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SCIENCE News, Studies, Research, Technology, Aug 24, 2011


The Alarming Cost Of Climate Change Hysteria
Forbes
Data compiled by Joanne Nova at the Science and Policy Institute indicates that the US Government spent more than $32.5 billion on climate studies between 1989 and 2009. This doesn't count about $79 billion more spent for climate change technology ...
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SAIC Awarded Contract by U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
MarketWatch (press release)
Under the contract, SAIC will provide environmental consulting services as required, including environmental assessments and studies to satisfy requirements in support of new planned activities and ongoing facility sustainability. ...
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America is losing another generation to science illiteracy
Reuters Blogs (blog)
What is more central to our current economy, security and core values than science? Where would we be without Google and Apple, stealth technology, gene-based therapy, and high-techprosthetics? Recent national studies show that at the elementary level ...
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Two Renowned Cardiovascular Experts Join University's Computational Institute
University of Texas at Austin News
Sacks will maintain experimental and simulation laboratories as he studies the biomechanics of cardiac tissues. He was selected as one of the 2006 Scientific American 50 Leaders in Science andTechnology for his research to create “...a ...
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Students graduate from BPCC
Shreveport Times
... certificate of technical studies phlebotomy; Ursula A. Moore, technical competency area bookkeeping; Darryl Wayne Neal Jr., associate of applied science criminal justice; John Wayne Perkins, associate of applied science construction technology and ...
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Bay Middle School students immersed in science, math during exciting three ...
Westlake | Bay Village Observer
Twenty-seven Bay Middle School incoming sixth-graders, all advanced achievers in math, completed a three-week immersion in studies that included the fields of biology, physics, technology, environmental science, engineering and even business and team ...
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Air Products Accelerates Electronic Materials Product Development Through ...
PR Newswire (press release)
The organization was founded from the former Institute of Theoretical Chemistry and Computational Materials Science and by faculty members engaged in energy related research. Since its inception, the Sustainable Energy Laboratory has established itself ...
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NASA Awards Ground Systems and Operations Support Contract
Sacramento Bee
The contractor also will support operations studies, systems engineering, design, implementation, integration and testing of ground systems and operations products, mission operations and sustaining engineering. This contract will support NASA's Earth ...
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role of fees in elite research
The Australian
With its strong science and technology focus, the ARWU is arguably the most important global league table for comparing the 21st-century relevance of universities. Not only does ARWU measure improvements in quality of life - from better drugs to new ...
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Tomorrow's Energy Solutions In Today's Science Fiction Books
ThomasNet Industrial News Room
Back in 2006 at a conference called the Space Technology and Applications International Forum (STAIF), an event organized by the University of New Mexico Institute for Space and Nuclear PowerStudies (UNM-ISNPS), a physicist named Franklin Felber ...
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Study unravels fertilization process
Press TV
According to the report published in the journal, Science, a particular type of sugar, called sialyl-lewis-x sequence ( SLeX), which makes the outer coat of the egg “sticky” is responsible for the binding between the egg and the sperm. Previous studies ...
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Press TV
So seriously, why aren't there more women in science?
The Conversation
Science and technology is a field that changes all the time, so if you're out of the workforce it takes quite a bit to catch up. Women also often have a different career path to men – until their 30s there's a very similar career path, and then they ...
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Rise in tech course interest falls short, industry warns
Irish Times
INCREASED STUDENT demand for third-level courses in science and technology will be insufficient to meet the needs of industry, according to Engineers Ireland. The group said that while the increased interest in science and related courses was ...
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AliveCor Raises $3 Million Series A Equity Round
MarketWatch (press release)
These investments include companies focusing on wireless communication technologies and products serving consumer, enterprise and vertical markets worldwide. For more information, please visit www.qualcomm.com/ventures . About Oklahoma Life Science ...
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Note-Taker device promises to help students overcome visual impairments
Arizona State University
He spent the summer in an internship with Google, and will begin studies this fall toward a Ph.D. in computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Despite the demands of their academic pursuits, the members of Team Note-Taker intend to ...
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Stratos Genomics Receives Grant From the National Human Genome Research ...
Marketwire (press release)
The NHGRI, part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), awarded $14 million to nine qualifyingresearch organizations on Monday, August 22, 2011, to support the development of revolutionary DNA sequencing technologies. Stratos Genomics will utilize ...
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Nitrogen charges up graphene
R & D Magazine
X-ray studies conducted at Brookhaven's National Synchrotron Light Source and the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource at SLAC provided additional support for the conclusions. The CFN, one of five DOE Nanoscale Science Research Centers (NSRCs), ...
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R & D Magazine
CORPAK MedSystems Names Jeffrey Blair Chief Executive Officer
PR Newswire (press release)
He served most recently as the chairman and chief executive officer of North American ScienceAssociates, Inc., a contract research organization that provides medical device testing and consulting services to a global client base of medical device ...
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Boys learn to tie a tie as Franklin academy debuts
Tbo.com
Parent Sharin Golfin likes the iPads, too, along with the school's smaller classes and focus onscience and technology. Golfin also is impressed with Franklin's teachers, all specially-trained to teach boys, who need to move around. ...
