Technology

Elsevier Launches Leukemia Research Open Access Journal

Elsevier has launched a new open access, online journal, Leukemia Research Reports. It will publish  a range of peer-reviewed short form papers, including brief communications, case reports, letters to the editors, images and debate articles about basic a ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 22 2012 - 9:36am

Skeletal Muscle Regeneration: Muscle Engineering And Stem Cell Transplantation

A study today highlighted a new therapeutic technique to repair and rebuild muscle for sufferers of degenerative muscle disorders. The therapy brings together two existing techniques for muscle repair, cell transplantation and tissue engineering- mesoangi ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 26 2012 - 3:38pm

Executives Think Amazon Beats Apple In Three Of Four Important Attributes

A global poll of executives found  that e-commerce giant Amazon is more admired than its Californian rival on all major supply chain attributes- except innovation.  Amazon is more respected than Apple for supply chain excellence and the Seattle-based reta ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 27 2012 - 8:52am

Case Studies In Engineering Failure Analysis- New Open Access Journal

Elsevier has launched a new, international, open access journal, Case Studies in Engineering Failure Analysis.  ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 27 2012 - 11:00am

Childhood Obesity Can Be Predicted By The Mother's Job, Says Study

An online calculator says it can predict at birth a baby's likelihood of becoming obese in childhood, according to a paper in PLOS ONE. They estimate the child's obesity risk based on its birth weight, the body mass index of the parents, the num ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 2 2012 - 5:55pm

Do Mail Order Food Intolerance Tests Even Work?

There are lots of diagnostic tests available outside of the conventional medical system and those include tests for food intolerance, like vega testing, kinesiology, hair "body field analysis" testing, cytotoxic and live blood testing.  Doctors ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 29 2012 - 10:40am

2012 Semantic Web Challenge Winners Announced

The winners of the 2012 Semantic Web Challenge (SWC), determined by a jury from both academia and industry, were announced at the International Semantic Web Conference held in Boston. The challenge and allocated prizes were sponsored by Elsevier.   In 200 ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 29 2012 - 1:01pm

Can Smartphones Develop Emotional 'Intelligence'?

Apple's Siri sounds like she cares about your needs, but she is faking it.  But some research by a team of engineers shown at the IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology describes a new computer program that gauges human feelings through speech w ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 4 2012 - 11:00am

World Of Warcraft 'Studies' Are Still Not Science

Gaming researcher Jonas Linderoth of the University of Gothenburg followed a group of players in the world's largest online role-play game World of Warcraft for a period of ten months. He observed the players almost daily in their fictional online li ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 5 2012 - 2:00pm

Sherlock: Tiniest FBI Appendix F Certified Fingerprint Sensors

In the US, we could soon have the government monitoring everything we do. So we might as well be happier about more effective ways to be fingerprinted.  Integrated Biometrics, LLC has gotten FBI certification of its newest finger print technology, patente ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 6 2012 - 11:04am