Welcome to a generous selection of articles from DAWN's Weekly Sci-Tech World.
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Impact of the climate change
 THE climate of Earth has remained unstatic since the planet’s creation. Factors that govern changes in climate include composition and concentration of gases in atmosphere, solar radiation reaching earth, shapes and...
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Put your scientific documents on web
 THE preparation of scientific and mathematical documents is an integral part of academic, research and teaching career. Many of these documents can be composed using a word processor. However, most word...
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Webwatch
 BEST things in life are for free! If you don’t believe in this at least this site does. It aims to spread the knowledge around for free by offering some excellent tutorials that present science and math concepts in ways designed to appeal to intelligent...
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Pump up your vocabulary
PUMP up your computer-related vocabulary. Load your brains with these frequenty used i-terms. Attachment: When one is communicating via email, it is quite common to include a data file along with the message. This file is called an “attachment.” While email was not originally designed to allow for the delivery of element....
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The largest SWRO desalination in the Gulf region
AL-Jubail is a small city, 80 kilometres north of Dammam in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. But, at the same time, it is the biggest industrial complex in the whole Middle...
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Connecting the world digitally
 THE interest in the internet is exponentially growing with increase in online activities. More people are logging on to do things online. Given its quick and efficient means of information delivery,...
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Ethical aspect of new medical techniques
 THE later half of the previous century has seen an avalanche of development in medical and surgical techniques causing such interventions in human life that it has raised many moral and...
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New worm strikes PCs around the world
 A FAST-SPREADING computer worm called “Sasser” has hit personal computers around the world last Monday, causing infected systems to reboot without warning and disrupting banking and other business in one...
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DNA computers to fight diseases
 ISRAELI scientists have developed tiny devices able to detect signs of cancer, and release drugs to treat the disease....
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Foreign IT firms urged to employ local manpower
MINISTER for Information Technology Awais Ahmad Khan Leghari on Monday urged the foreign companies seeking access to Pakistan’s telecom and IT markets to enter into partnership with local players and software...
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HEC launched chemistry core group
THE Higher Education Commission (HEC) has constituted a national core group in chemistry to work out a strategy for strengthening of chemical science education in the country....
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Byteback
 RPC message Whenever I go online, after a few minutes a warning flashes on the screen which reads that remote procedure call (RPC) has failed. As a result, my system is forced...
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WLED: cool, clear, white light at home
 IMAGINE saving 95 per cent of your electricity bill for lighting. This is now possible with a new kind of bulb based on solid-state lighting. Unlike a filament bulb...
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Science and technology vital for progress: Ata
THE deciding factors behind the progress and development of ruling economies are the ideas and technologies which emerge only from a broad-based application of science and technology (S&T)....
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ITeaser
THINK your IT knowledge is really good? Rack your brain with this I-Teaser and find out for sure:...
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Cool gadgets
 NEC’s “Lookpal” is a Linux-based PDA , which is equipped with Intel’s 400MHz PXA255 processor on its CPU, an 8.4-inch LCD display and a built-in CD-ROM drive. This tablet PC like PDA which is designed for web browsing, viewing...
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