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“Coffee to go”? Projekt über Englisch im öffentlichen Wiener Raum

By Guest PostJanuary 19, 2015Culture, Sciencecomputer, density functional theory, design, dft, eye irritation, francesca cordeiro, glaucoma curcumin, internet, projekt, retinal cell, tel aviv, turmeric eye drops, universitaet wien, wien

“Kaffee zum Mitnehmen” oder “Coffee to go”: Wie “englisch” ist Wien im Zeitalter der Globalisierung wirklich? Das erforscht die Sprachwissenschaftlerin Barbara Soukup vom Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik der Universität Wien. Werbeplakate, Geschäftsschilder und Hinweistafeln mehrerer Wiener Straßenzüge werden auf ihren Sprachgebrauch untersucht und sollen Aufschluss darüber geben, wie Englisch in der Wiener Öffentlichkeit präsent ist.

Die Erforschung von Sprachverwendung im öffentlichen Raum ist ein Bereich der angewandten Sprachwissenschaft, der seit den 1990er Jahren stark im Aufschwung ist. Das Forschungsobjekt wird dabei meistens als “Sprachlandschaft” (“linguistic landscape”) bezeichnet. Ein zentrales Interesse gilt der Rolle, die offizielle und inoffizielle Sprachpolitiken und -ideologien in diesem Zusammenhang spielen. Oftmals wird speziell die Präsenz von Minderheitensprachen erforscht; es wurden aber auch schon Zusammenhänge zu eher unbewusstem Fremdsprachenlernen hergestellt. (more…)

The 2014 Solar Decathlon Europe: Brown/RISD/Erfurt team designs Techstyle Haus

By Guest PostOctober 27, 2013Technologybrown, chris bull, derek stein, design, eliza brine, energy-efficient, erfurt team, gareth rose, Germany, kurt teichert, livable solar house, providence to france, risd, saint gobain, solar decathlon europe, solar decathlon project, sustainable home, techstyle haus, university of erfurt

Students at Brown, RISD, and the University of Erfurt are tackling a great challenge: Build a house that uses 90 percent less energy than a typical house, make it liveable, flexible, durable, and lightweight enough to be shipped from Providence to France — and design it better than 19 other top teams from around the world. That’s the Solar Decathlon. The Brown-RISD-Erfurt team calls its entry the “Techstyle Haus.”

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — For two weeks next July, the grounds of France’s Palace of Versailles will be transformed into a solar-powered village, showcasing sustainable homes built by college students from around the world. Among them will be a house like no other, with a roof and walls made not of wood or metal, but almost entirely of durable, highly insulated textiles. (more…)

Bing discusses design and technology in NYC

By Guest PostSeptember 21, 2013Technologybing, bing designer, bing team, cesar galindo, david bromstad, design, fashion designer, hgtv, ingrid abramovitch, jonathan adler, michael kroll, nyc, scott erickson, Technology

Bing brings together tastemakers and experts to share insight on the intersection of beauty and functionality and how technology plays a role in modern design.

NEW YORK — Earlier this week, Bing gathered together a variety of taste makers and journalists at an intimate and interactive panel to discuss the convergence of design and technology. Moderated by Scott Erickson, senior director for Bing, we heard from panelists designer Jonathan Adler, HGTV personality David Bromstad, fashion designer Cesar Galindo, ELLE Décor senior editor Ingrid Abramovitch, and Michael Kroll from the Bing team. (more…)

Getting to the heart of disease

By Guest PostMarch 29, 2013Healthanti semitism, barry l zaret, by accident, cardiology, coronary disease, coronary physiology, design, evans downing, growth factors, heart of disease, jewish parents, jews, leningrad, lymphatic diseases, lymphatic vessels, massachusetts institute, michael simons, MIT, russia, soviet union, st. petersburg, target cells, Technology, treating cancer, treatment, veins, william grossman, yale

Scientist works toward molecular therapies for cardiovascular diseases

Born in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg), Russia, to Jewish parents before the fall of the Soviet Union, Michael Simons, M.D., says a medical career was “sort of a default.” Anti-Semitism barred Jews from many scientific pursuits, so his parents, both doctors, encouraged his interest in medicine as the basis for a strong natural science education.

