Crossing street while using cellphone more difficult for seniors: Study
Montreal Gazette
Art Kramer, a University of Illinois psychology professor and co-author of the study, said the findings back up previous research that showed people have more trouble multi-tasking the older they get. "It's not just with technology; it's pretty well ...
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Harper Government Supports Social Sciences and Humanities Research on Cyber ...
Marketwire (press release)
Today, the Honourable Gary Goodyear, Minister of State (Science and Technology), announced that the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) is partnering with seven international research funders to launch the second round of ...
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The high-tech halls
The Age
Norton, now a research fellow at the Centre for Independent Studies, says technology has helped drive the changes on university campuses and has enabled students to respond to changing economic pressures by working more while still meeting their study ...
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A valuable opportunity exists in federally-funded research
The Hill (blog)
That kind of investment is an obstacle to even the most hopeful studies. The Advanced Cell Technology, Inc. trial exemplifies the type of promising research experts can perform with fully funded embryonic stem cell research. This study could produce ...
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New Stars of Science Honored in D.C.
U.S. News & World Report
Selena Shi-Yao Li, 17, of Fair Oaks, Calif., won fifth place and a $30000 award for her studies on a new way to treat liver cancer. Sixth place and $25000 went to Keenan Monks, 17, of Hazleton, Pa., for research on the mathematics of elliptical curves, ...
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When Nurse Staffing Drops, Mortality Rates Rise: Study
U.S. News & World Report
Previous research has suggested that this might be the case, but many of those studies were dismissed in part because of methodology flaws. "People had thought maybe [adverse consequences] were due to something else, maybe the quality of the nurses, ...
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Medicine's Rising Costs Put Hippocratic Oath At Risk
NPR
[They] vary hugely. So we're never going to be able to have solid science that can tell us for sure whether the treatment is going to work or not. So let's do the research but let's be realistic and pragmatic about the limits of that research. ...
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SXSW: Tech Can Provide the Tonic for Wasteful Medicine
LiveScience.com
On the pharma side, drug companies spent $60 billion in 2010 on research and development but released only 21 new medications, because, Richman said, they didn't properly understand what the drugs do or how to profit from them. Digital technology can ...
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Cryogen-free Technology Facilitates Graphene Studies
Labmate Online
Dr Enrique Diez moved from Princeton University, USA, to head research into magneto-transport in nanoelectronic devices at the university based in Spain. “When I set-up my laboratory, we came to the conclusion that technologies based on the use of ...
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Important funding for nanomedicine research to improve diagnosis and treatment
EurekAlert (press release)
Toronto (March 16, 2011) – Seven new research projects on regenerative medicine and nanomedicine received $16 million in funding. The studies, co-funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), ...
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Research and Markets: Demand Response and Energy Efficiency Focuses Demand ...
Business Wire (press release)
The research report focuses demand response enabling technologies and how they aid customers achieve energy efficiency. Through case studies, the report establishes the relationship between energy efficiency and demand response. ...
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Real FDI fall not as sharp as magnified, says new study
Business Standard
FDI is essentially long-term investments that come with added benefits such as better technology, management and marketing assistance, says the study. The researchers — KS Chalapati Rao of the Institute for Studies in Industrial Development and ...
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Asuragen Reports Results from a Multi-Center Study on Fragile X Gene Expansion ...
Business Wire (press release)
“The development of AGG mapping technology adds to our comprehensive approach to molecular interrogation of the FMR1 gene, including AmplideX™, our current CGG repeat primed PCR research reagents,” stated Matt Winkler, Ph.D., CEO of Asuragen. ...
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Helping Students Relate to Science and Art
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He blogs here Martin Storksdieck: Director of the Board on Science Education at the National Academy of Sciences where he oversees a wide range of studies related to science education and science learning. Have you recently assessed how your students ...
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Digital Gaming Goes Academic
Education Week News
based Concord Consortium, a nonprofit educational technology research-and-development organization. Part of what games do is provide an authentic context for assessment, he says. “All games have to have some kind of assessment; otherwise, ...
