In time these may also come to have a large impact on both the structure and the spirit of the university.
It was Brad Delong who first explained to me the woeful technological structure of the modern university (not explained just to me, wrote it on his blog).
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The finish coincided with the 50th anniversary of the discovery of the structure of DNA by scientists at Cambridge University and Kings College London.
That the whole teaching structure of a university is based upon the medieval expense of books.
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Dr Alizadeh, a graduate of the University of Tehran, is currently working at Ottawa University in Canada on the molecular structure of cement.
In just three weeks this fall, thousands of people playing the free downloadable game helped map the structure of an enzyme that could fight HIV and AIDS. Scientists at the University of Washington created Fold-it to turn research about protein folding into a game, dishing up puzzles made up of spirals and clumps that represent amino acids.
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Roderick MacKinnon, of the Rockefeller University, in New York, worked out the structure of the one that carries potassium.
"The electricity used in building a car is about 20 percent of the cost of the structure, " said Marcilio Alves, an engineering professor at Brazil's premier University of Sao Paulo and one of the few independent researchers in the nation looking at car safety.
But it's unclear whether Paterno's place in the Hall of Fame will go the way of his famed 900-pound bronze statute removed from the university earlier this week, a structure that once exuded a sense of permanence that greeted fans at Penn State.
Now, Prof Bert de With of the Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands and his colleagues have discovered a nano-structure solution to the problem.
Following that tradition, the brainiacs over at the University of Reading have developed a new nano-material electrode coating based on the cellular structure of plants.
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The four-storey structure, to be called The Forum, will be funded by Southend Borough Council, the University of Essex and South Essex College.
To overcome all this, LeRoy Olson, an engineer at the University of Washington, devised a barrel-shaped structure of metal rings.
Professor VICTOR FLEISCHER (University of Illinois): 2 and 20 is the lingo for the compensation structure that determines the pay of the fund manager.
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