Breath of the dragon: ERS-2 and Envisat reveal impact of economic growth on China's air quality
China's spectacular economic growth during the last decade has brought many benefits - and some challenges. Global atmospheric mapping of nitrogen dioxide pollution performed by ERS-2's GOME and Envisat's SCIAMACHY reveals the world's largest amount of NO2 hanging above Beijing and northeast China, as reported in Nature this week. As part of ESA's Dragon Programme, European and Chinese res...When its parts pull together, Wisconsin can tell a compelling economic story
MILWAUKEE If you ask visitors from Spain, Lithuania or Hong Kong what they know about Wisconsin, chances are good the answers will have something to do with beer, brats, cheese or the Green Bay Packers. But how much would they know about our biotechnology? Not much, if anything. However, its vital to Wisconsins economic future that people far outside our borders learn more about the sta...A heavenly tax cut: Act 255 stimulates economic growth
Sometimes, legislators like me can focus too much on the bad things happening in our state. We spend a lot of time talking about our oppressive tax burden, out of control spending by state government, a regulatory scheme that stifles business development and an economy that is growing more slowly than the rest of the country. While all of those things require our im...WMEP wins top economic development award
The award, presented at th...Economic outlook for 2007, and still clueless on Apple
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As anthrax and other biological weapons continue to be worrisome threats, common pest control agent called methyl bromide is more effective and cheaper// than current treatments in eradicating deadly bacterial spores from buildings. Tests indicate that the methylbromide - used for more than 50 years to control insect pests in buildings, grain elevators and fresh fruit - is a better option than cu...Low Socioeconomic Status May Lead To Mental Illness
Researchers are of the low social and economic standing may lead to more cases of mental illnesses like depression,// and bipolar disease. The study, which examined a database of 34000 patients who have been detected with mental illness leading to hospitalization, was published in the current issue of American Journal of Orthopsychiatry. The study results show that income education an...Economic and Ethical disparities hinder cervical cancer screening
Professor Geetanjali Dabral Datta and her research team from Harvard School of Public Health, Boston has found social disparities occur in cervical cancer screening for women.// Cervical cancer can be detected early by Pap smear test, which proves to be a very useful and sensitive test for early detection of cervical cancer and early cervical cancer is easily curable compared to late stage cancer...Study Finds Low Socio-Economic Status Linked to Poor Dental Health
An article appearing in the American Journal of Public Health says that low income groups and those with little education are more prone to suffer from severe dental diseases//. The study arrived at these conclusions after analyzing data from 15,000 people residing in North Carolina, Mississippi, Minnesota and Maryland. The researchers say that a person's income was intimately tied to t...Prostate Cancer Outcomes Determined By Socioeconomic Status
More than the available treatment methods, it is the socioeconomic status of an individual that determines the prognosis of prostate cancer, according// to a new study published in the March 15, 2006 issue of CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society. The study found that education, community poverty, and income level played an equally important role in determining t...Economical CO-150, Direct Heat CO2 Incubator
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