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SCIENCE News, Studies, Research, Technology, Nov 05, 2011


Why Science Majors Change Their Minds (It's Just So Darn Hard)
New York Times (blog)
“But we're not doing kids a favor if we're not teaching them good life andstudy skills.” WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE, in Massachusetts, one of the nation's oldest technological schools, has taken the idea of projects to heart. ...
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New York Times (blog)
Who needs government-funded research on a cow's stomach? We all do.
Washington Post
With the congressional supercommittee's debt-reduction deadline approaching, federal funding of basic scientific research — from the Energy Department, the NationalScience Foundation, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, and many ...
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Group Dreams of Guessing the Future
Fox News
Levinson heads the Nexus Research Group at the University, which studies the impact of technological developments on city transportation and infrastructure. Levinson said he sees a future with fully automated cars that remove human error from driving. ...
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Tom Still: Federal grants help keep Wisconsin tech firms in the game
Capital Times
Of that total, about $30 billion is spent on basic research, the kind of unfettered inquiry that can lead to game-changing technologies. Proponents of R&D say the United States will be eating its seed corn if it slashes spending on science. ...
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Forbes Consulting announces availability of MindSight technology
News-Medical.net
Forbes Consulting Group (www.forbesconsulting.com) today announced the availability of MindSight®, an innovative research technology that identifies and explains the specific subconscious emotions motivating consumers and professionals to buy. ...
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MarketTools Showcases Mobile Research and Online Communities at The Market ...
Sacramento Bee
MarketTools customer Kelly Gallagher, Vice President of Publisher Services, RR Bowker, LLC, will present this session describing how consumer market research studies are used to uncover retail strategies to maintain volume and profit in a market ...
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Astrophysicist Explores Our Turbulent Universe
LiveScience.com
Astronomy is a 'gateway science,' which inspires people to get interested in otherscience, technology, math and engineering subjects, as well. Those cancelations will not only hit the astronomy community hard, but the effects will be felt in all the ...
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Dreaming of next generation computers
IBNLive.com
KOZHIKODE: In what seems to be a prelude to the next generation in the field ofscience and technology, Dr NE Rajeevan, an associate professor of Physics at The Zamorin's Guruvayurappan College, Kozhikode, is undertaking breakthrough research in the ...
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How solving the mystery of shell shock might help us all
Toronto Star
We prefer, as scientists, to have no wars. But if they are going to occur, it does usually move forward, very rapidly, the course of science and research.” Souped-up magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), a blood test developed by the US army, ...
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Friday Fusion Geek Out
Power Line (blog)
The New York Times had a long piece out yesterday on why so many students drop out of science-track studies (or STEM—science,technology, engineering, and math) when they reach college. The main reason is that—surprise!—students find out that ...
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Power Line (blog)
IBM's Watson takes Harvard, MIT business students to school, drops the mic
Engadget
Higher education institutions like Harvard Business School and MIT Sloan School of Management benefit from the ability to work with companies to create curricula that incorporate real-world case studies and brings breakthrough technology like Watson ...
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UBD-IBM Centre going from strength to strength
Borneo Bulletin
From conducting research to publishing high-impact journals, the UBD-IBM Centre, the deputy director shared, has since flourished through its dedicated service for the scientific community, and the future will see more coming from the ...
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Borneo Bulletin
Governments urged to put science first in oilsands monitoring plans
Calgary Herald
WBEA's budget jumped from $2.7 million to over $8 million in 2007 when Percy joined the organization with a goal to expand its focus on sciencebased pollution research that goes beyond merely gathering data. The association has recently studied the ...
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UTB research attracts funding
Brownsville Herald
“That's where scientists are born — in labs.” UTB Vice President for Research Luis Colom described the multifaceted approach of research. He said it is connected to education, career training, technology development, commercialization and improving ...
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ILS, Stemina: ILS and Stemina Biomarker Discovery announce exclusive ...
Wisbusiness.com
ILS provides innovative research solutions in the toxicology, genetic and molecular, histopathology, as well as environmental and information science fields. ILS has a flexible and comprehensive service model that provides an entire suite of services ...
