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SCIENCE News, Studies, Research, Technology, Nov 13, 2011


Rising air pollution worsens drought, flooding, UMD-led study shows
EurekAlert (press release)
... in models remains a future challenge, but this study clearly points in important directions." Support for this research was provided by the Department of Energy, NASA, the National Science Foundation and the Chinese Ministry of Science andTechnology.
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Exclusive - Orbital solar power plants touted for energy needs
Reuters UK
Orbiting power plants capable of collecting solar energy and beaming it to Earth appear "technically feasible" within a decade or two based on technologies now in the laboratory, a study group of the Paris-headquartered International Academy of ...
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Regents' Professors 2011: ASU awards highest faculty honors
Media Newswire (press release)
Marchant is the executive director of the Center for the Study of Law, Science andTechnology, the Lincoln Professor of Emerging Technologies, Law and Ethics in the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, and a world leader on one of the most important ...
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College of Engineering Helps Launch Historic Industry/University Cooperative ...
Media Newswire (press release)
They don't house people, they house electronic machines that perform informationtechnology functions while dissipating huge amounts of heat,” says Alfonso Ortega, Villanova College of Engineering's associate dean for graduate studies and research, ...
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Two minute video that 'shows how the Earth's temperature has risen 1C since ...
Daily Mail
Prof Curry, of the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology, in the US, said their data actually showed average world temperatures had 'paused' since the late 1990s. She also said that a graph published on the ...
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Daily Mail
SHSU chosen invasive species research center
Huntsville Item
In addition to Cook, several SHSU faculty and research scientists will be actively involved with the operation of the institute, including Autumn Smith, Jack Hill, Chris Wilson, Amber Bartelt. Individual SHSU researchers have the option of ...
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Madras miscellany: The roof came tumbling down
The Hindu
A bit further away are the Polytechnics, the Regional Institute of PrintingTechnology, The Institute of Hotel Management, The Institute of Mathematical Science, the MS Swaminathan Research Foundation, the Asian College of Journalism, and Institutes ...
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The Hindu
Speakers: Uranium more regulated today
Martinsville Bulletin
More than 120 people attended the workshop at the Institute for Advanced Learning andResearch. Virginia Tech nuclear engineering program, in association with other groups and agencies, put on the workshop. It was funded by a grant from Virginia ...
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Extreme endurance
The Guardian
"The relationship between exploration, science, technology and health is more complicated than many people realise," says Fong. "They can often be codependent. People go to extremes primarily because humans are naturally driven to explore. ...
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The Guardian
Seattle's Swedish lands $2.2M federal grant for brain research
TechFlash
Swedish Neuroscience Institute received a $2.2 million grant from the National Institute of Neurological Disease and Stroke to participate in clinical research studies on brain-related diseases. The Swedish Institute will be one of 25 neuroscience ...
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Clean Energy Has Highest Documented Rate of Return of Any Federal Program, But ...
ThinkProgress
By Joe Romm on Nov 13, 2011 at 12:32 pm The National Academy of Sciencesconcluded in 2001 that a handful of clean energy technologies returned about $30 billion on an R&D investment of about $400 million. The United States is an amazing venture ...
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Hard work pays as Asma is named top HCT student
gulfnews.com
By Rania Moussly, Staff Reporter Shaikh Nahyan Bin Mubarak Al Nahyan, Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research and Chancellor of HCT, and HCT Vice-Chancellor Dr Tayeb Kamali look on as Asma receives her Nikai Student Award from Nikai Group ...
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gulfnews.com
Usage Of Digital Reading Materials To Be Included In Next Study - PNM Deputy ...
Bernama
"Digital reading materials as a preferred option was not included in the previous studies.Research then was more into the usage of the physical form of reading materials and the Internet," she told Bernama. Siti Rodziah said the questions that would ...
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New Report Paints Detailed Portrait of U.S. Residential Energy Consumers ...
PR Newswire (press release)
Membership is open to all consumer and environmental advocates, technology vendors,research scientists and electric utilities for sharing in research, best practices and collaborative efforts of the group. Learn more at www.smartgridcc.org. ...
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Ultrathin flexible brain implant offers unique look at seizures
PhysOrg.com
"This technology allows us to see patterns of activity before and during a seizure at a very fine scale, with broad coverage of the brain," said Jonathan Viventi, Ph.D., thestudy's lead author and an assistant professor at the Polytechnic Institute of ...
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Aging expert visits Lee classes
Cleveland Daily Banner
“Designing tools for the aging process is how research application dreams for the future can happen now.” In addition to her lectures, Moore met with Lee students to discuss social science and the health care industry. “Our students were mesmerized by ...
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Combination therapy shows potent tumor growth inhibition in preclinical studies
EurekAlert (press release)
"These preclinical findings suggest that combining REGN910 (SAR307746) and aflibercept in the clinic could be an attractive approach for future clinical research," said Alshad S. Lalani, Ph.D., director of strategic oncology development at Regeneron ...
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Air University boss ready for budget realities
AirForceTimes.com
He completed Squadron Officer School, the Joint Air Force Component Command and the Joint Flag Officer Warfighter courses, and earned a master's degree in air power art and science. “I really feel like I know this place very well,” Fadok said from his ...
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My Take: Keep government out of mind-reading business
CNN (blog)
The research is still new, and the kinds of information scientists can find through brain imaging are still simple. But the recent pace of progress in neuroscience has been startling and new studies are being published all the time. ...
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Thousands of parents pay to store their children's umbilical cord blood (but...
Daily Mail
Afterwards, I consulted leading scientists in stem-cell research – and while there is no suggestion the companies are illegitimate or fraudulent, what they told me left me wondering whether these business are profiteering from paranoias of new parents. ...
