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SCIENCE News, Studies, Research, Technology, Oct 10, 2011


Research of the UNB with Petrobras helps to identify areas in the pre-salt
PreSalt.com News
The approach between companies and universities is the goal of the Brazilian government in programs such as Science Without Borders. Evaluation at the Ministry ofScience, Technology and Innovation is that Brazil's position in the global ranking of ...
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Stem-Cell Clinical Trials Move Debate Beyond Labs
Wall Street Journal
While this battle has raged, several companies and academic researchgroups, using funding from other sources, have quietly advanced a number of potential treatments to the stage of human testing. The studies are "really tangible evidence" that ...
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Wall Street Journal
Nuvilex Advances Studies Combining Its Encapsulation and Live Stem Cell ...
MarketWatch (press release)
... research and in a variety of clinical therapeutic applications and treatments. In combining our encapsulation technology with live stem cells, we are able to place the encapsulated live stem cells into specific locations or organs in the body. ...
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Inovio Pharmaceuticals and VGX International to Advance Therapeutic Hepatitis ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Interim results from this phase II study are expected in 2012. Inovio previously announced a research collaboration with ChronTech Pharma AB and Transgene SA to test the immunogenicity of a DNA/electroporation prime - MVA boost approach against HCV by ...
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Campus Notes for Oct. 10
Daily Herald
A magical chance for people of all ages to learn about chemistry -- Everyone is invited to learn about the science behind the magic of chemistry and to learn about current chemistry research during National Chemistry Week at BYU on Oct. 17 to 22. ...
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Is education software failing our schools?
Bend Bulletin
Those tests, Cator said, cannot gauge some skills that technology teaches, like collaboration, multimedia and research. In Augusta, Allen, the math coordinator, said her district did not have the means to study the effectiveness of Cognitive Tutor ...
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Paralyzed man uses mind-powered robot arm to touch
CBS News
"We really are at a tipping point now with this technology," says Michael McLoughlin of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, which developed the humanlike arm in a $100 million project for DARPA, the Pentagon's research agency. ...
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German Cultural Week celebrated at KU
Middle East North Africa Financial Network
A seminar will held as part of the event entitled 'the Kuwait-German Partnership in the Fields of Technology, Innovation, Science and Research' at the Social StudiesFaculty of KU, Shuwaikh Campus at the Sheikh Abdullah Al-Jaber Al-Sabah Theatre. ...
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Science that inspires
Manila Bulletin
He was a Department of Science and Technology (DOST) scholar and a consistent honor student in elementary and high school. He says his studies in Taiwan has opened him to a lot of realities and has made him a better teacher. He realized that students ...
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NYU's Sargent Wins 2011 Nobel Prize in Economics
MarketWatch (press release)
In awarding the prize, the Nobel Committee cited "their empirical research on cause and effect in the macroeconomy." A professor at NYU's Faculty of Arts and Science and its Stern School of Business, Sargent is widely acknowledged as a pioneer of the ...
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MD Anderson Cancer Center Initiates Orders of IsoRay's Cesium-131 for ...
MarketWatch (press release)
My expectation is that this research study will be significant in identifying Cesium-131's improved cancer control for intermediate risk prostate cancer. I feel strongly that it will demonstrate Cesium-131's superiority over other isotopes and its ...
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Rapid Pulse: Grady's new CEO the 'right person at the right time'
Atlanta Journal Constitution
Atlanta applied as a health information technology cluster. Gwinnett Technical College will develop a one-year certificate program in health information technology. The GeorgiaTech Research Corp. will assist in the program and identify eligible small ...
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UN highlights everyday benefits from space science and technology
Space Daily
"Coupled with advances made in other fields of science and technology, [spacescience] offers a wide range of specific tools and solutions that are transforming weather forecasting, environmental protection, humanitarian assistance, disaster management ...
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Resveratrol Is No Fountain of Youth, Researchers Say
Wine Spectator
The belief that resveratrol kicks sirtuins into gear and extends lifespan, originally observed in worms in 2001, was the foundation of multiple longevity studies. Just two years after the initial research, another study theorized that sirtuins ...
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Uncharted Territory: Scientists Sequence the First Carbohydrate Biopolymer
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
DNA and protein sequencing have forever transformed science, medicine, and society. Understanding the structure of these complex biomolecules has revolutionized drug development, medical diagnostics, forensic science, and our understanding of evolution...
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Resources and Forms
Valley City State University
The Office of Graduate Studies and Research (OGS&R) is here to support you in all aspects of proposal development. Whether it is finding a funding source, developing a budget, proof reading an application, or submitting the final proposal, ...
