Issue # 151 _ September 2008
Cover
- Bringing people together
- FAPESP launches program and summons researchers from many fields, from natural sciences to the humanities, to increase Brazil´s contribution in the study of global climate change
- The human face of weather
- The priority now is to keep natural disasters from making the lives of millions of people worse
- Clean fire
- Families from poor Asian and African nations use stoves that pollute less
S&T Policy
Computer Science
Possible dialogue
Award-winning dissertation of Unicamp student enables biologists to handle data collected using various methodologies
Science
Ecology
New underwater lands
Area of coral reefs in Abrolhos is twice as large as previously thought
Technology
Biomedical engineering
Real time protection
Equipment continuously evaluates how lungs on artificial respiration react in ICUs
Biomedical engineering
National pacemaker
Four universities take part in integrated circuit development
Mechanical Engineering
Cleaner oil
Process using ultraviolet radiation created to disinfect industrial fluids
Clinical analyses
Quick response
Portable device measures hemoglobin and allows for real-time diagnosis of anemia
Microelectronics
International Standards
High complexity integrated circuit design is prepared by a team of researchers from three universities
