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February 22, 2012
Analytics, the increasingly important specialty that has been cited by Harvard Business Review, Sloan Management Review, Gartner, and Accenture for aiding better decisions at organizations, will be the focus of a conference hosted by the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences, the premier organization for advanced analytics professionals.
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February 24, 2012
Richard Cronn and colleagues have published an overview of newly developed, up-and-coming DNA sequencing techniques. The authors summarize "targeted enrichment" strategies that can be used to obtain specific DNA sequences from complex plant genomes.
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May 28, 2012
Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health have found evidence of a role for neighborhood immunity in determining risk of dengue infection. While it is established that immunity can be an important factor in the large-scale distribution of disease, this study demonstrates that local variation at spatial scales of just a few hundred meters can significantly alter the risk of infection, even in a highly mobile and dense urban population with significant immunity.
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May 4, 2012
Sensors, radio transmitters and GPS modules all feature low power consumption. All it takes is a few milliwatts to run them. Energy from the environment -- from sources such as light or vibrations -- may be enough to meet these requirements. A new measurement device can determine whether or not the energy potential is high enough.
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January 19, 2012
Participants learn how to apply the science behind risk-based decision making, examine complex problems involving chemicals in the environment, discuss emerging analytic approaches, and have an opportunity to review important issues with leaders in the field.
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February 14, 2012
Esther Rebato is a well-known figure in the field of Physical Anthropology. This lecturer at the Department of Genetics, Physical Anthropology and Animal Physiology of the University of the Basque Country has carried out numerous pieces of work into nutritional habits, life quality and other associated aspects. Over the last few years she has been looking at the Romani ethnic population.
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January 23, 2012
Anaphylaxis can be fatal and can be triggered by several factors, including specific foods, airborne allergens, stings and bites, and drugs/vaccines.
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July 9, 2025
This 2001 illustration labels important parts of a space shuttle orbiter. The orbiter was the heart and brains of the space shuttle and served as the crew transport vehicle that carried astronauts to and from space. The space shuttle was comprised of the orbiter, the main engines, the external tank, and the solid rocket boosters. […]
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April 7, 2025
Copper instruments discovered at a 4,000-year-old site in Oman echo ritual influences from South Asia.
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February 26, 2012
Ancient manuscripts written by Arabic scholars can provide valuable meteorological information to help modern scientists reconstruct the climate of the past, a new study has revealed. The research, published in Weather, analyses the writings of scholars, historians and diarists in Iraq during the Islamic Golden Age between 816-1009 AD for evidence of abnormal weather patterns.
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