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Understanding the mind of the elite athlete
Can sports sharpen the body and mind?
|By Michelle W. Voss
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As a tennis fan, I marvel at Roger Federer's ability to gracefully execute some of the most difficult shots I've ever seen. Other sports have their greats: Lebron James on the basketball court, Micha... |
Why Calcium Improves a High-Temperature Superconductor
Jun 08, 2004 UPTON, NY - Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory have found evidence to prove why adding a small amount of calcium to a common high-temperature superconductor significantly increases the amount of electric curren... |
UK studies to look at Alzheimer's, Down syndrome
By Mary Meehan - mmeehan1@herald-leader.com
The University of Kentucky Sanders-Brown Center on Aging is looking for two groups of patients to help learn more about Alzheimer's disease. One study will examine how a new drug can supplement existing treatment; the other foc... |
A Message From Our President
Jack Zakowski, PhD, FACB
In February, CLSI attended the MedLab conference in Dubai, UAE. In an effort to advance our mission of developing clinical and laboratory practices and promoting their use worldwide, Glen Fine, our CEO, gave three presentations on implementing CLSI’s best practice s... |
LEAF Guidance notes on pollinating insects and bees
These guidance notes set out the views of LEAF on the decline of pollinating insects and in particular the sudden and dramatic fall of honey bee populations and its potential threat to agriculture. They also provide some practical points on minimising impacts associat... |
Title: Improvement criteria for constraint handling and multiobjective optimization
Author: Parr, James
In engineering design, it is common to predict performance based on complex computer codes with long run times. These expensive evaluations can make automated and wide ranging design optimization a difficult task. Th... |
Posted by Irelene Ricks in INCLUDE Issue 6
Issues impacting “diversity in science” usually focus on race and gender. While it is not wrong to focus on these two elements, there are other factors that are often neglected or ignored. Income, geography, and disability status are socioeconomic indicators that are rarely di... |
Team treatment for depression cuts medical costs
A team approach to treating depression in older adults, already shown to improve health, can also cut total health-care costs, according to a new study led by the University of Washington. The study appears in the February issue of the American Journal of Managed Care.
C... |
Cape York Seagrass Study Report Author - Christina Howley, Cape York Seagrass-Watch Co-ordinator, Howley Environmental Consulting 01 Dec 2014 TOWARDS the end of 2011, near to 1000 turtle and 170 dugong deaths were reported along the Queensland coast. Less than half that number were recorded during the same period in th... |
Asia & The Caribbean: Hitomi Iwasaki & Herb Tam
Hitomi Iwasaki, Curator and Director of Exhibitions at Queens Museum of Art and Herb Tam, Curator and Director of Exhibitions at the Museum of Chinese in the Americas speak with Leeza Ahmady about their research on the presence of Asia in Caribbean culture and art. Inspir... |
Therapeutic Music
For hundreds of years, music has been used by many cultures to aid those suffering physiologically and spiritually. Ample studies have documented the therapeutic value of music in hospitals, nursing homes, hospice settings and other health-care facilities. Music is a valuable tool for psycho-spiritual... |
Boys and their bodies
Male bodies are increasingly objectified by mass media. Consider Michael 'The Situation' Sorrentino, a cast member of MTV's Jersey Shore reality show, who garnered fame by flashing his chiseled abs before cameras.
Such objectification should send young men running to gyms or fretting before mirror... |
Open-Angle Glaucoma(Chronic Glaucoma; Glaucoma)DefinitionGlaucoma describes a group of eye disorders that causes damage to the optic nerve. This degenerative eye disease is one of the leading causes of chronic blindness in the US. Open-angle glaucoma is the most common form of glaucoma in the United States. Open-angle ... |
Abstract: Limited funding for tobacco control forces health departments to identify efficient and effective programs for reducing tobacco use and secondhand smoke exposure in their communities. In order to have the greatest impact, programs should be research-based and combine intervention methods addressing different ... |
Post-Den Emergence Behavior and Den Detection of Polar Bears (Ursus maritimus) in Northern Alaska and the Southern Beaufort Sea
Rusty Wade Robinson, Brigham Young University - ProvoFollow
Pregnant polar bears (Ursus maritimus) construct maternal dens out of snow in the autumn where they give birth to and raise altricia... |
Human ancestor Lucy celebrates 40th anniversary
Next month paleoanthropologists will celebrate the 40th anniversary of the discovery of bones of a primitive human forerunner now known as Lucy.
