Monday, April 28, 2008

Science Article of the Week 10: Stiction Nanotubes Mimic Van Der Waals Adhesion In Geckos

Nanotubes are the big hope for the first decade of the 21st century. They offer promise to produce a new class of composite materials that are stronger than conventional composites for ue in aircraft and vehicles. Now researchers at Purdue University say they can precisely measure the forces required to peel tiny nanotubes off of other materials, opening up the possibility of creating standards for nano-manufacturing and harnessing a gecko's ability to walk up walls. Scientific Blogging 28 April 2008

Online Science 'Journal': Scientific Blogging


Scientific Blogging! is a Science 2.0 community and big believers in open science. As a result they encourage people to jump right in and start writing. The reason they are an open science community because they believe that science is important and the better educated people are, the greater their impact on policy. By using their science gets directly into the hands of people. They don't tell anyone what to write, they don't hand pick the writers because they agree with any ideology ther have, they don't demand that you already be popular before you can write on the blog. If you have science knowledge, they want you to share it When you sign up, you have one of two options - columnist and registered member. Registered members can vote up articles they like, leave comments, write their own blogs and use the chat functions. Columnists do all that and can write feature articles that appear on the front page. They also have featured authors but you can't become one of those until you have been around for a while.

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PowerPoint Presentations: 10:2 PowerPoint Presentations


Please find below links to copies of the Lecture Summary for Lesson 2, Week 10 on PowerPoint Presentations

Lecture Summary 10:2 - PowerPoint Presentations

Lecture Summary: 10:2 Powerpoint Presentations

Please find below links to copies of the pdf files for Lesson 2, Week 10 on PowerPoint Presentation

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Lecture Summary: 10:1 Conference Posters


Please find below links to copies of the Lecture Summary for Lesson 1, Week 10 on Conference Posters

Lecture Summary 10:1 - Conference Posters

PowerPoint Presentations: 10:1 Conference Posters


Please find below link to the pdf file of the PowerPoint Presentation for Lesson 2, Week 10 on Conference Posters.

PowerPoint Presentation 10:2 - Conference Posters

Science Article of the Week: Avoiding Pedestrians With the Help of Lasers

Hanyoung Lee wants you to be seen. The South Korea-based product designer devised a prototypical warning device to prevent pedestrian strikes along roadway crosswalks. It's called the Virtual Wall, a visual barrier created from plasma laser beams. The system casts larger-than-life images of pedestrians in eye-grabbing red across the roadway, at a location where such peds are likely to be crossing. Popular Science 28 April 2008

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Online Science Journal: Popular Science

Popular Science has been a leading source of science and technology news since its inception way back in 1872. PopSci.com first came online in 1999, and in 2008 they launched their biggest redesign yet: a new site built in Drupal that’s easy to navigate and chock-full of exciting daily content. The staff at PopSci.com believe that the new layout is also highly customizable, so finding the content you're interested in is a breeze. The whole site is organized by keywords, so for instance, if you click the "robot" tag, you'll see only articles about robots. You can also search in the traditional way, or use our channel buttons to instantly sort content by category. And the latest stories about the topics that interest you most can be sent right to your newsreader with our custom RSS feeds.

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Lecture Summary: 9:2 Book Reviews



Please find below links to copies of the Lecture Summary for Lesson 2, Week 9 on Book Reviews

Lecture Summary 8:2 - Book Reviews

PowerPoint Presentation: 9:2 Book Reviews


Please find below links to pdf files of the PowerPoint presentation for Lesson 2, Week 9 on Book Reviews

PowerPoint Presentation 9:1 - Book Reviews

Lecture Summary: 9:1 Literature Reviews



Please find below links to copies of the Lecture Summary for Lesson 1, Week 9 on Literature Reviews.

Lecture Summary 9:1 - Literature Review

PowerPoint Presentations: 9:1 Literature Reviews


Please find below links to pdf files of the PowerPoint presentation for Lesson 1, Week 8 on Reviews of Literature

PowerPoint Presentation 8:1 - Literature Reviews

Sunday, April 20, 2008

Online Science Journals:Nature Genetics>


Nature Genetics publishes research in genetics. It encompasses genetic and functional genomic studies on human traits and on other model organisms, including mouse, fly, nematode and yeast. Current emphasis is on the genetic basis for common and complex diseases and on the functional mechanism, architecture and evolution of gene networks, studied by experimental perturbation.

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'Science' Article of the Week 8: Mouse Solves Maze Researchers Spent Months Building


IOWA CITY, IA—University of Iowa neuroscientists studying spatial learning and the effects of stress on memory announced Tuesday that a little son-of-a-bitch mouse ruined an experiment on cognitive performance by effortlessly navigating a maze that researchers spent nearly a year designing and constructing.
Onion News April 19, 2008 | Issue 44•16

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Lecture Summary : Week 8: 2Tables

Please find below links to copies of the Lecture Summary for Lesson 2, Week 8 on Tables.

Lecture Summary 8:2 - Tables

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Powerpoint Presentation: Week 8:2Tables

Please find below link to the pdf file of the PowerPoint Presentation for Lesson 2, Week 8 on Tables

PowerPoint Presentation 8:2 - Tables

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Lecture Summary : Week 7: 1Acknowledgments & Citations


Please find below links to copies of the Lecture Summary for Lesson 1, Week 8 on Acknowledgments & Citations.

