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Physics & Astronomy

New Plasma Transistor Enhances Display Sharpness

“The new device is capable of controlling both the plasma conduction current and the light emission with an emitter voltage of 5 volts or less,” said Gary…

Awards Funding

Full Sail Graduates Shine with 2009 GRAMMY Nominations

In total, 106 Full Sail Recording Arts graduates were involved in the production of 78 individual artist’s projects that are nominated in 61 separate…

Environmental Conservation

Global Warming Could Delay Stratospheric Ozone Recovery

Darryn W. Waugh, an atmospheric scientist at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, and his colleagues report that climate change could provoke variations in…

Health & Medicine

Influenza Virus: New Insights on Cell Hijacking Mechanism

Influenza is and remains a disease to reckon with. Seasonal epidemics around the world kill several hundred thousand people every year. In the light of looming…

Technology Offerings

CESTRA – Device for the application of static and dynamic tensile strain on cells

Common ways of cell enlargement are based on cell plates,

strained with a vacuum system. Finite Element Analysis
…

Health & Medicine

Innovative Automatic Pollen Measuring Stations Enhance Forecasts

“And here is the pollen forecast for tomorrow: Low levels of alder and hazel…” – we are all familiar with such reports from the radio and the television, but…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Generate Electricity From Straw: A Sustainable Innovation

“Corn belongs in the kitchen, not in biogas facilities” – objections like this can be heard more and more frequently. They are protesting against the…

Physics & Astronomy

Smallest Extrasolar Planet Discovered By European Team

It is the smallest extrasolar planet (planet outside our solar system) whose radius has ever been measured. The planet's composition is not yet certain, but it…

Earth Sciences

China’s Monsoon Rainfall Prediction Linked to Pacific Anomalies

(1) The strongest center of SSTA along the equatorial Pacific has migrated westward from the eastern equatorial Pacific (EEP, NINO3 region) to the CEP (NINO3.4…

Studies and Analyses

Green Tea May Counteract Bortezomib’s Cancer Effects

However, a new study suggests that some components of green tea may counteract the anticancer effects of one cancer therapy, bortezomib (Velcade®), and may be…

Earth Sciences

Early Whales Gave Birth on Land, Fossil Evidence Shows

The 47.5 million-year-old fossils, discovered in Pakistan in 2000 and 2004 and studied at the University of Michigan, are described in a paper published Feb. 4…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Minnesota Team Innovates Solutions for Aphid Infestation

Medical scientists in Minnesota are focusing their expertise on a pest that destroys soybeans. The goal of the Minnesota Partnership team is to develop an…

Information Technology

Using Violent Games to Enhance Fire Safety Training

Commercial games such as Doom 3 and Half Life 2 can be used to build virtual worlds to train people in fire evacuation procedures by applying the games'…

Studies and Analyses

Study Reveals Insights on Memory in Young Mice

The study in memory-deficient mice, published in the February 4 issue of The Journal of Neuroscience, was led by Larry Feig, PhD, professor of biochemistry at…

Life & Chemistry

Cell-Building Breakthrough Reduces Animal Research Needs

The team, led by Brown professor Jeffrey Morgan, successfully used clusters of cells grown in a 3-D Petri dish also invented by the group, in order to build…

Business and Finance

KfW Unveils USD II/2009: Key Details and Insights

The USD II/2009 with a settlement on February 10th 2009 matures on March 15th 2011. With a coupon of 1.875% and a reoffer price of 99.886% it yields 1.931%…

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