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Transforming Language Learning: Fun Innovations by Sharp Labs

Sharp Laboratories of Europe Ltd (SLE) is collaborating with a team of language experts, educational technologists and computer games designers at the…

Business and Finance

Boosting Economic Impact: Research Councils’ New Strategy

The document “Increasing the Economic Impact of the Research Councils” describes how the eight Research Councils will work with research users, public funders…

Physics & Astronomy

Stabilized Liquid Crystals: Bridging Liquid and Solid Properties

Liquid crystals are materials that combine the properties of a liquid with those of crystalline solids. They show a middle phase, known as mesophase or liquid…

Health & Medicine

Understanding How the Cerebellum Automates Our Movements

It regulates the automation of our movements and as a result the cerebrum can perform other tasks. However, how the cerebellum performs this task is not clear….

Environmental Conservation

Siberian Peat Moorlands: A Solution for Greenhouse Gas Storage

According to Dutch researcher Wiebe Borren, peat moorlands will counteract the greenhouse effect under the present climatic conditions. If the climate becomes…

Environmental Conservation

Optimizing Crop Growth: Key Factors for Success

Factors such as temperature, carbon dioxide (CO2) concentration and relative humidity must be controlled as accurately as possible for optimum crop growth. Van…

Life & Chemistry

Salmonella’s DNA Changes Help It Survive Stomach Acid

This type, Salmonella serovar Typhimurium DT104, is resistant to at least five different antibiotics. Dutch researcher Armand Hermans found new genetic…

Social Sciences

Microfinancing Needs Local Adaptation for Better Impact

There he carried out research among rural women and concluded that microfinancing must be far better matched to the local situation if it is to be really…

Information Technology

Enhancing Web Service Efficiency via Mobile Channels

Over the past few years there has been a growing interest among computer scientists and users for distributed computer systems such as the Internet. A…

Life & Chemistry

Corn, oats, cherries and red wine’s high melatonin content can help delay ageing

As well as from the UGR [http://www.ugr.es], researchers from the Spanish universities of Seville, Oviedo, Saragossa, Barcelona and Reus also took part in this…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Whiteflies and Plant Viruses: Accelerating Biological Invasion

Twenty years ago in 1986 in the USA, Florida experienced outbreaks of what is now known as whitefly (Bemisia tabaci) biotype “B”, first in greenhouse…

Health & Medicine

New Guidelines For GP’s Revolutionise Treatment For Hyperactivity Disorders

The guidelines will provide authoritative information to health professionals at a time when there is currently great uncertainty amongst GPs on how to treat…

Physics & Astronomy

Hubble’s main camera stops working

On Saturday 27 January 2007 at 13:34 CET the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope entered into a protective “safemode” condition, most likely triggered by a short…

Power and Electrical Engineering

EU Funds Research for Efficient Pro-Environmental Fuel Cells

The project focuses on materials, components and systems required for efficient, reliable and cost effective large scale SOFC power plants. Systems design,…

Environmental Conservation

Low-Pathogenic Bird Flu Affects Swan Migration Patterns

These insights will be published on January 31, 2007 in PLoS ONE, the International, peer-reviewed, open-access, online publication from the Public Library of…

Environmental Conservation

Wolves’ Return to Highlands: Boosting Ecosystems and Economy

The study suggests that the return of wolves, which were eradicated from the Scottish landscape in 1769, would benefit the local economy and could aid efforts…

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