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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
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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
What is Ruby chocolate?
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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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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Diego Ponzin1,
Jane L Ashworth2,
Kristina Teär Fahnehjelm3,4,
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Paul R Harmatz6,
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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.... |
Hadassah Pioneer Named Honorary President of International European Liver Congress
Tuesday, Mar 29 2016
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Prof. Daniel Shouval, founding head of the Hadassah Medical Center’s Liver Unit. The European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL) has named Prof. Daniel Shouval, founding h... |
Growing Importance of Natural Farming in India
Author – Rashmi Kulranjan
Image – Pixabay
Modern agricultural practices have a major impact on the environment. Climate change, deforestation, genetic engineering, irrigation problems, pollutants, soil degradation and waste are some of the concerns that are connected with ... |
Targeting Tumor Microenvironment with Silibinin: Promise and Potential for a Translational Cancer Chemopreventive Strategy
Author(s): Gagan Deep, Rajesh Agarwal. University of Colorado Denver, 12850 E. Montview Blvd, C238, Aurora, CO 80045.
Tumor microenvironment (TME) refers to the dynamic cellular and extra-cellular ... |
The Facts You Need to Know About the Symptoms and Treatment of MRSA
Eczema and Dermatitis
Simple moves like hand-washing can lower risk By Heather Brannon, MD | Reviewed by a board-certified physician
Microbiologist examining an MRSA bacteria on plate.
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Amélie Proulx Wins $10,000 RBC Emerging Ceramics Award
BY Leah Sandals
A view of Amélie Proulx’s winning artwork Jardinet Méchanique, which combines ceramics with microprocessors to create a moving gardenscape / photo Frances Juriansz
Quebec City ceramics artist Amélie Proulx took home the $10,000 first prize at the RB... |
Publication # 09-RA008 Use of a clinical algorithm can reduce unnecessary antibiotic use for treatment of sore throat in adults
Research Activities, May 2009, No. 345 A majority of adults with sore throat are prescribed antibiotics despite being infected with respiratory viruses which, unlike bacteria, do not respond t... |
Abstract 98: The biological significance of T3-regulated endoglin in human hepatoma cells.
Yang-Hsiang Lin, Ya-Hui Huang, I-Hsiao Chung and Kwang-Huei Lin
Yang-Hsiang Lin
Chang Gung Univ., Taoyuan, Taiwan.
Ya-Hui Huang
I-Hsiao Chung
Kwang-Huei Lin
DOI: 10.1158/1538-7445.AM2013-98 Published April 2013
Hypothyroidism has... |
Human–computer information retrieval
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Human-computer information retrieval (HCIR) is the study of information retrieval techniques that bring human intelligence into the search process. The fields of human-computer interaction (HCI) and information retrieval (IR) ha... |
Extremophile ecosystem thrives in Arctic frost flowers 18 December 2012 by
Rowan Hooper
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OFF the coast of Barrow, Alaska, the Beaufort Sea is host to a remarkable ecosystem - a bloom of frost flowers.... |
Rutgers School of Business-Camden Earns Prestigious Award for Executive Education Program
CAMDEN — The Rutgers School of Business–Camden has been recognized
by Chief Learning Officer Magazine for
its work with equipment manufacturer Caterpillar, Inc. in building a global
learning solution through its Executive Educatio... |
The Cytochrome P450 enzymes play a major role in the metabolism of drugs. A change in their activity, either by inhibition or induction, may have significant effects in the pharmacokinetics and therefore in pharmacologic effects of the compounds. While inhibition of CYP450 enzymes responsible for the metabolism of a co... |
New DNA repair pathway
(PhysOrg.com) -- UC Davis researchers have found a new pathway for repairing DNA damaged by oxygen radicals. The results are published this week in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
"This new inducible pathway gives cells greater capacity to repair oxidative damage," sa... |
Social Media: A Force for Political Change in Egypt
Guest author: Kira BaiasuThere has been much debate surrounding the role of social media in the 2011 Egyptian Revolution. Though the movement that led to the ousting of President Husni Mubarak has been dubbed the “Facebook Revolution,” it is not the first time that fo... |
What Democracies Can Learn From Greece's Failed Populist Experiment
by Stathis Kalyvas
While the crisis in Greece no longer captures international headlines as it once did, the country’s troubles never went away. Greece remains the only Eurozone country still subject to a joint Eurozone-International Monetary Fund fisc... |
Collégiale de Candes-Saint-Martin (Sara Lutan-Hassner)
The small village of Candes-Saint-Martin is located in western France, en route from Tours to Chinon, on the border of three regions – Anjou, Maine and Touraine – close to Fontevraud (about 5 km). The reputation of Candes is tightly connected with the death of St. ... |
USAF Fact Sheet NAVSTAR Global Positioning System Mission
The Navstar Global Positioning System (GPS) is a space-based radio-positioning system consisting of a constellation of more than 20 orbiting satellites that provides global navigation and timing information to users. In addition to the satellites, the system con... |
Health-Related Quality of Life and Oropharyngeal Dysphagia: A Systematic Review
Jones, E.
