Market research and the primitive urges of the consumer
BBC News
Technology offers an answer to the question that Ogilvy, who died in 1999, probably never envisaged. Market researchers are already experimenting with desktop and smartphone applications that promise to reveal the subconscious layers of a consumer's ...
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Malaysia will establish a center to honor Dr. Atta-ur-Rehman
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Photo by Suhail Yusuf /Dawn.com KARACHI: University of Technology Mara, Malaysia, (UiTM) has decided to setup a science centre in the name of former Chairman of Higher Education Commission (HEC) Pakistan Prof Dr. Atta-ur-Rahman in recognition of his ...
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Discovery marks new direction in phototransduction studies
7thSpace Interactive (press release)
Their work appears March 3 on online Express site for the journal Science. "This is totally novel mechanism that does not depend on retinal," said Holmes, a professor of physiology & biophysics. "This discovery opens whole new technology opportunities ...
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25th Space Studies Program to Convene on the Florida Space Coast
Space Ref (press release)
Located in Melbourne, on Florida's central east coast, the Florida Institute of Technology (Florida Tech) is an independent technological university that provides quality education, furthers knowledge through basic and applied research, and serves the ...
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STEM grants help attract more students to sciences
Seattle Times
Washington STEM, a privately funded nonprofit to boost the quality of education in science, technology, engineering and math, will announce 15 grants Monday totaling $2.4 million. By Jack Broom Students at Technology Access Foundation Academy in ...
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IIT placements back to pre-recession levels
Business Standard
The placement season which is still on, has seen participation from over 200 companies across technology, research and development, public sector, financial services, engineering and process ing along with education related sectors. ...
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South Korea needs a defense system beyond nuclear weapons
Sri Lanka Guardian
He is a Harvard-trained quantum physicist who won the prestigious Kilby Award, which recognizes scientists who have made "major contributions to society through their applied research in the fields of science and technology." Dr. Hagelin also serves as ...
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Alabama Power to study use of electric cars
The Birmingham News - al.com (blog)
According to a new study by the Center for Automotive Research, sales of electric vehicles in Alabama should be just under 1000 by 2015. That's compared to the leading state of California, where electric vehicle sales are expected to top 33500 the same ...
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New gene regions identified that predispose people to heart attacks, Stanford ...
EurekAlert (press release)
The Stanford/Kaiser ADVANCE study was conducted in collaboration with co-authors at Kaiser Division of Research in Oakland and the HudsonAlpha Genome Sequencing Center (formerly the Stanford Human Genome Center). No Stanford authors disclosed any ...
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"Bomb of Silence"- Invincible Defence Technology for Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka Guardian
The unique results of the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi Programme have been documented in over 600 research studies, many of them published in scientific journals. Use of this holistic consciousness technology will enable the military to set ...
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CERN expects developing tech for linear collider in 10 yrs
MSN India
Noting there are many challenges regarding technology of the collider, he said two separate studies were being conducted to find the best technology for the machine. The European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN), as the lead laboratory,is ...
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Attention Students: 10 Tips to Prepare for College
Patch.com
For example, a popular school may not have that highly-ranked science program you're looking for, so be sure to research everything, both local and non-local. Take things into consideration such as classroom size. Some students can do well in ...
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IMC researchers help ID new genetic markers for heart disease risk
Deseret News
The new research brings to 23 the number of genetic markers shown to have implications for coronary artery disease. New technology has made it possible to test hundreds of thousands of locations in human DNA at the same time, said Benjamin Horne, ...
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The Coolest Tech Tour Ever: A Look At How SRI Is Augmenting The Human Condition
TechCrunch
Well, at SRI International they next brought me over to Kristin Precoda, director of SRI's Speech Technology and Research, who demoed me a translation system. This system is being used in military in Afghanistan and other places in the world. ...
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Earth's first contact not with a UFO but with a meteor
God Discussion
According to Cosmology Science News, Hoover has discovered fossilized ancient bacteria which came from colonies which lived on comets, moons and other planets. Cosmology Science News states further: Using the most advanced micro-scanning technology in ...
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George Katsiaficas: US Human Rights Policy is Self-serving and Duplicitous
The Baltimore Chronicle
He specializes in social movements, Asian politics, the US foreign policy, comparative and historical studies and has written numerous books in these fields. In 2003, he won the American Political Science Association's Special Award for Outstanding ...
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For Many People, First the Doctor's Office, Then the Web
Voice of America
Our studies show that people are still very likely to turn to a health professional when they need a diagnosis or are planning a treatment." Forty-four percent of people are actually looking for doctors or other providers when they search for health ...
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Fair Glass Bead Market Access Coalition Expresses Support for AASHTO and FHWA ...
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
The just released New Jersey DOT sponsored research by Rowan University and the New Jersey Institute of Technology is a key step in that process. Dr. Adi Raut Desai, of the Texas Transportation Institute, presented his industry funded metals in glass ...
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AFRICA: Lessons in linking universities to development
University World News
Korean higher education policy has long been to ensure that universities produce human capital for growth and development, but the role of institutions in research and innovation has been minimal. Technology capture, transfer and development was left ...
