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Loyola University New Orleans professor Peter Burns, Ph.D., named one of the nation’s best professors and featured in the book “The Best 300 Professors, offers some timely tips for success in school. Burns. He is also the author of “Success in College: From C's in High School to A's in College.” New Orleans, LA (PRWEB) August 22, 2012 Students and parents spend their lives trying to get into the best colleges possible, but pay little attention to how to succeed once they...
ILW makes up more than three quarters of the volume of material destined for geological disposal in the UK. Currently the UK's preferred method is to encapsulate ILW in specially formulated cement. The waste is mixed with cement and sealed in steel drums, in preparation for disposal deep underground. Two studies, published in the latest issues of The Journal of Nuclear Materials and European Journal of Glass Science and Technology A show that turning this kind of waste into glass, a...
GUANGZHOU, China, Aug. 23, 2012 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- Guangzhou General Hospital of Guangzhou Military Command announced that its Chest Pain Center was granted accreditation by the American Society of Chest Pain Centers (ASCPC). Professor Joseph Lee Garvey, from the American Society of Chest Pain Centers said, "After reviewing the substantial application documents regarding the hospital's processes, and touring each area of the hospital, we were extremely impressed with the...
April Flowers for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online A new study, published in the latest online edition of Natural Hazards, suggests that Shanghai is the most vulnerable city to serious flooding. A team of researchers from the University of Leeds and the Netherlands base their findings on a new method they developed to calculate the flood vulnerability of cities. The index looks at the likelihood of a city's exposure to a major 'once in a hundred years' flood, along with social and...
NEW YORK, Aug. 22, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Polytechnic Institute of New York University (NYU-Poly) and NYU Professor Theodore (Ted) S. Rappaport, a leading researcher in wireless communication engineering, has been chosen the 2012 recipient of the IEEE William E. Sayle Award for Achievement in Education by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Education Society. The prestigious award is presented annually to an IEEE Education Society member who has made...
The research relates to a family of molecules firstly discovered in Melbourne that applied to blood cell development. One of these, granulocyte macrophage colony-stimulating factor or GM-CSF, acts as a messenger between cells acting at a site of inflammation. Professor John Hamilton has posed the question: could blocking GM-CSF action lead to a new treatment for inflammatory diseases? In experimental models of rheumatoid arthritis, Professor Hamilton and Dr Andrew Cook had previously shown...
Scientists have discovered that a space inside a special type of carbon molecule can be used to imprison other smaller molecules such as hydrogen or water. The nano-meter sized cavity of the hollow spherical C60 Buckminsterfullerene — or bucky ball — effectively creates a 'nanolaboratory', allowing detailed study of the quantum mechanical principles that determine the motion of the caged molecule, including the mysterious wave-like behaviour that is a fundamental property of all...
redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online In a recent Reader's Digest article, an Oxford University professor, philosopher, and bioethicist reports that he believes parents have a "moral obligation" to genetically engineer their babies to make sure that they become better people. In the article, Julian Savulescu, who is also the director of the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics and the editor of the Journal of Medical Ethics, said that "screening out personality flaws,...
April Flowers for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online The summer melting season in Greenland usually lasts from June when the first puddles of meltwater appear, to September when temperatures begin to cool again. Melting over the Greenland ice sheet shattered the seasonal record on August 8 this year – a full four weeks before the close of the melting season, reports Marco Tedesco, assistant professor of Earth and atmospheric sciences at The City College of New York. This year,...
April Flowers for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Australian environmentalists are warning that the rush to plant trees to offset carbon emissions could have a harmful impact on the environment without careful management. A poorly planned plantation boom could result in needless land clearing, add to invasive species and damage the natural ecological processes. “It’s what we term ‘bio-perversity’, meaning that something which is done for the right environmental reasons...
