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Skanks, Hos and Anonymity in New York
in Web 2.0, on August 30, 2009
I have a Blogger account. I've been busy, so I haven't published anything there for about two weeks now. I've skimmed through my terms of service in the past and nothing in it has every led me to believe that Google (who owns Blogger) would protect my identity if I did something ...
SpiderOak Announces 50 Percent Educational Discount
in On Storage, on August 30, 2009
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SpiderOak this week announced a 50% discount on its online backup service for all students, faculty and school employees with a valid .edu email address.
And it's not just for online bac...
Stressed-out and Gaining Weight? Find Out Why.
in Straightfromthedoc, on July 29, 2009
...ionships and feeling a lack of control in their lives.
According to lead author Jason Block, a faculty member at Harvard Medical School :
"The stress effect didn't appear to impact nor...
Georgia Tech opens a new supply chain center in Costa Rica
in Supplychainer, on June 21, 2009
...:
- Improve opportunities for improving logistics education in those countries and do student and faculty exchange between two countries.
- Improve the trade and logistics collaboration between U....
Amazon 推出新款 9.7-inch 显示屏的 Kindle DX
in Wangtam, on 2009-05-07
如传言所预告，Amazon 今天推出了新款的 9.7 英寸大显示屏的 Kindle DX 电子阅读器 ，内置 PDF 阅读器，具有自动旋转功能，最多可存储 3500 本图书，售价仅为 489 美元。目前 Kindle 网店共有 27.5 万本图书，其中包括当下 112 部《纽约时报》畅销书中的 107 部，该类图书及新推出的图书以每本 9.99 美元的价格出售。
主要配置参数：
• Slim: Just over 1/3 of an inch, as thin as most magazines
• Lightweight: At 10.2 ounces, lighter than...
SOX and complacency
in Sox First, on May 5, 2009
Has Sarbanes Oxley lulled us into complacency and a false sense of security? That's the suggestion from Georgetown University law professor Ethan S Burger in this piece Today's Financial Crisis, Corporate Governance, and the Issue of Third-Party Liability . The problem, he says, is ...
The best entrepreneurs of the year?
in Audeamus - How dare we..., on April 9, 2009
...taps Silicon Valley veteran financiers, marketers, and executives as well as Santa Clara University faculty to help promising but resource-starved entrepreneurs with key business concepts: completing ...
Is the Internet shattering advertising?
in Sox First, on March 23, 2009
It definitely is, says Professor Eric Clemons from The Wharton School. In this TechCrunch piece , Clemons argues that the drop in Internet advertising was not unpredictable and was always going to happen. The reality, he says, is that people on the Net are not the same passive audience you f...
Researchers Announce Significant Advance in Nanoscale Storage
in Nanotechbuzz, on February 20, 2009
Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Massachusetts Amherst have developed a method to arrange nanoscale elements precisely over large surfaces, which could have a significant impact on data storage.
"The scientists said they achieved a storage d...
Corporate ethics and law
in Sox First, on January 10, 2009
More than two years ago, I did a blog entry on the difference between ethics and morality. Moral decisions, around issues like theft and corruption, are absolutes regardless of time or culture. They are just wrong, wherever they happen. Ethical decisions on the other hand are underpinned by ru...
Dolphins Inspire Nanotech Research at University of Nevada
in Nanotechbuzz, on January 2, 2009
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Jonghwan Suhr of the University of Nevada, Reno has received a $400,000 Faculty Early Career Development Program award from the National Science Foundation for his research on materials ...
Exercise, Hypogycemia and Type 1 Diabetes
in Daily Diabetic, on November 26, 2008
... Dr. Rémi Rabasa-Lhoret, co-author of the study, a professor at the Université de Montréal's Faculty of Medicine and an endocrinologist at the Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal (C...
Salba® Smart Natural Products and Type 2 Diabetes
in Daily Diabetic, on September 23, 2008
...se in Type 2 diabetes.
Dr. Vladimir Vuksan, Professor of Endocrinology and Nutritional Sciences, Faculty of Medicine , investigated Salba in randomized, acute and long-term studies.
In the studies...
