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SCIENCE, Research, Technology News, Jan 22, 2012

Scientists call moratorium on study of deadly bird flu
Los Angeles Times
Fouchier and coauthors wrote in the letter that they recognized the need to clearly explain the benefits of their research to a worried public. They called for an international forum where the scientific community could discuss the oversight of such...
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Los Angeles Times
Scientific Misconduct Muddies Waters of Red Wine Research
Palate Pres
An investigation performed by the University of Connecticut has concluded that reseacher Dr. Dipak Das falsified data in 26 scientific publications, some of which were studies involving the controversial wine component resveratrol. ...
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Palate Pres
Northwestern Health Sciences University research study gets national news ...
Chiropractic Economics
January 15, 2012 — The findings of a research study on neck pain conducted at Northwestern Health Sciences University made the national recently. The studyshowed that spinal manipulation and exercise are more effective at relieving neck pain in the ...
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Chiropractic Economics
Study: Babies try lip-reading in learning to talk
The Associated Press
The new research appears in this week's issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. It offers more evidence that quality face-time with your tot is very important for speech development — more than, say, turning on the latest baby ...
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The Associated Press
Masdar Institute's Laboratory for Energy and Nano Sciences Offers Unique Scope ...
ElectroIQ
This international recognition once again validates the status of Masdar Institute, where pioneeringscientific research is conducted at its various laboratories. We thank the UAE's leaders for creating an academic infrastructure that enables capacity ...
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Scientists sound alarm for state research funding
San Francisco Chronicle
"Scientists are concerned enough to want to look at this in greater depth." The study is included in a vast, 575-page report prepared every two years for the president and Congress called "Science and Engineering Indicators." In examining state funding ...
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Scientific Misconduct And Its Wide-Ranging Effects
Hartford Courant
And was it a sign of larger problems in the world of scientific research? Of the many publishedstudies by Das — a professor in the department of surgery and director of the CardiovascularResearch Center at the UConn Health Center — 23 came under ...
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W&M professor honored as outstanding scientist
William and Mary News
A recent analysis of that 1992 paper showed it to be the fourth most-cited research study among more than 17000 coastal science articles published between 1975 and 2005. VIMS professor Steve Kuehl says “Simply put, John is the world's expert on rivers. ...
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William and Mary News
Changing Priorities: Science Funding Slashed Under Corbett Administration
StateImpact Pennsylvania
But documents obtained by StateImpact Pennsylvania, as well as interviews with more than a dozen people who work both inside and out of state government, highlight top-level decisions to diminish or defund drilling-related scientific research in the ...
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Driver error, car electronics eyed in new study of Toyota unintended acceleration
Detroit Free Press
In March 2010 NHTSA asked the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the academy of sciences' National Research Council to explore any possible connection between the electronic throttle control software and unintended acceleration. ...
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Black students: Duke study shows deeper problems
Fox News
The research found similar trends for legacy students — those whose parents are alumni. Thestudy's claim that majors such as natural sciences required more study time was based on students' responses to survey questions about how many hours they ...
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Scientists upload research to YouTube-inspired journal
CTV.ca
The Journal of Visualized Experiments, or JoVE, is an online, peer-reviewed and indexed scientific journal that highlights the latest research on everything from plankton cells to human diseases. What makes JoVE different from some 25000scientific ...
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CTV.ca
NOCSAE Meets to Consider Sports Medicine Research Grants and Review Concussion ...
Bradenton Herald
NOCSAE is an independent and nonprofit standard-setting body with the sole mission to enhance athletic safety through scientific research and the creation of performance standards for protective equipment. "Through our grant research funding program, ...
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Scientists make progress in assessing tornado seasons
Science Daily (press release)
... methods to something as tiny and complicated as a twister is trickier, said study coauthor Adam Sobel, an atmospheric scientist with joint appointments at Columbia's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and School of Engineering and Applied Science. ...
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Scientific paper shows California condor still threatened by human activities
EurekAlert (press release)
A recently released scientific paper authored by San Diego Zoo Institute for Conservation Research scientists shows the leading causes of death of the endangered California condor in the wild are human influenced, with lead poisoning being the primary ...
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Red wine researcher accused of fraud
San Francisco Chronicle
Das is director of the University of Connecticut Health Center's Cardiovascular Research Center. Eleven scientific research journals that have published Das' work are being notified of the problems, which came to light after a three-year review ...
