Deloitte is adding to its workforce of 45, 000 in response to growth across areas such as financial services, heath care and life sciences and technology.
The life sciences and clean technology industries had the highest percentage of women investors at 18 percent and 15 percent respectively.
Throughout the next decade major trends through an intermix of the life sciences and information technology will involve increasing use of biotechnological processes in understanding life, eradicating hereditary diseases, developing novel bio-industries, and furthering the uses of biomedical products in conserving the quality of life and the environment through the promotion of clean technologies.
Nasa said that the investigations will cover human research, biological and physical sciences, technology development, Earth observation, and education.
In two key areas - biological sciences and engineering and technology - they accounted for 72% and 62% respectively.
If there aren't any organics, that may suggest there's something on the planet destroying these molecules, says James Wray, assistant professor of Earth and atmospheric sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology and collaborator on the Curiosity science team.
"The UrtheCast camera will support the ISS and continue to inspire youth to pursue advanced studies in space sciences and spark interest in science, technology, engineering and the environment, " says Dr.Williams.
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About 18% of the academics were from the physical sciences, 21% from engineering and technology, 22% from the social sciences, 15% from clinical subjects, 13% from life sciences and 11% from the arts and humanities.
He focuses on a wide range of industry sectors including, software, web-based companies, life sciences, information technology, and government contractors.
The research was originally funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and is currently continuing under Technology Strategy Board funding, with Siemens as an industrial partner.
As a professor in the department of brain and cognitive sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he's using a combination of mathematical modeling, computer simulation and behavioral experiments to explain how people learn new things.
This forum will bring together various partners of UNESCO, as the International Council for Science (ICSU), the World Federation of Engineering Organizations, the International Council of Social Sciences (ICSS), the Brazilian Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation and the Brazilian Academy of Sciences.
Technologists hold a bachelor's degree in medical technology or life sciences and certification from a registered board.
American taxpayers are subsidizing the training of tens of thousands of foreign graduate students in sciences, math, engineering and information technology at top American universities.
The approach mentioned above needs innovations and inventions in core technology areas such as material sciences, electronics, fluid mechanics, power systems and the like.
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Asher Edelman was one of the early 1980s corporate raiders, strong-arming companies like computer maker Management Assistance, real estate outfit Canal-Randolph and technology firm Mohawk Data Sciences.
On iReport, Lindsay posts under the name "infoaddict, " which seems fitting for a former librarian and information technology expert with masters' degrees in literature and library information sciences.
This is thanks first to the DNA sequencing technology introduced by 454 Life Sciences (now part of Roche), and then to the even faster, cheaper technology introduced by Illumina, which is now the dominant maker of DNA sequencing gear.
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Promotes policies and strengthens human and institutional capacities in science, technology and innovation, with special emphasis on the basic sciences.
The Forum on Science, Technology and Innovation for Sustainable Development is organized by the International Council for Science (ICSU) in partnership with UNESCO, the World Federation of Engineering Organizations (WFEO), the International Council of Social Sciences, the Brazilian Department of Science, Technology and Innovation and the Academy Brazilian Science.
The opportunity to make a quicker, bigger buck in high-tech has traditionally skewed the Midas List toward information technology investors and away from the life sciences.
The Forum is organised by ICSU, in partnership with UNESCO, the World Federation of Engineering Organizations (WFEO), the International Social Science Council (ISSC), the Brazilian Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation and the Brazilian Academy of Sciences.
Rather than a strictly health care company, Agilent develops measurement technology used in chemical analysis, life sciences, diagnostics and genomics and electronic measurement.
Companies must have gone public or been acquired after June 1995 to be considered, and they must be engaged in information technology or life sciences.
Ricardo Dolmetsch, a researcher at Stanford University and the Allen Institute for Brain Sciences, is using stem cell technology to study how the neurons of people with autism differ from those of other people.
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More of them were therefore likely to take the two sciences normally required for entry onto STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) degree courses at university.
This is a combination of sophisticated steerable drilling technology using modern micro-seismic imaging and advanced material sciences, to create webs of minuscule cracks in shale and release abundant trapped natural gas.
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Information technology concern Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) has flexed both fundamental and technical muscle over the past few months.
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The Chinese Academy of Sciences, with a staff of 54, 600 academics, is the biggest science and technology research organization in the world.
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The firm uses a foundation- and endowment-like approach to portfolio construction, investing primarily in early-stage technology companies, with some allocation to life sciences as well as early and growth investments in India and China.
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