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Muslim women in science… the real picture
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| UNESCO report indicated that the United States falls behind six Muslim countries in the percentage of women graduating in science to the total science graduate population including Bahrain, Brunei Darussalam, Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon and Qatar. Also, Turkey and Morocco exceeds the United States in the ratio of women engineering graduates as a percentage of the science graduate population. Yet, very seldom do positive depictions of Muslim women get portrayed by the western mainstream media. |
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EU-Africa Partnership Aims At Knowledge Access, Technology Transfer
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| The European Commission and African Union Commission have agreed to launch six projects in science, space and information technology in a bid to strengthen African scientific capacity, promote technical cooperation, facilitate technology transfer and accelerate the development of African education and research through increasing knowledge access and narrowing digital divide. |
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Pertrodollar science
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| The article tries to compare and put in context the latest science and education initiatives in 3 Arab Gulf countries: Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates. |
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Islamic Strategy: Knowledge Access, Local Innovation And IP Protection
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| Islamic states have declared 2009 “the year for renewal and innovation” and will launch a project to prepare a landmark map of science, technology and innovation to promote science and technology investment and technical cooperation both within the Islamic world, and between the Islamic world and Europe as well as setting up a centre to facilitate access to scientific publications and patent registration. |
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Medpedia
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| A collaborative project to collect the best information about health, medicine and the body and make it freely available worldwide. |
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Egg beater can be used in disease diagnosis
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| Scientists have shown how an egg beater can be made into a hand-held centrifuge to separate plasma from whole blood for testing in resource-poor settings in developing countries. |
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Orange peel could be used for cleaning up dirty water
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| Researchers have showed that orange peel has a considerable potential for the removal of dyes from aqueous solutions over a wide range of concentrations making it a low-cost, natural and abundant source for the removal of dyes. It may also be effective in removing other harmful or undesirable species present in the waste effluents. |
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