Jasmine Flower-Derived Substance, Potential New Anti-Cancer?
in The Biotech Weblog, on August 26, 2008
... of iStockphoto, Grigory Bibikov
Research findings lead by Prof. Eliezer Flescher of The Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University reported that a compound derived from the jasmine flower ...
Netzwerke der Zellen: Toponomik, neues Forschungsgebiet
in Das Gesundheits-Weblog, on 19.08.08
...mationsdienst Wissenschaft - "ist zum Gastprofessor für Toponomics an der International Faculty des Partner-Institutes for Computational Biology (PICB) in Shanghai ernannt worden. Es handelt sich...
How Social Networking Effects Your Doctor
in The Social Networking Weblog, on July 24, 2008
...ernal Medicine examined the Facebook pages of 362 medical students and found information that some faculty members believe is inappropriate for future doctors." ~ Social networking could haunt do...
First Class of Biological Engineering Students About to Graduate at MIT
in Nanotechbuzz, on June 5, 2008
...r biology with engineering to create a new discipline that can be applied to medicine. The teaching faculty members come from other departments, including chemical engineering, mechanical engineerin...
University of Arkansas receives supply chain software donation
in Supplychainer, on May 26, 2008
...resources, providing a forum for research, education and collaboration on supply chain issues among faculty, students and industry leaders. SCMRC is on the leading edge of supply chain management theo...
Tightening the rules for ethical investment
in Sox First, on May 21, 2008
Environmental law might focus on front-line companies that visibly pollute or exploit natural resources, but it does little to address their financial backers like the banks, pension plans and mutual funds. And yet nothing will change unless they are brought into the picture. A new paper from ...
Carl Icahn 将正式卷起新 Yahoo 收购风波
in Wangtam, on 2008-05-17
刚刚已经提及， 亿万富翁 Carl Icahn 上周谋得 Yahoo 董事席位，意欲发动代理权争夺战 。然后 Carl Icahn 在随后发给 Yahoo 的信中确认，他已经发动了旨在促成微软收购 Yahoo 的代理权争夺战。 Carl Icahn 已经提名了十位 Yahoo 董事候选人，希望用他们取代现有 Yahoo 董事会，以推动 Yahoo 接受微软每股 33 美元、总价值 475 亿美元的收购报价。 Carl Icahn 还在写给 Yahoo 董事会主席 Roy Bostock 的信中披露，他已经收购了 5900 万股 Yahoo 股票，并在寻求清除来自国美国联邦贸易委员会的反垄...
Introducing the Cell Phone MRI
in The Wireless Weblog, on April 30, 2008
Engineers at UC Berkeley yesterday announced a new solution that uses cell phones to make medical imaging available to underdeveloped parts of the world.
"Diagnosis and treatment of an estimated 20 percent of diseases would benefit from medical imaging, yet this advancement has been o...
SOX and backdating
in Sox First, on April 11, 2008
Much has been said about Sarbanes-Oxley stopping backdating. But is that true? Has it actually improved corporate governance? Under Sarbanes-Oxley, all high-level executive stock option grants and exercises made on or after August 29, 2002 have be reported within two business days. Before Augus...
SOX-related boardroom changes and share price
in Sox First, on April 2, 2008
After the US Congress passed the Sarbanes-Oxley Act in 2002, US companies were forced to overhaul their systems of corporate governance. A Raft of changes were introduced. Auditors were required report to audit committees, audit committee had to comprise directors who were independent from t...
Fisher and Ury - 25 Years Later
in Bizinformer, on April 1, 2008
You can't shake hands with a clenched fist. - Indira Gandhi
Last week I learned that one of my former high school administrators (who retired last year) was diagnosed with cancer. Always upbeat and a great educator, he is heading up the local Relay for Life effort - which is how I lear...
MIT's new supply chain agreement for doing innovative research in Columbia
in Supplychainer, on March 29, 2008
...a (Spain) and Bogota (Columbia).
This unique Network (what they refer to as MIT SCALE) will allow faculty, researchers, students and affiliated companies from all three centers to pool their experti...
Decizium / YourTour: interview with Emmanuel Guisset
in Les Explorers, on mars 4, 2008
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Well, Decizium started in 2005 after 10 years of R&D in collaboration with the Polytechnic Faculty of Mons. Last year, we received some private and public investments and since then we've...
