Posts Tagged ‘graduate’

They are baffled when they go from China to Chandni Chowk and encounter Delhi's Hindi. Why do people say mereko, they asked this correspondent in a room stacked with the Manusmriti and Bhagavada Gita at Peking University. "Saying mereko instead of mujhe and #8230;theek nahin (not right),'' said Jiang Jingkui, chairman of the Hindi department that opened in 1949. This classroom in the communist nation's top ... Full story

Washington, March 31 (ANI): In a new research, a team of Penn State engineers has identified a tiny microbe that can take electricity and directly convert carbon dioxide (CO2) and water to methane, producing a portable energy source with a potentially neutral carbon footprint. "We were studying making hydrogen in microbial electrolysis cells and we ... Full story

Washington, March 26 (ANI): New results from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory have suggested that a special class of black holes have a mechanism for regulating the rate at which they grow, and can shut off the high-speed jets they produce. Some stellar-mass black holes launch powerful jets of particles and radiation, like seen in quasars, and ... Full story

Washington, Mar 26 (ANI): Researchers at Medical College of Georgia have found that circadian clocks that set the rhythmic motion of our bodies for wakeful days and sleepy nights can also set us up for vascular disease when broken. During the study, they found that mice with mutated or missing 'clock' genes were ... Full story

Washington, March 19 (ANI): A University of Florida researcher that paralysed people can be enabled to control their limbs in more precise and life-like manner by combining computer learning technology with electrical stimulation, a simple technique that has been in use for decades to prompt muscles to contract. Warren Dixon, an associate professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, agrees that his research is still exploring the ... Full story

Washington, Mar 13 (ANI): The long tails sported by male birds in the tropics are often considered a distinct disadvantage because they lead to as much as a 50 percent greater energy loss when flying. Now, however, a new study has shown that they exact only a minimal cost in speed or energy. University of ... Full story

Washington, March 13 (ANI): A new study of a preserved 4- to 5-million-year-old shark fossil has shed new light on the great white's origins, and has helped scientists decide which line of species did it evolve from. For the last 150 years, some paleontologists have concluded the great white shark, Carcharodon carcharias, is a smaller relative ... Full story

New Delhi, Mar 12 (ANI): Air Marshal DC Kumaria has taken over as the first ever Director General Operations at Air Headquarters (Vayu Bhawan) here today. Air Marshal Kumaria was commissioned as a fighter pilot in the flying branch of Indian Air Force (IAF) on July 2, 1973. A graduate of Defence Services Staff College, he is a Qualified ... Full story

Washington, Mar 11 (ANI): Forget doling out loads of cash on therapist's fee or anti-depressants pills - a new study has found that salt can put people in a better mood. According to University of Iowa psychologist Kim Johnson and colleagues, when rats are deficient in sodium chloride, common table salt, they shy ... Full story

Mumbai, Mar 10 (ANI/Business Wire India): SYSTIME, a CMS Group Company and the largest Oracle JD Edwards Practices globally, has recently announced the appointment of Indu as Chief Operating Officer (COO). In this position of COO Indu will be responsible for the following functions: Global Delivery and ... Full story

New York, March 7 (ANI): Being the First Lady of United States has not stopped Michelle Obama from holding on to her sense of humour or so it seemed when she spoke about the pros and cons of life in the White House. Featuring on the cover page of Oprah Winfrey's O Magazine, the mum of ... Full story

Washington, Mar 7 (ANI): They say "eyes are the mirror of one's emotions," but scientists have now found that human sweat also contains emotional meanings. Rice University psychologist Denise Chen has shown that when threatened, many animals release chemicals as a warning signal to members of their own species, who in turn react to the signals and take action. The researcher says that a similar phenomenon occurs ... Full story

Washington, March 6 (ANI): In a new report, geologists have mapped large rock formations in the United States that can also absorb carbon dioxide (CO2), which they say might be artificially harnessed to do the task at a vastly increased pace. The report, by scientists at Columbia University's Earth Institute ... Full story

Washington, March 3 (ANI): Optical techniques developed by Northwestern University researchers has shown further promise in detecting the presence of pancreatic cancer through analysis of neighbouring tissue in the duodenum, part of the small intestine neighbouring the pancreas. Vadim Backman, professor of biomedical engineering at the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science at Northwestern, has revealed that the new technology has shown some promise ... Full story

London, Mar 3 (ANI): A virus that weakens bacterial defence systems is the latest weapon in the fight against drug-resistant superbugs. Researchers in the United States have engineered viruses to weaken the bacteria, leaving the bugs more vulnerable to antibiotics, reports Nature. The 'bacteriophages' or just 'phages' were programmed to target a DNA repair system that allows the bacteria to survive antibiotics. Used alongside the drugs, the viruses ... Full story

Washington, Feb 28 (ANI): A team of scientists is developing the basic principles of "nano-origami," a new technique that allows engineers to fold nanoscale materials into simple 3-D structures, which could be used to make tiny electronic devices. The tiny folded materials could be used as motors and capacitors, potentially leading to better computer memory storage, faster microprocessors and ... Full story

Washington, February 28 (ANI): Researchers in MIT's Sensory Communication Group are trying to develop a new generation of tactile devices, which will translate sound waves into vibrations so that deaf people may feel them by their skin, and read lips more accurately. This work attains significance considering the fact that lip-reading has a drawback: Certain consonants (for example, p and b) can be nearly impossible ... Full story

Washington, Feb 27 (ANI): Immoral behaviour really does leave a "bad taste in the mouth", claims a new study, which found that disgust over an unfair social situation is hard-wired into the human body as strongly as the reaction to a foul taste. The University of Toronto study shows a link between moral disgust and more primitive forms of disgust related to poison and disease. "Morality is ... Full story

New Delhi, Feb 25 (ANI): Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER) will be inaugurated at Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital here today. Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare, Dr. Anbumani Ramadoss will be the chief guest. Union Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare Panabaka Lakshmi will be the guest of honour. The PGIMER will be constructed at the cost ... Full story

New Delhi, Feb 24 (ANI): Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER) will be inaugurated at Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital here tomorrow. Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare, Dr. Anbumani Ramadoss will be the chief guest. The Union Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare, Panabaka Lakshmi will be the guest of honour. The PGIMER will be constructed at the ... Full story