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SCIENCE News, Studies, Research, Technology, Sep 29, 2011


Research could lead to wearable sensors for the blind
PhysOrg.com
Dr. Boris Prilutsky, professor in the School of Applied Physiology at Georgia Tech, studies sensory feedback in motor control or how one learns and organizes movements -- like walking or reaching out -- using sensory information. ...
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Stanford brain imaging study shows physiological basis of dyslexia
EurekAlert (press release)
... an instructor at Stanford's Center for Interdisciplinary Brain Sciences Research, who is senior author of the study, which will appear in an upcoming issue of Psychological Science. The new results come in the wake of recent behavioral studies ...
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Stevens Institute of Technology Wins NSF Nanotechnology Undergraduate ...
PR.com (press release)
With National Science Foundation (NSF) support, Stevens Institute of Technology is providing undergraduates with forward-looking experience on nanotechnology research and applications. A multi-disciplinary faculty team, led by Dr. Eui-Hyeok (EH) Yang, ...
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Reliable Sources in an Age of Too Much Information
New York Times (blog)
And new science is always on the edge of understanding, and so it's implicitly more tentative. [Also see Revkin's thoughts on what he calls the “single study syndrome.”] Wihbey asked how the future of news and communication technology will shape ...
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Korea to open world's 11th super science computing hub
The Korea Herald
Those three are the European Organization for Nuclear Research, known as CERN, the United States' Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and the High Energy Accelerator ResearchOrganization of Japan. Their studies include extensive research on the Big ...
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VMASC earns tech award
Suffolk News-Herald
Using VMASC technology, Seiler, along with Andy Collins, a research assistant professor at VMASC, and Nina Fefferman, an epidemiologist, set out to study the real-world problem of strategic mortgage defaults — which occur when homeowners voluntarily ...
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Study by Ocala Oncology/The US Oncology Network Shows Use of Bevacizumab ...
MarketWatch (press release)
McKesson Specialty Health, a division of McKesson Corporation, empowers the community patient care delivery system to advance the science, technology and quality of care. Through innovative clinical, research, business and operational solutions, ...
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Bulović named director of the Microsystems Technology Laboratories
MIT News
Bulović currently leads the Organic and Nanostructured Electronics Laboratory, co-directs the MIT-ENI Solar Frontiers Center, and is the co-head of the MIT Energy Studies Program. His researchinterests include studies of physical properties of organic ...
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Robert J. Stilley: Florida Atlantic University's Institute for Science and ...
TCPalm
FAU's Institute for Science and Technology in Jupiter is being designed to focus on three areas ofscience and technology: biotechnology and drug discovery, integrative neuroscience and bioimaging informatics, thus complementing the research interests ...
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NASA Solicitation: Physics of the Cosmos Program
Space Ref (press release)
Data from these concept studies will also be used to assess future technology needs for the Astrophysics Division. Information from the technology assessment will also be provided to the CAA. This Request for Information (RFI) is the first step in this ...
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ACT Receives Approval from Data and Safety Monitoring Board (DSMB) to Treat ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Statements in this news release regarding future financial and operating results, future growth inresearch and development programs, potential applications of our technology, opportunities for the company and any other statements about the future ...
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College awarded $1.2 million science grant
Ithaca College The Ithacan
They will also be allocated $15000 toward full completion of their graduate study at the college. The teaching grant will also offer a stipend provided for summer research, funding for attendance to professional conferences and all-expenses-paid summer ...
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Ithaca College The Ithacan
In profile: Ramesh Raskar
MIT News
In 2007, Ramesh Raskar was one of the most promising young researchers at the Mitsubishi ElectricResearch Labs in Cambridge, Mass. Four years earlier, Technology Review had honored him as one of its top innovators under 35, and while he was steadily ...
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BioDelivery Sciences Announces Results from Phase 3 Efficacy Study for BEMA ...
PR Newswire (press release)
BDSI's pain franchise currently consists of two products utilizing the patented BEMA technology. ONSOLIS (fentanyl buccal soluble film) is approved in the US, Canada, and the EU (where it will be marketed as BREAKYL), for the management of breakthrough ...
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Scientists Receive Presidential Science Awards for Nanotechnology
AZoNano.com
Sumita Pennathur was presented the award in recognition of her exemplary research efforts in the areas of mechanical engineering and nanotechnology. Her studies have provided particular insight into interfacial science and nanofluidics and helped in ...
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Kirtads to to take up GIS mapping of Tribals
IBNLive.com
KOZHIKODE: In an era when Geographic Information System (GIS) is being used quite commonly in almost all areas of the development nowadays, Kerala Institute of Research Training and Development Studies of Scheduled Castes and Tribes (KIRTADS) here is ...
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NSF Selects Carolina Researchers to Develop National Data Infrastructure
HPCwire (blog)
The iPlant Collaborative, a community of researchers and students led by the University of Arizona that is developing an integrated cyberinfrastructure to advance studies of plant biology. The Odum Institute for Research in Social Science, ...
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What experts say about Bengaluru's possibility as a "creative city"
Citizen Matters
Silvia Hostettler is Executive Director of swissnex Bangalore, a Swiss House for Science facilitatingresearch collaboration between Switzerland and India. She has done her PhD on land use change and international migration in western Mexico. ...
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Untapped Potential for Expanding Women's Entrepreneurship Holds Promise to ...
MarketWatch (press release)
"There are plenty of highly qualified women in science and technology -- industries from which the majority of high-growth companies are born," said Lesa Mitchell, Kauffman Foundation vice president, advancing innovation, and the paper's author. ...
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Lung Cancer Tumors Successfully Tracked in Real-Time With Calypso System ...
