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Friday, 29 March 2013
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Visualized: step inside CERN's particle-detecting Compact Muon Solenoid
It's spring maintenance time over at the Large Hadron Collider, and the folks at CERN have seen fit to crack open the Compact Muon Solenoid to get at some of its loose connectors. You see, after three years, 99-percent of the the lead tungstate-based electromagnetic calorimeter's channels are currently operational -- but its keepers think it can do better, working on a less than reliable connection that has the preshower down to a paltry 97-percent. Naturally, they've cracked the thing open and thankfully given us a peek inside the beast.
Filed under: Science
Source: CERN
Source: http://www.engadget.com/2013/03/27/cern/
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Handling big data and small data in a sustainable way
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DFG approves new funding program for research data infrastructures
This release is available in German.
As in other areas, science and research are generating digital data faster and in larger volumes than ever before. The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) wants to help researchers in every discipline, from Assyriology to Zoology, to use data more effectively. The Joint Committee of Germany's largest research funding organisation has decided to launch a new funding programme. Its purpose is ensure that quality-assured research data, which is frequently collected at great financial expense in a time-consuming process, is secured on a more permanent basis and made available for re-use by researchers at a later date.
According to current estimates, the global sea of data generated by our digital world doubles in size every two years. In Germany and in the rest of the world, this is giving rise to the question of how these huge flows of data in general, and research data in particular, should be dealt with. Against this background, the Alliance of Science Organisations in Germany formulated the "Principles for the Handling of Research Data" (2010), EU experts presented the paper "Riding the Wave" (2010) and the DFG approved the paper "Taking Digital Transformation to the Next Level" (2012). Furthermore, the German Council of Science and Humanities approved analyses and recommendations to develop information infrastructures in Germany (2012). In the view of all the organisations involved, a new way to manage research data should be given priority.
The new funding programme is the DFG's practical response to discussions and recommendations. The objective of the new funding offered by the DFG is to institute and maintain helpful structures for research data that are oriented towards the demand and requirements of science. The programme will fund projects to develop sustainable concepts and solutions ranging from transregional data infrastructures for one or more disciplines to enhancements to existing infrastructure, taking account of international standards and cross-border cooperation.
With the new funding line, the DFG is hoping that more disciplines will establish a structure that can be seen to encourage innovation. A crucial factor here is a change of awareness towards recognising the significance of quality-assured data management that will take steps towards the re-use of research data. The new funding programme is intended to make a contribution in this respect.
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Further Information
More information about the new funding programme can be found here: http://www.dfg.de/en/research_funding/programmes/infrastructure/lis/funding_opportunities/research_data/index.html
DFG programme contact:
Dr. Stefan Winkler-Nees, Scientific Library Services and Information Systems, Tel. +49 228 885-2212, Stefan.Winkler-Nees@dfg.de
Dr. Katja Hartig, Life Sciences 1, Scientific Library Services and Information Systems, Tel. +49 228 885-2359, Katja.Hartig@dfg.de
DFG Press and Public Relations contact:
Dr. Rembert Unterstell, Tel. +49 228 885-2275, Rembert.Unterstell@dfg.de
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Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
DFG approves new funding program for research data infrastructures
This release is available in German.
As in other areas, science and research are generating digital data faster and in larger volumes than ever before. The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) wants to help researchers in every discipline, from Assyriology to Zoology, to use data more effectively. The Joint Committee of Germany's largest research funding organisation has decided to launch a new funding programme. Its purpose is ensure that quality-assured research data, which is frequently collected at great financial expense in a time-consuming process, is secured on a more permanent basis and made available for re-use by researchers at a later date.
According to current estimates, the global sea of data generated by our digital world doubles in size every two years. In Germany and in the rest of the world, this is giving rise to the question of how these huge flows of data in general, and research data in particular, should be dealt with. Against this background, the Alliance of Science Organisations in Germany formulated the "Principles for the Handling of Research Data" (2010), EU experts presented the paper "Riding the Wave" (2010) and the DFG approved the paper "Taking Digital Transformation to the Next Level" (2012). Furthermore, the German Council of Science and Humanities approved analyses and recommendations to develop information infrastructures in Germany (2012). In the view of all the organisations involved, a new way to manage research data should be given priority.
