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Fabled 'Freshman 15' pound gain more often only 5, report researchers

The freshman 15 - the rapid weight gain believed to afflict many new college students when they begin school - appears to be a bit of an urban legend: a cautionary tale often told but not well substantiated. Now a study of 36 freshmen at Auburn University - located in one of the states with th...

Multi-million pound UK Biobank underway

UK Biobank, a visionary medical project aimed at improving the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of cancer, heart disease, diabetes and many other serious conditions is launched this week after several years of meticulous planning. Up to three thousand people living in the south Manchester area...

Research network wins approximately £5.7 million to target human and animal diseases in Africa

... Deadly diseases including plague, Ebola and Rift Valley Fever are being targeted as part of a new multi-million pound international partnership involving African researchers and the London International Development Centre (LIDC). The Southern African Centre for Infect...

Fossil bone bed helps reconstruct life along California's ancient coastline

... Berkeley In the famed Sharktooth Hill Bone Bed near Bakersfield, Calif., shark teeth as big as a hand and weighing a pound each, intermixed with copious bones from extinct seals and whales, seem to tell of a 15-million-year-old killing ground. Yet, new research by a tea...

New guidelines to fight obesity in pregnancy issued

...l-term babies. The new IOM report also added rates for the amount of weight a woman should gain in the second and third trimesters of pregnancy a pound a week for underweight and normal weight women and about a half-pound for overweight and obese women. The March of Dimes, along with other nationa...

Oral contraceptives impair muscle gains in young women

.... Group 2 consisted of 39 women who did not take birth control pills (non-OC). The women were encouraged to consume at least 0.5 grams of protein per pound of body weight per day (a third more than is called for by the U.S. government nutritional guidelines) to make sure they consumed enough calories and ...

Oral contraceptives impair muscle gains in young women

.... Group 2 consisted of 39 women who did not take birth control pills (non-OC). The women were encouraged to consume at least 0.5 grams of protein per pound of body weight per day (a third more than is called for by the U.S. government nutritional guidelines) to make sure they consumed enough calories and ...

A green future for scrap iron

...e elements. Zhang says the scrap iron's low cost gives it great potential to be used in developing countries where nanoparticles' cost about $50 a pound can be prohibitive. In China, Zhang and Ma note in their article, the textile industry alone generates two billion tons of wastewater each year. ...

Methane gas levels begin to increase again

...rease represents a return to sustained methane growth, or the beginning of a relatively short-lived anomaly, according to Rigby and Prinn. Given that, pound for pound, methane is 25 times more powerful as a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide, the situation will require careful monitoring in the near future...

University of Leicester professor adds new perspective to rainforest debate

...satellites. The Eliasch review report to the prime minister Gordon Brown recently set out a British-led plan to set up a revolutionary multibillion pound to pay the owners of the world's rainforests for stopping deforestation. This fund is hoped to make a contribution to slowing down global warming. Red...

Study: Tropical wetlands hold more carbon than temperate marshes

...and sediment was more densely packed with carbon. Its average carbon density was 110 grams of carbon per kilogram of soil (almost 1.8 ounces for every pound of soil), while the Ohio wetland's average carbon density was less than half that, 53 grams of carbon per kilogram of soil (.86 ounces per pound). ...

American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- Aug. 13, 2008

...e temperature of a spacecraft is absolutely crucial. Currently, there is no way to do it for very small spacecraft." With the cost of orbiting one pound of payload hovering around $5,000, micro-spacecraft are expected to be the thrust of future aerospace development. With these miniature craft, NASA, m...

Great white's mighty bite revealed

...st. "Nature has endowed this carnivore with more than enough bite force to kill and eat large and potentially dangerous prey," he says. "Pound for pound the great whites' bite is not particularly impressive, but the sheer size of the animal means that in absolute terms it tops the scales. It must also ...

