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The American Society of Clinical Oncology is looking to personalize and improve cancer care by tapping into data from millions of patients.
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Robot swarms can mimic how ant colonies navigate complex mazes relatively mindlessly, researchers have found — knowledge that could help to improve designs for manmade transport…
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The long rumored Facebook phone may be around the corner but its existence no longer makes sense.
Feeling lonely seems to go hand in hand with being isolated, but there’s a difference, according to a growing body of research.
It’s no secret that people who are socially isolated tend to be at greater risk of health issues, from mood disorders like depression to stress-related chronic conditions like heart disease. But what is really responsible for these negative outcomes — the emotional toll of feeling alone or the physical and social lack of contact with others?
Read more: http://healthland.time.com/2013/03/26/social-isolation-not-just-feeling-lonely-may-shorten-lives/#ixzz2Oi6e3FSQ
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Information systems degrees are about information storage, retrieval and transmission. Find out more about these degrees, where you can take them, and more …
Keeping track of your medical records can get complicated. HealthKeep, a health-based social network, is looking to help people organize their patient history with a timeline of symptoms, medications and conditions.
Social media isn’t always the best place for sharing health concerns due to privacy issues, but HealthKeep’s users join anonymously so no identities are revealed. The site serves as a comprehensive snapshot of your health record, which is compiled with information you choose to post.
Similar to Facebook or Twitter, the site operates with feeds. If you wake up with a cough, you can look up the symptom on HealthKeep’s database to see what other users are experiencing. Those who take a particular medicine can filter feeds to read more on people’s shared side effects or new developments.
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Find out about masters in secondary education online programs, where you can take them, the career and salary prospects, and more …
This video is about an electronic band of toys-robot that play some tiny music instruments drived by Arduino Uno and Clavia Nordbeat, a MIDI sequencer app for iPad.
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Experts have not found evidence that pricier products are better than conventional baby food. (Organic baby food is more expensive, but may not be more nutritious.
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Presentation for the IATEFL Learning Technologies SIG http://ltsig.org.uk/events/13-future-events/265-17313-webinar-rethinking-the-language-classroom.html
This page provides information on clinical psychology online and on campus programs. It tackles the questions - “what is clinical psychology” and” how is it different to counseling psychology?” and provides advice on programs to take in order to qualify in this field.
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So the really big news yesterday, outstripping that of a new Pope is the news that Google is Powering Down Google Reader, which for many people is a total disaster.
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Twitter released an update to its Ads Center Wednesday to help advertisers optimize live campaigns and get a more accurate measure of their reach.
If you want to really progress your career in nursing by going into a leadership, or administrative, or education role, then you need to take a master of science in nursing program.
Find out about online MSN programs, why they are important for nurses, what’s in them, where they can be taken, what the career prospects are, and more ….
Electric vehicles were not completely absent from the showrooms as the 83rd edition of the Geneva show kicked off, but no new models were unveiled and car company executives on site for the media days on Tuesday and Wednesday barely mentioned them. “Public confidence (in electric) has really fallen since its peak at the Paris show in 2010, when we only talked electric,” BIPE analyst Clement Dupont-Roc told AFP. Back then, French carmaker Renault, which leads the electric market, opened the order books for its first electric models and chief executive Carlos Ghosn said he expected the cars to represent 10 percent of the market by 2020. Renault’s compatriot PSA also plunged into the space, as did Japan’s Nissan with its Leaf. But as things stand today, sales have fallen far short of expectations.
Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2013-03-electric-cars-shadows-geneva-car.html
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Find out more about some of the important movements in the development of Web 2.0 online communication software or e-tools that have impacted on, and continue to impact on, how individuals and communities communicate and learn.
CSIRO scientists have created a ‘solar sponge’ that captures and then releases carbon dioxide using the power of natural sunlight – as published in the scientific journal Angewandte Chemie.
The breakthrough presents a new way to recycle CO2 emissions using renewable energy. The ‘sponge’ which is made from a new smart material called a MOF (metal organic framework) adsorbs carbon dioxide, but when exposed to sunlight, instantaneously releases it.
Known as dynamic photo-switching, this capture-and-release method is extremely energy efficient and only requires UV light to trigger the release of CO2 after it has been captured from the mixture of exhaust gases.
Find out about nutrition degree programs, where you can study them, and the careers and salary prospects after completion …
Degrees in nutrition focus on the utilization of food that is for human growth and its metabolism, in regard to both the normal and dysfunctional states. The programs cover biochemistry, food science, dietetics, physiology, biotechnology, food and nutrition studies, clinical sciences and biophysics. If you like to contribute to the well being of others, then you can get yourself a career in this field with a degree in nutrition science.
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Publishing giant Pearson created Pearson Catalyst, a new program that will match educational startups with the company’s brands and resources.
On the heels of Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer decision to bar employees working from home, a new study suggests nearly half of U.S. workers would like their job less if that perk was taken away from them.
In a national survey conducted among 500 Americans by SurveyMonkey, about 46% of respondents said they wouldn’t be as satisfied with their work if they were required to come into the office every day. Not to mention, about 6% said they would even quit.
While 3D printing of toys, iPhone covers and jewelry continues to grab headlines, much of 3D printing’s impact could be at a much smaller scale. Micrometer-scale printing has shown promise for making medical and electronic devices.
Thiel says it should be possible to speed up his company’s microprinting technique even more in the future. Nanoscribe plans to start selling its machine in the second half of this year.
Printing microstructures with features a few hundred nanometers in size could be useful for making heart stents, microneedles for painless shots, gecko adhesives, parts for microfluidics chips, and scaffolds for growing cells and tissue. Another important application could be in the electronics industry, where patterning nanoscale features on chips currently involves slow, expensive techniques. 3D printing would quickly and cheaply yield polymer templates that could be used to make metallic structures.
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The Web as a classroom is transforming how people learn, is driving the need for new pedagogy; two recently launched courses at Cousera highlight what happens when pedagogical methods fail to adapt…
By Katrina Schwartz
“When it comes to language arts, the jury’s still out on the quality and effectiveness of the available software. Some schools are investing and experimenting with different products, with mixed results, while others are working with free available web 2.0 tools. Here are two case studies examining each approach.”