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Cracking Open the Scientific Process
New York Times
For centuries, this is how science has operated — through research done in private, then submitted to science and medical journals to be reviewed by peers and published for the benefit of other researchers and the public at large. ...
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New York Times
Egypt's scientists savour post-revolution year
Nature.com
Extra funding is generating enthusiasm for science in Egypt. All the research centres affiliated to different ministries will be gathered under the Supreme Council of Research Centers, and thescientific research budget, which jumped 35 per cent in ...
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Beyonce Gets Fly with Golden Booty Named After Her
Sci-Tech Today
The scientist who named the insect says he hasn't heard from Beyonce,but he is a fan and hopes she will take his scientific gesture as a compliment. He said the name was picked to help draw attention to insect studies. ...
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Sci-Tech Today
Researchers, tribes clash over human bones
USA TODAY
Some grave sites were looted or excavated to support scientific research, including a study of skulls purporting to show that Native Americans were inferior to Caucasians, according to Robert Bieder, an Indiana University professor who has written ...
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Public clouds for scientific applications cost up to 13x more
FierceGovernmentIT
The study (.pdf), released in December, chronicles the build out of a private cloud dubbed Magellan by the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility and the National Energy Research ScientificComputing Center, as well as a study of attitudes to cloud ...
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Study provides new insights into antibiotics and pig feeds
MSU News
As the USDA's chief scientific research agency, ARS is leading America toward a better future through agricultural research and information. ARS conducts research to develop and transfer solutions to help answer agricultural questions that impact ...
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MSU News
Academic publishers have become the enemies of science
The Guardian
Their rhetoric has traditionally been of partnering with scientists, but the truth is that for some time now scientific publishers have been anti-science and anti-publication. TheResearch Works Act, introduced in the US Congress on 16 December, ...
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The Guardian
Nine ways scientists demonstrate they don't understand journalism
The Guardian (blog)
As a critical friend of science, I regard anything that improves informed public debate about research to be a good thing. But if you browse them a little while you can't help but notice that they're, well, a little bit dull. If you're a scientist or ...
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The Guardian (blog)
Researchers praise Scott's South Pole scientific legacy
BBC News
The expedition was the ambitious scientific endeavour of its time, and it was the largest ever research mission to the pole - comprising 12 scientists including two biologists, three geologists and a meteorologist. The team collected specimens from ...
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BBC News
Perspectives: Scientific inquiry: learning about it and learning ...
By Mun-Keat Looi
What is the evidence that scientific inquiry instructional approaches are effective in supporting students' understandings of science concepts? Here, I focus on those research studies that have considered the detail of scientific inquiry teaching/ ...
Wellcome Trust Blog
UCSF again tops public institutions in NIH research funding | UC ...
By alecrosenberg
The federal funding plays a key role in supporting UCSF's graduate-level biomedical enterprise, including research into the genetic, molecular and cellular basis of diseases, epidemiological and clinical-research studies, and efforts to develop innovative treatments and cures. That research has led to four UCSF faculty members receiving the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, and has fueled significant advances in biomedical sciences. “These grants are absolutely essential in ...
UC Health
Scientists shed new light on link between 'killer ... - Science Codex
By News
The study, funded by the UK Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) using facilities at Diamond Light Source and published in Nature Immunology, shows that ...
Science Codex - Science news,...
Questions on research integrity and scientific responsibility | Climate ...
By curryja
What are the research ethics and scientific responsibilities of the open science movement, versus what is done behind paywalls? 3. How can we address the challenge “aggregating” uncertainty across many researchers and many disciplines: ...
Climate Etc.
Education News » Scientists sound alarm over state research funding
By EducationViews.org
Now the nation's top scientists have joined the chorus, having noticed through careful study that state funding has plunged 30 percent per student at California's public research institutions since 2002. ...and the California State University's San Diego campus – were included in a new study from the National Science Board revealing that spending on the nation's top 101 public research institutions plunged an average of 20 percent between 2002 and 2010 in inflation-adjusted dollars.
Education News
OeAD Anniversary Grant in Social Sciences, Humanities and ...
Research Grant in the field of social sciences, humanities and cultural studies at OeAD, Austria 2012/13 Study Subject(s):Social sciences, humanities and.