Speyer, R.
Kertscher, B.
Denman, D.
Swan, K.
Cordier, Reinie
© 2017 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC The negative impact of increased bolus modification on health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in persons with oropharyngeal d... |
‘Zoomable’ map of poplar proteins offers new view of bioenergy crop
Researchers seeking to improve production of ethanol from woody crops have a new resource in the form of an extensive molecular map of poplar tree proteins.
An extensive molecular map of poplar tree proteins from Oak Ridge National Laboratory offers ne... |
Travel Warning Issued As Ebola Outbreak Worsens
(HealthDay News) — With the World Health Organization reporting that the death toll in the West African Ebola outbreak has risen to 729, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday issued a travel warning for the region.
The "Level 3 travel advisory" u... |
Behavioral and histopathological alterations resulting from mild fluid percussion injury.
The majority of people who sustain a traumatic brain injury (TBI) have an injury that can be classified as mild (often referred to as concussion). Although head CT scans for most subjects who have sustained a mild TBI (mTBI) are n... |
What makes an organization valuable to society?
What value are large organizations bringing to society? And, when they are getting it right, how can and should corporations build trust and gain legitimacy within society? The University of St. Gallen in Switzerland has developed a “Public Value Scorecard” (PVSC) to help... |
How Israel Uses Water to Control Palestinian Life
by Charlotte Silver
A Palestinian carries water tanks to his house in Shuafat, East Jerusalem, April 3, 2014.
It’s not yet summer when I arrive in East Jerusalem during a broiling heat wave. In the area known as Shuafat Ridge, bitter fights break out between neighbors ... |
At IrriGator we invest considerable time and resources into communicating research-based information on water-use and water management. Rare, however, is the opportunity to gauge how the public is receiving and digesting these efforts. Enter the UF/IFAS PIE Center’s annual Public Opinion of Water in Florida survey.
The... |
Female College Grads See Big Wage Gain from Delaying Motherhood
By Elizabeth Gregory
The economic roots of the ongoing trend in delaying motherhood have become only more clear in the recent recession. But economics has been a motivating factor at least since the 1960s, when the trend began. (Numbers of first births to ... |
Destination Project receives $200-million investment from Government of Alberta
The Destination Project, a transformational undertaking that will fundamentally alter the path of the University of Lethbridge, received the stamp of approval from the Government of Alberta Friday as the Honourable Thomas Lukaszuk, Deputy P... |
Teachers' Perceptions of and Self-Efficacy in Modeling and Providing Opportunities for Social and Emotional Learning Competencies
Elizabeth Sullivan, Johnson & Wales University
Abstract There is extensive research on the importance of the development of students’ social-emotional learning (SEL) competencies (Kress & El... |
Unmanned airborne or aerial vehicles (UAVs), commonly referred to as drones, have become an option for a broad range of application scenarios. Relatively inexpensive, lightweight and easily deployable, drones provide a viable alternative to traditional forms of flight, such as full-scale aircraft and helicopters. Drone... |
EILISH FIGHTS SILENT KILLER
A BUXTON mum is spearheading a drive urging women and GPs to act on new guidance about how to spot Ovarian Cancer in a bid to stop women dying from the disease.
Eilish Colclough was diagnosed with the disease at the age of 39 and has spent several years campaigning with the charity Target Ov... |
Exercise your way to longer life
Researchers in Copenhagen have found that cyclists who ride more strenuously are likely to live longer than those who take it easy, while other studies have shown that doing even a small amount of exercise can lengthen life.
