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14 May 2010
Waseda University
The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology’s Private University Academic Research Development Promotion Project is a project to ensure private universities become a foundation for research and development and a pillar for promoting development.
14 May 2010
Waseda University
The essence of the hardware design for TWENDY-ONE is “the softness of machines.” By adding softness to the skin and joints of the arms and trunk, it is possible to protect people from the shock of the unexpected conflict with the robot.
14 May 2010
Waseda University
I am specialized in ergonomics and am focusing my research on the next generation media, which is currently not yet prevalent but have a potential in the near future. When I was an undergraduate student, I undertook a research evaluating 3D images from the human perspective for the first time.
14 May 2010
Waseda University
Just over 25 years ago, computer development was centered around hardware with little importance placed on software. The dominant way of thinking in Japan was that if hardware was produced, software would naturally follow. But I thought this was the wrong line of thinking.
14 May 2010
Waseda University
In my early student days at School of Political Science and Economics at Waseda University, I put hard work into my theoretical economics and international finance studies in order to become an elite businessman (laughing). But at the time of graduating, new jobs were scarce and I couldn’t find employment.
05 May 2010
Prince of Songkla University
This application is for the “surgical visual field enhancer apparatus”
04 May 2010
International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
Mongolia — an isolated country sandwiched between Siberia and China — has become a pioneer in using the Internet as a tool for development, through a lasting partnership with the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) that continues today.
26 Apr 2010
Waseda University
Currently, media coverage of the Toyota Motor Corporation recall (recalling and repairing vehicles free of charge) is pervasive. Some of the reports are emotional, and there are shades of Toyota bashing combined with the movements to politicize the issue.
26 Apr 2010
Waseda University
The new iPad data terminal was announced on January 27 (local time) by Apple, Inc. With its large scale liquid crystal touch panel, you might think of it as a large version of the iPod touch.
22 Apr 2010
RIKEN
Tokyo, 22 April - A research team at RIKEN has experimentally determined the mechanism underlying the formation of electron pairs in iron-based high-temperature superconductors. The landmark finding, reported in the April 23rd issue of Science, establishes a key role for magnetism in superconductivity.
21 Apr 2010
The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS)
TWAS and ISTIC are collaborating on a project aimed at identifying, rewarding and disseminating best practices in the innovative use of science and technology in the development of new products, processes or services that have had impacts on economic development in the South.
19 Apr 2010
Keio University
Keio University Shonan Fujisawa Campus (SFC) launched a website for the GIGA Program (Global Information and Communication Technology and Governance Academic Program), which is scheduled to start in the Faculty of Environment and Information Studies in September 2011.
18 Apr 2010
RIKEN
Tokyo, 19 April - A research team at RIKEN has succeeded for the first time in selectively controlling for reaction products in the dissociation of a single water molecule on an ultrathin film. The reaction opens the door to the creation of novel functional catalysts and applications in clean energy production.
16 Apr 2010
RIKEN
Mapping the shape and dynamics of a molecule’s outer electron cloud is now possible using a novel experimental technique
16 Apr 2010
RIKEN
On 19 January 2010, RIKEN and the Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science (MPG) signed a memorandum of understanding toward the establishment of a new joint center focused on research in chemical biology.
08 Apr 2010
The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS)
2010 Call for Applications - The Third World Organization for Women in Science (TWOWS) is an international autonomous organization based in Trieste, Italy.
07 Apr 2010
RIKEN
A team headed by researchers at RIKEN and the Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics has uncovered details explaining the growth of galaxy clusters, the largest gravitationally-bound objects known to exist, offering new clues about the evolution of our universe.
05 Apr 2010
Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM)
Hazadiah Mohamad Dahan, Noor Zaina Idris and Roslinda Wab of Universiti Teknologi MARA, Shah Alam, Malaysia, studied how technologies affect language use and how this can potentially lead to language change in Malaysia.
