Girls ‘born with fear of spiders’
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Dr. David Rakison, a psychologist from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, arrived to such conclusion after showing a number of pictures of spiders to 10 girls and 10 boys of 11 months of age who reacted with a face of fear. Read more. |
Read the articles online, in Portuguese, from Televisão Independente 24 and Jornal da Madeira.
Project ‘SINAIS’
| A partnership between Carnegie Mellon University in U.S.A. and Portugal, tries to adjust Madeira’s public transport network users need. Nuno Nunes, Vassilis Kostakos, Valentina Nissi, and Andrew Doria, commented about the Project “SINAIS”. |
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Pradeep K. Khosla received Lifetime Achievement Award
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The dean of Carnegie Mellon’s college of Engineering and member of the Board of Directors at Carnegie Mellon | Portugal Program, Pradeep K. Khosla, received Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, on 31 August, at the “2009 Engineering Technical Conference”, held in San Diego. |
Read the article online, in Portuguese from CienciaPT.
New Doctoral program in Privacy and Security
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Lorrie Cranor, researcher in the Institute for Software Research at Carnegie Mellon University (USA), member of the Carnegie Mellon | Portugal program and her colleges received $3 million grant (2093 million of euros) from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to establish an interdisciplinary doctoral program in Privacy and Security. |
Read the article online, in Portuguese, from Ciência Hoje.
Lessons from the most prestigious American universities free on Youtube
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Without any cost and without leaving home. Through a dedicated channel set- up on YouTube, which host more than one hundred institutions in American Higher Education, it is possible to attend classes taught by professors from renowned universities like Carnegie Mellon, Stanford, or Yale. |
Read the articles online, in Portuguese, from Canal Universitario e Politecnico .
Website helps to discover the day of one’s death
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The website deathriskrankings.com, developed by a group of scientist and students from Carnegie Mellon University in Pensilvania, U.S.A., helps to discover the day in which an individual will die, or at least the probability of life or death in the next 30 years. |
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André Martins won the ‘Best Paper Award’ (prize for best scientific communication) At the 47th annual conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), held in Singapore. André Martins is the first PhD in the area of language technologies in the Carnegie Mellon | Portugal program. |
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Science: New method detects genetic causes of complex diseases such as diabetes, asthma and cancer
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Biologists from Carnegie Mellon University developed a technique that allows, in a single test, the identification of genetic variations that contribute to the onset of complex diseases, such as diabetes, asthma and cancer. |
Read the articles online, in Portuguese, from Correio do Minho, Expresso, Jornal de Noticias, Visao, Informação Online, Renascença , Portugal Diario, Televisão Independente, Portal Angola, Revista Acores, Diario Digital, Destak, On Ciencia, Net Farma.
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The ‘online’ is not as environmentally friendly as it claims
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Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University, Stanford University, and the Lawrence Berkeley Lab confirmed that the outdated use of plastic CDs, printing plants, distribution of trucks or inefficient warehouse stores which has a positive impact, but the move to a digital downloads also consumes resources that were not taken into account. An analysis of six scenarios (three for purchase online and the remaining others for physical purchase) suggests that buying digital music through the internet, increases the consumption and emissions of carbon dioxide between 40% to 80% associated with the physical delivery of the music to the customer who wants purchase a cd. |
Read the articles online, in Portuguese, from Diario de Noticias.
