Archive: 02/23/2009
Using wireless sensors to monitor bridge safety
University of Texas (UT) professor, Dean Neikirk, will be field-testing a new bridge monitoring system within the year. The project is a collaboration between industry, government, and academia that will provide ...
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Electricity systems can cope with large-scale wind power
Research by TU Delft, Netherlands, proves that Dutch power stations are able to cope at any time in the future with variations in demand for electricity and supply of wind power, as long as use is made of up-to-date wind ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Feb 23, 2009 |
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Rett Syndrome scientist makes significant discovery
A paper published online today in Nature Neuroscience reveals the presence of methyl CpG binding protein 2 (MeCP2) in glia. MeCP2 is a protein associated with a variety of neurological disorders, including Rett Syndrome, the mo ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Feb 23, 2009 |
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Father/daughter relationships lead to more girls following dad's career path
A new study co-authored by a researcher from North Carolina State University says the relationship between fathers and daughters is leading to an increase in the number of daughters who are pursuing careers in the same field ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Feb 23, 2009 |
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Quantum dots as midinfrared emitters
(PhysOrg.com) -- “People are interested in the mid-infrared,” Dan Wasserman tells PhysOrg.com. Infrared light has a wavelength longer than visible light, and many molecules have numerous very strong optical resonances in the ...
Feb 23, 2009 |
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One of the most important problems in materials science solved
Together with three colleagues Professor Peter Oppeneer of Uppsala University has explained the hitherto unsolved mystery in materials science known as 'the hidden order' - how a new phase arises and why. This discovery ...
Feb 23, 2009 |
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Engineers design silicon-free photoelectric module of easy incorporation
A team of researchers at the Ikerlan-IK4 technological centre have made a laboratory-scale photoelectric panel which, apart from fulfilling the function of converting solar light into electricity, solves the problems of integratability ...
Feb 23, 2009 |
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Social patents: Using online social networks to handle patent applications
Experts in intellectual property and patents explain in a forthcoming issue of the International Journal of Technology Transfer and Commercialisation how tools, such as online social networking could be used to eradicate the en ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Feb 23, 2009 |
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Can different languages be analyzed using the same model?
Spanish and Russian are relatively different languages, even if they historically share a common basis in the Indo-European family. The differences extend to the verbal system. Spanish has inherited a system that is relatively ...
Feb 23, 2009 |
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'Experiment of nature' examines how mother's diet may impact on child's health
Could our mother's diet at the time we are conceived set the course for our future health? This intriguing question is at the heart of a new study based on an "experiment of nature" being conducted by Wellcome Trust-funded ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Feb 23, 2009 |
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Arsenic and Old Toenails: New research highlights environmental exposure to toxin
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists from Leicester and Nottingham have devised a method for identifying levels of exposure to environmental arsenic - by testing toenail clippings.
Feb 23, 2009 |
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Kids who watch R-rated movies are more likely to smoke
A new study finds that kids who are allowed to watch R-rated movies are much more likely to believe it's easy to get a cigarette than those who aren't allowed to watch such films.
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