Cosmetic Bootcamp Continues Growth and Dominance Despite Recession
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., June 9 /PRNewswire/ -- The recent Cosmetic Bootcamp Meeting and its associated financial Summit exceeded attendance and sponsorship expectation despite the recession. According to Dr. Vic Narurkar, this is the result of companies realizing that "they need to deal with the ex...Women prefer prestige over dominance in mates
Los Angeles, CA December 17, 2008 A new study in the journal Personal Relationships reveals that women prefer mates who are recognized by their peers for their skills, abilities, and achievements, while not preferring men who use coercive tactics to subordinate their rivals. Indeed, women foun...Which came first, social dominance or big brains? Wasps may tell
Theres new evidence supporting the idea that bigger brains are better. A study of a tropical wasp suggests that the brainpower required to be dominant drives brain capacity. University of Washington researchers have found that key processing regions in the brains of both males and females of ...Older child’s dominance in intelligence over; younger siblings not far behind
A new study, based on a large, nationwide sample, suggests a critical flaw in that previous research which says that older children are more intelligent// than younger ones. This was said by Aaron Wichman, lead author of the new study and a teaching fellow in psychology at Ohio State University. ...Attitude Of Male Dominance May Affect Life Expectancy In Men
Socioeconomic factors like attitude of males to dominate women may be at the heart of their life expectancy. Systematic male dominance - patriarchy - explains half the discrepancy in life expectancy between the sexes // , suggests research spanning four continents in the Journal of Epidemiology ...'Go to the doctor? Only if I'm really sick ...'
...ty. Two-thirds of the participants described masculinity based on patriarchy, heterosexuality, subordination of others, economic security and physical dominance also known as hegemonic masculinity as the standard. However, when they are economically marginalized, sexuality and sexual performance become the m...'Go to the doctor? Only if I'm really sick...'
...ty. Two-thirds of the participants described masculinity based on patriarchy, heterosexuality, subordination of others, economic security and physical dominance also known as hegemonic masculinity as the standard. However, when they are economically marginalized, sexuality and sexual performance become the m...Need something? Talk to my right ear!
...nschaften . One of the best known asymmetries in humans is the right ear dominance for listening to verbal stimuli, which is believed to reflect the brain's l...nd there is very little published observational evidence of spontaneous ear dominance in everyday human behavior. Tommasi and Marzoli's three studies specific...August 2009 Geology and GSA Today media highlights
...ars. Immediately prior to the event, the jawed acanthodians dominated the fish faunas, whereas the event led to a diverse fauna and a brief but marked dominance of the jawless thelodonts. Both these groups of fish are now extinct but were common inhabitants in the Silurian seas. The stepwise changes observed a...Maternal, paternal genes' tug-of-war may last well into childhood
... Haig delved into clinical case reports on patients with four rare genetic disorders. He found evidence that children with disorders characterized by dominance of some maternal genes -- Silver-Russell syndrome, Prader-Willi syndrome, and Temple syndrome -- place fewer demands on their mothers' resources. ...After dinosaurs, mammals rise but their genomes get smaller
...cientists' finding might seem counter-intuitive, given that the last 65 million years have seen mammals expand in diversity and number, not to mention dominance in a wide variety of ecological roles. But it is precisely their success in numbers that could have led to the contraction of their genomes. "Larg...New theory on why male, female lemurs same size
...nt sex. Dunham's investigations into the long-standing mystery of female dominance among lemurs led her to put forward another important theory last year. Pub... at stake, but the only reason the females are in a position to compete for dominance is because they're roughly the same size and strength as the males." ...Using 'dominance' to explain dog behavior is old hat
... Contrary to popular belief, aggressive dogs are NOT trying to assert their dominance over their canine or human "pack", according to research published by academics at the University of Bristol's Department of Clinical Veterinary Scien...Illinois Soil Nitrogen Test measures microbial nitrogen
...n. The incubation studies showed that labeling was more rapid for nitrogen recovered by the ISNT than in hydrolyzable amino sugars, again indicating a dominance of bacterial over fungal nitrogen recoveries by the ISNT. Taken together, these findings suggest that the ISNT mainly detects bacterial amino sugar...Large sponges may be reattached to coral reefs
...tachment of reef-building corals," says Professor Joseph Pawlik of the University of North Carolina-Wilmington, co-author of the study. "Despite their dominance on coral reefs, large sponges are generally excluded from restoration efforts because of a lack of suitable methods for sponge reattachment." These...GEN highlights increasing use of digital gene expression profiling
... New Rochelle, NY, April 3, 2009A novel technique for carrying out gene-expression profiling is set to challenge the market dominance of the current, widely used methodology, reports Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News ( GEN ). Some scientists believe that digital gene-express...If you're aggressive, your dog will be too, says veterinary study at University of Pennsylvania
...grown from the idea that canine aggression is rooted in the need for social dominance or to a lack of dominance displayed by the owner. Advocates of this theory therefore suggest owners ...Beyond DTC: Pharma Industry Faces New Challenges, Competition, Strategies for Market Dominance
NEW YORK, Jan. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- As drastic cutbacks at major pharmaceuticals continue, competition soars from generics and challenge blockbuster drug teams. Social networks have entered the zone of physician and patient encounters. Advertising expenditures are being scrutinized for ROI. Prod...Balance-sheet success leads to hunt for market dominance at Merge
Milwaukee Record earnings may be the least of the news coming from Merge Technologies Inc., a.k.a Merge eFilm. The Milwaukee-based maker of radiology information system (RIS) and picture archiving and communications system (PACS) software for health-care providers reported record fiscal resul...Laser technology creates new forms of metal and enhances aircraft performance
... other. The end result is the formation of a new kind of metal that can cool the plane's electronic brain and heat pumps and allow the craft to retain dominance over any enemy that is also in flight. Currently, the researchers need only about half an hour to change the surface of metal that is approximatel...Health Robotics Expands i.v.STATION(TM) Partnership With Can-Med in 10 Countries Within Central Asia
...this hyperlink into your Internet browser's URL address field. Remove the space if one exists.) "We continue to witness Health Robotics' global dominance in the area of non-hazardous IV Admixtures by logging in excess of 900 purchase orders for i.v.STATION within 8 months of its announcement, more than ...Hepatitis C Virus Patient Opportunity Exists Within Many of the Major U.S. Local Markets
... Hepatitis C Patients Is Skewed Towards Medicare and Medicaid Compared With dominance of Private Coverage in the General Population, According to a New Analytics... hepatitis C patients is skewed towards Medicare and Medicaid compared with dominance of private coverage in the general population. "Biopharmaceutical com...Dermatologists Report Increased Use of Biologics in the Treatment of Psoriasis
...is. Time will tell whether the new IL-12 agents, such as Centocor's ustekinumab and Abbott's ABT-874 will be able to penetrate the TNF alpha inhibitor dominance in the Dermatology setting although interest in these agents is high. About BioTrends Research Group, Inc. BioTrends Research Group, Inc. ( http:/...Stonegate Report About Unigene Laboratories Inc.
... balance grew significantly during the nine-month period, increasing by over $3.6 million to over $7 million. - Valuation - With Fortical's imminent dominance in its market, an advancing pipeline targeting large markets, a dramatically improved financial position, and huge upside potential, we believe Unigen...Nanomaterials show unexpected strength under stress
...boodiri and Kim, the properties of the surface atoms, which are more mobile because they are not bounded on all sides, dominate at the nanoscale. This dominance gives an otherwise brittle material such as silica its counterintuitive fracture characteristics. The terms brittle and ductile are macroscopic ter...