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I am a freelance science writer based in Cambridge, England, I trained as a chemist and am a chartered member of the Royal Society of Chemistry. Currently I write for several magazines and websites on science, technology and medicine, covering everything from astronomy to zoology, by way of biomedicine, nanotechnology and browser wars.
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- August 25, 2010
- 08:00 AM
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Resolving conflicts to make finding a job easier
by David Bradley in Sciencetext
Politicians might tell you that, “the ongoing evaluation of global joblessness data can be represented by a negative slope on the current employment hysteresis”. Unemployment is on the rise, in other words. So, it’s rather timely that a powerful “meta job search” engine is being developed by Austrian and UK computer scientists. Tabbasum Naz of [...]Post from: David Bradley's Sciencetext Tech TalkResolving conflicts to make finding a job easier
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Tabbasum Naz, Jürgen Dorn, & Alexandra Poulovassilis. (2010) Configurable meta-search in the job domain. Int. J. Web Engineering and Technology, 6(1), 33-57. info:/
- August 20, 2010
- 04:26 AM
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What’s the point of the semantic web?
by sciencebase in Sciencebase Science Blog
I was scanning journal tables of contents as usual this week and it occurred to me that there must be a better way to find relevant and timely research information that would be of interest to Sciencebase readers…and, of course, out pops the following title: Technically approaching the semantic web bottleneck Sounded, perfect…kind of…but what’s [...]What’s the point of the semantic web? is a post from: Sciencebase Science Blog
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Nikolaos Konstantinou, Dimitrios-Emmanuel Spanos, Periklis Stavrou, & Nikolas Mitrou. (2010) Technically approaching the semantic web bottleneck. Int. J. Web Engineering and Technology, 6(1), 83-111. info:/
- August 19, 2010
- 11:30 AM
- 42 views
Cleaning up emissions
by sciencebase in Sciencebase Science Blog
Emissions trading is an economic workaround, a fudge if you will, to reducing one’s pollution levels by buying off the emissions credits of others who are polluting less. Emissions trading (also known as cap and trade) is a market-based approach used to control pollution by providing economic incentives for achieving reductions in the emissions of [...]Cleaning up emissions is a post from: Sciencebase Science Blog
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Currie, C. (2010) The biggest hole in Australia's version of the solution to climate change – what is wrong with its carbon reduction trading scheme. Interdisciplinary Environmental Review, 11(1), 27. DOI: 10.1504/IER.2010.034604
- August 12, 2010
- 08:00 AM
- 64 views
Who on Earth uses Flickr?
by David Bradley in Sciencetext
Flickr.com, in case you didn’t know, is an online photo repository, it’s now part of Yahoo, but nevertheless remains an incredibly popular site for sharing photos and creating galleries. It also acts as a neat resource for finding Creative Commons images for use on blogs and other sites. Flickr describes itself thus: You take photos. [...]Post from: David Bradley's Sciencetext Tech TalkWho on Earth uses Flickr?
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Amir Dotan, & Panayiotis Zaphiris. (2010) A cross-cultural analysis of Flickr users from Peru, Israel, Iran, Taiwan and the UK. Int. J. Web Based Communities, 6(3), 284-302. info:/
- August 10, 2010
- 08:00 AM
- 75 views
Ultrasonic plasma bubbles implode
by David Bradley in SciScoop Science Forum
If you’re having a baby scan, rest assured there’s nothing to worry about here, this piece of research is about high-energy ultrasound. The difference is like comparing a research laser beam to the light from a cheap flashlight… Anyway, according to Ken Suslick, when high-intensity ultrasound passes through a liquid, the expansion wave of the [...]... Read more »
Flannigan, D., & Suslick, K. (2010) Inertially confined plasma in an imploding bubble. Nature Physics. DOI: 10.1038/nphys1701
- August 10, 2010
- 08:00 AM
- 74 views
Social impact of science
by sciencebase in Sciencebase Science Blog
The social impact of science and knowledge evolution – New research that analyses 500 years of scientific history comes to the perhaps obvious conclusion that those nations that support science and the evolution of knowledge through education, infrastructure and funding, produce stronger societies the members of which have a better standard of living and are [...]Social impact of science is a post from: Sciencebase Science Blog
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Luiz C.M. Miranda, & Carlos A.S. Lima. (2010) On trends and rhythms in scientific and technological knowledge evolution: a quantitative analysis. Int. J. Technology Intelligence and Planning, 6(1), 76-109. info:/
- July 26, 2010
- 08:00 AM
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Headhunting goes automatic for the people
by sciencebase in Sciencebase Science Blog
Very few people work alone in the so-called knowledge economy. Even a lowly freelance science writer has a network of editors, publishers and other associates on which they rely to get their words out to an audience. The point is even more apparent in the world of research where often vast teams of experts must [...]Headhunting goes automatic for the people is a post from: Sciencebase Science Blog
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Neil Rubens, Mikko Vilenius, Toshio Okamoto, & Dain Kaplan. (2010) CAFE: Collaboration Aimed at Finding Experts. Int. J. Knowledge and Web Intelligence, 1(3/4), 169-186. info:/
- July 23, 2010
- 01:16 PM
- 93 views
Sweet sensors
by sciencebase in Sciencebase Science Blog
Nothing new under the sun, as the bard said, and how true it is sometimes. No sooner had I posted a news article on spectroscopynow.com entitled “Sweet sense of GOD” than Santhosh Challa, a Senior Scientist at Merck & Co in New Jersey, USA, got in touch to tell me that his team had also [...]Sweet sensors is a post from: Sciencebase Science Blog
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Bwambok, D., Challa, S., Lowry, M., & Warner, I. (2010) Amino Acid-Based Fluorescent Chiral Ionic Liquid for Enantiomeric Recognition. Analytical Chemistry, 82(12), 5028-5037. DOI: 10.1021/ac9027774
- July 20, 2010
- 08:00 AM
- 106 views
Just say no to sunscreen nanophobia!
