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25 Sep 2009
Plants biosynthesize a wide variety of compounds by processes that involve enzymes...
25 Sep 2009
As the number of children who have mobile phones has risen to 40% of elementary school students, 70% of middle school students, and 90% of high school students, e-Safety Education is vital in order to protect children from the myriad mobile phone dangers to which they are exposed.
24 Sep 2009
Universiti Sains Malaysia is pleased to announce that one of its academics, Professor Dr. Chandra Muzaffar, has been invited by Harvard University to deliver the first lecture in this year’s “Ecologies of Human Flourishing” series.
24 Sep 2009
The exhibition features the video installation by London-based Singaporean artist Erika Tan, to be exhibited simultaneously at the NUS Museum, and selected materials from the UP Vargas Museum art and library collections.
18 Sep 2009
Peiyan Wong
Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
18 Sep 2009
The Forest Research Institute Malaysia (FRIM) Director General (DG), Dato’ Dr Abd. Latif Mohmod, led a delegation of 11 management staff to Sungai Buloh Hospital on 11 September 2009 to bring cheers to the young patients.
11 Sep 2009
The 12th summer program at the RIKEN Brain Science Institute (BSI)
09 Sep 2009
Nature China highlights the best research coming out of Mainland China
and Hong Kong, providing scientists from around the world with a
convenient portal into publications drawn from across all scientific
disciplines.
08 Sep 2009
According to an independent survey on the worldwide research productivity in production and operations management over half a century, Prof. Edwin Cheng of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University has emerged as the most productive author in the field...
08 Sep 2009
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University will confer Honorary Doctorates upon Dr Rita Fan Hsu Lai-tai, Dr Stefano Marzano, Professor Robert A. Mundell, Professor Poon Chung-kwong and Dr Samuel Yin Yen-liang in recognition of their outstanding achievements and contributions at its 15th Congregation...
04 Sep 2009
INTERVIEW - Conversation between Ryoji Noyori and Susumu Tonegawa.
At the inauguration of the new director of the Brain Science Institute
04 Sep 2009
The COOLBIZ campaign has had a very positive effect on Japanese people, as psychological resistance and social barriers to informal dress have been removed, and as each individual has been encouraged to consider saving energy.
02 Sep 2009
Drawing from the Community-Based Monitoring System (CBMS) experience in Africa and Asia, the authors present recommendations for policymakers, donor agencies, and researchers. They also present guidelines for developing and implementing poverty monitoring systems in other regions of the world.
02 Sep 2009
Edited by Ineke Buskens and Anne Webb
Zed/IDRC 2009
ISBN 978-1-84813-192-7
e-ISBN 978-1-55250-399-7
320 pp.
31 Aug 2009
Book Review - Drawing from the Community-Based Monitoring System (CBMS) experience in Africa and Asia, the authors present recommendations for policymakers, donor agencies, and researchers. They also present guidelines for developing and implementing poverty monitoring systems in other regions of the world.
28 Aug 2009
How people process the social stigma of having visible skin lesions is
reported this week in the 'Journal of Investigative Dermatology'. These findings may lead to future strategies for managing other stigmatizing diseases and conditions.
28 Aug 2009
The fifth RCAI–JSI International Symposium on Immunology, hosted by the RIKEN Research Center for Allergy and Immunology (RCAI) in conjunction with the Japanese Society for Immunology (JSI), was held in Yokohama on July 9–10 of this year.
21 Aug 2009
An International Phenome Integration Meeting, sponsored by RIKEN and co-sponsored by the Society for the Study of Mammalian Genetics, was held in Kyoto, Japan, on July 12–13 of this year.
20 Aug 2009
Book Review - Does research influence public policy and decision-making and, if so, how? This book is the most recent to address this question, investigating the effects of research in the field of international development.
17 Aug 2009
A total of 30 researchers benefited from an in-house training workshop on “Understanding the Media” held at the Forest Research Institute Malaysia (FRIM) on 30 July 2009.