Donald Johanson is always looking at the ground.
“I find more quarters by parking meters than anybody I know,” he says.
As he w... |
SCF Pharma
MAG-EPA resolves lung inflammation in an allergic model of asthma
Morin C.,SCF Pharma | Fortin S.,SCF Pharma | Cantin A.M.,Université de Sherbrooke
Clinical and Experimental Allergy | Year: 2013
Background: Asthma is a chronic disease characterized by airways hyperresponsiveness, inflammation and airways rem... |
The physical and mathematical modelling of swirling flow by turboswirl in an uphill teeming ingot casting process
Bai, Haitong
KTH, School of Industrial Engineering and Management (ITM), Materials Science and Engineering.
Ersson, Mikael
Jönsson, Pär
KTH, School of Industrial Engineering and Management (ITM), Materials ... |
Tag Archives: Abbott Vascular
Definition:The chest x-ray is the most commonly performed diagnostic x-ray examination. A chest x-ray makes images of the heart, lungs, airways, blood vessels and the bones of the spine and chest.
Doctors have used x-rays for over a century to see inside the body in order to diagnose a var... |
Study uses gene editing to take brakes off lab-based red blood cell production
Points to way of significantly reducing cost of laboratory-produced cells
Turning off a single gene leads to a roughly three-to-five-fold gain in the yield of laboratory methods for producing red blood cells from stem cells, says a multi-ins... |
American Association for Emergency Psychiatry Task Force on Medical Clearance of Adult Psychiatric Patients. Part II: Controversies over Medical Assessment, and Consensus Recommendations
Articles , Behavioral Health , Current Issue: Volume 18 Issue 4 , Review Article
DOI: 10.5811/westjem.2017.3.32259
Michael P. Wilson,... |
Mercy Ships Named Semifinalist for The 2016 Drucker Prize
Mercy Ships is recognized for nonprofit innovation which makes a meaningful difference in the lives of those they serve.
Mercy Ships volunteer, Dr. Lindsay Sherriff, observes local surgeon, Dr. Edouard Razafindravoanjo, as he uses the Ponseti method of casting c... |
More than telling stories : learning practice in HIV&AIDS work in sub Saharan Africa
Marshall, DG
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dc.description University of Technology Sydney. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. en_US
dc.description.abstract This thesis is an empirical study of how HIV&AIDS program managers and s... |
Established in 1964, Kula Elementary School serves a large
geographic area of Maui that extends out to Kanaio, Ulupalakua,
Keokea and Omaopio and up to the National Park Ranger Station as well as the community of Kula itself. Located on the slopes of
Haleakala Crater at an elevation of approximately 2,500 feet, Kula
El... |
Epidermal nevus
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What is epidermal nevus?
An epidermal nevus (plural: nevi) is an abnormal, noncancerous (benign) patch of skin caused by an overgrowth of skin cells. Epidermal nevi are typically seen at birth or develop in early childhood. They can be flat, tan patches of skin or raised, velvety patc... |
Home // Research in Psychology // Research in Action // Putting the Power of Television to Good... Putting the Power of Television to Good Use
"Do as I say, not as I do." Dr. Albert Bandura's research suggests that "doing" is more powerful than "saying" when it comes to battling social ills like HIV transmission, illit... |
New insights of Microsporidial infection among asymptomatic aboriginal population in Malaysia.
Tengku Shahrul Anuar, Hesham M Al-Mekhlafi, Fatmah Md Salleh, Norhayati Moktar.