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Most Advanced Malaria Vaccine Candidate Unveiled
Onislam.net
The vaccine is being developed by GSK, and the Programme for Appropriate Technology for Health (PATH) Malaria Vaccine Initiative (MVI), in collaboration with research centers in Africa. Major funding for the vaccine comes from the Bill & Melinda Gates ...
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Onislam.net
Area steel firm touts tech breakthrough
Monroe Evening News
“Organizations like TWB are creating new technology, and it's happening right here in Michigan,” he said. Dr. Jay Baron, president of the Center for Automotive Research in Ann Arbor, said the TWB innovation will help the auto industry reach ambitious ...
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Indian varsities must improve quality of research
Economic Times
If there are a number of such academics in each discipline in a particular university, top students from all over the world compete to pursue undergraduate and graduate studiesthere, a virtuous circle sets in and the institution scores well on almost ...
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Have teens been 'sexting'? It's more common than you may think
Detroit Free Press
Other studies have examined sexting on a national basis, prompting parents to question how they can prevent their own children from posting -- or posing for -- these images. "I encourage parents to treat a kid's cellphone as a computer: thinking of ...
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Not a vacation, but an amazing adventure awaits UBC student volunteers
Castanet.net
“This made a huge difference for me,” said Travis Hofman, who graduated from high school in Oliver and decided to study Trades, Technology Teacher Education (TTTE) at Okanagan College. Hofman is now completing the second half of his education degree,...
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Ahlborn Named PCI Fellow
Michigan Tech News
Michigan Technological University (www.mtu.edu) is a leading publicresearch university developing new technologies and preparing students to create the future for a prosperous and sustainable world. Michigan Techoffers more than 130 undergraduate and ...
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Michigan Tech News
UD undergrads to present research at minority student conference
University of Delaware
Eight University of Delaware students will present their research at the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students in St. Louis. Three UD faculty members will discuss health care policy through a social science lens during a research ...
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University of Delaware
P1 B down the drain in Arroyo-era jatropha project—DOST chief
Inquirer.net
By Tarra Quismundo MANILA, Philippines—The Department of Science andTechnology said the Arroyo administration should have started small with a project to explore the viability of the jatropha plant as an alternative fuel source, a failed venture that...
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Sonar leader appoints Scot to international sales role
New Zealand Herald
... McDonald is experienced in the marine and offshore sectors 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 the ...
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Global Temperatures: All Over the Map
Wall Street Journal
Judith Curry, Mr. Muller's co-author and a professor of earth and atmospheric sciencesat the Georgia Institute of Technology, told a reporter for the Daily Mail she questioned Mr. Muller's claim, which he published in an opinion column in The Wall ...
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AP Enterprise: True rail ridership figures elusive
San Jose Mercury News
It relies on unknowns such as future gas prices and airline taxes, population growth, traffic patterns and even technology that has yet to be invented. The latest ridership numbers for the voter-approved system already are well below the authority's ...
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China's Space Docking Success: Strategic Implications - Analysis
Eurasia Review
According to Dean Cheng, a research fellow at the Heritage Foundation's Asian StudiesCentre in Washington DC, this achievement coming as it does soon after the US space shuttle programme stood terminated “is a powerful political signal that China is ...
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Sequenom CEO Discusses Q3 2011 Results - Earnings Call Transcript
Seeking Alpha
But we are currently focusing on the scope and protocol to another high-risk study for eventual submission to the FDA. Sequenom CMM has conducted research using ourtechnology to detect two less common aneuploidies, T13 and T18. ...
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Money laundering, terror funding: Pakistan and UAE likely to fight off challenges
Business Recorder (blog)
The JMC would encourage private sectors of both the countries to enter into a practical partnership in the fields of science, research and development of environment friendlytechnology. During the JMC, Pakistan will give invitation to UAE investors ...
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Bahamian 'educational system:' Marching up to the top of the hill and marching ...
The Freeport News
... (CH-OGM) have recommended the promotion of research and training in oceanography as a strategy focus for the enhancement of the capabilities of Caribbean States to utilize Science and Technology for Social, Economic and Environmental development. ...
