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U.S. auto supply chain at a crossroads: study

A troubled but enduring automotive supply chain in the United States can become stronger if a more collaborative strategy can gain wider acceptance, a research team at Case Western Reserve University has determined.

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Aug 18, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Strong relationships make students, teachers feel safer in schools

Students and teachers feel much safer in some Chicago Public Schools than others, and the best predictor of whether students and teachers feel safe is the quality of relationships inside the school building, ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created May 11, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

High-tech guardian angels

A scientific consortium comprising the EPFL and ETH Zurich is looking to push the boundaries of technical possibility with its ‘guardian angels’. It is applying for an EU flagship project for the ...

Technology / Other

created May 05, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A single application for every device

Led by the German Fraunhofer Institute FOKUS, a consortium of major, international companies will develop an open-source platform and software components that will allow cross-platform use of services and technologies that ...

Technology / Software

created Sep 21, 2010 | popularity 2 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Toward the Semantic Web

When the World Wide Web went live in 1991, it consisted of static pages of text connected to each other by hyperlinks, and that's pretty much what it remained for years. But from the outset, the Web's inventor, ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Jun 22, 2010 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (7) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Web standards group gets former tech exec as CEO

(AP) -- A former executive with IBM and other tech companies has been named the new CEO of an organization in charge of coordinating the technical specifications behind the World Wide Web.

Technology / Internet

created Mar 08, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A breakthrough in addiction treatment

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new substance abuse treatment model for women, developed by Northeastern’s Institute on Urban Health Research in collaboration with the Boston Public Health Commission, shows superior outcomes ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jan 06, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Growing Europe's nanowires

(PhysOrg.com) -- European researchers have developed state-of-the-art nanowire 'growing' technology, opening the way for faster, smaller microchips and creating a promising new avenue of research and industrial ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Dec 16, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Efforts under way to make Web more accessible

(AP) -- Imagine not being able to use a mouse to open a Web browser or a keyboard to type an e-mail. What if you couldn't distinguish colors on a computer screen or type the distorted letters in order to ...

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Digital Democracy: The World Wide Web Consortium weighs in on government transparency

(PhysOrg.com) -- On May 21, the day the White House unveiled its Open Government Initiative, it also launched the website data.gov, which put information like Medicare cost reports, residential energy consumption ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Sep 24, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

Sensoring the World Wide Web

CSIRO scientists will lead an international initiative to develop standards for sharing information collected by sensors and sensor networks over the Internet.

Technology / Engineering

created Apr 15, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0