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NASA Mission Will Observe Earth’s Salty Seas

By Guest PostMay 18, 2011Scienceaquarius, aquarius sac d observatory, Argentina, atmosphere, california, climate, comision nacional de actividades espaciales, conae, conveyor belt, deep ocean, delta ii rocket, earth climate, gary lagerloef, melting of sea ice, NASA, ocean circulation, ocean surface salinity, polar regions, radiometer, river runoff, salinity, salinity variations, seattle, space agency, vandenberg air force base, water cycle

PASADENA, Calif. – Final preparations are under way for the June 9 launch of the international Aquarius/SAC-D observatory. The mission’s primary instrument, Aquarius, will study interactions between ocean circulation, the water cycle and climate by measuring ocean surface salinity.

Engineers at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California are performing final tests before mating Aquarius/SAC-D to its Delta II rocket. The mission is a collaboration between NASA and Argentina’s space agency, Comision Nacional de Actividades Espaciales (CONAE), with participation from Brazil, Canada, France and Italy. SAC stands for Satelite de Applicaciones Cientificas. Aquarius was built by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., and the agency’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. (more…)

Persuasive Speech: The Way We, Um, Talk Sways Our Listeners

By Guest PostMay 18, 2011Culture, Scienceinstitute for social research, isr, james earl jones, jessica broome, jose benki, julia child, larynx, national science foundation, pitch, psychology of language, speech characteristics, telephone interviewers, university of michigan, variation in the pitch, voice box

ANN ARBOR, Mich.— Want to convince someone to do something? A new University of Michigan study has some intriguing insights drawn from how we speak.

The study, presented May 14 at the annual meeting of the American Association for Public Opinion Research, examines how various speech characteristics influence people’s decisions to participate in telephone surveys. But its findings have implications for many other situations, from closing sales to swaying voters and getting stubborn spouses to see things your way. (more…)

Global IBM CIO Study reveals today’s CEOs and CIOs strongly aligned on future challenges and complexity

By Guest PostMay 18, 2011Technologyanz cios, australian economy, bi, business intelligence, c suite study series, ceos, chief executive officers, chief information officers, cios, client intimacy, english, global cio, global study, ibm, ibm institute for business value, matt english

*Significant increase in the focus CIOs place on Cloud Computing since 2009*

Sydney, Australia – 18 May 2011: Results from a global study of more than 3,000 Chief Information Officers (CIOs) released by IBM today, reveal that for the first time, CEOs and CIOs are strategically aligned in their thinking around future challenges and complexity, with both groups focusing on insight and intelligence, client intimacy and people skills to drive organisational strategy.

The CIO Study shows that 57 per cent of CIOs anticipate more change and complexity in the next five years while 55 per cent of CEOs anticipate the same, according to the IBM’s 2010 Global CEO study. (more…)

Bing Makes Search Social with Help from 500 Million Friends

By Guest PostMay 17, 2011Technologybing, bing bar, chris pirillo, exabytes of data, Facebook, facebook fan pages, friends, human perspective, laptop, like, Microsoft, mother in law, paul yiu, pc magazine, sean suchter, search experience, search technology center, social, social features, stefan weitz, us weekly, web

*New social features in Bing let users make decisions with help from their Facebook friends.*

REDMOND, Wash. — Bing is adding 500 million new friends, and they’re all going to help the search experience become a lot more social. (more…)

UF Study: College-Age Facebook Users React Negatively to Site’s Ads

By Guest PostMay 17, 2011Technologyadvertising content, banner ads, college age, facebook user, news feed ads

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Customers often “like” businesses on Facebook, but when it comes to those companies’ ads on the social networking site, “dislike” is closer to the mark, says a University of Florida study of college-age users. (more…)

Tiny Variation in One Gene May Have Led to Crucial Changes in Human Brain

By Guest PostMay 17, 2011Sciencebrain convolutions, formation of dendrites, genetic letters, human brain, human genetic alphabet, variation in gene

The human brain has yet to explain the origin of one its defining features – the deep fissures and convolutions that increase its surface area and allow for rational and abstract thoughts. (more…)

Couples-oriented Programs Found to Boost Healthy Behaviors Among African Americans

By Guest PostMay 17, 2011Healthafrican american couples, antiretroviral therapy, cancer screenings, cardiovascular disease, chronic diseases, diabetes, gail wyatt, haart, healthier eating, hiv and its treatment with haart, hiv medications, hiv-positive, increased physical activity, john b jemmott, nabila el bassel, std risk reduction program, virus, willo pequegnat

*Intervention focuses on couples in which one partner is HIV-positive*

Intervention programs that promote healthier eating, increased physical activity and cancer screenings may be beneficial for African American couples that are at high risk for chronic diseases and that include one partner who is HIV-positive, according to new research.

With such inverventions, each partner appears to draw encouragement from the other to monitor his or her own lifestyle and health, according to study co-author Gail Wyatt, a professor of psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at UCLA and an associate director of the UCLA AIDS Institute. (more…)

From the Lab to Your Living Room: Avatar Kinect to Project Your Expressions into a Virtual World

By Guest PostMay 16, 2011Technologyavatar kinect, facial recognition technology, innovation of xbox, kinect for xbox, kinect sensors

*Avatar Kinect, the facial recognition technology coming to Kinect for Xbox 360 this spring, started out in the lab and soon will end up in the living room. Avatar Kinect’s journey from prototype to product shows how ideas move from research to product at Microsoft.*

REDMOND, Wash., – May 16, 2011 – When you smile, your Xbox 360 avatar will smile with you. (more…)

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