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Two Governors Take their State Schools in Two Different Directions
Examiner.com
These may be nice areas of study but maybe not worth incurring huge student debt over. The second comparison is in cost. WGU-Texas currently will cost a new student who is dedicated as low as $14735 to get a BS in information technology or business. ...
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Behind the screen
Peninsula Weekly
One of the most compelling studies detailed in the book is the European RandomisedStudy of Screening for Prostate Cancer, in which researchers compared the death rates for men who were screened with those who were not screened for prostate cancer over ...
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10-Q: ILLUMINA INC
Middle East North Africa Financial Network
In 2010, through our acquisition of Helixis, Inc., we expanded our instrument portfolio to include real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR), one of the most widely usedtechnologies in life sciences. Our financial results have been, and will continue ...
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10-Q: AGENUS INC
Middle East North Africa Financial Network
Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations Our current research and/or development activities are focused on developingtechnologies and product candidates to treat cancers and infectious diseases. ...
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2012-13 Undergraduate STEM Research Scholarship, USA ...
By team
Undergraduate Research Scholarship in ScienceTechnology, Engineering, or Maths for USA citizen 2012 Study Subject(s):ScienceTechnology, Engineering, or.
College Scholarships, PhD Scholarship...
Scientists develop technology revolutionizing single-cell studies
News@UH newsletter · Malamalama magazine ... Scientists develop technologyrevolutionizing single-cell studies ... Researchers at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, in collaboration with scientists at the J. Craig Venter Institute, have made ...
www.hawaii.edu/news/article.php?aId=4754
Humanities researchers and digital technologies ... - e! Science News
By drawing on a number of case studies, the report demonstrates that digital RIs ...scientists have pledged to embrace and expand the role of technology in the ...
esciencenews.com/.../humanities.researchers.and.digital.techno...
News | Science, Technology and Innovation Studies
Science, Technology and Innovation Studies, All School Sites ... The SeniorResearch Fellow will lead an interdisciplinary research programme : Integrating ...
www.stis.ed.ac.uk/.../senior_research_fellowship_in_integratin...
Alien abductions may be vivid dreams: study - Technology & science ...
In a sleep study by the Out-Of-Body Experience Research Center in Los Angeles, 20 volunteers were ... More science news from MSNBC Tech & Science ...
www.msnbc.msn.com/.../alien-abductions-may-be-vivid-drea...
Science News Daily || Humanities researchers and digital ...
Daily coverage of the most popular science and technology news ... By drawing on a number of case studies, the report demonstrates that digital RIs offer ...
www.sciencenewsdaily.org/computer.../cluster119992926/
Science and Technology - Science and Technology News
Special Issue Highlights Environment Canada Research on Border Air Quality. By: S&T... study, presenting research that contributes significantly to our scientific ...
www.ec.gc.ca/scitech/default.asp?lang=En&n...1...
Beam me up Scotty – NASA researches tractor beam technology ...
Trekkies might rejoice at the news that NASA has recently decided to fund a researchgroup employed to study how tractor beam technology might become. ... “Though a mainstay in science fiction, and Star Trek in particular, laser-based ...
www.zmescience.com/research/nasa-tractor-beam-technology/
Arizona SciTech Festival set for Feb 2012 - Arizona Biosciences News
Top bioscience news, October 10-25: Arizona Science and Technology Festival set to... Alzheimer's studies in metro Phoenix; Bayer's Maricopa cotton research ...
www.flinn.org/news/1037
New York City College of Technology - Social Science - News
New York City College of Technology - the college of technology of The City ... The Social Science Lecture Series is proud to announce upcoming lectures for the ... for the integration of laboratory research and technology into the psychology ...
https://www.citytech.cuny.edu/academics/deptsites/.../news.asp...
Kids try field research through N.C. State program - Science ...
About 80 percent of their parents don't have college degrees and science is not a ...your usual N.C. State entomologists collecting data for an academic population study..... Get the biggest news in your email or cellphone as it's happening. ... But hospitals are using virtual tour technology to reach out to patients and diffuse ...
www.newsobserver.com/2011/.../citizens-become-scientists.ht...
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