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  NationMaster - Encyclopedia: 1775
When the war began in 1775, the Americans did not have a professional army and lacked officers, sergeants, regiments and a store of arms, tents, muskets and uniforms.
Lord Dunmore, the Royal Governor of Virginia, issued an emancipation proclamation in November 1775, promising freedom to runaway slaves who fought for the British; Sir Henry Clinton issued a similar edict in New York in 1779.
Congress had initially invited French-Canadians to join them as the fourteenth colony, but when that failed to happen, an invasion of Canada was authorized in an attempt to drive the British from the primarily francophone colony of Quebec (comprising present-day Quebec and Ontario).
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/1775   (178 words)

  
 Is U.S. Science Policy at Risk?
Physical sciences, math and computer sciences, and engineering—traditionally fields whose research support has come mostly from Washington—have declined as a share of the federal academic budget from 27 percent to 24 percent.
Advanced degrees in science and engineering are on the rise—the number of master's degrees increased 20 percent from 1987 to 1996, and the number of doctoral degrees in science and engineering, excluding social sciences, increased more than 40 percent between 1987 and 1997—but only because of increased enrollment by foreign students.
First, science and engineering education is generally more expensive, partly because S&E faculty have relatively high salaries (because universities must compete with the private sector for their services) and partly because technical education requires expensive laboratories and equipment.
www.brookings.edu /press/REVIEW/winter2001/cohen.htm   (3098 words)

  
 Cancer - Understanding Cancer, page 1
For example, in 1775, an extraordinarily high incidence of scrotal cancer was described among men who worked as chimney sweeps as boys.
In the mid-1800s, lung cancer was observed at alarmingly high rates among pitchblende miners in Germany.
Far from bringing science closer to understanding cancer, each new observation seemed to add to the confusion.
science.education.nih.gov /supplements/nih1/cancer/guide/understanding1.htm   (2092 words)

  
 Latin American media 'needs more local science news' - SciDev.Net
The 'Meeting on Science Communication' was organised by SciDev.Net and Ecuador's National Secretariat for Science and Technology and National Foundation for Science and Technology, with the support of the Catholic University of Ecuador and the Central University of Ecuador.
Javier Cruz, a science communicator at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, said three factors are behind the low profile of regional science news in the Latin American media.
Cruz said the continent’s journalists are not used to writing about science, there is little public demand for debate on science issues through the media, and research institutions do not communicate effectively about the knowledge they produce.
www.scidev.net /news/index.cfm?fuseaction=readnews&itemid=1775&language=1   (453 words)

  
 The Learning Page - Community Center - Science and Invention
Science and Technology in 18th Century America - (Science Reference Services) This guide lists sources that chronicle the history of science, invention, medicine and technology in colonial America.
Science Safari - (Cybercast) Watch the cybercast of the March 18, 2003 Library of Congress event hosting top science and mathematics teachers from across the country performing experiments and demonstrations in celebration of ESTME Week.
Science, Medicine, Exploration and Invention - (Special Presentation) Link to science related manuscripts from the Words and Deeds collection.
memory.loc.gov /learn/community/cc_science.php   (1976 words)

  
 Government cash U-turn - 29 June 1991 - New Scientist
Science is to get some extra money this year, thanks to a remarkable turn around by Kenneth Clarke, the minister responsible for science.
But the reprieve came too late for the Nuclear Structure Facility at Daresbury, which is to close for lack of funds.
Mark Richmond, chairman of the Science and Engineering Research Council, said the SERC's share of the windfall, £3.2 million, was too little and too late to reverse the closure of the NSF, which costs about £5 million a year to run.
www.newscientist.com /article/mg13017751.900.html   (268 words)

  
 Bringing Back Baby Jason: To Clone or Not To Clone? - Case Teaching Notes - Case Study Collection - National Center for ...
For our students to be able to make informed opinions about cloning technology, it is important for them to consider the societal issues in connection with the genetics and cell biology that make human cloning a real possibility.
Often in our undergraduate science courses there is little opportunity to engage in didactic exchanges about current events while teaching the basic facts and concepts.
All biological sciences majors are required to complete a 200-level course in introductory genetics.
www.sciencecases.org /cloning/cloning_notes.asp   (2651 words)

  
 Singapore Science Centre: ScienceNet|Astronomy & Space Science|General Astronomy
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www.science.edu.sg /ssc/detailed.jsp?artid=1775&type=6&root=6&parent=6&cat=65   (554 words)

  
 Harvard University Press: A Most Amazing Scene of Wonders : Electricity and Enlightenment in Early America by James ...
Clearly breaking new ground, Delbourgo uses the science of electricity to shed light on religion to politics to medicine to the nature of the public sphere.
In a remarkably ambitious and brilliantly executed study, Delbourgo turns the tables on received histories of science, enlightenment, and practical reason in the American colonies.
This compelling book is for anyone interested in the roots of America's modern sense of science's place and of its crucial attitudes to expertise, authority, and intellectual life.
www.hup.harvard.edu /catalog/DELMOS.html?show=reviews   (359 words)

