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PARSIPPANY, N.J., March 25 /PRNewswire/ -- It's a different era for pharmaceutical companies trying to remain on the forefront of an ever-changing industry while battling an uncertain economy. Now, more than ever, pharmaceutical competitive intelligence is the key to retaining market share and ma...Is Perfect Pitch All in the Genes?
Study suggests genetics may be behind ability to know the tone of a musical note THURSDAY, Aug. 30 (HealthDay News) -- A Web-based do-it-yourself study has found evidence for a possible genetic basis for absolute pitch, the rare ability to identify the pitch of a musical note without o...Low Pitch Therapy for ‘ringing in the Ears
UC Irvine researchers have found a treatment for tinnitus, the hearing damage loud music can cause.// Fan-Gang Zeng and colleagues have identified an effective way to treat the symptoms of tinnitus, a form of hearing damage typically marked by high-pitched ringing that torments more than 60 mi...Lipo-Flavonoid Launches New Video Testimonial
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...asures and exploring the dangers of not being immunized. Erie County : Aug. 24 - 7:05 p.m. - Immunization activity called, "Here's the pitch ... Immunize" with the Erie Seawolves at Jerry Uht Park , 110 E 10th St., Erie. The event is sponsored by the Erie Immunization Coalition. Direct ser...SpeechEasy Seeks Proposals For Future Research Studies
...ring aid, SpeechEasy is worn in or around the ear. But rather than amplify sound, it alters the way the user hears his or her own voice - changing the pitch and delaying it slightly to trick the brain into hearing a second voice speaking in unison. Such "choral" speech can alleviate stuttering in...Omnetics' Multi-Contact Nano Connectors Obtain Digital Transmission Rates Over 2 Gb/sec.
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...at some people with bad singing voices hear music just fine. Amusics are a smaller group with a perceptual problem: They can't pick out differences in pitch or follow the simplest tunes, reports the September 2007 issue of the Harvard Health Letter. Brain scans haven't revealed major anatomical difference...Kompressor Compression Screw System
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Why do male owls hoot? Researchers from the Centre d'Études Biologiques de Chizé (France) and the University of Sussex (UK) have studied the vocal communication of male European Scops owls, one of the smallest living species of nocturnal raptors. The study, published in the April issue of the Ameri...What scientists know about jewel beetle shimmer
...teric liquid crystal in that its straight cells sit on or are used to form the curved structure of its external skeleton. Research shows that when the pitch of the helix of cholesteric liquid crystals is close to the wavelength of visible light, they reflect light with specific wavelengths, leading to bril...Promising device snags young inventors coveted spot at IShow
... of Health in the Texas Medical Center, could receive up to $10,000 in seed funding from ASME. And that's just the beginning. All finalists get to pitch their inventions to venture capitalists and "angel investors" who will be in attendance to get their hands on the next big thing. "The IShow is kno...Stanford's Woods Institute awards new round of Environmental Venture Projects
... environmental sciences who can bring to bear fresh perspectives on environmental issues." The EVP Symposium will include time for faculty to pitch research ideas to their colleagues, followed by a networking reception and poster session. For more information on this free event, contact Paula Wetz...The neurobiology of musicality related to the intrinsic attachment behavior?
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...egy is based on semiconductor nanomaterials that can offer high stretchability (e.g., 140%) and large twistability such as corkscrew twists with tight pitch (e.g., 90o in 1cm). Potential uses for the new design include electronic devices for eye cameras, smart surgical gloves, body parts, airplane wings, b...Mosquitoes create harmonic love song before mating, study finds
...The mating duet, generated just before the couple mates on the fly, settles at around 1,200 hertz -- roughly an octave and a half above concert A (the pitch to which instruments are tuned -- the A that has a frequency of 440 hertz and is above middle C). "That is significantly higher than what was previous...Quiet bison sire more calves than louder rivals
...t was published in the November issue of the journal Animal Behaviour . Most studies of vocalized sexual signals among animals have focused on the pitch characteristics, timing and duration of calls. Amplitude has received much less attention, Wyman said, largely because loudness is especially difficul...Space researchers developing tool to help disoriented pilots
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Madison, Wis. - Several Wisconsin investment groups have stepped forward in an attempt to prevent a young company with a solution to identity theft from bolting the state, but outside investors are still in the picture. The firm, IPIC (Internet Privacy & Identity Credential), will meet with ...Milwaukee firm among first to use Act 255 tax credits in investor pitch
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Madison, Wis. -You're in an elevator next to a venture capitalist who could invest millions in your business but doesn't know the first thing about it yet. You have 90 seconds to explain, starting now. That's the premise of the Elevator Pitch Olympics, a yearly event at the Wisconsin Earl...Laser technology creates new forms of metal and enhances aircraft performance
... Dr. Chunlei Guo and his team of researchers for the project discovered a way to transform a shiny piece of metal into one that is pitch black, not by paint, but by using incredibly intense bursts of laser light. The black metal created, absorbs all radiation that shines upon it. "W...Regular light bulbs made super-efficient with ultra-fast laser
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...tch. Occasionally, you play a sound of a different pitch and watch the EEG to see if they produce a distinc...re exciting, demonstrating newborns had a sense of pitch from birth, and this was not something learned thr...rt software, able to detect violations of expected pitch and rhythmic structure, with tonality soon to be a...Concentric Medical Closes on $15 Million Financing
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...enture capitalists and the title of "Best Inventor pitch for Bioscience Day 2008," held on Nov. 12. Spons...air" gave faculty and inventors the opportunity to pitch their new technologies to a team of five venture c...gion. Presenters were judged based upon clarity of pitch and commercial viability. Fischell Department of...Contact Printing Kit with Stamp from Platypus Technologies
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