A new way to combine soft materials
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Harvard University
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2018-02-28
very complex human tool, from the first spear to latest smartphone, has contained multiple materials wedged, tied, screwed, glued or soldered together. But the next generation of tools, from autonomous squishy robots to flexible wearables, will be soft. Combining multiple soft materials into a complex machine requires an entirely new toolbox — after all, there’s no such thing as a soft screw.Curr...
China Focus: China's "single economy" provides business opportunities
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Xinhuanet
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2018-02-13
XI'AN, Feb. 13 (Xinhua) -- While a rising number of single people worry their Chinese parents, the demographic shift has become a business opportunity for retailers and service providers.Cui Sha, 33, works in a training agency in Beijing. Like many singles who live alone and have a large disposable income and willingness to spend, Cui has a unique requirement in choosing furniture and home app...
This age-detecting algorithm can make your smartphone child-proof
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BGR India
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2018-02-12
Finding it hard to keep your phone out of your toddlers’ reach? Take heart, a newly developed age-detecting algorithm can automatically figure out if your kid is swiping the screen and also block apps that you want to keep off-limits to them, a study has showed.Researchers from the University of South Carolina and Zhejiang University in China developed an age-detecting algorithm that is 84 percen...
New CBE Exchange Program with Zhejiang University to Launch Soon
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Colorado State University
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2018-02-06
CBE is bringing the world closer together through complementary research and education initiatives. For the past 18 months, department head, Dr. David Dandy, and Professor Kenneth Reardon have led the development of a collaboration with the College of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China, located about an hour from Shanghai.Undergraduate and graduate studen...
American, Chinese scientists find new way to develop flu vaccines
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China Daily
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2018-01-19
A team of American and Chinese scientists have found a new approach to vaccine development that may effectively prevent the seasonal flu, a new study says.Scientists from two countries used cutting-edge genomics to identify and eliminate the virus' defense mechanisms, enabling them to develop a vaccine candidate that in animals has been proven to be safe and highly effective against influenza,...
Chinese researchers find "secret weapon" of weed
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Xinhuanet
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2017-10-27
HANGZHOU, Oct. 24 (Xinhua) -- Scientists from eastern China's Zhejiang Province have used genomic analysis to uncover how weeds suppresses the growth of other plants.The research, headed by professor Fan Longjiang with the College of Agriculture and Biotechnology of Zhejiang University, was published in the journal Nature Communications last week.Allelopathy...
TCM explored to fight chronic disease globally
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China Daily
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2016-10-31
US and Chinese health experts have joined hands to explore traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) as a health promoting approach to reduce the worldwide burden of chronic disease and add to new knowledge about well-being at the community level. In a long-term project launched by the Stanford Prevention Research Center and the Chronic Disease Research Institute at Zhejiang  ...
Universities join to promote patient wellness
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China Daily
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2016-10-18
A long-term project focused on prevention and well-being was recently launched in Hangzhou, in East China's Zhejiang Province, to find solutions to the world's growing chronic disease problems. The Stanford Prevention Research Center (SPRC) in partnership with researchers at Zhejiang University launched the project WELL-China this month as part of the center&#...
Engineering at Illinois and Zhejiang University partner on Joint Institute for Engineering
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The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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2016-04-15
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and its College of Engineering have accepted an invitation from Zhejiang University to form a joint engineering institute. Beginning in the Fall 2016, about 150 undergraduate students will study civil engineering, computer engineering, electrical engineering, and mechanical engineering at the Institute. The degrees these ...
Boston University and Zhejiang University Agreement
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Boston University
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2014-10-31
On October 31, 2014, Boston University and Zhejiang University in China signed an agreement that has developed a framework of cooperation between the College of Engineering at BU through its Center for Information and Systems Engineering (CISE) and the Faculty of Information Technology at Zhejiang through its State Key Laboratory of Industrial Control Techno...