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Mathematicians set world record in packing puzzle
Aug 12, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Finding the best way to pack the greatest quantity of a specifically shaped object into a confined space may sound simple, yet it consistently has led to deep mathematical concepts and practical ...
Combination of old and new media deepens mathematical understanding
Mar 19, 2009 |
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By combining the trusty old book, pen and paper with the possibilities offered by the computer and the interactive whiteboard, ICT can help to improve students’ understanding in maths education. So conclude a team of researchers ...
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Concrete examples don't help students learn math, study finds
Apr 24, 2008 |
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A new study challenges the common practice in many classrooms of teaching mathematical concepts by using “real-world,” concrete examples. Researchers led by Jennifer Kaminski, researcher scientist at Ohio State University’s ...
Mathematical model gives clearer picture of physics of cells, organelles
Dec 08, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Cells are filled with membrane-bound organelles like the nucleus, mitochondria and endoplasmic reticula. Over the years, scientists have made much progress in understanding the biomolecular details of how ...
Scientists Have Identified Basic Principles of Communication
May 09, 2006 |
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How do we succeed in putting our ideas into words, so that another person can understand them? This complex undertaking involves translating an idea into a one-dimensional sequence, a string of words to be read or spoken ...
Rubber 'snake' could help wave power get a bite of the energy market
Jul 03, 2008 |
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A device consisting of a giant rubber tube may hold the key to producing affordable electricity from the energy in sea waves.
Light throws a curve ball
Sep 29, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the University of St Andrews have made a surprise discovery using light beams that can travel around corners.
New treatment model for HIV
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Jul 13, 2007 |
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Treatment of HIV patients must balance the need to suppress viral replication against the harmful side effects and significant cost to the patient of antiretroviral therapy.
A mathematical problem that just doesn't add up
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
May 04, 2007 |
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Most of us share it and it seems a safe enough assumption: mathematical skills and performance develop and advance as students progress through their elementary school years. However, a new study by University of Notre Dame ...
Fighting TB might be a matter of 'flipping a switch' in immune response
Jun 22, 2009 |
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Scientists are focusing on a new concept in fighting airborne pathogens by manipulating what is called the "switching time," the point at which a highly regulated immune response gives way to powerful cells that specialize ...
Study helps advance heart-related research
Dec 04, 2009 |
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Using a new mathematical model of heart cells, University of Iowa investigators have shown how activation of a critical enzyme, calmodulin kinase II (CaM kinase), disrupts the electrical activity of heart cells.
Strings As Structural Elements? Engineers Devise Mathematics For New Age Structures
Mar 28, 2006 |
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Scientists at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) have devised two mathematical tools considered to be major contributions to the optimal design of a new generation of deformable bridges, buildings, ...
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