, and the environment, and how they touch on the halakhic lifestyle. By Asaf Shtull-Trauring Tags: Jewish education Tags: Jewish education The Science and Technology ...
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Call for papers, ISGC 2012, Taipei
International Science Grid This Week
This track will focus on the use of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud computing and virtualisationtechnologies in large-scale distributed computing environments in science and technology. We solicit papers describing underlying virtualisation ...
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300 Middle School Semifinalists Named in First Broadcom MASTERS™ - Math ...
PR Newswire (press release)
The Broadcom MASTERS (Math, Applied Science, Technology, and Engineering for Rising Stars) semifinalists come from 251 middle schools across the United States with concentrations in California, Florida, Texas, Ohio and Oregon. ...
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Is The Era of Neuroprosthetic Augmentation Really Just 20 Years Away?
Discover Magazine (blog)
My job at Microtransponder in large part is writing near-term science fiction. I do this by combining all the failure modes from science, business, law etc…and then designing a research strategy to mitigate these risks and get new technologies into ...
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UCD aims at heart of China's 'Silicon Valley'
Siliconrepublic.com
The elements of the institute include a Health Sciences Curriculum Development Unit, a Biomedical Engineering Research and Technology Centre and a Centre for Healthcare Leadership and Innovation. As part of the agreement, the two universities will ...
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Malignant stem cells may explain why some breast cancers develop and recur
EurekAlert (press release)
In addition to support from the Avon Foundation for Women, this study was funded by a Vertex Pharmaceutical/Oregon Health & Science Collaborative Research Grant. With the latest treatments,technologies, hundreds of research studies and approximately ...
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Area Students Recognized for Achievements, Earn Degrees
Madison County Courier
Amanda Ferguson of Madison received a degree in Individual Studies. Garth Fuess of Madison received a degree in Animal Science – Dairy. Michael Hall of Madison received a degree in Electrical Engineering Technology. Sean Janney of Madison received a ...
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Glaciers melting, ecosystems changing in the Arctic
The Hindu
The efforts attain significance in the wake of glaring signals — melting glaciers and climate change — in the Arctic region, said Bijoy Nandan, Associate Professor (Marine Biology), Cochin University of Science and Technology (CUSAT), who was a ...
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The Hindu
Congress Invited to Visit Their Local Economic Engines: AURP Announces ...
Newswise (press release)
“Support for research, science and technology parks is critical,” said Strong. “Research parks are keeping the United States competitive in the global market, creating jobs locally and attracting new companies to their region.” Recent studies have ...
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CMI Hires New Controller and Two New Project Management Team Members
Send2Press Newswire (press release)
Bromley will assist with ongoing customer satisfaction studies, as well as varied ad hoc studies. Bromley is a recent graduate of Clemson University where she earned a master's of science degree in marketing and a bachelor's of science degree in ...
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Send2Press Newswire (press release)
A Summer School like no other at the Canada Science and Technology Museum
Canada NewsWire (press release)
16, 2011 /CNW/ - The Canada Science and Technology Museums Corporation is now hosting its third annual Reading Artifacts Summer Institute. From August 15 th to August 19 th , 25 Canadian and international scholars from across the disciplinary spectrum ...
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SUU 'Best in the West'
St. George Daily Spectrum
22, including an undergraduate philosophy degree, minors in museum studies and sustainabilitystudies, a range management emphasis and an associate's of applied science degree in generaltechnology. "The roadmap clearly calls for SUU to develop ...
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Stick-On Tattoos Go Electric
VAdvert Press Center (press release)
The technology is presented–along with initial measurements that researchers captured using the EES–in a paper by lead author Dae-Hyeong Kim of the University of Illinois and colleagues in the Aug. 12, 2011, issue of Science. ...
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VAdvert Press Center (press release)
Local girls take a 'Tech Trek' to Stanford
San Jose Mercury News
... distractions enter their lives," the American Association of University Women states. "Studieshave shown that girls' interests can be sustained if they are exposed to the careers available to women in science today. Tech Trek provides some of that.
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Nutrition Bars: Raising the Bar
Nutritional Outlook
Resveratrol research continues to grow—ClinicalTrials.gov indicates 35 resveratrol studies are either ongoing or recently completed—and what is currently understood about resveratrol is positive. Resveratrol (via supplements and dietary sources) has ...
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Tech Etiquette
Duke University
There are no rules yet, no shared etiquette," said Cathy Davidson, a Duke professor of English and interdisciplinary studies and author of the new book, "Now You See It: How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, ...
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Australian research into energy systems will make transport greener
PACE Today
“This project is about using what nuclear science can tell us about the structure of atoms and molecules to improve the performance of renewable power sources. “Our research studies the critical systems that will reduce Australia's carbon emissions, ...
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Registration Opens Today for America's Home Energy Education Challenge (AHEEC)
istockAnalyst.com (press release)
As part of the Obama Administration's support for student education in science, technology, engineering, and math, America's Home Energy Education Challenge (AHEEC) will engage students in elementary and middle schools across the Nation to make smarter ...
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Speaking and Understanding Speech Share the Same Parts of the Brain
HealthCanal.com
But now, the Donders Institute at the Radboud University Nijmegen, where the study was conducted, has developed technology that allows recording from a moving brain. Laura Menenti, a PostdoctoralResearch Associate at the University of Glasgow, ...
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University of Kentucky dorm comes with free iPad and special courses
Lexington Herald Leader
Keeneland Hall will be the home of a new small living-learning community at UK called Wired, the arts and science residential college that will use technology and small-group activities to teach academic skills. Professors and directors will have ...
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Lexington Herald Leader
Campus hosts cyber security events
The Dartmouth
Ten high school students equipped with Apple iPads participated in the Security, Technology and Society High School Summer Camp, which lasted from July 5 to July 8. The program introduced high school students to “multidisciplinary” studies in cyber ...
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Big Data: Probing global warming with object database engine
SearchCIO.com
Object-oriented database technology frequently is mistakenly thought of -- even among the database community -- as a technology that was tried before and didn't work except for limited use cases, said Carl Olofson, research vice president for ...
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