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SCIENCE News, Studies, Research, Technology, Oct 15, 2011


Big data way of the future or echo of big brother past?
Sydney Morning Herald
In recent years, however, academic opposition to military financing of research has faded. Since 2008, a Pentagon project called the Minerva Initiative has paid for an array of studies, includingresearch at Arizona State University into political ...
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Salk to Accelerate Brain Research With $4.5 Million NIH Grant
MarketWatch (press release)
About the Salk Institute for Biological Studies: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, ...
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Focus on making more students take up science
Khaleej Times
“If this is achieved, the number of students in Applied Technology and Technical Studies in Abu Dhabi would reach 11 per cent by 2012, 28 per cent by 2016 and around 40 per cent by 2021, Al Shamsi said. “In 2010, 71 per cent of the students in public ...
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Is Innovation Scalable? Town Hall to Focus on Role of Translational Research ...
MarketWatch (press release)
A panel moderated by Quentin Palfrey, Senior Advisor at the White House Office of Science andTechnology Policy, will examine the importance of federally-funded translational research to our country's innovative capacity and economic competiveness. ...
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Are pecans good for you? UGA gets $1.2 million grant to find out
Atlanta Journal Constitution
The USDA grant will fund research by UGA food science professor Ronald Pegg, who is working to expound on studies that suggest eating pecans may help protect against heart disease. He also is looking into antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties ...
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Celebrate National Science and Technology Week with fun science facts — COLUMN
Sault Star
Research staff with the soil and water sustain-ability team at GLFC, study the impact of natural and man-made disturbances on soil productivity and water quality. Using a combination of field studiesand laboratory experiments, researchers are ...
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Research Participants
The Hill
Once you have registered, you will be contacted by a member of the research staff to determine your eligibility and obtain some preliminary information about you. Finally, participation in similar, online forecasting research studies sponsored by IARPA ...
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Incubating tough questions
London Free Press
Because of UWO's medical school, on the other hand, Western researchers generate more health and science technologies and products - which can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to patent, too much money for many people to do on their own. ...
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Study on moonsoon rainfall variability
Ceylon Daily News
Dr Nalaka Ranasinghage, Coordinator and the team leader of the research said that the topic was of great national importance since very limited studies and research has been done on the Northeastern Monsoon variability, which is supposed to be the main ...
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Stevens Mass Spectrometry Reveals Evolution of Insect Biochemistry
PR.com (press release)
In addition to the research goals, this NSF project supports an impressive range of educational and outreach efforts. The field studies will recruit and train US, Latin America, and Caribbean graduate and undergraduate students so that they gain broad ...
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Beating Recession Blues and Fighting TB Infection: Sino-UK Companies' TB ...
PR.com (press release)
LIBP is selected as one of the industrialized basements of National 863 Program under the Ministry of Science & Technology and one of the Technique Centre of State Enterprises. Sinopharm.com ImmunoBiology Ltd is a vaccine company developing the next ...
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Steve Jobs still lives
Ahram Online
... invited by the John F Kennedy School of Government, the hub of a consortium of research and policy centres that include Harvard's Belfer Centre for Science and International Affairs and Brandeis University's Crown Centre for Middle Eastern Studies. ...
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Kessler Foundation Identifies Six Participants to Test Ekso
PR Newswire (press release)
... will lead a collaborative team for the investigational study. Kessler will acquire its own Ekso forresearch and clinical use in January 2012. "This technology provides hope that individuals with paralysis and lower extremity weakness can walk," ...
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Jerome Cox, Jonathan Turner to receive 2011 Chancellor's Award for Innovation ...
Washington University in St. Louis News
After his graduation, he went to work at Bell Laboratories, while continuing his graduatestudies at Northwestern University, earning a master's (1979) and doctorate (1982) in computer science. Cox is a leader in the application of advanced technology ...
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ADVERTORIAL: Macquarie among Australia's top ten universities, says report
Times of India
Students who need to complete foundation courses or preliminary programs prior to starting Macquarie University programs can undertake these studies with the Sydney Institute of Business and Technology (SIBT) located on Macquarie's North Ryde campus ...
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Quote of the day
Peninsula On-line
Dr Karatsolis further said, “Unfortunately, every time a new technology is introduced to the market, the educational community seems to be eager to get it to the hands of students without necessarily having solid data from educational studies regarding ...
