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Mapping NTDs is critical for controlling, treating diseases Thursday, July 29, 2010 @ 1:20AMMapping neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) is vital for efforts to control and treat diseases, write the authors of an editorial published Tuesday in PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, ANI/Sindh Today reports (7/28).
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The art of riding shotgun Wednesday, July 28, 2010 @ 8:08AMWhile school is out this summer, I’m teaching my young teenaged son other important skills he’ll need in his life, like how to do his own laundry and make scrambled eggs. Since much of this summer is spent on family road trips, I’m also attempting to school him another invaluable life skill: how to ride shotgun. This one is proving much more difficult. He has spent his entire young life ...
Less than 10% of East European prevention spending is for vulnerable groups Wednesday, July 28, 2010 @ 5:01AMAll our news, features and news selected from other sources. Our weekly round-up of HIV news. Official provider of online news for the AIDS 2010 conference.
BUSINESS WIRE: TomTom's Latest Database Extends Global Coverage with New Countries and Major Cities Added Wednesday, June 30, 2010 @ 1:38AMMITTEILUNG UEBERMITTELT VON BUSINESS WIRE. FUER DEN INHALT IST ALLEIN DAS BERICHTENDE UNTERNEHMEN VERANTWORTLICH.
TomTom's Latest Database Extends Global Coverage with New Countries and Major Cities Added Wednesday, June 30, 2010 @ 1:30AMAMSTERDAM----TomTom, the world’s leading provider of location and navigation solutions, announces the availability of its latest digital map products, including Tele Atlas MultiNet® 2010.06.
Atlas Iron on Chinese map Tuesday, June 29, 2010 @ 7:19PMONE of China's biggest steelmakers is reportedly eyeing Atlas Iron's $2.7 billion magnetite project as a way to boost its iron ore supplies.
BBC testing EV practicality with road trip Wednesday, June 9, 2010 @ 12:18PMDocumentary series attempts all-electric European road trip to see whether electric vehicles are realistically useful for everyday folks.
A Map of Art Practices in Africa, Past and Present Opens in Brussels Tuesday, June 8, 2010 @ 8:35PMGeorge Osodi, Beach, 2004. BRUSSELS.- No fewer than 17 African countries celebrate 50 years of independence in 2010. To mark the occasion, BOZAR and the Royal Museum for Central Africa in Tervuren are organising the Visionary Africa festival, with concerts, exhibitions, theatre and dance performances, a colloquium, and a literary festival.
New Map Helps You Avoid Tourists Tuesday, June 8, 2010 @ 4:56PM If you've ever wanted a concrete guide to avoiding hoards of Midwesterners glued to their cameras and blocking your path , neo-cartographer Eric Fischer presents the Tourist v. Local map. In response to beliefs that his Geotaggers' World Atlas map was just a map of where out-of-towners were snapping shots, Fischer set out to see who was photographing what. The blue spots represent ...
Guardian book club: Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell Tuesday, June 8, 2010 @ 2:07AMWeek two: connections David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas contains more than one self-description, and one of these is a metaphor for its structure. Young aspirant composer Robert Frobisher is describing his "sextet for overlapping soloists" in a letter to his friend Rufus Sixsmith. "In the 1st set, each solo is interrupted by its successor: in the 2nd, each interruption is recontinued, in order ...
Tea party’s Ron Johnson is running, not shrugging Thursday, May 27, 2010 @ 11:05AMMILWAUKEE — Before what he calls “the jaw-dropping” events of the last 19 months — TARP, the stimulus, Government Motors, the mistreatment of Chrysler’s creditors, Obamacare, etc. — the idea of running for office never crossed Ron Johnson’s mind. He was, however, dry tinder — he calls Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged” his “foundational book” — and now is ablaze, in an understated, upper-Midwestern way ...
Nav N Go Renews Global Agreement with Map and Content Provider Tele Atlas Thursday, May 27, 2010 @ 4:24AMDigital maps provider, Tele Atlas says that it has extended its supply agreement with navigation services provider, Nav N Go. The agreement marks an extension of the companies' longstanding collaboration, which began in 2004 and has seen Tele Atlas power a wide range of Nav N Go navigation solutions for PNDs, smartphones and built-in car navigation systems.
The face of the Tea Party Thursday, May 27, 2010 @ 3:51AMhttp://www.JewishWorldReview.com | MILWAUKEE --- Before what he calls "the jaw-dropping" events of the past 19 months -- TARP, the stimulus, Government Motors, the mistreatment of Chrysler's creditors, Obamacare, etc.
Nav N Go Renews Global Agreement with Map and Content Provider Tele Atlas Thursday, May 27, 2010 @ 1:36AMTele Atlas, the world leader in high quality digital maps and dynamic content, and Nav N Go, a leading navigation solution provider for the wireless, automotive and personal navigation industries, have announced an extended global agreement through which Nav N Go will continue using Tele Atlas maps and innovative products such as Tele Atlas Speed Profiles, Logistics (truck/fleet vehicle ...
