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Science gets short shrift in California elementary schools, study finds
Sacramento Bee
The Berkeley research blames the pressure to score well on standardized tests in English and math for the little time spent teaching science. Forty percent of the California elementary teachers surveyed for the study say they spend 60 minutes or less...
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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)
Novozymes works to regain its $100 million a year revenue status
Roanoke Times
"They have been good citizens," agreed Saied Mostaghimi, associate dean for research and graduate studies at Tech's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, who has worked closely with Novozymes. Students from several of Tech's colleges complete ...
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Roanoke Times
A life-size lab chases the wind
Minneapolis Star Tribune
"It shows that to apply new technology to a new industry requires a strong partnership between the industry making the product and a research center where we can do very complex research studies," Izzi said. Down the road, other experiments could help ...
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Genetically modified rice created to produce human blood
Telegraph.co.uk
By Richard Gray, Science Correspondent The protein, extracted from rice plants containing human genes, could be used in hospitals to treat burns victims and help patients who have suffered severe blood loss. Thescientists behind the research claim it ...
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Telegraph.co.uk
Global warming: Who has the burden of proof?
Summit County Citizens Voice
So why does the science community continue to do attribution studies and assume that humans have no influence as a null hypothesis?” To show precedent for his position Trenberth cites the 2007 report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ...
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Diving into space
Sacramento Bee
Also in September, NASA held its first simulation of a human mission to a near-Earth asteroid in northern Arizona during its 14th Desert Research and Technology Studiescampaign called D-RATS. They used the extreme conditions of the Black Point Lava ...
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American Academy of Arts and Sciences to honor behavioral economics pioneer
Wicked Local
Founded in 1780, the American Academy is an independent research center that draws from its members' expertise to conduct studies in science and technology policy, global security, the humanities and culture, social policy, and education.
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Is handwriting dying? Local schools weigh in on typing vs. writing
Foster's Daily Democrat
By RONI REINO DOVER — The days of passing notes in class are getting shorter as more and more students reach for technology to communicate, setting aside traditional handwriting for typing and texting. Studies have shown although texting and typing ...
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College Town
Worcester Telegram
Supported by a National Science Foundation grant awarded to the college, the scholarship is an incentive for talented students in science, technology, engineering and mathematics to become middle- andsecondary-school teachers in these disciplines....
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Bonita Springs is becoming a hub for bioscience
The News-Press
Biotech is one of those catch-all words that applies to a wide variety of scientificendeavors, including agricultural research, environmental science, studies of the human genome and pharmaceutical development. Many states and cities see the field as ...
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Movers & Shakers for Nov. 6, 2011
Daily News Transcript
Studies focus on financial management, technology, lending, marketing and other strategic industry issues. To complete the program, students enroll in a one-year course of study, including two one-week residential sessions held at the Babson Executive ...
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UAEU to launch unique engineering programme
gulfnews.com
By Rania Moussly, Staff Reporter Professor Bernhard Boser (left) from University of California, Berkley, and Professor Seham Al Deen Galadari, Vice-Provost for research and graduate studies at UAEU, are working on designing the Master of Engineering in ...
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gulfnews.com
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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Guest commentary: Business incubators give birth to businesses, keeps them in ...
Naples Daily News
Several studies indicate that companies that use an incubator process have doubled the likelihood of remaining in business. Other studies indicate that incubator companies hire more than double the average number of employees and have twice the ...
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Nuclear power is our gateway to a prosperous future
The Hindu
It operated for 30 years until, in 1974, it was reconstituted as a joint venture between the US and Japan under the name of Radiation EffectsResearch Foundation (RERF). It is operational even today. The ABCC and the RERF have extensively studied the ...
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The Hindu
Vaccine policy under scanner for favouring manufacturers
India Today
... produced has poor efficacy or its market price is much lower than the committed price," Y. Madhavi from the National Institute of Science, Technology and DevelopmentStudies, says. The arrangement was first used for pneumococcal vaccine research. ...
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EDITORIAL: Check out scanners better
Clarksville Leaf Chronicle
The flying public should be glad to see that the Transportation Security Agency is going to conduct a new study on whether X-ray body scanners at airports truly are as harmless as people have been led to believe. Back in 1998, an expert panel ...
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Lt. Gov. Todd Lamb: 'Drone boom' may be in Oklahoma's future
NewsOK.com
America's current UAS edge didn't happen by accident. Our government invested in thisresearch for years. Even during lean times, like the 1990s “procurement holiday,” planners supported game-changers like the UAS technology. Because of this commitment ...
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New Waterless Fracking Method Avoids Pollution Problems, But Drillers Slow to ...
Inside Climate News
A search of public research reports on file with the Society of Petroleum Engineers found only two case studies for wells that used propane fracking—one in 2011 and one in 2009. "You are going to need more than one or two wells to prove this to the ...