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A few have no doubts about smart meters' ill effects
Kennebec Journal
A more detailed study by the California Council on Science and Technology in January came to the same conclusion, saying smart meters result in smaller levels of radio frequency exposure than cell phones and microwave ovens. ...
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Kennebec Journal
ASIA: Tensions in student preferences for e-learning
University World News
Our understanding is that students negotiate a fine path between a pragmatic need to achieve good grades in their assessments and a genuine desire to understand the discipline they have chosen for their university studies. If their assessment tasks ...
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Minnesota moose: Can they be saved?
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Now, in a new round of studies, the scientists hope to discover whether humans can protect them from rapid ecological changes, including disease, parasites and heat stress. But if, as many fear, Minnesota is simply getting too warm, then within a few ...
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Interactive Gaming Ontario 3D to Fund 3D Game Development
GamersDailyNews
“Modern 3D video games are designed according to research done on 3D movies and gamer opinion studies are telling us this isn't the right way to go,” said Neil Schneider, executive director, S3DGA. “Ineffective stereoscopic 3D viewing negatively ...
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IIT-B to felicitate its whizkids
Times of India
That is what Pranav Mistry was always known on the IIT-Powai campus as the boy who saw technology with an ordinary human eye. After an education from the public institute at PowaiLater, he went on to pursue his doctoral studies at MIT. ...
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Red-light cameras get a green light
Courier Mail
Researchers led by the University of Queensland's Cecilia Wilson examined 35 scientific studies on speed cameras from countries as diverse as Holland, Hong Kong, the US and Britain. Wilson led the research for Brisbane's Centre of National Research on ...
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Skiing in Maine: Better technology and good sense make skiing and boarding safer
Press Herald
According to recent studies from the NSAA and other industry groups, the risk of being hurt badly enough to require medical attention clocks in at 0.2 to 0.4 percent -- two to four skiers and snowboarders per every 1000 on the hill. ...
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AUS inks SAP university program deal
Trade Arabia
The comprehensive business software suite supports business, engineering and information technology programs, enabling students to put classroom theory into practice through demonstrations, exercise and problem solving, case studies, and research ...
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What effect has the internet had on disability?
The Guardian
I was pleased with these results, but surprised at how little research has been done looking at these questions, given the potential social benefit. Almost universally, the results of the few small-scale studies that have been published in this area ...
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Zwelling: The health care community must engage in a meaningful, apolitical ...
Austin American-Statesman
Two recent studies tend to substantiate this concern. In November 2009, the United States Preventive Services Task Force issued guidelines recommending that women under 50 of normal cancer risk do not need routine annual mammograms. ...
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New gene regions identified that predispose people to heart ...
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New genomic technology allows hundreds of thousands of SNPs to be reliably scanned in a person. Variants in 23 regions that appeared most likely to predispose people to coronary atherosclerosis were then studied in about 25000 subjects with ... School of Medicine consistently ranks among the nation's top medical schools, integrating research, medical education, patient care and community service. For more news about the school, please visit http://mednews. stanford.edu. ...
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Daily Kos: Overnight News Digest: Science Saturday (Solidarity ...
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More stories, featuring research news from Wisconsin, Indiana, Ohio, and New Jersey, after the jump. Recent Science Diaries and Stories. Watch this space! Bt --a pesticide bombshell? by mem from somerville ..... Naledi Pandor said the primary purpose and policy driver of the space programme is to "leverage the benefits of space science and technology for socio-economic development". Science Education. The Spokesman-Review: NC students' bison study is a lesson in much more ...
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New gene regions identified that predispose people to heart ...
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New genomic technology allows hundreds of thousands of SNPs to be reliably scanned in a person. Variants in 23 regions that appeared most likely to predispose people to coronary atherosclerosis were then studied in about 25000 subjects ... The researchers indicated that the next steps would be to push forward with more meta-analyses of existing genome data to uncover yet more novel gene regions and to sequence the established gene regions in a large number of individuals. ...
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Pacific Controls partners with Vienna University of Technology to ...
more Pacific Control Systems news. The "Pacific Controls Cloud Computing Research Lab" will enable the Dubai-headquartered world-class developer and provider of global total automation solutions engage in various strategic scientific ... The TU Vienna is among the most successful technical universities in Europe and is Austria's largest scientific-technical research and educational institution. TU Vienna has eight faculties lead by deans: Architecture and Planning, ...
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Programme for Government 2011-2016 – implications for 3rd level ...
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“We will promote and support investment in technology research, development and commercialisation beyond basic research supported by Science Foundation Ireland, as well as removing barriers to innovation and accelerate exploitation of new ... We will permit postgraduate students to be allowed work here for up to a year after they complete their studies. High-value research students will be permitted to bring families if they are staying more than two years.” (p13) ...
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TPACK Newsletter #9, March 2011 | Punya Mishra's Web
By Punya Mishra
Middle Grades Social Studies Teachers' Technology Integration (NTLI Fellows Symposium), Caroline C. Sheffield, University of Louisville, USA; Rita Hagevik, University of Tennessee, USA; Patty Stinger-Barnes, University of Tennessee, ..... 6/29/2011, 11:00am–1:00pm | Digital-Age Teaching & Learning : Science | Margaret Thombs, Roger Williams University with Kelly Donnell, Kristina Soprano and Li-Ling Yang; TPACK and the Missing Paradigm | [Research Paper: Roundtable], ...