by sciencebase in Sciencebase Science Blog
Once again we’re at a pivotal point in human development, where a novel technology might allow us to improve the lot of millions, perhaps billions of people across the globe and yet activists are invoking the precautionary principle and informing consumers of the possible dangers therein. As happened with vaccines, nuclear energy, genetically modified crops, [...]Just say no to sunscreen nanophobia! is a post from: Sciencebase Science Blog
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Thomas Faunce. (2010) Exploring the safety of nanoparticles in Australian sunscreens. Int. J. Biomed. Nanosci. Nanotechnol., 1(1), 87-94. info:/
- July 5, 2010
- 08:00 AM
- 164 views
The hidden, invisible, and private web
by sciencebase in Sciencebase Science Blog
Everyone knows that Google and the other search engines between them crawl, spider, and slurp up the whole internet, right? Wrong! The millions of websites that are obviously available on the internet are readily searchable, Google Bing, Yahoo, and their ilk have seen to that, we can usually find documents, pages, digital images, videos, music, [...]The hidden, invisible, and private web is a post from: Sciencebase Science Blog
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Peter Mork, Ken Smith, Barbara Blaustein, Christopher Wolf, Ken Samuel, Keri Sarver, & Irina Vayndiner. (2010) Facilitating discovery on the private web using dataset digests. International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies, 5(3), 170-183. info:/
- July 2, 2010
- 08:00 AM
- 158 views
Cyber attacks are criminal
by David Bradley in SciScoop Science Forum
The internet, electronic communications channels and computer technology that controls critical infrastructure together represent a new combat front on the international political stage. Several nations have been accused recently of cyber attacks, not least Russia and China, on the data centres of other governments. Whole power supply systems have been compromised on occasion and even [...]... Read more »
Sérgio Tenreiro de Magalhães, Henrique M. Dinis Santos, Leonel Duarte dos Santos, & Hamid Jahankhani. (2010) Cyberwar and the Russian Federation: the usual suspect. Int. J. Electronic Security and Digital Forensics, 3(2), 151-163. info:/
- June 30, 2010
- 08:00 AM
- 124 views
The search for intelligent television
by David Bradley in Sciencetext
The electronic program guide (EPG) on my digital cable box is next to useless, it’s a vast scrollable entity with no search function, same goes for the PVR. There are categories and various ways to jump between days and pages, but it’s not like searching on the web, which is what you really want, that [...]Post from: David Bradley's Sciencetext Tech TalkThe search for intelligent television
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Mila Nadrljanski, & V. Batinica. (2010) Intelligent media agents. Int. J. Intelligent Defence Support Systems, 3(1/2), 128-138. info:/10.1504/IJIDSS.2010.03368
- June 29, 2010
- 05:34 AM
- 111 views
The chemistry of an iPhone
by David Bradley in Reactive Reports Chemistry Blog
Apple’s Steve Jobs has a reputation for responding personally to some of the presumably millions of emails he receives. (Apparently, he does it on a weekly basis, which smacks of controlled PR campaign, if you ask me). One from “Derick” published on Wired and elsewhere purportedly asked about the chemistry of the iPhone 4. Derick [...]... Read more »
Rosman, K., Chisholm, W., Hong, S., Candelone, J., & Boutron, C. (1997) Lead from Carthaginian and Roman Spanish Mines Isotopically Identified in Greenland Ice Dated from 600 B.C. to 300 A.D. . Environmental Science , 31(12), 3413-3416. DOI: 10.1021/es970038k
- June 22, 2010
- 08:00 AM
- 133 views
App store communities
by David Bradley in Sciencetext
Have you ever tried to get into the Apple app store? Not as a consumer, but as a developer, I mean? Apparently, it’s pretty tough (just ask the guys from Opera or Wobble iBoobs!). App stores are all different with respect to their associated operating system, development language, the policy of approval and profit sharing [...]Post from: David Bradley's Sciencetext Tech TalkApp store communities
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Bong Gyou Lee, Gun Hee Lee, Yong Ho Shim, & Ajin Choi. (2010) Let developers run into the app store by lowering the barrier-to-entry. Int. J. Electronic Finance, 4(3), 201-220. info:/
- June 17, 2010
- 08:00 AM
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The push and pull of third world drugs
by sciencebase in Sciencebase Science Blog