The new funding programme is the DFG's practical response to discussions and recommendations. The objective of the new funding offered by the DFG is to institute and maintain helpful structures for research data that are oriented towards the demand and requirements of science. The programme will fund projects to develop sustainable concepts and solutions ranging from transregional data infrastructures for one or more disciplines to enhancements to existing infrastructure, taking account of international standards and cross-border cooperation.
With the new funding line, the DFG is hoping that more disciplines will establish a structure that can be seen to encourage innovation. A crucial factor here is a change of awareness towards recognising the significance of quality-assured data management that will take steps towards the re-use of research data. The new funding programme is intended to make a contribution in this respect.
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Further Information
More information about the new funding programme can be found here: http://www.dfg.de/en/research_funding/programmes/infrastructure/lis/funding_opportunities/research_data/index.html
DFG programme contact:
Dr. Stefan Winkler-Nees, Scientific Library Services and Information Systems, Tel. +49 228 885-2212, Stefan.Winkler-Nees@dfg.de
Dr. Katja Hartig, Life Sciences 1, Scientific Library Services and Information Systems, Tel. +49 228 885-2359, Katja.Hartig@dfg.de
DFG Press and Public Relations contact:
Dr. Rembert Unterstell, Tel. +49 228 885-2275, Rembert.Unterstell@dfg.de
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Thursday, 28 March 2013
Aging vehicles leave Toyota North America chief optimistic on new sales
By Ben Klayman
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Toyota Motor Corp's top North American executive on Thursday voiced optimism about the U.S. economy, and said the aging cars and trucks in consumers' garages will continue to drive industry demand this year.
Jim Lentz, newly appointed chief executive of Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A, said the Japanese automaker sees U.S. industry new-car sales hitting 15.3 million this year, up from 14.5 million in 2012. Just six months ago, its 2013 forecast was for 14.7 million, but the company at the time believed talk of the fiscal cliff's impact would dampen the economy.
"We're cautiously optimistic about a growing economy, but there's still a lot of uncertainty that can derail the consumer's attitude," Lentz said in an interview after the New York Auto Show.
However, his fears are offset by consumers aging cars, which now average an all-time high of more than 11 years, and the improving mood of consumers as the housing and stock markets rise.
"When people can look at their 401ks and see that not only have they not fallen, but they are now starting to gain ... that is a real positive to overall consumer confidence," Lentz said.
Toyota should sell about 2.2 million cars and trucks under its three brands - Toyota, Lexus and Scion - this year, up from 2.08 million in 2012. The company is introducing nine new or updated vehicles this year.
Automakers are scheduled to report March U.S. sales on Tuesday and Lentz said Toyota expects the industry's annual sales rate to finish at about 15.4 million vehicles. That would mark the fifth straight month above the 15 million rate.
However, Toyota has no plans to revisit its full-year estimate at this point as Lentz said the company is forecasting the sales rate to slow to a range of 15.1 million to 15.2 million in the second quarter.
Lentz said a tightening of interest rates by the U.S. Federal Reserve would have a minimal impact this year and in 2014 on consumers, many of whom have monthly car payments.
"Whether you lease or whether you borrow money to buy a car, it's still all about the monthly payment," he said. "Right now, if you look at car payments relative to income, cars have probably never been cheaper even though the price of cars continues to go up. That monthly payment is still very fixed."
However, Lentz agreed that the high residual values that automakers are setting on their leased vehicles is not sustainable. He said Toyota is already adjusting its residual values going forward.
"In 2014-2015, this low, low lease party will come to an end," he said.
(Reporting by Ben Klayman in New York; editing by Gunna Dickson)
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UK scientists develop safer foot-and-mouth vaccine
By Ben Hirschler
LONDON (Reuters) - British scientists have developed a new vaccine against foot-and-mouth disease that is safer and easier to manufacture, an advance they believe should greatly increase production capacity and reduce costs.
The technology behind the livestock product might also be applied to make improved human vaccines to protect against similar viruses, including polio.
The new vaccine does not require live virus in its production - an important consideration as foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) is extremely infectious and vaccine facilities handling virus samples are difficult to secure.
"It spreads like wild fire," said David Stuart, a professor of biology at the University of Oxford, who led the research.
A 2007 outbreak of FMD in southeast England, for example, was traced to a nearby vaccine site. The same facility, ironically, is home to some of the researchers behind the new vaccine.
