Tag: economics
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Special: Health Care Experts Propose Sweeping Cost Control Changes
Updated: 4 August 2012 A group of noted health care policy experts offer a series of proposals they say can rein in health care costs, with implications for the federal budget, the economy as a whole, and developers of pharmaceuticals and medical devices. The panel, convened by the Center for American Progress, a progressive think-tank…
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Most Hospitals in Collaborative Gain on Quality Measures
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in Princeton, New Jersey says its Aligning Forces for Quality initiative improved the quality of care for patients in measurable ways at hospitals in 16 communities in the U.S. The foundation released results from an evaluation of the program that aims to improve the quality of health care, reduce disparities,…
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Interactive Time-Lapse Landsat Images Now Available
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh developed a capability to assemble and view time-lapse images of earth collected from NASA Landsat satellites over the past 13 years. The team from CMU’s Robotics Institute, working with colleagues at Google and the U.S. Geological Survey, created this feature by extending GigaPan technology for capturing and assembling…
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Model, Software Find Minerals in Mountain Ranges
A geophysicist at Tel Aviv University in Israel has developed modeling techniques and associated software for discovering minerals in mountain ranges, which are difficult to survey for mining opportunities. Lev Eppelbaum, a professor in the university’s geophysics and planetary sciences department, presented his methods in a paper at a meeting of the European Geosciences Union…
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Grant to Fund On-Board Systems Extending Electric Car Range
University of California in Riverside has received a one-year $95,000 grant from the California Energy Commission to develop algorithms that find the route requiring the least amount of energy for an electric car’s trip. The research will be done by the Center for Environmental Research and Technology, part of the university’s Bourns College of Engineering.…
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Special: U.S. Policies Connect Research to Manufacturing
Editor’s note: Science Business today is devoted to a report of a conference in Washington, D.C., “U.S. Manufacturing: Policies for a New Economic Reality.” At a conference on U.S. manufacturing policy at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., panelists urged stronger policies to more explicitly link scientific research to the factory floor, in order for…
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Venture Investors Increase First Half 2012 Fund Raising
Venture capital (VC) funds in Europe and the U.S. have increased their fund raising in the first half of 2012 by double-digit percentages, according to Dow-Jones LP Source, a financial industry research service. More fund raising by VCs indicates potentially more financing available for start-up companies liked those backed by venture investors. LP Source says…
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UCLA to Study Copper Surfaces to Reduce Hospital Infections
University of California in Los Angeles received a $2.5 million grant from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality for a clinical trial to test the use of copper to decrease the number of hospital-acquired infections. The research team will be led by the university’s Sustainable Technology and Policy Program and include members from UCLA’s…
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Rapid Cooling Adds Shelf Life to Fresh Eggs
Food scientists at Purdue University in Indiana have shown that rapid cooling of just-laid eggs adds weeks to their shelf life. The process for achieving these results is described in the June issue of the journal Poultry Science (paid subscription required). Kevin Keener, a food science professor at Purdue, led the research, which uses liquid…
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Grant to Fund Research on Earthquakes, Building Design
Engineers at University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) and UC-Berkeley will study the impact of building construction practices, particularly the design and performance of structural walls, on resisting earthquake damage. The team led by UCLA civil and environmental engineering professor John Wallace is funded by a $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation’s…