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JCVI program trains USDA scientists on eukaryotic genome analysis

As part of the ongoing mission to train and educate scientists on the latest tools, methods and advances in genomics, the J. Craig Venter Institute's (JCVI) Eukaryotic Genome Annotation and Analysis Team will travel to Lubbock, TX March 3rd-5th to train 40 United States Agriculture Department (USD...

ESA trains next generation of atmospheric scientists

In a world in which human activity is beginning to alter atmospheric composition with substantial implications for climate and air quality, it is more pressing than ever that the scientists of tomorrow understand atmospheric processes and how the processes may change in order to anticipate the eff...

Straw bale house survives violent shaking at earthquake lab

... said. The earthquake-safe buildings are 80 percent more energy efficient than modern conventional buildings at 50 percent of the cost. Her group also trains local residents how to build the homes. "Our system is different than anything ever tested," she said. "We're doing seismic research on the house ...

Research to secure a safe water supply

...WATER ITN: Specialists for environmentally friendly groundwater management A new EU research programme, the Goodwater Initial Training Network (ITN), trains specialists in the field of groundwater research and management, imparting cutting-edge scientific skills. The Institute of Groundwater Ecology at the...

Defectors take the car, cooperators go by bus

...t dilemma of facing large cities. The received wisdom suggests that the answer lies with public transportation. "If there were no cars but reliable trains and buses, everyone could get anywhere quickly and without traffic jams," says Szilagyi. His simulation greatly simplifies the issues, but works by co...

January-February GSA Bulletin media highlights

... the Hurricane Fault, a major active structure near the western margin of the Colorado Plateau. CO2 gas quantities released are quite large, including trains of CO2 bubbles rising through the Virgin River. However, the large majority of CO2 is released to the surface in the dissolved state, predominantly as...

Smithsonian puts tropical eastern Pacific shore fishes online

...ty, Panama, is a unit of the Smithsonian Institution. The institute furthers the understanding of tropical nature and its importance to human welfare, trains students to conduct research in the tropics and promotes conservation by increasing public awareness of the beauty and importance of tropical ecosyste...

Smithsonian puts tropical Eastern-Pacific shore fishes online

...ty, Panama, is a unit of the Smithsonian Institution. The institute furthers the understanding of tropical nature and its importance to human welfare, trains students to conduct research in the tropics and promotes conservation by increasing public awareness of the beauty and importance of tropical ecosyste...

Track your fitness, environmental impact with new cell phone applications

...pplication could be programmed to glean almost all this information just from the accelerometer, Landay said, because the movements of cars, buses and trains are very different from each other. UbiGreen displays a tree on the cell phone's background that grows leaves, flowers, then fruit as the user make...

HJF nursing specialist wins prestigious Celina Field Cargiver Award

... Rupprecht's patients have experienced severe limb injuries or amputations. Rupprecht also created and leads the Pain Management Task Force, which trains hospital staff on the ever-changing issue of pain management. Rupprecht also developed a pain resource nurse program to train "pain champions" who ser...

Innovations in Pediatric Medicine CME conference brings together national pediatrics experts

...ternational leadership in basic, pre-clinical and clinical research, in medical and health sciences education, and in patient care. The medical center trains future leaders and includes the dedicated work of many physicians, scientists, public health professionals, dentists, and nurses at the College of Phy...

Researchers develop new self-training gene prediction program for fungi

... Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a computer program that trains itself to predict genes in the DNA sequences of fungi. Fungi which range from yeast to mushrooms are important for industry and human health, so ...

ID Solutions Achieves Full-Production Delivery and Payment for Fingerprint Processing Software for TWIC

...vering US Port operations only, while extensions to other segments of critical transportation infrastructure, including interstate trucking, airports, trains and busses, highways and bridges, etc., are expected in coming years. While the initial project is limited to ports protection, industry estimates of ...

ID Solutions Awarded Full-Production Order for Fingerprint Processing Software for TWIC

...vering US Port operations only, while extensions to other segments of critical transportation infrastructure, including interstate trucking, airports, trains and busses, highways and bridges, etc. are expected in coming years. In all, industry estimates of total enrollments are in the 12 to 15 million range...