Diseases can be classified as Type I (those that are incident in both rich and poor countries); Type II (those that are incident in both rich and poor countries but with a substantial proportion in poor countries, for example tuberculosis [and malaria]) and Type III (those that are overwhelmingly or exclusively [...]The push and pull of third world drugs is a post from: Sciencebase Science Blog
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Sudip Chaudhuri. (2010) R. Int. J. Technology and Globalisation, 5(1/2), 61-75. info:/
- June 8, 2010
- 08:00 AM
- 502 views
Testing tests
by sciencebase in Sciencebase Science Blog
Teaching is meant to help students learn, usually about a specific subject, but more broadly about social interactions, working in a team, under duress, about life in general. They say that your schooldays are the best days of your lives, but perish the thought I’ve never been one for clichés and that one smacks of [...]Testing tests is a post from: Sciencebase Science Blog
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Ana Paula Alturas, & Bráulio Alturas. (2010) Differentiation in the assessment between different groups of students: are experience and maturity more important than learning time?. Int. J. Information and Operations Management Education, 3(3), 256-271. info:/
- May 31, 2010
- 12:00 PM
- 183 views
Mumps vaccination and teenage swelling
by David Bradley in SciScoop Science Forum
Today’s SciScoop post is from a guest blogger who is a UK practice nurse with considerable clinical experience and concerns for the nations teens.
Over the course of the past couple of weeks, some interesting stats have come to my attention. Before I go any further, I will explain how I came to stumble over them. [...]... Read more »
Davis, N., McGuire, B., Mahon, J., Smyth, A., O’Malley, K., & Fitzpatrick, J. (2010) The increasing incidence of mumps orchitis: a comprehensive review. BJU International, 105(8), 1060-1065. DOI: 10.1111/j.1464-410X.2009.09148.x
- May 25, 2010
- 08:00 AM
- 140 views
Wheels within wheels – the scientific lifecycle
by sciencebase in Sciencebase Science Blog
An oft-repeated message from scientists involved with the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), mapping the human genome, the search for extraterrestrial life and other vast scientific projects, such as supercomputing experiments is that the tera-bytes, peta-bytes, perhaps even the yotta-bytes of data generated by large-scale projects is hard to handle, to say the least.
Not only has [...]Wheels within wheels – the scientific lifecycle is a post from: Sciencebase Science Blog
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Mattoso, M., Werner, C., Travassos, G., Braganholo, V., Ogasawara, E., Oliveira, D., Cruz, S., Martinho, W., & Murta, L. (2010) Towards supporting the life cycle of large scale scientific experiments. International Journal of Business Process Integration and Management, 5(1), 79. DOI: 10.1504/IJBPIM.2010.033176
- May 18, 2010
- 09:00 AM
- 151 views
SCAN for privacy in e-government
by David Bradley in Sciencetext
Of fifty US Senate websites, only about fifty percent have a comprehensive privacy policy. Now, in a week when it is revealed that Facebook’s privacy policy has more words than the US constitution is it any wonder that Americans are not so keen to trust e-government sites?
According to a Senior Lecturer in Computing Joanne Kuzma [...]Post from: David Bradley's Sciencetext Tech TalkSCAN for privacy in e-government
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Joanne Kuzma. (2010) An examination of privacy policies of US Government Senate websites. Electronic Government, An International Journal, 7(3), 270-280. info:/
- May 6, 2010
- 09:00 AM
- 172 views
Cloud workers: laborers, addicts, or slaves?
by David Bradley in Sciencetext
Wikipedia, Wordpress, Linux…the list of community-driven projects goes on with more and more people getting involved. They do so, it seems, purely for the sake of contributing, bettering themselves and the projects with which they become involved, almost always for no financial reward. This is not crowdsourcing. This is open-source production, collaborative learning, or online [...]Post from: David Bradley's Sciencetext Tech TalkCloud workers: laborers, addicts, or slaves?
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Jonathan R. Corney, Carmen Torres-Sánchez, A. Prasanna Jagadeesan, & William C. Regli. (2009) Outsourcing labour to the cloud. Int. J. Innovation and Sustainable Development, 4(4), 294-313. info:/
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