SEC litigation and share price
in Sox First, on February 27, 2008
The enforcement division of the Securities and Exchange Commission brings between 400 and 500 civil enforcement actions every year for violations that include insider trading, manipulating market prices, stealing funds or securities, breaching fiduciary responsibility, conducting brokerage activi...
Bad apples and bad trees
in Sox First, on February 20, 2008
In the past, I have talked about delinquent communities here and here . The basic argument is that most corporate fraud involves a delinquent community of people aiding and abetting, either helping themselves to the spoils or turning the other way. But the problem is how do you prosecute a co...
Cranberry Juice Against UTI in Women
in Straightfromthedoc, on January 16, 2008
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Such were the findings of Prof. Itzhak Ofek, a researcher at Tel Aviv University 's Sackler Faculty of Medicine:
Prof. Ofek's research on the tart berry over the past two decades ...
Hedge Fund Conference in Boca Raton, FL
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on January 14, 2008
...er 24 countries and was a success due in part to the quality of information provided by the speaker faculty and the exceptional networking opportunities available during the event.
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Prevent Bad Breath, Lose Weight
in Straightfromthedoc, on December 14, 2007
... of Human Microbiology and The Maurice and Gabriela Goldschleger School of Dental Medicine, Sackler Faculty of Medicine at Tel Aviv University:
"The finding on alcohol and bad breath was not su...
New supply chain executive course at MIT
in Supplychainer, on December 11, 2007
...supply chain for lasting strategic advantage. Taught by CTL's world-class team of prominent MIT faculty and researchers, the three-day course will utilize the Center's global research on indus...
Enron, stakeholders and the consequences for corporate governance
in Sox First, on November 28, 2007
The fallout from the Enron trial continues. The case was so big, the malfeasance so horrifying in its depth and pathology , that one suspects the fallout will be around for some time. It resulted in Sarbanes-Oxley but there is a question of whether the case has broader implications for crim...
40% Of Diabetics Ward Off Heart Attacks With The Help of Vitamin E
in Daily Diabetic, on November 24, 2007
...e had a heart attack, compared to 17 who did not take the vitamin. Dr. Andrew Levy, of the Technion Faculty of Medicine, said there were no side effects observed in patients who took vitamin E....
Keeping up with the Joneses: bubbles and herding behavior
in Sox First, on November 21, 2007
The subprime meltdown is the latest example of flawed logic that resulted in a bubble and house of cards. I mean, what were these people thinking? You have people with no proof of income being able to take out a mortgage equal to 100 per cent of the appraised value of a home? And a finance indust...
Recall Alert: Australia's Toy of the Year Banned
in The Parenting Weblog, on November 7, 2007
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Bindeez , the "magic beads that join with a spray of water", and named Australia's Toy of the Year in 2007, is immediately and voluntarily recalled by moose Enterprise after three children swallowed the beads and became ill.
The chemical 1,4-Butanediol is when me...
Tim Sykes As A "Financial Cowboy"
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on November 2, 2007
...t;The Timothy Sykes Day Trading Award for the Talented," an award open to all Tulane students, faculty, and alumni."
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Technology that's a real cut-up
in Digital Shot, on October 16, 2007
Many photographers know what happens when they treat a digital photo like a rubber band : its subjects become terribly distorted. But a pair of researchers- Shai Avidan and Ariel Shamir -have cooked up an algorithm that allows you to stretch images in radical ways-like turning a vertical s...
A Venture Capital Bubble in China?
in China Venture News, on October 13, 2007
...n Zhu says a "venture capital bubble" is forming in China. He told that to an audience of faculty, students, and local area venture capital professionals at a seminar sponsored by the Stanfo...
Writers Converge on Aurora, IL
in Bizinformer, on October 3, 2007
...rkshop is a fee based, registration required event, featuring authors, publishers and agents as the faculty in an up close and personal setting allowing for interaction and questions along with the pr...
Wikis Come Into Their Own
in Networking for Pros, on September 27, 2007
...ding that students will not receive a degree of any type from MIT, nor will they have access to MIT faculty members.
MIT is also leading the SENSEable City Project , a wiki-based mapping project tha...
Delaware State University Shootings
in The Parenting Weblog, on September 22, 2007
...ial Hall sports arena at the Delaware state university campus around 1 pm today.
