32 new grants made for innovative technology R&D
...n a broad range of key technology areas. Among the areas targeted are: new energy technologies for oil exploration and for fuel cells, new medical diagnostic and therapeutic technologies, improvements in electronics and automobile manufacturing and an improved computer interface for the severely disabled. ...Putting physiology into the Nobel Prize: 2004 marks 100th anniversary of Pavlov's award
...lov designed and built animal housing and surgical areas incorporating the latest aseptic and recovery techniques used for humans. "Chronic experiment" technique. Pavlov realized that performing long-term experiments on healthy, alert animals yielded better results than "acute" experiments on anesthetize...University of Oregon professor wins 2004 Spiers Medal
...hemistry for outstanding contributions in two main areas of physical chemistry. "The Spiers Medal is a major honor," says Richard Linton, UO vice president for research and graduate studies. "While Professor Richmond is perhaps best known to Oregonians for her leadership on the Oregon University System ...University of Edinburgh hosts European conference on childhood disability
...uss how best to overcome the barriers they face in areas such as learning and mobility. Delegates to the European Academy of Childhood Disability conference, hosted by the University of Edinburgh, will explore the theme of 'From Evidence to Empowerment', debating the whole spectrum of childhood disability....New study will tackle three major killer diseases
...s, diet and other factors compared with most other areas of Scotland. The stability of the population also allows family trees to be traced back as many as eight generations, which will enable researchers from the University and the Medical Research Council Human Genetics Unit in Edinburgh to understand th...Forum at Virginia Tech to address issues of human cloning
...f human cloning, representing a range of views and areas of expertise: Wendy Goldman Rohm is an investigative journalist and author of the forthcoming book, The Eighth Day: On the front Lines of Stem Cell Research and the Countdown to a Human Clone. Barbara Katz Rothman, a sociologist at the City Univers......n sustainable reconstruction and rehabilitation of areas affected by natural phenomena. The UNOSAT development group is hosted by CERN. Sharing is in the mandate and in the culture of CERN. Sharing knowledge is essential for a centre of excellence in particle physics, with a mandate to make its results fre...ASPB opposes ban of GE crops in Butte County Ballot Measure D
...70 percent of the world's poor still live in rural areas and depend on agriculture for their survival. Agricultural research - including biotechnology - holds an important key to meeting their needs, the FAO said. The FAO added that biotechnology can speed up conventional breeding programs and may offer s...Is more better: Counting birds may only tell part of the story
...ve success. Out of the studies examined, disturbed areas are more likely to show negative associations betw...an eagle owls were more productive and abundant in areas where long-term human activity maintained an open habitat and abundant prey. This suggests some bir...Society for Psychophysiology Research
...ent, and psychopathology, to name just some of the areas that will be represented. Approximately 400 scien...associated with below normal levels of activity in areas of the brain involved with paying attention and manipulating information in short-term memory. Thes...Experts present new research on hot topics in aging at GSA's annual meeting in Washington, DC
...ults" that will feature speakers representing four areas of contribution to health promotion. November 22 at 3:15 p.m . Maxwell Pollock Award for Productive Aging: Stephen McConnell, PhD, recipient of the 2003 Maxwell A. Pollack Award, will be presenting "Both Sides Now: Bridging Research a...Children's Hospital Boston wins $2.5 million in health surveillance grants
...ons during an outbreak. People living in affected areas will be telephoned, and after a brief conversation they will be directed to an automated system, using computer-generated voice technology, where they can provide details of their illness in confidence. "During a large-scale outbreak, such as the r...Why do African-American women have more pregnancy problems?
... field alone has not been able to answer." The U-M areas involved in the project are the Institute for Research on Women and Gender, the Program for Healthcare Improvement and Leadership Development, the Medical School, the School of Public Health, the Griffith Leadership Center, the Institute for Social R...Story tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, October 2004
...system combines the lab's expertise in a number of areas and addresses the problem of having too much information for trained personnel to analyze. Consequently, much of the staggering collection of data is not effectively utilized, said ORNL's Budhu Bhaduri, co-principal investigator for the project. With...Environmental exposures before and after birth can harm children's lungs
...ure harm." People living in high-traffic areas and poor housing are at especially high risk for PAH and ETS exposure. PAHs can come from motor vehicle emissions, residential heating, power generation, tobacco smoking, and other combustion sources. While PAHs and ETS can harm boys and girls, the...Acoustics meeting in San Diego
...ensive gaps in existing knowledge and will discuss areas of needed research. (Paper 1eID1) THE ACOUSTICS OF EMOTION As computers improve their ability to both recognize and mimic human speech, researchers are beginning to explore such new realms as "automatic emotion recognition" and "emotional speech...Estrogen protects male rats from aortic aneurysms
... aortic aneurysms life-threatening bulges or weak areas in the main artery feeding blood to the lower half of the body new research shows that it is definitely better to be female. During 2000, about 11,000 people in the United States died from a ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm. Eighty percent of th...Texas universities expanding new information network
...ess the most challenging and important problems in areas such as biomedical research, environmental modeling, petroleum engineering and computer science. TIGRE will be constructed during the course of two years by five institutions in the High Performance Computing Across Texas (HiPCAT) consortium of Rice...INEEL uses extremophile bacteria to ease bleaching's environmental cost
...U.S. Department of Energy's strategic goals in the areas of environment, energy, science and national security. It is the home of science and engineering solutions and is operated for the DOE by Bechtel BWXT Idaho, LLC.......th influenced their preference and activated brain areas including the "dorsolateral prefrontal cortex" and the hippocampus. Both of these areas are implicated in modifying behavior based on emotion and affect. In particular, wrote the researche...