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A lot has been written about why managers should coach employees. A lot also has been written on how to coach employees. You can find many articles on the Pygmalion Effect and the Galatea Effect, which explain how employee coaching works. Very few ar
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At first, nanoshocks may seem like something to describe the millions of aftershocks of a large earthquake. But Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory physicists are using an ultra-fast laser-based technique they dubbed "nanoshocks" for something entirely different. In fact, the "nanoshocks" have such a small spatial scale that scientists can use them to study shock behavior in tiny samples such as thin films or other systems with microscopic dimensions (a few tens of micrometers).
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To understand the complex stages of an embryo, you cannot simply watch it grow. However, it's difficult to accurately observe such fine, complex and high-speed details, even under the microscope. New technical feats now make it possible to capture fruit fly development on video, as well as clear images on how a zebrafish's eyes and midbrain are formed.
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Research funding at the University of California, San Diego surpassed $1 billion for the first time in the universitys 50-year history, the Office of Research Affairs has announced.
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Epigenetic modifications are defined as heritable information other than nucleotide sequences (1) that have the ability to control how and when transcription takes place. DNA methylation and secondary DNA structures such as DNA Gquadruplexes are among the epigenetic modifications currently under study because of their common associations with cancer (1,2).
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In laboratories worldwide, household refrigerators are pressed into duties they were not designed to fulfill. When these units operate inconsistently or fail, consequences can range from inconvenient to costly to dangerous.
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The Optimiser incorporates microfluidic geometries to maximize the efficiency of assay reactions. Figure 1 shows a schematic of the Optimiser with view of one cell. For operation, reagents are sequentially added to the loading well, drawn into the channel by capillary forces and excess drawn out by absorbent pad.
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Weights are a tricky subject. To be certain you have the right equipment for the job, consider the following during your next weight or weight-set purchase.
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For more than three decades, ORNL's Shared Research Equipment (SHaRE) User Facility has provided researchers from universities, industry and other national laboratories with two unique commodities: access to an unmatched array of state-of-the-art electron microscopes and collaboration with a highly skilled staff of scientists.
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Education and outreach were given equal time at a recent symposium at Brookhaven Lab, sponsored by the National User Facilities Organization (NUFO) as part of its three-day annual meeting. Although speakers agreed that there are challenges to be met in both areas, the good news is that there are plenty of opportunities for young people seeking formal training in the sciences and anyone in search of a better understanding of scientific issues and advances.
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Iowa State University's Robert C. Brown pulled a few of his graduate students aside a couple years back and offered up an extracurricular challenge. "You are all experts on pyrolysis," he remembers telling them. "Why don't you start a company specifically to commercialize bio-oil recovery?"
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Brooks Instrument, a world-leading provider of advanced flow, pressure and level solutions, has launched a blog that will provide a venue for processing audiences in various industries to learn more about Brooks products and technologies, interesting applications, industry trends and more.
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