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| International research goal: Resilient, sustainable electric power, communications infrastructures Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT |
(Virginia Tech) NSF-funded research by faculty members at five universities in two countries will extend the scope and applicability of the highly optimized tolerance approach to modeling cascading events across interdependent electric power and communications infrastructures while optimally placing resources for managing the risk of blackouts due to equipment failures or extreme natural hazards. |
| Hack-a-vote: Students at Rice learn how vulnerable electronic voting really is Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT |
(Rice University) This week undergraduate and graduate students in an advanced computer security course at Rice University in Houston are learning hands-on just how easy it is to wreak havoc on computer software used in today's voting machines. |
| Fuzziness on the road to physics' grand unification theory Mon, 06 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT |
(University of Oregon) Leave it to hypothesized gravity to weigh down what physicists have thought for 30 years. If theoretical physicists, led by the University of Oregon's Stephen Hsu, are right, the idea that nature's forces merge under grand unification has grown fuzzy. |
| The Science Coalition's '10 questions' for the presidential debate Mon, 06 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT |
(The Science Coalition) As the ongoing financial crisis has clearly illustrated, the top priority for the next president will be addressing the nation's severe economic crisis. Believing that expanding the nation's commitment to basic scientific research is one of the most important actions the next president can take to ensure our long-term fiscal health, the Science Coalition today distributed 10 suggested questions to the moderator of tomorrow's presidential debate. |
| Graduate Medical Education Leadership Summit Mon, 06 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT |
(Medical College of Georgia) Medical educators, health care executives and policy-makers from across Georgia and the nation will gather in Atlanta Oct. 15-16 for a leadership summit designed to develop a statewide strategy for expanding graduate medical education. |
| Visualizing election polls Sun, 05 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT |
(University of Utah) Do you want to know the percentage of white women who support vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin? What about college-educated versus high school-educated white women? Or those who also hunt? University of Utah computer scientists have written software they hope eventually will allow news reporters and citizens to easily, interactively and visually answer such questions when analyzing election results, political opinion polls or other surveys. |
| NYU's Courant Institute receives $500,000 NSF grant to discover the learning algorithm of the brain Fri, 03 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT |
(New York University) New York University's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences and its institutional partners -- Stanford University, MIT and the University of California, Berkeley -- have each received a $500,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to study the "learning algorithm of the brain." |
| World's biggest computing grid launched Fri, 03 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT |
(DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory) The world's largest computing grid is ready to tackle mankind's biggest data challenge from the earth's most powerful accelerator. Today, three weeks after the first particle beams were injected into the Large Hadron Collider, the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid combines the power of more than 140 computer centers from 33 countries to analyze and manage more than 15 million gigabytes of LHC data every year. |
| 'From the Web to human diseases,' UH talk uncovers network similarities Thu, 02 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT |
(University of Houston) Comparing such diverse networks as the Internet and the human cell, renowned physicist Albert-László Barabási explains the mathematical foundation behind what he calls "the highly interconnected web of life," leading to advances in medicine and communication. Barabási will give a lecture titled "Network Science: From the Web to Human Diseases" at the University of Houston Oct. 9. |
| Presence of safety measures affects people's trust in the safety of tourist destinations Thu, 02 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT |
(Wiley-Blackwell) According to the asymmetry principle of trust, information on negative events decreases trust to a much higher extent than information on positive events increases trust. A new study in the journal Risk Analysis examined whether this notion holds true with respect to trust in the safety of tourist destinations. |
| When a light goes on during thought processes Thu, 02 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT |
(Max-Planck-Gesellschaft) Fluorescent proteins in the brain light up during individual action potentials making it possible to track nerve cell communication. |
| Coastlines could be protected by invisibility cloak Thu, 02 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT |
(University of Liverpool) Scientists at the University of Liverpool have tested an "invisibility cloak" that could reduce the risk of large water waves overtopping coastal defenses. |
| Tip sheet for October issue of BSSA Thu, 02 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT |
(Seismological Society of America) Authors explore how ground motion measures scale with magnitude and explore the question: How many earthquakes are there? |
