News tagged with acquisitions
Advance makes MRI scans more than seven times faster
(PhysOrg.com) -- An international team of physicists and neuroscientists has reported a breakthrough in magnetic resonance imaging that allows brain scans more than seven times faster than currently possible.
Jan 05, 2011 |
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The Role of Sleep in Learning New Words
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study has demonstrated for the first time the importance of sleep in learning new words, and has shown the process has fast and slow components. The slow component is associated with ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Sep 11, 2009 |
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Learning a second language is good childhood mind medicine, studies find
(PhysOrg.com) -- Teaching young children how to speak a second language is good for their minds, report two Cornell linguistic researchers.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
May 13, 2009 |
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Portable laser backpack revolutionizes 3-D mapping
A portable, laser backpack for 3D mapping has been developed at the University of California, Berkeley, where it is being hailed as a breakthrough technology capable of producing fast, automatic and realistic ...
Sep 08, 2010 |
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Reading Arabic isn't easy
A series of studies published in Neuropsychology has shown that because of the visual complexity of Arabic orthography, the brain's right hemisphere is not involved in decoding the text in the first stages of learning to rea ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Aug 31, 2010 |
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RASICAM: The Little Infrared Camera that Could
(PhysOrg.com) -- Perched on a peak high in the Chilean Andes, 2200 meters above sea level, the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory has an enviable view of the night sky. In 2011, the Dark Energy Survey ...
Mar 11, 2010 |
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Data acquisition and coordination key to human microbiome project
At birth, your body was 100-percent human in terms of cells. At death, about 10-percent of the cells in your body will be human and the remaining 90-percent will be microorganisms. That makes you a "supraorganism," ...
Jun 09, 2010 |
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Challenging the limits of learning: Human mind vs. yardstick of a machine
Although we're convinced that baby is brilliant when she mutters her first words, cognitive scientists have been conducting a decades-long debate about whether or not human beings actually "learn" language.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jan 19, 2011 |
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Google to buy Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion (Update 2)
Google Inc.'s $12.5 billion deal to buy cellphone maker Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. is aimed at giving the Internet search leader more legal firepower as it battles Apple Inc. and Microsoft Corp. to gain ...
Aug 15, 2011 |
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Study reveals wanted objects are seen as closer
We assume that we see things as they really are. But according to a new report in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, if we really want something, that desire may influence how we ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jan 14, 2010 |
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Study: Word sounds contain clues for language learners
(PhysOrg.com) -- Why do words sound the way they do? For over a century, it has been a central tenet of linguistic theory that there is a completely arbitrary relationship between how a word sounds and what it means.
Sep 13, 2011 |
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Adobe soars on report of possible Microsoft bid
Shares of Adobe soared in heavy trading Thursday on a report that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer discussed a possible buyout of the company.
Oct 07, 2010 |
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Success in mergers and acquisitions
Could casual Fridays and meeting times determine the success of billion dollar mergers and acquisitions in the business world?
Other Sciences / Economics & Business
Oct 14, 2010 |
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New IBM Service Plays Real-Time Matchmaker In Call Centers
IBM announced a new service today which uses advanced analytics to match a caller with the optimal customer service representative (CSR) in real-time. IBM has collaborated with specialty insurance provider Assurant Solutions, ...
Mar 18, 2010 |
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Study suggests why circumcised men are less likely to become infected with HIV
Circumcision, which substantially lowers HIV risk in men, also dramatically changes the bacterial communities of the penis, according to a study led by scientists at the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) and ...
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Jan 06, 2010 |
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Mergers and acquisitions
The phrase mergers and acquisitions (abbreviated M&A) refers to the aspect of corporate strategy, corporate finance and management dealing with the buying, selling and combining of different companies that can aid, finance, or help a growing company in a given industry grow rapidly without having to create another business entity.
For more information about Mergers and acquisitions, read the full article at
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