Simons’ family immigrated to Boston in 1978. Simons had begun a 6-year medical program immediately after high school in Russia, so he was admitted to Boston University School of Medicine as a third-year student, but he chose instead to start anew, as an undergraduate. “I thought, if I continue in a medical program, I’ll forever have an inadequate undergraduate education,” he says, speaking with a mild accent and an understated intensity. (more…)

Brown Researchers Build Robotic Bat Wing

By Guest PostFebruary 23, 2013Scienceaerodynamic effects, aerodynamic forces, anatomy, angle of flap, basic flight parameters, bat flight, bats, bones, brown researchers, design, downstroke, dynamics of flapping, elasticity of skin, energy, flapping amplitude, flapping frequency, flexibility, force transducer, function of ligaments, joseph bahlman, kenneth breuer, kinematic parameters, material properties, moving wing, real bats, robot mimics, robotic bat wing, sharon swartz, silicone elastomer, small aircraft, small flapping aircraft, super elastic skin, tendon like cables, us air force, wind tunnel, wing folding, wing movements

The strong, flapping flight of bats offers great possibilities for the design of small aircraft, among other applications. By building a robotic bat wing, Brown researchers have uncovered flight secrets of real bats: the function of ligaments, the elasticity of skin, the structural support of musculature, skeletal flexibility, upstroke, downstroke.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — Researchers at Brown University have developed a robotic bat wing that is providing valuable new information about dynamics of flapping flight in real bats. (more…)

Latest JBEI Startup to Speed Up Biotech Industry

By Guest PostOctober 3, 2012Scienceautocad, berkeley lab, biofuels, biology, chemicals, cutting edge, design, DNA, dna manipulation, eduardo abeliuk, electrical engineering, expressing, inertia, iso27001, j5 software, jbei, majed abolfazli, medicine, metabolic pathway, mike fero, modern cloning, molecular biology, nathan hillson, organism, pharmchem, protocol, qb3, san francisco, Science, sequencing, splicing, stanford university, teselagen

TeselaGen’s DNA construction technology makes genetic engineering cheaper and faster.

Sequencing, splicing and expressing DNA may seem to be the quintessence of cutting-edge science—indeed DNA manipulation has revolutionized fields such as biofuels, chemicals and medicine. But in fact, the actual process can still be tedious and labor-intensive, something Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) scientist Nathan Hillson learned the hard way.

After struggling for two days to design a protocol to put together a genetic circuit with 10 pieces of DNA—using a spreadsheet as his primary tool—he was dismayed to discover that an outside company could have done the whole thing, including parts and labor, for lower cost than him ordering the oligonucleotides himself. “I learned two things: one, I never wanted to go through that process again, and two, it’s extremely important to do the cost-effectiveness calculation,” said Hillson, a biochemist who also directs the synthetic biology program at the Berkeley Lab-led Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI). “So that was the genesis of the j5 software. This is the perfect thing to teach a computer to do.” (more…)

Passion for Pattern

By Guest PostFebruary 13, 2012Culture, Generalalexander graham bell, amber billings, bill magdalene, chewing gum, david mendolia, design, figure drawing, gate, gifted and talented education, graphic design, happy, melon remix gum, orbit, orbit gum, orbit pack, professional art, square module, telephone, university of minnesota

*Design fuels the whole world, says Amber Billings*

This past spring, Amber Billings competed nationally with other college students to design a pack for Orbit gum. The second-year U of M graphic design student was named one of the eight contest winners. She received $5,000. And her design and signature appear on limited edition packs of Orbit’s Melon Remix gum through February 2012.

Recently, Amber Billings discussed what inspires her design work. (more…)

Powered Lift: Novel GTRI Design Would Let Commercial Jets Use Smaller Airports While Reducing Noise

By Guest PostOctober 21, 2010Science, Technologyairplane, boeing 737, california polytechnic state university, cestol aircraft, circulation-control technology, conventional wing, cruise-efficient, design, estol program, fixed-wing jet aircraft, graham blaylock, hybrid wing body low noise, lift coefficient, NASA, nicholas moore, performance, reducing engine noise, rick gaeta, robert englar, robert j englar, short take-off and landing aircraft, short takeoff and landing performance, stol

Research underway at the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) could enable fixed-wing jet aircraft to take off and land at steep angles on short runways, while also reducing engine noise heard on the ground.

About the image: This computer-generated graphic shows a model of the cruise-efficient, short take-off and landing (CESTOL) aircraft design that GTRI researchers are investigating. Image credit: California Polytechnic State University (more…)

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