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IBM Closes on Acquisition of TRIRIGA, Inc.

By Guest PostApril 14, 2011Technologyacquisition, david bartlett, energy and environmental sustainability, hvac system, ibm, las vegas, nevada, real estate, tririga

*Accelerates Advanced Intelligence for Smarter Buildings Transformation*

ARMONK, N.Y., – 14 Apr 2011: IBM today announced that it has completed the acquisition of TRIRIGA, Inc., a privately-held company based in Las Vegas, Nevada. Financial terms were not disclosed.

On March 22, IBM announced that it had entered into a definitive agreement to acquire TRIRIGA, a leading provider of facility and real estate management software solutions.

Many of the systems that constitute a building – heat, water, sewage, electricity and physical assets – are managed independently and often inefficiently. Collecting, managing and analyzing data in buildings provides actionable insight to energy, space and facilities management. (more…)

Climate Change From Black Carbon Depends on Altitude

By Guest PostApril 14, 2011Environmentairborne particles, atmospheric stability, ban weiss, black carbon, carbon, climate dynamics, climate effect of black carbon, Environment, global warming, human health, ken caldeira, long cao, upper atmosphere

Palo Alto, CA — Scientists have known for decades that black carbon aerosols add to global warming. These airborne particles made of sooty carbon are believed to be among the largest man-made contributors to global warming because they absorb solar radiation and heat the atmosphere. New research from Carnegie’s Long Cao and Ken Caldeira, along with colleagues George Ban-Weiss and Govindasamy Bala, quantifies how black carbon’s impact on climate depends on its altitude in the atmosphere. Their work, published online by the journal Climate Dynamics, could have important implications for combating global climate change. (more…)

Circadian Rhythms Spark Plants’ Ability to Survive Freezing Weather

By Guest PostApril 14, 2011Scienceabiotic stresses, agbioresearch, bioenergy crops, circadian clock, circadian cues, circadian rhythms, eva farré, freezing weather, malia dong, michael thomashow, microbes, molecular genetics, monarch butterflies, national academy of sciences, renewal biofuels, spark plants

EAST LANSING, Mich. — Just as monarch butterflies depend on circadian cues to begin their annual migration, so do plants to survive freezing temperatures.

All living things – humans, animals, plants, microbes – are influenced by circadian rhythms, which are physical, mental and behavioral changes that follow a 24-hour cycle. In the current issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Michael Thomashow, University Distinguished Professor of molecular genetics, along with MSU colleagues Malia Dong and Eva Farré, has identified that the circadian clock provides key input required for plants to attain maximum freezing tolerance. (more…)

comScore Releases March 2011 U.S. Search Engine Rankings

By Guest PostApril 13, 2011Technologyask network, bing, Comscore, Google, google sites, Microsoft, search queries, Yahoo

RESTON, VA, April 13, 2011 – comScore, Inc., a leader in measuring the digital world, today released its monthly comScore qSearch analysis of the U.S. search marketplace. Google Sites led the explicit core search market in March with 65.7 percent of search queries conducted. (more…)

Got Up On The Wrong Side of the Bed? Your Work Will Show It

By Guest PostApril 13, 2011Generalemployee moods, good mood, insurance company, nancy rothbard, positive customers, steffanie wilk, telephone customer service representatives, workday

COLUMBUS, Ohio – A new study of telephone customer service representatives shows just how important it is for employees to start the workday in a good mood.

Researchers found that employees’ moods when they clocked in tended to affect how they felt the rest of the day. Early mood was linked to their perceptions of customers and to how they reacted to customers’ moods. (more…)

Report Provides NASA with Direction for Next 10 Years of Space Research

By Guest PostApril 13, 2011Sciencecomplex fluids, einstein, global positioning systems, gps, moon, NASA, paul chaikin, quantum gases, rob duncan, rockets, soft condensed matter physics, Space, space exploration, superconductors, Technology, telescopes, theory of relativity

*MU vice chancellor led committee that focused on fundamental physics research projects*

COLUMBIA, Mo. — During the past 60 years, humans have built rockets, walked on the moon and explored the outer reaches of space with probes and telescopes. During these trips in space, research has been conducted to learn more about life and space. Recently, a group of prominent researchers from across the country published a report through the National Academy of Sciences that is intended as a guide as NASA plans the next 10 years of research in space. Rob Duncan, the University of Missouri Vice Chancellor for Research, led the team that developed a blueprint for fundamental physics research in space for the next 10 years. (more…)

comScore Releases March 2011 U.S. Online Video Rankings

By Guest PostApril 12, 2011Technologyamericans, aol, brightroll video network, Comscore, comscore video metrix, google sites, hulu, internet audience, internet user, online video, online video content, tremor media video network, u s, vevo, yahoo! Sites, YouTube

*Google Sites Nears 2 Billion Content Viewing Sessions*

RESTON, VA, April 12, 2011 – comScore, Inc., a leader in measuring the digital world, today released data from the comScore Video Metrix service showing that 174 million U.S. Internet users watched online video content in March for an average of 14.8 hours per viewer. The total U.S. Internet audience engaged in more than 5.7 billion viewing sessions during the course of the month. (more…)

Actions and Personality, East and West

By Guest PostApril 12, 2011Cultureasian_americans, caucasian and asian backgrounds, cautious or neurotic, cultural differences, european_american, immediate response, psychological science, social factors

People in different cultures make different assumptions about the people around them, according to an upcoming study published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. The researchers studied the brain waves of people with Caucasian and Asian backgrounds and found that cultural differences in how we think about other people are embedded deep in our minds. Cultural differences are evident very deep in the brain, challenging a commonsense notion that culture is skin deep. (more…)

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