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New Computer Program Automates Chip Debugging
Fixing design bugs and wrong wire connections in computer chips after they've been fabricated in silicon is a tedious, trial-and-error process that often costs companies millions of dollars and months of time-to-market. Research Beyond Google: 119 Authoritative, Invisible, and Comprehensiv
Annotated list from October 2006 of authoritative websites on the "invisible web."The "invisible web comprises databases and results of specialty search engines that the popular search engines simply are not able to index."Topics include search engines, art, online books, business, consumer, finance, government, international, law, health, science, and transportation. Librarians' Internet Index is listed. From the Online Education Database (OEDb), a site that offers reviews of online schools and degree programs. 'Perfume' To Lure Mosquitoes And Control Malaria
A five--year, $8.5--million dollar research project, designed to substantially reduce the spread of malaria by redirecting mosquitoes with odor cues, is being undertaken by an international team of scientists including John Carlson, the Eugene Higgins Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology at Yale University. Plastic Logic Aims New Que E-Reader at Business Users
The big, versatile touchscreen e-reader from Plastic Logic can handle digital books, magazines, personal documents and even e-mail. The design of the Que is stunning, but at $650 and up, the price is a bit steep.
 There's No Scent Like Home: New Research Shows Larval Fish Use Smell T
New research from MBL scientists and their colleagues shows that some fish larvae can discriminate odors in ocean currents and use scent to return to the reefs where they were born. The olfactory imprinting of natal reefs sheds light on how such a wide diversity of species arose. The homing behavior of reef fishes, the researchers contend, could support population isolation and genetic divergence that may ultimately lead to the formation of new species. Fat Mum Hastens Path To Childhood Obesity
A fat mother hastens a child's path to obesity, finds a new study. Other factors included too much time spent in front of the TV and rapidly piling on the pounds in early childhood. Children who had acquired a high percentage body fat by the age of 3½were significantly more likely to be obese at the age of 7 than those with low percentage body fat. Exposure to tobacco smoke in childhood home associated with early emph
Children regularly exposed to tobacco smoke at home were more likely to develop early emphysema in adulthood. The finding suggests that the lungs may not recover completely from the effects of early-life exposures to tobacco smoke. Therapeutics for trauma patients may not be effective if infection is
A new study is analyzing how the immune system is involved in damage to the intestines following hemorrhagic shock. While studying the effects of a complement inhibitor given following hemorrhage, it found that Helicobacter infection changes the body's mechanistic response and would therefore affect the therapeutics given to trauma patients. [Ironic] LONDON: A jailed cocaine dealer is working as Santa Claus on
John Tams, who dons beard, boots and red suit to work in a cafe's Christmas grotto, said he wanted to give something back to the community... Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against W
Information about this United Nations (UN) convention, "often described as an international bill of rights for women ... [that] defines what constitutes discrimination against women and sets up an agenda for national action to end such discrimination."Provides the text of the convention, history, country reports, meeting information, and other documentation. Some material available in several languages. From the United Nations Division for the Advancement of Women.
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