  
 Science Policy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
Jasanoff, The Fifth Branch: Science Advisers as Policymakers, chapters 1 and 3 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard, 1990.
EPA Moves to Reassess the Risk of Dioxin,” Science 252:911 (1991).
Dangerous Climate Impacts and the Kyoto Protocol, Science 296:1971-72 (2002).
socrates.berkeley.edu /~scotch/science_policy   (1406 words)

  
 1995 Research Publications - Univ. of Ky Animal & Food Sciences Dept.
Forages, Volume II, The Science of Grassland Agriculture (Fifth Edition).
Thrift, F.A. Teaching a senior-level beef cattle science course utilizing strategically placed, humorous “tid-bits” of information.
Palatability of grass and grass/grain-fed and implanted beef as related to postmortem aging.
www.uky.edu /Ag/AnimalSciences/pubs/1995researchpubs.htm   (782 words)

  
 APS Observer - Loftus Elected to Royal Society
Recently, she also received the 2005 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Psychology.
The Scotland-based society, founded by Adam Smith in 1783, is among the oldest and most distinguished academies of arts and sciences in the world, and Loftus' election as a Corresponding Fellow recognizes the international esteem of her research.
Fellows include nationally and internationally eminent individuals in the sciences, arts, humanities, professions, industry, and commerce.
www.psychologicalscience.org /observer/getArticle.cfm?id=1775   (189 words)

  
 University of Pennsylvania : Research at Penn : Natural Science :: Butterfly is Actually Ten Species in One
Astraptes fulgerator, a medium-large skipper butterfly, is a routine visitor to urban gardens and tropical rainforests.
While the pecieshas been known to science since 1775, only now has examination of a small and standardized signature piece of the genome a technique called DNA barcoding shown that this "species" is really an amalgam of a number of genetically distinct lineages, each with different caterpillars and preferences in food plant and ecosystem.
Janzen and his colleagues report their findings in the Sept. 29 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
www.upenn.edu /researchatpenn/article.php?861&sci   (701 words)

  
 1775 in science - InformationBlast
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The year 1775 CE in science and technology
See also: 1774 in science, other events of 1775, 1776 in science and the list of years in science.
www.informationblast.com /1775_in_science.html   (65 words)

  
 Yeast Cells Provide Insight into Alpha-Synuclein Biology and Pathobiology -- Outeiro and Lindquist 2003 (49): 28 -- ...
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This readily manipulable system provides an opportunity to dissect the molecular pathways underlying normal alpha-synuclein biology and the pathogenic consequences of its misfolding.
AAAS is a partner of HINARI, AGORA, PatientInform, CrossRef, and COUNTER.
sageke.sciencemag.org /cgi/content/abstract/2003/49/or28   (247 words)

  
 Bird brains stay alert while ducks sleep
This is a reprint of an article published July 7, 1999.
Ned Rozell is a science writer at the institute.
Camping on the bank of the Yukon River, I once saw three ducks floating downstream.
www.gi.alaska.edu /ScienceForum/ASF17/1775.html   (529 words)

  
 Cuban Science Fiction -- Daniel W. Koon
The second 'golden age' ran from 1978 until the collapse of the Soviet bloc in 1989 precipitated an immediate island-wide paper shortage, which not only closed down the publication of SF on the island, but halted the publication of nearly all Cuban literature.
This site is intended as an introduction to the world of Cuban science fiction for an English-speaking audience.
Alfa Erídiani: SF ezine which published a special supplement devoted to Cuban Science Fiction: "Erídano 6", September 2004.
it.stlawu.edu /~koon/cuba/CFCubana/CubanSF.html   (1244 words)

  
 Penn State Eberly College of Science
Over 40% percent of College of Science faculty are not laboratory workers.
Chapter 4 reviews issues to consider when determining your staffing needs and suggests strategies to help you manage the process for recruiting, interviewing, and evaluating applicants.The chapter also offers guidance on what to do if you have to ask someone to leave your lab.
You may be able to recruit students from the Integrated Bio Sciences Program, IBIOS link, from the Materials Research Institute, MRI link, or from the Materials Research Science and Engineering Center, MRSEC link.
www.science.psu.edu /newfacultyguide/setting_up_labs.htm   (1325 words)

  
 Yale University Library: Ask! Reference Services
In person service is offered according to fixed schedules which vary according to individual libraries.
By voice mail (at Divinity, Music, and Social Science)
Responses will usually be sent by the end of the next business day (Monday-Friday), but inquiries regarding special collections or unique materials may take longer.
www.library.yale.edu /reference/asklive/index.html   (642 words)

  
 Twist and Spout - Soda Bottle Handle 10 to 120 Years Shop by Age
Plastic soda bottles are great for teaching science, but sometimes they're just too big for little hands.
Perform over 20 different science experiments using ordinary plastic soda bottles.
All of our most popular Cartesian divers are available in this amazing science experiment kit.
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 Utah Life Science Online   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
UtahLifeScience.com is a resource for the life science industry in the state of Utah.
Are you optimistic about the financing of the life science industry in 2007?
for the life science industry in the state of Utah.
www.utahlifescience.com /showjob?jobid=1775   (72 words)

