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• Researchers pinpoint how trees play role in smog production

  After years of scientific uncertainty and speculation, researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill show exactly how trees help create one of society's predominant environmental and health concerns: air pollution. It has long been known that trees produce and emit isoprene, an abun more

• New microscope reveals ultrastructure of cells
  

  Researchers at Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) have developed a new X-ray nanotomography microscope. Using their new system, they can reveal the structures on the smallest components of mammalian cells in three dimensions. For the first time, there is no need to chemically fix, stain or cut cells in more

• Putting a bull's-eye on the flu: Detailing influenza's structure for drug targeting

  Beating the flu is already tough, but it has become even harder in recent years – the influenza A virus has mutated so that two antiviral drugs don't slow it down anymore. Reporting their findings in the journal Science, researchers from Florida State and Brigham Young move closer to understanding more

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• Simulated Moving Bed Chromatography: from chiral molecules to biocompounds
  

  The Simulated moving bed (SMB) technology was developed in the '60s and used for large-scale separations of hydrocarbons in the oil industry. The SMB concept has been extended towards new fields of application since then, first in the large-scale food industry, e.g. separation of sugars, and lately in the separation of fine chemicals, particularly chiral molecules where it is now an established technique more

• Pressure Digestion for Sample Preparation
  

  What analyst does not wish for a universal method for processing all his or her samples? Pressure digestion represents just such a procedure for sample digestions and is therefore one of the standard sample preparation procedures currently employed in analytical chemistry for element quantification more

• Measurement of Nano particles and Proteins
  

  Colloid emulsions in their native environment require particle size determination in high concentration since there are concerns about changes in sample morphology upon dilution eg break up of aggregates. For proteins and other samples with very low concentration and for weakly scattering samples high sensitivity is required. New technologies offer both. more

Publications Matter

• A Hybrid CPU-GPU Accelerated Framework for Fast Mapping of High-Resolution Human Brain Connectome

  by Yu Wang, Haixiao Du, Mingrui Xia, Ling Ren, Mo Xu, Teng Xie, Gaolang Gong, Ningyi Xu, Huazhong Yang, Yong He Recently, a combination of non-invasive neuroimaging techniques and graph theoretical approaches has provided a unique opportunity for understanding the patterns of the structu more

• Structural and Functional Connectivity Changes in the Brain Associated with Shyness but Not with Social Anxiety

  by Xun Yang, Keith Maurice Kendrick, Qizhu Wu, Taolin Chen, Sunima Lama, Bochao Cheng, Shiguang Li, Xiaoqi Huang, Qiyong Gong Shyness and social anxiety are correlated to some extent and both are associated with hyper-responsivity to social stimuli in the frontal cortex and limbic system. However more

• Quantifying Repetitive Speech in Autism Spectrum Disorders and Language Impairment

  We report on an automatic technique for quantifying two types of repetitive speech: repetitions of what the child says him/herself (self‐repeats) and of what is uttered by an interlocutor (echolalia). We apply this technique to a sample of 111 children between the ages of four and eight: 42 typica more

Market studies Matter

• Healthcare, Regulatory and Reimbursement Landscape - US

  Introduction Industry analysis specialist GlobalData, has released its new report, “Healthcare, Regulatory and Reimbursement Landscape - US”. The report is an essential source of information and an analysis on the healthcare, regulatory and reimbursement landscape of the US. It identifies the key t more

• Southern Africa Infrastructure Report Q3 2012

  Botswana BMI View: We have upgraded our outlook for Botswana’s construction industry growth over the medium term, based on exceptionally strong growth seen in 2011. Real growth of 25.4% is estimated for the year, driven primarily by ongoing investment into the electricity sector. In light of this, w more

• Healthcare, Regulatory and Reimbursement Landscape - Philippines

  Introduction GlobalData, the industry analysis specialist, has released its new report, “Healthcare, Regulatory and Reimbursement Landscape - Philippines”. The report is an essential source of information and an analysis on the healthcare, regulatory and reimbursement landscape of Philippines. The more

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