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Our program Development and Peace has stood by the people of South Sudan since before the country’s independence in 2011. During that time, Development and Peace supported several appeals made by Sudanaid (Caritas Sudan) to help communities cope with food shortages in times of crisis.
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Who Was Pythagoras?
Pythagoras (c. 580–500 B.C.) was an ancient Greek philosopher who was interested in numbers and their meanings. He discovered the relationships between mathematics and music, proposing that sounds and their relationships with other sounds can be measured using numbers. He also proposed that the Eart... |
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By Christy Pattengill-Semmens, REEF Director of Science
A REEF Advanced Assessment Team member surveys the fish assemblage on a restoration module at the Wellwood grounding site.Parrotfishes, such as this stoplight parrotfish terminal male, appear to be respondin... |
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5 Things to Know About X-Ray Radiationby Marianne Spoon
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Cell damage from radiation can alter our DNA, increasing the chances of our cells mutating during replication or even turning cancerous with time.
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WARF signs exclusive licensing contract on ultrasound technology
MADISON - Echometrix, a developer of proprietary ultrasound technology, and the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF), the private, non-profit patent and licensing organization for the University of Wisconsin-Madison, announced that they have signed... |
Cause of Death in Urban Africa: New Experiments with Verbal Autopsy Questionnaires in Accra, Ghana
Samantha Lattof, Harvard School of Public Health
Richard Biritwum, Ghana Medical School
In a pilot study conducted in Accra, Ghana, we first examine the completeness and coverage of these systems and then report on the us... |
From Employee to Green Entrepreneur
Environmental issues are front and center of our lives in the 21st century. Once people realize the impact of global warming and climate change on the planet, it’s a short step to wanting to actively do something about it. But if you can’t afford to spend your life working for change... |
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Professor Shivendra S. Panwar Speaks at FCC Post-Sandy Field Hearing
When Superstorm Sandy hit the East Coast in late October of 2012, about a quarter of the cell phone tower sites in the region shut down, causing millions of lost calls. With flood waters rising and winds raging, many could... |
Electrical resistivity in precision cranberry farming
soil variability
One of the most important issues in precision agriculture is to develop site specific principles of crop management based on variability of soil and hydrological properties. Accessing spatial variability of soil properties often require high-density... |
Neuroblastoma in Children
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Neuroblastoma is the second most common solid tumor in childhood affecting about 7% of all children with cancer. It is the most common solid ca... |
Ratio decompression
Ratio decompression (usually referred to in abbreviated form as ratio deco) is a technique for calculating decompression schedules for scuba divers engaged in deep diving without using dive tables, decompression software or a dive computer. It is generally taught as part of the "DIR" philosophy of d... |
Important mechanism involved in production of mosquito eggs identified
University of California - Riverside
Female mosquitoes rely on a blood-meal as a source of nutrients required for reproduction. If the mechanisms that govern mosquitoes' egg production are better understood, novel approaches to controlling the repro... |
Videoconferencing between hospital clinicians, nursing home staff offers new dementia treatment
Nursing homes in the United States care for increasing numbers of people with dementia, yet many lack access to geriatric psychiatrists, behavioral neurologists and other specialists who may help manage symptoms associated w... |
Transcriptome analyses suggest a disturbance of iron homeostasis in soybean leaves during white mold disease establishment.
Calla, B., Blahut-Beatty, L., Koziol, L., Simmonds, D.H., and Clough, S.J. (2014). "Transcriptome analyses suggest a disturbance of iron homeostasis in soybean leaves during white mold disease est... |
First Earth-Orbit Teleportation: China Teleports Object To Space Through Quantum Entanglement
11 July 2017, 9:41 pm EDT By Allan Adamson Tech Times
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Scientists from China made historic achievement with the first ever teleportation of an object from Earth to space. The experiment involved pairs of... |
Unlocking the Potential of Anaerobic Digesters
tags: anaerobic digestion, biogas digester, methane
by Ryan Stockwell The recent floods along the Red River focused the nation’s attention on yet another natural disaster. They also galvanized and united communities up and down the Red as they battled to save their homes a... |
ENDANGERED SPECIES BREEDING AND RESEARCH
Zoos are responding to species decline and are leading the way in preserving animal populations. Conservation breeding of threatened and endangered animals is conducted through Species Survival Plans (SSP), cooperative breeding programs coordinated through the Association of Zoo... |
Live-cell imaging to compare the transfection and gene silencing efficiency of calcium phosphate nanoparticles and a liposomal transfection agent
Chernousova, S. and Epple, M.
Volume: Pages:
DOI: 10.1038/gt.2017.13
The processing of DNA (for transfection) and short interfering RNA (siRNA; for gene silencing), introduce... |
Exopolysaccharide from Bacillus subtilis Induces Anti-Inflammatory M2 Macrophages That Prevent T Cell–Mediated Disease
Mallory L. Paynich, Sara E. Jones-Burrage and Katherine L. Knight
J Immunol April 1, 2017, 198 (7) 2689-2698; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4049/jimmunol.1601641
Mallory L. Paynich
Department of Microbiology... |
Diabetes: How sweet is it? (part two)
Type I diabetes requires that a person takes insulin to control blood sugar levels because their body is no longer producing insulin. Type II diabetes is when insulin is being produced, but the body is not using it as efficiently, or there is not enough insulin to control blood sug... |
How to Become an EMT or a Paramedic
Have you ever wondered what a Paramedic can do or what the training is like? Here is a description of the experience of the people who come to you in an emergency: EMT-Basic Initial training at the EMT-Basic level introduces the student to basic anatomy and physiology, medical termin... |
Relationship Between Bone Density And Erosion In Arthritis
Rheumatoid arthritis, the most common form of inflammatory arthritis, affects almost three percent of people over age 65. RA patients experience pain, functional limitations and two forms of disabling bone disease: focal erosions and osteoporosis.