| Rice scholar available to comment on non-voters in 2008 election Wed, 01 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT |
(Rice University) Lyn Ragsdale, the dean of social sciences and the Radoslav A. Tsanoff Chair of Political Affairs at Rice University, is available to discuss the large segment of the electorate that is unlikely to vote in the Nov. 4 election -- the subject of her forthcoming book, "The American Non-Voter." |
| Eureka! How distractions facilitate creative problem-solving Tue, 30 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT |
(Association for Psychological Science) According to psychologists from the University of Toronto and the Radboud University Nijmegen, distractions may be helpful in coming up with creative solutions to a certain problem, but must be followed by a period of conscious thought to ensure that we are aware of those solutions and can apply them. Likewise, while distractions are more useful in solving difficult problems, it may be better to stay focused on finding the solution when confronted with easier problems. |
| New formula predicts how people will migrate in coming decades Mon, 29 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT |
(Rockefeller University) Scientists at Rockefeller University, with assistance from the United Nations, have developed a predictive model of worldwide population shifts that they say will provide better estimates of migration across international boundaries. |
| Engineer: Head-first slide is quicker Fri, 26 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT |
(Washington University in St. Louis) With baseball playoffs heating up and the World Series right around the corner, it's guaranteed that fans will see daring slides, both feet-first and head-first, and even slides on bang-bang plays at first. Who gets there faster, the head-first slider or the feet-first? The heads first player, says David A. Peters, engineering professor at Washington University in St. Louis, and big-time baseball fan. It's a matter of the player's center of gravity. |
| Penn presents inaugural symposium on applied mathematics and computational science Fri, 26 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT |
(University of Pennsylvania) The University of Pennsylvania's new graduate program in Applied Mathematics and Computational Science is hosting its inaugural symposium to spotlight the frontiers of research and provide a resource for members of the news media. |
| NWO modifies the Innovational Research Incentives Scheme Fri, 26 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT |
(Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research) NWO is modifying the Veni, Vidi and Vici subsidy programs. More money will be made available to top researchers. Subsidies will be larger, there will be more possibilities for lecturers to submit proposals and there will be less prior paper work. There will be a greater focus on knowledge utilization, more opportunities for multidisciplinary proposals and proposals from different disciplines will be compared with each other. In November and December NWO is organizing a number of information sessions for researchers to explain the changes. |
| All students proficient on state tests by 2014? Fri, 26 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT |
(National Science Foundation) The law known as No Child Left Behind, enacted in 2002, set an ambitious goal: that across the nation, every state would test students annually in reading and math, and that the number of students scoring at the level of "proficient" or higher would rise each year, until all students reached proficiency in the year 2014. |
| MIT solves 100-year-old engineering problem Thu, 25 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT |
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology) As a car accelerates down a hill then slows to follow a hairpin turn, the airflow around it cannot keep up and detaches from the vehicle. This aerodynamic separation creates drag that slows the car. The same phenomenon affects airplanes, boats, and submarines. Now, in work that could lead to controlling the effect with potential impacts on fuel efficiency and more, MIT scientists report new work for predicting where that aerodynamic separation will occur. |
| Rice University economist available to discuss financial crisis Thu, 25 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT |
(Rice University) The current financial crisis is first and foremost a crisis of confidence. The tip of the iceberg may be the subprime mortgage crisis and its immediate aftermath, but the roots of the crisis have to do with unsustainable dual deficits (fiscal and trade) that have resulted in gargantuan levels of US debt, both private and public. |
| Most elementary schools in California will fail to meet proficiency requirements by 2014 Thu, 25 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT |
(University of California - Riverside) A study led by the University of California, Riverside shows that nearly all elementary schools in California will fail to meet the Adequate Yearly Progress requirements for proficiency by 2014, the year when all students in the nation need to be proficient in English Language Arts and mathematics, per the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001. For most schools, the greatest risk of failing AYP lies with ELA proficiency, the study finds. |
| Detecting human activities through barriers Wed, 24 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT |
(University of Texas at Austin, Electrical & Computer Engineering) Doppler radar signals become animation. |
| Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics announces major breakthrough Wed, 24 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT |
(Swiss Institute of Bioinoformatics) This new protein encyclopedia looks at life asit is really organized in our body at the molecular level. |
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