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Agricultural & Forestry Science

New Technologies Enhance Livestock Health in Europe

The workshop highlighted the interlocking themes underlying the debate over livestock disease research, following a series of high profile epidemics and…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Understanding Your Annual Electricity and Gas Consumption

Once a year, someone from the electricity or gas works comes to read the meter. Soon afterwards, the customer receives an invoice listing the power consumption…

Information Technology

New Software Enhances Emergency Response Time Efficiently

Collaborator, software developed by Extent Software, will allow information to be shared electronically between the emergency services, has just been adopted…

Health & Medicine

Eat Yourself Healthy – prepare the food right

Healthy foodstuff must not be cooked in ways which destroy their nutritional value. Cooking is important for how nutrition is processed and used in our body….

Social Sciences

Study Reveals Dating Preferences: Opposites Attract in Love

The Durham University-led study of 700 heterosexual participants also found that young men and women look for complete opposites when it comes to relationships…

Studies and Analyses

Innovative Group Therapy Eases Medically Unexplained Symptoms

The group approach is unique in integrating body and mind, using the language of the body as a form of counselling to help participants who have presented to…

Life & Chemistry

Commercial herbal medicines vary widely in quality – new research

In their paper entitled ‘Validation of a HPLC method for flavonoid biomarkers in skullcap(Scutellaria) and its use to illustrate wide variability in the…

Physics & Astronomy

Memory Innovations in Artificial Atoms for Computing Power

Your computer has two equally important elements: computing power and memory. Traditionally, scientists have developed these two elements in parallel….

Information Technology

InterLink Launches Online Consultation for Research Priorities

One of the main objectives of InterLink is to define joint basic research agendas, in terms of research priorities, road-mapping activities and joint Research…

Life & Chemistry

Stopping Cancer Trials Early: Benefits for Patients or Industry?

In a study, published online today (Wednesday 9 April) in the cancer journal, Annals of Oncology [1], Italian researchers analysed 25 randomised controlled…

Life & Chemistry

Vitamin D Deficiency Linked to Tuberculosis Risk

Researchers at the Central Middlesex Hospital in London, led by Dr Vassiliki Bravis, examined the prevalence of vitamin D deficiency in an ethnically diverse…

Studies and Analyses

African Farmers missing out on the Global 'Livestock Revolution'

New research suggests practical options to unlock the potential of the southern African livestock industry and help millions lift themselves out of poverty…

Life & Chemistry

Oxygen Levels in Womb Linked to Heart Disease Risk

Researchers at the University of Cambridge, led by Dr Dino Giussani, examined the role that oxygen availability in the womb plays in programming your…

Health & Medicine

Hepatitis B virus triggers cell ‘suicide’ in patients with chronic infection

The researchers analysed thousands of genes in T cells, critical players of the immune system required for control of HBV. They found that T cells from…

Automotive Engineering

Sensor skin of DuPont™ Hytrel® contributes to pedestrian safety

The sensor strip is made in sandwich construction. Developed by systems supplier Magna Electronics Europe, part of the MAGNA Group, this new sensor forms a…

Machine Engineering

Digital Factory Software Integrates Planning and Automation

The new 3.0 version of Simatic Automation Designer automatically generates WinCC projects for operator control and process visualization for machines and…

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