http://elagaan.com/news en elagaan/newshttp://feedburner.google.com http://elagaan.com/india-business-news/surfing-lessons-skill-sharing-local-community <p>Community IT Champions run by the Rural Community Action Nottinghamshire ( RCAN ), is a project targeted at Nottinghamshire residents aged 50 and above. Participants learn new computer skills to help them get the best from online services including cheaper energy deals, insurance and other useful information.</p> <p><a href="http://elagaan.com/india-business-news/surfing-lessons-skill-sharing-local-community" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Wed, 02 Nov 2011 23:35:28 +0000 startup 142352 at http://elagaan.com http://elagaan.com/india-business-news/here-comes-chemistry%E2%80%A6regional-coordinator-appointed <p>Heidi Dobbs has recently been appointed regional co-ordinator for the Midlands by the Royal Society of Chemistry ( RSC ) to support the society’s activities in the region and raise the profile of the wide range of educational resources it offers.</p> <p>read more</p> Wed, 02 Nov 2011 23:35:29 +0000 startup 142335 at http://elagaan.com http://elagaan.com/india-business-news/multi-trillion-dollar-benefits-phasing-out-leaded-petrol-spotlighted-new-report <p>These economic benefits, outlined in a new scientific study, may prove to be even higher if other diseases and factors such as cancer and rising urbanization, where the impacts of lead pollution are higher, were brought into the calculations.</p> <p>read more</p> Wed, 02 Nov 2011 23:35:27 +0000 startup 142363 at http://elagaan.com http://elagaan.com/india-business-news/computer-based-tool-improve-diagnosis-and-prognosis-cancer-patients <p>Researchers at The University of Nottingham and ClinRisk Ltd have shown that the algorithm is successful in identifying those suffering with gastro-oesophageal cancer and lung cancer at an earlier stage by ‘red-flagging’ potentially worrying combinations of symptoms and risk factors.</p> <p>read more</p> Wed, 02 Nov 2011 23:35:29 +0000 startup 142338 at http://elagaan.com http://elagaan.com/india-business-news/government-cash-unlikely-steady-small-business-finance-nerves <p>Respondents to the UK Business Barometer ( UKBB ), run by The University of Nottingham Institute for Enterprise and Innovation ( UNIEI ), have cast doubts over whether pouring public money into the coffers of SMEs is likely to provide them with the lifeline they so desperately need.</p> <p>read more</p> Wed, 02 Nov 2011 23:35:29 +0000 startup 142341 at http://elagaan.com http://elagaan.com/india-business-news/boeing-funds-strategic-carbon-fibre-recycling-collaboration <p>In the past decade, researchers at Nottingham led by Dr Steve Pickering have developed ways to recycle carbon fibre composites. They have worked with Boeing since 2006. Now Boeing plans to invest $1,000,000 per year in a strategic research collaboration – an inclusive partnership in which Boeing will collaborate with Nottingham in all its composites recycling activities.</p> <p>read more</p> Wed, 02 Nov 2011 23:35:29 +0000 startup 142343 at http://elagaan.com http://elagaan.com/india-business-news/rutgers-researcher-awarded-2-million-nih-grant-study-epilepsy <p>Professor Wilma Friedman, of the Department of Biological Sciences at Rutgers-Newark, recently received a four-year, $2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to find out.</p> <p>read more</p> Wed, 02 Nov 2011 23:35:29 +0000 startup 142346 at http://elagaan.com http://elagaan.com/india-business-news/desertification-convention-breaks-new-ground <p>Some of the COP10 achievements mark a first among the three environmental conventions of climate change, biodiversity and desertification that emerged from Rio in 1992.</p> <p>read more</p> Wed, 02 Nov 2011 23:35:28 +0000 startup 142349 at http://elagaan.com http://elagaan.com/india-business-news/un-urges-action-meet-key-challenges-world-7-billion <p>"Today, we welcome baby 7 billion. In doing so we must recognize our moral and pragmatic obligation to do the right thing for him, or for her," Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said at a press event at UN Headquarters to mark the milestone.</p> <p>read more</p> Wed, 02 Nov 2011 23:35:27 +0000 startup 142359 at http://elagaan.com http://elagaan.com/india-business-news/your-phone-friend-monitoring-mental-health-your-pocket <p>Tanzeem Choudhury, associate professor of computing and information science, is developing such an application, supported by the newly created Intel Science and Technology Center ( ITSC ) for Pervasive Computing, a collaboration between Cornell and five other universities, managed by the University of Washington.