In contrast to standard FMD livestock vaccines, the new product is made from synthetic empty protein shells containing no infectious viral genome, scientists reported in the journal PLOS Pathogens on Wednesday.
This means the vaccine can be produced without expensive biosecurity and does not need to be kept refrigerated.
"One of the big advantages is that since it is not derived from live virus, the production facility requires no special containment," Stuart said.
"One could imagine local plants being set up in large parts of the world where foot and mouth is endemic and where it still remains a huge problem."
Worldwide, between 3 billion and 4 billion doses of FMD vaccine are administered every year but there are shortages in many parts of Asia and Africa were the disease is a serious problem.
Current standard vaccines are based on 50-year-old technology, although U.S. biotech company GenVec last year won U.S. approval for a new one.
The purely synthetic British vaccine has so far been tested in small-scale cattle trials and found to be effective.
Stuart said the research team from the universities of Oxford and Reading and two state-funded bodies - Diamond Light Source and the Pirbright Institute - would now conduct larger tests while discussing the vaccine's commercial development.
"We are talking to a potential commercial partner," Stuart told Reuters, adding that it would probably take around six years to bring the new vaccine to market. He said it was too early to give an indication of how much the vaccine would cost.
He declined to name the company involved but said it was not Merial, the animal health division of Sanofi that shares Pirbright's site in southeast England.
Stuart and his colleagues were able to produce empty protein shells to imitate the protein coat that surrounds the FMD virus using Diamond's X-ray system to visualize images a billion times smaller than a pinhead.
The same approach could in future be used to make empty shell vaccines against related viruses such as polio and hand-foot-and-mouth, a human disease that mainly affects infants and children, the researchers said.
(Editing by Keiron Henderson)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/uk-scientists-develop-safer-foot-mouth-vaccine-220336601--finance.html
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Major oil companies testify on oil tax change
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) -- A proposed overhaul of Alaska's oil tax structure would be a vast improvement over the existing system, but it doesn't go far enough, industry representatives told the House Resources Committee on Tuesday.
Dan Seckers, tax counsel for Exxon Mobil Corp., said SB21 would make Alaska more competitive ? a point that's been underscored by consultants to the Legislature and Gov. Sean Parnell's administration ? and it should lead to more investment. But he said he "would love" for Alaska to become even more attractive.
The committee is working on SB21, which is aimed at making Alaska more competitive for investment dollars and increasing oil production. The North Slope's major players ? BP PLC, ConocoPhillips and Exxon Mobil ? were asked to testify Tuesday evening. The committee planned to hear from smaller producers and explorers Wednesday.
Committee co-chair Eric Feige has said he hopes to advance a bill sometime next week. The bill would then go to the House Finance Committee. The Legislature is scheduled to adjourn April 14.
Alaska's existing oil tax structure, passed in 2007, features a 25 percent base tax rate and a progressive surcharge that's triggered when a company's production tax value hits $30 a barrel. The idea when it passed was that the state would help companies on the front end with things like tax credits and share profits on the back end when oil flowed and prices were high.
Companies have said the surcharge ? credited with helping fatten state coffers in recent years ? eats too deeply into their profits when prices are high, discouraging new investment. Alaska's revenue commissioner has said he's seen no evidence that tax credits to oil companies ? which could top $1 billion next year ? have led to increased production.
SB21, which narrowly passed the Senate last week, would eliminate the surcharge and revamp the suite of tax credits with a goal of focusing incentives on production. The latest version of the bill would raise the base tax rate to 35 percent, provide a $5 credit for each taxable barrel of oil produced and provide a 20 percent tax break, known as a gross revenue exclusion, for oil from new fields and new oil from legacy fields, long the mainstays of Alaska's oil industry.
Seckers and representatives of ConocoPhillips said the bill is an improvement over what is now in place. But they said the tax rate under SB21 is too high and they wanted greater clarity on what oil would qualify for the gross revenue exclusion. Seckers also questioned whether a $5-per-barrel allowance was enough to balance other provisions of the bill, like the base tax rate.
Bob Heinrich, vice president of finance for ConocoPhillips Alaska, said the proposal would represent a tax increase at lower oil prices. Given Alaska's high-cost environment, he said the bill doesn't go far enough toward improving Alaska's competitiveness.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/major-oil-companies-testify-oil-023639911.html
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My top 10 apps for PR and Communication | McGallen & Bolden ? ...
