Tigers, men can live in harmony, says study - Deccan Herald

Tigers are not only capable of peacefully co-existing with man in the reserve forests but also, over the years, they have learnt how to thrive by lying low in day-time dominated by noisy human activities and being more active in the night, a new study has claimed. Even though the research was conducted among tigers in Chitwan Reserve Forest in Nepal, the researchers claimed that the methods and conclusion of the study are applicable to Indian forests in which both people and tigers live. Published in the September 3 issue of Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences, the study comes at a time when India is witnessing an intense tiger versus tourism debate in the wake of the Supreme Court’s recent directive on closing down core areas in tiger reserves.Since the entire forest is core area in most of the tiger reserves in India, the court order means an end of tourism in tiger parks.Analysing tiger behaviour at Chitwan between 2010 and 2011 through more than 75 camera t!
raps, researchers from Michigan State University and their colleagues in Nepal found that tiger density in the forest was high despite the ubiquitous presence of people. The big cats adapted to human presence by becoming more active at night and having a somewhat dormant life in the day, when human activities such as collection of woods or other forest resources and tourism would be at peak. Here, human refers to villagers, tourists and Nepal army personnel that patrol the Park.The estimates of tiger density in Chitwan were higher than sites in Central and North India where tigers and people coexist. Tiger occupancy in Chitwan was 12 to 30 per cent greater than sites in Indonesia and India. According to the last official estimate, Chitwan has about six breeding tigers in every 100 sq km.“The case of Chitwan.. is particularly fascinating, because Chitwan is a premier tourist destination.  (Here) tigers have a surprising capacity to adapt to high human presence and that!
tiger-human coexistence is enhanced by good management polici!
es and a local population tolerant of tigers,&rdquo; Neil H Carter, the first author of the paper from the US university told Deccan Herald.The increase in tiger count happened notwithstanding the 55 per cent raise in the presence of local residents between 2010 and 2011. The big cats seem to be using Forest Department roads to travel from one location to another avoiding jungle trails because the forest department roads are shorter and hence more energy efficient for them.Sohrabuddin Sheikh encounter case accused and suspended IPS officer, D G Vanzara at Sabarmati jail..<br />http://www.deccanherald.com/content/276285/tigers-men-can-live-harmony.html

Astronauts, family remember Neil Armstrong - Christian Science Monitor

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Hundreds of people attended a closed service for Armstrong Friday at a private club in suburban Cincinnati. A national memorial service has been scheduled for Sept. 12 in Washington, although no other details have been released on the service or burial plans for Armstrong. He died Saturday at age 82.<br />http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2012/0831/Astronauts-family-remember-Neil-Armstrong

Black Eyed Peas' will.i.am's song makes history on Mars - Los Angeles Times

“There’s no words to explain how amazing this is,” the singer, of Black Eyed Peas fame, said to the gathered audience, standing on stage with NASA astronaut Leland Melvin, the agency’s associate administrator for education.The song, called “Reach for the Stars,” was beamed back to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Cañada Flintridge, where will.i.am took the stage to answer questions from students from Boyle Heights, where he grew up. <br />http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2012/08/mars-rover-curiosity-how-black-eyed-peas-singer-william-made-history.html

Curiosity 'interrogates' Martian rock with laser - CNN

Curiosity began a two-year mission on Mars on August 6 and has been beaming back images of the surface of Gale Crater ever since. It is loaded with 10 instruments "to assess whether a carefully chosen study area inside Gale Crater has ever offered environmental conditions favorable for microbial life," NASA said."We had a bunch of strong contenders. It is the kind of dilemma planetary scientists dream of, but you can only go one place for the first drilling for a rock sample on Mars," said project scientist John Grotzinger. "That first drilling will be a huge moment in the history of Mars exploration."<br />http://articles.cnn.com/2012-08-19/us/us_mars-curiosity_1_martian-rock-john-grotzinger-gale-crater

