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Information Technology

Better Business Efficiency With Grid Solutions Insights

With increasing demand from business for higher efficiency, business agility, and lower cost, for several years information communication technologies have…

Studies and Analyses

Understanding Autistic Voices: Personal Insights vs. Science

The aim of this study is to highlight their personal experiences, and to compare them to scientific and medical knowledge and representations. Adopting an…

Health & Medicine

New Method Helps Physicians Spot Early Signs of Depression

Depressive disorders are common and associated risks include the onset of secondary disorders, substance use disorders, impairment in social and occupational…

Studies and Analyses

Understanding Frequent Doctor Visits: A Psychosomatic Analysis

The results have varied across studies. This new investigation attempts to characterize these patients according to psychosomatic characteristics (as assessed…

Medical Engineering

Improving Hip Replacement Success: New Insights From Research

Computation models developed by the University of Twente and UMC St. Radboud can make an important contribution to our understanding in this field, says Prof….

Physics & Astronomy

Diverse Galaxies: Unveiling the Stars Beyond the Blur

A typical galaxy contains billions of stars but looks smooth when viewed through a conventional telescope because the stars appear blurred together. In…

Communications Media

University of Leicester launches freshers' pod

The website has been created as part of the IMPALA4T project funded by the Higher Education Academy and GENIE, the University of Leicester’s Centre of…

Information Technology

Exploring Europe’s Surge in Robotics Innovation and Design

In Europe, as the rest of the world, there is a surge in robotics development, reflected in part by the European Network of Robotic Research (EURON), an…

Life & Chemistry

Captain Birdseye's robotic nose

The research in the Royal Society of Chemistry's Journal of Environmental Monitoring reports a new method to detect bacteria that break down dead fish and…

Health & Medicine

New Blood Test Improves Prostate Cancer Evaluation

The study, to be published tomorrow for Cancer Clinical Research ( available online Oct 1,) has found that this analysis of Circulating Tumour Cells (CTC) can…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Land Use Strategies for a Changing Climate Conference Insights

The conference this Thursday and Friday (2 and 3 October 2008), entitled “Tough Choices – Land Use under a Changing Climate” will be attended by more than 80…

Studies and Analyses

Birth Size Linked to Increased Breast Cancer Risk Later

Associations between birth size, perhaps as a marker of the pre-natal environment, and subsequent breast cancer risk have been identified before, but the…

Earth Sciences

Green Sahara: Discovering Nature’s Desert Transformation

Although there is still little known about the Earth’s tropical and subtropical regions, these regions are thought to play an important role in both the…

Life & Chemistry

Danish Study Reveals Hormone Replacement Therapy Heart Risks

The study is the largest to look at the effects of HRT since the Women’s Health Initiative trial was stopped early after finding that HRT increased the risk of…

Health & Medicine

15-Minute Disease Diagnosis: Breakthrough Biosensor Technology

A team led by scientists at the University of Leeds has developed a biosensor technology that uses antibodies to detect biomarkers – molecules in the human…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Ecologists Discover Wind Turbines’ Impact on Farmland Birds

Dr Mark Whittingham and colleagues from Newcastle University conducted bird surveys on arable farmland around two wind farms in the East Anglian fens. They…

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