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Daily Mail
Turkey should focus on $100 bln boron market
Today's Zaman
The fuel cell, developed by the National Boron Research Institute (BOREN) and the Marmara Research Center of the Scientific andTechnological Research Council of Turkey (TÃœBÄ°TAK-MAM), consumes almost one kilogram of borohydride per 35 kilometers and ...
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Today's Zaman
Lilly and MOH announce registration approval of Bydureon in UAE
AME Info
Lilly, a leading innovation-driven corporation, is developing a growing portfolio of pharmaceutical products by applying the latest research from its own worldwide laboratories and from collaborations with eminent scientific organizations. ...
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Bummer: Drying Your Hands Like a Rational Human Now Bad For Globull Warming
Stop the ACLU
Sounds kinda “green” to me Scientists at Massachusetts Institute of Technology have completed what is believed to be the first major study to assess the greenest way of drying your hands. Seriously? This is what the smart people are doing? Studies on ...
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Nashville People in Business
The Tennessean
Hoevel has a pair of degrees from Vanderbilt University, with a master's in organizational leadership and a bachelor's in communication of science and technology. McAnally recently completed a bachelor's in computer science at Vanderbilt. ...
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Multidisciplinary approach to values education
Manila Bulletin
CRC has become a forum of multidisciplinary research and conferences that combine the best minds of academe, business world, government, and civil society in addressing the most relevant social issues facing the Philippines today. ...
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Wind power now contribute about 3% of the total US electricity
REVE
DOE analyses resulted in strategies for offshore wind farm technology development, workforce development, and gearbox reliability improvement. The Wind Program studiesprovide utilities and regulators detailed analyses of the integration of high ...
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José Manuel Durão Barroso President of the European Commission Speech by ...
IEWY News
And, more could be done to strengthen the links between education,research and innovation. We have to make the knowledge triangle work better in favour of new socio-economic benefits. Knowledge, ideas andtechnology have to be better transferred to ...
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IEWY News
Cloud computing leads to complicated software market
The News Journal
"The old model of selling software in a box or [through] an enterprise server license and then charging for periodic upgrades has been disrupted," says Kevin Werbach, a legalstudies and business ethics professor at Wharton. ...
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Public Lecture -Putting Fear of Crime on the Map
Braidwood Times
In this public lecture, Dr Bruce Doran and Dr Melissa Burgess, will launch their book Putting Fear of Crime on the Map, which chronicles the evolution of both research andtechnology used to document this phenomenon. They will discuss how fear of crime ...
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Embrace knowledge and shape society: Kakodkar
Times of India
He also spoke about research and said it was absolutely important for a university as it added to the quality of education. "All of you have gone through your respective courses of studies and have been adjudged to be worthy of the degrees that are ...
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Research on Science and Technology Development Program of ...
By rain
As a blueprint of the development of regional science and technology, the regionalscience and technology development plan is a main means which government implements science study and technology development in the market economy ...
Economics Papers,Economics Term...
'Protein microarrays' may reveal new weapons ... - Science Daily
A new research technology is revealing how humans develop immunity to malaria, and could assist ... ScienceDaily: Your source for the latest research news and science ..."Our studies show that this is partly because they have not developed ...
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/11/111101095400.htm
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...
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...
Researchers using new technology to study breath ... - Medical Xpress
Researchers using new technology to study breath for toxins ... paper in the journal Environmental Science & Technology that details how to learn just that, using ...
medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-technology-toxins.html
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/
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/rsstory/73668.html
Advanced Cell Technology | Speaking of Research
Improving understanding about Animal Research / Animal Testing ... medical science, and it is an emerging field that owes a lot to animal studies performed by ... In September of this year embryonic stem cells were in the news again with the ...
speakingofresearch.com/tag/advanced-cell-technology/
Researchers Using New Technology to Study ... - ScienceNewsline
Breathing. Anyone reading this article is doing it right now. But what chemicals are we breathing in, and out? A group of Virginia Tech College of Engineering ...
www.sciencenewsline.com/medicine/.../2011110718050031.ht...
Scientific Collaboration Between India And Germany Reaches New ...
Increasing number of research collaborations with outstanding results / study on ... ofScience, Technology and Development Studies (NISTADS) and the DFG, ...
www.redorbit.com/news/science/.../scientific.../index.html
Research shows 'weak evidence' - Science News SciGuru.com
Research commissioned by the NIHR Health Technology Assessment programme ...The findings of the study indicate that there is 'weak evidence' to support ...
www.sciguru.com/.../Research-shows-weak-evidence-benefit-e...
Virginia Tech to Lead NSF-funded Amphibian Microbe Study ...
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – A group of scientists led by Virginia Tech will use funding from the National Science Foundation to study the microbes living ...
www.genomeweb.com/.../virginia-tech-lead-nsf-funded-amphi...
The Campaign for UC Davis: Philanthropy News
Graduate School of Management Dean Steven Currall and technology management ...social science, humanities and legal researchers across the university. ...
campaign.ucdavis.edu/news/id/10073
Frontier settlers had breeding boost - Technology & Science - CBC ...
CBC News Technology & Science ... By Emily Chung, CBC News ... the study led by Claudia Moreau, a researcher at Sainte-Justine Hospital at the University of ...
www.cbc.ca/.../technology-frontier-pioneers-quebec-children...
HIV study identifies key cellular defence ... - Bioscience Technology
Daily news and top headlines for life science research professionals ... (TEM)technology increase the power of this imaging tool for the study of cell biology. ...
www.biosciencetechnology.com/.../sections-international-news...
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