Studies on microsporidial infection mostly focus on immunodeficiency or immunosuppressive individuals. Therefore, this cross-sectional study desc... |
Off the shelf, on the skin: Stick-on electronic patches for health monitoring
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Wearing a fitness tracker on your wrist or clipped to your belt is so 2013.
Engineers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Northwestern University have demonstrated thin, soft stick-on patches that str... |
Evidence Supporting a Link between Dental Amalgams and Chronic Illness, Fatigue, Depression, Anxiety, and Suicide
Norway and Sweden have banned amalgam, reportedly due to environmental concerns. However, the use and toxic risk of dental amalgam fillings is still a subject of ongoing debate in many countries. Now, a rev... |
Report calls for cultural transformation of attitudes toward pain and its prevention and management
Every year, at least 116 million adult Americans experience chronic pain, a condition that costs the nation between $560 billion and $635 billion annually, says a new report from the U.S. Institute of Medicine. Much of t... |
Presidential Bioethics Commission Releases Review of Synthetic Biology
Recommendations include federal oversight but do not put major restrictions on research.[Orlando Florin Rosu-Fotolia.com]
The Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues today released its first review of synthetic biology. Current su... |
Engineering student challenges gender stereotypes
by Haley Remenar
Megan Cromis (’17) is used to being stereotyped. She’s a female student majoring in engineering, a field that traditionally attracts males.
According to the National Science Foundation, of 973,000 total employed engineers with bachelor’s degrees, only 1... |
What's in the Name?
While our name may conjure images of dark castles and vampires, our Transylvania — a friendly, top-notch liberal arts college — is located in Lexington, Kentucky, far from the lands of Romanian legend. The name Transylvania comes from Latin and means “across the woods” — a good description of the va... |
Students practice hands-on STEM activities to define problems and determine solutions
November 5, 2013 by Marlene Cimons
High school students create a portfolio cover design using Inkscape. Credit: Georgia Institute of Technology
In Georgia, young students often feel disconnected from the real world when studying math ... |
TIM Participants Set to Witness Climate Change Anew in Kiribati
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The ten Training in Mission (TIM) participants left Fiji on 8 September to continue the programme in Kiribati until 23 September. The Kiribati leg of the Programme is hosted by one of the CWM’s member-churches, Kiribati Uniting Church (... |
Mental Health Social Work Practice in Canada
Author: Cheryl Regehr - Graham D. Glancy
Written by two of the discipline's foremost researchers and practitioners, this innovative new text is the only Canadian textbook to offer a comprehensive overview of the legal and policy framework for mental health practice in social... |
Liu, Wennuan
Wake Forest University Health Sciences
Global Genetic and Epigenetic Approaches to Progression of PCA
Genetic alterations and epigenetic modifications are hallmarks of cancers, including prostate cancer (PCa). Understanding factors associated with the progression of PCa will have a significant impact on ma... |
Study of Exonic Variation Identifies Incremental Information Regarding Lipid-Related and Coronary Heart Disease Genes
Themistocles L. Assimes, Thomas Quertermous
Originally published August 14, 2014
Themistocles L. Assimes
From the Department of Medicine, Cardiovascular Research Institute, Stanford University School of... |
Marine bacteria unfazed by rising ocean acidification
July 4, 2014 by Harriet Jarlett
Bacteria are more resistant to ocean acidification than previously thought, say scientists.
Ocean acidification is one of many problems caused by carbon dioxide emissions. Burning fossil fuels releases carbon dioxide that is eventuall... |
New deep-reef Butterflyfish species discovered in Papahanaumokuakea Monument
Discovery highlights a wealth of previously unknown biodiversity
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Scientists have published a description of a new species of butterflyfish from deep reefs in the remote Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.
