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Caltech-led researchers find negative cues from appearance alone matter for real elections

... of Iowa. This appears to be particularly true when voters have little or no information about a ... elections in real life. The correlation held true even when volunteers saw the politicians' ... to be important for processing emotion. This was true when volunteers simply voted and also when they ...

New book suggests Earth perhaps not such a benevolent mother after all

... was stripped from the atmosphere. The evolution of the first true animals caused extinction of most stromatolites, layers of microbes living ... are the key to saving the planet and, in the end, are perhaps the only true Gaian force. "We're not renting. We're the owners, but there can be a ...

Study reveals potential to amass more carbon in eastern North American forests

... between what was once there and what's there now." He adds that the true storage potential is probably at least two-fold higher than what he and ... we're going to need to take something out." That certainly seems to be true in Wisconsin. Based on historic carbon levels, the researchers' analysis ...

Study reveals potential to amass more carbon in eastern North American forests

... between what was once there and what's there now." He adds that the true storage potential is probably at least two-fold higher than what he and ... we're going to need to take something out." That certainly seems to be true in Wisconsin. Based on historic carbon levels, the researchers' analysis ...

CEL-SCI Corporation to Launch Aseptic Filling for Stem Cell Produced Therapies and Other Biological Products

... $22 million because we had not been able to find a company that could do a true 4 degrees Celsius cold fill for us. The best they could do was turn the ... We have now created something very unique and something that addresses a true need in the market place. Through our new service we will help advance ...

Combining advanced medical and information technologies offers pathway to lower health care costs

... improve medical care while lowering treatment costs. This is especially true for patients with chronic illnesses like diabetes, today said an ... care costs over the course of a patient's illness. This is particularly true in the area of chronic illnesses, like diabetes, where early detection and ...

Adult stem cells activated in mammalian brain

... by UC Irvine scientists has shown. Evidence strongly shows that the true stem cells in the mammalian brain are the ependymal cells that line the ... motor behavior. First, the UCI researchers sought to determine the true location of stem cells in the rats by looking for polarized cells, which ...

At Boston symposium, NARSAD researchers report on genes and family traits

... and costly disorder and can be very difficult to treat. This is especially true for the estimated 30 percent of patients with treatment-resistant ... genes may lead to customized therapies for schizophrenia, can the same be true for new depression treatments? Answering this question is especially ...

The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity- TEEB

... in the European Commission, to promote a better understanding of the true economic value of the benefits we receive from nature. The report ... from it, a difficult ethical standpoint to defend. Incorporating the true value of biodiversity and ecosystem services into policy decisions is the ...

Ape language pioneer Savage-Rumbaugh receives honorary Ph.D. from alma mater

... said, and importantly, has forced humans to contemplate the true meaning of language. "Was it just words and grammar, or fundamentally ... quickly became mired in debate. It is a field that has yet to make its true impact felt around the world, the field that came to be called 'ape ...

Does fishing on drifting fish aggregation devices endanger the survival of tropical tuna?

... artificial drifting objects was observed for the early 1990s. This was true especially for juveniles. Between 1996 and 2005 the average annual catch ... life cycle of these tuna species and therefore of their possible role as a true ecological trap. Nevertheless, the biological effects observed indicated ...

Prof. David Kisailus studies engineering and invention on the half-shell

... bioreactor. But to these researchers, the animals in the tanks are the true marvels in engineering. We just utilize nature as our platform for ... zoology and Kisailuss in materials science. That dream has come true at UCR. We are now constantly bouncing ideas off each other again and it ...

New source for biofuels discovered

... or destroying the cyanobacteria (harvesting cellulose and sugars from true algae or crops, like corn and sugarcane, requires killing the organisms ... switchgrass and wood (cellulose), corn (glucose) and sugarcane (sucrose). true algae are also being developed for biodiesel production. Brown sees a ...

Chloroform provides clue to 150 year old medical puzzle

... years how such anaesthetics actually work. A discovery described as true serendipity made by Leeds University PhD student Dr Yahya Bahnasi, has ... We take general anaesthesia for granted nowadays, but its still true to say that we dont know exactly how it works on a molecular level, says ...

Work with power grids leads to cell biology discovery

... grid, relate to its function. Our recent research shows that what is true in power networks is also true in biological networks. Inflicting a small amount of damage can control ...

'Generalist bacteria' discovered in coastal waters may be more flexible than known before

... Island, Ga., and while the findings about bacterial generalists may hold true for similar coastal ecosystems, researchers dont know if the same will be true in deep-ocean or other sea environments. We can understand a great deal ...

Massive dinosaur discovered in Antarctica sheds light on life, distribution of sauropodomorphs

... than previously thought, and that they coexisted with their cousins, the true sauropods. The findings were published online Dec. 5 in the Acta ... hammeri shows that primitive sauropodomorphs probably coexisted with true sauropods for an extended period of time. The recent discovery of a ...

Traffic control systems

... volume curves. You are optimizing for a situation that basically is true on average but that is never true for any single day or minute: essentially for a situation that never ...

Americans remain pessimistic about the environment, Stanford-AP survey finds

... of the president's handling of the issue in 2006, and this is still true today,'' Krosnick said, noting that only 5 percent of Democrats approved ... do Democrats-31 percent versus 19 percent,'' Krosnick noted. ''This was true in 2006 as well-32 percent versus 20 percent.'' Conclusions ...

Homeland Security awards 2 grants to Rutgers for nuclear threat detection

... Office. The goal is to immediately recognize and alert authorities to true threats, while weeding out false alarms, said Fred Roberts, director of ... who have undergone medical tests or treatments, from readings caused by true threats. The second project aims to optimize the value of sensor ...

