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• ITA
• 2009

ITA 2009 — Afirmações sobre as notícias do MIT: doutorado em quântica e consumo de combustível

Improving people’s lives, one device at a time (MIT News) Using a bicycle wheel to thresh millet and making LEGO-like bricks from dirt were among the projects designed during a month-long summer workshop at MIT to help improve the lives of millions of people living in the world’s developing countries. MIT awarded $3M for training program in quantum information science (MIT News) MIT has been awarded a $3 million grant from the National Science Foundation to establish a pioneering doctoral-study program in the growing field of quantum information science, which poses great potential in supercomputing. MIT researchers offer glimpse of rare mutant cells (MIT News) MIT biological engineers have developed a new imaging system that allows them to see cells that have undergone a specific mutation. The work could help scientists understand how precancerous mutations arise. MIT recommends steps to slash fuel use by 2035 (MIT News) Detailed analyses in a new MIT report published this month conclude that over the next 25 years, the fuel consumption of new vehicles could be reduced by 30-50 percent and total U.S. fuel use for vehicles could be cut to year 2000 levels. Protection built to scale-fish scale, that is (MIT News) Scientists seeking to protect the soldier of the future can learn a lot from a relic of the past, according to an MIT study of a primitive fish that could point to more effective ways of designing human body armor. MIT Portugal students win entrepreneurship competition (MIT News) Researchers and students from the MIT Portugal Program hope a new biotechnology they developed will help treat patients with medical complications from abnormal protein breakdown. http://web.mit.edu/engineering, em 19/09/2008 (adapted).

Fonte: MIT News, 2008-09-19.

De acordo com a página da web: I. o MIT recebeu recursos para implementar um curso de pós-graduação na área de Ciência da Informação Quântica. II. o MIT sediou evento de um mês para atrair pessoas que vivem em países em desenvolvimento. III. o brinquedo LEGO foi utilizado como protótipo em um dos projetos do Workshop de verão realizado no MIT. IV. dentro de aproximadamente 25 anos, o consumo de combustíveis dos veículos americanos poderá ser semelhante ao consumo dos veículos no início desta década. Está(ão) correta(s)

1. A A) apenas I e II.
2. B B) apenas I e IV.
3. C C) apenas II e III.
4. D D) apenas II e IV.
5. E E) apenas III e IV.