This is Pete Basabe's But... |
Multimedia Contributions of Saudi Arabia to the Muslim World
The Saudi Arabia’s education system, since its inception, has gone through an astonishing transformation. When the Kingdom was established in 1932, education was available to very few people, mostly the children of wealthy families living in the major cities,... |
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Tax challenges, disruption and the digital economy
Pascal Saint-Amans
Director, OECD Centre for Tax Policy and Administration
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The digital economy is a transformative process, brought about by advances in information and communications technology (ICT) which h... |
Top risk of stroke for normal-weight adults: Getting under 6 hours of sleep
Mon, 06/11/2012 -- Editor-S
Habitually sleeping less than six hours a night significantly increases the risk of stroke symptoms among middle-age to older adults who are of normal weight and at low risk for obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), accordi... |
Nine Lessons on Making Multi-Family Homes More Resilient
55 Livingston Road, one of Park Property Management’s buildings impacted by Toronto’s 2013 ice storm and power outages.
About 20 years ago, Hardy Stevenson and Associates Limited was part of a team that prepared an aggressive strategy for residential, industrial,... |
University of Maine at Machias » Building the Eco-Economy Building the Eco-Economy Business, Recreation Management, Psychology, Education, and Economics: they're all disciplines that contribute to the skill set required for success in carving out a niche in Maine's changing economy. UMaine-Machias students are creating... |
Cochrane review finds little evidence to support use of sleep or wake drugs for shift workers
Shift workers are taking drugs to help them stay awake or get to sleep despite weak evidence for their benefit, according to a new Cochrane review. The authors of the review found only small numbers of trials testing over-the-... |
NASA sounding rocket instrument spots signatures of long-sought small solar flares
October 13, 2017 by Sarah Frazier
The NASA-funded FOXSI instrument captured new evidence of small solar flares, called nanoflares, during its December 2014 flight on a suborbital sounding rocket. Nanoflares could help explain why the Sun... |
The Closest Star Formation Regions Has Detected
The closest star formation regions has detected. Research collaboration between the Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie (MPIfR), Onsala Space Observatory (OSO), ESO, using the telescope APEX (Atacama Pathfinder Experiment) with LABOCA camera, stating that the region l... |
Publications Search - Abstract View Print This Page Title: Epidemiology of thymoma and associated malignancies.
Authors: Engels EA
Journal: J Thorac Oncol
Date: 2010 Oct
Branches: IIB
Abstract: BACKGROUND: Thymoma is a rare malignancy of unknown etiology. METHODS: The author examined patterns in thymoma incidence in th... |
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Calif proposing new flame retardant regulations | Associated Press
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SAN FRANCISCO—California proposed regulations on Friday that would set new flammability standards and allow furniture and some children’s product manufacturers to stop using chemical fl... |
Keck celebrates 20 years
Published March 8, 2013 - 12:05am
By CAROLYN LUCAS-ZENK
Stephens Media
Few establishments can boast as many landmark discoveries as W.M. Keck Observatory. During the past two decades, its accomplishments include detecting the first planet outside of our solar system, proving the Milky Way has a... |
The True Cost of Science Publishing
(image by Brendan Monroe via Nature)
An eye-opening piece in Nature about the cost of science publishing:
Michael Eisen doesn’t hold back when invited to vent. “It’s still ludicrous how much it costs to publish research — let alone what we pay,” he declares. The biggest travesty, he ... |
[Geology2] Paleontology: Aftermath of a mass extinction
Paleontology: Aftermath of a mass extinction Date:July 19, 2016Source:Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität MünchenSummary:A new study of fossil fishes from Middle Triassic sediments on the shores of Lake Lugano provides new insights into the recovery of biodiversity fol... |
Enhanced transmission of drug-resistant parasites to mosquitoes following drug treatment in rodent malaria.
Andrew S Bell, Silvie Huijben, Krijn P Paaijmans, Derek G Sim, Brian H K Chan, William A Nelson, Andrew F Read.
The evolution of drug resistant Plasmodium parasites is a major challenge to effective malaria contr... |
Success Stories in Environmental Health
Did you know that your environment and your health are connected? The National Center for Environmental Health (NCEH) and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) protect and promote environmental health across the United States.Your environment is everything ... |
ResearchKit
Rare Disease Research with ResearchKit
One of the biggest challenges in clinical research is enrolling adequate numbers of patients and this challenge becomes even more difficult when researching rare diseases. Many of the initial ResearchKit apps focused on highly prevalent diseases such as asthma and hear... |
New tools for targeting genes linked to autism
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Health Sciences
Researchers have combined two tools – gene expression and the use of peripheral blood -- to expand scientists’ arsenal of methods for pinpointing genes that play a role in autism. The findings could help scienti... |
Will Flood Insurance Cover Storm Surge Damage?