04 Apr 2010
Asia Research News
The Wall Street Journal Asia is now accepting entries for the prestigious "Asian Innovation Awards 2010." The deadline for entries is April 9, 2010.
31 Mar 2010
RIKEN
Press Release - Electrons that carry orbital angular momentum are generated for the first time by researchers at RIKEN, Japan
19 Mar 2010
RIKEN
In January this year, RIKEN and the National Institute of Radiological Sciences (NIRS) co-hosted Molecular Imaging 2010, a two-day symposium reviewing five years of research conducted under the Molecular Imaging Research Program with funding from the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT).
18 Mar 2010
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU)
Press Release - Making use of advanced ultrasound technology, researchers of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) have successfully developed a low-cost and compact Ultrasound Elasticity Imaging System for the examination and diagnosis of breast cancer.
18 Mar 2010
RIKEN
Press Release - Researchers at the RIKEN Plant Science Center have clarified the function of three proteins that play a central role in the circadian clock in plants. The finding, to appear in the journal The Plant Cell, opens the door to the engineering of plant clock systems, with powerful applications to agriculture.
15 Mar 2010
Asia Research News
The Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG) announces that it will mark its 40th anniversary in 2010 by expanding its student prize program, with a new awards intended to cultivate the next generation of numerical software talent worldwide
12 Mar 2010
RIKEN
Through close collaboration between theoreticians and experimentalists, RIKEN’s Radioactive Isotope Beam Factory is poised to deliver breakthroughs in our understanding of the origin of matter and nuclear theory
10 Mar 2010
International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
A website is helping Southeast Asian women earn an income and balance their work and home lives. Called eHomemakers, it is Southeast Asia’s only community network that promotes the use of information and communication technologies to telework and run small home businesses.
07 Mar 2010
Universiti Sains Malaysia
Penang, 3 March - Not only can this treatment module help to overcome the problem of vertigo but patients do not have to go to the hospital as they can carry out this treatment in the comfort of their own homes.
05 Mar 2010
Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM)
Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) beat other local universities and emerged top in the Webometrics Ranking Web of World Universities and 4icu.org University Web Ranking.
05 Mar 2010
International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
The telecentre.org Foundation which improves the social and economic impact of grassroots telecentres around the world is pleased to announce that it has officially opened its doors today in the Philippines.
05 Mar 2010
RIKEN
Geometric factors can have a strong influence on the seemingly random walk of objects across pores in a thin membrane
Giants in history
Turkish astrophysicist Dilhan Eryurt (29 November 1926 – 13 September 2012) conducted research on how the sun affects environmental conditions on the moon.
Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie (25 June 1936 – 11 September 2019) was an Indonesian engineer who was President of Indonesia from 1998 to 1999.
Physicist Narinder Singh Kapany (31 October 1926 – 4 December 2020) pioneered the use of optical fibres to transmit images, and founded several optical technology companies. Born in Punjab, India, he worked at a local optical instruments factory before moving to London for PhD studies at Imperial College. There, he devised a flexible fibrescope to convey images along bundles of glass fibres.
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.
Fazlur Rahman Khan (3 April 1929 – 27 March 1982) was a Bangladeshi-American structural engineer and architect who invented the tube principle, which formed the basis for modern skyscraper design.
A Japanese surgeon, Tetsuzo Akutsu (20 August 1922 – 9 August 2007) built the first artificial heart capable of keeping an animal alive.
Lin Lanying (7 February 1918 – 4 March 2003) was a Chinese material engineer remembered for her contributions to the field of semiconductor and aerospace materials. Lanying was born into a family who did not believe in educating girls and she was not allowed to go to school.
Gregorio Y. Zara (8 March 1902 – 15 October 1978) was a Filipino engineer and physicist best remembered for inventing the first two-way video telephone. Zara’s video telephone invention enabled the caller and recipient to see each other while conversing, laying the foundation for video-conferencing