Research yields pricey chemicals from biodiesel waste

...ays we have uncovered paved the way for the development of new technologies for converting this waste product into high-value chemicals." About one pound of glycerin, also known as glycerol, is created for every 10 pounds of biodiesel produced. According to the National Biodiesel Board, U.S. companies p...

US Patent Office rejects company's claim for bean commonly grown by Latin American farmers

...he public by the Mexican government in the 1970s. Yet Proctor actively enforced his patent. At one point, the patent-holders US$0.6-claim on every pound of yellow beans sold in the United States caused a steep decline in exports of such beans from Mexico to the USA, according to Mexican government sour...

Backpack straps can decrease blood flow in the shoulder and arm

...rovascular flow was measured using the photoplethysmography method. Baseline flows were measured immediately before and ten minutes after donning a 26 pound backpack. A ten minute testing period was chosen because people typically wear a backpack for at least ten minutes. This amount of time is also suffic...

'Wildcat Power Cord' repairs cruciate ligament in dairy cow's knee

...a solid material about the diameter of a coffee straw. But the question remained: Could this man-made material replace the natural ligament of a 1,500 pound animal? On Jan. 17, Anderson replaced Wilhelmina's torn ligament with the artificial one, dubbed the "Wildcat Power Cord." Anderson's surgery team ...

To save or savor? It's decision time for Atlantic bluefin tuna

... Prized by sushi lovers for their savory succulence and by fishermen for the incomparable price they command-one 607-pound fish fetched over $90 per pound at a January auction in Tokyo-all three species of bluefins have seen their population plummet in the past 50 years thanks to worldwide demand. H...

Bottom trawling impacts, clearly visible from space

...are tens of thousands of trawlers worldwide. They fish for shrimp and finfishes. Some bottom trawling operations catch 20 pounds of bykill for every pound of targeted species. ...

Marsupial lion tops African lion in fight to death

... pound for pound, Australias extinct marsupial lion (Thylacoleo carnifex) would have made mince meat of todays African lion (Panthera leo) had the two big hy...

New membrane strips carbon dioxide from natural gas faster and better

...e because of the membranes more efficient separation capabilities, and would lose less natural gas in their waste products, said Freeman, noting that, pound for pound, natural gas has a worse global warming impact on the atmosphere than carbon dioxide. When developed for commercial use, the plastic coul...

Condition of bluefin tuna in gulf of maine is declining

...d, he says, noting that fish with well-marbled tail meat, fat in their mid-section muscle and belly, and a rotund shape can command upwards of $50 per pound on the sushi market. Beyond the tekkamaki, however, fat content is a valuable indicator of the overall health condition of the bluefin. Highly ...

Custom-made cancer cell attacks

... of biomass produced than other plants,'' he said. ''For example, to make a pound of alfalfa or spinach requires about 600 pounds of water, while to grow a pound of Miscanthus requires only about 200 pounds of water.'' According to ...

Cellulosic ethanol: Fuel of the future?

... of biomass produced than other plants,'' he said. ''For example, to make a pound of alfalfa or spinach requires about 600 pounds of water, while to grow a pound of Miscanthus requires only about 200 pounds of water.'' According to ...

Update on census of world's most endangered cat -- Female Amur leopard found dead

...ka River on the territory of Barsovy National Wildlife Refuge. The next day veterinarians from the Zoological Society of London found that the 77 pound mature female leopard was shot in the back side. The bullet came through tail bone, crushed the hip bones and lodged in the belly. She was then beaten...

New UD technology removes viruses from drinking water

... used in the technology is widely available as a byproduct of iron and steel production, and it is inexpensive, currently costing less than 40 cents a pound (~$750/ton). Viruses are either chemically inactivated by or irreversibly adsorbed to the iron, according to the scientists. Technology removes ...

U of M researchers invent 'flashy' new process to turn soy oil, glucose into hydrogen

...bly be used as feedstocks. Schmidt and his university colleagues--graduate students James Salge, Brady Dreyer and Paul Dauenhauer--have produced a pound of synthesis gas in a day using their small-scale reactor. Here's how the new process works: The oil and sugar water are sprayed as fine droplets...