Students, faculty and staff are not allowed to go in and out of the campus, while authorities are combing the ...
超级图像变形算法有了DEMO程序
in WappBlog, on 2007-09-01
前两天 刘阳给大家介绍过一个超级图像变形算法的视频 ，视频中展示了一系列令人称奇的图像修改过程，比如放大缩小不会严重变形，去除图中人物不会影响到画面背景等等。
事实上这是第34届 SIGGRAPH 2007 数字图形学年会上，以色列的两位教授Shai Avidan和 Ariel Shamir ，展示的一种新型的缩放裁剪图像方法，他们称之为Seam Carving for Content-Aware Image Resizing（ PDF论文 ），这项技术能计算出图像上的关键部分和不重要区域，从而使得随意改变一个图像的高宽比（aspect ratio）但不会让内容变得扭曲成为可能[ v...
University of Arkansas is ranked 13 in supply chain education
in Supplychainer, on August 25, 2007
...ional Graduate Logistics Case competition for the past four years, which has enabled Walton College faculty and students to connect with logistics academics from around the world.
Other top-rated uni...
Are you an Internet Addict? You may want to read this.
in Straightfromthedoc, on August 20, 2007
... surfing.]
According to Dr. Pinhas Dannon, a psychiatrist from Tel Aviv University 's Sackler Faculty of Medicine:
" To better diagnose and treat Internet addiction, it should be grouped ...
China Threatens to Crash Dollar?
in China Venture News, on August 13, 2007
... The piece was published by the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland. A faculty member there, Dr. Peter Morici (Professor of International Business), had this to say:
I...
Snooty Dating Site Targets Colleges
in The Dating Weblog, on July 30, 2007
...tStuffDating.com , bills itself as "the Ivy League of dating," where students, alumni and faculty make romantic connections. New members have to provide proof they attended one of 50 approve...
Über RFID und Viren
in RFID Weblog, on 27.07.07
...ntergrundartikel. In diesem Fall geht es um RFID und die gefahr durch Viren und Würmer. Die Faculty of Science der Freien Universität Amsterdam hat diesem Thema eine eigene Webseite mit dem Tit...
A Stable China: For How Long?
in China Venture News, on July 24, 2007
...d a blog post at Global-Themes Dot Com about a talk by Professor Wing Thye Woo , a member of the faculty of Economics at the University of California Davis, on "The Real Challenges to China...
微软投资“Web 3.0”
in 西行资讯, on 2007-07-19
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今年的 Faculty Summit 2007 在7月16-17日在雷蒙德举行，有400多为来自大学、政府和微软领导者共享资源。
由于微软在Web 2.0时代落后他人，所以微软决定未雨绸缪，在Web 3.0尚未来临前做好充足的准备。微软已经承诺向科研补助金投入50万美元，投入 "Intelligent Web 3.0"的研究工作，鼓励人们寻找、发现、提取、发布和共享信息...
TCS Some Thoughts?
in The CIO Weblog, on July 15, 2007
...y 1 slots). We also engage students through summer projects, training and have strong ties with the faculty.
As you look towards the future, what will be the key drivers of growth at TCS?
Servi...
Open Letter to Universities Whose Students Have Been Targeted by the RIAA
in Digital Music - The Future, on July 13, 2007
Over the past six months RIAA has renewed its pressure on schools to be their proxy in copyright infringement lawsuits ( RIAA To Schools: Can I Add You To My Circle? ). The recording industry has experienced limited success with just a few schools like Ohio University banning P2P.
Activ...
Open Letter to Universities Whose Students Have Been Targeted by the RIAA
in P2P File Sharing, on July 13, 2007
RFID becomes the heart of student's cell phones at Slippery Rock University
in The RFID Weblog, on July 9, 2007
...get a taste of RFID when during the month of August 8,500 RFID tags will be distributed for free to faculty and students at Slippery Rock University which can be attached to their respective cell phon...
School ties and investing
in Sox First, on June 27, 2007
More evidence that it's not what you know but who you know. A new study shows that mutual fund managers invest more money in companies that are run by people with whom they went to college or graduate school than in companies where they have no such connections. The interesting part i...