Storm surges from a hurricane are indeed covered by flood insurance.
A storm surge is defined by the National Hurricane Center (NHC) as an abnormal rise in water caused by a storm. If storm surge occurs during high tide, it can create a tide 20 feet higher than usual. The ... |
Guest Column: Protecting Domestic Violence Victims A Priority In The Ohio House
Ohio House Speaker Cliff Rosenberger
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October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month, a cause that focuses on a tragedy that sadly targets millions of Americans every year, inclu... |
Martian Dust Devil Whirls into Opportunity's View
In its six-and-a-half years on Mars, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity had never seen a dust devil before this month, despite some systematic searches in past years and the fact that its twin rover, Spirit, has seen dozens of dust devils at its location halfway ... |
Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University (CS@JHU) is a diverse, collaborative, and intensely research-focused department. Although small, the faculty spans a broad spectrum of disciplines encompassing core computer science and several cross-disciplinary application areas including: Computational Biology and Medicin... |
Lifestyle choices and the cancer connection: what you should know
Almost half of all Americans suffer from chronic health ailments; among these, cancer is second leading cause of death, after heart disease. Although screening and treatment options, as well as a reduction in smoking, have improved the survival odds for ... |
Is Standardized Testing a Civil-Rights Issue?
Advocacy groups worry that if states are given more flexibility around testing, at-risk students will slip through cracks.
US President George W. Bush poses with students from New York Public School 76 after making remarks on the No Child Left Behind Act in September 2007. ... |
Assembly of nano-machines mimics human muscle
Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS)
For the first time, an assembly of thousands of nano-machines capable of producing a coordinated contraction movement extending up to around ten micrometers, like the movements of muscular fibers, has been synthesized by r... |
Moraine Research May Alter Thinking On Climate’s Effect On Glaciers
redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online
A Dartmouth College-led study published in the latest edition of the journal Quaternary Geochronology describes a newly discovered, more accurate method to date the soil and rock debris left behind b... |
NASA Scientist Figures Way to Weigh Space Rock
(Continued from page 1) The final piece to the puzzle was provided by Josh Emery of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, who used NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope in 2007 to study the space rock's thermal characteristics. Emery's measurements of the infrared emissions fro... |
| Chapter 5. Protecting Cropland: Introduction
"World on Edge details the vice closing around us: a quadruple squeeze of global warming and shortages in food, water and energy. Then it explains the path out—and how little time we have left to take that path. Got anything more important to read than that?" —Peter Goldma... |
Home / News / Government / Underwater WWII battlefield gets a closer look Underwater WWII battlefield gets a closer look By Ashley Herriman
Bluefields as it was configured near the time of the attack. USCG photo courtesy NARA.
July 15, 1942. Off Cape Hatteras, N.C., the German U-boat U-576 sank the Nicaraguan-flagged f... |
Iceland's Bárðarbunga volcano: Europe could soon be under another giant ash cloud
Europe is keeping an anxious eye on the north as one of Iceland's biggest volcanoes shows signs of activity. Will a new ash cloud paralyze our aviation industry? Here's 10 facts you need to know.
One of Bárðarbunga's neighbors erupting in... |
Encyclopedia > Vertebra
The vertebrae (singular: vertebra) are the bones that compose the spine.
There are 33 of them including the five that are fused to form the sacrum, and the four coccygeal bones.
The 24 remaining are divided into:
Seven cervical vertebrae.
Twelve thoracic vertebrae.
Five lumbar vertebrae.