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Inside Climate News
Pills just for you
The Guardian
Photograph: Piko Bsip/Science photo library Personalised medicine is nothing new; it's your doctor knowing you, your values, family and life circumstances, and tailoring treatment by trial and error. However, the completion of the Human Genome Project ...
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The Guardian
Teen 'sexting' more common than you may think
Detroit Free Press
BY LISA ESPOSITO Parents need to take back control of the technology, she said, whether it's by setting online time limits on the home wireless router or limiting access and privacy, experts say. / SCOTT ROBERSON/ASSOCIATED PRESS Some Boston parents ...
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People-to-people contact needed for peace in S Asia
The Nation, Pakistan
Dr Jaffar Ahmed, Chairman Pakistan Studies Centre, Dr Riaz Shaikh of the Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Institute of Science and Technology (SZABIST), Senior journalist Ghazi Salahuddin, Dr Mutahir Shaikh of the Karachi University's International ...
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How heart treatment has changed
The Guardian
Professor Shoumo Bhattacharya and his team at the BHF Centre ofResearch Excellence, Oxford University, are investigating the effect of environment on genes. The Oxford team is using genetic techniques and state-of-the-art imaging technology to study ...
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The Guardian
Jerusalemites battle foreigners for affordable housing
Ha'aretz
“The municipality has provided young people, students and high-techworkers with benefits and grants to stay in the city,” he says. But a 2008 report by the Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies research center, called “A Vision for Jerusalem: Plan ...
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Ha'aretz
Against the grain
Malaysia Star
Photos by Cheryl Poo/The Star One study published in the Journal Of Diabetes Science And Technology showed a Paleolithic diet “improved glycemic control and several cardiovascular risk factors compared to a diabetes diet.” A Swedish study published in ...
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Malaysia Star
Former soldier Michael Blois
Toronto Star
But studies suggest the shock wave enters the body — through the torso or possibly the eyes, or even by slightly compressing the skull. Internal pressure surges are created, which pulse through the skull, causing the brain within to move, ...
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Prolia® (denosumab) Open-Label Extension Trial Showed Continued Increase in ...
NEWS.GNOM.ES (press release)
8, 2011, at the 2011 American College of Rheumatology Annual Scientific Meeting in Chicago. Results of the open-label extension study showed that postmenopausal women with osteoporosis who received up to six years of continued Prolia treatment ...
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Library without books is on UF 'wish list'
Gainesville Sun
Dr. Terry Harpold, a UF associate professor of English, film and media studies and member of the university library committee, sees a shift toward electronic texts in university libraries. “I think (a bookless library is) welcome by students because ...
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Your Health, Our Hospital The Ultimate Loss of Hope
PennLive.com
A study by the National Institute for Healthcare Research indicates that divorced people are three times as likely to die by suicide as those who are married. Job loss and tough economic conditions are major contributors to a spike in the instance of ...
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'Promotion of trade a must for peace in South Asia'
The News International
Dr Jaffar Ahmed, Chairman, Pakistan Studies Centre, Dr Riaz Shaikh of the Shaheed Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto Institute of Science and Technology (SZABIST), Senior journalist Ghazi Salahuddin, Dr Mutahir Shaikh of the International Relations Department of ...
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News Digest: Nov. 7
Federal Times
The council's findings are diametrically opposed to several studies published in the last two years that claim federal employees earn much more than private-sector workers. Critics such as the Cato Institute and some federal pay experts say that the ...
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Social Science - Science, Technology & Engineering Careers ...
By GenoXan
The successful candidate will have a higher degree in a relevant social sciencediscipline, the knowledge and understanding of longitudinal studies and the data inresearch across a range of disciplines and the ability to negotiate and deal ...
TheScienceJobs.com
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 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/
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/
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
NASA Researchers Aim to Reel In Tractor Beam Tech
Any science fiction fan or Trekkie knows what tractor beams are -- those beams that pull ... Search ECT News Network ... The studies could lead to technology able to clear the space around Earth of debris that endangers spaceflight missions. ...
www.technewsworld.com/story/73668.html
EU Biofuels Are As Carbon Intensive As Petrol - Science News ...
“We are very excited by the outcomes of our research – our study has already been accepted and used by several scientists, NGOs, economists and policy ...
www.redorbit.com/news/science/.../eu...are.../index.html
Advanced BioMedical Technologies Inc. Announces ... - PR Newswire
PR Newswire: news distribution, targeting and monitoring ... He has been awarded with more than 10 prizes in scientific research. Two of his studies, "Bone Tumor Clinical Pathology Research" and "Children Stock Bone Necrosis ...
www.prnewswire.com/.../advanced-biomedical-technologies-i...
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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