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Oracle to pay $1.9B for Taleo, extends SAP rivalry

(AP) -- Oracle Corp. is escalating its rivalry with German business-software maker SAP AG and plans to pay $1.9 billion for Taleo Corp., a company that helps businesses hire and manage their employees.

Technology / Business

created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Building mountains in a bottle

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists are preparing to launch a 10-year project to study water resources, gas exchange and carbon cycling in three man-made landscapes built in a half-acre laboratory at the University ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Feb 08, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Bacterial plasmids -- the freeloading and the heavy-lifters -- balance the high price of disease

Studying self-replicating genetic units, called plasmids, found in one of the world's widest-ranging pathogenic soil bacteria -- the crown-gall-disease-causing microorganism Agrobacterium tumefaciens -- Ind ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Warning of unrest, new study shows millions risk losing lands in Africa

New studies released in London today suggest that the frenzied sell-off of forests and other prime lands to buyers hungry for the developing world's natural resources risk sparking widespread civil unrest—unless national ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Analysis of generalized linear mixed models

A new and first of its kind book provides a practical guide for the use of modern statistical methods within agricultural and natural resources sciences. Analysis of Generalized Linear Mixed Models in the Agricultural and ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jan 31, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Groups sue over Navy sonar use off Northwest

Conservationists and Native American tribes are suing over the Navy's expanded use of sonar in training exercises off the Washington, Oregon and California coasts, saying the noise can harass and kill whales ...

Biology / Ecology

created Jan 26, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Chemistry professor developing sustainable bioplastics

(PhysOrg.com) -- A Colorado State University chemistry professor has developed several patent-pending chemical processes that would create sustainable bioplastics from renewable resources for use on everything ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Jan 19, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

New guidebook provides framework for managing US forests in face of climate change

Resource managers at the nation's 155 national forests now have a set of science-based guidelines to help them manage their landscapes for resilience to climate change.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jan 18, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A new artificial intelligence technique to speed the planning of tasks when resources are limited

Scientists at Universidad Carlos III in Madrid have presented a new technique based on artificial intelligence that can automatically create plans, allowing problems to be solved with much greater speed than ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Jan 17, 2012 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Apple to hold media event on education next week

(AP) -- Apple is scheduling a media event in New York next week, but the company isn't saying much about the topic it plans to discuss.

Technology / Business

created Jan 11, 2012 | popularity 1 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Scientists study how nature cleans uranium from Colorado aquifer

Rifle, Colorado, is a small town on the Colorado River, in the heart of the Rocky Mountains, that's big on natural resources. It attracts hunters, fishermen, hikers, rock climbers. Its striking scenery attracted ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jan 11, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers outline world's land and water resources for food and agriculture

Researchers from the University of Southampton have contributed to a major international United Nation's (UN) report into the current status of the world's land and water resources for food and agriculture.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 21, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

A novel analytical framework could help to strengthen health systems in post-conflict countries

A novel analytical framework could help to strengthen health systems in post-conflict countries

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 20, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Three-year study identifies key interventions to reduce maternal, newborn and child deaths

Some 56 evidence-based interventions will sharply reduce the 358,000 women who still die each year during pregnancy and childbirth and the 7.6 million children who die before the age of 5, according to a massive three-year ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 15, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

EPA report on WY water doesn't end fracking debate

(AP) -- A U.S. Environmental Protection Agency draft finding that it may have detected groundwater pollution resulting from a controversial technique that plays a huge role in modern oil and gas developmen ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 09, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1