Scientists find universal rules for food-web stability

... long periods of time. Understanding complex systems such as food webs present major challenges to ... Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex systems (MPIPKS) in Dresden, Germany, have developed a ... at the International Institute for Applied systems Analysis (IIASA) in Laxenburg, Austria, and ...

ComCam Selected by ePortation on New Maritime Domain Awareness Project

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Sustainable agriculture at the ESA Annual Meeting

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Results of national assessment of first responder location systems to be announced Aug. 3

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DOE-funded research projects win 46 R&D 100 Awards for 2009

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Frost & Sullivan Recognizes MIRTEC With the 2009 Award for Automated Optical Inspection Product Innovation of the Year

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Corn yield stability varies with rotations, fertility

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A global model for the origin of species independent of geographical isolation

... team of researchers from The New England Complex systems Institute, have collaborated and found a way to ... fourth in a series from The New England Complex systems Institute on the role of complexity in species ... Bar-Yam, president of The New England Complex systems Institute and a senior author of the study. ...

Fujitsu PalmSecure Certified Under International Common Criteria Evaluation Assurance Level 2

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Researchers achieve major breakthrough with water desalination system

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Happier, healthier, more productive hens on omega-3?

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Growing Demand for Rapid Screening and Detection Systems Pushes the European Maritime Security Market, Finds Frost & Sullivan

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New Report Just Published: World Solid-State, Fiber, Gas and Dye Lasers Market Report

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A complete view of complexity in science and society in a new authoritative reference work

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Systems biology recommended as a clinical approach to cancer

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Spontaneous assembly

... Self-assembling and self-organizing systems are the Holy Grails of nanotechnology, but nature has been producing such systems for millions of years. A team of scientists has ... into how complex periodic patterns in biological systems can be generated and repaired. Researchers ...

Plant protein 'doorkeepers' block invading microbes, study finds

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Plant protein 'doorkeepers' block invading microbes, study finds

... provide a better understanding of plants' immune systems and will likely find application in better ... what are known as innate, or preformed, immune systems as well as adaptive immune systems that learn to recognize and defend against ...

Study highlights massive imbalances in global fertilizer use

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Beetle shell inspires brilliant white paper

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A quicker, cheaper SARS virus detector -- one easily customizable for other targets

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Swiss Initiative in Systems Biology launches new projects

... of the projects, and their alignment towards systems Biology. The budget for the six RTD-projects is ... a 100 Million Francs budget for investment in systems Biology research from 2008-2011. Members of the ... the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB). systems Biology aims to explain biological regulation at ...

Uniloc Unveils Industry-First Authentication Technology for Comprehensive Protection of Critical Infrastructure

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Reducing the roadworks

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Uniloc Unveils Industry-First Authentication Technology for Comprehensive Protection of Critical Infrastructure

... NetAnchor Secures Valuable Assets and systems in Critical Infrastructure Industries Including ... designed specifically to control access to systems and information particularly in industries ... for these organizations due to industrial control systems that operate differently from sector to sector ...

Prefilled WFI Syringe Provides a High-Quality Solution for Drug Reconstitution

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George M. Whitesides receives inaugural Dreyfus prize in the chemical sciences

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DOE makes largest Danforth Campus research award in history

... to establish a Center for Advanced Biofuels systems (CABS) that will be led by Sayre, who will serve ... The objective of the Center for Advanced Biofuel systems is to increase the thermodynamic and kinetic ... basic research on algal and plant-based biofuel systems into sustainable energy ...

Toward a systems biology map of iron metabolism

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Unifying the animate and the inanimate designs of nature

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6 young ASU faculty earn NSF Career awards

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Allscripts Integrates Electronic Health Records with Innovative Patient Kiosk

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Can organic cropping systems be as profitable as conventional systems?

... established the Wisconsin Integrated Cropping systems Trial (WICST) in 1990. This research is funded by USDA-ARS. systems ranging from species-diverse pasture and organic systems to more specialized conventional alfalfa-based ...

Stevens hosts 'Green Building: The Bottom Line,' April 8

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Weizmann Institute scientists develop a unique approach for splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen

... The design of efficient systems for splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen, ... as a clean, sustainable fuel. But man-made systems that exist today are very inefficient and often ... to the development of artificial photosynthetic systems based on metal complexes that serve as catalysts, ...

Can organic cropping systems be as profitable as conventional systems?

... established the Wisconsin Integrated Cropping systems Trial (WICST) in 1990. This research is funded by USDA-ARS. systems ranging from species-diverse pasture and organic systems to more specialized conventional alfalfa-based ...

Collaboration leads to success: Most powerful computer of its kind in western N.Y. available worldwide

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New evidence explains poor infant immune response to certain vaccines, says MU researcher

... and physicians have known that infants' immune systems do not respond well to certain vaccines, thus the ... the MU scientist found evidence that the immune systems of newborns might require some time after birth ... studied newborn mice and how their immune systems reacted when they were repeatedly exposed to an ...

Recession Puts Focus on Business Optimisation and Excellence to Strengthen Business Core

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VeriLook Surveillance SDK Provides Real-Time Face Identification Using Video Surveillance Cameras

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