Lahore students can wear regular clothes for one month during school timings. This measure is taken to control Dengue virus. Students are instructed to wear full sleeves and pants during school timings.
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Regular clothes for one month in Lahore schools
Lahore students can wear regular clothes for one month during school timings. This measure is taken to control Dengue virus. Students are instructed to wear full sleeves and pants during school timings.
Student Recovered
The student about whose kidnap we reported yesterday, Nadir Khan of Iqra Public School, has been recovered from Dera Ismail Khan today. Two kidnappers, Faridullah, and Abid Ali were arrested in the case.
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Scientists claim measuring faster-than-light particles
A fundamental pillar of physics - that
nothing can go faster than the speed of light - appears to be smashed by
an oddball subatomic particle that has apparently made a giant end run
around Albert Einstein's theories.
Scientists at the world's largest physics lab said Thursday they have clocked neutrinos travelling faster than light. That's something that according to Einstein's 1905 special theory of relativity - the famous E (equals) mc2 equation - just doesn't happen.
"The feeling that most people have is this can't be right, this can't be real," said James Gillies, a spokesman for the European Organisation for Nuclear Research, or CERN, outside the Swiss city of Geneva.
Gillies told The Associated Press that the readings have so astounded researchers that they are asking others to independently verify the measurements before claiming an actual discovery.
"They are inviting the broader physics community to look at what they've done and really scrutinise it in great detail, and ideally for someone elsewhere in the world to repeat the measurements," he said Thursday.
Scientists at the competing Fermilab in Chicago have promised to start such work immediately.
"It's a shock," said Fermilab head theoretician Stephen Parke, who was not part of the research in Geneva. "It's going to cause us problems, no doubt about that - if it's true."
The Chicago team had similar faster-than-light results in 2007, but those came with a giant margin of error that undercut its scientific significance.
Outside scientists expressed skepticism at CERN's claim that the neutrinos - one of the strangest well-known particles in physics - were observed smashing past the cosmic speed barrier of 299,792km per second.
University of Maryland physics department chairman Drew Baden called it "a flying carpet", something that was too fantastic to be believable.
CERN says a neutrino beam fired from a particle accelerator near Geneva to a lab 730km away in Italy travelled 60 nanoseconds faster than the speed of light. Scientists calculated the margin of error at just 10 nanoseconds, making the difference statistically significant. But given the enormous implications of the find, they still spent months checking and rechecking their results to make sure there was no flaws in the experiment.
"We have not found any instrumental effect that could explain the result of the measurement," said Antonio Ereditato, a physicist at the University of Bern, Switzerland, who was involved in the experiment known as OPERA.
The CERN researchers are now looking to the United States and Japan to confirm the results.
A similar neutrino experiment at Fermilab near Chicago would be capable of running the tests, said Stavros Katsanevas, the deputy director of France's National Institute for Nuclear and Particle Physics Research. The institute collaborated with Italy's Gran Sasso National Laboratory for the experiment at CERN.
Katsanevas said help could also come from the T2K experiment in Japan, though that is currently on hold after the country's devastating March 11 earthquake and tsunami.
Scientists agree if the results are confirmed, that it would force a fundamental rethink of the laws of nature.
Einstein's special relativity theory that says energy equals mass times the speed of light squared underlies "pretty much everything in modern physics," said John Ellis, a theoretical physicist at CERN who was not involved in the experiment. "It has worked perfectly up until now."
He cautioned that the neutrino researchers would have to explain why similar results weren't detected before, such as when an exploding star - or supernova - was observed in 1987.
"This would be such a sensational discovery if it were true that one has to treat it extremely carefully," said Ellis.
Scientists at the world's largest physics lab said Thursday they have clocked neutrinos travelling faster than light. That's something that according to Einstein's 1905 special theory of relativity - the famous E (equals) mc2 equation - just doesn't happen.
"The feeling that most people have is this can't be right, this can't be real," said James Gillies, a spokesman for the European Organisation for Nuclear Research, or CERN, outside the Swiss city of Geneva.
Gillies told The Associated Press that the readings have so astounded researchers that they are asking others to independently verify the measurements before claiming an actual discovery.
"They are inviting the broader physics community to look at what they've done and really scrutinise it in great detail, and ideally for someone elsewhere in the world to repeat the measurements," he said Thursday.
Scientists at the competing Fermilab in Chicago have promised to start such work immediately.
"It's a shock," said Fermilab head theoretician Stephen Parke, who was not part of the research in Geneva. "It's going to cause us problems, no doubt about that - if it's true."
The Chicago team had similar faster-than-light results in 2007, but those came with a giant margin of error that undercut its scientific significance.
Outside scientists expressed skepticism at CERN's claim that the neutrinos - one of the strangest well-known particles in physics - were observed smashing past the cosmic speed barrier of 299,792km per second.
University of Maryland physics department chairman Drew Baden called it "a flying carpet", something that was too fantastic to be believable.
CERN says a neutrino beam fired from a particle accelerator near Geneva to a lab 730km away in Italy travelled 60 nanoseconds faster than the speed of light. Scientists calculated the margin of error at just 10 nanoseconds, making the difference statistically significant. But given the enormous implications of the find, they still spent months checking and rechecking their results to make sure there was no flaws in the experiment.
"We have not found any instrumental effect that could explain the result of the measurement," said Antonio Ereditato, a physicist at the University of Bern, Switzerland, who was involved in the experiment known as OPERA.
The CERN researchers are now looking to the United States and Japan to confirm the results.
A similar neutrino experiment at Fermilab near Chicago would be capable of running the tests, said Stavros Katsanevas, the deputy director of France's National Institute for Nuclear and Particle Physics Research. The institute collaborated with Italy's Gran Sasso National Laboratory for the experiment at CERN.