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Research and Markets: Online Video: Uses - OTT markets - CDN/delivery services ...
Business Wire (press release)
It analyzes revenue models (ad, pay, freemium, bundling) and proposes key player and event casestudies. It assesses the key technology for online video delivery (including CDN) and presents the main solutions regarding platforms, protocols and ...
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Accelr8 Publicizes Interim Plan and Advanced Studies – (AMEX:AXK)
Galaxy Stocks
Accelr8 Technology Corporation (AMEX:AXK) publicized that upon reaching the settlement of itstechnology evaluation contract with Novartis (September 30, 2011), considerations has now moved to searching within Novartis for funding vehicles. ...
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NSF Grant Will Enhance Interdisciplinary Student-Faculty Research in ...
Lafayette College Campus News
to study the patterns of brainwaves by using a computer application that can be controlled with a person's mind. The field of brain-computer interface (BCI) technologyhas the potential to treat neurological diseases such as ALS, stroke, and paralysis ...
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New Data on Teva's Copaxone(R) and Laquinimod to Be Highlighted at ECTRIMS/ACTRIMS
MarketWatch (press release)
This year's meeting, recognized as the world's largest annual international conference focused on MSresearch, will be held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, October 19-22, 2011. -- Late-breaking presentation of data from the BRAVO study, ...
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BYM Marine Environment News
BYM News (press release)
The NOAA National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science's Center for Sponsored Coastal OceanResearch is initiating a 5-year $5 million project focused on the role that the reefs of Pulley Ridge and the northern Gulf of Mexico may play in replenishment of ...
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Is High Ability Necessary for Greatness?
Scientific American (blog)
Scanning the paper, which is coauthored by David Z. Hambrick and Elizabeth J. Meinz, I realize it's a summary of research they've already conducted (some published, some not). As I read about their studies I noticed that not one of them actually looked ...
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Scientific American (blog)
Cotton Candy-Like Fibers Hold Promise for Healing Diabetes Wounds
Newswise (press release)
Diabetics who suffer from hard-to-heal open wounds may soon have help in the form of a cottony glass material developed at Missouri University of Science and Technology. The glass fiber material could become a source of relief for diabetics fighting ...
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Alcohol consumption greatly increases serious injury risk for heavy and ...
EurekAlert (press release)
This study closely examined alcohol-related injuries admitted to hospital, finding that alcohol greatly increases risk for serious injury. Results will be published in the January 2012 issue of Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research and are ...
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Nutraceuticals & Functional Foods: Trends & Prospects
fnbnews.com
With advances in food science & technology, our choice of food need not be limited to food as it is grown or conveniently processed. Food can be viewed in terms of its components, viz., the nutrients which fulfil the primary purpose of food, ...
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Global Multi-Touch Technology Market 2011 - 2016
SBWire (press release)
The report studies various technical advantages and insights provided by multi touch screen products. The Multi-Touch Technology Market research report segments the applications sectors like IT industry and Mobile market. The report also segments by ...
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IIT-K students develop rare satellite technology
Daily Bhaskar
Uttar Pradesh: By designing the nano-satellite, students of IIT-Kanpur have developed indigenous technology of separation and ejection mechanism of space equipment, which even the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has been importing till now ...
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Daily Bhaskar
NASA declines lab proposal from MU, REDI
Columbia Daily Tribune
The portion of the International Space Station that was up for grabs will be run by a not-for-profit group, the Center for the Advancement of Science in Space, the agency announced last month. It is the same agency that was awarded a similar NASA ...
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USAID award supports study of SILCS diaphragm plus tenofovir gel on HIV, HSV
News-Medical.net
This award supports Aim 2 of USAID's Biomedical Research for Reproductive Health: to fast track development of reproductive health technologies that can simultaneously prevent unintended pregnancy, HIV, and other sexually transmitted infections. ...
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Amarillo Biosciences Issues Corporate Update
MarketWatch (press release)
ABI's oral interferon research continues. Results from a Phase 2, dose-ranging study of oral interferon for the prevention of relapse in hepatitis C patients are expected in the first quarter of 2012. A Phase 2 study of oral IFN, in combination with ...
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Novel Self-Assembly Technologies for Designing Nanoparticle Structures
AZoNano.com
Travesset commented that nanoparticle science has a huge potential due to the development of capable self-assembly technologies. These studies find immediate applications in the fields, including metamaterials, novel optical materials, medical sensing ...