Curiosity rover takes first short spin around Mars - Businessweek

After an action-packed landing that delicately lowered it to the surface with nylon cables, Curiosity has entered a slow streak. Since the car-size rover is the most sophisticated spacecraft sent to Mars, engineers have taken their time to make sure it's in tiptop shape and that its high-tech tools work before it delves into its mission.Before Curiosity journeys toward the mountain, it will take a detour to an intriguing spot 1,300 feet away where it will drill into bedrock. With the test drive out of the way, Curiosity was expected to stay at its new position for several days before making its first big drive â€" a trip that will take as long as a month and a half.<br />http://www.businessweek.com/ap/2012-08-22/mars-rover-curiosity-prepares-for-test-drive

NASA to launch another Mars exploration flight - Fox News

The space agency decided Monday to launch a relatively low-cost robotic lander in 2016 to check out what makes the Martian core so different from Earth\'s.",
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NASA to launch another Mars exploration flight

The mission will be run by NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab. The California lab is basking in the success of the $2.5 billion Mars Curiosity rover, which is starting to explore the planet's surface after a daring landing this month. Earlier this year, NASA pulled out of two Mars missions with the European Space Agency because it didn't have the $1.4 billion for the proposed 2016 and 2018 mission.<br />http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/08/20/nasa-to-launch-another-mars-exploration-flight/

University Structure

The current island-structure of universities is a way of wasting invaluable potentials. The existence of various disciplines in university is a golden opportunity, but people usually ignore it.

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Social and Cultural Activities in University

It should be taken into account that the main goal of attending universities is to experience academic life and culture; thus, students should not only look for their degree and graduation. Instead, they should enjoy their academic life, and degree is a consequence of their studies. To this aim, it is necessary to have solid cultural programs, providing a delightful environment for students. The design of social activities should not be independent programs for students’ free times; instead they should be designed as a part of the university united program. In other words, social activities are not extra services to students, but part of their academic programs.
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New CO2 findings may unlock secrets of global warming (+video) - The Capitol Column

&#8220;The Southern Ocean is a large window by which the atmosphere connects to the interior of the ocean below. Until now we didn&#8217;t know exactly the physical processes of how carbon ends up being stored deep in the ocean. It&#8217;s the combination of winds, currents and eddies that create these carbon-capturing pathways drawing waters down into the deep ocean from the ocean surface,&#8221; said lead author Jean-Baptiste Sallée from British Antarctic Survey. &#8220;Now that we have an improved understanding of the mechanisms for carbon draw-down we are better placed to understand the effects of changing climate and future carbon absorption by the ocean.&#8221;The team noted that the Southern Ocean could allow scientists to better predict how ocean currents and ocean systems around the world deal with the increasingly large amount of carbon dioxide. Until now, climate scientists understood little about the relationship between oceanic systems and carbon dioxide. Due !
to the size and remote location of the Southern Ocean, scientists have only recently been able to explore the workings of the ocean with the help of the small robotic probes.<br />http://www.capitolcolumn.com/news/new-co2-findings-may-unlock-secrets-of-global-warming-video/

How summer thunderstorms could be punching new holes in the ozone layer - Christian Science Monitor

In fact, Anderson's team initially was working on another climate problem: the formation of cirrus clouds and their effect on climate. Clouds represent one of the big areas of uncertainty in climate models. And cirrus clouds can have a warming effect on climate by allowing sunlight through but trapping heat rising up from underneath. The tops of thunderheads are one source of cirrus clouds, which assume their feather-like appearance as high-altitude winds blow across the tops of the thunderheads, giving them their anvil shape.The study points to &quot;the potential for a pretty significant effect on stratospheric ozone at latitudes where we normally wouldn't think that would happen,&quot; said Mario Molina, an atmospheric scientist at the University of California at San Diego who shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1995 with the late Frank Rowland. The two worked out the chemistry behind stratospheric ozone depletion and chlorofluorocarbons, once widely used as refrigeran!
ts and aerosol-spray propellants.<br />http://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/2012/0726/How-summer-thunderstorms-could-be-punching-new-holes-in-the-ozone-layer

