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


Strictly Business: Q&A with Rob Negrini, CSUB geological sciences professor
Bakersfield Californian
The National Science Foundation has awarded Cal State Bakersfield's Department of Geological Sciences $5 million over five years to establish a Center for ResearchExcellence in Science and Technology. The center focuses on research topics important to ...
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Bakersfield Californian
Speed faster than light may not be just a flight of fancy
Irish Times
If their findings prove to be true then it represents one of the biggest science stories of the century. It is a monumental thing to break nature's cosmic speed limit, to make something go faster than light speed, not least because it potentially ...
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Irish Times
Researchers One Step Closer to Mind-Reading with Brain Imaging Research
DailyTech
The team hopes that this research can lead to technology that can decipher what is happening in the minds of those who cannot communicate verbally, such as stroke victims or coma patients. Eventually, this could lead to the creation of an interface ...
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DailyTech
Research advances bring in vivo NMSC imaging closer to reality
ModernMedicine
At its present stage, our research with this technology is about one step removed from the development of a system that would be feasible for routine use in clinical practice," Dr. Joseph says. An H&E histology of consecutive slice (far left), ...
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USC Center for Body Computing (CBC) and USC Institute for Communication ...
MarketWatch (press release)
The Center for Body Computing hosts the annual Body Computing Conference, and it also creates products, performs research, and studies wireless health. The Center for Body Computing, an independent center, also fosters low-cost health solutions that ...
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Group A Streptococcus Vaccine from Vaxent on Path for Commercialization with ...
MarketWatch (press release)
"Vaxent is an excellent example of local science and technology moving from the researchlaboratory to local entrepreneurial incubation and now on to the next step toward the marketplace," said Dr. Steve Bares, president and executive director of the ...
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Amadeus Consulting To Launch Research Phase for the Transportation Research ...
MarketWatch (press release)
BOULDER, Colo., Sep 23, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Amadeus Consulting, a custom software development company, is teaming up with aviation experts to begin the research phase of the National Academy of Science's Transportation Research Board (TRB) project; ...
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Studies on new drug to treat diseases caused by HSV, VZV viruses to be ...
pharmabiz.com
In 2012, one more research project on certain emerging viral disease will take its course in the Centre. Both the projects are studies on viruses and sponsored by the Ministry of Science &Technology. He said the Centre has entered into a contract with ...
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New facility offers research, learning opportunities
KAIT
The Commercial Innovation Center is a 9000 square feet facility that will be housing labs for researchand technology of various areas. The facility is a construction project inside of an existing structure, the Arkansas Biosciences Institute. ...
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Rosetta Stone Commissions First Major White Paper to Herald Research on ...
MarketWatch (press release)
"It is my hope that this paper will help bring additional attention to some of the findings and theresearch that is being done." In compiling extensive research and clinical studies regarding bilingualism and various brain functions, Begley's paper ...
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Research and Markets: Site Selection Magazine - Available Now!
SunHerald.com
Widely recognized as the most authoritative source on corporation expansion planning, Site Selection features original research on development trends, incisive analysis of today's critical planning issues and case studies by experts in the field. ...
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USA Will Provide Technology to Ukraine in Exchange for Uranium Removal
Sacramento Bee
... offered Ukraine new technology which would enable its scientists to conduct studies on low-enriched uranium. "Currently, the US is ready to launch production of the respective equipment for Ukraine and gradually deliver it to our research centers. ...
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Ask the Expert
Pew Research Center
How does the Pew Internet Project decide what topics and trends are important to study? The PewResearch Center's Internet & American Life Project has a broad mandate from The Pew Charitable Trusts to study the social impact of digital technology. ...
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Alley recognized for research and outreach efforts on climate change
Antarctic Sun
Alley has received more than 30 grants as a principal investigator or co-PI from the National Science Foundation since 1986. Current grants include an award to study the physical properties of an ice core retrieved from West Antarctica over the last ...
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Antarctic Sun
SAS strengthens ties with academe, partners with Mapua, Malayan High School of ...
Inquirer.net
SAS Curriculum Pathways is a group of web-based, interactive, and standards-based resources in English, Math, Science, Social Studies/History and Spanish for high school students. In 2009, the SAS Curriculum Pathways was honored by Technology ...
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Unigene Licensee Performs Well in Phase 3 Study
Drug Discovery & Development
Palmer concluded, "Given the strength of the clinical results and performance of our technologycombined with our intellectual property, Unigene is supremely positioned to provide our current and future partners with a means of administering their ...
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RIM's enterprise standing slips, says Forrester
ZDNet (blog)
In previous benchmark studies, Forrester didn't bother asking about Apple and Android because they barely registered in the enterprise. What's more alarming for RIM is that email still dominates smartphone apps. According to Forrester, 81 percent use ...
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Parity Computing Wins NIH Grant for Automating Evidence-Based Medicine
PR Web (press release)
Shlomo Argamon is Associate Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Linguistic Cognition Laboratory at the Illinois Institute of Technology. He also holds a courtesy appointment as Senior Fellow of the Center for Advanced Defense Studies in ...
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The Dubious, Dangerous Science of Race Lives On, Says Scholar
ColorLines magazine
What motivated me to write the book was that I noticed this revival of the idea that human beings are divided into biological races in genomic science and biotechnologies. I read the headlines, first, ofstudies that purported to prove that there was a ...