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Study: Female role models crucial in sciences
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For young female students at the beginning of college who are considering science, technology, engineering and math majors and careers, having contact with female scientists and engineers as professors or through websites, for example, plays a critical ...
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Study: Majority of Consumers Obtain News from Online Sources
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Mark Crispin Miller, a professor of media studies at NYU, said there is more to the decline of print news than an increased use of the Internet. "The rise of digital technology and the economic crash have been used to account for the general breakdown ...
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New tool debuts for measuring indoor air pollutants
PhysOrg.com
The prototype test material, made at Virginia Tech, yielded measurement results more accurate than those previously achieved in more costly and time-consuming interlaboratory studies using less standardized materials. The researchers suggest that their ...
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Whitehead scientist helps revisit 'Hallmarks of Cancer'
EurekAlert (press release)
Thousands of studies annually try to decipher these diseases and produce immense datasets that are not necessarily applicable across the constellation of cancers. To help researchers develop a functional framework for cancer as a whole, ...
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U prof's past and 2nd job get scrutiny
Minneapolis Star Tribune
At the U, Polla is director of graduate studies in the small and secluded Management of Technology program at the Technological Leadership Institute (TLI). Amin calls Polla's job "part time," saying it doesn't pay fringe benefits. ...
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Crisis fuels waves of fact and fiction
Calcutta Telegraph
Research studies examining the immediate aftermath of the Chernobyl disaster in April 1986 had detected radioactive materials in milk, dairy products, vegetables, grains and fish in several European countries neighbouring Ukraine. A study by scientists ...
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RealBioTechnology Transforms Research & Pharmaceutical Testing
OneMedPlace (blog)
RealBio Technology has changed that. RealBio Technology, Inc. is a life sciences product development company dedicated to the development and commercialization of BioRealistic Cell and Tissue Culture technology to enhance life sciences research. ...
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Kenya: Scientist Gets Top Global Job
AllAfrica.com
Prof Wakhungu is the head of the African Centre for Technology Studies, an international science think tank based in Nairobi. Experts say the frequent weather changes are expected to adversely affect crop production especially in developing countries. ...
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Foundation backs 17 horse research projects in 2011
Horsetalk
Research into equine piroplasmosis, laminitis, osteoarthritis, stem cells, painkillers and pregnancy will be among studies funded by the Grayson-Jockey Club Research Foundation this year. The foundation has announced 17 research projects to be funded ...
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From Entrepreneur to Spaceman
Mercer Space
He is active in the New Jersey Technology Counsel (NJTC), NJTC Venture Fund, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the NJ Commission on Science and Technology. Seminar Leader: In 2005, Greg Olsen went into space as one of the ...
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Three In Four Domestic Violence Victims Go Unidentified In Emergency Rooms ...
HealthCanal.com
Previous studies have shown that as many as 20 percent of women have been victims of domestic violence in the past year, but moves toward universal screening in emergency departments have yet to be shown to be effective. To better focus on how often ...
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Research and Markets: The Global Business of Online Casino - Outlook ...
Business Wire (press release)
Online casinos were among the first online gaming sites to appear on the internet when they launched in the mid-1990s thanks to the pioneering efforts of software companies such as Microgaming and CryptoLogic (see Case Studies, Chapter 11). ...
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Researchers Discover Insulin-releasing Switch | Scicasts - Science ...
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Baltimore, MD (Scicasts) – Researchers at Johns Hopkins believe they have uncovered the molecular switch for the secretion of insulin ― the hormone that regulates blood sugar ― providing an explanation of this process. ... In a study designed to figure out more precisely how the pancreas releases insulin, Hussain's group looked at how other cells in the body release chemicals. One particular protein, Snapin, found in nerve cells, caught their eye because it's used by ...
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Leading-edge technologies, such as a radioisotope suite and a nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometer for advanced imaging will be among the high-tech equipment contained in the new structure. “This building will provide an incredible opportunity for York University to meet the growing demand by young Canadians who would like to study life sciences and health,” said Shoukri. ...
