12/02/2008
USDA's Discovery Award honors rice research (SeedQuest)
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is conferring one of its highest research awards this week upon UC Davis rice geneticist Pamela Ronald and two other scientists, in recognition of their work on developing new rice varieties that can withstand flooding.
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12/03/2008
Request for Proposals for Analogue Research Studies in Canada and Abroad (SpaceRef)
The Canadian Space Agency has a mandate to increase knowledge of space through science. Terrestrial analogue research studies are an important element of that mandate as it applies to the exploration of other planets and the Moon.
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12/03/2008
Britain spends just 14p per person on Alzheimer's research compared to £1.03 in U.S. (Daily Mail)
Britain spends just 14p per person on Alzheimer's research - possibly the lowest amount in the Western world, stark figures show.
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12/03/2008
Arkansas Opens Mental Health Research, Care Center (The Morning News)
LITTLE ROCK -- Arkansas opened a $32 million mental health research, teaching and patient care center Tuesday -- one of only nine in the country to combine all these services in one place.
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12/02/2008
Acoustic Research HDP100 HDMI Powerlink System (CNET)
Its picture quality won't please videophiles, but the Acoustic Research HDP100's HDMI-over-powerline system works well for casual viewers who want to save some money over in-wall installations.
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12/03/2008
Discovery, History and ESPN Are Cable Favorites: Beta Research (MultiChannel News)
Discovery Channel, History Channel and ESPN ranked as the top three networks in the annual Beta Research Cable Subscriber study evaluating basic cable networks.
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12/03/2008
Mountain Meadows Research Materials Donated (KTHV Little Rock)
A gift of more than 100 books and other research materials to the Boone County Heritage Museum has expanded the museum's collection on the Mountain Meadows Massacre. That's the name applied to the slaughter in Utah of 120 members of a wagon train from Arkansas in 1857.
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12/02/2008
Wash. U. to research clean coal technology (BizJournals)
Arch Coal, Peabody Energy and Ameren plan to give a total of $12 million over the next five years to finance clean coal research at Washington University in St. Louis. (BTU) (ACI) (AEE)
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12/03/2008
Vaccine and drug research aimed at ticks and mosquitoes to prevent disease transmission (PhysOrg)
Most successful vaccines and drugs rely on protecting humans or animals by blocking certain bacteria from growing in their systems. But, a new theory actually hopes to take stopping infectious diseases such as West Nile virus and Malaria to the next level by disabling insects from transmitting these viruses. Research to be presented at the 57th American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene ...
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12/02/2008
NOMS, AU partner to promote clinical research centre in Sault (The Sault Star)
A three-year study to determine whether Sault Ste. Marie is the ideal site for a clinical research centre is moving forward. Algoma University and the [...]
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