posture in Biological News

How to text message and avoid pain

... often text messaged hunched over. Just like when using a computer, such posture should be avoided', says Gustafsson. Subjects with neck, arm or hand ... risks. Those interviewed related health risks to long-term usage, bad work posture and reduced physical activity', says Gustafsson. ERGONOMICALLY CORRECT ...

As good as it gets: Octogenarian muscles don't get stronger with exercise

... exercise. Slow-twitch are associated with aerobic tasks, including endurance exercise such as marathons. Fast-twitch muscles are important in posture and balance and so may be of particular importance for the elderly, who are more prone to falls. When people do not use their muscles during a period ...

Famous fossil Lucy scanned at the University of Texas at Austin

... the bones were found. Prior to the 1974 discovery of Lucy, some theories of evolution suggested human-like intelligence evolved before upright posture (bipedalism). But the existence of ancient bipeds like Lucy refutes this theory because their brain is not significantly larger than that of a modern ...

Streamlining brain signals for speed and efficacy

... there is no space for ambiguity when the brain needs to transform head motion into precise eye, head, and body movements that rapidly stabilize our posture and gaze; otherwise, we would stumble helplessly through the world, and our vision would resemble an undecipherable blur. In their latest study, ...

Why your boss is white, middle-class and a show-off

... The way male managers power dress, posture and exercise power is due to humans' evolutionary biology, according to research from the University of New South Wales (UNSW). Prehistoric ...

Common treatment to delay labor decreases preterm infants' risk for cerebral palsy

... 28 issue of The New England Journal of Medicine. Cerebral palsy refers to a group of neurological disorders affecting control of movement and posture and limiting activity. The causes of cerebral palsy are not well understood, though cerebral palsy is attributed to brain injury or developmental ...

Early parents didn't stand for weighty kids

... cost of carrying in great apes. Computer models of early hominins carrying loads will also be built to try and evaluate whether their body shape and posture long arms and short legs would have made them noticeably better or worse at carrying than present-day humans. The research team hopes this will ...

How alligators rock and roll

... So the ability to move the lungs to maneuver is probably key for slow swimmers, she adds. This mechanism allows these animals to manipulate their posture without generating lift or drag without any swimming movement like the flick of a tail or swish of a fin. ...

Accelerometer backpacks aid study of gliding behavior in the 'flying' lemur

... more softly the farther it travels. This fits with aerodynamic models, Byrnes said. According to the authors, the colugo's ability to change its posture for aerial braking just prior to landing is "probably an important trait in the transition from leaping to gliding. It enables the gliders to reduce ...

Ant parasite turns host into ripe red berry, biologists discover

... thousand ants. Infected ants, normally black, develop a bright red abdomen, called a gaster, and tend to hold it in an elevated position, an alarm posture in ants. The ants also get sluggish, and the gaster is easily broken off, making it easy for birds to pluck. Dudley noted that birds usually don't ...

Record Attendance at the 2007 National Ergonomics Conference and Exposition

... Walkstation by Details a Steelcase Co.; Trackbar by Euro Office Americas; and the Ntune Seating System(TM) by Neutral Posture, Inc. Neutral posture has won multiple Attendees' Choice Awards since the program began in 2002. Continental Exhibitions, Inc.'s 2008 events will include the ...

Eat chocolate, drink wine, add fun to life: SLU geriatrician shares secrets of staying young

... raking or walking your dog, aim to exercise for a half hour every day. For the best outcome, combine endurance, resistance training, balance, posture and stretching exercises. Even if you just get out of your house and go to the mailbox, youll function better, Morley says. But you have to exercise ...

Dinosaur from Sahara ate like a 'mesozoic cow'

... and organ of equilibrium, said, What we have here is the first good look at a sauropod brain, and it has important things to say about this animals posture and behavior. Jaw design was not Nigersaurus only odd characteristic: It had a backbone that was more air than bone. The vertebrae are so ...

Male reindeer inflate a large air sac in the neck region to emit their hoarse rutting calls

... contrast to male red deer, who are renowned for roaring with the head elevated, male reindeer emit a hoarse rattling with the head kept low. In this posture the inflated air sac expands the neck region. Both acoustic and optical display serve to deter rival males and thereby prevent fighting, allowing to ...

Homing pigeons get their bearings from their beaks

... manner, thus acting as a three-axis magnetometer. The study suggests that the birds sense the magnetic field independent of their motion and posture and thus can identify their geographical position. The researchers further believe that this ability is not unique to homing pigeons as they ...

Stimulation of the semicircular canals can artificially control human walking and balance

... subject to lean in one direction or the other, but without having any effect on steering his walking. Known as bipedalism, our habitual upright posture is unique in the animal kingdom and has arisen through specific complementary adaptations of the body and brain. It has been believed that the key to ...

Agilent Technologies introduces high-capacity human protein removal system for proteomics research

... University, said that this crocodilian ancestor was only three to four feet long, with a stubbier, less flattened skull and a less sprawling leg posture than today's crocodiles have. Also, the armor did not cover the entire body, but was restricted to two lines down the back. The creature is most ...

Revueltosaurus skeleton unearthed at Petrified Forest upsets dinosaur tale

... University, said that this crocodilian ancestor was only three to four feet long, with a stubbier, less flattened skull and a less sprawling leg posture than today's crocodiles have. Also, the armor did not cover the entire body, but was restricted to two lines down the back. The creature is most ...