Lecture Summary 8:1 - Acknowledgment & Citations


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Powerpoint Presentations: Week 8:1Acknowledgements & Citations

Please find below links to pdf files of the PowerPoint presentation for Lesson 1, Week 8 on Acknowledgments & Citations

PowerPoint Presentation 8:1 -Acknowledgments & Citations


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Friday, April 18, 2008

Saturday 19th April 2008 Week 5: Lesson 2

A Quick Message: Sorry for not having been able to reply to your emails. I have been having major problems posting on my blogger site and also with accessing the internet at home [which is generally where I work]. I think however I have solved at least some of these problems and will start replying to emails. Sorry again. Be good and happy, Simon

Wednesday, April 9, 2008

Science At KAIST: SPRING 2008 Presentation Topics

The Topics for the Presentations in the Science at KAIST: Spring Seminar Series that have been receive so far are:

Presentation Topics

1. Han Seungchan: "The Photovoltaic Device’
2. Pak Jiwoo: "3-D SiP Design, Simulation and Test for T-DMB".
3. Hwang Chulsoon: "Vertical Electromagnetic Band Gap Structure for Suppression Cavity Resonance Noise of Multi-layer Printed Circuit Board"
4. Yoo Jeongsik: "Vertical Electromagnetic Bandgap(EBG) Structures for Broadband Noise Isolation in Multi-layer Package and Printed Circuit Board”
5. Jeon Namho: "Organic and Oxide Thin-Film Transistors"
6. Lee Joonsuk "Phase-change Nanowires for Applications of Memory Devices"
7. Kim Young-Min "Radiation induced transition aluminas from aluminum trihydroxide under electron beam"

Monday, April 7, 2008

Message From Simon 7th April 2008

Dear Friends,

Hope all is well. I'm just writing to let you know that I have taken advantage of the mid-term exam week 'break' to tidy up the blog spot and finally get around to writing up the summaries of each of the 14 lectures/learning sessions we have had so far.

You can find these located under the heading "Lecture Summaries" in the side bar to the left under the heading Blog Elements and in the list of postings for each week that can also be located in the side bar to the left under the heading "Posting by the Week" To make things a little bit easier I've also made a pdf file which has collected all 14 summaries together which can be found at the end of this message.

I've also managed to tidy up [although not edit to any great extent] each of the PowerPoints presentations for each of the lectures and these can be found in new pdf files for each of the lectures which can again be found again under the heading "PowerPoint Presentations" in the side bar to the left under the heading Blog Elements and also under the collection of postings for each week that can also be located in the side bar at the left under the heading Posting by the Week.

Thanks for all of you who have sent me preferred dates for your seminar presentations. I am still waiting for some people to provide theirs. I am also still waiting for some blurbs [bad people!!!] and will start writing some emails if I don;t get them soon. I am hoping that the Abstracts will begin to come in at the end of next week and I'll give you the details of what I want both in class and here on the blog during the course of this week.

The final thing of want to mention is that I will be redoing the photos for the purpose of the seminar series this Thursday so hurry out to your plastic surgeons, hairstylists and make-up artists and make yourself beautiful.

For now, be good and happy, best wishes,

Simon

p.s. the photo is of me aged 1.

pdf file of Lecture Summaries Weeks 1 to 7

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Thursday, April 3, 2008

Online Science Journals: First Monday

First Monday is one of the first openly accessible, peer–reviewed journals on the Internet, solely devoted to the Internet. Since its start in May 1996, First Monday has published 860 papers in 137 issues; these papers were written by 1,040 different authors. In addition, eight special issues have appeared. The most recent special issue was entitled A Web site with a view — The Third World on First Monday and it was edited by Eduardo Villanueva Mansilla. First Monday is indexed in Communication Abstracts, Computer & Communications Security Abstracts, DoIS, eGranary Digital Library, INSPEC, Information Science & Technology Abstracts, LISA, PAIS, and other services.

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'Science' Article of the Week 7: Someone Totally Doing It Somewhere Right Now

CHICAGO—According to a groundbreaking new study published Monday in The Journal Of The American Statistical Association, somewhere on the planet someone is totally doing it at this very moment. Scientists told reporters someone could be doing it right next door. "Of the 6.7 billion inhabitants of Earth, approximately 3.5 billion have reached sexual maturity," said Dr. Jerome Carver, a mathematics professor at the University of Chicago and lead author of the study. "From a statistical perspective, it simply stands to reason that at least two of these inhabitants are totally going at it right now. Like, as we speak."
Onion News January 8, 2008 | Issue 44•02

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Additional Reading: Week 7: The Discussion


Please find below some links to some addition reading for the theme: "The Discussion"

1. Writing up Research: Discussion [AIT, Bangkok]
2. Browns Plan [anon]
3. Communicative moves in the discussion section of research articles [Matthew Peacock]
4. Genre analysis, and the social sciences: An investigation of the structure of research article discussion sections in three disciplines [Richard Holmes]
5. Discussion [Kim Kastens et al, Columbia University]

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Lecture Summaries: Week 7: The Discussions

Please find below links to copies of the Lecture Summaries for Week 7 on writing up the Discussion section.

Lecture Summary 7:1 - "The Discussion [i]"

Lecture Summary 7:2 - "The Discussion [ii]"

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To see the timetable for the seminar series scroll down the page or click the link here. To check out the topics that have been submitted so far for the seminar series go here

Powerpoint Presentations: Week 7: The Discussions

Please find below links to pdf files of the PowerPoint presentations for Week 7 on writing up the Discussion section.

PowerPoint Presentation 7:1 "The Discussion [i]

PowerPoint Presentation 6:2 - "The Discussion [ii]"

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