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RFID Transforms Supply Chain Efficiency in Retail

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) promises to revolutionise retailing through advanced stock management, sophisticated promotions and supply chain…

Information Technology

Semantics Enhances Web Meaning for Machines and Users

But internet searches are often fruitless – even Google's eight billion indexed web pages and vast store of data and documents. Text-based searches do what…

Life & Chemistry

Exploring Analytical Chemicals: Their Role in Industry Innovation

Several industries, from pharmaceutical and chemical to food and others, require enantiomerically pure compounds for the development of their products….

Awards Funding

Nominations Now Open for 3rd Annual Research Awards

The awards celebrate the best published research across medical and biological science within any of BioMed Central's open access journals.To demonstrate the…

Health & Medicine

Ethnicity Matters: Tailoring Breast Cancer Treatments for All

Emerging evidence suggests that particular drugs may benefit people from one ethnic group more than others, because of differences in their genetic makeup….

Health & Medicine

Arthritis Drug Insights: Clues for Treating All Diseases?

Professor Marc Feldmann will tell scientists attending the 2008 Congress of European Pharmacological Societies (EPHAR) – hosted by the British Pharmacological…

Physics & Astronomy

ESA Astronaut Christer Fuglesang Completes Second Space Flight

This will be Fuglesang’s second flight after being a Mission Specialist on the 13-day STS-116 mission to the ISS in December 2006 in which he undertook three…

Information Technology

New Intelligent Model for Spanish Descriptive Grammar

Computational linguistics draws primarily on linguistic theories to build language representation models for computational applications. The linguistic…

Life & Chemistry

Using Genetics to Enhance Psychiatric Diagnoses

However, these “joints,” the boundaries between psychiatric disorders, such as that between bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, are far from clear. Prior…

Life & Chemistry

Genetic Links Found Between Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder

These two illnesses also share genetic variants that might be involved in the predisposition to both disorders. A new study scheduled for publication in the…

Physics & Astronomy

Super-Resolution X-Ray Microscopy Reveals Nanoworld Secrets

The first super-resolution images from this novel microscope will be published online July 18, 2008 in the journal Science. “Researchers have been working on…

Environmental Conservation

New Framework to Help Species Adapt to Climate Change

Scientists from Australia, the United States and UK joined forces to outline a framework for deciding how and when people might intervene to move species to…

Health & Medicine

Heart Attack Survival: Transforming ICU Care for Patients

More than 600,000 people in Europe suffer cardiac arrest each year. Following successful CPR, patients are routinely admitted to intensive care units (ICUs)….

Science Education

Singapore’s Role in Global Science at Euroscience Forum 2008

Strategically located in Asia, one of the world’s most dynamic growth regions, Singapore is a key node in global scientific research. Since the turn of the…

Environmental Conservation

Iceberg Scour Impacts Biodiversity Amid Shrinking Sea Ice

This is due to an increase in the number of icebergs scouring the seabed as a result of shrinking winter sea ice. The results are published this week in the…

Life & Chemistry

Advancing Standards in Stem Cell Research for Clinical Trials

The ambition in many quarters to scale up the production of human embryonic stem cells and move towards clinical trials requires that different laboratories…

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