Google to Open Research University in Germany Fox News The Berlin University of Arts, the Social Science Research Center Berlin and the Hamburg Hans-Bredow-Institute are also involved in the project. "The Internet is an achievement that has had far-reaching changes on the world," said Dr. Jan-Hendrik ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
Research Links Mixture of Old and Current Pesticides in the Environment to ... eNews Park Forest The study, entitled “Fetal Exposure to Chlordane and Permethrin Mixtures in Relation to Inflammatory Cytokines and Birth Outcomes” was published in Environmental Science and Technology journal in January. The research team, a collaboration between ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
Simple little spud helps scientists crack potato's mighty genome EurekAlert (press release) Veilleux sent his plant material directly to Buell, whereas Huang obtained DNA of the same potato from Peru, where Veilleux had sent cultures years before for breeding studies by Meredith Bonierbale of the International Potato Center (CIP). ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
Drexel robotics expert sees robots becoming 'partners' with humans ... Philadelphia Inquirer Now, he heads a robotics research lab that studies robot navigation in complex environments. Kam says President Obama's $70 million National Robotics Initiative, announced June 24, signals a new era in robotics research. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
High school teachers learn a little R&D from Bristol-Myers Squibb The Times of Trenton - NJ.com Pharmaceutical research and development were linked not just to science and math lessons, but also to health care policy, social studies, language arts and communication, all through ethics, marketing and planning examples. Egenolf said students often ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
The Fisher Institute For Air And Space Strategic Studies In Water Online (press release) The Israeli research team, headed by Dr. Eran Schenker from the Fisher Institute, in collaboration with Haim Wilder, VP R&D of Strauss Water and Prof. Eyal Shimoni, Chief Scientist of Strauss Group, will test a new water purification technology under ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
Genedata Announces Membership in Netherlands Toxicogenomics Centre San Francisco Chronicle (press release) Genedata, a leading provider of advanced software solutions for drug discovery and life science research, today announced it has become a member of the Netherlands Toxicogenomics Centre (NTC). NTC uses toxicogenomics to advance the understanding of ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
Increase yields without damaging environment – NAST Philippine Information Agency by Gideon M Gapayao MANILA, July 11 (PIA)-- The National Academy of Science and Technology(NAST) pushes for intensification of the agricultural sector without compromising the country's environmental condition. And how to do it? ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
Saint Louis Science Center Launches 'Say YES to Science' Business Wire (press release) Say YES to Science is a website spreading awareness of YES (Youth Exploring Science), an outreach program encouraging the community to help strengthen science and technology education by making charitable donations and by following students' progress ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
BIM Conference Educational Program PR Web (press release) Building information modeling (BIM) standards, objects, software and more will be the focus of the National BIM Conference sponsored by the buildingSMART alliance and AEC Science andTechnology. Building information modeling (BIM) standards, objects, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
Community College as a Bridge to New Skills New York Times (blog) Halfway through his studies, he lost his job. After two years, he obtained an associate's degree in applied science in the metals engineering technology program at Forsyth Technical Community College in Winston-Salem, NC, where about three-quarters of ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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CEA-Leti and Entegris to study cross-molecular contamination between wafers ... Nanowerk LLC Entegris will provide different microenvironment platforms designed to protect critical materials from molecular contaminants as well as share its expertise in material science. "Advanced technologynodes are increasingly sensitive to molecular ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
Zakah Conference gives a call for organization of zakat process TwoCircles.net Showkat Hussain Dar, HOD Islamic Studies, Islamic University of Science and Technology(IUST) also spoke on this occasion about the perverted form of Sufism prevalent in the subconscious of our society which makes them resort to escapism while dealing ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
Is there something wrong with the Spallation Neutron Source? PhysicsToday.org (blog) Science also has a full-text search option. In that journal, the only occurrences of "spallation neutron source" in research papers corresponded to two studies that appeared in 2008. Both reported results on the heavy-fermion superconductor ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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Quick test can predict immune responses to flu shots EurekAlert (press release) The research was supported by the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation and the Gates Foundation. Reference: H. Nakaya et al. Systems biology of seasonal influenza vaccination in humans. Nature Immunol. (2011). See all stories on this topic » | ||