Employee scorecards and the curse of the SOX
in Sox First, on June 27, 2007
There is no doubt that Section 404, the section of Sarbanes-Oxley that requires documentation of compliance systems, has added significant costs, disproportionately hurting smaller companies. Since weak compliance systems lay behind several scandals - making it hard to bring cases against some b...
China's high-speed economy: will there be a car crash?
in Sox First, on June 2, 2007
Interesting paper from economics professor Wing Thye Woo on whether China's explosive growth is sustainable. The question he raises: is China headed for a car crash? Could we see a correction that will be labelled as the Great Fall of China? This is one of the big risk issues for the glob...
Independence vs diversity in the boardroom
in Sox First, on May 15, 2007
The preoccupation with independent directors under Sarbanes-Oxley is misguided, says Wayne State University law professor Erica Beecher-Monas. After all, Enron and WorldCom had independent directors and look what happened to them. In her study, Marrying diversity and independence in t...
Better ethics, better culture, better world
in Audeamus - How dare we..., on May 10, 2007
...he "hopes to continue exerting influence, but in the not-for-profit sector." Source UNSW Faculty of Business .
To be perfectly frank, I believe everyone working for a company is responsibl...
Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan Offers New Master's Degree in Supply Chain Management
in Supplychainer, on April 25, 2007
... curriculum. Students will work on real-world assignments sponsored by companies with guidance from faculty in the school's Operations and Management Sciences department.
"No other top-ranke...
EEG Signals Help Diagnose Early Stage Alzheimer's Disease
in Straightfromthedoc, on April 19, 2007
...ded National Institutes of Health 's National Institute on Aging study conducted by research faculty and staff at Rowan University (Glassboro, N.J.), the University of Pennsylvania School of...
Home Biz Idea of the Week: Day Care Home Business (Part II)
in Home Based Business, on April 13, 2007
...or operate one. You need to be skilled in taking care of children, coordinating with your faculty on what lessons have to be taught, and carrying out simple accounting at the end of the day. You will ...
Diabetes Research Innovator Bernard R. Landau Dies at 80
in Daily Diabetic, on April 3, 2007
Dr. Bernard R. Landau is the biochemist who innovated the research on diabetes, he was one of the first to work on finding out how exactly glucose is broken down inside the body - a knowledge that proved invaluable in understanding diabetes today.
Reports say that Landau died in Clevela...
The disappearing accounting professors
in Sox First, on April 3, 2007
...t was even worse with assistant professors. They were down 33.7 per cent. Looking at the changes in faculty distribution, accounting had slipped 2.8 per cent, but the number of overall business academ...
Fructose in Beverages May Increase Risk of Obesity
in Straightfromthedoc, on March 19, 2007
...ording to Dr. Juan Carlos Laguna of the Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutic Chemistry at the Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Barcelona:
"The most novel finding is that this molecular ...
Antifungal Drug, Potential TB Killer
in The Biotech Weblog, on March 15, 2007
...istant strains.
According to Professor Andrew Munro, who led the research in Manchester's Faculty of Life Sciences:
"The class of drugs called azoles are able to kill off fungal infec...
Hedge Fund Conference
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on March 12, 2007
...s, and hedge fund performance, evaluating funds of hedge funds and legal and compliance issues. The faculty includes speakers from K&L Gates, Glazer Capital, the 1794 Commodore Funds, and O...
Are celebrity CEOs really worth big bucks?
in Sox First, on March 12, 2007
There has been no shortage of celebrity CEOs. Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Jack Welch, Lou Gerstner, and in her day, Carly Fiorina, just to name a few. But what impact does a celebrity CEO have on the share price and profits of a company? Does a mega-star boss actually deliver by virtue of their cele...
SOX no good for whistleblowers
in Sox First, on February 17, 2007
Not surprising but interesting nonetheless. A new study Who Blows The Whistle on Corporate Fraud shows the problem with Section 301 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act , which requires audit committees to establish procedures for "the confidential, anonymous submission by employees of the issuer o...
Natural Fibre Oligo Fructose: Promising New Diet Product on Human Trial
in Straightfromthedoc, on February 6, 2007
... A University of Calgary , Faculty of Kinesiology research team led by Dr. Raylene Reimer may have found a new weapon against obesity in a natural fibre called oligo fructose .
Oligo fru...
