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For the first time, scientists have pinpointed an area of the brain involved in a woman's menstrual cycle. The research, reported online this week by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, shows contrasts in activity over the course of a month and provides a baseline for understanding the emotional and behavioral changes that 75 percent of all women report experiencing before, during and after their period. For any woman who has found
Read moreCentre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) is hiring more than 410 junior and senior researchers in ALL FIELDS for 2006. The recruitment campaign will be officially launched in mid-December, with a list of open positions. Job openings at www.cnrs.fr starting in December, deadline for applications to be filled: MID JANUARY. You will carry out full-time research to advance scientific knowledge and contribute to the progress of society. This
Read moreSanta Fe Institute's (SFI) research is devoted to complex phenomena drawing input from a wide variety of fields, including biology (e.g. genomics, evolution, ecology, immunology, biochemistry and cellular organization, systems and bioinformatics, structure of non-human social groups), computer science (computational complexity, adaptive and resilient computation, novel forms of computation, simulation), physics and mathematics (nonlinear systems,
Read moreApplications are invited for a Research Fellowship in Economics and Finance in memory of Franco Modigliani, starting in October 2006. The Fellowship is Euro 50,000 per year (before taxes) and its overall duration is 4 years (2 years renewable. Applicants must have completed (or be about to complete) a Ph.D. in Economics or Finance in a non-Italian academic institution and plan to continue their research activity in an Italian university that is willing
Read moreApplicants should be co-authors of outstanding publications in high ranking scientific journals or proceedings of international conferences. The date of acceptance of the paper should be in 2004 or 2005. Applications for the award can be submitted by the students or faculty advisors to the respective NRW Graduate School from which the award may be obtained. The following materials must be submitted: a copy of the paper or accepted manuscript the
Read moreThe Romanian National Institute for Earth Physics is proposed Nominee for the European IST Grand Prize Independent experts from Euro-CASE have proposed 20 "Nominees for the European IST Grand Prize" to the European Commission. The European Information Society Technologies Prize is the most distinguished award for groundbreaking products that represent the best of European innovation in Information Society Technologies. It is organised by Euro-CASE*
Read moreWalking through New York City during his years as a postdoc, Albert-László Barabási was intrigued not by the glitz and glamour, but by the notion of the invisible networks of cables and pipes necessary for modern life. Given that he trained as an engineer in Bucharest, Romania, such thoughts were not unusual for the Hungarian native. http://www.nature.com/naturejobs/2005/050915/full/nj7057-448a.html
Read morePrin decizia 2/2005 Ad Astra a adoptat un materialul despre evaluarea cercetarii stiintifice in perioada urmatoare, in Romania, care se afla la: www.ad-astra.ro/docs/2005_prezenta_minimala.pdf Documentul este supus comentariilor publice pana la sfarsitul anului 2005.
Read morePrin decizia 1/2005 Ad Astra adopta un regulament intern al carui rezumat public se gaseste la: https://www.ad-astra.ro/asso/regulament.php
Read moreDaniela Rus, an associate professor at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, or CSAIL, demonstrated the modular, self-configuring molecule robot that can change shapes to get into tight spaces. "You could use a bunch of them to plug a hole in a levee," she said, referencing the Hurricane Katrina disaster. "Or if it has to go through a tunnel, you could squeeze through like a snake." http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,68910,00.html
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