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SCIENCE News, Studies, Research, Technology, Oct 07, 2011

NIHR CRN sees marked increase in medical technology studies
Pharma Times
The number of medical technology studies adopted by the National Institute for Health Research'sClinical Research Network (NIHR CRN) Portfolio in England nearly quadrupled in 2010/11 compared with the previous financial year. The NIHR's financial year ...
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High school pupils present study findings to experts
Gulf Times
The QU educational research programme “Al Bairaq” being organised by its MaterialsTechnology Unit (MTU) within the Research Office, engages students from high schools throughout Qatar in science innovation and discovery. The initiative launched on ...
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Gulf Times

Sogeti Research on "The App Effect" Predicts Everyone to be Addicted by 2020
Sacramento Bee
The results and the topic will b By Sogeti DAYTON, Ohio, Oct. 6, 2011 -- /PRNewswire/ -- Sogeti, a leading provider of professional technology services, shares its research conclusions on the future of mobile applications at the Sogeti Executive Summit ...
See all stories on this topic »Hawke's Bay:Farmers First in Science andamp; Technology Initiative
Scoop.co.nz (press release)
One output from the initiative will be to develop case studies to promote the findings of the water efficiency and technology research. Another planned activity will be the use of demonstration farms to showcase management techniques and strategies as ...
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Girls schools like Ann Richards scrutinized in academic paper
Austin American-Statesman
It appeared in Science on Sept. 23 and said single-sex schools don't improve student performance any more than coeducational schools. It cites several studies, including one by Bigler involving the Ann Richards School for Young Women Leaders. ...
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Austin American-Statesman
Three Win White House Science, Technology Medals
San Leandro India West
A childhood surrounded by such technology inspired Jayant Baliga. In 1980, while at the General Electric Research and Development Center, the IIT Madras graduate developed the Insular Gate Bipolar Transistor, a semiconductor device much like a wall ...
See all stories on this topic »AgriLife Research beef cattle studies focus on residual-feed intake, evaluate ...
AgriLife Today
(Left) Dr. Gordon Carstens, Texas AgriLife Research animal nutrition scientist, and Joel Walter, a graduate student in animal science at Texas A&M University, evaluate feed-intake data on a computer monitor. The data is captured by the automated feed ...
See all stories on this topic »Genetic makeup affects testosterone concentrations in men
EurekAlert (press release)
List consortium members: The members of the consortium include: The Framingham Heart Study(FHS), Study of Health in Pomerania (SHIP), The Gothenburg Osteoporosis and Obesity Determinants (GOOD) Study, Cooperative Research in the Region of Augsburg ...
See all stories on this topic »Research at risk
Binghamton University Research News - Insights and Innovations
For instance, Jessica Fridrich, professor of electrical and computer engineering, may look to the movie industry to pay for her video technology research. Her technology can be used by law-enforcement officials to trace video back to specific recorders ...
See all stories on this topic »Santa Monica College Receives $5.8 Million Grant With UCLA
Santa Monica Mirror
In a huge boost to getting more underrepresented minority students into the fields of science,technology, engineering and math, Santa Monica College has been awarded a $5.8 million federal grant with UCLA to recruit such students, educate them and ...
See all stories on this topic »White House Honors Early Career Scientists
San Leandro India West
Sumita Pennathur, assistant professor in Mechanical Engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara; Kartik A. Srinivasan, project leader in the Nanofabrication Research Group of the Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology at the ...
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Today In Research: Nobel Dissent, Harvard's Not No. 1
The Atlantic Wire
Today in research: a wild time texting, monkey mind control, quibbling with Nobel, and the world's best university for researchers.. Texting while driving makes people twice as slow to react to things. Like say, a yellow light. In a study that involved ...
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The Atlantic Wire
'Caste' genes evolve quickly in social bugs
Futurity: Research News
This study helps explain the fundamental evolutionary processes that allow organisms to develop different adaptive forms. Future research will include determining what these fast-evolving genes do and how they're involved in the production of different ...
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Promising UA Technology Receives Innovation Award
UA News (press release)
By University Communications October 6, 2011 A UA team is one of 21 in the country funded through a new National Science Foundation program. Research developed by University of Arizona faculty members is among the inaugural class of 21 projects to ...
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UA News (press release)
Eleven professors appointed to named professorships
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Gregg Mitman is interim director of the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies and William Coleman Professor of History of Science and Professor of Medical History and Science &Technology Studies. He joined the faculty in 2001. ...
See all stories on this topic »New think tank in Detroit to develop medical marvels
Detroit Free Press
Universities may be the best places to brainstorm and study new solutions because private drug and medical device developers usually can't attract research grants for the early work on a product, said Todd Przybycien, a professor of biochemical and ...
See all stories on this topic »New Study Shows Inflammatory Food Toxins Found In High Levels in Infants
HealthCanal.com
"More research is certainly needed, but the findings confirm our studies in genetic animal models of diabetes. Given the rise in the incidence of diabetes in children, safe and low cost AGE-less approaches to children's diet should be considered by ...
See all stories on this topic »Affymetrix Launches 18 New Microarrays for Gene Expression Analysis of Model ...
MarketWatch (press release)
The comprehensive and updated coverage of the transcriptome will enable comparative studies of gene expression regulation networks between Zebrafish and mammals, including human and mouse." The importance of the model and applied research organisms ...
See all stories on this topic »San Angelo native now an Arctic adventurer
San Angelo Standard Times
"After I got out of the Navy, the Cold War was over, and all the money was going into science andresearch, so I started pursuing places that were doing research on the ocean, and the biggest place was Scripps," he said. For the past 20 years, ...