Conservation International and Toyota partner to protect Philippines' rain forests

... some of the worlds most endangered forests, Toyota is demonstrating a true commitment to the environment,?? said Glenn Prickett, CIs Senior Vice President for Business and U.S. Government Relations. This initiative is a true example of how the corporate and environmental communities can work ...

Shape encoding may start in the retina

... of the brain and the image of the left half is sent to the other. This is true whether a person uses one eye or two to look at the object. Given that ... pairs and pair members were in the submillisecond range. This was true whether both members of the pair were displayed on the same side of the ...

First individual genome sequence published

... This new genome, known as the HuRef version, represents the first time a true diploid genome from one individualDr. Venterhas been published. The ... published Celera genome, the team had the goal of constructing a true reference human genome based on one individual. Using whole genome shotgun ...

When is a stem cell not really a stem cell?

... seems to have discovered an almost-too-easy way to distinguish between true neural stem cells and similar, but less potent versions. Their finding, ... look revealed that those cells that went dark were in fact no longer true neural stem cells, which can form all major brain cell types, but instead ...

NIH stimulus funding supports Emory biomedical scientists

... Health Sciences Center. "In addition, it gives some young scientists a chance to advance their careers while pursuing discoveries that could lead to true breakthrough treatments." "Funds from the stimulus bill will have far-reaching effects," says David Wynes, PhD, Emory's vice president for ...

Hormone levels contribute to stress resilience

... have known for over a decade that DHEA provides beneficial, anti-stress effects in animals, they did not know until now whether this was also true for humans. The scientists completed psychological and hormone assessments on a group of soldiers the day before they began the month-long CDQC, ...

Reducing risk of hospitalization in the elderly

... more hospitalizations. Those most likely to end up in the hospital were the adults who scored lowest on the measures of physical function; this held true after allowing age, medical conditions, lean mass or muscle size. They also found that adults with the least dense thigh muscles, namely those with a ...

Reprogramming human cells without inserting genes

... DVM, PhD, associate professor of biology and biotechnology at WPI and president of CellThera. "Not only does this data force us to rethink what the true markers of pluripotency may be, it suggests there is a natural mechanism at work in these cells regulating the stem cell gene expression. That opens ...

Jet-propelled imaging for an ultrafast light source

... it would not clog the physical aperture of the tube. In effect, the gas sheath acts to focus the liquid stream. Spence and his colleagues needed a true microthread of liquid, however, one that produced droplets sized a millionth of a meter or less. In their nozzle, liquid flows through a narrow ...

Bizarre walking bat has ancient heritage

... Sydney. Along with the American common vampire bat - Desmodus rotundus - the NZ bat is one of only two of 1,100 bat species worldwide that has a true four-legged walking gait when manoeuvring on the ground. It uses its wings as forelegs. Its thumb and toe claws have a unique extra talon for ...

Knee injuries may start with strain on the brain, not the muscles

... unexpected scenarios, may be more beneficial than performing rote training exercises in a controlled lab setting, which is much less random than a true competitive scenario. In this case, expanding the anticipated training to include shorter stimulus-response times could improve reaction time in ...

In vitro antibody production enables HIV infection detection in window period -- key to safer blood

... the problem of this protracted window period perhaps unique to certain field study sites with a high incidence/prevalence of HIV-1. This is true not only for HIV but also for other infections such as HCV, which has even a longer window period than HIV" In summary, in-vitro enhancement of ...

New research finds possible genetic link to cause of pregnancy loss and disorders

... there was eventually a complete loss of their ability to support a full-term pregnancy that lined up with an increase in aneuploidy. The same is true in humans: the chance of having an aneuploid pregnancy increases with the age of the mother. For the past several years, scientists have used mice ...

Early initiation of Arctic sea-ice formation

... diatoms in the sediment cores. Today, different living diatom species are adapted to particular environmental conditions. Assuming that this was also true in the past for which there is ample evidence the presence of particular diatom species in sediment cores is diagnostic of conditions prevailing at ...

New theory on why male, female lemurs same size

... plugs were most likely to occur in species where female sexual receptivity was very brief and where males and females were the same size. This was true both for lemur species and for a few other species, like South American squirrel monkeys. "Our idea needs further testing because it's new, but ...

A 'heart healthy' diet and ongoing, moderate physical activity may protect against cognitive decline

... persons who reported higher levels of aerobic physical activity had better memory than those who reported no such activity. This was especially true in those people who didn't have the APOE-e4 Alzheimer's risk gene," Obisesan said. "Because physical activity is a low-cost, low-risk, readily ...

New biomarker method could increase the number of diagnostic tests for cancer

... in each study using small numbers of samples, leading to very high rate of invalid biomarkers. The biomarkers that are actually valid -- that is, true biomarkers -- must be culled from lengthy lists of candidates, a time-consuming and not always accurate process. The CPTAC center network study ...

Elsevier announces 2008 journal impact factor highlights

... the hard work and focus on quality of these collaborations." "The fact that Elsevier's overall results are amongst the best in the industry is a true indication of the impact of the increased focus on quality we have placed on our journals in the past three years. The increased impact factors, ...

Natural-born divers and the molecular traces of evolution

... An aquatic lifestyle imposes serious demands for the organism, and this is true even for the tiniest molecules that form our body. When the ancestors of present marine mammals initiated their return to the oceans, their ...

Complications early in pregnancy or in previous pregnancies adversely affect existing or subsequent pregnancies

... with a three-fold increased risk of premature delivery and a nearly three-fold risk of low birth weight. Dr van Oppenraaij said: "While it is true that most conditions are difficult to prevent, with improved monitoring in high risk pregnancies it is possible to reduce perinatal or postnatal ...