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


Dutch Research Center Uses iMEMS Inertial Sensors to Study Rowing Kinematics
AZoNano.com
Analog Devices' iMEMS inertial sensing technology enables motion capture suit to record physical movement and study rowing kinematics. Credit: Xsens TechnologiesThe Dutch research center is utilizing the Xsens MVN system devised by the ...
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Google Earth reveals ancient stories
USA Today
Like a friendly genie, that modern technology has started answering archeologist's wishes with its worldwide catalog of satellite views of the Earth. A pair of studies in the Journal of Archaelogical Science this year suggest these views are revealing ...
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USA Today
Declining numbers of blacks seen in math, science
The Associated Press
___ In the world of atoms and numbers, does the color of the person who studies them really matter? Many of America's technology giants say, yes. Merck has funded tens of millions of dollars in United Negro College Fund scholarships. ...
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The Associated Press
ICMR plans research in priority areas of leprosy with emergence of several new ...
pharmabiz.com
In the area of basic research, the focus will be on studies using genomics, proteomics and other approaches to understand the host-parasite interaction and pathogenesis of the disease; basic immunology; translational research including newer technology ...
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Science hits GM crops (while China stops sowing)
The Guatemala Times
“In contrast to the high-tech, very costly GMO industrial system, there are viable, low-cost farming methods that better guard against hunger and poverty,” remarked Barker. “Genetic engineering is not just a science, a technology, and a business but is ...
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UQ start-up research offers hope for herpes sufferers
UQ News
... the program into clinical studies. Working at the UQ Diamantina Institute, Coridon is developing DNA vaccines for the prevention and treatment for a range of infectious diseases and cancers in humans, utilising the company's patented technology. ...
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UC an engine for innovation
Cincinnati.com
"The speed at which we can develop these technologies will be improved by this relationship." University partnerships also help GE compete for federal grants reserved for nonprofits, helping it transition cutting-edge research into technology that can ...
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology's List Visual Arts Center presents Hans ...
Art Daily
She was the co-editor of Picturing Science, Producing Art (1998) and the editor of Sensorium: Embodied Experience, Technology, and Contemporary Art, which accompanied an exhibition at the MIT List Visual Arts Center in 2006-7. ...
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Máire GEOGHEGAN-QUINN European Commissioner for Research, Innovation and ...
IEWY News
And in keeping with a smart consolidation approach, Irish government spending onScience, Technology and Innovation programmes is due to increase by 9% in 2011 to approximately 460 million Euro. We can also look to the past – Finland rescued its ...
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IEWY News
Bionic breakthrough helps a paralyzed Morris Plains woman get back on her feet
The Star-Ledger - NJ.com
At Kessler, six patients spent time last week training on the Ekso exoskeletons, in a prelude to a national research study that will begin next year. October had been a whirlwind of change for Kammer. Just last month, the Morris Plains woman had been ...
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The Star-Ledger - NJ.com
Context-aware technologies to affect USD 96 billion of annual consumer ...
InformationWeek India
"Context-aware computing is the method by which new experiences are constructed that blend information from mobile, social, digital and physical world sources," said William Clark, ResearchVice President at Gartner. "The disruptions caused by ...
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War's Remote-control Future
Center for Research on Globalization
Today, the amount of money being spent on research for military robotics surpasses the budget of the National Science Foundation, which, at $6.9 billion a year, funds nearly one-quarter of all federally supported scientific research at the nation's ...
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Center for Research on Globalization
IDSA: Copper Covering May Cut Hospital Infection Rates
MedPage Today
"Real technology is simple, cheap, and it works," he said. "This is what this is." The study was supported by the US Army Military Research and Material Command. The authors reported financial links with the US Department of Defense.
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Markaz and Global Center sponsor a seminar on the changes in the energy world
AME Info
IFRI is currently commissioned by Markaz to undertake a series of policy research studies in the area of energy which will examine policy objectives underlying Kuwait's power and water generation, cost opportunities offered by supply side technologies, ...
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Pollution Concerns Grow Alongside Economy in China
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At the ninth “Science and Technological Week” held by the Guangdong Provincial Association for Science and Technology earlier this month, Wang Xiwen, an expert from the Chinese Academy of Engineering, gave a lecture about the seriousness of food ...
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Mobile phones don't hike cancer risk, according to a study. Full Article
Reuters India
A recent sampling of our best pictures from the world of science and technology. Slideshow Indians across the world prepare for Diwali. Slideshow A woman uses her mobile telephone in central London January 23, 2011. Mobile phones do not increase the ...
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Climate change is now our problem
Climate Spectator
According to the scientists – from the Zurich's Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, the UK's Met Office Hadley Centre, and Melbourne University, among others – the world needs to reach a ...
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Texting makes drivers twice as slow to react to road dangers, Texas study finds
Dallas Morning News (subscription)
A 2009 Virginia Tech study concluded that cellphone users are at least six times more likely to be involved in a fatal crash. Yet both those studies were based on data collected using driver simulations. The TTI study relied on results gleaned from 42 ...
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Gene mapping reveals mammalian evolution
Cosmos
by Mara Flannery The platypus (Ornithorhynchus) is a monotreme and is important to evolutionary studies because scientists know that monotremes split from mammalian evolution right before the X and Y sex chromosomes emerged. New genomic researchshows ...