</p> <p>read more</p> Wed, 02 Nov 2011 23:35:30 +0000 startup 142332 at http://elagaan.com http://elagaan.com/india-business-news/new-unep-report-tracks-changing-global-environment-world-population-hits-7-billi <p>The report, entitled "Keeping Track of our Changing Environment: From Rio to Rio+20", tracks economic, environmental, social, geopolitical and technological trends through numerically-based graphs and illustrative "before and after" satellite images.</p> <p>read more</p> Wed, 02 Nov 2011 23:35:27 +0000 startup 142367 at http://elagaan.com http://elagaan.com/india-business-news/cornell-police-earn-second-place-national-law-enforcement-challenge <p>Cornell Police were nominated for the national award after winning first place in their division at the New York State Law Enforcement Challenge on April 26.</p> <p>read more</p> Wed, 02 Nov 2011 23:35:30 +0000 startup 142329 at http://elagaan.com http://elagaan.com/india-business-news/textbook-rentals-increase-87-percent-students-benefit <p>Building on the success of last year, the first semester of the 2011-12 academic school year has seen an 87 percent increase in textbook rental. The dollar amount of rental income rose from $1,069,978 in Sept. 2010; to $1,996,782 in Sept. 2011. A corresponding savings to Penn State students is expected to be recognized.</p> <p>read more</p> Wed, 02 Nov 2011 23:35:26 +0000 startup 142372 at http://elagaan.com http://elagaan.com/india-business-news/probing-question-how-important-coming-out-closet <p>Is it really any easier for youth to come out as gay today?</p> <p>read more</p> Wed, 02 Nov 2011 23:35:26 +0000 startup 142369 at http://elagaan.com http://elagaan.com/india-business-news/breakthrough-production-flood-tolerant-crops <p>Prolonged flooding drastically reduces yields by cutting off the supply of oxygen crops need to survive. Now experts funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council ( BBSRC ) at The University of Nottingham, working in collaboration with the University of California, Riverside, have identified the molecular mechanism plants use to sense low oxygen levels.</p> <p><a href="http://elagaan.com/india-business-news/breakthrough-production-flood-tolerant-crops" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Wed, 02 Nov 2011 23:35:32 +0000 startup 142316 at http://elagaan.com http://elagaan.com/india-business-news/pan-european-reunion-brings-together-global-alumni-business-leaders <p>Speakers included Andrea Farace ’82, managing director and COO of Central Eastern Europe and Middle East division for Citigroup; Henry Kravis ’69, founding partner of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts &amp; Co.; and Shai Weiss ’97, founding partner of the Virgin Green Fund.</p> <p><a href="http://elagaan.com/india-business-news/pan-european-reunion-brings-together-global-alumni-business-leaders" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Wed, 02 Nov 2011 23:35:32 +0000 startup 142319 at http://elagaan.com http://elagaan.com/india-business-news/rutgers-eagleton-poll-finds-new-jerseyans-still-favor-legalizing-gay-marriage <p>Almost four-in-10 respondents ( 39 percent ) oppose legalizing gay marriage while 9 percent are unsure. Twenty-seven percent are against marriage equality, while 3 percent are unfamiliar with the term and 9 percent have no opinion.</p> <p>read more</p> Wed, 02 Nov 2011 23:35:30 +0000 startup 142322 at http://elagaan.com http://elagaan.com/india-business-news/rutgers-announces-community-university-research-partnership-new-brunswick <p>“Rutgers has always been committed to our host communities, most especially our oldest hometown,” President Richard L. McCormick said at a breakfast gathering Wednesday for about 100 community leaders and faculty and staff already active in city research and outreach partnerships, including New Brunswick Mayor Jim Cahill.</p> <p>read more</p> Wed, 02 Nov 2011 23:35:30 +0000 startup 142324 at http://elagaan.com http://elagaan.com/india-business-news/rutgers-eagleton-poll-40-years-most-important-problems-show-jobs-economy-and-tax <p>The Rutgers-Eagleton Poll, one of the first statewide academic surveys in the United States, celebrates its 40th anniversary this year. As part of the celebration, the poll will revisit questions first asked in its earliest years.</p> <p><a href="http://elagaan.com/india-business-news/rutgers-eagleton-poll-40-years-most-important-problems-show-jobs-economy-and-tax" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Wed, 02 Nov 2011 23:35:30 +0000 startup 142327 at http://elagaan.com http://elagaan.com/india-business-news/bonuses-and-risk-not-linked-says-research <p>Bonuses were widely condemned in the wake of meltdown, with political leaders and regulators among those calling for them to be capped to help prevent future crises.</p> <p>read more</p> Wed, 02 Nov 2011 23:35:28 +0000 startup 142356 at http://elagaan.com