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Minority rules: Scientists discover tipping point for the spread of ideas - 1 views

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    ScienceDaily (July 26, 2011) - Scientists at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have found that when just 10 percent of the population holds an unshakable belief, their belief will always be adopted by the majority of the society. The scientists, who are members of the Social Cognitive Networks Academic Research Center (SCNARC) at Rensselaer, used computational and analytical methods to discover the tipping point where a minority belief becomes the majority opinion. The finding has implications for the study and influence of societal interactions ranging from the spread of innovations to the movement of political ideals.
thinkahol *

Cooling the warming debate: Major new analysis confirms that global warming is real - 0 views

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    ScienceDaily (Oct. 21, 2011) - Global warming is real, according to a major study released Oct. 20. Despite issues raised by climate change skeptics, the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature study finds reliable evidence of a rise in the average world land temperature of approximately 1°C since the mid-1950s.
anonymous

Pros And Secrets Of The Stem Cell Research - 1 views

Stem cells are generally present in the body of humans and several animals. They divide themselves into some other cells as well with time, which are important for the survival of humans. Since las...

stem cell research medical research

started by anonymous on 14 Jan 15 no follow-up yet
anonymous

Cancer Research In Detail - 1 views

Good health is an indispensable aspect of life. However, it is also a fact that good health is not achieved over night, but is something that needs to be built over years by cultivating good eating...

cancer research cervical cancer brain cancer

started by anonymous on 20 Jan 15 no follow-up yet
anonymous

Ending The Web Of Diseases Through Genetic Research - 2 views

The study of human DNA and genetic material belonging to other organisms to discover what genes and external environmental factors add to is called Genetic Research. If we find out what causes seve...

genetic research genetic modification

started by anonymous on 17 Jan 15 no follow-up yet
Janos Haits

TELEIOS | Virtual Observatory Infrastructure for Earth Observation Data - 0 views

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    Earth observation data have increased considerably over the last decades with satellite sensors collecting and transmitting back to Earth several terabytes of data per day. This data acquisition rate is a major challenge to existing data management, exploitation and dissemination approaches used by various agencies such as ESA, NASA and European national space agencies. To make the available petabytes of EO data easily accessible by an even larger group of end user applications, TELEIOS will design and implement a Virtual Earth Observatory by building on the following state of the art technologies:
Erich Feldmeier

The Amygdala Made Me Do It - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    "The 18th-century philosopher David Hume (much quoted by Mr. Lehrer) didn't have an M.R.I. scanner at his disposal, but he framed the question in much the same way. His major work, "A Treatise of Human Nature," explored the ways in which habit, or "custom," rules our lives. Hume's experiments with perception - how we respond to colors, distance, numerical sets - prefigure the rigorous science of Professor Kahneman. His intent was to show us "the natural infirmity and unsteadiness both of our imagination and senses." Consciousness, like philosophy itself, stands on a "weak foundation.""
Janos Haits

Bibliographic Framework Transition Initiative (Library of Congress) - 0 views

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    The Library of Congress is launching a review of the bibliographic framework to better accommodate future needs. A major focus of the initiative will be to determine a transition path for the MARC 21 exchange format in order to reap the benefits of newer technology while preserving a robust data exchange that has supported resource sharing and cataloging cost savings in recent decades. This work will be carried out in consultation with the format's formal partners -- Library and Archives Canada and the British Library -- and informal partners -- the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek and other national libraries, the agencies that provide library services and products, the many MARC user institutions, and the MARC advisory committees such as the MARBI committee of ALA, the Canadian Committee on MARC, and the BIC Bibliographic Standards Group in the UK.
Erich Feldmeier

Zen Faulkes: NeuroDojo: A patent clerk's pay, or, why is science so expensive? - 0 views

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    "We often think that the limiting factors to doing science are intellectual or technological. There are many unsolved scientific problems that we know how to answer. We aren't waiting for any conceptual breakthroughs or new technologies. We're waiting for people. We need "hands at the bench" to put in the time to collect the data. The instabilities of salary is a major limiting factor for science and is probably a big reason a lot of them get out of science: they don't see a way to pay the bills. Creating permanent, stable positions for scientists would release a lot of scientific research."
Janos Haits

