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SCIENCE News, Studies, Research, Technology, Sep 11, 2011


Grant will allow researchers to be more competitive
Iowa City Press Citizen
Researchers in Iowa have received a $20 million grant from the National Science Foundation tostudy renewable energy and promote energy research within the state, officials at Iowa's three Regent universities announced Thursday. ...
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Desert RATS 2011: Mid-way Report
Space Ref (press release)
NASA's Desert Research and Technology Studies (Desert RATS) crew has reached the mid-way point in the 14th annual Desert RATS mission, conducted at Black Point Lava Flow in the Arizona desert. On Aug. 30, the crew — consisting of engineers, astronauts ...
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Space Ref (press release)
32 new tenure-track faculty join APSU
Clarksville Online
She has a Master of Education in school counseling and a Bachelor of Science in educationalstudies. In addition to having taught at UT, Buchanan has supervised school counseling students at Carson Newman College in Jefferson City and at UT. ...
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Names and changes
Roanoke Times
George Flick Jr., distinguished professor of food science and technology in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, has been given the title of distinguished professor emeritus. James Lang, Strickler Professor of Entrepreneurial Studies in ...
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Are UK schools teaching kids the wrong skills?
Telegraph.co.uk
Parkinson says his local university sends good science, engineering and maths graduates his way, and in return he helps the institution on relevant research projects. However, the students who come to work for him are "totally gobsmacked" at the ...
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Telegraph.co.uk
'Inter-disciplinary approach can help understand different cultures'
Indian Express
He also said the success of science and technology has had a huge impact on the manner in which social science is being pursued these days. “Scientific temper is characterised by generality, universality, freedom from context, faith in rationality and ...
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PU seizes plagiarised articles for 2 PhD thesis
The Nation, Pakistan
According to the latest documents, principal author Prof Mahmood and co-author Dr Gilani produced the research paper titled “Synthesis and Spectroscopic Studies of Molybdenum and Tungsten Tetra Carbonyl Compounds with Schiff Base Ligands” and published ...
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Academics and researchers are a behind-the-scenes front in the war on terror
Ct Post
But by no means are these research groups standing alone. The US Department of Homeland Security created 12 Science and Technology Directorate Centers of Excellence at universities across the country. So at the University of Maryland, where START is ...
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Purdue's men of steel
Journal and Courier
The work is funded by the National Science Foundation, the US Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology, the American Institute of Steel Construction, and the American Iron and Steel Institute.
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Huesca Hosts Prestigious Mediterranean Agriculture Weed Science Specialists
Event Planner Spain (press release)
The meeting was organized with support from the Ministry of Science and Innovation, the Research Department of the University of Saragossa, the Department of Agriculture and the Environment of the government of Aragon, the Centre of Agri-FoodResearch ...
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Event Planner Spain (press release)
Advanced training crucial for landing future jobs
Dayton Daily News
Particularly in demand are those workers fluent in science, technology, engineering and math, experts say. “The nature of work has changed,” said Deborah Norris, vice president of workforce development for Sinclair Community College. ...
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Rich Tax Breaks Bolster Makers of Video Games
Gainesville Sun
So Congress tried to restrict what research would qualify. The credit was denied for social science research and marketing. The narrowest definition, proposed by the Clinton administration, was to allow the credit only for research that produced an ...
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A story without an end
Edmonton Journal
This and other aerial photos from the 9-11 attacks were obtained by ABC News, which filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Photograph by: Det. Greg Semendinger, AFP, Getty Images, ...
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A decade later 9-11's effects mostly transparent in Lubbock's life
LubbockOnline.com
Ask Ron Kendall, founding director of The Institute of Environmental and Human Health at TexasTech, why his program at Reese Technology Center has been involved in chemical and biological counterterrorism studies since 1998. ...
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UD's offshore wind studies get boost
The News Journal
The largest grant went to the Biodiversity Research Institute in Maine, which would get $4.5 million to study the impact of wind turbines on ocean life. The announcement did not include the names of the research projects' principal investigators.
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Florida virtual-school options expand
Orlando Sentinel
A review last year by the US Department of Education, however, cautioned there had been "few rigorous research studies" on the effect of online education in the kindergarten-to-12th-grade arena. Previous studies had focused mostly on college students ...
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College notes
The State
York Tech's Chester Center, off SC 9, offers more than 90 courses in various programs of study. The Lewis and Lucia Bell Scholarships will be awarded based on merit and/or need to qualified residents from Chester and Fairfield counties.
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HCT must implement an aggressive plan to recruit and employ nationals: Minister
Gulf Today
Addressing the gathering, Sheikh Nahayan Mabarak Al Nahayan, Minister for Higher Education and Scientific Research and Chancellor of the Higher Colleges of Technology, said that the HCT has been successfully generating skills and innovation the UAE ...
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Stop worrying about veggie prices: Use biotech to increase crop yield, fight ...
Economic Times
The debate on genetically modified (GM) food no longer runs along the monster or messiah lines: it clearly is a viable solution, but a lot will depend on where we go from here and how we leverage thetechnology. Consider Bt cotton and its impact on the ...
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54.5 MPG CAFE BY 2025
Insurance News Net (press release)
Sean McAlinden , chief economist and executive vice president of research at the Center for Automotive Research , says the Obama Admin.'s understanding of automotive technology is flawed and that it is cherry-picking data from studies particularly ...