Katsanevas said help could also come from the T2K experiment in Japan, though that is currently on hold after the country's devastating March 11 earthquake and tsunami.
Scientists agree if the results are confirmed, that it would force a fundamental rethink of the laws of nature.
Einstein's special relativity theory that says energy equals mass times the speed of light squared underlies "pretty much everything in modern physics," said John Ellis, a theoretical physicist at CERN who was not involved in the experiment. "It has worked perfectly up until now."
He cautioned that the neutrino researchers would have to explain why similar results weren't detected before, such as when an exploding star - or supernova - was observed in 1987.
"This would be such a sensational discovery if it were true that one has to treat it extremely carefully," said Ellis.
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www.3news.co.nzA Single Chancellor Being Considered For all Universities in Punjab
The Federation of AllPakistan Universities Academic Staff Associations` Punjab chapter has unanimously passed a resolution that there should be only one dedicated chancellor for all universities in Punjab.
The federation rejected the Punjab cabinet`s decision of appointing a separate chancellor in each university. It demanded that the federal government appoint a dedicated chancellor for each university, who should be a non-political person with a strong academic background fulfilling at least the eligibility of a university professor and should be independent of both the chief minister and the governor.
This was announced by FAPUASA President Prof Dr Mahr Saeed Akhtar, general-secretary Dr Abdul Qudoos Suhaib, Government College University Academic Staff Association President Prof Dr Hassan A. Shah and FAPUASA general-secretary Prof Dr Zafar Noon at a media briefing after the federation`s meeting at the Government College University on Thursday.
As Reported in Dawn News
The federation rejected the Punjab cabinet`s decision of appointing a separate chancellor in each university. It demanded that the federal government appoint a dedicated chancellor for each university, who should be a non-political person with a strong academic background fulfilling at least the eligibility of a university professor and should be independent of both the chief minister and the governor.
This was announced by FAPUASA President Prof Dr Mahr Saeed Akhtar, general-secretary Dr Abdul Qudoos Suhaib, Government College University Academic Staff Association President Prof Dr Hassan A. Shah and FAPUASA general-secretary Prof Dr Zafar Noon at a media briefing after the federation`s meeting at the Government College University on Thursday.
As Reported in Dawn News
Combat Against Dengue: PU takes its measures
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| Photo from PU website |
The Punjab University has set up a team of researchers to look for diagnostic, preventive and curative measures against the dengue virus.
Vice
Chancellor Prof Mujahid Kamran called a meeting of all the university’s
scientists involved in research connected to the dengue mosquito and
virus at the Centre for Undergraduate Studies on Thursday to coordinate
their research, said a PU press release.
The
vice chancellor told the scientists to submit their research proposals
and the administration would try to arrange funding for them as soon as
possible. He said that a separate budget for dengue research would be
drawn up.
CAMB
Director Dr Tayyab Hasnain said that three projects were recently
discussed at a meeting at the centre. “Firstly, we have a low-priced
powder which can be added to water to kill mosquitoes, but we need to
test it on the dengue mosquito. Secondly, there is the question of which
medicine is effective against dengue. And thirdly, can diagnostic PCR
analysis help diagnose a patient suffering from dengue fever.”
Dr
Fauzia Qamar briefed the meeting on her research into treatment. She
said hospitals had vastly improved their treatment of dengue patients
since the outbreak began. She said from talks with patients, it was
clear that there was a lot of misinformation about dengue.
She
said high-grade fever, vomiting, sore throat, and a decline in the
platelet count were symptoms of dengue infection, but did not
necessarily mean the patient had dengue. She said only 20 per cent of
people visiting hospital for fear they have dengue tested positive for
the disease.
She
said extreme muscle and joint pain, severe headache, muscle pain,
severe dizziness, spontaneous bruising, shivering, restlessness, loss of
appetite, weak pulse and a drastically reduced platelet counts were
authentic symptoms of dengue.
As Published in The Express Tribune, September 23rd, 2011.
Arts Students Highlight Country’s Political Scene
More than 50 students of the Government College University’s Textile and Fashion Design Department displayed their thesis work on Thursday.
The theme was the country’s current political, social and economic situation. Muhammad Tahir’s work highlighted the mudslinging among political parties and suicide bombings. Tahir, majoring in graphics, displayed his work on canvas.
Published in The Express Tribune, September 23rd, 2011.
Anniversary: Hazara University celebrates ten years of establishment
The Hazara University (HU) has organised a week-long series of events in the second week of October to celebrate ten years of its establishment.
The events will highlight activities and achievements of the university during the decade, besides reflecting its future vision, said the university’s Mass Communication Department Head Prof. Shaukat Ali.
Published in The Express Tribune, September 23rd, 2011.
Children's Literature Festivel
Children's Literature Festival is to be held on 25th and 26th of November at Children's Library Complex, Lahore.
The festival is being organised in collaboration with Foundation of Open Society Institute (FOSI), Pakistan, and Children`s Library Complex, its aim being, inculcate and encourage reading habit among children hence enhancing their creative and critical thinking skills
At the festival children shall get an opportunity to interact with famous writers and listen them reading from their favourite books and have discussions with them.
Lenardo di Vinchi the genius
In his last 6 years, Leonardo da Vinci worked for King Francis I of France. The king bought one of Leonardo’s paintings, which he hanged in his bathroom. Called La Gioconda, this portrait of Lisa Gherandini was the first painting to feature fading colors to create a sense of aerial perspective. Today it is better known as the Mona Lisa.
In 1912, the Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre, Paris. It took almost 3 years to recover. During that time, 6 forgeries turned up in the USA, each selling for a very high price. The original is, obviously, priceless.
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