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Weather-sensitive architectural skins integrate form with function

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Nov 06, 2009 | 3 / 5 (2) | 0

Buildings typically provide shelter from the elements, but one Ryerson University researcher thinks structures ought to relate more to the environment instead. To this end, she has created architectural "skins," ...

Community education and evacuation planning saved lives in Sept. 29 Samoan tsunami

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Nov 05, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

Community-based education and awareness programs minimized the death toll from the recent Samoan tsunami, though there are still ways to improve the warning and evacuation process, according to a team of researchers ...

Farmers' markets harvest new business

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Nov 05, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

Something fresh is growing in Indiana. The number of farmers' markets in the state has increased at double the rate of other U.S. states; between 1994 and 2004 the number of farmers' markets in Indiana increased by an impressive ...

Disappearing vowels 'caught' on tape in US midwest

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Oct 26, 2009 | 4.8 / 5 (4) | 0

Try to pronounce the words "caught" and "cot." If you're a New Yorker by birth, the two words will sound as different as their spellings. But if you grew up in California, you probably pronounce them identically.

Teacher talk strains voices, especially for women

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Oct 26, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

Teachers tend to spend more time speaking than most professionals, putting them at a greater risk for hurting their voices -- they're 32 times more likely to experience voice problems, according to one study. And unlike singers ...

UCLA historian attempts to revive reputation of Union general, Reconstruction president

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Oct 26, 2009 | 4.7 / 5 (3) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- In a new book, UCLA historian Joan Waugh argues that Ulysses S. Grant deserves to be remembered with as much reverence and gratitude as Abraham Lincoln.

Navy Researchers Apply Science to Fire Fighting

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Oct 23, 2009 | not rated yet | 1

A fire aboard a Navy ship can quickly become a deadly cauldron. The grim reminders of this would be the deadly fires that took place aboard the USS Forrestal in 1967 or the USS Enterprise in 1969.

'Dutch' Batavians more Roman than thought

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Oct 23, 2009 | 4.4 / 5 (7) | 0

The Batavians, who lived in the Netherlands at the start of the Christian era were far more Roman than was previously thought. After just a few decades of Roman occupation, the Batavians had become so integrated that they ...

Scholar helps classify clicks in African languages

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Oct 22, 2009 | 5 / 5 (2) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Linguistics scholar Amanda Miller is doing research with high-speed ultrasound technology to help her and fellow researchers successfully record and classify clicks in an endangered African ...

Despite claims, U.K. did not gas Iraqis in the 1920s, scholar says

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Oct 20, 2009 | 5 / 5 (2) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- It has passed as fact among historians, journalists and politicians, and has been recounted everywhere from tourist guidebooks to the floor of the U.S. Congress: British forces used chemical weapons on Iraqis ...

Media source impacts ag biotech communication

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Oct 20, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

Communication between the public and government is a necessary component of public trust. For many modern issues, constituents trust that their legislators understand the science behind these topics and pass legislation for ...

Performance reviews are raising council standards, say researchers

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Oct 18, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

Performance assessment schemes aimed at making local authorities into more effective organisations are having the desired effect, according to new research released by the Economic and Social Research Council. The project ...

New method proposed to calculate reduction in road accident deaths

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Oct 15, 2009 | 4 / 5 (1) | 0

A team of engineers from the University of Almería (UAL, Spain) has developed a methodology to help meet the EU objective of cutting road deaths by 50% between 2000 and 2010. The researchers have calculated ...

Identifying ID theft and fraud

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Oct 14, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

If the wife of FBI boss Robert Mueller has warned him not to use internet banking because of the threat of online fraud, then what hope is there for the average Jo? The results of research published in a forthcoming issue ...

US Nobel sweep points to brain drain

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Oct 13, 2009 | 4 / 5 (5) | 1

Cash-rich US researchers have again dominated this year's Nobel awards, but it seems identifying the nationality of laureates is not an exact science, and change may be on the way.

Against the common gouda

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Oct 13, 2009 | 3 / 5 (1) | 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- The cheese aisle of your local supermarket is an unlikely place to study a classic political problem: How do we balance state power with individual freedom? But for those with a trained eye, ...

Forgotten treasures shed new light on Little Grey Rabbit author

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Oct 12, 2009 | 4.5 / 5 (2) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A suffragette poem, penned by a world-famous children’s author and kept privately at a University of Manchester Hall of Residence for over a century, has been made available online.

French arrest physicist suspected of al-Qaida link

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Oct 09, 2009 | 4 / 5 (3) | 0

(AP) -- A nuclear physicist working at the world's largest atom smasher has been arrested on suspicion of links to the Algerian branch of al-Qaida, another blow to a project that has been plagued by glitches and was shut ...