As researchers explore the North Atlantic, it represents only 1.4% of the surface of the ocean could contribute more than 20% of carbon sequestration by the ocean, and four core areas subtropical Atlantic and Pacific oceans that are real biological deserts still very poorly known, although over 60% of the surface of the ocean.

To study the characteristics of these different areas, Hervé Claustre and his team will develop and use profiling floats to optimal performance, as operable and multi-sensor remote. Recall that a classical multicycle float profiler performs preset cycles identical. So it can go up and down like a “yo-yo” between the surface and 2000 m depth by changing its buoyancy. The typical duration of these cycles is 10 days during which the float profiler performs physical measurements of salinity, temperature and depth. As for the transmission of data collected, it is via the Argos system which, if simple, robust and durable, does not radiate to the remote float profiler.

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Under the project “Tap water drinkable,” also called SENS’EAU, launched in 2006, a project endorsed by VITAGORA two doctoral thesis, funded by the group Lyonnaise des Eaux and directed by the Centre for Science of Taste and Food (AWSC), were scheduled. One of them was the perception of the taste of chlorine by consumers, an issue more important than the flavor of this chemical element is one of the recurring criticisms directed against the water tap. Also this thesis, written by Sabine Puget support that comes from Dijon, she had intended to send to highlight potential ways of neutralizing the sensory flavor in water. The significant results obtained during this study have opened up new avenues of exploration and in particular should lead to optimization of production standards.

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After Bled, Portoroz and Ljubljana in Slovenia, it was the turn of Austria to host the forthcoming conference of the 8th Central European pharmaceutical technologies [1]. It is in the city of Graz (Styria), the first Austrian city labeled “European Capital of Culture in 2003, the symposium will be held from 16 to 18 September 2010. It will be organized jointly by the University of Graz, Karl-Franzens University and the Technical University of Graz (TU Graz) and the center COMET K1 CJEP (Pharmaceutical Research Center Engineering GmbH). This event brings together every two years of top level scientists in the fields of engineering and pharmaceutical technology and young researchers with the results of their research first.

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After a number of presentations and exchange on issues Franco-Swedish, the French delegation had the opportunity to visit the operations center and satellite control station, and the balloon launch area.

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University Politehnica Bucharest (UPB) in collaboration with the Romanian Society of Chemistry (SCHR) organizes in Bucharest on 18 to 19 June 2010 a French scientific workshop entitled “New materials for electrochemical recognition of mineral and biological species (Nomar ). This workshop will bring together French and Romanian players, including five internationally renowned speakers. A dominant role is assigned to oral communications as well as posters for which the organizing committee will focus on the young researchers and PhD students.

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With the emergence of particular promise of personalized medicine and preventive medicine, the field of in vitro diagnostics is positioned as a keystone of the health systems of tomorrow. With continued growth, this sector represented in 2008 already a market of 10 billion euros in Europe, will become more crucial for the European economy.

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The contract foresees the modernization of the spaceport and other counts is the care of older structures, which are now of historical significance. Particular emphasis is put Kazakhstan on the protection of the surrounding environment – the contract talks about “increasing environmental safety, deployment of new, environmentally safer rocket engines and limited use of toxic rocket fuel.”

According to the contract has to grow new start Baikonur complex Bajterek (elm), which laid the foundation stone of five years ago, the President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev and the then Russian President Vladimir Putin. The complex is to be designed for the new Angara carrier rocket, which will replace the existing Soyuz and will be friendly to the environment.

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The main tahakum to include mobile internet and cloud computing, which enables you to run computer applications or store data directly on the Internet.

Like last year, the traditional parade to cope with a tide of exhibitors. Their number is, despite this year’s 300 recruits and the return of some hundreds of renowned companies such as AMD, Motorola, Sony Ericsson and Telefonica lowest in the last twenty years. Even in 2001 there were over 8000 and their products came to Hanover to see 850 thousand visitors. Last year the exhibition hall was visited by 400 thousand people and experts expect that this year the number of candidates from the professional and lay public falls well below this threshold.

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A seminar for high level training was held from 8 to 10 February 2010 by the department of scientific cooperation SCAC on the theme of nuclear reactors generating 4. It was attended by about forty listeners, students and researchers, mainly in Slovakia but also Czechs, Hungarians and Poles.

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The success of Avatar, Nominated for best picture, as if it were not in every scene the blue color of the skin of his characters had changed. “Computers have a color space different from a movie we can not always reproduce the colors we see on the computer screen on film and vice versa,” says Wilforth Mark, an electrical engineer who specializes in FilmLightLimited Company imaen . To overcome this difficulty and Tony Mark Sedivy developed Wolforth Truelight, “A color manager that maintains the same tone all the time and in any medium, which has earned them an Oscar.

Per Christensen, Michael Bunnell, and Christophe Hery, Pixar, had also received an award from the academy to develop for Up, Another best-picture nominees, a system of lighting provides indirect “effects of color bleeding and realistic shadows for complex scenes in animated films.

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