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Cosmos
Not by money alone
ModernHealthcare.com
Although implementation of the maintenance program is relatively recent, early research by ABMS member boards is demonstrating its value. For instance, a study in the Archives of Internal Medicine concluded that physician cognitive skills, ...
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Laser's Precision and Simplicity Could Revolutionize Cataract Surgery
MarketWatch (press release)
ORLANDO, FL, Oct 23, 2011 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Two new studies add to the growing body of evidence that a new approach to cataract surgery may be safer and more efficient than today's standard procedure. The new approach, using a special ...
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Minglu Chen
The Conversation
Minglu Chen is currently a postdoctoral research fellow and will be a lecturer from June 2012 in the China Studies Centre and the Department of Government and International Relations, University of Sydney. Her research field is institutions of China's ...
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The Conversation
Students go on virtual field trip
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette
The school is a NASA explorer school, which means the agency has given the school money to invest in videoconferencing and other technology. During a time of shrinking budgets and pressure to tie every activity to a learning goal, Emmerson said the ...
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Vulnerable teens still at risk in cyberspace
Buffalo News
The good news is that cyberbullying doesn't happen to every child, and even when it does occur,studies show, not all children are bothered. The Cyberbullying Research Center, which has looked at 30 published studies regarding prevalence rates, ...
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Researchers identify mysterious life forms in the extreme deep sea (w/ video)
PhysOrg.com
For example, according to Dhugal Lindsay (Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Scienceand Technology, or JAMSTEC), the Dropcam movie also depicts the deepest jellyfish observed to date. The instruments used to spot the mysterious animals were "Dropcams" ...
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Gregory Possehl, Penn archaeologist | Philadelphia Daily News | 2011-10-24
Philadelphia Daily News
BY JOHN F. MORRISON Built with Bronze Age technology, the 40-foot craft - the "Black Boat of Magan" - was to travel the Arabian Sea from Oman to India on Sept. 8, 2005, to see how ancient mariners did it. Gregory L. Possehl, the University of ...
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Our own Jobs and Zuckerbergs? [New Straits Time (Malaysia)]
TMC Net
This, according to Zuckerberg senior, enriched junior's interest in technology. He was only 21 when he established Facebook in 2004. Today, he is worth about US$17.5 billion. Here are some examples closer to home: Lim Ding Wen, 12, started playing with ...
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Aussie generosity on the way back up, consumer confidence
NEWS.com.au
Queensland University of Technology's Australian Centre for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Studies(ACPNS) found that in 2008-2009 for the first time on record, giving went down across the nation. The total claimed as tax-deductible donations dropped to ...
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FEATURE: Education benefits questioned
Taipei Times
However, both Liu and Yang said the situation varied from industry to industry, with research and development positions in the technology sector having the highest demand for first-time jobseekers with a master's degree. This situation was reflected in ...
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Laura Raicovich, Deputy Director of Dia Art Foundation, among those set to ...
Art Daily
Ms. Raicovich graduated from Swarthmore College with a Bachelor of Arts degree in art and politicalscience. She holds a Master's Degree in Liberal Studies from the Graduate Center at the City University of New York, where she studied art history and ...
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Galileo will boost economy and make life of citizens easier
IEWY News
In additional, the technological advances that come about as a result of Research & Development investment in the space industry are transferred to firms in other sectors in the form of 'spill-over' effects. Research by Oxford Economics1 suggests that ...
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Transport ministry sets an example
Viet Nam News
Pham Xuan Mai of the HCM City University of Technology (HCMUT) welcomed the move, saying commuting by bus would help ease traffic congestion. He said commuters' use of buses was much less than other individual vehicles. Mai said international studies ...
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Singapore to have more climate specialists
ISRIA (registration)
Researchers like those at Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology's Centre for Environmental Sensing and Modelling are trying to refine that. Retired geography professor Wong Poh Poh said data from various climate vulnerability studies ...
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Surado Partners with Selling: The Profession Authors to Bring Online CRM to ...
PR.com (press release)
The 6th edition of Selling: The Profession shows how to use the latest technology such as tablets, smartphones and social networking to sell more effectively. The book also includes 32 brand new case studies and 32 role-play exercises. ...
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County: Results of septic inspections startling
Rapid City Journal
Scott Kenner, a professor of hydraulics and hydrology at the South Dakota School of Mines &Technology, said his studies have found septic systems account for a significant proportion of dangerous fecal bacteria in local streams. ...
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BoE's Broadbent on QE2
Money Supply (blog)
Before reporting economics for the Financial Times, he wrote editorials for the paper, reported for the BBC, worked as a regulator of the broadcasting industry and undertook research for the Institute for Fiscal Studies. ...
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Govt seeks private hands to take on economic crime
Livemint
“CEIB should have a separate unit to undertake (macroeconomic) studies on its own or through consultants or professional consultancy firms. It may also enter into MoUs (memorandums of understanding) with selected academic and research institutions and ...
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GW Research Team Receives Nearly $3 Million to Study Inclusive ...
GW Receives Nearly $3 Million to Study Inclusive Science, Technology, ... “We are very excited to be leading this innovative research at such a pivotal time for ... RSS feed to receive updates and notifications about University news and events. ...
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