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Penguin chicks exposed to human visitors experience spike in stress hormone

Newly hatched magellanic penguin chicks in breeding grounds with a large number of human visitors show a significant spike in levels of a stress-related hormone compared to chicks hatched in areas not visited by humans, a University of Washington research team has found. It wasn't until chicks with limited human exposure reached 40 to 50 days old that they showed a stress response like the...

Virtual animal shelters ?How the Internet is transforming the experience of pet adoptions

Across the United States, independent pet rescue organizations are growing in number, working to place abandoned animals in loving new homes. Although the majority of these organizations operate out of clusters of private foster homes, they're successfully winning high visibility for placing their pooches. In a presentation at the 100th annual meeting of the American Sociological Associati...

Past experience of pheromones induces dominant courtship behavior in fruit flies

By investigating the interplay between pheromone signaling and behavior in fruit flies, researchers have begun to understand how an adult fly's earlier experience as a young individual can influence its behavior towards other flies as an adult. In particular, the researchers found that pheromone signals in the context of experience with adult flies can influence how young flies will behave once t...

When mice choose mates, experience counts

Choosing a mate is a big decision. And, at least for mice, it's one that is best made with input from one's peers. In a series of experiments designed help scientists understand the brain chemicals that guide mate selection, Pfaff and his colleagues exposed female mice to odors of either a male mouse alone or a male mouse with a female. The females consistently preferred the scent of males...

Brain differences could explain why males and females experience pain relief differently

A study conducted by investigators at Georgia State University and the Atlanta-based Center for Behavioral Neuroscience (CBN) reports that anatomical and functional differences in the brain may explain sex differences in the experience of pain and in the effects of certain drugs on pain. The finding, reported in the April 13 issue of the Journal of Comparative Neurology, is the first rep...

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With flawed schools exposed, real-world experience is needed

What kind of school systems are our taxes supporting? This question becomes very critical given the fact that jobs are being outsourced to other countries by the thousands and many leaders of public schools have lost touch with whats important. Educators better get with the program and start teaching real skills along with the ability to learn and compete. The latest decision to...

Psychologist - technology entrepreneurs frequently experience hypomania

Theres a question that every technology entrepreneur has heard at least once. Its asked by spouses, families, friends, employees, customers and, yes, investors. When youre operating on technologys bleeding edges and trying to introduce that new-to-the-world and must-have tech breakthrough, your sanity will be questioned. Itll probably q...

Conference focuses on experience, challenges of being an entrepreneur

New and developing Wisconsin business owners, investors and professional service providers converged at the conference to learn techniques a...

Northwoods Software co-owner distills 30 years of business experience

Early in his management career, Bob Weisenberg read a lot of books on management and leadership. One day, when he was about one-third of the way through yet another book, he realized he had read it before. Now retired after a 30-year career in the software industry, Weisenberg says the way to excel at leadership is by getting good at applying a very limited number of skills, not by readi...

Going beyond me, too customer experiences

Is competitive advantage obsolete? Today, competitors can copy the newest product enhancement, advertising claim, Web-site feature, supply-chain innovation or low-cost back-office process seemingly overnight. Indeed, it seems that no advantage is safe or sustainable for long. This realization has led many corporate leaders to conclude that the best (and only) strateg...

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Almost a death experience

According to French researchers there is no obvious medical explanation for the near death experience reported by some patients during cardiac arrest. The near death experience (NDE) has received quite a lot of attention in recent years.// It involves a feeling of disconnection from the body during a life-threatening medical crisis - typically a cardiac arrest - and often progress down a tunnel...

Gender difference in Pain Experience - Women feel More Pain than men

At the University of Bath in England an interesting study has been conducted that shows that women feel pain more than // men. This is despite the popular notion that the opposite is true. Why this gender difference no one as yet knows. “Until fairly recently it was controversial to suggest that there were any differences between males and females in the perception and experience of pain,...

An Enzyme That Turns a One –time Experience into a long-time Memor

Do you remember where you were when you heard about the World Trade Center attack? For many it is a memory they will never forget. But why? A new study finds lasting memories are formed with a process that involves the enzyme known as protein kinase C.// Researchers in New Orleans studied female mice and how they remembered their mating partner. They discovered that with only one expos...

A Scientific Explanation For Out Of Body Experience

Out of body experiences, originally thought of as a as paranormal phenomena, may in fact have their roots in how people perceive and experience their own bodies. Despite the high incidence of OBE among the general public, not // much is known about the phenomenon. Around 10% of the population have an out-of-body experience (OBE) at some time, typically involving a sensation of floating...

Feelings Of Sympathy And Empathy Dictated by Personal Experience

It has now been demonstrated that our own experience is important to exhibit feelings of sympathy or empathy for others. Psychologists and neuroscientists have been working hard to understand what happens in our brain as soon as // we observe a person in action. The results of the observation show that the actions of the observer to a large extent are governed internally. The research...

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TMC125 Showed Significant Virologic Response at Week 24 in Treatment-Experienced HIV Patients With NNRTI Resistance in Phase 3 Trials

Data Published in The Lancet on TMC125, an Investigational NNRTIfrom Tibotec YARDLEY, Pa., July 05, 2007 /PRNewswire/ -- Data from twoongoing Phase 3 studies (DUET-1 and DUET-2) showed significantlymore HIV-1 adult patients with documented non-nucleoside reversetranscriptase inhibitor (NNRTI) and protease inhibitor (PI)resistance reached an undetectable viral load (defined as achievingco...

New Phase 3 Study Published in The Lancet Evaluates Efficacy and Safety of Prezista/Ritonavir vs. Kaletra as Part of HIV Combination Therapy in Treatment-Experienced Adults With HIV

BRIDGEWATER, N.J., July 05, 2007 /PRNewswire/ -- Results fromthe primary analysis of a randomized, controlled, open-label, Phase3 study showed that 77 percent of treatment-experienced HIV-1infected adults taking PREZISTA(TM) (darunavir) 600 mg tablets with100 mg ritonavir (PREZISTA/r) twice daily, plus an optimizedbackground regimen (OBR) of antiretroviral (ARV) agents, reached aplasma v...

Lipitor Reduced the Risk of Coronary Events by Half and Stroke by Nearly One-Third in High-Risk Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Who Experienced a Recent Stroke

CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun 25, 2007 - Pfizer announced todaythat Lipitor (atorvastatin calcium) Tablets 80 mg reduced the riskof stroke, coronary heart disease events and major coronary eventsin type 2 diabetes patients who had no known coronary heart diseasebut who had experienced a recent stroke or mini-stroke, comparedwith placebo. The results are from a new analysis of the landmarkSt...

Heart Attack Patients Treated With Novel Stem Cell Therapy Experience Significant Improvement in Heart and Lung Function

CHICAGO, March 27, 2007--Heart attack patients who received annew intravenous adult stem cell therapy, Provacel™,experienced a lower number of adverse events, such as cardiacarrhythmias, and had significant improvements in heart, lung andglobal function compared to those who received a placebo, accordingto six-month P...

Medical Journal Publishes First Large-Scale Survey Revealing Experiences of IPF Patients

CPF-Funded Research Manuscript Appears in Peer-Review JournalRespiratory Medicine SAN JOSE, Calif., March 21, 2007 /PRNewswire/ -- The Coalitionfor Pulmonary Fibrosis (CPF) today announced a summary manuscriptfrom its Basic Research Questionnaire, considered one of thelargest databases of information on patients suffering fromidiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) in the United States, wasp...

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