Index in Biological News

Light pollution offers new global measure of coral reef health

... to one or more of these sources, the higher the index number and the greater the stress on the reefs. ... direct impact on coral reefs In this way the index uses light as an indirect measure of coral reef ... Puerto Rico, and Bahrain have the highest index values. In terms of fishing boat activity, ...

Carbon Disclosure Project: 'World's largest corporations seek clarity on climate change regulation'

... John McCain. Global 500 (FTSE Global Equity index Series) Findings The overall response rate ... or hotel level. Carbon Disclosure Leadership index PwC scored all responses based on climate ... highlighted in the Carbon Disclosure Leadership index (CDLI). The highest scoring companies in the CDLI ...

2007 hurricane forecasts took blow from winds and Saharan dry, dusty air

... in wind speed over the tropical Atlantic. The index is connected to relative humidity over the ... over the western North Atlantic. "This index hasn't been looked at before," said Lau. "We ... the following month's hurricane activity. "The index we proposed may provide practical implications ...

Osteoarthritis risk linked to finger length ratio

... People whose index finger is shorter than their ring finger are at ... and Rheumatism, suggests that people whose index finger is shorter than their ring finger are up ... which is the most common form of arthritis. index to ring finger length ratio (referred to as ...

Too much fructose could leave dieters sugar shocked

... safe compared to table sugar. A fructose index may be a better way to assess the risk of ... of Rhode Island, said establishing a fructose index for foods could be an appropriate approach, ... One concern I have always had with the glycemic index is the potential to pigeonhole foods as good or ...

GBIF making the search for biodiversity research resources easier

... specimens by developing an internet-based index of who has what. The data repository that will ... materials anywhere in the world. The index will keep track of the museums, herbaria, and ... exist. Building the Biodiversity Collections index will help inventory these extremely valuable ...

Ozone can affect heavier people more

... first evidence that people with higher body mass index (BMI) may have a greater response to ozone than ... non-smoking men and women to see if body mass index (BMI)a measure of the amount of fat a person ... examine the question of whether higher body mass index influences ozone responses in humans, the ...

Texel paleothermometer for climate reconstruction perfected

... structure is well preserved in seabeds. The TEX86 index has recently been developed at Royal Netherlands ... with values from a British index; the Uk37. The index differences can be explained by differences in ... of the archeabacteria and algae that the Uk37 index is dependent on. The upwelling dynamic of the ...

'Bad carbs' not the enemy, University of Virginia professor finds

... research on carbohydrate consumption, glycemic index and body weight and gives the first detailed ... than good carbs do. Proponents of the glycemic index claim that this leads to excessive insulin ... Several popular low-carb diets use glycemic index as a key feature for optimum weight control, but ...

Two dietary oils, two sets of benefits for older women with diabetes

... the other hand, reduced total body fat and lowered the women's body mass index (BMI), a common health measure of weight relative to height. All of ... study showed that CLA supplementation significantly decreased body mass index and total body fat over both diet periods, typically showing effects in ...

In the turf war against seaweed, coral reefs more resilient than expected

... state of each reef. Pristine reefs where coral was still abundant had an index number of -2 to -3, while areas where macroalgae have overwhelmed reefs' surfaces were given an index ranking of between 3 and 5. They found that while there were moderate ...

New simulation shows consequences of a world without Earth's natural sunscreen

... over Antarctica. (In 1974, globally averaged ozone was 315 DU.) The UV index in mid-latitude cities reaches 15 around noon on a clear summer day (a UV index of 10 is considered extreme today.), giving a perceptible sunburn in about ...

American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- Dec. 17, 2008

... reliably predict how prospective antifreeze materials will behave. Their index provides a clearer picture of how water molecules interact with the sugar ... crystals when chilled. MTS ARTICLE #3 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE "Hydration index A Better Parameter for Explaining Small Molecule Hydration in Inhibition ...

