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Comment Re:Artificially Created Strain of H1N1? (Score 1) 315

by ed__ on Sunday April 26, 2009 @12:28AM (#27718603) Attached to: New Flu Strain Appears In the US and Mexico

No, by cultured he means that it's been isolated in the lab and identified. That is to say, they took a sample from a sick person and then grew it in the lab (ie cultivated) and then sequenced it or whatever and figure out exactly what it was.

MIT To Make All Faculty Publications Open Access 164

Posted by Soulskill on Thursday March 26, 2009 @12:23PM from the take-that-conyers dept.

Death Metal writes with this excerpt from Ars Technica: "If there were any doubt that open access publishing was setting off a bit of a power struggle, a decision made last week by the MIT faculty should put it to rest. Although most commercial academic publishers require that the authors of the works they publish sign all copyrights over to the journal, Congress recently mandated that all researchers funded by the National Institutes of Health retain the right to freely distribute their works one year after publication (several foundations have similar requirements). Since then, some publishers started fighting the trend, and a few members of Congress are reconsidering the mandate. Now, in a move that will undoubtedly redraw the battle lines, the faculty of MIT have unanimously voted to make any publications they produce open access."

Submission + - Creating an XForms-Based Logo Generator

Submitted by IdaAshley on Friday February 23, 2007 @06:23PM

IdaAshley writes: Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) provides an easy way to declaratively create an image using XML, and XForms provides an easy way to edit XML. In this article you will put the two together to create an XForms-based XVG editor for creating SVG images such as logos.

Submission + - Chimps hunting with spears! Are nukes next?

Submitted by

kc7rad

on Friday February 23, 2007 @05:23PM

kc7rad writes: "Published today in the Des Moines Register is an article about a significant scientific discovery by Iowa State anthropologist Jill Pruetz. "Pruetz and colleague Paco Bertolani are the first scientists to document chimpanzees habitually hunting in this way (with spears they fashioned themselves). In the western African nation of Senegal, they observed 10 different chimpanzees in 20 instances of hunting, without human assistance." Also, according to the article, "The peer-reviewed findings appeared Thursday on the "Current Biology" Web site and will be printed in the March 6 edition of the journal.""

Submission + - Conversation with John Hennessy & David Patter

Submitted by

ChelleChelle

on Friday February 23, 2007 @03:48PM

ChelleChelle writes: "The names Hennessy and Patterson are probably familiar to everyone — we all had to read their seminal textbook Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach at some point or another. In this interview, the Berkeley-Stanford duo discusses current innovations and future challenges in the realm of computer architecture. Definitely an interesting, but entertaining read!"

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