The Danish study, published in The European Journal of Prevent... |
Nerve growth factor pretreatment attenuates oxygen and glucose deprivation-induced c-Jun amino-terminal kinase 1 and stress-activated kinases p38alpha and p38beta activation and confers neuroprotection in the pheochromocytoma PC12 Model.
Neurotrophins such as nerve growth factor (NGF) are considered putative neuroprote... |
Economic recession and fertility in the developed world
Tomas Sobotka, Vienna Institute of Demography
Vegard Skirbekk, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)
This paper examines the effects of past economic recessions on fertility in the developed world. First we study how fertility levels and tre... |
New clinical practice guideline may help reduce the pain of childhood immunization
November 22, 2010 A new evidence-based clinical practice guideline will help doctors, healthcare providers and parents reduce the pain and distress of immunization in children, states an article in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Jour... |
Law alumnus named director of School of Public Affairs and Administration
LAWRENCE – The University of Kansas has named an alumnus who is a nationally recognized public administrator as the new director of its School of Public Affairs and Administration.
Reggie Robinson, who has held numerous leadership and advisory po... |
Transfer of ultraviolet photon energy into fluorescent light in the visible path represents a new and efficient protection mechanism of sunscreens
Author(s): Theognosia Vergou; Christina Antoniou; Alexa Patzelt; Heike Richter; Sabine Schanzer; Wolfram Sterry; Jürgen M. Lademann; Leonhard Zastrow; Karin Golz; Olivier Do... |
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Aristotle's Metaphysics
Metaphysics has signified many things in the history of philosophy, but it has not strayed far from a literal reading of "beyond the physical." The term was invented by the 1st-century BCE head of Aristotle's Peripatetic school, Andronicus of Rhodes. And... |
WEDNESDAY, Feb. 6 (HealthDay News) -- The bacteria responsible for whooping cough may be evolving into different strains, and the current vaccine can't offer complete protection against these new strains, researchers report. In recent years, cases of whooping cough have risen dramatically. Tens of thousands have been s... |
New data suggests HIV superinfection rate comparable to initial HIV infection
Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) superinfection may be as common as initial HIV infection and is not limited to high risk-populations, according to a new study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and th... |
Do Believers Need to Confess Their Sins for Forgiveness?
According to the Bible, when someone believes in Jesus Christ as Savior, that person's sins are forgiven. If that is so, should Christians continue to confess their post-salvation sins after believing in Christ? Some say that confession is unnecessary since all t... |
Improving emotional intelligence
By Golnaz Sadri
Executive SummaryMost people are familiar with the old IQ tests that measure a person’s intelligence quotient. But these days, scholars and practitioners are paying additional attention to how a person’s emotional intelligence affects performance. Luckily, organizations ... |
Raising a Child with Disabilities: How Love, Compassion and Understanding Can Conquer Tragedy
After the birth of my son, Will, my wife had another difficult pregnancy. The medical recommendation was an abortion, or how the doctors put it: “A premature ending of the pregnancy using a surgical dilation and curettage.” Th... |
Urologists Study Fluorescent Dye, Blue Light To Detect Bladder Tumors
University Of Rochester Medical Center
One of the challenges urologic surgeons face when treating early bladder cancers is that they can’t see tiny tumors during procedures to remove larger tumors. Missing the tiny tumors increases the chances that t... |
Fluorescent labeling of tRNAs for dynamics experiments
Betteridge, T
Liu, H
GAMPER, H
KIRILLOV, S
Cooperman, BS
Hou, Y
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
RNA, 2007, 13 (9), pp. 1594 - 1601
Transfer RNAs (tRNAs) are substrates for complex enzymes, such as aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases and ribosomes, and play an essential ... |
Art and Design stimulates creativity and imagination. It provides visual, tactile and sensory experiences and a special way of understanding and responding to the world. It enables children to communicate what they see, feel and think through the use of colour, texture, form, pattern and different materials and process... |
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International study reveals that most children are unaware of cigarette warning labels
Published: Tuesday 4 March 2014 Published: Tue 4 Mar 2014 email
An international study of children's perceptions of cigarette package warning labels found that the majority of children are unaware that ... |
Exercise Improves Executive Function in Children Educational outcomes of sedentary children benefit from the dose-response effect of exercise
FRIDAY, Feb. 18 (HealthDay News) -- Exercise is associated with improved executive function and mathematical achievement in children, according to a study published in the Januar... |
Home Child health UCSF Studies Examine Antibiotic Prescribing Patterns for Children
UCSF Studies Examine Antibiotic Prescribing Patterns for Children
1:56 May 25, 2011
In the case of asthma, the findings have led to a new trial, in which the value of targeted antibiotics is being tested.
