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EGEE Showcases Key Building Blocks for Grid Interoperability

The EGEE grid infrastructure, one of the largest in the world, serves over 100,000 jobs a day, enabling extremely large computational challenges to be…

Social Sciences

Rugby’s Impact on Global Culture: Insights from Authors Lewis & Winder

Authors of “Sporting Narratives and Globalization: Making Links between the All Black tours of 1905 and 2005”, Nicolas Lewis and Gordon Winder, compared the…

Environmental Conservation

Space Tech Enhances Global Water Resource Monitoring

Continuous observations are crucial to manage these water resources for the benefit of mankind and the environment and also to provide crucial forecasting…

Business and Finance

New Econometric Techniques Transform Stock Exchange Analysis

According to Financial Econometrics Professor Dick van Dijk, recently developed econometric techniques making it possible to measure the impact of an interest…

Physics & Astronomy

Harnessing Nature’s Forces: Innovative Research at Leicester University

A pioneering team from the University of Leicester is seeking to harness a force of nature- only measured accurately a decade ago – to help develop the…

Environmental Conservation

Autumn Colors Shift: CO2 Impact on Seasonal Changes

In recent years, woodland autumnal colour changes have been occurring later in the season whilst re-greening in spring has been occurring earlier. During the…

Earth Sciences

Rivers Don’t Barrier Groundwater Flow: A Study from Granada

This pioneering study was carried out by Antonio González Ramón and directed by doctors Manuel López Chicano and Juan Carlos Rubio Campos. They based their…

Environmental Conservation

Biodiversity Survey Reveals Irreplaceable Amazon Rainforest

Working in the north-eastern Brazilian Amazon the international team of scientists undertook the single-largest assessment of the biodiversity conservation…

Health & Medicine

Lessons from Turkey's bird flu outbreak

During early 2006, 12 avian influenza cases were confirmed in Turkey, of which eight cases occurred in the Dogubeyazit-Van region. Ozlem Sarikaya of the…

Life & Chemistry

Menstruation proves mor than a curse – Cells from the womb lining discarded during a woman's period are the new stem cells

Dr Xiaolong Meng of the Bio-Communications Research Institute in Wichita, Kansas, led the research team consisting of scientists from the University of…

Health & Medicine

Predicting Ovarian Cancer Futures With Kisspeptins and GPR54

The kisspeptins, a family of peptide hormones, and the receptor GPR54 have previously been associated with anti-metastatic activity in certain human tumours….

Health & Medicine

Schizophrenia Linked to Higher Risk of Ruptured Appendix

Most studies of healthcare provision for patients with mental illness usually focus on psychological problems but often ignore physical disease. Jen-Huoy Tsay…

Health & Medicine

ADHD Drug Spending Forecast: A Dramatic Increase Ahead

The research, published in the online open access journal Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health, modelled various scenarios to determine possible…

Social Sciences

Impact of Living Arrangements on Health in Europe

A new study, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), analysed the impact of living alone, with a spouse or with others on the health and…

Physics & Astronomy

Max Planck Institute Joins New Helmholtz Alliance for Innovation

The senate of the Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft deutscher Forschungszentren (HGF) has, on Nov. 7 2007, approved the proposal of the Gesellschaft für…

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Miniaturized Frequency-Doubled Lasers: Addressing the Green Problem

Kurzbeschreibung zum Projekt, EN The so-called 'green problem' became relevant with the need to miniaturize cw intracavity frequency doubled solid state…

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