Toxic flood lifts lid on common urban pollution problem
Broken sewers, flooded industrial plants and dead bodies are all likely to blame for poisoning the waters being drained from New Orleans. So sa...Sleep disturbances affect classroom performance
As a night of bad sleep can have an adverse effect on an adult’s performance at work the next day, an insufficient amount of rest can also have a negative impact on how well middle or high school students perform in the classroom. A study published in the February 15th issue of the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine (JCSM) finds that adolescents who experience sleep disturbances are more likely...Out-of-body experiences may be caused by arousal system disturbances in brain
Having an out-of-body experience may seem far-fetched to some, but for those with arousal system disturbances in their brains, it may not be a far off idea that they could sense they were really outside their own body watching themselves. In previous studies of more than 13,000 Europeans, almost 6 percent said they have had such an out-of-body experience. Dr. Kevin Nelson and a research te...New Urbanism: Community planning Feng Shui
The need to have a rebirth of the American municipality. The need to create a solid platform for economic...Tech Digest: Johnson Controls, Urban League
plans to sell its engine electronics business to Valeo, a French company that will pay approximately 330 million Euros, or $430 million in today's dollars. The business is headquartered in Pontoise, France. Johnson Controls bought it in 2001 from another Fr...Oral examination may not predict relationship between snoring and sleep disturbance
Recent studies have shown that oral examination may not foretell much relation to snoring and sleep disturbances in patients.// OSAS, also known as the condition of fragmented sleep is associated...Attention! Spells of momentary blindness following visual disturbance
Emotionally arousing violent or erotic images have been known to cause momentary periods of blindness. It has been demonstrated that there are limits to how much information people can hold in their visual short-term memory // . As a consequence of this, we often miss visual images that pass right before our eyes when we are paying attention to something else. But this is n...Incidence of breast cancer increasing in urban India
Statistics show that the incidence of breast cancer is rapidly increasing in urban India and has overtaken cancer of the cervix as the number one cancer in our major metros according to a study conducted on women and cancer in India.// The number of breast cancer cases is estimated to have reached 1.2 million worldwide. Snacking, fatty food, late marriage and delayed mot...Sleep Disturbance in Atopic Dermatitis
Atopic dermatitis is a common skin disorder that most often begins in infancy. Sleep disturbances in children with atopic dermatitis are likely due to itching and scratching and not only impact the afflicted child but may // also affect the entire family. Recently, a study was conducted with the aim to evaluate sleep disturbance and co sleeping in young children with atopic dermatitis...Urban Monkeys Source Of Virus Infections
Asian Urban monkeys may be a source of various pathogenic viruses and the transmission of these viruses to humans are high due to contacts of humans with monkeys. Researchers from University of Washington// have undergone a test of isolation of different viruses from 20 urban macaques and the test results showed that more than 10 macques harbored retroviruses. The results indicate that contact wi...