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New Research Uses Imaging to Show Serotonin's Link to Anger
Technorati
By combining a long tradition in behavioral research with new technology, we were finally able to uncover a mechanism for how serotonin might influence aggression.” Serotonin has been the subject of many psychological studies. In 2003 a popularstudy ...
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Technorati
Researchers Slam Studies Claiming Video Games Make Us Smarter
PC Magazine
The paper, written by Walter Boot and Daniel Blakely of Florida State University and Daniel Simons of the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology and published in Frontiers in Cognition, disputes the methodology of various studies that ...
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Technology Makes Deception Harder To Spot: Research
Huffington Post
The second study involved a collaboration with faculty at Louisiana Tech and Illinois State universities and examined the impact of deception in group decision-making. "We put together a virtual battleship game and introduced a rogue member whose ...
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UM life science park signs Advanced Pharma
Bizjournals.com
Advanced Pharma CR has become the second-largest tenant at the University of Miami Life Science& Technology Park after signing a 20000-square-foot lease. That brings the occupancy of the 252000-square-foot research park to just over 60 percent. ...
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Obama signs patent-approval law
Los Angeles Times
President Obama studies a robot built by students at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Alexandria, Va. (Pablo Martinez Monsivais, Associated Press / September 17, 2011) By Peter Nicholas, Washington Bureau Overhauling the ...
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Los Angeles Times
Students at tiny Keys college dive right into marine studies
MiamiHerald.com
... is luring aspiring marine biologists and technicians with classes such as Restoration of Coral Reefs, Monitoring of Caribbean Reef Fish and Basic Research Diving. Dr. Patrick Rice, FKCC's dean of marine science and technology, and Brylske, ...
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NMSU professor studies beef cattle fertility, genetics in Australia
High Plains Journal
The research can be expensive and requires large teams collaborating to complete genotyping, data analyses and the translation of findings to herd improvement programs. What this technology helps researchers do is narrow down the genes to find the ones ...
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Study in underwater laboratory may help manage seaweed-eating fish that ...
EurekAlert (press release)
A team of researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology is using the Aquarius underwater laboratory off the coast of Florida to study how the diversity of seaweed-eating fish affects endangered coral reefs. The research mission, which began Sept ...
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Science Lags As Health Problems Emerge Near Gas Fields
ProPublica
The gas drilling industry says it supports such research and that health concerns should be taken seriously, but that the public should be careful of jumping to conclusions. "Sound science does exist on these issues," wrote Chris Tucker, ...
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ProPublica
This Week in Science
RNAi News (blog)
In a paper published online in advance in Science this week, investigators at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, Calif., and elsewhere report on their examination of "spontaneously occurring variation in DNA methylation in ...
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Recon Instruments gets NASA Desert RATS eyes-on with Micro Optics Display ...
Engadget
Luckily, Recon Instruments has partnered with NASA Desert Research and Technology Studies to test two variants of its GPS-enabled Micro Optics Display for use in next-generation spacesuits, and get our space agency a wee bit closer to the PK Dick ...
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NIH, DARPA and FDA collaborate to develop cutting-edge technologies to predict ...
National Institutes of Health (press release)
In this way, NCATS will complement, and not compete with, the work of the private sector and other NIH translational science efforts. About the National Institutes of Health (NIH): NIH, the nation's medical research agency, includes 27 Institutes and ...
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Smart Electricity Data Powers Savings in Iowa Experiment
Government Technology
“We are interested in proving this technology, in establishing its value so we can offer it to many cities,” said Mahmoud Naghshineh, vice president of services research at IBM Watson Researchand director of the IBM Services Innovation Lab, ...
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NSF Grant to Aid Women Faculty in STEM Fields
UC Riverside
UC Riverside wins a $599219 grant to help recruit, retain and support through leadership development women faculty in science, engineering, technology and mathematics. RIVERSIDE, Calif. – The National Science Foundation has awarded the University of ...
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UC Riverside
Device 'could boost brain power'
The Press Association
Brain scan studies showed that squeezing a control stick to play a computer game aided the repair of damaged nerve pathways in stroke patients. Speaking at the British Science Festival at the University of Bradford, Prof Johansen-Berg said: "If you ...
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Vaxin Awarded BARDA Contract Valued at up to $21.7M to Develop Next Generation ...
MarketWatch (press release)
In proof of principle studies, Vaxin has demonstrated several key characteristics, important for consideration of the AdVAV vaccine candidate as a medical countermeasure: 1) protection with a single dose in multiple animal species; 2) excellent safety ...
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“Center of surf universe” becomes home of SDSU surf research center
SignOnSanDiego.com
And this is just science. The business and hospitality side of it, I don't know of anyone else whostudies it.” While the center initially will focus on sustainable surf tourism, its portfolio will grow. “At the Dean's Council, the College of Science ...
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Balloon-based experiment to measure gamma rays 6500 light years distant
EurekAlert (press release)
The Gamma Ray Polarimeter Experiment (GRAPE), which was designed and built at the SpaceScience Center within the UNH Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space (EOS), is an effort to apply a new type of detector technology to the study of ...
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Brooklyn College Establishes Four New Schools
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
School of Humanities and Social Sciences: Africana Studies, Classics, English, History, JudaicStudies, Modern Languages and Literature; Philosophy; Political Science; Puerto Rican and LatinoStudies; SEEK; Sociology; and Speech Communication Arts and ...
