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According to the official website, parks, playgrounds, sports fields, allotments and cemeteries will be connected to form a network,

Professor Michael Sivak, at the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute has published just a series of reports looking at car use,

a graduate student at Cornell University in New york. He raised the money, more than $70, 000, through the Kickstarter crowdfunding website to enable people to have their own personal spacecraft, known as a sprite.

along with thousands of people around the world students, schoolchildren, radio hams and space enthusiasts. For most of them, this will be the first space mission where they have direct involvement.

working for longer and driving for longer, says Barbara Sahakian, Professor of Neuropsychology at the University of Cambridge,

Are students who take cognitive enhancers to get better grades and access to top universities cheating,

Sahakian estimates 16%of US students are taking study buddies while a poll of students at Oxford university carried out last year,

found 7%had tried them. In the academic world, the phenomenon reaches both the top and the bottom of the tree.

Students think of these as study aids in the same way as someone might drink coffee before work.

In a 2010 review Claire Advokat, Professor of Psychology at Louisiana State university, found that stimulant drugs such as Ritalin might improve memory retention

says John Harris, Professor of Bioethics, and Director of the Institute for Science, Ethics and Innovations, University of Manchester, UK.

John, the Warwick University student, doesn't feel his use of the drugs is giving him an unfair advantage.

if their fellow pupils were taking them.""Peer-pressure coercion to take them is a worry

Earlier this year, female taikonaut Wang Yaping gave the first live lesson from space to 60 million students on the effects of zero gravity.

Last year, Ghana launched its Space science and Technology Center, to"foster teaching, learning, commercial application of space research,

Super spuds Potatoes are preferred often the vegetable of choice for teaching high school science students these principles.

along with Phd student Alex Goldberg, and Boris Rubinsky of the University of California, Berkeley. e looked at 20 different types of potatoes,

says Jamie Alexandre at the Foundation for Learning Equality, but the fact that two-thirds of the world population still doesn have access to the internet means that a large proportion of people are excluded from this.

KA Lite, their platform, allows students to do exercises, watch videos, and it tracks their progress.

and then deploy that into any classroom, home orphanage, or any facility around the world.

as they can respond to students and tailor lessons. There are several initiatives trying to connect the entire world to the internet,

#Moocs data offers promise of perfect teaching One day, Sebastian Thrun ran a simple and surprising experiment on a class of students that changed his ideas about how they were learning.

The students were doing an online course provided by Udacity, an educational organisation that Thrun co-founded in 2011.

Thrun and his colleagues split the online students into two groups. One group saw the lesson presentation slides in colour,

and improved for students. It was an early example of a trend promising to transform online education the exploitation of huge amounts of data about how people actually learn.

and keyboard stroke a student makes, and this is revealing patterns of learning behaviour that are difficult, if not impossible,

for teachers to see in a traditional classroom. Equipped with this information course designers can adapt their materials,

and deliver the ultimate in targeted teaching. Could this lead to the perfect, personalised lesson?

offering a unique opportunity to monitor student behaviour during lessons in unprecedented detail. You can even monitor mouse clicks. e collect tracking data such as

For starters, such data helps Coursera group participants into different types of student, such as those who watch all the lectures and complete all the assignments, others who lose interest over time,

but have no interest in completing any homework. Perhaps surprisingly Coursera has discovered there is also a group of students who complete all of the homework assignments without watching any of the lectures. his was unexpected,

but maybe there are people who are interested really in earning a Coursera certificate, or who have read the material already

Such information will allow people to adapt courses for different subgroups of students. In particular, it provides clear

and sometimes surprising signals about the presentation style that works best for students, as Udacity trial with black-and-white slides revealed.

a Phd student at the Lytics Lab at Stanford university, the style of presentation on a computer screen can make a big difference to learning.

actually help students to learn, or are simply a distraction. Kizilcec looked at whether the video of the instructor should be placed in the corner of every slide,

or if it students would be equally happy if it disappeared and reappeared intermittently. By monitoring over 21

he found that students fell into two camps. Those participants who had expressed previously a preference for learning visually with an emphasis on text

and graphics experienced less mental effort and were less likely to drop out of the course

But those students who preferred to be taught verbally were much better off with the instructor face permanently in one corner of the screen. hat this result suggests is need a for adaptive systems,

Mooc data is also revealing how to best motivate students online. Joseph Jay Williams and other researchers at Stanford university

alongside Jascha Sohl-Dickstein at nonprofit online education provider Khan academy, added messages above mathematics problems on the Khanacademy. org website to keep students motivated

"had little effect on student performance. But when they added notes emphasising that intelligence can be improved with effort,

"they found that students attempted a greater number of problems and were more likely to get them right.

