Cornelis Boersma, pharmacist and PhD student at the University of Groningen, has analysed the medical data of over 8,500 Groningers and discovered that…
Writing in the Inderscience publication International Journal of Automotive Technology and Management, they suggest that the adoption of HEVs might even slow…
On Tuesday 4th February 2008 United Nations University launched the UNU OpenCourseWare Portal, accessible at http://ocw.unu.edu. Initially, the UNU…
Mark Twain famously invested, and then lost, a fortune on the first typewriter, in 1874. Since then, human-computer interaction has moved beyond basic…
The University of Manchester team will use the model organism to investigate Lowe syndrome, an inherited complaint affecting only boys.“Lowe syndrome is a rare…
Acrylic bone cements based on polymethylmetacrylate (PMMA) have been traditionally used in hip replacements in order to set the prothesis inside the bone. On…
Scientists have previously found that surface temperatures around the globe have risen over the last 30 years in accord with global warming. New data, however,…
Custom-Fit is an industry led project funded by the EU under Sixth Framework Prog ramme, with the aim of creating a fully integrated system for the design,…
The development of a custom-designed three dimensional acceleration sensing 'backpack' has enabled scientists to examine the gliding and landing behaviour of a…
The study shows for the first time that the nutritional quality of plant food sources for herbivores has a far-reaching impact on an ecosystem as a whole,…
This is the first study to attempt to look beyond the formal sex education curriculum and assess whether the way in which schools are run, in terms of their…
Bt-resistant populations of bollworm, Helicoverpa zea, were found in more than a dozen crop fields in Mississippi and Arkansas between 2003 and 2006. “What…
The research will be published Saturday, 9 February in Geophysical Research Letters, a journal of the American Geophysical Union.The research team, led by Joan…
Magnetic properties of soils are caused by ferrimagnetic minerals, such as magnetite and maghemite. The negative effects can result in a reduction of detector…
The holographic displays – which are viewed without special eyewear – are the first updatable three-dimensional displays with memory ever to be developed,…
The erratic nature of the outbreaks, they add, underlies the need for greater surveillance to detect potential epidemics and a quicker vaccination response to…
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