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Quebec Cells Pave Way for Innovative China Research Initiative

To fund an innovative Quebec-Chinese research initiative in this area, the Ministère du Développement économique, de l'Innovation et de l'Exportation from…

Transportation and Logistics

Mid-Air Collision Lessons: Enhancing Aviation Safety Innovation

The following year, two planes collided in mid-air over Überlingen in the south of Germany on the edge of Lake Constance. One was a Russian passenger flight…

Business and Finance

11 new high-tech start-ups to take part in NovaUCD’s 2008 Entrepreneurship Programme

Now in its thirteenth year, 130 companies and 190 individuals have completed this NovaUCD enterprise programme and former participants now collectively employ…

Health & Medicine

Understanding Agoraphobia: A 10-Year Study on Panic Disorder

The aim of this study was to prospectively examine the 10-year natural course of panic attacks (PA), panic disorder (PD) and agoraphobia (AG) in the first…

Environmental Conservation

Freshwater Fish Biodiversity: Challenges for Southern Countries

However, the particular environments are not always adapted for hosting new arrivals. Past introduction attempts, such as that of wild rabbit into Australia or…

Life & Chemistry

EDCTP Offers €5M for Research on Poverty-Related Diseases

With this call, EDCTP invites member states to link their national research activities on the three poverty-related diseases (PRDs) and offers a financial…

Studies and Analyses

Irish LGBT Londoners Needed for Key Research Study

The project, which will be funded by an £82,000 grant from the Economic and Social Research Council, will explore why Irish LGBT migrants have chosen to move…

Life & Chemistry

Unlocking Metastasis: Robert Weinberg on Transcription Factors

The reason for this is the discovery of transcription factors in the last few years. “Transcription factors are proteins that turn genes on and off and can act…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

European Researchers Create Decision Support Tools for Policy

Scientists of the Leibniz-Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF) Müncheberg – organise the International conference at the Humboldt University…

Studies and Analyses

When December 25th is no longer Christmas day, but '20+5' is still 25

Numbers are therefore so pervasive that we may not notice that we possess quite different types of numerical knowledge. On the one hand, we know lots of…

Information Technology

Bikers Back Custom-Fit Project for Personalized Seats

The Custom-Fit project is investigating new technique for customising a product based on Rapid Manufacturing (RM). RM allows parts to be manufactured directly…

Physics & Astronomy

The world's first movie of black hole birth

For the first time the birth of a black hole have been filmed. Cameras of the “Pi of the Sky” project recorded this remarkable event with 4 minutes sequence of…

Life & Chemistry

New Model Sheds Light on Information Flow in Cells

Looking for answers in the bright light of day, rather than the confined beam of a street light at night. That’s how University of Michigan researcher Sofia…

Social Sciences

Are Pets Family? Insights from Recent Sociological Research

The research, presented later this month at the conference of the British Sociological Association, is based upon a survey in which families were asked to map…

Health & Medicine

How Partners Influence Diet Changes: Insights from Research

Led by Judy Paisley, Ph.D., R.D., of Ryerson University, Toronto, the researchers looked at how significant others responded when their partners attempted to…

Life & Chemistry

Nitrites Show Promise in Fighting Ischemia Retinal Damage

The conclusion has been made by specialists of the Moscow Research Institute for Eye Diseases named after Gelmholtz and the N.M. Emanuel Institute of…

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