Electricity pumps artificial jellyfish through water - BBC News

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Stanford Researchers Complete 1st Complete Computer Model of an Organism - CleanTechnica

&#8220;This achievement demonstrates a transforming approach to answering questions about fundamental biological processes,&#8221; said James M. Anderson, director of the National Institutes of Health Division of Program Coordination, Planning and Strategic Initiatives. &#8220;Comprehensive computer models of entire cells have the potential to advance our understanding of cellular function and, ultimately, to inform new approaches for the diagnosis and treatment of disease.&#8221;Cells that took longer to begin DNA replication had time to amass a large pool of free nucleotides. The actual replication step, which uses these nucleotides to form new DNA strands, then passed relatively quickly. Cells that went through the initial step quicker, on the other hand, had no nucleotide surplus. Replication ended up slowing to the rate of nucleotide production.<br />http://cleantechnica.com/2012/07/22/stanford-researchers-complete-1st-complete-computer-model-of-an-organism/

Iceberg breaks off from Greenland's Petermann Glacier - BBC News

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Institutional Mission and University

University administration should generate a pool of creative ideas for faculty members. When designing an academic research project, professors know the general preferences of a university, but not necessarily specific policy of their own university.

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Mars rover lands on Xbox Live - USA TODAY

Posted document.write(niceDate("7/16/2012 1:12 PM")); | Updated document.write(niceDate("7/16/2012 1:17 PM"));A screenshot from the Mars Rover Landing game.<br />http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/space/story/2012-07-16/nasa-mars-rover-game/56253212/1

Russian Soyuz blasts off for International Space Station - BBC News

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University as a Country

The structure of a university is very similar to a country, and its management system too; a smaller society but utopia, due to its sophisticated community. Factors like national benefits, patriotism, and nostalgia are all (and must be) the case in a smaller scale. Even outsiders (usually in administrative roles) are expected to behave like loyal alumni, learn the school alma mater, and become interested in in the major sport teams, and other traditional functions of the university. This practical allegory is to utilize available models. The athletic success in Olympic is of political important (not just fun) for a country, it is the same for a university fame (for attracting students). The reasons and motivations of students for attending a university are like those of immigration. Thus, university leadership should empower its own country through united national strategies. This is the reason that today’s university essential needs to implement change. The ratio of people living in developed country to those living in developing countries from one to two (in 1995) is approaching one to four (in 2010)



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New Trigger For North Atlantic Phytoplankton Blooms Discovered - PlanetSave.com

[...] New Trigger For North Atlantic Phytoplankton Blooms DiscoveredPlanetSave.comEvery year, in the North Atlantic Ocean, there occurs what&#039;s known as the North Atlantic Bloom. It&#039;s caused an immense number of phytoplankton bursting into existence. The seawater first turns green, and then whitish, as a progression of different &#8230;Swirling currents fuel huge blooms in North Atlanticmsnbc.comSwirling ocean prompts plankton blooms, suggests studyChristian Science MonitorNew trigger for plankton &#039;blooms&#039; foundUPI.comThe Bunsen Burner&nbsp;-Bangor Daily News&nbsp;-Kansas City infoZineall 33 news articles&nbsp;&raquo; [...]&#8220;Springtime blooms of microscopic plants in the ocean absorb enormous quantities of carbon dioxide, much like our forests, emitting oxygen via photosynthesis. Their growth contributes to the oceanic uptake of carbon dioxide, amounting globally to about one-third of the carbon dioxide we put into the air each year through the burnin!
g of fossil fuels. An important question is how this &#8216;biological pump&#8217; for carbon might change in the future as our climate evolves.&#8221;<br />http://planetsave.com/2012/07/07/new-trigger-for-north-atlantic-phytoplankton-blooms-discovered/