UAF researchers to present at AGU press briefing

... and visible channels, the greater the density of green vegetation. The index also accounts for things like shadow and slope-aspect. After examining ... band along Arctic Ocean coastlines. Corresponding changes in the greening index varied, ranging from a relatively large 24-percent increase along the ...

Mayo Clinic research on tamoxifen leads to recommendation for CYP2D6 gene test

... test, HOXB13: IL17BR gene expression ratio, and a 5-gene molecular grade index were prognostic markers of distant breast cancer recurrence. Dr. Goetz and ... to these gene markers. These findings suggest that the combined index will identify patients with early stage breast cancer who haveith a higher ...

2 years old -- a childhood obesity tipping point?

... pediatric visits. The average age was 12. Children whose body mass index exceeded that of 85 percent of the general population were classified as overweight. Researchers charted the recorded body mass index of the children from infancy. through They found that the obese children ...

Mouse can do without man's most treasured genes

... Additional results of their analysis support the idea. By developing an index that incorporated metabolic rate (a measure of how fast cellular waste products are generated) and reproductive age, and then using that index to compare human and mouse, the researchers determined that the total ...

Researchers bridge the 'terahertz gap' with new tunable metamaterial

... accepted principles. Metamaterials demonstrated negative refractive index and up until that point the commonly held belief was that only a positive index was possible, said Padilla. Metamaterials gave us access to new regimes of ...

BMI criteria for obesity surgery should be lowered, UT Southwestern researcher suggests

... Medical Center researchers have found that the existing body mass index criteria for obesity surgery often excludes a group of obese patients at ... among the first to evaluate the risk-factor relationship between body mass index (BMI) and cardiovascular disease as it relates to bariatric surgery ...

Heat stress influences low conception of dairy herds

... range of the animals thermal neutral zone. The temperature-humidity index (THI) incorporates the effects of both ambient temperature and relative humidity (RH) in an index. This index is widely used in hot areas worldwide to assess the impact of heat stress ...

MIT creates 3-D images of living cell

... pass through it. A 2D image containing information about refractive index is thus obtained. To create a 3D image, the researchers combined 100 ... angles. The resulting images are essentially 3D maps of the refractive index of the cell's organelles. The entire process took about 10 seconds, but ...

Research shows rates of severe childhood obesity have tripled

... 71 million U.S. children ages 2 to 19 years. Severe childhood obesity is a new classification for children and describes those with a body mass index (BMI) that is equal to or greater than the 99th percentile for age and gender. For example, a 10-year-old child with a BMI of 24 would be considered ...

UTMB study identifies women at risk of gaining excessive weight with injectable birth control

... gain significant weight within the first six months of use. Researchers found that early gainers exhibited three major risk factors: A body mass index under 30, having children before starting DMPA and a self-reported increase in appetite after six months of DMPA use. The study, which appears in ...

Study explains potential failure of oral contraceptives with obese women

... for obesity in order to explore this issue. But several demographic studies have shown that even women just considered "overweight," with a body mass index of 25-30, may also be at increased risk of contraceptive failure. "Although our research has found this interaction between obese women and oral ...

Probiotics help gastric-bypass patients lose weight more quickly, Stanford study shows

... are morbidly obese, and bypass surgery is becoming an increasingly common treatment for the problem. Some 150,000 Americans who have a body mass index of more than 40 who are typically at least 100 pounds overweight have the procedure each year. Morton said the study was prompted by the fact ...

Forsyth scientists suggest linkages between obesity and oral bacterial infection

... of Study In order to measure the salivary bacterial populations of overweight women, samples were collected from 313 women with a body mass index between 27 and 32 (classifying them as overweight). Using DNA analysis, the researchers measured the bacterial populations of this group and compared ...

Funxional successfully completes initial clinical trial of FX125L, an anti-inflammatory drug with a novel mechanism of action

... company based in Cambridge (UK) which focuses on novel anti-inflammatory therapies. FXT is managed by a very experienced team and is financed by index Ventures and Novo A/S, while its shareholders also include Ipsen and Cambridge University. FXT has research and office facilities in Cambridge. For ...

