Le Scienze Web News - Miscellaneous

Unique THz "fingerprints" will identify hidden explosives from a distance

Mon, 12 Jul 2010 09:17:32 -0700

[2010/07/12]
A Revolutionary Breakthrough in Terahertz Remote Sensing

Development of a New Material Based on Banana Fibre for Rapid Manufacturing Technologies.

Wed, 30 Jun 2010 07:54:02 -0700

[2010-06-30]
Natural banana fibre on a polyurethane matrix acts a reinforcement of the properties of the material, at the time as a renewable resource is used.

News @ MoMA: The museum of Modern Art of New York has announced the acquisition of the “at” sign.

Tue, 13 Apr 2010 06:37:28 -0700

[Date: 2010/04/13]
SUMMARY: MoMA, the influential Museum of Modern Art based in New York, has announced a new acquisition in its Architecture and Design Department: the symbol @, in e-mail addresses.

R&D Research and Development by MEDILIT

Mon, 11 Jan 2010 00:39:57 -0800

[2010/01/11]

WELCOME TO MEDILIT - intellectual property and R&D network

Medilit http://rd.lswn.it is a new Italian joint venture partnership (Italian Biocatalysis Center/Le Scienze Web News/ Medicphar International) created with the primary aim of providing an important reference point for the collection and placement of existing patents, projects and innovative technologies from Italy and abroad.

Encouraging the adoption of open source in the embedded systems industry

Mon, 11 Jan 2010 00:11:02 -0800

Abstract

The SHARE project is a FP7 research initiative aiming at facilitating the usage of OSS in the European industry of embedded systems, which is currently becoming more and more aware of the benefits it is able to provide in terms of time to market reduction and development costs.
Through a community oriented approach, the SHARE project aims to build a virtual meeting point for all the researchers and industrialists in this field, thus fostering cross communications and collaborations among different stakeholders.

Scientific Online Network ResearchGATE blazes a new route into the world of Open Access

Tue, 15 Sep 2009 09:16:07 -0700

Boston, September 15th 2009. The last few weeks have been big here at ResearchGATE (www.researchgate.net), the world's largest online scientific platform.

Peter Suber, Open Access Overview(definition, introduction)

Thu, 16 Jul 2009 03:23:40 -0700

[Date: June 19, 2007]
Focusing on open access to peer-reviewed research articles and their preprints

Personalized treatment for early lung cancer

Sun, 03 May 2009 04:57:45 -0700

[Date: 2009/05/03]
Cancer vaccines and targeted therapies are beginning to offer new treatment options following surgery for patients with early stages of lung cancer, experts said at the first European Multidisciplinary Conference in Thoracic Oncology (EMCTO) in Lugano, Switzerland (1-3 May 2009).

GoOn Research and Development Project Wins Theseus-Mittelstand

Thu, 02 Apr 2009 14:29:10 -0700

[Date: 2009/03/31]
Proposed by Transinsight, RESprotect, Antikörper-Online, and TU Dresden, the GoOn project will focus on developing semantic technologies for the biomedical domain.

P-A-N-A-R-C-H-Y Spells "Trouble"

Thu, 12 Feb 2009 07:26:58 -0800

Thursday, February 12, 2009

The Meaning of Columbus Day - Consequences

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 02:12:04 -0700

Date: 2008-10-08
Yet we must concern ourselves with historical interpretations of the Conquest.

The Meaning of Columbus Day - An Uneasy Fit

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 02:08:34 -0700

Date: 2008-10-08
The evidence we now have for epidemics and the demographic collapse of the first century after contact is substantial.

The Meaning of Columbus Day - The Diseas

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 02:00:56 -0700

Date: 2008-10-08
As already noted, until the 1960s historians made no more than passing mention of disease epidemics in their accounts of the Conquest.

The Meaning of Columbus Day - Prescott's Legacy

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 01:57:24 -0700

Date: 2008-10-08
Prescott's vision of the Conquest has had incalculable influence on both historians and the general public throughout the world.

The Meaning of Columbus Day - Evolving History

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 01:53:06 -0700

Date: 2008-10-08
The historical record of the Conquest begins with the firsthand accounts of the conquistadors themselves.