A similar attempt by Coursera to encourage students to finish their course by reminding them of what homework assignments they had yet to complete

actually led to a drop in student retention when participants felt harassed, says Do. But the company got a much better response

when they lipped ininformation within an email that focused more on the positive achievements students had made that week,

students could soon be receiving the ultimate in personalised teaching, with unique lessons targeted exactly to their needs, motivations and learning style.

The education technology start-up Knewton, for example, has developed an adaptive learning system that instantaneously alters the way it presents information to students based on

what it gleans about their individual learning style as they interact with it It also possible that student behaviour

and progress could be monitored in even more detail than today. For example, some researchers are working on using facial recognition to identify via webcam

whether students are following the lesson or frowning in confusion. All of which promises a future in which teachers can adapt at a glance to how different students respond to everything from string theory to Shakespeare

whether they are in a classroom or not. How students may feel about this level of monitoring,

however, is less clear l

#Emergencies inspire new apps to answer crisis calls Like many residents of Nairobi in Kenya,

I learnt about last month armed attack of the Westgate Mall from friends and acquaintances.

Part of the plan to diversify the economy has resulted in an international scholarship programme that sees more than 130

000 Saudi students studying abroad at the world leading universities. With 70%of the population under 34,

Graduate and Phd students at Kaust New Ventures programme are given both encouragement and financing to find solutions to pressing problems such as water treatment and renewable energy.

and don work until they graduate from university. n Saudi arabia, you won find someone who risen from the mailroom to be CEO,

we have over 60,000 Saudi students, explains Prince Fahad bin Faisal Al Saud. He a 30-year-old member of the Saudi Royal family who, after graduating from Stanford university,

He now a echnology evangelistfor the country. his number of Saudi students outside the country has happened not in 13 years,

In Saudi arabia, 52%of university graduates are women; but segregation laws, such as not allowing them to drive,

#Political supportbut the financial meltdown of 2008 had some of the smarter graduates reconsidering their banking ambitions,

comparative youth and high social media use, Earl Martin Valencia returned to his home country after studying for an MBA at Stanford university, California.

Smart hope to turn the pilot into a commercial service for the country's Alternative Learning System programme,

whereby teachers travel to students in more remote locations and islands around the country, holding classes in the hills, farms and marketplaces.

comparative youth and high social media use, Earl Martin Valencia returned to his home country after studying for an MBA at Stanford university, California.

Smart hope to turn the pilot into a commercial service for the country's Alternative Learning System programme,

whereby teachers travel to students in more remote locations and islands around the country, holding classes in the hills, farms and marketplaces.

Not only could this innovation prevent accumulation of active antibiotics in the environment, but it might also help to reduce side effects.

but another important driver of the tech scene is the fact that Israeli university students pay only about $3, 100(#2, 000) a year in tuition fees.

and predictable technology,#says Professor Roch Guerin, Chair of Computer science and Engineering at Washington University, St louis."Bluetooth targets lower transmission ranges and data rates than wi-fi,

#Its author Ferdinando Boero, Professor of Zoology at Salento University, Italy, concludes:""If you cannot fight them...

That's one possibility if Harvard professor Daniel Nocera's idea for a device that can harness and store energy from the Sun comes to fruition.

Students were exempted from military service attracting a young, artistic and politically radical alternative scene. Since the fall of the Wall in 1989,

one company wants to put more working machines in classrooms and in developing world countries.

at best, out of about 100, for a school with 450 students and 50 teachers, he recalls. hey were mostly the big, boxy computers,

part of a broader initiative by the NYC Department of education to adapt technologies in classrooms for learning.

East New york Family Academy now has over 100 working computers almost four in every classroom,

Recycled juice That doesn lessen its promise beyond New york city classrooms. Demand for desktop PCS may be declining in developed countries,

Yehuda Ben-Shahar, now a professor at Washington University in St louis, found cells in the human airway equipped with bitter receptors.