A diagr... |
Keith Allan
The Oxford Handbook of the History of Linguistics (Oxford Handbooks)
In this outstanding book leading scholars from around the world examine the history of linguistics from ancient origins to the present. They consider every aspect of the field from language origins to neurolinguistics, explore linguistic t... |
Opinion » Viewpoint
Business must play its role in upgrading local education.
Memphis City Schools superintendent Johnnie Watson is on the right track in pledging to reconstitute those schools still on the state's low-performing list in 2004. Under an approach based on high standards and accountability, reconstituting ... |
Plants adapt their defenses to the local pest community
Populations of the same plant species produce specific defenses that are effective against the predominant local pest community.
Variation in the local pest community can therefore maintain genetic variation in plants across large geographical scales. Ecologists f... |
Could olfactory loss point to Alzheimer's disease?
Credit: McGill University
By the time you start losing your memory, it's almost too late. That's because the damage to your brain associated with Alzheimer's disease (AD) may already have been going on for as long as twenty years. Which is why there is so much scientif... |
The fame of Varanasi or Banaras as an ancient metropolis, in many ways, overpowers its mundane urban histories. Diana Eck suggests that the city of Varanasi may have the world’s longest history of human habitation, being a key urban centre at the time of the Mauryan and Gutpa Empires, as well as a millennium of Muslim ... |
Immunity paper signals a possible new antiviral therapy
Monash Institute of Medical Research scientists may have found a way to block infection from a range of viruses, according to a paper published today in the prestigious journal Immunity.
The paper, Regulation of Actin Dynamics by Protein Kinase R Control of Gelsol... |
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Strong Earthquake Motion Estimates for Three Sites on the U.C. Riverside Campus
Archuleta, R.; Elgamal, A.; Heuze, F.; Lai, T.; Lavalle, D.; Lawrence, B.; Liu, P.C.; Matesic, L.; Park, S.; Riemar, M.; Steidl, J.; Vucetic, M.; Wagoner, J.; Yang, Z.
The approach of the Campus Eart... |
Medical Optics a FiO Feature
WASHINGTON, Sept. 13, 2007 -- Using tiny implantable cameras to restore sight, lasers to treat infertility and light to detect malaria are a few of the medical research advances to be discussed during Frontiers in Optics 2007 (FiO), the 91st Annual Meeting of the Optical Society of America.... |
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Campbell medical student to lead Family Medicine leadership program
Third-year medical student Erin Clark is one of 30 scholarship winners nationwide selected to participate in the Family Medicine Leads Emerging Leader Institute. As ... |
Book debuts brain models of risky decision-making
January 23, 2014 • ktb1@cornell.edu
Reprinted from Cornell Chronicle, December 10, 2013
Risky choices – about sex, drugs and drinking, as well as diet, exercise, money and health care – pervade our lives and can have dire consequences. Now, a new book aims to help us un... |
Arena Profile: Janelle Ward Janelle Ward is assistant professor in the Department of Media and Communication at Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands. A native of Minnesota, she completed her graduate work in the Netherlands, earning a PhD in political communication from the University of Amsterdam in 2009. Her... |
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Title: Low back pain, quality of life and function in people with incomplete spinal cord injury in USA, UK and Greece
Authors: Michailidou, Christina
Advisors: De Souza, LHSutherland, I
Keywords: Musculoskeletal painGR-SCIM I... |
IU Libraries Secure Prestigious Data Curation Fellowship Position
Indiana University is one of only five American research institutions selected to host a 2014 CLIR/DLF Postdoctoral Fellow in Data Curation for Early Modern Studies. The other host institutions are Carnegie Mellon University, the Folger Shakespeare Libra... |
The Environmental Sciences BSc(Hons) is a flexible degree that draws from geography, ecology and chemistry to address themes such as sustainability, conservation, pollution and environmental hazards.
