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Texas Tech Using Remote Sensing Technology to Improve Peanut Crops

Biology / Ecology

created 22 hours ago | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers are using remote sensing to estimate biophysical characteristics including ground cover and yield.


Expert advises automakers to take it slow on road to recovery

Other Sciences / Economics

created Nov 13, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Supply chain expert Panos Kouvelis says it's time for the auto industry to go through a period of capacity rationalization.


Deciding to have a baby is an easier step for public sector workers

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Working for the public sector is good for fertility, according to new Economic and Social Research Council funded research at the University of Oxford. The study, which examined patterns of employment and childbearing decisions ...


Quantitative approach to forensic fingerprint comparison studied

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The National Institute of Justice (NIJ) has awarded researchers at Virginia Tech a two-year, $854,907 grant to develop a quantitative approach to measuring and establishing a standard for "sufficiency" of information available ...


Study shows link between working memory and reactive parenting

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Any parent knows that sometimes maintaining your cool with misbehaving children is a challenge. We all have times when we get frustrated or angry and lash out at someone without thinking. A new study by psychologists at ...


Health care accounts for 8 percent of US carbon footprint

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The American health care sector accounts for nearly a tenth of the country's carbon dioxide emissions, according to a first-of-its-kind calculation of health care's carbon footprint.


Young people browse the Internet in a cybercafe in Abidjan

Cyber laws must punish individuals not society: specialist

Technology / Internet

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Laws regulating cybercrimes must target individuals and not society as a whole, an IT specialist told an Internet governance forum at the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh on Tuesday.


Microorganism may provide key to combating giant salvinia throughout Louisiana

Microorganism may provide key to combating giant salvinia throughout Louisiana

Biology / Ecology

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

A team of researchers at Louisiana Tech University has found that a naturally occurring microorganism acts as a natural herbicide against giant salvinia.


Control of blood clotting by platelets described; provides medical promise

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 24, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Cell fragments called platelets are essential to promote blood clotting. Virginia Tech faculty members and students have discovered novel molecular interactions at the surface of platelets that control blood clotting.


Ionic Liquid's Makeup Measurably Non-Uniform at the Nanoscale

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at Texas Tech University, Queen's University in Belfast, Ireland, the University of Rome and the National Research Council in Italy recently made a discovery about the non-uniform chemical compositions ...



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