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Good, Right - What does that mean? We discuss fundamental issues of Ethics and Social Philosophy both in Japanese and English. In our seminars, we have two seniors, three juniors, and three graduate students.

PENANG, 20 Nov – Two researchers from the School of Dental Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) have successfully created an eco-friendly dental bib and a nanotechnology-based dental filling.

Goh Ying Sung or the Academy of Language Studies and Norlina Mohd Sabri of the Faculty of Computer and Mathematical Sciences, UiTM developed Yipin Courseware to assist the non-Chinese speaking learners to learn Mandarin.

UiTM students and lecturers won 5 gold medals at EUREKA 2009 in Brussels, Belgium, which ended Saturday.

Some 100 people attended the public forum where McDougall, IDRC President David Malone, and others fielded questions from the crowd and presented an overview of the Centre’s operations and contributions to the developing world.

Twenty years ago the HIV/AIDS epidemic was devastating Benin, and the country had few means to combat it. Today, the war against AIDS is still not over, but many battles have been won.

There is no longer any doubt that the Earth’s climate is changing. While industrialized nations debate action to stem greenhouse gas emissions, an urgent reality still gets too little attention. Billions of the world’s poorest people are already living on the edge, and will need help adapting to climate change.

The Honourable Lawrence Cannon, Canada’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, announced the reappointment of Ahmed Galal for a second term as an international member of IDRC's Board of Governors.

With its history as a city since the Edo Period, the Tokyo metropolitan Yamanote area on the eastern edge of the Musashino Plateau comprises terrain with plateaus, valleys, and an intricate network of streams and rivers, such as the Kanda River, that erode the plateau.

The mass media cover the issue of Japan Airlines (JAL) reconstruction nearly every day. It would be a mistake to regard this as simply an issue of management at one corporation. It is, in fact, a significant issue which involves airline administration and airport administration, and which also affects transportation policy as a whole.

Bacterial skin care, Mismatch associated with graft-versus-host-disease, East Antarctic ice loss, High levels of HLA-C associated with slower HIV/AIDS progression, A stroke against stroke, Balancing European emissions, Assessing natural memory and An amplifier for terahertz waves

Surprising complexity underlies the seemingly simple process of chromosome pair separation during cell division

A fluorescent sensor helps scientists track specific chromosomal modifications that can alter gene activity

This research studied the ways human brain responds to its environments to produce software.

The USM team returned home with seven Gold medals and one Special Award from the International Exhibition Of Ideas, Inventions and Innovation Trade Fair (IENA 2009) at Nuremberg, Germany recently.

A cross-sectional survey shows that Hong Kong people are not keen on large-scale vaccination against swine flu unless it is free

A novel vaccine can provide protection against swine flu for the majority of people between 12 and 60 years of age

Dr. Sharom Mahmud, 46, a Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) lecturer has successfully invented a varistor that is, a piece of equipment that protects circuits against excessive transient voltages due to lightning or thunder.

Summaries of newsworthy papers include Re-thinking obesity, 150 years on from On the Origin of Species, The global reach of Darwin and Underestimating interglacial temperatures

The fraction of carbon dioxide emissions that is mopped up by terrestrial and marine sinks has probably decreased over the past 50 years.

With the aim, 'Promote developing excellent medicines, and quickly deliver them to patients all over the world' (ICH mission), we conduct various researches regarding new medicine development.

Ramani Mayappan of Universiti Teknologi MARA, Perlis, Malaysia studied the usage of solder connections and suggested how Sn-9Zn and Sn-8Zn-3Bi lead-free solders can be a potential replacement for the Sn-Pb solder.

Summaries of newsworthy papers: Medicine: Location, location, location, Understanding schizophrenia, Costing the Earth, Nitrogen fix for early Earth, Common genetic risk variants for Parkinson’s disease, Inducible microRNA sponges for intact organisms and Ouch, that hurts!

Targeted sequencing of the protein-coding regions of the human genome has been used to identify the cause of a rare genetic disorder, as reported online this week in Nature Genetics.

PolyU and Dongguan Municipal Government will set up a working group and conduct feasibility study relating to the areas of education, research and training.

The RIKEN Nishina Center for Accelerator Based Science held its second annual Nishina School between September 29 and October 8, 2009.

Visualization of stress in the cell’s protein factory, the endoplasmic reticulum, may lead to new treatments for many debilitating diseases

Experiments simulating zero-gravity conditions reveal developmental difficulties arising from mammalian reproduction in space

Ramesh Nair of the Academy of Language Studies, UiTM, Shah Alam, Malaysia proposed that language should be accorded greater attention in the evaluation of gender construction in children’s literature or in any other literary texts produced for children.

Researchers of UiTM have invented a method to obstruct gas flow in the 2-furnace CVD system to synthesize ZnO nanowires.