Everyone loves lists, and having seen some lists of recommended mobile apps for PR practitioners out there, I offer some of my own, apps I actually use as a social media and PR consultant.
1. Short Messaging ? Whatsapp
Texting (short message service or SMS) is kind of antiquated and even scorned at by some younger people. So Whatsapp seems to have gained quite a bit of traction, and especially useful for PR practitioners to keep in touch with clients, journalists, and peers on various mobile platforms (iOS, Android, BlackBerry, and Windows Phone). It is the easiest way to share ideas quickly, and even share low-res ?comp? images on the road.
2. Writing and Publishing ? WordPress
WordPress is one of the most loved blogging and content management platforms around, and is extremely easy to use at the basic level (if you are a content contributor). WordPress can be configured for use as a simple online newsroom, an audio-video news portal, social media streaming site, or an internal work-in-progress collaboration site (with password access if you like), if you host it on your server. With self-hosted WordPress done right (this requires a lot more technical expertise), you can allow peers to update and edit news releases and articles on your own WordPress sites or microsites anywhere (iOS, Android, BlackBerry, and Windows Phone).
3. File Sharing ? YouSendIt
I have tried many different file uploading systems, and for system administration and file uploading features, I would still stick with YouSendIt rather than some others. With YouSendIt, I can share clients? large files like images, videos, and large documents with the media easily, without clogging up email hosts (email is NOT an efficient file sharing tool, period). YouSendIt has native clients on iOS, Android and Windows Phone.
4. Dictionary ? Dictionary.com
We in the communications business (journalists and PR practitioners alike) need a good usable dictionary, on or offline. You can find a whole load of dictionary apps for mobile platforms. Dictionary.com is one of those useful ones. Nothing too extraordinary, but important to writers nonetheless. You can pick the ad-free version for a small fee (worth it), or get the free version and have the ads served, on iOS, Android, BlackBerry and Windows Phone.
5. Encyclopedia ? Wikipedia Mobile
Wikipedia is a great first-tier data gathering tool for communicators. It is far from perfect, but infinitely useful nonetheless. The official Wikipedia has a mobile-friendly web version, although if your mobile phone has sufficient storage, get an offline Wikipedia app that can store an entire single language Wikipedia database so that you can search and read Wikipedia entries even without an Internet connection. There are specific offline Wikipedia readers from various developers on iOS and Android.
6. Social Media Management ? Hootsuite
Managing different social media accounts for clients need not be arduous for practitioners. It does not make sense to manage separately multiple clients? accounts, each with multiple social media channels such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+, and so on. A centralized dashboard management platform is a must-have for serious practitioners. One such app with native apps is Hootsuite, with native iOS, Android and BlackBerry versions.
7. Audio Recording ? iRig Recorder
Every journalist or PR practitioner has a reason to make audio recordings, for archival, for interviews, and for podcasts. There are many individual platform audio recording apps, including native apps that come with the mobile phones. One of the few cross-platform (iOS and Android) audio recording apps is from IK Multimedia ? the iRig Recorder.
8. Video Recording ? Socialcam
More people are viewing video, rather than listening to audio podcasts, or even reading text articles these days. A casual glance at social video platforms such as YouTube and Vimeo would show us how compelling an audio-visual medium can be. There are native video recording apps with video-capable mobile phones that we can use. There are also the rare few video recording apps that are cross-platform and nicely developed, such as Socialcam.
9. Project Management ? Basecamp-related
Project management and collaborative writing is important to small and larger teams alike. I have used Basecamp for a long time, and although Basecamp is web-app enabled, there isn?t a cross-platform mobile app for the major mobile phone platforms other than iOS. However, because Basecamp is quite successful and used by many small and emerging companies, there are quite a few third-party Basecamp-compatible mobile apps. For iOS, there is Lodge, and for Android, there is SuitChamp.
10. Web-based Meetings ? GoToMeeting or Webex
Distance is no longer an inhibitor to collaboration, and online meetings and even seminars and trainings are frequently conducted completely online (or a combination of online and analog phone calls). GoToMeeting or Cisco Webex are both great meeting platforms, although Webex works natively with the Blackberry as well.
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