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• Coal and climate change - part three.

  - 2007-06-15

  Byline: Paula Wallace Jun 15, 2007 (Australian Journal of Mining - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Iain MacGill believes the world has perhaps only 10 years in which it can take action that will reduce increases in global warming to manageable levels. With the coal...

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• Scopus Chosen by Leading Australian Institutes.

  - 2007-04-25

  AMSTERDAM, April 25 /PRNewswire/ -- - Helping Researchers Answer the Research Quality Framework Requirements Set by the Government. ScopusR, the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature and quality web sources with smart tools to track, analyze and visualize research,...

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• Meet the PDA that can hold a conversation.

  - 2003-10-06

  Oct 06, 2003 (The Sydney Morning Herald - ABIX via COMTEX) Two researchers at the University of New South Wales have developed a prototype that provides mobile technology with a human interface. The natural language technology, known as inCA, allows people to interact more...

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• Silicon Optoelectronic Outlook Brightens.

  - 2003-07-01

  Researchers from the University of New South Wales UNSW have found that silicon may be able to emit more light than previously thought. This result, recently reported in Applied Physics Letters, opens up the possibility of using the semiconductor industry's workhorse material in optoelectronics. For years, bulk crystalline...

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• Sky spy to cut wildlife roadkill: satellite focus on crossings.

  - 2003-05-12

  May 12, 2003 (The Daily Telegraph - ABIX via COMTEX) Scientists hope to identify the most dangerous roads for wildlife on the central coast of New South Wales. According to WIRES, an animal rescue organisation, nine hundred animals die each day on roads in the...

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• Executive options disclosure rules "a con".

  - 2003-05-09

  May 08, 2003 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) An Australian regulatory demand that executive options be valued has sparked debate in accounting circles. The Australian Securities & Investments Commission ASIC announced on 7 May 2003 it will require companies to value...

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• Deaf aid fits like a glove.

  - 2002-08-26

  Aug 26, 2002 The Australian ABIX via COMTEX -- The University of New South Wales is developing a set of gloves that translate sign language into English. This development, which uses a computer program to translate signs into words displayed on a computer monitor,...

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• Shedding light on fast chips.

  - 2001-08-24

  Aug 25, 2001 The Australian ABIX via COMTEX -- Australian researchers have discovered a breakthrough in silicon microchip communication. Researchers at the University of New South Wales have found a way to enable microchips to communicate by light. The findings could have significant implications...

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• NSW scientists light the way to much faster computers.

  - 2001-08-22

  Aug 23, 2001 The Australian Financial Review ABIX via COMTEX -- Australian scientists have made a major breakthrough in computer science. The discovery that light can be used to move information inside computers means that they can be made to work at much higher...

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• Australia Comes Out Of The Nano-Lab

  - 1998-05-28

  An Australian professor believes he could have a minute quantum computer out of the laboratories and into the real world within ten years. Nanotechnology, that rarified field of technological discovery most commonly associated with miniaturization, has thr own up the possibility of computers tiny enough to fit on the tip...

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