DNA quickly mapped in study by Mayo Clinic
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Yet the technology has provided few practical tools for doctors as they provide care for patients facing life-threatening disease. "We were impressed with the technology," said Keith Stewart, Mayo Clinic's dean of research. "What we couldn't figure out ...
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Georgia Health Sciences University Clinical Study Shows RyMed InVision-Plus ...
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16, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Georgia Health Sciences University presented a poster at the recent 11th National Conference on Cancer Nursing Research in Los Angeles, in which their clinical study showed that RyMed Technologies' InVision-Plus® IV Connector ...
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Study: Doctors order tests out of fear of lawsuits
The Associated Press
SAN DIEGO (AP) — CT scans, MRIs and other pricey imaging tests are often more for the doctor's benefit than the patient's, new research confirms. Roughly one-fifth of tests that bone and joint specialists order are because a doctor fears being sued, ...
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Research Study Explores Respondent Priorities Across Digital Landscape
TMCnet
By Mini Swamy , TMCnet Contributor The 2011 Digital Marketing Outlook study, conducted by SoDA, or the Society of Digital Agencies and its research partner, AnswerLab, explored the strategic priorities across the digital landscape. ...
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Greenhouse gases led to increase in deluges, researchers say
Washington Post (blog)
The research could not absolutely determine that the floods had been triggered by greenhouse gases, said the University of Oxford's Myles Allen, who contributed to the study. "It's important to stress there is uncertainty in this work. ...
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Media advisory -- events at AAAS
PhysOrg.com (press release)
SPEAKERS: Norman Fortenberry, National Academy of Engineering; Eric Jolly, Science Museum of Minnesota; Florence Bonner, Howard University; and Carlos Rodriguez, American Institutes for Research. This symposium focuses on a series of NSF-funded studies ...
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GOP Cuts Target Clean Energy
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Their proposed budget resolution, setting spending levels for the remainder of fiscal year 2011, has knives out for energy science and technology research – for example, a 35 percent chop from 2010 levels for energy efficiency and renewables, ...
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Obama heads West to meet tech leaders
MarketWatch
The 2012 blueprint includes higher federal spending for research and development, aid for clean-energy technology and new funding for math and science teaching — all of which are supported by the high-tech industry. The highlight of the president's ...
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Chu Pressed by Senators on 45% Cut in US Fossil-Fuel Research
Bloomberg
The US is in a “competitive race with the rest of the world” to develop green-energy technologies, Chu said. The proposed budget cuts include ending a program that studies how to extract fossil fuels from hard-to-reach places such as marginal wells or ...
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House science chairman seeks to block funding for new 'Climate Service'
The Hill (blog)
Ralph Hall (R-Texas), the chairman of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee, is seeking to block funding for the overhaul of major federal climate change research and monitoring programs. Hall – who questions climate science – wants to ...
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RIM announces more new versions of PlayBook tablet
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Science research vessel arrives in Newfoundland
Laboratory Products News
Research on the overwintering cod will include collaborative studies of reproduction and condition, feeding and stock structure, with samples collected from stomach tissues for genetic study, and otoliths (ear bones) for aging and studies of fish ...
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No seeds, no independent research
Bellingham Herald
To ensure that agricultural science serves the public, Congress should change patent law and create a clear exemption for agricultural research. The need for this exemption will only increase. As the technology spreads, it's likely that more, ...
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Nontoxic And Nonfuming Sporicide: Science At Its Best
Pharmaceutical Online (press release)
Fortunately, we live in the age of advanced cellular research and new technology. It has long been known that ionic silver has great antimicrobial properties, and a number of FDA approvals for products based on this technology have been granted. ...
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Hungering for Longevity----Scientists Identify the Confluence of Aging Signals
Newswise (press release)
The Salk Institute for Biological Studies is one of the world's preeminent basic research institutions, where internationally renowned faculty probe fundamental life science questions in a unique, collaborative, and creative environment. ...
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New tech to reduce blood transfusion risks
Gulf Today
By Mariecar Jara-Puyod A UAE medical institution, designated by the World Health Organisation as the regional hub for studies and centre for blood supplies, has acquired a new technology proven to minimise risks in blood transfusion. ...
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Biocell Technology Receives Frost & Sullivan Best Practices in Customer Value ...
Benzinga
Frost & Sullivan's Best Practices research praised BioCell Technology and its executives for their world-class performances to become one of best-in-class companies in managing phenomenal growth, technological innovation and strong leadership. ...
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VC-backed firms grew jobs by 18.6pc last year
Siliconrepublic.com
The findings were revealed in an independent economic impact study by UCD's Department of Entrepreneurial Studies. “Our research finds that VC-backed companies provide a substantial impetus to the ongoing development of a knowledge-based economy,” ...
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Nordic Naturals® Ongoing Participation in Scientific Research Validates ...
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Research institutions respect our leading edge technologies and consistently choose our products for clinical trials —we are proud to have built an unmatched reputation in the scientific and medical communities." The 14 published studies show a full ...