"Pluznick is now a professor at Johns Hopkins School of medicine, in Baltimore, Maryland. It has been a long time since she studied kidney disease.

Andraka's research incuding writing to 200 science professors led to him developing a dipstick diagnostic test which searches for a biomarker for pancreatic cancer.

which Professor Lee Cronin's group at the University of Glasgow are using to develop into a carbon-fixing paint.

Calestous Juma, Harvard Professor and author of The New Harvest; Agricultural innovation in Africa claims that the greatest failure of Africa agricultural sector is the absence of investment in rural infrastructure. arkets cannot function

or halt tumor development,"said Alexandra Newton, Phd, professor of pharmacology and the study's principal investigator,

Using live cell imaging, first author Corina Antal, a graduate student in the Biomedical sciences program at UC San diego,

however, highlights a number of recent studies showing that brain imaging can help predict an individual's future learning, criminality, health-related behaviors,

including infants'later performance in reading, students'later performance in math, criminals'likelihood of becoming repeat offenders, adolescents'future drug and alcohol use,

and multifactorial than previously appreciated explained senior author Caroline Attardo Genco Phd professor of medicine and microbiology at BUSM.

but also following patient responses to therapy,"said Mitchell, the paper's corresponding author and professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology.

and Jonathan Karn, director of the Center for Aids Research and professor and chair of the Department of Molecular biology and Microbiology at Case Western Reserve's medical school.

Karn, the Reinberger Professor of Molecular biology.""It surprised us to find they all work as an aggregate."

These theoretical predications were confirmed by a set of experimental methods conducted in the laboratory of Eliezer Masliah, a professor in UC San diego Department of Neurosciences. revious to this study,

"said senior study author Gábor Tigyi, a professor of physiology at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC)."

said senior author John Sedivy, the Hermon C. Bumpus Professor of Biology and professor of medical science at Brown."

a medical and doctoral student, led the studies of the health of the mice, including various bodily systems.

Graduate student and co-lead author Xiaoai Zhao, meanwhile, led the molecular analysis of several pathways known to be involved in regulating longevity to find out how they might be different.

Hillman and her students built their first SCAPE system using inexpensive off-the-shelf components. Her"aha"moment came when

After several years of trial and error, Hillman and graduate student Matthew Bouchard came up with a configuration that worked,

including Randy Bruno (associate professor of neuroscience, Department of Neuroscience), Richard Mann (Higgins Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics), Wesley Grueber (associate professor

"says Thomas M. Jessell, co-director of the Zuckerman Institute and Claire Tow Professor of Motor neuron Disorders, the Department of Neuroscience and the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics at Columbia."

an MIT professor of electrical engineering and computer science (EECS), in 2009. His team used that earlier version to fuse adult cells with embryonic stem cells,

the paper lead author and a graduate student in EECS, spent several years re-engineering the device to get it to work with immune cells,

Hidde Ploegh, an MIT professor of biology and member of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, is also a senior author of the paper.

a professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at the Georgia Institute of technology who was involved not in the research. t very well-controlled

a professor of molecular and medical pharmacology, used a device he invented to capture circulating tumor cells from blood samples.

Harold and Margaret Hatch Professor of the University and dean of the faculties of health sciences and medicine. he development of new treatments based on this genetic understanding will have profound effects on clinical practice.

Tom Maniatis, Phd, the Isidore S. Edelman Professor of Biochemistry and chair of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics at Columbia University Medical center and director of Columbia university-wide

expanding the offering to cover an entire undergraduate degree. Software company Fullcontact really wants its employees to take a break.

The 260-plus HR-focused undergraduate degree programs at U s. colleges and universities, as well as certificate and diploma programs offered by organizations such as SHRM

and The Sourcing Institute reflect a legitimizing and consolidation. About time. Not only is recruiting still all about talent,

England's state-run schools began introducing its youngest students to a concept that would confuse most of their parents:

To prevent the youngest pupils from turning into zombies in front of screens much of the initial learning takes place outside of the computer lab. Five-year-olds will play abstract games

and complete puzzles to familiarize themselves with the concept of algorithms without the complexity. By the time they hit 14,

In 2009, only 19 percent of students graduated with credits in computer science, down from 25 percent in 1990, according to a report from the U s. Department of education.

