News tagged with mass communications


Online obituaries are changing the way we publicly remember the dead and how newspapers cover deaths

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Jun 16, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The ways we deal with death are finding a new life online, according to research being published by a Kansas State University journalism professor and her colleague.





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New infectious diseases -- what's the risk?

Medicine & Health / Health

created May 19, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

With the current outbreak of swine flu, and in the absence of a vaccine or treatment at present, the only way to contain the virus is to get people around the world to take precautionary measures.


Fast, cheap melamine detector duo will outfox dairy frauds

Chemistry /

created Dec 16, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Two easy-to-use new ways of detecting melamine on the production line are reported in the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Chemical Communications.


Oetzi the Iceman dressed like a herdsman

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Aug 21, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (11) | comments 2

A famous Neolithic Iceman is dressed in clothes made from sheep and cattle hair, a new study shows. The researchers say their findings support the idea that the Iceman was a herdsman, and that their technique, reported today ...


In Brief: Nokia opens joint research center with MIT

Technology /

created Apr 21, 2006 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Nokia opened a research center in Cambridge, Mass., in conjunction with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.


A new system preserves the right to privacy in Internet searches

A new system preserves the right to privacy in Internet searches

Technology / Other

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A team of Catalan researchers has developed a protocol to distort the user profile generated by Internet search engines, in such a way that they cannot save the searches undertaken by Internet users and thus ...


Forensic use of tandem mass-spectroscopy detects links between banknotes and drugs

Other Sciences /

created Jun 27, 2005 | popularity 1.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Research published in this month's edition of the journal Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, describes a method that can detect a pattern of contamination on bank notes from drug related crime that is different from ...


Study finds 18- to 24-year-old group more politically active, but not more knowledgeable

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Aug 13, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 7

A study by three Kansas State University graduate students finds that the 18- to 24-year-old demographic became more politically active during the 2008 U.S. election season through the use of new media, but that the young ...


Drug discovery process more accurate, less expensive using novel mass spectrometry application

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Sep 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Cancer and cell biology experts at the University of Cincinnati (UC) have developed a new mass spectrometry-based tool they say provides more precise, cost-effective data collection for drug discovery efforts.


Researchers find mass media campaigns useful

Other Sciences / Other

created Apr 10, 2008 | popularity 2.9 / 5 (8) | comments 1

Two University of Kentucky researchers from the department of communication in the UK College of Communications and Information Studies have learned that targeted mass media campaigns alone can be effective in convincing ...


Toshiba Announces Gallium Nitride Power FET with World's Highest Output Power in Ku-band

Toshiba Announces Gallium Nitride Power FET with World's Highest Output Power in Ku-band

Technology / Semiconductors

created Oct 09, 2007 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (8) | comments 0

Toshiba Corporation today announced that it has developed a gallium nitride (GaN) power field effect transistor (FET) for the Ku-band (12GHz to 18GHz) frequency range that achieves an output power of 65.4W ...



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