  
 ESA Science & Technology: International Meteor Organization - Science note on the Leonids 2000
ESA Science & Technology: International Meteor Organization - Science note on the Leonids 2000
International Meteor Organization - Science note on the Leonids 2000
As explained above, peak activity of the Leonid meteor shower this year will only be visible from mainly western Europe and Africa, North America except for the Pacific Time Zone, Central America and parts of South America.
sci.esa.int /science-e/www/object/index.cfm?fobjectid=37816&fbodylongid=1775   (370 words)

  
 Eva Mezey, M.D., Ph.D., Investigator
Eva M. Mezey received her M.D. in 1975 from the Semmelweis University Medical School, and her Ph.D. in 1982 from the National Academy of Sciences in Budapest, Hungary.
She completed post-doctoral training in the Department of Anatomy in Budapest under the guidance of Drs.
Mezey, E, Nagy, A, Szalayova, I,Key, S., Bratincsak, A, Baffi, J, Shahar, T (2003) Comment on Comment on "Failure of bone marrow cells to transdifferentiate into neural cells in vivo", Science 299(5610), 1184.
neuroscience.nih.gov /Lab.asp?Org_ID=516   (311 words)

  
 From Marrow to Brain: Expression of Neuronal Phenotypes in Adult Mice.
Bjornson, R. Rietze, B. Reynolds, M. Magli, A. Vescovi, Science 283, 534 (1999).
Lois and A. Alvarez-Buylla, Science 264, 1145 (1994).
Mezey E, Chandross KJ, Harta G, Maki RA, and McKercher SR, "Turning Blood into Brain: Cells Bearing Neuronal Antigens Generated In Vivo from Bone Marrow", Science 290: 1779 (December 1, 2000).
www.euchromatin.org /Brazelton1.htm   (2517 words)

  
 MICROBIOLOGY: Chitin, Cholera, and Competence -- Bartlett and Azam 310 (5755): 1775 -- Science   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
MICROBIOLOGY: Chitin, Cholera, and Competence -- Bartlett and Azam 310 (5755): 1775 -- Science
Home > Science Magazine > 16 December 2005 > Bartlett et al.
The authors are in the Marine Biology Research Division, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0202, USA.
www.sciencemag.org /cgi/content/summary/310/5755/1775   (231 words)

  
 Johnson State College | Licensure Programs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
To be recommended for licensure in English, students must complete the core licensure courses, submit passing scores on Praxis I and Praxis II, and complete either the B.A. in English or the B.F.A. in creative writing and the following courses:
To be recommended for licensure in life science, students must complete the core licensure courses, submit passing scores on Praxis I and Praxis II, and complete the B.S. degree in biology and the following course:
To be recommended for licensure in physical science, students must complete the core licensure courses, submit passing scores on Praxis I and Praxis II, and complete the B.S. degree in environmental science or integrated environmental science and the following courses:
www.jsc.vsc.edu /academics/1775.html   (366 words)

  
 ARCHAEOLOGY: Traces of Ancient Mariners Found in Peru -- Pringle 281 (5384): 1775 -- Science
ARCHAEOLOGY: Traces of Ancient Mariners Found in Peru -- Pringle 281 (5384): 1775 -- Science
Home > Science Magazine > 18 September 1998 > Pringle, pp.
Now on pages 1830 and 1833, two independent research teams report finding the first hard evidence, albeit indirect, for the maritime settlement theory, revealing an ancient maritime culture in South America about 11,000 years ago.
www.sciencemag.org /cgi/content/summary/281/5384/1775   (253 words)

  
 A Mouse Model for the Study of Recurrent Corneal Epithelial Erosions: {alpha}9{beta}1 Integrin Implicated in ...
A Mouse Model for the Study of Recurrent Corneal Epithelial Erosions: {alpha}9{beta}1 Integrin Implicated in Progression of the Disease -- Pal-Ghosh et al.
Biological Sciences, The George Washington University, Washington, DC; and the
Department of Ophthalmology, The George Washington University Medical Center, Washington, DC.
www.iovs.org /cgi/content/abstract/45/6/1775   (394 words)

  
 MICROBIOLOGY: CHITIN AND CHOLERA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
These pathways are stimulated by (i) the availability of chitin; (ii) a lack of nutrients, or by some other stress; or (iii) a sufficiently high bacterial population.
One of the subunits enters cells, yields increased levels of *cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP), and results in prolonged hypersecretion of water and electrolytes.
The following points are made by Victor J. DiRita (Science 2000 289:1486):
scienceweek.com /2006/sw060113-5.htm   (1731 words)

  
 Seminars/Events   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
Department faculty and declared concentrators in chemistry and biochemistry normally attend, and guests are welcome.
The Division of Natural Sciences Colloquium meets weekly during the academic terms on Friday afternoons at 3 p.m.
The colloquium series features Colgate faculty and invited external speakers.
www.colgate.edu /index.aspx?tabid=1775&pgID=3298   (98 words)

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