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Ucas dismisses cash crisis claims The Universities and Colleges Admissions Service has dismissed claims that it is facing a financial crisis over a £7 million lawsuit launched by a former commercial...
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UK trains doctors to become genetic experts
Brussels, 06 Aug 2004 As part of a 50 million GBP (75 million euro) package of investment launched last year to ensure the NHS [National Health Service] gets the full benefit of advances in genetics...
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Europe-wide survey points to advantages of postponing birth of premature babies
Brussels, 06 Aug 2004 A pan-European survey, published on 6 August in the Lancet Medical Journal, has found that postponing the birth of a premature baby by just a few days is better for the infant's...
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Symposium addresses nanotechnology and patenting
Brussels, 06 Aug 2004 An international symposium on nanotechnology and patenting will take place at the European Patent Office in The Hague, the Netherlands, on 9 and 10 November. The symposium...
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IRC information and brokerage events at Systems 2004
Brussels, 06 Aug 2004 Members of the Innovation Relay Centre (IRC) network will offer a series of information and brokerage events during the Systems 2004 trade fair being held in Munich, Germany,...
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Envisat's rainbow vision detects ground moving at pace fingernails grow
Paris, 06 Aug 2004 Originally developed to pinpoint attacking aircraft during World War Two, today's advanced radar technology can detect a very different moving target: shifts of the Earth's crust...
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ENVISAT Symposium 2004 - Results of on-going research project activities; reviewing and assessing the development of applications and services, open to all interested parties, Salzburg, Austria, 6-10
Brussels, 06 Aug 2004 INTRODUCTION The 2004 ENVISAT & ERS Symposium follows the previous successful Symposia in Gothenburg (2000), Florence (1997), Hamburg (1993) and Cannes (1992). ESA would...
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Sustainable Surface Transport - Thiesel 2004 Conference: 'Thermo and fluid dynamic processes in Diesel Engines' - Valencia, Spain, 7-10 September 2004
Brussels, 06 Aug 2004 Conference programme DG Research http://europa.eu.int/comm/dgs/research/i ndex_en.html Item source: http://www.cmt.upv.es/webIngles/thiesel/ CONFERENCETHIESEL2004/Programme.asp
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Partnerships for Public Awareness
Deadline: 03/09/2004
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Earth Observation Enabling Fund
Deadline: 06/09/2004
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Laura Spence speaks out
Laura Spence, the state-school pupil whose rejection by Oxford University sparked a furious row over elitism, has broken her silence after four years at Harvard University with an appeal to British...
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Sober few shun PR glitz for academe
You may gripe about pay and work, but academics take heart - at least one student in your seminar room probably wants to be you, writes Paul Hill. When hundreds of students across the country were...
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In the news: Edzard Ernst
You know you are getting it right when you get flak from both alternative therapists and mainstream medical scientists, says Edzard Ernst, the UK's only professor of complementary medicine. Professor...
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Appointments
* Stephen Bowen , director of campaigns at Amnesty International, will combine his role in the organisation with a senior lectureship at Kingston University from September. * The Royal Northern...
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Girls of 12 diet to ape slim stars, study says
Teenage girls' obsession with slim celebrities such as Britney Spears and Victoria Beckham is leading them into yo-yo dieting that could endanger their health, according to Ulster University research...