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Prostate research progress 'dazzling'
Windsor Star
"It's really exciting times and it's a testament to how much research has evolved," says Chi. "All these things you have been hearing about from scientific and lab studies are all coming to fruition in the clinic." Dr. Martin Gleave, executive director ...
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Jamaica targets ICT investment at major outsourcing summit
South Florida Caribbean News
Gartner, Inc., the company staging the summit, is the world's leading informationtechnology research and advisory firm, with 1250 research analysts and consultants and clients in 80 countries. The event is designed to provide an “in-depth exploration ...
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South Florida Caribbean News
At-large candidate: Marla Swesey
The Gazette: Eastern Iowa Breaking News and Headlines
Many studies on early intervention have found that children who attend preschool have better cognitive, academic and social outcomes later in life. The state of Iowa was right to continue funding preschool for 4-year-olds who would otherwise not be ...
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KANSAI: Who & What
The Japan Times
... Research Center for Japanese Studies. Nguyen Thi Thanh Tam, senior lecturer of Foreign Trade University Hanoi and vice president of Institute for Technology and Development, a member of the Vietnam Union of Science & Technology Association, ...
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Why we keep getting hit
Times of India
Another contrast in approach is our failure to analyse each terrorist-related incident, prepare casestudies, draw the right lessons and integrate them in our future operations and training. The US has made intensive research, both within the ...
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Online Shopping Dangers: How E-Retail Affects Women's Spending
Huffington Post
The new field of neuromarketing aims to boil your buying habits down to a science—then use them to help retailers profit. One key finding: When online, beware the mid-range buy. Research reported in the New York Times has shown that if you have two ...
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Special Needs Kids In Punjab Being Trained To Be Self-Dependent
South Asian Link
The centre has been set up on the premises of the school by the Education andResearch Network (ERNET) India, New Delhi, an autonomous society of the Department of Information Technology, Ministry of Communication and InformationTechnology, ...
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South Asian Link
Many changes, most subtle, implemented since attacks
Evansville Courier & Press
"Our discourse has changed, I think, even within the last few years," said Professor Wesley Milner, the International Studies Program director and the Ingleheart Chair in Political Science at the University of Evansville. ...
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Google guzzles 2.3b kilowatt-hours of electricity a year
Sydney Morning Herald
Still, the report, along with concerns that power use by big data centres that Google and others rely on was growing rapidly, prompted Google to conduct detailed studies of the company's efficiency, power use, and greenhouse gas emissions. ...
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Tim Tyson says beware the 'gay boogyeman game."
Winston-Salem Journal
Timothy B. Tyson is a senior research scholar at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University and the visiting professor of American Christianity and Southern Culture. The Journal welcomes original submissions for guest columns on local, ...
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Saudi's Electoral 'Experiment' Continues
MidEastPosts
According to the Riyadh-based ASBAR Center for Studies, Research and Communications, older Saudis took the most interest in the elections. An estimated 73 percent of the registered Saudis voters over the age of 46 cast ballots. ...
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MidEastPosts
9/11 changed the way the world takes to the sky
gulfnews.com
The US has spent an additional $400 billion on security plus $1.3 trillion on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to the Costs of War research project by Brown University's Watson Institute for International Studies. America's economy may be ...
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SLIIT RoboFest 2011 opens doors to competitors country-wide
Sunday Times.lk
It provides a platform to showcase the skills students derive from their studies, and we are pleased to open the competition to the public and encourage more people to participate in activities of this nature". President and CEO of SLIIT Professor ...
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Sunday Times.lk
Getting a jump on math
Vancouver Sun
He says studies back his contention that virtually every child can learn math, and cited a recent one by researchers from Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children and the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education that found students learning Jump Math ...
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Boomers at work
Sioux Falls Argus Leader
University of Sioux Falls offers an accelerated degree completion program geared to non-traditional students and presents three courses of study: Management, accounting or entrepreunerial studies, says LuAnn Grossman, director of the degree completion ...
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War of 9/11 Timeline: 1993 WTC bombing
AsianWeek
Awlaki studies Islam as a teen. But Sanaa's Islamic universities include some of the most radical Islamist academies where jihadists from around the world such as John Walker Lindh, the “American Taliban” travel to be indoctrinated in radicalism. ...
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NB Provincial Woodlot Day set for Sept. 17
Times and Transcript
LeBlanc describes himself as a new generation of logger, always on the cutting edge of technology, tracking global trends in the forest industry. He believes that responsible and sustainable management of a renewable resource is key in a world that is ...
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Prostate Cancer Awareness Month: The Most Important Honey-Do List
PR Newswire (press release)
Further, some studies show that nutrients such as lycopene, found in tomatoes, and sulforaphane, in foods such as broccoli, can have cancer-fighting properties. Even red wine contains antioxidants. Move It – Exercise goes a long way in improving a ...
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Frontier Post :: Peshawar News :: Research should be linked to ...
By shimran
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Governor, Barrister Masood Kausar has stressed the need for making the research and educational studies in the higher educational institutions more relevant to the present day requirements and ensure ... Addressing as the chief guest at the 7th Convocation of the Sarhad University of Science and Information Technology at Convention Centre on Saturday, the Governor while mentioning the advancement achieved by China in the fields of ...
Frontier Post
News | Science, Technology and Innovation Studies
Science, Technology and Innovation Studies, All School Sites ... The Senior Research Fellow will lead an interdisciplinary programme of research, knowledge ...
www.stis.ed.ac.uk/news/2011/new_senior_research_fellowship

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