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Studies and Analyses

Autism and Handwriting: Study Links Challenges in Children

The study included 28 children between the ages of eight and 13. Half of the children had autism spectrum disorder. The other half had no developmental,…

Health & Medicine

Connection between depression and osteoporosis

This was revealed by Hebrew University of Jerusalem researchers, Prof. Raz Yirmiya, head of the Brain and Behavior Laboratory, and Prof. Itai Bab, head of the…

Life & Chemistry

Drought Resistance: How Plants Use Abscisic Acid for Survival

Much as adrenaline coursing through our veins drives our body’s reactions to stress, the plant hormone abscisic acid (ABA) is behind plants’ responses to…

Environmental Conservation

Global Cooling Proposal to Protect Coral Reefs Ahead of UN Conference

In the lead up to United Nations Copenhagen Climate Change Conference Professors Charlie Veron (former Chief Scientist, Australian Institute of Marine Science)…

Life & Chemistry

Shaping the way we move

A new experimental technique for measuring neural activation patterns in moving rats has clarified the function of excitatory and inhibitory neurons in the…

Environmental Conservation

New Landscape Rating System to Transform The Industry, Complete Green Building Puzzle

The Sustainable Sites Initiative led by the partners developed the rating system out of four years of work by dozens of the country’s leading sustainability…

Information Technology

Green500 Expands Coverage of Energy-efficient Supercomputers

Now, the Green500 is expanding the definition of a supercomputer to include a wider spectrum of the high-end computing world with the 'Little Green500' list…

Communications Media

eStadium Application Brings Multimedia Sports Features to Smartphones

Or do they?No instant replays. On-screen statistics are confined to the JumboTron. Sharing excitement and opinions on the game is often limited to chatting…

Life & Chemistry

Researching Growth-Regulation Proteins That Underlie Cancer

Paul Adams, assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry, has received $108,000 over two years as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to…

Studies and Analyses

Improving University-Community Research Partnerships

A study published in a supplement to the November 2009 issue of the American Journal of Public Health reported that training local leaders in research…

Life & Chemistry

Newly Discovered Fat Molecule: An Undersea Killer with an Upside

The team discovered a previously unknown lipid, or fatty compound, in a virus that has been attacking and killing Emiliania huxleyi, a phytoplankton that plays…

Machine Engineering

Compact M30 Sensors: Reduced Blind Zone for Close-Up Precision

The new sensors of the compact series in M30 design have a reduced blind zone and are shorter than models of the previous generation. These improvements make…

Physics & Astronomy

'Dropouts' pinpoint earliest galaxies

The finding is the first age-confirmation of a so-called dropout galaxy at that distant time and pinpoints when an era called the reionization epoch likely…

Studies and Analyses

Language Support in Schools for Children with Autism

“It is important that pupils are offered the support to which they are entitled”, says Jakob Åsberg in a new thesis at the University of Gothenburg.”Pupils…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Siemens Unveils Advanced Coal Gasification Technology in USA

With a gross capacity of 730 megawatt (MW) the advanced clean coal generating plant will be one of the first commercial-scale coal gasification plants with…

Health & Medicine

New European Network of Complementary Medicine

The centre for complementary medicine research at university hospital rechts der Isar in Munich was selected among several applicant groups for a large…

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