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Changing Campus Culture?
Science Careers Blog (blog)
The other suggestion under this heading, establishing "named chairs/professorships in STEM-discipline related research" seems less likely to actually result in more interesting 101-level sciencecourses. Producing more research studies is not the ...
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The apple doesn't fall far from the tree; Or does it?
PhysOrg.com
Research at EPFL's Chair of Corporate Strategy and Innovation has shown that contrary to what was thought from previous studies, spin-outs don't systematically set up shop near their parent companies. To stay or to leave, what's the best strategy? ...
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PhysOrg.com
Does That Hurt? Objective Way to Measure Pain Being Developed at Stanford
HealthNewsDigest.com
“We're hopeful we can eventually use this technology for better detection and better treatment of chronic pain.” Researchers stressed that future studies are needed to determine whether these methods will work to measure various kinds of pain, ...
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HealthNewsDigest.com
The oil patch and the ivory tower
McGill Daily
On May 3, 2010, just two weeks after being elected to the editorial board of this newspaper, I began working at the WOW Lab: a joint science and education researchand design project that develops biology, physics, math, and chemistry projects for use...
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McGill Daily
University of Vermont Programs Foster Innovation and Economic Development in State
UVM News
The council is responsible for Vermont's Science and Technology Plan and serves as the statewide Board for the National Science Foundation-funded Vermont EPSCoR program. In 2011 it facilitated summer work experiences for more than 40 higher education ...
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Glowing bandages 'could show infections'
NHS Choices
The project received funding from the Engineering and Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC) and the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl), an agency of the Ministry of Defence. Using an engineered model of skin tissue the researchers ...
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NASA Announces Two Game-Changing Space Technology Projects
PR Newswire (press release)
Development of such capabilities fulfills NASA's strategic goal of developing high payoff technologyand enabling missions otherwise unachievable with today's technology. NASA has awarded approximately $3 million for concept studies to multiple ...
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Ivantis Announces Results of Hydrus(TM) Intracanalicular Implant Study
MarketWatch (press release)
"The Hydrus has clearly helped patients in this study achieve lower IOP and be less reliant on eye drops. As an 'evidence-based' device company, we have invested heavily in basic science researchin the development of this technology and understanding ...
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2. On the dark side
Waterloo Record
Sophisticated audiovisual and information technology equipment will allow visualization and analysis of complex calculations, and real-time collaboration with colleagues from around the world. The institute prides itself not just on research, ...
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Generex Makes Podium Presentation of Clinical Data on Generex Oral-lyn(TM) at ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Generex is engaged in the research and development, of drug delivery systems and technologies. Generex has developed a proprietary platform technology for the delivery of drugs into the human body through the oral cavity (with no deposit in the lungs). ...
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HBS-IRC focusing on India centric case studies: Anjali Raina
MBAUniverse.com
As a result, the IRC supports the School's faculty in its research interests on the emerging trends that are quickly transforming and shaping the region. Research to date has included the study of information technology, biotechnology, healthcare, ...
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Military Microgrid Capacity to Experience More than 700% Growth by 2017 ...
MarketWatch (press release)
The report examines market drivers, implementation requirements, and technology issues for military microgrid installations, as well as providing detailed profiles of key industry players and casestudies of military microgrid projects. ...
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Why so slow? MSU seeks answers to women's advancement
The Bozeman Daily Chronicle
Led by Jessi Smith, MSU psychology professor, the university will seek ways to promote women at MSU in the fields of science, technology, engineering, math and the social and behavioral sciences. To help make her points, Cruzado introduced speaker ...
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Eyelit Inc. Announces the Resounding Success of Its 2011 User Conference
MarketWatch (press release)
"The Eyelit presentations were certainly informative and fun," stated Salil Jain, Eyelit's President and Chief Executive Officer, "but they were outshined by the case studies and real-life scenarios brought forth by our customer presenters. ...
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Lending them a voice
The Hindu
While he believes there is innovation in India, he feels the research here “often operates in a vacuum or in a hypothetical way where we believe that the technologyitself will solve the problem”. This needs to change, he says. ...
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The Hindu
Biological E Finishes Phase III Studies Of JE Vaccine
News Tonight
In a declaration, the company stated that this is a significant landmark in the clinical growth of this vero cell based inactivated JE vaccine fabricated in India based on thetechnology transfer contract with Intercell. Intercell AG is a Vienna-based ...
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Sangamo Touts Cure for HIV
Minyanville.com
Lanphier is hoping to find a partner to help develop that drug, which has completed the second of three phases of study. Research results for that drug are expected to be released in the fourth quarter.
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Study in Underwater Laboratory May Help Manage Seaweed-eating ...
Georgia Institute of Technology Research News. A team of researchers from the Georgia Institute ofTechnology is using the Aquarius underwater laboratory off the coast of Florida to study how the diversity of seaweed-eating fish affects ...
ScienceNewsline - Top Science News
Study in underwater laboratory may help manage seaweed-eating ...
A team of researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology is using the Aquarius underwater laboratory off the coast of Florida to study how the diversity of seaweed-eating fish affects endangered coral reefs. ... Led by Mark Hay, a Georgia Tech professor of biology, the 10-day mission includes two Ph.D. students and a postdoctoral researcher who are living 50 feet below the surface in the unique underwater lab. .... Source: Oregon Health & Science University | Comments: 0 ...
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