Both studies are published in t... |
Applying diamond coatings at lower temperatures expands options for electronic devices
A new method for creating thin films of diamonds, which is described in the journal Applied Physics Letters, produced by AIP Publishing, may allow manufacturers to enhance future electronics.
In industrial and high-tech settings, dia... |
According to new guidelines released by the American Heart Association, American College of Cardiology and The Obesity Society in November 2013, doctors should consider obesity a disease and more actively treat obese patients for weight loss. The guidelines reflect the latest information that scientists have about weig... |
Is Love At First Sight Real? Geneticists Offer Tantalizing Clues
Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology
Leave it to geneticists to answer a question that has perplexed humanity since the dawn of time: does love at first sight truly exist? Scientists discovered that at the genetic level, some males an... |
Prohibitin 1 modulates mitochondrial stress-related autophagy in human colonic epithelial cells. Arwa S Kathiria, Lindsay D Butcher, Linda A Feagins, Rhonda F Souza, C Richard Boland, Arianne L Theiss.
Autophagy is an adaptive response to extracellular and intracellular stress by which cytoplasmic components and organe... |
Children of Light and Children of Darkness
Reinhold Niebuhr’s Essay at Sixty Years
by Dale M. Coulter
This year marks the sixtieth anniversary of Reinhold Niebuhr’s attempt to place the democratic experiment on more firm ground. His The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness represents Niebuhr’s effort to save ... |
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Battling Heart Disease with B Vitamins
By Angela Pirisi
Heart disease is the number one killer in North America. Scientists are aggressively seeking to pinpoint the most important risk factors so as to better design a comprehensive preventive strategy against this insidious disease. As it is, hea... |
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Mechanism of Cell-Type-Specific Signaling in Tumor Development Determined Researchers from Mayo Clinic and Centre de Recherche en Cancérologie de Marseille have discovered the mechanisms behind two checkpoints in cell growth and development and tumor progession. They report t... |
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Queer women are ignored in HIV research: this is a problem and here is why it matters
By Carmen Logie
Lesbian, bisexual and queer women are rarely included in HIV research. Women who have sex with women, and their HIV infection rates, are not captured anywhere because women cannot re... |
#73: Giant Ice Meteors Fall From Clear Skies
20-pound chunks of ice falling on a sunny day? It's no urban myth.
By Karen Wright|Tuesday, December 09, 2008
RELATED TAGS: EARTH SCIENCE, GLOBAL WARMING, NATURAL DISASTERS, POLLUTION, TOP 100 STORIES OF 2008
Remains of an ice meteor on a factory roof in Spain.
Photo Courtes... |
Got Shots? Immunizations Save Lives, Especially The Lives Of Seniors
A February 2010 report entitled Adult Immunization: Shots to Save Lives, released by the Trust for America's Health, the Infectious Diseases Society of America and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation found that more than 33 percent of American adult ag... |
Study: Lose weight while listening to your MP3 player (w/ Podcast)
(PhysOrg.com) -- With obesity and weight-related illnesses on the rise, researchers continue to look for better ways to help people shed extra pounds and keep them off. A new University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill study finds that help may be as cl... |
Current knowledge, attitude, and patterns of oral contraceptives utilization among women in Jordan
Sanaa K. Bardaweel1Email author,
Amal A. Akour2 and
Maria-Vanessa Z. Kilani1
© Bardaweel et al. 2015
Accepted: 3 December 2015
Studies exploring the knowledge, attitude and patterns of OCs use among women in Jordan are la... |
Open Position: Selection Program Coordinator Overview
The Pahara Institute is dedicated to identifying, strengthening, and sustaining diverse, exceptional leaders who are reimagining public education. Pahara’s programs are aimed at improving leadership in education at a crucial point in our country’s history when our g... |
Debating with the Eumenides
Aspects of the Reception of Greek Tragedy in Modern Greece
Editor(s): Vayos Liapis, Antonis Petrides, Maria Pavlou
Subjects: Classics , Literary Classics
Series: Pierides
Modern Greek national and cultural identities consist, largely, of clusters of cultural memory, shaped by an ongoing dial... |
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