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Showing releases 126-143 out of 143.
Public Release: 15-Apr-2013
Leopoldina strengthens cooperation with French national academy The German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and the French Académie des sciences are set to collaborate even more closely in future. Today in Paris, Leopoldina President, Prof. Jörg Hacker, and the President of the French national academy, Prof. Phillipe Taquet, signed a cooperation agreement consolidating the already close ties between the two institutions. Contact: Dr. Marina Koch-Krumrei
Public Release: 13-Apr-2013
TMT takes step towards construction after approval by the Board of Land and Natural Resources Friday marked another important step forward for the future of astronomical discovery and economic opportunity on Hawaii Island. The Hawaiian Board of Land and Natural Resources announced that it has granted a permit to the Thirty Meter Telescope project to build and operate the next-generation observatory near the summit of Mauna Kea. Contact: Gordon Squires
Public Release: 12-Apr-2013
Internal Medicine 2013American College of Physicians unveils tools to improve acute coronary syndrome care The American College of Physicians today unveiled two evidence-based interventions and two videos to improve the health outcomes of patients in the first year following an initial acute coronary syndrome event. Contact: Steve Majewski
Public Release: 12-Apr-2013
10th Anti-infectives Partnering and Deal-Making ConferenceORIENTplus upgrade supercharges EU-China collaborative research and education Researchers, academics and students across Europe and China are set to benefit from the 10 Gbps upgrade of the ORIENTplus research and education Internet link, celebrated at its launch event today in London. 
European Commission
Contact: Tamsin Henderson
Public Release: 12-Apr-2013
Launch of SA Strategy for Palaeosciences and Centre of Excellence for Palaeosciences The palaeosciences fraternity has welcomed the awarding of a Palaeosciences Centre of Excellence to Wits University. Contact: Kanina Foss
Public Release: 11-Apr-2013
Einstein joins the New York Genome Center as 12th institutional founding member Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University will join the New York Genome Center as its twelfth Institutional Founding Member. A collaboration among leading academic medical centers, research universities and commercial organizations, NYGC aims to transform medical research and clinical care by creating one of the largest genomics research facilities in North America. Contact: Kim Newman
Public Release: 11-Apr-2013
NSF FY 2014 budget request sustains momentum for fundamental research The National Science Foundation today announced President Obama's $7.626 billion fiscal year 2014 budget request for the agency, representing an 8.4 percent increase over the fiscal year 2012 enacted budget. Contact: Deborah Wing
Public Release: 11-Apr-2013
Small satellites becoming big deal for CU-Boulder students NASA recently selected the University of Colorado Boulder as one of 24 institutions or organizations to fly tiny satellites designed and built by students as auxiliary payloads aboard rockets planned for launch in 2014, 2015 and 2016.
NASA, National Science Foundation
Contact: Scott Palo
Public Release: 11-Apr-2013
Polio eradication is achievable by 2018 and urgent, declare 400+ global scientists Hundreds of scientists and technical experts from 80 countries historically launched the Scientific Declaration on Polio Eradication on 11 Apr. 2013. The world has never been closer to a world free from polio. At this unique moment, scientists have come together to stress the achievability of polio eradication and endorse the Eradication and Endgame Strategic Plan, a new strategy by the Global Polio Eradication Initiative to reach and sustain eradication. Contact: Dan Pawson
Public Release: 11-Apr-2013
Leading organizations back Global Action Plan More than 100 nongovernmental organizations and civil society organizations, joined by dozens of leading experts, expressed their support today for the World Health Organization and UNICEF's first-ever global plan to simultaneously tackle pneumonia and diarrhoea -- diseases that take the lives of almost two million children each year -- and urged governments and their partners to make the plan a reality. Contact: Guillermo Meneses
Public Release: 10-Apr-2013
Internal Medicine 2013ACP unveils tools to improve care for patients with prediabetes, gout, obesity, and Alzheimer's The American College of Physicians today unveiled a series of interventions to help patients and physicians manage prediabetes, gout, obesity and weight loss, and Alzheimer's disease. Contact: Steve Majewski
Public Release: 10-Apr-2013
Internal Medicine 2013American College of Physicians releases ACP Clinical Guidelines app Doctors can now access ACP's evidence-based recommendations at their fingertips. Contact: Steve Majewski
Public Release: 10-Apr-2013
 NatureFeinstein Institute collaborates with GSK, UPenn, MIT to research body's electrical impulses The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research today unveiled a collaboration with the University of Pennsylvania and Massachusetts Institute of Technology being spearheaded by GlaxoSmithKline, which aims to discover medicines that use electrical impulses to regulate the body's organs and functions. This initiative is discussed in the April issue of Nature. Contact: Emily Eng
Public Release: 10-Apr-2013
Discover how GÉANT is helping nuclear fusion scientists tackle global energy crisis A high-speed network is an essential link in the search for clean, sustainable energy. Contact: Tamsin Henderson
Public Release: 10-Apr-2013
Wiley selects TEMIS for semantic big data initiative John Wiley & Sons, Inc., a leading publisher serving the global Scientific, Technical, Medical and Scholarly communities, today announced it has signed a major license and services agreement with TEMIS, the award-winning provider of Semantic Content Enrichment solutions. Contact: Peter Peretzman
Public Release: 10-Apr-2013
New app powers better sanitation in developing world A new mobile phone app developed by a University of Nottingham researcher is changing the lives of millions of people in Africa by giving them the power to instantly report problems with poor sanitation. Contact: Emma Rayner
Public Release: 10-Apr-2013
Aircraft sensors without batteries or cables Sensors record essential data about the structural health of an aircraft. Providing energy for these sensors is a challenge: Wired sensor solutions increase the weight and the complexity of the aircraft. EADS and Vienna University of Technology have now developed an "Energy harvester module" which creates electrical current from temperature differences, providing individual sensors with energy. Contact: Florian Aigner
Public Release: 10-Apr-2013
Cryogenic Ltd and the National Physical Laboratory improve the world's resistance measurement Cryogenic Ltd and the National Physical Laboratory have designed and developed the most accurate instrument for comparative measurements of electric current. The instrument can now be used by National Measurement Institutes and laboratories around the world, providing a more accurate standard for current ratio, and ensuring current measurement is not a limiting factor in innovation. Contact: David Lewis
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