See all stories on this topic »Racial Disparities in Health Not About the Genes
MedPage Today
The research by LaVeist and colleagues was funded by the National Institutes of Health and Pfizer. The study by Probst and colleagues was funded by the Department of Health and Human Services. All study authors and the commentators had no reported ...
See all stories on this topic »UM Rosenstiel School professor named Fellow of American Meteorological Society
EurekAlert (press release)
Throughout his distinguished career, Shay has held several leadership positions he co-chaired the NSF/NOAA United States Weather Research Program on Hurricanes at Landfall; served on NASA Hurricane Science Team, served on the NSF/NOAA Eastern Pacific ...
See all stories on this topic »Two IU School of Library & Information Science faculty to be recognized by ...
Indiana University
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Indiana University School of Library and Information Science faculty members will receive two of nine general awards to be presented during the 2011 annual meeting of the American Association for Information Science and Technology ...
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The Basics: 2011 Nobel Prizes in Chemistry, Physics, and Medicine
Popular Mechanics
But subsequent studies confirmed the find. Scientists still don't know why the universe seems to be resisting gravity's pull and expanding outward faster and faster, and that's led to the idea of dark energy—the mysterious proposed force that pushes ...
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Popular Mechanics
Putting existing ideas to best use
Irish Times
The technology, which was developed at the Science Foundation Ireland-funded Clarity Centre for Sensor Technologies, has been tested on about 20 patients and the feedback has been positive, says Golden. So what happens now? ...
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Irish Times
SMC. UCLA SHARE $5.8 MILLION FEDERAL GRANT
Santa Monica Dispatch
In an effort to enroll more underrepresented minority students in science, technology, engineering and math, the federal government has awarded Santa Monica College and UCLA a $5.8 million federal grant to ”recruit such students, educate them and give ...
See all stories on this topic »Kruzic: Fear future of Iowa State under Steven Leath
Iowa State Daily
Though "university research and technology transfer" is undoubtedly important, Lang seems to have forgotten something: Steven Leath's concern for disciplines and the development of knowledge outside the areas of science, technology, engineering or ...
See all stories on this topic »Citi analyst raises eResearch Technology to 'buy'
CBS MoneyWatch.com
Analyst George Hill said in a Wednesday night research note delays in cardiac safety and respiratory studies have constrained the company's business in recent quarters. His estimate of 2011 earnings at 38 cents per share is at the low end of ...
See all stories on this topic »Enduring Legacy of Scientific Racism
Voice of San Diego
Kim Faulkner is a teaching intern at San Diego City Collegeand writes as a member of the San Diego Center for Ethics in Science and Technology. Dr. Jamie Gates is professor of cultural anthropology and African studies and director of the Center for ...
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Five myths about social media
Sofia Echo
Two-thirds of all American adults use social-networking sites, according to the PewResearch Center, and a 2010 study found that 42 per cent of Americans over age 50 are social-media users. The growth of mobile phone and video-sharing technology ...
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Sofia Echo
INSIDE INDIANA BUSINESS: Hoosier app developer credits Jobs' vision
nwitimes.com
They will visit Wuxi, Columbus' sister city, to meet with executives at Cummins Inc. and faculty at the Professional College of Science and Technology. A new building that bears the Steel Dynamics name will be dedicated next week at Indiana ...
See all stories on this topic »Alion Awarded Air Force Spectrum Management Office Contract Valued at $5.4M to ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Alion Science and Technology is an employee-owned technology solutions company delivering scientific, research and development and technical expertise and operational support to the Department of Defense, civilian government agencies and commercial ...
See all stories on this topic »Non-Compete Agreements Create 'Career Detours'
Product Design & Development
Marx has found that about half of tech-sector employees must sign them, while another recent academic study has determined that about 70 percent of executives sign them as well. The agreements are partly a byproduct of the technology sector's rapid ...
See all stories on this topic »Report assesses industry in Iowa
DesMoinesRegister.com
Tripp briefed manufacturing and information technology leaders Wednesday on two new studies that updated work the Ohio-based research group completed in 2004 and 2005 on growing key industries. The new studies cost the state $60000. ...
See all stories on this topic »Graduates from DeVry Inc. Schools Earn up to 65 Percent More with Degrees ...
MarketWatch (press release)
This research confirms that our graduates are succeeding in their careers and earning a significant return on their educational investment," said Daniel Hamburger, DeVry Inc. president and chief executive officer. The research also found that minority ...
See all stories on this topic »"Staple a Green Card" to Every Diploma? Not So Fast, House Hearing Says.
Science Careers Blog (blog)
As is usual at immigration discussions, a representative of the technology industry advocated admitting larger numbers of immigrants with graduate degrees in STEM fields. In addition, Vivek Wadhwa, director of research at the Center for ...
See all stories on this topic »Job seekers turn out in droves in Danville
WSLS
The 25-year-old had been looking for a job in the environmental field since graduating from Averett University in May last year, when she earned a degree in biology with a concentration in ecology and environmental studies. She would like something in ...
See all stories on this topic »New Software Models Immune Responses
Newswise (press release)
The Virginia Bioinformatics Institute at Virginia Tech is a premier bioinformatics, computational biology, and systems biology research facility that uses transdisciplinary approaches to science, combining information technology, biology, and medicine. ...
See all stories on this topic »Southern California World Water Forum to Tackle Local, Regional, Global Water ...
MarketWatch (press release)
"This interdisciplinary program brings together students from academic backgrounds ranging from international studies, urban planning and political science to civil engineering, economics and environmental sciences," Horn said. ...
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