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Investment Secures Three More Years of Funding for Young Scientists to Support Research in Rice and Wheat Breeding ATLANTA, June 18, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- During his keynote address from the stage of an international conference discussing the talent and innovation needs for agriculture in 2050, Monsanto Company Chairman and CEO Hugh Grant announced a $3 million additional commitment grant to Monsanto's Beachell-Borlaug International Scholars Program (MBBISP). In front of approximately...
A study, led by Royal Holloway University researcher Carolyn McGettigan, has identified the brain regions and interactions involved in impersonations and accents. Using an fMRI scanner, the team asked participants, all non-professional impressionists, to repeatedly recite the opening lines of a familiar nursery rhyme either with their normal voice, by impersonating individuals, or by impersonating regional and foreign accents of English. They found that when a voice is deliberately...
CHAPEL HILL, N.C., June 18, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Recent regulatory and budget challenges have made it more and more difficult for Medical Education groups at large pharmaceutical companies to effectively educate doctors and other healthcare practitioners on the safe and effective use of their new products. With the pressure to reduce budgets mounting within the pharma industry, it is crucial that these "Med Ed" groups find practical, economical methods of reaching healthcare...
WORCESTER, Mass., June 18, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Applied Interactive today announced the launch of a new website and strategic web marketing plan for their client, Advanced Clinical Care. Advanced Clinical Care is an organization that runs clinical trials specializing in rheumatology. The extent of the project included a business strategy, brand promise, logo development, new name development, website development, search optimization and social media as part of a continuing strategic...
NEW YORK, June 18, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Her chiseled visage is seen everywhere in New York City. You see her swan-like countenance on giant billboards on Times Square, bus stop shelters, subway cars, taxi tops, and tour buses. Her arms extended behind her as she kneels in a triumphant curtsy, like a dancer in an Edgar Degas painting, she is the epitome of balletic grace. But her backstory is as memorable as the orange halo that surrounds her in all her appearances about town....
SALT LAKE CITY, June 18, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- FX Energy, Inc. (NASDAQ: FXEN) announced today that the Company will make a presentation at the GHS 100 Energy Conference in Chicago on Tuesday, June 25, 2013. The presentation is scheduled for 10:00 a.m. Central time. A link to the webcast will be available on the homepage of the FX Energy website at www.fxenergy.com. For those unable to participate during the live webcast, the presentation will also be available for replay on the...
Vivid Harvest(TM) Whole Food Powders Deliver Full Sensory & Nutritional Experience of Fruits & Vegetables in an All-Natural, Stable, Easy-to-Process Form MORRISTOWN, N.J., June 18, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- P.L. Thomas & Co, Inc. (Morristown, NJ) announced today that it has launched a line of ingredients that offer a fruit and vegetable 'food replacement' experience in consumer food and beverage products. Called Vivid Harvest(TM) Whole Food Powders, the line features a patented...
DALLAS, June 18, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The "Bioinformatics Market By Sector (Molecular Medicine, Agriculture, Research & Forensic), Segment (Sequencing Platforms, Knowledge Management Tools & Data Analysis Services) & Application (Genomics, Proteomics & Drug Design) - Global Forecasts to 2017", analyzes and studies the Major Market Drivers, Restraints, and Opportunities in North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific and Rest of World. Browse -...
CLEVELAND, June 18, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- DATATRAK International, Inc. (OTCQX: DTRK), a leader in developing cloud-based, unified eClinical® technologies and delivering related services for the clinical trials industry, today announced it will be demonstrating its highly anticipated uPRO(TM) offering at the 49(th) Annual Drug Information Association Meeting in Boston on June 24(th )- June 26(th). (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130107/CL38347LOGO ) The DATATRAK ONE(TM)...
BOSTON, June 18, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A new study by the Center for Information & Study on Clinical Research Participation (CISCRP) shows significant improvement in public perceptions of clinical trial safety, trust in the motives of research professionals and appreciation for trial volunteers. The study also offers insights into participant behaviors including those who drop out of trials prematurely. The online study, conducted between January and March 2013 among a...
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Image Caption: NGC 4414, a typical spiral galaxy in the constellation Coma Berenices, is about 56,000 light-years in diameter and approximately 60 million light-years distant. Credit: NASA/ESA/Wikipedia What is Astrophysics? For much of the modern age the term Astrophysics has been used synonymously with Astronomy. This interchange is so common that many textbooks even offer the two as having the same meaning. However, from a strictly historical perspective there are differences...
Mae Jemison is an American physician, NASA astronaut, and was the first black woman to travel to space. She was born Mae Carol Jemison on October 17, 1956 in Decatur, Alabama. Her family moved to Chicago, Illinois when she was younger, and she assumed that spaceflight would become a common travel for civilians by the time she was an adult. She was inspired by Martin Luther King Jr. and Nichelle Nichols. She graduated from Morgan Park High School in 1973 at age sixteen. She immediately entered...
Environmental Chemistry is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published online bi-monthly by CSIRO Publishing. The journal publishes original research and review articles on all aspects of environmental chemistry, including those addressing the chemistry of air, water, soil, sediments, space and biota. Topics include atmospheric chemistry, geochemistry, climate change, marine chemistry, water chemistry, polar chemistry, fire chemistry, astrochemistry, earth and geochemistry, soil and sediment...
The International Journal of Quantum Chemistry is a peer-reviewed scientific journal established in 1967 by Per-Olov Lowdin. The journal moved to an in-house editorial office model in 2011, enlisting a permanent team of professional editors. It publishes original, primary research and review articles on all aspects of quantum chemistry, including an expanded scope focusing on aspects of materials science, biochemistry, biophysics, quantum physics, and quantum information theory. Image...
The International Journal of Plant Sciences is a scientific botanical journal published by the University of Chicago Press. It was known as the Botanical Bulletin from 1875-1876 and as the Botanical Gazette from 1876-1991. This journal covers botanical research including genetics and genomics, developmental cell biology, biochemistry and physiology, morphology structure, systematics, plant-microbial interactions, paleo-botany, evolution, and ecology. This journal also publishes important...
