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Cigref publishes the 2002 edition of its French-language guide to job titles and descriptions in the Information System departments of major corporations
Cigref today publishes the 2002 edition of its French-language guide to job titles and job descriptions in the Information System departments of major corporations. This annually-updated guide has become a benchmark document in the corporate world, with many major businesses using it as a reference system for in-house needs. Players in the fields... view more... (2002-09-10)
University of Bradford experts prepare document for Biological Weapons Convention
The University of Bradford's Department of Peace Studies has prepared a 175-page Briefing Book entitled 'Strengthening the Biological Weapons Convention: Key Points for the Fifth Review Conference' for the State Parties participating in the Biological and Toxins Weapons Fifth Review Conference. The book, which is available at... view more... (2001-11-21)
Brain images show individual dyslexic children respond to spelling treatment
Brain images of children with dyslexia taken before they received spelling instruction show that they have different patterns of neural activity than do good spellers when doing language tasks related to spelling. view more (2006-02-09)
Study shows schizophrenia limits understanding of body language
Understanding the meaning behind a person's posture or body movement comes easily to many people and helps guide how we react to others socially. view more (2006-05-19)
Biology enters 'The Matrix' through new computer language
Ever since the human genome was sequenced less than 10 years ago, researchers have been able to access a dizzying plethora of genomic information with a simple click of a mouse. This digitizing of genomic data-and its public access-is something that would have been unthinkable a generation earlier. view more (2008-07-23)
Program aims to make reading easier, more fun, for children in China
What could an English-speaking American reading expert hope to discover from studying how Chinese learn their language? And what might he and his colleagues have to offer as a result? view more (2006-10-19)
Having right timing 'connections' in brain is key to overcoming dyslexia
Using new software developed to investigate how the brains of dyslexic children are organized, University of Washington researchers have found that key areas for language and working memory involved in reading are connected differently in dyslexics than in children who are good readers and spellers. view more (2007-09-05)
Williams Syndrome, the brain and music
Children with Williams syndrome, a rare genetic disorder, just love music and will spend hours listening to or making music. Despite averaging an IQ score of 60, many possess a great memory for songs, an uncanny sense of rhythm, and the kind of auditory acuity, than can discern differences between different vacuum cleaner brands. view more (2006-10-04)
TV viewing before the age of 2 has no cognitive benefit, study finds
A longitudinal study of infants from birth to age 3 showed TV viewing before the age of 2 does not improve a child's language and visual motor skills, according to research conducted at Children's Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School. view more (2009-03-02)
Laying the foundation for the next-generation Web
The Semantic Web lies at the heart of Tim Berners-Lee's vision for the future of the Web, enabling a wide range of intelligent services. Thanks to the development of the infrastructure needed for the large-scale deployment of ontologies as the bedrock of the Semantic Web, that vision is much closer to reality. view more (2005-03-30)
New ears for deaf children
Thanks to the cochlear implant deaf children under two years old can express and understand properly the language. Those are the results obtained by the University Clinic of the University of Navarre. The University Clinic of Navarre is a pioneer in cochlear implant. This technique replaces the ear with a system that stimulates the hearing nerve... view more... (2002-11-29)
Dyslexia varies across language barriers
Chinese-speaking children with dyslexia have a disorder that is distinctly different, and perhaps more complicated and severe, than that of English speakers. view more (2009-10-13)
Latest IMM-newsletter "IMMage" published
Special issue "reforming technology" „Micro systems for the people" was the motto of the last issue of our newsletter "IMMage". The urgent need for a sustainable, environmentally sound and resource sparing energy supply is certainly one of the questions concerning our society today. Hydrogen and fuel cells yield... view more... (2004-07-13)
World Wide Web Consortium Issues DOM Level 2 HTML as a W3C Recommendation
Leading the Web to its full potential, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) today published the Document Object Model (DOM) Level 2 HTML as a W3C Recommendation. The specification reflects cross-industry agreement on a standard API (Application Programming Interface) for manipulating HTML and XHTML 1.0 documents and data through a programming... view more... (2003-01-09)
World Wide Web Consortium Issues MathML 2.0 as a W3C Recommendation
Scientists from Industry and Academia Produce Definitive Solution for Math on the Web http://www.w3.org/ -- 21 February 2001 -- The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) today announced the release of the Mathematical Markup Language (MathML) 2.0 as a W3C Recommendation. MathML 2.0, an XML application, provides encoding mathematical notation and content... view more... (2001-03-29)
The language of pain
A series of painful conversations between IRA bomber Patrick Magee and one of his victim's daughters has been analysed by applied linguist Professor Lynne Cameron, from the University of Leeds. The results shed important new light on the way such emotionally charged conversations are constructed using metaphors. view more (2004-09-29)
Where the brain organizes actions
Researchers have discovered that Broca's area in the brain—best known as the region that evolved to manage speech production—is a major "executive" center in the brain for organizing hierarchies of behaviors. view more (2006-06-15)
Swedish footballers and Spanish bars
What do Swedes and Spaniards talk to each other about and why? What problems can arise in communication between them, and how can they be solved? These questions are treated in a dissertation to be defended by Cilla H'¤ggkvist at the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Stockholm University in Sweden. The problems that arise are dependent on both... view more... (2002-06-04)
Open Systems - Mutual Understanding Without Limits
The universal open system technology has been developed by Russian researchers with support of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research and Foundation for Assistance to Small Innovative Enterprises (FASIE). The new technology will help to finally achieve mutual understanding between computers even if one of them thinks and speaks the Unix... view more... (2004-12-20)
Research Finds Faster Grammar Skills in Children with Tourette's
Children with Tourette's syndrome may have to put up with some unwanted movement and verbal tics, but neuroscientists at Georgetown University Medical Center and the Kennedy Krieger Institute have found that they are much quicker at processing certain mental grammar skills than are children without the disorder. view more (2007-07-16)
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