Rheumatoid ar... |
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by Todd McLeish
Lucy Hutyra and Andrew Reinmann looked at the effect of forest fragmentation on carbon storage.Photo by Cydney Scott for Boston University Photography.
As human population grows, forests often become more and more fragmented as trees are cut down to make way for roads, housing ... |
Key To Fighting Cancer May Lie In Germs
Filed Under: cancer, Dr. Maria Simbra
PITTSBURGH (CBS) — A year ago, Audra Katz was diagnosed with breast cancer. But before she got treatment, she gave researchers a stash of her germs.
“They gave me the kit. I was able to do it at home. It was a couple of swabs,” she says.
“It’... |
Polynesian seafarers discovered America long before Europeans, says DNA study
New DNA analysis of sweet potatoes, which were first cultivated in the Americas, suggests that Polynesians reached the New World long before Columbus.
Bryan Nelson January 22, 2013, 9:53 p.m.
Photo: Wiki Commons
The prevailing theory about th... |
Warmer growing season temperatures and milder winters could allow some of these insects to expand their territory and produce an extra generation of offspring each year, said Noah Diffenbaugh, the Purdue University associate professor of earth and atmospheric sciences who led the study.
"Our projections showed all of t... |
59th Consecutive Youth Range Workshop
The weeklong Youth Range Workshop, sponsored by the Texas Section Society for Range Management, is held annually to recognize outstanding Texas youth and to provide them with an opportunity for complimentary training in range and natural resource management, stewardship and leaders... |
UN agriculture chief lauds ‘key’ role of family farmers in food-secure futureFamily poultry production is an important component of the livelihoods of many small farmers in developing countries. Photo: FAO/Giuseppe Bizzarri
27 October 2014 Praising family farmers for their key role in meeting the needs of a growing w... |
George L. Askew
HEAL Role Chair of Development Committee
George L. Askew, MD, is Deputy Commissioner of Health in the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. There he is responsible for overseeing and managing the Division of Family and Child Health (DFCH). The mission of DFCH is to promote health, preve... |
Abstract:Fort Cobb Reservoir in northwest Caddo County Oklahoma is managed by the Bureau of Reclamation for water supply, recreation, flood control, and wildlife. Excessive amounts of nitrogen in the watershed have the potential to cause long-term eutrophication of the reservoir and increase already elevated concentrat... |
Cause of fatal inflammation of the heart muscle identified
Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres
Scientists have found out that inflammations of the heart muscle are caused by attacks of a specific type of immune cells. These immune cells attack the body's own tissue because during their maturation they did ... |
Title: Mechanistic modelling of energy consumption in CNC machining
Author: Imani Asrai, Reza
Awarding Body: University of Bath
Current Institution: University of Bath
http://opus.bath.ac.uk/40980/
Consumption of energy is a key medium through which humans adversely affect their environment. Sustainable transition in t... |
HealthMpowerment.org: An Online and Mobile HIV Intervention for Young Black MSM
Hightow-Weidman, Lisa B. University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States
See 23 grants from Lisa Hightow-Weidman
In response to a previously unrecognized epidemic of HIV infection affecting young Black men who have ... |
Diagnosis and management of ophthalmological features in patients with mucopolysaccharidosis
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Stefano Ferrari1,
Diego Ponzin1,
Jane L Ashworth2,
Kristina Teär Fahnehjelm3,4,
C Gail Summers5,
Paul R Harmatz6,
Maurizio Scarpa7
1The Veneto E... |
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Diversity of trees crucial to urban forestry success
Rebekah Magill
Whether for disaster recovery, beautification, or something else, as cities are planting trees, it behooves them to be aware of how each unique tree species varies in the benefits it can provide to the ... |
The Home of the Brave, a 15-bed temporary shelter for homeless veterans on Sharps Road in Milford, celebrated its 20th year of operation Friday with an open house attended by dozens of local dignitaries and state legislators. What began as a shared concern among eight local veterans is today the state’s oldest and most... |
Nash hopes new online hub for networks will boost ‘purple power’
A unique new website aims to bring together networks representing hundreds of thousands of disabled employees across the UK.
PurpleSpace will support the leaders of disabled employee networks (DENs) and disabled employees themselves in a bid to share best... |
The birth of new cardiac cells
December 5, 2012 Recent research has shown that there are new cells that develop in the heart, but how these cardiac cells are born and how frequently they are generated remains unclear. In new research from Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH), researchers use a novel method to identify th... |
Biography of Beethoven for Children
By Kristine Tucker
Statue of Beethoven
As an elementary school teacher, you might discuss the composer Ludwig van Beethoven as part of your social studies or music curriculum. Your biography should include details such as Beethoven's birth in Bonn, Germany, in 1770 and his ability to... |
Study asks how ADHD teens cope
By PEGGY LIM - McClatchy Newspapers
Paula Luper failed her end-of-third-grade test in 1998, leaving 14 questions blank.
"I remember being very embarrassed I couldn't finish," Luper, 18, said. "I didn't tell any of my friends."
A study that was begun that school year in Johnston County, N.... |
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