Cleantech startups, here's why you need a Commercialization Executive VentureBeat There are even studies showing that founder-led companies tend to outperform professionally led firms three years after an IPO. However, these studies usually look at high-tech companies creating new products for new markets. Having worked with and sat ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
Covaris to Supply the BGI with High-Throughput DNA Shearing for Next ... PR Newswire (press release) BGI (www.genomics.cn) was founded in Beijing on Sept 9th, 1999 with the mission of supporting the development of science and technology, building strong research teams, and promoting the development of scientific partnership in the genomics field. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
More than 18000 engg seats to remain vacant Hindustan Times “Many students are choosing BSc Information Technology and BSc Computer Science in good degree colleges over engineering,” said Kavita Rege, principal, Sathaye College. “These students find great placements too. Our lists for these courses shut at 85% ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
Rochester studies elementary magnet school Foster's Daily Democrat Yet even as farming was replaced first by factories and now by technology-driven industries as the country's major job-providers, schoolchildren are still available to work the fields. What isn't so silly is that the United States is no longer renowned ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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Mobile Apps and Multi-player Games come from Ottawa's High Schools WhatsYourTech.ca So, the three Grade 12 students pictured below are off to Carleton and Algonquin to study computerscience and computer engineering. Two of them began in the Ottawa High School TechnologyProgram back in Grade 10; they continued through to this year ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
Fluorescein Angiography Insight and Serendipity a Half Century Ago Archives of Ophthalmology Cinematography of human retinal vessels: a practical clinical and research technique. J Am Med Assoc. 1959;170(12):1373-1375. FREE FULL TEXT 17. Hickam JB, Sieker HO, Frayser R. Studiesof retinal circulation and AV oxygen difference in man. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
Sequenom Announces Multi-Year Supply Agreement With Illumina PR Newswire (press release) Sequenom develops innovative technology, products and diagnostic tests that target and serve discovery and clinical research, and molecular diagnostics markets. The company was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in San Diego, California. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
Vycor Medical, Inc. Announces Alvaro Pascual-Leone, MD, PhD as Head of the ... PR Newswire (press release) Vycor Medical's subsidiary NovaVision, Inc. researches, develops and provides science-driven light-based neurostimulation therapy and other medical technologies that help restore sight to patients with neurological vision impairments. ... See all stories on this topic » |
Jul 12, 2011
SCIENCE News, Studies, Research, Technology, Jul 12, 2011
LIBYA, Egypt, Syria, Bahrain, Yemen news, Jul 12, 2011
Wealth-X Reveals US$ 1 Trillion Opportunity in the Middle East and Africa PR Newswire (press release) ... today announced the publication of its latest intelligence briefing, which highlights the tremendous opportunity present in the Middle East and Africa. The economies of Egypt,Bahrain, Tunisia, Libya, Syria and Yemen are undergoing dramatic ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
Latest developments in Arab world's unrest The Associated Press Security across Yemen has nearly collapsed during the five-month uprising seeking to oust longtime President Ali Abdullah Saleh. ___ BAHRAIN Two senior members ofBahrain's biggest Shiite party say its delegates have walked out of talks with the island... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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Arab spring offers lessons for US The Hill Egypt is clearly not Yemen. But we must also guard that we don't use “flexibility” as a rationale for avoiding hard decisions. The failure to publicly pressure Syria's Bashar al-Assad while bombing Moammar Gadhafi for similar crimes looks more like ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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6 Month Oil Forecast: Crude to Threaten $80 on Weaker Growth Outlook DailyFX It was only a few months ago that crude oil looked to be heading for $120 per barrel on concerns that revolts in Tunisia, Egypt, Bahrain, Yemen, and Libya threatened stability among their oil producing neighbors, as well as transport links through the ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
The Arab quest for empowerment Ekklesia Whether in Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen, Libya, Syria, Bahrain, Jordan, Oman, Morocco or even Iraq in both its Arab and Kurdish parts, what they have been voicing is an unambiguous demand for democracy, good governance, freedom, human dignity, and security. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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Bradley Manning, American Hero: Four Reasons Why Manning Deserves the ... The Indypendent The chain reaction of democratic protests and uprisings that has swept Egypt, Libya,Bahrain, Syria, Yemen, and even in a modest way Iraq, all began in Tunisia, where leaked US State Department cables about the staggering corruption of the ruling Ben ... See all stories on this topic » |
Middle East Update: July - Islam News Room Egypt, Bahrain, Libya, Syria, Yemen middle_east1. Now What? ... Obama administration is open to dialogue with the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt because "it is... www.islamnewsroom.com/news-we.../1613-middle-east-updat... |