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Oases 2012: Return to the Cayman Rise: InterRidge
By WHOI Expeditions
InterRidge, which has nearly 2600 members from more than 60 countries, exists to promote interdisciplinary, international studies of oceanic spreading centers by creating a global researchcommunity where technology and scientific ...
Oases 2012: Return to the Cayman Rise
Scientists behind Armageddon flu virus suspend their research ...
By InvestmentWatch
Researchers studying a potentially more lethal, airborne version of bird flu have suspended theirstudies because of concerns the mutant virus they have created could be used as a devastating form of bioterrorism or accidentally escape the lab. In a letter published in the journals Nature and Scienceon Friday, 39 scientists defended the research as crucial to public health efforts. But they are bowing to fear that has become widespread since media reports discussed the studies, and ...
Investment Watch Blog - 2012
Study on the Farmers' Scientific Accomplishment in the Vision of ...
By rain
The improvement of People's scientific accomplishment often lags behind the changes of phenomenons caused by the social science and technology in real life, what hampers social progress, this. ... Economics Papers,Economics Term Paper, Economics Research Paper · Home · Economics papers · Finance · International · Management · home > Economics papers > Study on the Farmers' Scientific Accomplishment in the Vision of New Countryside Construction. Study on the...
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North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences announces opening of ...
By Editor
The North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences has announced the opening of it's new 80000 square-foot Nature Research Center (NRC) bringing research scientists. ... has announced the opening of it's new 80000 square-foot Nature Research Center (NRC) bringing research scientists and their work into the public eye, help demystify what can be an intimidating field of study, better preparescience educators and students, and inspire a new generation of young scientists.
MuseumPublicity.com
Scientific Research in Homoeopathy | Scientific Research ...
There are many peer reviewed published studies and meta-analyses supporting ... The main aim ofresearch is to look into the matter in a scientific and “rational” ...
hpathy.com/scientific.../scientific-research-in-homoeopathy/
Research Space Scientist, AST, Planetary Studies - USAJOBS ...
Job Title:Research Space Scientist, AST, Planetary Studies. Department:National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Agency:Goddard Space Flight Center ...
www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/306728900
New scientific study links bee deaths to pesticides
New scientific study links bee deaths to pesticides. ... The Purdue research indicates bee deaths are connected to neonicotinoid pesticides, which use a ...
www.naturalnews.com/034678_honey_bees_colony_collapse...
Virginia Institute of Marine Science - VIMS professor honored as ...
VIMS professor honored as Outstanding Scientist ... During the past two decades, Milliman'sresearch has focused on studies of how river discharge influences ...
www.vims.edu/newsandevents/topstories/milliman_osa.php
VIDEO: Meet our Scientist Rachel Page. She studies frog-eating ...
Meg studies intergroup competition in white‐faced capuchin monkeys. Meet Our Scientist: Justin Touchon, Frog Follower at the Smithsonian Tropical Research ...
smithsonianscience.org/.../video-meet-our-scientist-rachel-pag...
Clinical Research Scientist with Kelly Scientific | 26108
Provides scientific and operational leadership for timely and high quality execution of global clinicaltrials in support of global clinical research with a strong ...
www.labratjobs.com/job/26108/clinical-research-scientist/
Indian universities lag behind in scientific research: study | Down To ...
An analysis of research publications around the world has shown that while India is among the world's top countries in terms of scientific research output, the ...
www.downtoearth.org.in/.../indian-universities-lag-behind-scie...
Research Triangle Pa Regulatory Scientist Job - NC, 27701
BASF Plant Science (BPS) is seeking to appoint an innovative and experienced Biotechnology Regulatory Scientist based in Research Triangle Park, NC, ...
jobs.basf.us/job/Research-Triangle-Pa...Scientist.../1659362/
Scientists behind Armageddon flu virus suspend their research ...
Scientists behind Armageddon flu virus suspend their research because it 'could put ... a team ofscientists who have ceased their controversial avian flu studies ...
www.dailymail.co.uk/.../Scientists-Armageddon-flu-virus-susp...
Don't dismiss social science research just because of one fradulent ...
Don't dismiss social science research just because of one fradulent scientist ... Most such claims of social science, we would soon find, fall into one of three ...
legallysociable.com/.../dont-dismiss-all-academic-research-just...
  
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