ACM Digital Library - 0 views

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    Full text of every article ever published by ACM and bibliographic citations from major publishers in computing.
Janos Haits

Information Diet | Home - 0 views

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    The relationship between power, authority, and information since the dawn of the first major information-technology boom How people react to information consumption, according to cognitive science and neuroscience findings How the new, information-abundant society is suffering consequences from poor information consumption habits
Erich Feldmeier

Jeremy Ginsberg: Grippe, Detecting influenza epidemics using search engine query data :... - 0 views

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    "Seasonal influenza epidemics are a major public health concern, causing tens of millions of respiratory illnesses and 250,000 to 500,000 deaths worldwide each year1. In addition to seasonal influenza, a new strain of influenza virus against which no previous immunity exists and that demonstrates human-to-human transmission could result in a pandemic with millions of fatalities2. Early detection of disease activity, when followed by a rapid response, can reduce the impact of both seasonal and pandemic influenza3, 4. One way to improve early detection is to monitor health-seeking behaviour in the form of queries to online search engines, which are submitted by millions of users around the world each day. Here we present a method of analysing large numbers of Google search queries to track influenza-like illness in a population."
Janos Haits

citia | Knowledge + Technology = Civilization - 0 views

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    At Citia, we use professional writers, editors, and designers-in partnership with major book publishers-to reorganize and condense existing works of serious nonfiction.
Janos Haits

CATALYST project - FP7 - 0 views

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    MAJOR COMMUNITY NETWORKS & LEADING RESEARCH INSTITUTES IN COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE Have joined forces
Erich Feldmeier

How to break into science writing using your blog and social media (#sci4hels) | The SA... - 0 views

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    "It is important to be aware that 20th century media ecosystem is a very unusual aberration in the way people communicated throughout history. Means of production were expensive. Very few people could afford to own printing presses, radio and TV studios, etc. Running all that complicated equipment required technical expertise and professional training. Thus media became locked up in silos, hierarchical, broadcast-only with little-to-none (and then again centrally controlled) means for feedback. There was a wealthy, vocal minority that determined what was news, and how to frame it, and the vast majority was consuming the news in silence"
Erich Feldmeier

Cory Abate-Shen: A Molecular Signature Predictive of Indolent Prostate Cancer - 0 views

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    Many newly diagnosed prostate cancers present as low Gleason score tumors that require no treatment intervention. Distinguishing the many indolent tumors from the minority of lethal ones remains a major clinical challenge. We now show that low Gleason score prostate tumors can be distinguished as indolent and aggressive subgroups on the basis of their expression of genes associated with aging and senescence. Using gene set enrichment analysis, we identified a 19-gene signature enriched in indolent prostate tumors. We then further classified this signature with a decision tree learning model to identify three genes-FGFR1, PMP22, and CDKN1A-that together accurately predicted outcome of low Gleason score tumors. Validation of this three-gene panel on independent cohorts confirmed its independent prognostic value as well as its ability to improve prognosis with currently used clinical nomograms. Furthermore, protein expression of this three-gene panel in biopsy samples distinguished Gleason 6 patients who failed surveillance over a 10-year period. We propose that this signature may be incorporated into prognostic assays for monitoring patients on active surveillance to facilitate appropriate courses of treatment.
Sam M

Flash Flood Safety Rules and Tips - 0 views

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    Flash floods kill an average of 100 people in the United States every year in both rural areas and in major cities. You should know these flash flood safety rules and tips.
thinkahol *

Why the 'sixth extinction' will be unpredictable - life - 03 September 2010 - New Scien... - 1 views

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    A major extinction event is under way - but predicting which species will survive could be harder than we thought. That's the conclusion of one of the most accurate analyses ever of diversity in the marine animal fossil record.
Barry mahfood

THE PRICE OF RICE - Transcendence in Bite-Sized Bits: Peering into the Human Brain: Nan... - 0 views

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    It is believed that supercomputers will achieve the computational power of human brains by about 2020, personal computers just a few years later, so figuring out the details of the brain's structure and functioning needs to keep pace. A major challenge in this has been the limits of MRI resolution, which is why the news of a major breakthrough has such significance.
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