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Israeli scientific success convinces Premier McGuinty to name a chief scientist to advise government

Israeli scientific success convinces Premier McGuinty to name a chief scientist to advise government
Premier Dalton McGuinty has been so inspired by Israel’s success in commercializing advanced research that he’s going to appoint a chief scientist in Ontario.

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Arrowhead Lead Scientific Advisor, Dr. Mauro Ferrari and Calando Pharmaceuticals’ siRNA Drug Delivery Platform …

Arrowhead Lead Scientific Advisor, Dr. Mauro Ferrari and Calando Pharmaceuticals’ siRNA Drug Delivery Platform …
Arrowhead Research Corporation (NASDAQ:ARWR) today announced that two articles of interest to Arrowhead stockholders appeared in the Houston Chronicle this week. An article published on May 24, entitled “Minute invaders that aid the body”, reports on the revolutionary potential of gene silencing and the pioneering role of the siRNA delivery system developed by Arrowhead majority-owned subsidiary …

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Vacuum Technology: Practice for Scientific Instruments

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Nanotechnology has reached a level where almost every new development and even every new product uses features of nanoscopic properties of materials. As a consequence, an enormous amount of scientific instruments is used in order to synthesize and analyze new structures and materials. Due to the surface sensitivity of such materials, many of these instruments require ultrahigh vacuum that has to be provided under extreme conditions like very high voltages.

In this book, Yoshimura provides a review of the UHV related development during the last decades. His very broad experience in the design enables him to present us this detailed reference. After a general description how to design UHV systems, he covers all important issue in detail, like pumps, outgasing, Gauges, and Electrodes for high voltages.

Thus, this book serves as reference for everybody using UVH in his scientific equipment.

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Review of NOAA’s Plan for the Scientific Stewardship Program

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To better understand our climate system, it is important that we have climate data records (CDRs) – time series of measurements of sufficient length, consistency, and continuity to determine climate variability and change – that possess the accuracy, longevity, and stability to facilitate credible climate monitoring. In 2004, the National Research Council (NRC) published Climate Data Records from Environmental Satellites to provide the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) with initial guidelines on how to develop and implement an effective CDR program. NOAA used this book to draft a plan for a new Scientific Data Stewardship (SDS) program, and then asked NRC to review it. The new program will be responsible for processing, archiving, and distributing observations from satellite and supporting ground-based platforms for monitoring, diagnosing, understanding, predicting, modeling, and assessing climate variation and change.The NRC review outlines several ways in which to improve NOAA’s draft plan, most importantly by clarifying advisory mechanisms, providing more detail about how NOAA will coordinate with important partners in generating CDRs, articulating how the program will prioritize its activities, and developing ways to realistically project future costs. However, the draft plan is sound overall and NOAA should immediately begin implementing the SDS program while revising the plan as recommended in this book.

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