MarketWatch (press release)
"The growing research and studies underway utilizing the Calypso System during radiation treatment for prostate and lung cancer exemplifies the significance of our real-time localization and tumor tracking technology," said Lorraine Marshall Wright, ...
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VistaGen Therapeutics Expands Key Stem Cell Technology Patent Estate ...
MarketWatch (press release)
VistaGen plans to initiate Phase 2 clinical studies of AV-101 in the fourth quarter of 2012. VistaGen is also exploring additional opportunities to leverage its current Phase 1 clinical program to enable additional Phase 2 clinical studies of AV-101 ...
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Devils' Advocate: Technology becomes more important at HC
my.hsj.org
“For me (my favorite technology is) the computer with internet because I can use it to do pretty much anything I need,” Hurley said. “The computer labs are most important to me because that's where I do most of my research,” freshman Anne-Marie Place ...
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IsoRay, Inc. Reports Improved Performance in Fiscal Year 2011
MarketWatch (press release)
The system's balloon catheter is a landmark technology that allows physicians to treat more brain cancer patients than ever before with internal radiation or brachytherapy. -- The Company announced that a growing number of hospitals and medical ...
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CANR holds symposium addressing global nutrient management issues
University of Delaware
... the fourth international symposium focusing on "Global Issues in Nutrient Management: Science, Technology and Policy." UD is expanding its emphasis on international research and education, with key appointments at the Institute for GlobalStudies. ...
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University of Delaware
Rectors meet, tackle challenges facing technological education
Vanguard
“The incorporation of Entrepreneurship studies and Information Communication Technology in the new curricula for all Technical, and Vocational Education (TVE) in Nigeria by NBTE is one of the major Federal Government's reform process in TVE which ...
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Spoofing biometrics: Research nascent but standards developing
ThirdFactor
“Many vendors are pursuing techniques that minimize the vulnerabilities,” says Stephanie Schuckers, associate professor at Clarkson University who studies biometric spoofing. The attacks on systems vary from the obscure to the overt. ...
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Is your child getting the right nutrition?
Manila Standard Today
There are over 7 million children aged five and below who are malnourished, according to a report from the Department of Science and Technology, Food and Nutrition Research Institute. This is because many children are fed only porridge (lugaw) in their ...
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Research Update: Childhood PTSD, Perinatal Depression, Anxiety Symptoms
PsychCentral.com (blog)
By John M. Grohol, PsyD Meta-analysis is a scientific term that refers to a structured review of a particular topic in the research literature. Meta-analyses look at a bunch ofresearch studies that have been previously published, combine all their ...
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PsychCentral.com (blog)
The Chan Soon-Shiong Family Foundation Endows a New Chair at the USC Viterbi ...
Sacramento Bee
28, 2011 -- The Gift will Support Research at the Intersection of Computer Science, Engineering and Medicine LOS ANGELES, Sept. 28, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The USC Viterbi School of Engineering just received a new endowed chair, from the Chan ...
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Allon Granted Important U.S. Patent for Preclinical Compound AL-408
MarketWatch (press release)
Dr. Alistair Stewart, Allon's Vice President of Commercial Research, said this new US patent provides protection for an important early-stage compound within the Company's product pipeline. "Allon's technology platform of neuroprotective peptides ...
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A water cooler for the public health crowd
ScienceBlogs (blog)
Vividly recounted by doctors involved in the ongoing medical studies of those impacted by WTC material exposures who spoke at the September 16 NYCOSH meeting on worker and community disaster health protection and, in emotional testimony from those who ...
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ScienceBlogs (blog)
The tweeting VC: professor Steven Schwartz of Macquarie University
The Guardian (blog)
In June the Times Higher Education ranked Macquarie University as the top university in Australia and the 14th in the world for research in environmental science and ecology as measured by citations for each researcher. Macquarie ranked fourth in ...
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The Guardian (blog)
Neolane Celebrates 10 Years of Marketing Technology Innovation at Annual ...
MarketWatch (press release)
... Constellation Research Group, as well as Marc Parrish, vice president of loyalty and retention marketing, barnesandnoble.com. Taking place October 20-21 in Paris, this invitation-only event will showcase a stellar line up of customer case studies, ...
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ZDNet (blog)
Download Now 3Q10 x86-based Server Customer Satisfaction Study Learn about IBM's five year reign in Technology Business Research's annual studies. You'll see how the studies are conducted, the criteria different competitors are judged on, ...
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American Academy of Arts and Sciences to Induct 231st Class of Members
PR Newswire (press release)
Founded in 1780, the American Academy is one of the nation's oldest and most prestigious learned societies, and an independent research center that draws from its members' expertise to conductstudies in science and technology policy, global security, ...
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Turkey miffed over 'age insult' to Piri Reis ship
Cyprus Mail
He maintained that research vessels have a life span of 60 to 70 years. Institute director Huseyin Avni Benli issued a written statement to correct “wrong information and evaluations”. He said the vessel has completed seismic studies on 280km south of ...
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Saudi Arabia moves ahead with civilian nuclear plans
Financial Times
“It is political,” says Dr Jameel Hefne, Associate Research Professor and Assistant Director for Administrative Affairs at the Atomic Energy Research Institute at the King Abdulaziz City forScience and Technology in Riyadh, of current exploration of ...
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North Carolina Biotech Center Grants Link Science to Marketplace ...
News: North Carolina Biotech Center Grants Link Science to Marketplace ... Research Triangle Park, N.C. -- Technology transfer officials at three University of North ... The grants fund research studies that are designed to achieve commercial ...
www.researchtriangle.org/.../north-carolina-biotech-center-gra...

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