"sees the Arabic-speaking students at Israeli universities as both a business opportunity and a way to bring Israeli Arabs into the country new economy.

The government is trying to improve job prospects of the country's Arab population by promoting higher education and offering scholarships for advanced degrees.

#Cengage Learning Unveils Digital Study and Assessment Tool Cengage Learning's 4ltr Press has launched 4ltr Press Online,

a digital learning tool featuring personalized study and assessment resources. Designed for use on PCS or mobile devices,

4ltr Press Online is built around student"learnflow,"the workflow behind learning, according to information released by the company."

"4ltr Press Online uses a two-pathway approach to learning to include the pedagogy of a printed textbook and the concept mapping and functionality of an Internet search engine,"according to a news release."

"To render the results of the printed textbook, 4ltr Press Online was designed to ensure that end-users are always aware of their place within the text.

so that students can navigate the text as easy as the flip of a page.""The second pathway attempts to discourage student use of search engines,

which can point them to inaccurate resources, by using concept tags and indexing learning resources to mimic search engine results,

allowing students to find related content aligned with course goals. Concept tags are used also in 4tlr Press Online's Studybits and Studyboard features,

which aim to help students personalize their study. As students read, they can collect bits of information to create their own Studybits,

which are sent then to the Studyboard where they are filtered by concept tags, understanding and category to aid in organization.

From the Studyboard students can create flashcards using their personal bits or chapter quizzes.""Print textbooks have been successful for hundreds of years because of their scope and sequence,

and the pedagogy and convenience that they provide but often that scope and sequence gets lost in digital products,

"At Cengage Learning, we're squarely focused on the needs of the today's students.

and sequence based on input and product testing with students. We understand that everyone learns in different ways.

That's why we constantly gather feedback to ensure that our products evolve with today's students

The device was developed by team led by Aydogan Ozcan, a professor of electrical engineering and bioengineering at the Henry Samueli School of engineering and Applied science and director of the California Nanosystems Institute."

#Microsoft Open Tech Integrates Office 365 Moodle Moodle partner Remote-Learner. net has teamed up with Microsoft Open Technologies to integrate Office 365 with Moodle.

and students by harmonizing login credentials, calendar management and course content creation, in addition to other workflow improvements for education institutions and other Moodle users,"according to a news release.

and Office 365 and students and teachers who create events in Moodle will have stored those events in their Office 365 calendars.

where students can complete them, then submit them through Moodle, in turn receiving teacher feedback in the same document.

and education,"said Jason Cole, CEO of Remote-Learner, in a prepared statement.""Educators and trainers who have both Moodle

and Office 365 create new learning experiences that leverage the power of both platforms. Moodle administrators can deploy these new features knowing they have the support of both Microsoft and the Moodle Partner community

what students can do. Marist College, which runs the New york state Cloud computing and Analytics Center, is teaming up with IBM

and IBM gives students an unprecedented opportunity to conduct research and learn how the rise of cloud computing is changing

We are ensuring the proficiency of students by providing them access to the latest networking technology skills due to the rise of cloud models,

"By training Marist students"on the latest in networking and architectures, we will help provide a strong career path,

"exemplifies the unlimited possibilities of cloud computing and the importance of the development of students on cutting-edge technology

The Alliance for Climate Education is using Mosaic Places to empower thousands of high school students across the nation to influence parents to go solar.

The Device Performance group is one of only two laboratories in the world to hold an International organization for Standardization (ISO) 17025 accreditation for primary reference cell and secondary module calibration,

in addition to accreditation for secondary reference cell calibration under American Society for Testing Materials (ASTM), and International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) standards.

Part of IBM commitment will go toward internships for over a dozen students from BC universities to build subject matter expertise and practical experience in this emerging industry.

The students will represent a broad cross-section of disciplines including MBAS researchers programmers and biologists.

a University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign materials science and engineering professor. hen the battery runs out, you need to have surgery to replace it.

invented at Rice university in 2002 by engineer Frank Tittel, Professor Robert Curl, and their collaborators, offers the possibility that such devices may soon be as small as a typical smartphone.

professor of electrical and computer engineering and a professor of bioengineering. ethane is emitted by natural sources, such as wetlands,

Home to more than 60 affiliated faculty and researchers and 120 graduate students the Institute interdisciplinary scientific research and policy analysis supports California state and U s. government policy development on advanced clean vehicles, fuels and land use planning.