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Fish factor: Draft US aquaculture policies released
Capital City Weekly
Right next door is the NOAA Fisheries research center; downtown are the Fish and Game labs. All contain decades of marine research and experience that local scientists will share with the community at a science symposium in April. ...
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NSF Builds More Partnerships for International Research and Education
National Science Foundation (press release)
In a coordinated effort, the project seeks to detect and study low frequency gravitational waves (GW) at sites in both hemispheres and across many radio observing frequencies. Through international science meetings, student workshops and research and ...
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National Science Foundation (press release)
Stem Cell Market Booming in the US
PR-USA.net (press release)
We have discussed all the factors that are driving growth in the US stem cell market in our research report. Our study also reveals that the market is expected to register significant growth in its technology areas. As the country very soon became ...
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Casual video games are effective treatment for depression and anxiety
HULIQ
It also involves a relatively small research group (59). More importantly, it was sponsored by the very publisher of the games used, PopCap Games. In no way is this meant to suggest any type of fraud, but studies sponsored by a company with a vested ...
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Michael J. Fox Foundation Awards Grant to Zymes LLC
PR Newswire (press release)
The proposed studies should complete our preclinical assessment of WS-CoQ10 formulation in preparation of taking it to clinical trials and ultimately to Parkinson's patients. We thank the MJFF for their generous support of our research," stated Dr. ...
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Draft Guidance for Industry and Food and Drug Administration Staff on Best ...
TMCnet
The advent of new technologies and the ability to efficiently assemble electronic healthcare data sets for use in drug safety research have provided many new opportunities for conducting pharmacoepidemiologic studies of product safety issues. ...
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ASU research having impact in US anti-terrorist program
Arizona State University
The HSCB program was established in 2008 to develop a science base and associated technologies for modeling human, social and cultural behavior. The projects received two of the three awards given this year. “Identifying Terrorist Narratives and ...
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Top five advances in heart disease research
Gainesville Sun
The American Heart Association has updated its guidelines for CPR, based on new studies. Performing "Hands Only CPR" will give the victim the best chance of survival. Call 911 and push hard and fast in the center of the chest. ...
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Can winners be made in a lab?
Irish Times
This school studies the science subjects in a sports context. This differs from traditional physical training programmes in that the SHHP aims to move students beyond the whole body level to a point where they understand how we function at a cellular ...
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Irish Times
Modified switchgrass reduces enzyme use, boosts ethanol yield
Ethanol Producer Magazine
Funding for the switchgrass research was provided by the USDA and the DOE Office of Science through ORNL's BioEnergy Science Center. The BioEnergy Science Center was established in 2007 and is one of the DOE's three bioenergy research centers. ...
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Ethanol Producer Magazine
Can we build it? Yes we can!
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James Hrynyshyn is a communications consultant and freelance science journalist based in Western North Carolina. Follow this blog on Twitter, if that's your sort of thing. There's facebook, too. "There is no need to sally forth, for it remains true ...
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Research and Markets: Handbook of Smart Antennas for RFID Systems - The Single ...
Business Wire (press release)
Some topics are: adaptive beamforming for RFID smart antennas, multiuser interference suppression in RFID tag reading, phased array antennas for RFID applications, smart antennas in wireless systems and market analysis and case studies of RFID smart ...
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A billion tons of biomass a viable goal, but at high price, new ...
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A billion tons of biomass a viable goal, but at high price, new research showsCHAMPAIGN, Ill. – A new study from the University of Illinois concludes that very high biomass prices would be needed in order to meet the ambitious goal of ... "But if we really want to get to the 30 percent replacement of gasoline, at least with the current technology, then that's going to be much more costly." A team of researchers led by Madhu Khanna, a professor of agricultural and consumer ...
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Research and Markets: Handbook of Smart Antennas for RFID Systems ...
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This handbook will cover the latest achievements in the designs and applications for smart antennas for RFID as well as the basic concepts, terms, protocols, systems architectures and case studies in smart antennas for RFID readers and tags. ... Dr. Nemai Chandra Karmakar obtained his PhD in Information Technology and Electrical Engineering from the University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Australia, in 1999. He has about twenty years of teaching, design, and research ...
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Body Images: Gender Inside/Outside (Research Workshop) | Journal ...
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The course lecturers cover a variety of disciplinary backgrounds, including media studies, science and technology studies and gender research. All lectures and discussions will be held in English. ...
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Study: Doctors order tests out of fear of lawsuits | The Daily ...
SAN DIEGO (AP) — CT scans, MRIs and other pricey imaging tests are often more for the doctor's benefit than the patient's, new research confirms. Roughly. ... Surprisingly, the study found that newer doctors were less likely to be defensive. “That's counterintuitive,” Flynn said. “You would expect when you're new in practice, not as trustful of your clinical judgment, you'd order more.” ...
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Low-Carb News & Health Headlines For February 2011 « Jimmy Moore's ...