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EPA study eyes effect of fracking
Trinidad Times Independent
“We've met with community members, state experts and industry and environmental leaders to choose these case studies. This is about using the best possible science to do what the American people expect the EPA to do, ensure that the health of their ...
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LaFargeville Central grad developing capsule to send DNA into space
WatertownDailyTimes.com
Mr. Kuter-Arnebeck will do his thesis research, and combine it with a project called Moon Arts, based at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, his alma mater for undergraduate studies. A connected company, Astrobotic Technology Inc., is planning to ...
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Ethical Hacking Scholarship Worth USD 18000 Announced to Create World-Class ...
PR Web (press release)
... the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), the Department of Defense (DOD) and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI). Recent studies have shown that while there is a shortage ...
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Everything Channel Appoints Industry Chairs for Annual Healthcare IT Summit
PR Newswire (press release)
Lynne Dunbrack, Program Director, Connected Health IT, IDC Health Insights: As program director, Lynne provides research-based advisory and consulting services that enable payer, provider, lifescience and vendor executives to maximize the business ...
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Report: Majority of Congress with no education in business
The Hill
Most Capitol Hill lawmakers (55.7 percent) focused their studies on government, law or the humanities, EPI found, while 11.5 percent majored in science- or technology-related fields. The report arrives as Congress continues to joust over deficit ...
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Does Romance Kill Science for Women?
Technorati
While the studies bring up more questions than they answer, the message seems to be that women are less interested in science and technology when they're looking for a romantic partner. Whether this is true across sexual orientation, ethnicity, ...
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Technorati
Science key to protecting, expanding food supply
Lexington Herald Leader
However, while there are many misinterpretations of published works, no studies have been validated by rigorous scientific peer review to support the contention that foods derived from GMOs are less safe to eat than conventional foods. ...
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Homework Help, Homework Helper
Prfire (press release)
HomeworkHelp.biz deals into variety of subjects like Anthropology, Archeology, Arts, Biology, Business, Chemistry, Computers & Technology, Community Studies, Criminology, Ecology, Economics, Education, Engineering, English Language, Finance, Geography, ...
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32nd Meeting of Asia-Pacific Advanced Network(APAN) Begins
Press Information Bureau (press release)
NKN will bring together stakeholders in the fields of science, technology, higher education,research & development, and governance with speeds of the order of tens of gigabits per second. ERNET is another initiative of DIT started in 1986, ...
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Let's not get intimidated by kids and their Internet savvy.
Slate Magazine
Her official title is the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute professor of interdisciplinary studies at Duke University. She is also the co-founder of the Humanities, Arts, Science, and TechnologyAdvanced Collaboratory, "a network of innovators ...
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Academic centre impresses
Brant News
The university will welcome three new programs this year, a bachelor of science, a bachelor of business technology management and the school's first graduate program, master of arts in criminology. “These are the history changing moments for us as a ...
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Brant News
Issues of parenthood at an older age
The Hindu
The triumph of technology over natural barriers, be it in the field of medicine, science, environment and so on, undoubtedly gives a sense of achievement and satisfaction to all scientists, especially when such innovations are productive to mankind. ...
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The Hindu
NI intros System Design Achievement Awards
Vision Systems Design
NEW DELHI, INDIA: National Instruments India, a technology pioneer and leader in Graphical System Design has today announced the launch of the Graphical System Design Achievement Awards 2011 to celebrate innovative engineering and science applications ...
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ASMIT launches MBA in Creative Sciences
Business Standard
It will meet the need of students of the state wanting to go to metro cities to pursue their studies on the subject, said Roy Chermana, CEO, i-Nurture. MBA in Creative Science is first of its kind in the state. The infrastructure facilities will be ...
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Has Stamford High Failed Some of Its Students?
Patch.com
“For instance some of the current options in addition to vo-tech education include the Stamford Regional Agriscience and Technology Center, the JROTC program, the Center for Global Studies at Brien McMahon High School, and the Regional Center for the ...
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Shock Doctor® Continues to Expand Its Team With Two Hockey Stars: Los Angeles ...
PR Newswire (press release)
The breakthrough technology reduces wear and tear on players. As an expert in mouthguardscience, performance and safety, Shock Doctor represents 90 percent dollar share of the mouthguard category at sports retailers (Source: SportsScanINFO - Sports ...
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Pay the Young to Build the Future
Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies
Stalix, a technology group, has rounded up some studies on jobs and green energy. For solar energy, according to one study, 20 manufacturing job-years and 13 installation job-years are created for each megawatt's worth of panels installed. ...
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IU President Michael A. McRobbie to visit India
Indiana University
29 (Bangalore) -- Meeting with Indian Institute of Science to explore potential collaborations in physics, chemistry and biology. Aug. 30 (Bangalore) -- Visit Infosys, a large technology provider whose Indiana-based clients include Anthem, ...
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Climate-Change Researcher Cleared Of Altering Studies - Science ...
Climate-Change Researcher Cleared Of Altering Studies. August 23, 2011. science- 082311-003. The Arlington, Virginia-based National Science Foundation (NSF) ...
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