14 Aug 2009
A Joint ISIS and RIKEN Muon Facility Developments Symposium was held on May 18 of this year in response to recommendations of RIKEN’s International Advisory Committee.
12 Aug 2009
Groundwater in northwestern India is being depleted at an unsustainable rate, which could lead to severe water shortages and reduced agricultural productivity.
11 Aug 2009
Professor Cathy Hsu, Associate Director of the School of Hotel and Tourism Management at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, has recently been honoured by the International Council on Hotel, Restaurant and Institutional Education with the John Wiley & Sons Lifetime Research Achievement Award.
10 Aug 2009
Think Tank Initiative invites eligible institutions to apply for financial and technical support
04 Aug 2009
WMO Secretary General, ICTP Director to sign agreement on Thursday 6 August, 9 am, ICTP Adriatico Guesthouse, Trieste*
30 Jul 2009
IDRC's The Think Tank Initiative invites applications from eligible organizations in Latin America and South Asia that are committed to using research to inform and influence social and economic policy.
30 Jul 2009
BANGKOK, Jul 30 - Reflecting the fact that ethnic diversity is a central characteristic of all the Greater Mekong Sub-region (GMS) countries, ethnographic collections are relatively common, with the exception of Cambodia where museums mainly focus on archaeological artifacts and on experiences of war.
26 Jul 2009
This year, a change of administration may possibly occur. Once the change of administration occurs, this project is expected to show us detailed mechanisms, such as the reasons for the change of government, based on accumulated data over the years.
26 Jul 2009
On June 13th, 1948, Osamu Dazai, who had quickly gained popularity after World War II with such works as “The Setting Sun [Shayo]” (1947), committed double suicide, jumping into the Tamagawa Josui River together with a war-widow.
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Giants in history
Vietnamese surgeon Tôn Thất Tùng (10 May 1912 – 7 May 1982) developed a pioneering technique that reduced the risks and mortality rate of liver operations.
Michiaki Takahashi (17 February 1928 – 16 December 2013) was a Japanese virologist who developed the first chickenpox vaccine.
Maggie Lim (5 January 1913 – November 1995) was a Singaporean physician who promoted family planning and expanded the access to clinics to improve the quality of life for mothers and children in Singapore’s early days.
The founder of the Adyar Cancer Institute in India, Muthulakshmi Reddy (30 July 1886 – 22 July 1968), fought to uplift women and girls from impoverished situations.
Through her iconic stories featuring fictional scenes from the history of the Philippines, language teacher and academic Genoveva Matute (3 January 1915 – 21 March 2009) helped strengthen the Filipino identity.
Tsuneko (7 June 1933) and Reiji Okazaki (8 October 1930 – 1 August 1975) were a Japanese couple who discovered Okazaki fragments – short sequences of DNA that are synthesized during DNA replication and linked together to form a continuous strand.
Sir Mokshagundam Srinivasa Shastry Vishveshwarayya (15 September 1860 – 14 April 1962) is widely regarded as India’s most outstanding engineer. In a career that spanned almost his entire life, Vishveshwarayya played a pivotal role in several engineering projects, including designing the Krishnarajasagara dam that is still the source of irrigation and drinking water for parts of Karnataka today.
Indian scientist and physician Upendranath Brahmachari (19 December 1873–6 February 1946) is best known for creating a drug called Urea Stibamine, used to safely and reliably treat visceral leishmaniasis (or Kala-azar), a severe infection caused by the Leishmania parasite.
Little is known about Ali, a teenager from Sarawak, Malaysia, who was chief assistant to the famous naturalist Alfred Wallace. Most of what is known comes from Wallace’s writings. Ali accompanied Wallace on expeditions throughout the Malay Archipelago from December 1855 to February 1862.
U Hla Myint (1920 – 2017) was a celebrated economist from Myanmar. Considered a prodigy, he was admitted to Rangoon University to study economics when he was just 14 years old. He went on to earn a Ph.D. at the London School of Economics (LSE).
Rajeshwari Chatterjee (24 January 1922 – 3 September 2010) was the first female engineer from Karnataka in India.