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Health & Medicine

Dogs Detect Diabetes: Join Our Research for Type 1 Diabetics

Dr Deborah Wells from the School of Psychology at Queen’s and Dr Shaun Lawson from the University of Lincoln are appealing for 100 Type One diabetics to…

Information Technology

First Multilingual Dictionary Utilizes Universal Words

The system is based on Princeton University’s WordNet database. WordNet is a lexical database developed by linguists at Princeton’s Cognitive Science…

Environmental Conservation

Carnivores in recent study help Bergmann's rule reach the 21st Century

Although it has been studied since the mid 19th Century, it is not until now that new statistical techniques have made it possible to disentangle the…

Environmental Conservation

New Methods for Managing Spatial Dependencies in Species Distribution

Most present-day analyses suffer from the statistical problem of spatial dependency, meaning that points closer together in space are more likely to have…

Earth Sciences

Climate Change’s Impact on Biodiversity: Are Projections Misleading?

Why is life on Earth not evenly distributed? Geographic patterns of species diversity and their underlying processes have intrigued scientists for centuries,…

Awards Funding

CajAstur Prize Honors Marco Dorigo for Soft Computing Excellence

'To distinguish Professor Marco Dorigo as the winner of the First Edition of the Cajastur International Prize for Soft Computing, in consideration of his…

Health & Medicine

Boosting Cardio-Vascular Research: Insights from EuroBioForum

The European Vascular Biology Institute (EVBI) is being presented at the annual EuroBioForum conference in Lisbon in December 2007 with a specific brief to…

Health & Medicine

Should Sleep Apnea Be in Driving Standards? A Growing Debate

Breathing stops despite frantic efforts and oxygen drops… until sleep is interrupted, the throat pops open with a loud snoring, breathing resumes and sleep…

Health & Medicine

SARS: Lessons Learned from a Model Disease Outbreak

Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) spread rapidly in 2002-2003, revealing just how vulnerable we might be to emerging diseases and how global…

Information Technology

Automated Planning Systems Transform Product Development

The research, which has made this possible was conducted by Dr Dave Pearce at the University of Hertfordshire's School of Aerospace, Automotive and Design…

Health & Medicine

Ulster Research Focuses on Ankle Injury Prevention Methods

The study, which will be carried out in partnership with the Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast, will look at different methods of applying ice to the injured…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Ulster-India Team Explores Robotics for Disability Assistance

The project involves researchers from Ulster’s Intelligent Systems Research Centre on its Magee campus in Londonderry, and scientists at the Indian Institute…

Physics & Astronomy

Physicists Develop New Plastic Radiation Detector

A team of researchers from the Department of Physics at the University of Surrey, led by Dr. Paul Sellin, has developed a new type of radiation detector made…

Environmental Conservation

Don’t judge a brook by its colour – brown waters are more natural

In this week’s Nature journal (22 November) an international team, led by researchers from UCL (University College London) and the US Environmental Protection…

Communications Media

Media Diplomacy: The Role of Transnational News Channels

These join existing channels such as CNN International, Voice of America and BBC World TV. But what are the purposes of these channels? Who are they for and…

Health & Medicine

Prioritizing Research Questions in Breast Cancer Innovation

A team led by Professor Mitch Dowsett, Head of Biochemistry at The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, based in London and Surrey, together with colleagues…

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