Nav N Go Renews Global Agreement with Map and Content Provider Tele Atlas Thursday, May 27, 2010 @ 1:30AMGENT, Belgium & BUDAPEST, Hungary----Tele Atlas, the world leader in high quality digital maps and dynamic content, and Nav N Go, a leading navigation solution provider for the wireless, automotive and personal navigation industries, have announced an extended global agreement through which Nav N Go will continue using Tele Atlas maps and innovative products such as Tele Atlas Speed Profiles ...
Intermap Technologies Reports 2010 First Quarter Financial Results Thursday, May 13, 2010 @ 3:01PMDENVER---- – Intermap Technologies Corporation today reported financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2010. A conference call will be held today, May 13, at 4:30 p.m.
Citizen mapping gaining ground Monday, May 3, 2010 @ 12:04AMOpenStreetMap, is a kind of grass-roots Wikipedia for maps that is transforming how map data are collected, shared and used — from the desktop to smartphones to car navigation.
Volunteers take a DIY approach to mapping Sunday, May 2, 2010 @ 8:00PMVolunteers take a DIY approach to mapping
Vernacular geography Sunday, May 2, 2010 @ 7:08PMBefore Los Angeles began, there was a map – a sketch really – of house lots and a plaza adjacent to an unreliable river. The angle of that river and the high ground next to it prevented the proper orientation of the lots and plaza, which should have been 45 degrees askew from north and south as required by the Laws of the Indies for all the settlements of Nueva España. The non-existent streets ...
In this map, it's still Constantinople Saturday, April 17, 2010 @ 12:55AMPRINCETON BOROUGH -- In what John Delaney describes as a serendipitous moment, just as he was nosing around for a rare atlas from Brussels, a dealer offered him another rare piece, from the days of the Ottoman Empire.
Cosumnes River College hosts state Geography Bee Saturday, April 17, 2010 @ 12:17AMPhotos by Keri Wood - Alek Venturino from Danville defeated 101 students from all over California to win the 2010 California Geographic Bee held at Cosumnes River College on April 9. When asked about going onto the National Geographic Bee next month Alek replied, “I don’t know if I’ll win, but I have a chance.”
Foundation Medicine Raises $25M Friday, April 16, 2010 @ 12:25PMFoundation Medicine, a personalized cancer medicine company that aims to bring comprehensive cancer ...
New virus-detecting lab on a chip gets even better Wednesday, February 3, 2010 @ 7:09PMA team of BYU engineers and chemists figures out how to interface macro levels of liquid onto their microscopic silicon chip to detect viruses at even very low concentrations.
Study abroad offers valuable experience Tuesday, February 2, 2010 @ 10:18PMLast Wednesday, I stopped by the UF Study Abroad fair outside of the Reitz Union to discover what options are open to me for getting out of Gainesville and my pitiful dorm room.
The story of civilisation in 100 objects Saturday, January 2, 2010 @ 3:14PMNeil MacGregor, the director of the British Museum, has named the artefacts that best illustrate the ascent of man. His choices will turn our understanding of the world upside down
Diabetes Conversation Map(TM) Education Tools Celebrate One-Year Anniversary Wednesday, October 21, 2009 @ 9:15AMIDF World Diabetes Congress Marks Major Milestone and Availability of Tools in 68 Countries, 31 Different Languages MONTREAL, Oct.
Diabetes Conversation Map(TM) Education Tools Celebrate One-Year Anniversary Wednesday, October 21, 2009 @ 8:00AMIDF World Diabetes Congress Marks Major Milestone and Availabi lity of Tools in 68 Countries, 31 Different Languages MONTREAL, Oct. 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- This October marks the one-year anniversary of the international launch of the ground-breaking diabetes Conversation Map(TM) education tools. Created by Healthy Interactions, a global leader in health education, in collaboration with the ...
DLT Solutions and Tele Atlas to Deliver Digital Maps and Location Content to Government Sector Tuesday, October 20, 2009 @ 7:30AMLEBANON, N.H. & HERNDON, Va.----Tele Atlas, a leading global provider of digital maps and dynamic content for navigation and location-based solutions, and DLT Solutions, a value-added reseller of industry-leading information technology products and services, announced an expanded agreement that will make Tele Atlas data and products for the Americas and Europe available to government buyers on ...
BUSINESS WIRE: TomTom Unveils Integrated Navigation Infotainment Solution Tuesday, October 20, 2009 @ 4:08AMMITTEILUNG UEBERMITTELT VON BUSINESS WIRE. FUER DEN INHALT IST ALLEIN DAS BERICHTENDE UNTERNEHMEN VERANTWORTLICH.
Steenburgh Auctioneers & Appraisers ~ Archie H. Steenburgh & Joshua W. Steenburgh Friday Sept. 18 and Sat. Sept. 19 ... Thursday, September 17, 2009 @ 11:09PMEXCITING TWO DAY ON SITE ESTATE AUCTION Antique Furniture, Library of Books, & Accessories We have been asked to sell at public auction the complete contents of the home of William Koch Jr. The Koch family was known world wide as makers of fine wooden recorders.
Francis Collins: Leader for the 21st Century NIH Thursday, July 9, 2009 @ 2:28PMWhen I recruited Collins to the NIH's genome project, little did I know he would eventually lead NIH.
Oddball Tourist Attractions Tuesday, July 7, 2009 @ 12:03AMA new website documents weird, wonderful places that otherwise fail to make it onto tourists' radar