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Valley City State University
REPEAT-Corporate audit fees up? Beware of trouble ahead
Reuters
By Nanette Byrnes Oct 9 (Reuters) - Elevated audit fees can be a red flag of problems to come for a company, say three recent academic studies that together warn about increased chances of fraud, stock price declines or financial restatements. ...
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Nobel Prize In Chemistry
Chemical & Engineering News
For the discovery of a new class of materials, known as quasicrystals, Dan Shechtman, a professor of materials science at Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, has been awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. His pathbreaking work on ...
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AUD VC Department organizes Canson Workshop
AME Info
The Ministry has accredited the university's programs in International Studies, Business Administration (both undergraduate and graduate), Communication and InformationStudies, Engineering, Computer and Information Technology, Computer Science, ...
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STEM center looks to grow new initiatives
Arizona Daily Wildcat
STEM fields, or science, technology, engineering and math, have been the focus of national attention as professionals seek to increase the number of teachers who go into the areas and improve education. The UA has many STEM resources for students, ...
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Zosano Pharma, Inc. and Asahi Kasei Pharma Corporation Enter Exclusive ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Zosano's ZP Patch Technology is the most clinically validated microneedle technologyin the world, having been tested in more than 450 patients with over 20000 patches successfully applied to humans in phase 1 and phase 2 clinical studies. ...
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USM, Rawlings partner to create safer helmets
Hattiesburg American
Jeff Wiggins, right, a University of Southern Mississippi polymer science professor, and USM senior Daniel Krebs discuss the Rawlings Neuro Responsive Gear Quantum helmet. The model, which Wiggins and Krebs helped design, combines a layer of foam with ...
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WASSP Ltd Appoints New General Manager
Scoop.co.nz (press release)
... Mr McDonald has vast experience in the marine and offshore sector and has worked with over 300 technology and life science companies and research institutions in the UK and around the world. He also holds a BSc in Technology & Business Studies from...
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Exiqon Launches New Products for the Research and Development of LNA(TM) Based...
MarketWatch (press release)
With these products, Exiqon can now supply customers wishing to conduct high throughput target identification and target validation studies and eventually validate such targets in vivo." Additional information: Lars Kongsbak, CEO, tel. ...
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Starting to Worry
Inside Higher Ed
The report -- which outlines a series of studies the college is undertaking -- talks about reconsidering not only the financial model of the institution, but also the types of students the women's college attracts, ways it can move beyond the ...
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Breast cancer 'not a death sentence'
Arab Times Kuwait English Daily
New studies show hormone therapies are actually not associated with it. But may be associated with other types of cancer, such as endometrial (womb cancer). It is quite controversial. So taking the contraceptive pill is not a risk factor for now. ...
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Arab Times Kuwait English Daily
Editorial: Growth of Florida Atlantic University on the Treasure Coast ...
TCPalm
... Pines Institute for Molecular Studies and the Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute in Port St. Lucie — and applied for a $6 million state grant to create an Institute forScience and Technology on its Jupiter campus, but with research and ...
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Nobel in Economics
Inside Higher Ed
The Pyongyang University of Science and Technology, which is one year old, is holding its first international scientific conference, and the event is renewing the debate about the institution, The Washington Post reported. The university is a private ...
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Circadian Technologies looks to royalties on cancer diagnostic test with ...
Proactive Investors Australia
Circadian Technologies recently filed a new drug application to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to start clinical studies for its VGX-100 antibody to treat cancer. The filing of the IND is a significant move for Circadian into the clinical ...
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Deals done this past week
Siliconrepublic.com
Dublin-based clinical research player ICON plc has teamed up with the web-based Oracle Life Sciences Data Hub, which will enable it to standardise and more efficiently manage hundreds of ongoing clinicalstudies online. ICON has created a central, ...
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Siliconrepublic.com
University Presses Lead the Way for Publisher-Based Ebook Systems
InfoToday.com
“Despite their relatively small size and being chronically undercapitalized, university presses are energetically—and cooperatively—trying to pursue their mission of disseminating the results of scholarly research in whatever forms our audiences ...
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EDC upstart CTEP tackles Ph4 market
FierceBiotech IT
For CTEP, that specialty is Phase IV or post-approval studies. The 12-person firm recently released a web-based data-capture product for the post-approval market called RealWorld EDC, Siliconrepublic.com reported. Used to record data on drugs that have ...
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Collaboration aims to improve methods for detecting contaminants in water supplies
Gizmag
So ... back to the new research. Agilent Technologies Inc. and University of Arizona's Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering's collaboration hopes to increase the ability of scientists to accurately detect contamination in water supplies ...
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DUG Eagle Ford to be the Largest Unconventional Oil & Gas Conference Ever
MarketWatch (press release)
... the Unconventional Oil & Gas Center ( www.ugcenter.com ), and our research studies ( http://www.hartenergy.com/Research )." For more than 30 years, Hart Energy has been a leader covering energy news and technology for investors and energy industry ...