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Important funding for Canadian nanomedicine research to improve ...
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ProIMAGE Contest 2010 has successfully finished! | TTKN News
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Wonders of science and engineering! Ms. Sertsova works at the Moscow State Textile Institute. “A.N. Kosygin” at the Department of the technology of the chemical fibers and nanomaterials, and in parallel studies in graduate school in the Russian Chemical and Technological ... His scientific interests are oriented to the research of electronic, optical and morphological characteristics of transition metals on Si thin-film nanophases by spectroscopy and SPM methods. ...
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Connor Society presents “Three Chancellors” | UTC News Feeds
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Since 1981, when Fred Obear took over as chancellor at UTC, the campus has been in a growth stage, reaching record enrollments, undertaking massive construction projects, enhancing research, increasing outside financial support, ... He has promoted UTC's metropolitan mission with special emphasis in the fields of science, mathematics, and technology. He has also pledged the campus' commitment to teacher preparation, healthcare professions, business and commerce, ...
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Men's Health: How to Survive a Tsunami
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THE WATER COOLER. When a Million Dollars Isn't Enough Almost half of America's millionaires don't “feel rich.” The Lost City Has Been Found! Using new technology, researchers may have found Atlantis submerged underneath southern Spain. ... eat this not that. Go behind the menus at America's top chains and make choices that will save you pounds. mh daily dose. Fitness tips, health studies, and lots of sex research. The news that affects your life, in one daily email. ...
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Dr. John Boudreau Joins i4cp's Board of Directors – American ...
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His most recent book publications include Beyond HR: The New Science of Human Capital, with Peter M. Ramstad, Investing in People, with Wayne F. Cascio and Transformative HR, to be published in late 2011. ... His consulting and research clients include some of the best known corporations and government agencies in the world. His large-scale research studies and focused field research addresses the future of the global HR profession, HR measurement and analytics, ...
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Confucius Institute names new director | College of Education News
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The department studies all aspects of the educational process with academic program areas including educational psychology, educational technology, measurement and quantitative methods, rehabilitation counseling, school psychology and special ... CI-MSU is supported by strong research & development teams. They are devoted to designing and launching new programs with superior technical foundations that push individual, group and formal Chinese language instruction in the ...
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Center for Future Civic Media Success Stories | MIT Comparative ...
At MIT, we know that research was worth conducting when it spins off into a new enterprise. C4 researchers Jeff and Sara Anne Wylie have done just that, creating a new organization that tries to help communities by generating scientific ... Called the Public Laboratory of Science and Technology, it drives innovation that pushes grassroots mapping in new directions. Check their recent projects, like hacking cameras to view photosynthesis and make spectrograms to detect ...
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World Conference of Science Journalists 2011 moves to Doha, Qatar ...
more Qatar Foundation news. "Qatar Foundation has been a committed supporter of WCSJ2011 from the beginning," remarked Qatar Foundation President Dr. Fathy Saoud. "In light of recent events in Cairo, it was never a question of if, but how QF was ... QF will maintain the original spirit and program of the event and will add field trips highlighting local advancements in Research and Science, including tours and meetings at the Qatar Foundation Science and Technology Park , ...
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Research Aims to Make Proteins 'Behave Badly'
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Small-scale support counts for social science in Africa - SciDev.Net
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Neanderthals were nifty at controlling fire: study
Some research teams also have used microscopic studies of sediment at sites to ... Provided by University of Colorado at Boulder (news : web) .... Janet Napolitano emphasized the importance of science and technology research as a means ...
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Victoria's Secret lingerie bags 'make women feel sexy', study ...
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SRI International Research Validates Effective Math Education ...
News Release Archive ... This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under grant number 0437861. ... Our researchers study reforms that hold promise for improving the K-16 system of schooling and ... SRI brings its innovations to the marketplace through technology licensing, ...
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Applied Science Laboratories Releases Revolutionary Eye Tracking ...
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