Egypt, Libya and Middle East unrest - Wednesday 29 June 2011 ... Later today another potentially explosive encounter will occur in Cairo at football .....Yemen, Syria and Middle East unrest - Friday 27 May 2011 .... There is also newsfrom Bahrain via Twitter, appeals against the life sentences ... www.guardian.co.uk/.../egypt-libya-middle-east-unrest-live |
EUROZONE Debt Crisis News, Jun 12, 2011 (2)
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FINANCIAL News, Money, Banks, Economic and Financial Crisis, Jul 12, 2011
Italy's woes could be contagious, even to US
msnbc.com “The financial facilities at their disposal are wholly inadequate to deal with Spain or Italy separately, let alone together. So we need an immediate increase in the size of the resources available.” The spread of Europe's debt crisis to Italy has also ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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China's mountain of debt
World Socialist Web Site Within China, the costs of any bailout of local governments and the banks inevitably will be imposed, in one way or another, on ordinary working people, further fuelling social tensions. After the Asianfinancial crisis of 1997-98, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
Minutes of Federal Reserve Open Market Committee's June 22 Meeting: Text
Bloomberg Broad US stock price indexes declined, on net, over the intermeeting period, apparently in response to the downbeat economic data. Stock prices of financial firms underperformed the broader market, reflecting the weaker economic outlook, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
Sipp Investor: how my portfolio fared through a tough half year
Citywire.co.uk My most disappointing fund investments were the Jupiter Financial Opportunities and JP MorganGlobal Financial funds. I had bought these as a recovery play given that bank stocks were badly beaten up and that their recovery was not factored into ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
Newspaper Briefing, including 'Phone hacking: News Corp to consider
selling ...
Proactive Investors UK Mid-rank law firms may have to merge: Mid-ranking law firms, their business models weakened by the financial crisis, are suffering a new assault from legislative changes and liberalisation. Regime for failing hospitals attacked: A new regime for ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
China's Stocks Slump on Europe Debt Crisis, Property Curbs
San Francisco Chronicle The CSI 300 Index fell 1.44 percent to 3068.91, led by energy and financial stocks. The Shanghaigauge has fallen 1.6 percent this year after the central bank raised interest rates five times and reserve- requirement ratio 12 times since the start of ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
Greek PM blasts EU 'cacophony' on debt crisis
Focus News The plan to involve the private sector has won backing from key global finance group, the Institute of International Finance (IIF), which represents banks, insurers and investment funds, and which has held talks in Europe this week. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
Republicans talk tough ahead of US debt talks
Vancouver Sun Despite the heated rhetoric, investors still assume that Washington will ultimately dodge a crisis. Yields fell to seven-month lows on the benchmark 10 year Treasury bond on Tuesday morning, fueled by debt worries in Europe. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
Industrial growth lags in latest sign of slowdown
Livemint Fresh concerns that Italy, the euro zone's third-largest economy, could be forced into a financial crisis like Greece, Ireland and Portugal has added to a bleak global scenario. Stocks extended losses after the data release and were down 1.3%, ... See all stories on this topic » |
US Stocks Decline on Global Debt Concerns as Financials Fall
Bloomberg
JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) and Bank of America Corp. (BAC) fell more than 2.8 percent, drivingfinancial shares in the S&P 500 down the most since June 1, as Italian and Spanish governmentbonds sank. Alcoa Inc. (AA) tumbled 2.9 percent before the ...
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Morningstar
The International Energy Agency also played a part by offering 60 million barrels of oil to the markets in order to avert the threat of a further spike in oil prices to protect the “fragile global economicrecovery”. As for the eurozone debt crisis, ...
See all stories on this topic »Newspaper Briefing, including 'Bankers fear debt crisis may hit Italy' - The Times
Proactive Investors UK
Chinas shadow banks: hunt the risks: The deleveraging of all manner of non-bank investmentconduits, vehicles and structures certainly magnified the impact of falling house prices, and globalised the crisis. But the core of the problem was the same as ...
See all stories on this topic »Stay calm as debt deadline nears
Chicago Sun-Times
In fact, that's partly the cause of the stock market rally we've seen recently — global money looking for a safer place than euros and a higher-yielding opportunity than Treasury bills. There is no one answer to your questions about financial security ...
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OANDA Forex (blog)
Gains have been capped on fear that Greek austerity plans will not resolve Europe's sovereign-debtcrisis. Concerns that global growth is slowing has prompted some investors to bet that the RBA will cut interest rates some time this year. ...
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Trickle-Down Cruelty and the Politics of Austerity
truthout (22) White-collar crooks produce global financial havoc because of their crooked deals and go scot-free while illegal immigrants looking for work that most Americans will not perform are put in jail. The trickle-down cruelty of the anti-tax, ... See all stories on this topic » |
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