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Reframing Columbus Day
World Press Review
Such suggestions of an information and technology exchange may be circumstantial at best. But there is considerable support rising from other fronts, not the least of which is recent DNA research confirming the exchange of much more than just trade ...
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World Press Review
Of Isolation and Isotopes: Iran's Nuclear Program
ISN
Mark Fitzpatrick, Director of the Nonproliferation and Disarmament Program at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, said, “I have huge confidence that Iran does not have a nuclear weapon, and to claim otherwise by stringing together a ...
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ISN
A civil society needs the kindness of strangers and acquaintances
The Guardian
Britain ranks average in international studies. There is no substance to the general pessimism. The problem about the pessimism is that it could be self-fulfilling; if civility is contagious, so unfortunately is incivility. Perhaps the anxiety comes ...
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The Guardian
Recession Nightmare: From Unemployed to Unemployable
The Fiscal Times
Studies show that the extension of unemployment benefits—to 99 weeks in some states—has lengthened the average duration of unemployment by about two to six weeks. However, analysts at the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond in a recent research paper ...
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The Fiscal Times
This Week On The Space Show
Space Fellowship
Mr. Hopkins has his Bachelor of Science in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, University of Illinois. Dr. Stephen Johnson comes to discuss his new book, “System Health Management: With Aerospace Applications. Dr. Johnson is an expert on why ...
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Triple Asteroid Crash Created Sudan Meteorites
Sudan Vision
The research was presented today (Oct. 7) at a joint meeting of the European PlanetaryScience Congress and the American Astronomical Society's Division of PlanetaryScience in Nantes, France. Infrared image taken by the Meteosat 8 satellite of ...
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Soyabean: Best protein source for vegetarian India
fnbnews.com
Recently, food scientists - R Padmini, Annamma Anil, Arvind M Lali, from department of biotechnology, Institute of Chemical Technology (ICT) Mumbai - have done research on "protein isolation from defatted soyameal." "In our study, we have attempted a ...
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Should kids' access to cell phones be limited?
Globe and Mail
The advisory, similar to ones issued in other countries, noted that a “small number” of studies (predominantly on adults) have shown a link, and that children are typically more sensitive to environmental toxins. “At present, the scientific evidence is ...
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Globe and Mail
Morgan State and Harford Community College Sign Memorandum of Understanding ...
The Dagger
Guests at the signing ceremony included Major General Nick Justice, Senior Installation Commander, Aberdeen Proving Ground and Commanding General, US Army Research, Development and Engineering Command; Dr. Maurice Taylor, Vice President for University ...
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Education News » How to create a world-class university
By EducationViews.org
Yojana Sharma – Although some of the world's top-ranked institutions such as Harvard, Cambridge and Oxford are hundreds of years old, a series of case studies of successful world-class research universities, prepared by the World Bank, ... They include Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Shanghai Jiaotong University in China, Pohang University of Science and Technology in South Korea, the National University of Singapore, the Indian institutes of technology, the ...
Education News
Pierre A. Chao | 2011 Vision Conference
By EKreek
Before signing on with JSA, he worked in the New York and London offices of Prudential-Bache Capital Funding as a mergers and acquisitions banker focusing on aerospace/defense (1988-90). Over the course of his Wall Street career, Pierre ... He was also a member of a National Research Council study on Critical TechnologyAccessibility (2006) and a member of an Army Science Board task force on Use of Venture Capital (2001). In 2000, Pierre was appointed by President ...
2011 Vision Conference
New Report Urges U.S. to Fund Research on ... - News - Science
ScienceInsider - breaking news and analysis from the world of science policy ... that the White House's Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) should begin to coordinate "climate remediation" studies across a range of agencies. ...
news.sciencemag.org/.../new-report-urges-us-to-fund-rese.htm...
North Carolina Biotech Center Grants Link Science to Marketplace ...
News: North Carolina Biotech Center Grants Link Science to Marketplace ... ResearchTriangle 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...
Population study suggests we're still evolving - Technology ...
New research suggests that even in relatively modern societies, humans are still ...Science on msnbc.com ... More science news from MSNBC Tech & Science ...
www.msnbc.msn.com/.../population-study-suggests-humans-ar...
Researchers study link between diesel fumes and destruction of bee ...
SCIENTISTS are investigating the possible link between pollution found in diesel fumes and the global collapse of honey bee colonies.
www.dailyrecord.co.uk/.../researchers-study-link-between-dies...
Some Biofuel Mandates ... - National-Academies.org | Newsroom
Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education · Earth and Life Studies ... Bridge · Institute of Laboratory Animal Research Journal · Issues in Science and Technology ·Research Center Library · More · Office of News and Public Information ...
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