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Davis Langdon picked for $2.2bn research park
The Construction Index
Companies will include pharmaceutical, medical technology and biomedical informatics companies. Davis Langdon had worked closely with the client throughout the initial feasibility studies and financial due diligence stages of the project before the...
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The Construction Index
Business Notes- Sept. 25
Brainerd Daily Dispatch
Originally from Paynesville, she fulfilled her undergraduate studies at the University of Minnesota Morris and received her degree in medicine from St. George's University in St. George's Grenada. Her Family Medicine residency was completed at the ...
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IDC Financial Insights States Top Vendors of Worldwide Banking Solutions
TMC Net
IDC Financial Insights offers independent research, custom consulting, and detailed multi-clientstudies on the technology issues and challenges facing the financial services industry. According to a press release, this Market Share Guide provides ...
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Big Data, BGI and GigaScience
Bio-IT World
BGI has huge data storage and bioinformatics capacities—we are interested in making these types of studies more useful to the community—and promoting more of this kind of collaborative research. The GigaScience database will evolve, and as ...
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A water cooler for the public health crowd
ScienceBlogs (blog)
But the question remains how to protect people in advance of any study results. The need to deploy of the precautionary principle was another theme of the day - as was the tug-of-war between politics, science, and common sense. "Science, which requires ...
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ScienceBlogs (blog)
Bionic Bacteria May be Big Help
Lab Manager Magazine
The Salk Institute for Biological Studies is one of the world's preeminent basic research institutions, where internationally renowned faculty probe fundamental life science questions in a unique, collaborative, and creative environment. ...
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Argonaut High School sophomore studies the sea at UC Santa Cruz
Amador Ledger-Dispatch
Chew, a sophomore at Argonaut High School, discovered the California State Summer School for Mathematics and Science, also known as COSMOS, while she was surfing the Internet looking for possible summer programs to become involved in. ...
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Stem cell eye treatment trial approved
WebMD.Boots.com
Ben Sykes is executive director of UK National Stem Cell Network, an independent national body set up to promote research into stem cell science. He tells us the eyes are a good starting place for stem cell studies as there's less chance of rejection: ...
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IU receives NSF grant to expand internship program in network engineering
Indiana University
The IU GlobalNOC is a world-class network management organization supporting 18 research and education networks of national, international, regional and enterprise scale. Ray Ford, computerscience professor and chief technology officer at the ...
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Does more technology = more learning?
MyCentralJersey.com
Indeed, there are a number of studies that show that there is little or no advantage in student achievement — as measured by standardized tests — through teachers relying primarily on the infusion of technology in their lessons. ...
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How Life Arose on Earth, and How a Singularity Might Bring It Down
Scientific American (blog)
Musser completed his undergraduate studies in electrical engineering and mathematics at Brown University and his graduate studies in planetary science at Cornell University, where he was a National Science Foundation Graduate ResearchFellow. ...
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Scientific American (blog)
New Program Gives Lemont Kids Inside Look at Clean Energy Solutions
Patch.com
At a special kick-off event next month, Project Infinite Green will launch an after-school pilot program at Lemont High School that will give fifteen students the opportunity to participate in field studies,research projects and think tanks related to ...
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Women use social networking sites more than men do, says study
Women in Technology
Research by InSites Consulting - published last week - revealed that three-quarters of British internet users interact with social networking websites. If you are interested in more IT and technologyevents you can also join our womenintechnology ...
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2011 European Multidisciplinary Cancer Congress opens in Stockholm
Xinhua
"Our dedicated efforts have gathered together some of the best new cancer research studies from all over the world, and resulted in an impressively high number of quality abstracts containing practice-changing studies of new and significant scientific ...
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War in the shadows
Sydney Morning Herald
The BfV told its top-secret audience that in the 12 months to October 2007 it had discovered 500 such operations conducted against a range of targets including military, economic, science andtechnology, commercial, diplomatic, research and development ...
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U.S. Health & Human Services Makes Critical Congenital Heart Defect Screening ...
MarketWatch (press release)
(9) Masimo SET (Signal Extraction Technology) is clinically proven in over 100 independent and objective studies to provide the most accurate and reliable SpO2 and pulse rate measurements, even under the most challenging conditions of patient motion ...
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Testimony of Robert J. Michaels: Subcommittee on Water and Power
Canada Free Press
Much federal research on both the technology and economics of renewables is in the hands of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), where a now-standard computer model of the economic impact of renewable projects originated and continues to be ...
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Pakistan seeks Asian help in dengue research
SciDev.net
Chairman of the Pakistan Science Foundation, Manzoor Soomro, blamed the "absence of an efficient surveillance system employing the latest technologies" for the rise in dengue cases. Soomro commented that improving dengue surveillance was missing from ...
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Fast-Moving Cartoons Can Cloud Kids' Concentration - Technology ...
Mom and Dad warned that television would rot your brain, and a new study ... A 1977 studypublished in the journal Educational Technology Research and ... Follow LiveScience for the latest in science news and discoveries on Twitter ...
www.msnbc.msn.com/.../fast-moving-cartoons-can-cloud-kids...

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