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I'm thankful that this technology was created, but I'd love to see stronger recommendations by public health officials about giving up sugar and starchy carbohydrates as a means for preventing cancer. ... His thesis is that so many studies begin to look increasingly irrelevant as future research debunks many of the findings of the original experiment. Lehrer notes that there seems to be something happening that pushes researchers into noticing patterns in their data that ...
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Some Key Questions I Will Be Examining as Part of the Google ...
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In an effort to foster a more open, transparent and accessible scientific dialogue, we've started a new effort aimed at inspiring pioneering use of technology, new media and computational thinking in the communication of science to ... These fellows were elected from a pool of applicants of early to mid- career Ph.D. scientists nominated by leaders in climate change research and science-based institutions across the U.S. It was hard to choose just 21 fellows from such an ...
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Climate change raises flood risk, researchers say | Arsip Berita ...
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By Richard BlackEnvironment correspondent, BBC News More accurate assessment of rainfall patterns will help communities prepare for floods. ... Climate change raises flood risk, researchers say. Science | February 17, 2011 at 01:36 ... In the second study, researchers from Canada and the UK looked at the increase in the frequency of extreme rainfall events documented across much of the Northern Hemisphere between 1950 and 2000. There are variations from year to year and ...
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European project studies incorporating fuel cells in industry ...
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European project studies incorporating fuel cells in industry. Source : 3166_Cidetec-SHEL2. The CIDETEC-IK4 technological centre is host to the launch ( “kick-off”) meeting of an ambitious European research project involving studying the ...
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Campus Physicists Find That Ground-Based Lasers Can Map Earth's ...
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Princeton University physics professor William Happer first developed the idea for this technique in the early 1980s while he was working on a classified study for the Department of Defense, though the technology was not released to the ... According to former UC Berkeley postdoctoral fellow James Higbie - an assistant professor of physics and astronomy at Bucknell University and a researcher in the study - "the (sodium) atoms act like a little compass needle," and in the ...
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EIAST signs launch contract with International Space Company ...
The Emirates Institution for Advanced Science & Technology (EIAST) has signed a contract with the International Space Company Kosmotras (ISCK) from Russia for the launch of the second remote. ... DubaiSat-2 is the second remote sensing satellite owned by the UAE which underscores the country's determination to possess advanced space technologies to fulfil the needs of scientific and technological research, as well as to provide up-to-date spatial and earth monitoring data ...
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Covering the basics as well as advanced concepts, Mobile Opportunistic Networks: Architectures, Protocols and Applications, introduces state-of-the-art research findings, technologies, tools, and innovations. ... Filter News. Country ... Prominent researchers from academia and industry report on communication architectures, network algorithms and protocols, emerging applications, experimental studies, simulation tools, implementation test beds, and professional and ...
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Bulletstorm, Fox News and the controversy that shouldn't have been ...
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"There are lots of studies published around the whole issue of games and violence – if you talk to Craig Anderson in the States, he would argue that his research shows a link between violence in games and violence that people go on to commit .... Last 24 hours. 1. Google will launch iTunes music store competitor with upgrade to Android; 2. Bulletstorm, Fox News and the controversy that shouldn't have been; 3. Tech Weekly podcast: Nokia's mobile alliance with Microsoft; 4. ...
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A billion tons of biomass a viable goal, but at high price, new ...
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According to Khanna, miscanthus has been excluded from previous studies because it's a crop that has yet to be grown commercially, and most of the research about it is recent and still considered experimental. ... The research was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, National Science Foundation, and the U. of I. Energy Biosciences Institute. Other co-authors are Hayri Önal, a professor of agricultural and consumer economics at Illinois, and research associates ...
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Ecstasy - Now With Less Cognitive Impairment
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News Staff. The schedule 1 illicit drug known as ecstasy has been used by up to 12 million people in the United States and millions more worldwide. Past research has suggested that ecstasy users perform worse than others on some tests of ... In response to those concerns, a team of researchers has conducted one of the largest studies ever undertaken to re-examine the cognitive effects of ecstasy, funded by a $1.8 million grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse ...
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New College News » Blog Archive » Three New College Students Win ...
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The awards were given for exemplary research work in the field of archaeology and anthropology. A New College student has been among the winners each of the last two years but this year, three New College students prepared papers and presentations that merited the award. ... Alexis Santos, from Kissimmee, is interested in technology and journalism. He plans to study how technology can be used to represent archaeological sites during his remaining time at New College. ...
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Brandeis study shows economic impact of dengue virus in Americas ...
All Related News. Recent; Most Viewed; Comments ... According to the study group's estimates, 60 percent of the economic strain caused by ... with the opportunity to collaborate with scientist Scott B. Halstead, ... In some cases the technologies already existed and the research aided more widespread dissemination. ...
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CEA-Leti: Global School for Advanced Studies Invites Student Researchers to Session ... research fellow at NEC and a professor of materials science at Meijo ... Green Technology eNews delivers the latest news impacting technology in the ...
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