You will develop scientific skills and knowledge through classroom, laboratory and project work, with the freedom to cho... |
Poisson–Boltzmann equation
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The Poisson–Boltzmann equation is a useful equation in many settings, whether it be to understand physiological interfaces, polymer science, electron interactions in a semiconductor, or more. It aims to describe the distribution of the electric pot... |
New Evidence Indicates Auroras Occur Outside Our Solar System
Leicester UK (SPX) Jan 23, 2013
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University of Leicester planetary scientists have found new evidence suggesting auroras -- similar to Earth's Aurora Borealis -- occur on bodies outside our solar system. Auroras occur on several planets within our... |
Confidential discussions are key to improving teen health visits
July 30, 2014 by Katherine Kahn
Teens who have the option to privately and confidentially discuss health concerns with their doctor are more likely to talk about reproductive health, mental health, issues at school, and some self-care topics than they wou... |
Subtle increases in interletter spacing facilitate the encoding of words during normal reading.
Manuel Perea, Pablo Gomez.
Several recent studies have revealed that words presented with a small increase in interletter spacing are identified faster than words presented with the default interletter spacing (i.e., w a t e... |
New AFOSR magnetron may help defeat enemy electronics
Researchers funded by the US Air Force Office of Scientific Research at the University of Michigan invented a new type of magnetron that may be used to defeat enemy electronics. A magnetron is a type of vacuum tube used as the frequency source in microwave ovens, ra... |
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The genes of Emiliania huxleyi - a recipe for global growth
Posted by John Jackson on Jun 17, 2013 10:46:50 AM
Tom Richards from the Museum's Life Science department is an author on a paper in Nature that explores the genome of one of the ... |
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Trauma and Trauma-Informed Care
SAMHSA supports programs that prevent homelessness and increase access to permanent housing for people with mental and/or substance use disorders.
Stable housing provides the fou... |
About Keystone Science School
Founded in 1976 by Robert W. Craig, Keystone Science School has taught scientific principles and leadership skills to young people, teachers, and community members through engaging hands-on field experiences. KSS was founded on the belief that leaders should approach decision-making with a... |
Q&A, Dr. Drew Ramsey, Columbia psychiatry professor and co-author, ‘The Happiness Diet’
Posted by: Alexandra Stieber - Atlanta in North America
Our October trend report, “Health & Happiness: Hand in Hand,” examines the idea that happiness is increasingly coming to be seen as a core component of health and wellness. As ... |
School nurses reach 98% of students in U.S. public schools to diagnose primary immunodeficiency
Published on August 28, 2014 at 8:58 PM
School nurses reach 98 percent of the 50,000,000 students in U.S. public schools, grades k-12, and are uniquely positioned to facilitate the early diagnosis of serious medical conditio... |
Two food additives with previously unrecognized estrogen-like effects in two food additives
March 2, 2009 Scientists have identified two food additives with previously unrecognized estrogen-like effects. One of the additives, 4-hexylresorcinol, is used to prevent discoloration in shrimp and other shellfish. Image: Nati... |
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Women with Handsome Husbands May Feel More Pressure to Be Thin
By Traci Pedersen
A new study appearing in the journal Body Image shows that women evaluated as less attractive than their husbands feel more pressure to... |
Australian Commonwealth Parliament passes data retention into law
On 27 March 2015, the Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Amendment (Data Retention) Bill 2014 (Cth) was passed into law. From 2017 onwards, the data retention law will require telecommunications service providers to keep customer metadata for t... |
Joris van der Voet
Assistant Professor of Public Management, Institute of Public Administration, Campus The Hague, Leiden University
Prosocial Motivation in Youth Care
Leading Change in Public Organizations
Cutback management and financial crisis
About me & CV
In 2015, a national policy reform was implemented in the yo... |
Vertical Axis Wind Turbines for Future Large Offshore Farms
Environment and Energy:
A better understanding of wind turbine wake dynamics is a key to efficiently drive the development of wind energy and the associated size increase of wind farms. The wake is the region of lower mean wind velocity and increased turbulenc... |
Duke University School of Nursing (DUSON) values diversity as a crucial component in its engagement with students, faculty, and the world. We think of it as diversity with a global perspective:
Creating a learning climate where creativity, robust yet respectful debate, and a genuine respect for others can flourish.
Fos... |
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