Livermore researchers use carbon nanotubes for molecular transport

...ls. The water molecules travel in chains - because they interact with each other strongly via hydrogen bonds. "You can visualize it as mini-freight trains of chain-bonded water molecules flying at high speed through a narrow nanotube tunnel," said Hyung Gyu Park, an LLNL postdoctoral researcher and a tea...

19 researchers selected as 2008 Leopold Leadership Fellows

...ision makers," said Pamela Matson, dean of Stanford's School of Earth Sciences and scientific director of the program. "The Leopold Leadership Program trains academics to close the gap between knowledge and action." Following is a list of 2008 Leopold Leadership Fellows and their research: Pedro Alv...

New carbon calculator conserves forests

... Tropical deforestation emits at least 20 percent of total greenhouse gases that cause climate change -- more than all the worlds cars, SUVs, trucks, trains and airplanes combined. Sporting a novel, upbeat design, CIs user friendly calculator determines personal or family carbon emissions from home energy...

Cosmopolitan microbes -- hitchhikers on Darwin's dust

... have analysed aerial dust samples collected by Charles Darwin and confirmed that microbes can travel across continents without the need for planes or trains - rather bacteria and fungi hitch-hike by attaching to dust particles. In a paper published in Environmental Microbiology, Dr. Anna Gorbushina (Car...

Acoustics World Wide press room now open

...A HOUSE FOR TORONTO A new performing space is a building within a building since it rides on a vibration-isolation system, keeping the nearby subway trains at bay. Steven L.Wolfe, Wilson, Ihrig & Associates, Inc. http://www.acoustics.org/press/154th/wolfe.html SOUND FOCUSED PERSONAL AUDIO SYSTEM ...

RIT to study air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions in the Great Lakes region

...es a U.S. Department of Transportation-funded project to evaluate the energy and environmental impacts of intermodal shippingmoving freight on trucks, trains and shipsand a National Science Foundation-funded project aimed at understanding the impact of greenhouse gas policies on automobile technology and de...

Costa Rica, US announce historic debt-for-nature swap

...nge. Cutting and burning tropical forests contributes 20 percent of total greenhouse gas emissions, which is more than all the worlds cars, trucks, trains and planes combined. Costa Rica has reversed a deforestation trend that saw it lose almost 80 percent of its original forest cover. It now has replant...

American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- Sept. 26, 2007

...ail: plow@purdue.edu ARTICLE #2 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Subway dust may trigger lung damage Chemical Research in Toxicology Subway trains produce airborne dust particles that could damage the lungs of commuters, scientists in France are reporting in a study of the Paris subway system sc...

Penn researchers link cell's protein recycling systems

... are surrounded by membranes inside the cell for bulk digestion. “The dogma has been that the autophagy-lysosomal and the proteasomal systems are trains that run on different tracks, with similar purposes, but no point of intersection,” explains senior author J. Paul Taylor, MD, PhD, Assistant Professo...

University of Alberta researchers unravel intricate animal patterns

...kind of movement patterns we get." The team came up with 10 complex patterns. Some are classical, such as stationary pulses, ripples or traveling trains but they also describe new patterns that have not been reported before such as zigzag pulses, feathers and traveling breathers. This model doesn’...

New biofuels process promises to meet all US transportation needs

... Agrawal said. "We could use H2CAR to provide a sustainable fuel supply to meet the needs of the entire U.S. transportation sector - all cars, trucks, trains and airplanes." The process, which would make possible the dawning of a "hydrogen-carbon economy," is detailed in a research paper appearing onli...

Engineered heart tissue offers insights into irregular heartbeats, defibrillator failure

...he beginning, there is a single rotating wave -- the 'culture dish' analog of ventricular tachycardia," Bursac said. "After a short period, we applied trains of pulses in an attempt to terminate this wave." The pulses successfully halted the wave 80 percent of the time, they reported. In the remaining c...