C-CET is a two-way learning and research center facilitating study and research in China for U s. graduate students and faculty,

as well as inviting Chinese researchers and students to visit and study at UC Davis. The UC Davis Policy Institute leverages world-class university expertise

and engages directly with decision-makers to deliver credible, relevant, and timely information and analysis to inform better energy and environmental policy.

UC Davis has more than 34,000 students, and the full-time equivalent of 4, 100 faculty and other academics and 17,400 staff.

with an annual incidence of between 5%and 8%per 100 000, says INHERITANCE coordinator Professor Eloisa Arbustini of the Foundation IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo. t is one of the leading causes

says Professor Michele Rossi from Consorzio Ferrara Ricerche and the University of Padova, Italy. here were many technical limitations in terms of communication capabilities that have been solved

says Professor Sabine Bahn of the University of Cambridge Centre for Neuropsychiatric Research, a partner in the project.

says Professor Stefano Selleri of Università degli Studi di Parma in Italy, ALPINE project coordinator. hat is more,

adds Professor Selleri, he commercial potential of this technology is enormous. Just consider the fact that the laser

In the words of Professor Selleri: echanical scribing will disappear very quickly from the PV industry,

Professor Dolores Fregona and her research team at the University of Padua in Italy designed and tested gold compounds with the aim of elivering the metal as a cytotoxic smart bombkilling off cancer cells while minimising the impact on other organs.

says Professor Fregona. nterestingly, our compounds show different action mechanisms. The team focused on two types of cancer:

ruling out the onset of side effects due to chemotherapy, explains the professor. Furthermore, the team discovered that aggressive prostate cancer cells (resistant to cisplatin) were also sensitive to Aud8 and Aud9 gold derivatives

29-year-old Phd student Chiara Nardon, was named top young innovator in the field of biochemistry in 2013,

So it is about learning news ways of living with new rules Is there a way for traumatic brain injury victims like Jouni get a second chance at a normal life?

says Robotics Professor Véronique Perdereau, co-ordinator of the UPCM/HANDLE project. Humans naturally adapt their grasp,

One of the study authors, Professor Doug Easton from the University of Cambridge who led several of the studies,

COGS coordinator Professor Per Hall from the Karolinska Institutet says:''COGS is the largest genotyping project in the world targeting identification of genetic changes that influence the risk of common cancers.

Robert Meijer, a Professor of Applied Sensor Networks, at the University of Amsterdam, who is coordinating the Urbanflood project said:

and the project is expected to stimulate interest among students to pursue advanced degrees in environmental disciplines.

and Professor Molly Stevens, a European Research Council grantee at Imperial College London, have tested successfully a pioneering HIV-detection technique that is ten times more sensitive than any identification method used to date.

Writing in Nature Nanotechnology, Dr de la Rica and Professor Stevens also state that affordable methods for detecting disease biomarkers at ultra-low concentrations can potentially improve the standard of living in countries lacking costly

The company's Chief Technology Officer is Gert-Jan Gruter former Professor for Polymer Catalysis at Eindhoven University of Technology who explains:

We believe that the PEF will become the new world standard for polyester bottles. with the possibilities it opens up for future work in vaccine discovery was recognised with the naming of Professor Lomonossoff as Innovator of the Year 2012 by the Biotechnology and Biological sciences Research Council

Professor George Lomonossoff of the John Innes Centre in the UK, the new technique turns the host plants into'mini-factories,

Now, says Professor Lomonossoff, that has changed all:""You don't have to place all your money on one particular construct,

was recognised with the naming of Professor Lomonossoff as Innovator of the Year 2012 by the Biotechnology and Biological sciences Research Council (BBSRC), U s

but also in agriculture, cosmetics and beyond, says Polymode project co-ordinator, Professor Bruno Moerschbacher of the University of Münster in Germany.

says Professor Moerschbacher t

#Doing away with bacteria in water systems We set out to develop a sensor which quickly and cheaply measures the content of copper

"says the Professor. Indeed, experts echo the sentiment saying that the refrigeration system developed and tested by MEDISCO could really help the Mediterranean and indeed other areas with no conventional means of refrigeration due to a lack of water and nonexistent or unreliable energy sources y

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