Fat stem cells being studied as option for breast reconstruction

...potential for treating heart attack, stroke or bone injury, although there have been no clinical trials in the U.S. to date. Experts estimate that one pound of whole fat removed in a tummy tuck, for example, can yield up to 200 million stem cells, which in culture can be expanded by 10 times over the cours...

Federal testing for mad cow disease a failure, law review editor says

...s Creekstone to market their beef as 'tested for BSE.'" Berlowitz cited news reports that the cost of such testing would add only6 to 10 cents to a pound of beef. His article further warns of poor oversight of cattle feed. In particular, the slaughterhouse practice of "rendering," or recycling dead ...

Beekeepers work hard for the honey, despite changing tupelo forest

...red to other tupelo honeys." It takes a colony of 60,000 bees about 2 million nectar-gathering visits to the tupelo blossoms each spring to make a pound of honey. That task is even tougher than it sounds because some beekeepers say it is increasingly difficult to find places to put their hives. One...

There's something fishy about human brain evolution

...man baby fat provides both an energy source for the rapidly growing infant grey matter, and also, says Dr. Cunnane, a greater concentration of DHA per pound than at any other time in life. Aquatic foods are also rich in iodine, a key brain nutrient. Iodine is present in much lower amounts from terrestri...

Marine mammals are on the frontline of failing ocean health

... me the most," says Bossart. "This infers that you could really open a Pandora's box in these animals, and possibly in humans. Manatees are the 2000 pound canary." Bossart is also concerned about new data indicating that fish and other food sources - once thought to die too quickly to pass on brevetox...

Of mice, men, trees and the global carbon cycle

...y more calories per hour than a mouse, the mouse has a much higher rate per pound of body weight. An elephant with the same rate per pound as a mouse would generate so much heat it would have serious problems maint...

Wild Gorillas Handy with a Stick

...aw a chimp “come ambling round a bend bearing an armful of dried palm nuts,?sit down beside a rock, select a nut, place it on a flat rock surface, and pound it with another rock to extract the meat. Thirty years passed before primatologists would describe the same behavior in chimps in Guinea. By then it w...

Noise And Delays Explain Why Some Genes Oscillate In Activity

...of sleep deprivation can be so serious that some sleep scientists liken lifetime sleep debt to a heavy backpack: every sleep hour missed adds an extra pound to your pack until it weighs you down. For people without time for a daily eight hours in the sack, drugs that counteract the effects of sleep depri...

Clocking in Pillow Time without the Pillow

...of sleep deprivation can be so serious that some sleep scientists liken lifetime sleep debt to a heavy backpack: every sleep hour missed adds an extra pound to your pack until it weighs you down. For people without time for a daily eight hours in the sack, drugs that counteract the effects of sleep depri...

Restaurant seafood prices since 1850s help plot marine harvests through history

...ey ballooned in the 1950s, with restaurants pricing lobsters at one-quarter pound (113 gram) weight increments, another reflection of declining supplies, say... "It's interesting on menus today to see the appearance of four and five pound (1.8 to 2.3 kilo) lobsters," he notes. "There is little chance those are co...

Bacteria are key to 'green' plastics, drugs

...genes that interfere with it. The goal is to maximize the rate -- the speed of the conversion -- and the yield -- the amount of succinate produced per pound of glucose converted. Bennett and San's bug -- known only by the designation SBS550MG -- contains an ingenious bit of metabolic engineering that al...

Spider Venom Could Yield Eco-Friendly Insecticides

...more efficient pesticide. More than a billion pounds of pesticides are sprayed in the U.S. every year. That's four pounds per person. A millionth of a pound can sometimes be deadly. And the chemical toxins that currently end up in the food and water supply pose a serious threat to animals, fish, and birds,...