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AZoNano.com
Cal State Long Beach Hosts 11th Annual "Women Engineers @ The Beach"
LBPOST.com
“Research tells us that girls are just as capable as boys at succeeding in math- and science-based careers, but opportunities for young girls to explore the mathematical-logical part of cognitive thought are limited,” said Gossage. ...
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Urban schools offer dynamic learning experiences
NorthJersey.com
CUPR is internationally recognized for its research on topics like affordable housing, land use policy, and environmental impacts, along with developing fiscal and quality-of-life impact models. In addition, their Institute for Meadowlands Studies is a ...
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NorthJersey.com
EPSRC awards grant for faster, cheaper integrated photonics developments
OptoIQ
... Defense Science and Technology Lab. During the course of the grant, the investigators will develop new technologies to then test with the partner organizations. The platform grant will make it possible for the ORC to carry out feasibility studies ...
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Largest US 'Zero Net Energy' Community Opens In California At UC Davis
Forbes
The UC Davis West Village development may well be a model of what's next not just in California, but across the US “I think we're going to see a lot more of this [kind of development],” says Ron Pernick, managing director of clean tech research and ...
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Forbes
Polar map re-envisioned at 'Arctic in Transition' conference
Alaska Dispatch
Mia Bennett graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2010 with degrees in Political Science and EuropeanStudies and minors in Geospatial Information Systems & Technology, Scandinavian, and French. ...
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Alaska Dispatch
NJIT alum, power expert, advisor during Exxon/Valdez clean-up, gets award
PhysOrg.com (press release)
However, his first academic experience outside of New Jersey was not appealing, and he decided to continue his studies closer to home. "The environment at NCE was very welcoming and simply outstanding with respect to instruction," Sommerlad says. ...
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Getting Serious About Taiwan's Air Power Needs
Heritage.org
The ability to impose such control, however, requires that the PLA, and especially the PLA Air Force (PLAAF), devote substantial resources to aerial hardware and technology. Therefore, the United States, per its international commitments and domestic ...
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Watching electrons in molecules
Nanowerk LLC
Thanks to the latest developments in laser technology and intense research in the field of attosecond spectroscopy (1 attosecond = 10 -18 s) the research has developed fast. For the first time, Prof. Hans Jakob Wörner from the Laboratory of Physical ...
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Pregnancy more problematic for women with PCOS
Endocrine Today
Evidence links PCOS to a number of negative pregnancy outcomes, but many studies have primarily focused on women with PCOS who are undergoing assisted reproductive technology. “Consequently, the extent to which the risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes in ...
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A conversation with Siri
ITWorld Canada
MACWORLD: A CONVERSATION WITH SIRI Macworld's Jason Snell talks with the iPhone 4S's new Siri voice control technology. TECH IN TWO MINUTES: NORTON PC CHECKUP Symantec's Travis Wilkins runs through the features of the free PC diagnosis program. ...
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Robot biologist solves complex problem from scratch
R & D Magazine
After it succeeded, they realized it could also be applied to solving science problems. One of Eureqa's initial achievements was identifying the basic laws of motion by analyzing the motion of a double pendulum. What took Sir Isaac Newton years to ...
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Saturday News Briefs
Central Valley Business Times
The college, which houses seven departments including chemistry, cognitive studies, biological sciences and others, has been under the interim leadership of Robert Marino. Mr. Kamali currently serves as the dean for the School of Science and Technology ...
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Police in NJ can finally use Tasers -- or can they?
Cliffviewpilot.com
More than 75000 lives have been saved and officer injuries have dropped by 76% since police nationwide began using Tasers, the Police Executive Research Forum announced in a 2009 study. To make it easier for agencies to head off opponents, ...
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A Step Towards New Vaccines for Most Important Chicken Parasite
Researchers funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), among others, have taken the first step in developing a new type of vaccine to protect chickens against coccidiosis, the most important parasite of ... Another scientist involved in this project, Professor Ten Feizi, and her team at Imperial College London, used a new and powerful technologyknown as carbohydrate microarray to study the particular sugar molecules which the parasite's MIC3...
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New Technologies Challenge Old Ideas About Early Hominid Diets ...
New assessments by researchers using the latest high-tech tools to study the diets ... at the University of Arkansas, was published in the Oct. 14 issue of Science. ...
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