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In Romance, Too Many Choices May Hurt
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News Staff. In New York City, you can easily date a different person within a mile of your home for the rest of your life and never come close to duplicating - and that may be why people in New York City have trouble finding relationships , according to a study in ... A number of studies in recent years have looked at what happens to humans when faced with extensive choice – too many kinds of chocolate, or too many detergents to choose from at the grocery store. ...
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After historic gains, are stocks nearing a bubble? | The Daily ...
After two bubbles in the past 10 years — tech stocks and real estate — investors are suspicious of consistent gains that seem too good to be true. Some worry that the Fed's dramatic measures to pump up the economy mean the market's gains ... Rob Arnott, the founder of investment firm Research Affliates, thinks the stock market is “dangerously” overpriced. He points to Apple, which has a $321 billion market value, making it the second-largest company in the world behind ...
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Dr. Jim's Pedagogical Pride and Joy: Research in Religious Studies ...
By Dr. Jim
This past week I had to write a history of the Research in Religious Studies Conference for the University of Lethbridge's new president. I started reflecting on how much it really means to me, so rather than write a post bitching about things or poking fun at something .... BSG, as science fiction, sets out to do what few oeuvres in the genre have done before: address religious belief not as a cult or a misunderstanding of natural phenomenon but as a part of daily life. ...
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Study: Mom's blood test can reveal Down syndrome - Health news
Several research teams have published studies suggesting that analyzing the mother's blood can detect Down syndrome in a fetus. There's no commercial test available yet, but at least one company hopes to introduce one in the U.S. within ...
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AfriClassical: BGDaily News: 'In One Lifetime' is 'research for ...
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BGDaily News: 'In One Lifetime' is 'research for three lecture/performances of Still's music' by Janet Bass Smith. [In One Lifetime; Verna Arvey; The University of Arkansas Press, Fayetteville 1984] ... Verna Arvey, as research for three lecture/performances of Still's music, which she is presenting this month; 'The Year's Best Science Fiction,' a Christmas gift from one of her sons; and Mark Twain's classic, 'Huckleberry Finn,' because she is curious about why some think ...
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Sleep Apnea Studies - Discoveries Made While Conducting Sleep ...
There are other sleep disorders that have been studied and and researched thanks to sleep disorder studies. Narcolepsy is a condition wherein the person falls asleep involuntarily without any knowledge of doing so and sleeps irregularly ...
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Satellite observation fails in NASA crashes in Pacific Glory ...
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Major TV reduced 424 million U.S. dollars for the monitoring of aerosols and solar energy in the Pacific Ocean on Friday after a brief period began, just two years after a similar satellite for the study of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, ... Made further revisions to the legislation in 1976, a space NASA “the Authority for the implementation of the Ozone Research in the upper atmosphere, changing the 1984 and requested the authority of the NASA Earth Sciences ...
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Colleges study asthma, roaches to find links - Local - TheSunNews.com
NEW ORLEANS -- Researchers from Tulane and North Carolina State universities are gearing up to study whether exterminating roaches can alleviate asthma symptoms in children who live in public housing. ... The Sun News allows readers to comment on stories as a privilege; the views expressed in story comments are not those of the Sun News or its staff. Readers are required to adhere to all commenting policies, and must avoid commenting behavior such as personal attacks , ...
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ATS releases new report recommending research priorities in OSA ...
Recommendations were developed regarding research study design and methodology, including the need to standardize technology, identify patients who would be ...
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Research Topics for Environmental Science | eHow.com
Environmental science topics can include water contamination research. ... Science News; National Institute Of Environmental Health Sciences: Gene- Environment Interaction ... How do I Teach Science Using Technology Research Articles? ...
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NASA research satellite plunges into the sea - Sonora News Science ...
In 2007, a National Academies of Science panel said that research and purchasing ... "Many of the key observations for climate studies are simply not being made, " ... Other Technology News. AP revenue exec takes job on Martha's Vineyard ...
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Breaking News Channels provide a rapid response to major news events. ... Featured in the program will be case studies of selected collaborative research ... for all food science and technology professionals and the knowledge and tools ...
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Research Update: Positive Chk1 Programme Model Studies
Cancer Research Technology Limited (CRT) is an oncology-focused development and ... General Announce Investigation Into News Corp., Inc. After Company Anno ...
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Science - Scripps Research scientists develop new test for ...
A first author of the study, Franz-Josef Mueller, said, "Scientists are making new ... New York State Stem Cell Science, Bayer Technology Services GmbH, ... riskAn international research collaboration has identified 13 new gene sites ...
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Disney's lab studies people - Entertainment News, Technology News ...
Technology News from the entertainment source: Variety. ... Texas, which uses hard science to figure out what works, and, maybe more important, why it works. ... the Interactive TV Research Institute at Murdoch U., in Perth, Australia. ...
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