ADA releases updated position paper on vegetarian diets

... blood pressure levels and lower risk of hypertension and type 2 diabetes, according to ADA's position. "Vegetarians tend to have a lower body mass index and lower overall cancer rates. Vegetarian diets tend to be lower in saturated fat and cholesterol and have higher levels of dietary fiber, magnesium ...

NSF provides $3.4 million to study climatically important Agulhas Current

... be in the water until approximately March 2013. "Ultimately, a twenty year proxy of Agulhas Current transport will provide an important climate index for the Indian Ocean, which can be linked to other climate indices, such as the Atlantic Meridional Overturning, and hopefully improve our predictive ...

Policy transparency key to saving world's fisheries

... pressures. For the second part of the study, Mora and his colleagues combined the database on management effectiveness with a recently developed index that quantifies the probability that the catch of a particular country is sustainable or not. This part of the study showed that out of several ...

Omega-3 fatty acids appear to impact AMD progression

... Journal of Ophthalmology . "Data from the present study also shows the supplements and omega-3 fatty acids collaborate with low-dietary glycemic index (dGI) diets against progression to advanced AMD," says corresponding author Chung-Jung Chiu, DDS, PhD, a scientist in the LNVR and an assistant ...

Peripheral nerve repair with fat precursor cells led to wider nerves and less muscle atrophy

... cells in high numbers that are clinically challenging to obtain. According to the researchers, significant differences in the sciatic functional index (SFI) were observed three weeks post-injury in the autografted, APC-transplanted group using nerve guides over a control group in which nerve guides ...

Study shows transfer of heavy metals from water to fish in Huelva estuary

... studied the levels of copper, cadmium, lead and arsenic on three types of samples water, sediments and fish tissue. By using a statistical index (Pearson coefficient), the scientists found a link between the presence of zinc and cadmium in the water and in the tissues of the fish, above all in ...

Test detects molecular marker of aging in humans

... researchers were surprised by some of their findings, "We found a very weak correlation between the biomarker and obesity as measured by body mass index (BMI) despite other data suggesting that caloric restriction slows aging. The data suggest the possibility that reduced exercise may actually be ...

Urban myth disproved: Fingerprints do not improve grip friction

... friction between the two. Ennos designed a system that could produce forces ranging from a gentle touch to a tight grip, and then Warman strapped his index finger into the machine to begin measuring his fingerprint's friction. But after days of dragging the Perspex along Warman's fingers and thumbs, ...

Hypertension among lower-status employees lingers well into retirement

... and physician diagnosis of hypertension. After controlling for variables such as education, race, income, smoking, alcohol consumption, body mass index and co-morbidities, they analyzed the data for statistical associations. What they found with retirees was consistent with studies of those who ...

CSIRO deal to commercialize 'artificial gut'

... company Stadvis Pty Ltd have signed a worldwide license agreement to commercialise an automated instrument that accurately predicts glycemic index (GI) and resistant starch (RS) in food products. The machine will provide the food industry with an accurate means of testing the functional ...

IFAR contributes to study that finds genes that influence the start of menstruation

... sexual maturation. The researchers say these findings are significant because girls with an earlier age at menarche tend to have a greater body mass index (BMI) and more body fat than girls who begin menstruating at a later age. In addition, one of the genes is located in a region that influences adult ...

Study suggests obese women should not gain weight

... among obese women. In the study, conducted at several hospitals, the researchers followed 232 obese pregnant women, all of whom had a body mass index (BMI) of 30 or greater. Half of the women followed conventional prenatal nutritional guidelines, which is essentially "eat to appetite" (control ...

Report updates guidelines on how much weight women should gain during pregnancy

... women that aim to balance the benefits and risks associated with pregnancy weight change. Noting that entering pregnancy with a normal body mass index (BMI) as well as gaining within the recommended levels during gestation are the best ways to minimize the risks, the report calls for increased diet ...