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Landmark textbook on strokes in children and young adults updated in second edition

...Biller wrote that his colleague was "known and loved by many as preeminent neuroanatomist, erudite teacher, tireless advisor, compassionate caregiver, gregarious sportsman and consummate family man." ...

Blinded Vets Foundation to Honor Maryland State Delegate Sheila Hixson

...e presented to many guests. The band Mid-Life Crisis will entertain guests. As always, the picnic's famous hot dogs will be prepared and served by the gregarious Chef Lakis, a longtime Washington, D.C. fixture who has since retired from his cart at the northeast corner of 18th and K Streets, N.W. In 1976 Ms. ...

Male Wallflowers-Watch Your Heart

...atest research shows that timid and withdrawn men increase their chances of dying from heart attacks by up to fifty percent, as against their more gregarious peers . The scientists led by Jarett Berry and Philip Greenland of Northwestern University of Chicago, who published their findings in The An...

gregarious in Medical Technology

White Nose Syndrome: Is Pennsylvania Next?

...nnsylvania and other New England and Mid-Atlantic states. Although the federal response isn't a red alert, there is great concern, because bats are so gregarious and often state-hop - wintering in one state, summering in another. This lifestyle increases the likelihood of contact with affected bats or sites, as...

gregarious in Biological News

'Uniquely human' component of language found in gregarious birds

Although linguists have argued that certain patterns of language organization are the exclusive province of humans -- perhaps the only uniquely human component of language -- researchers from the University of Chicago and the University of California San Diego have discovered the same capacity to r...

Why do oysters choose to live where they could be eaten?

... if adult oysters will eat larvae of the same species, and (3) how risky is gregarious settlement among cannibals. Using a series of laboratory experiments ...risk at settlement, future payoffs appear to have driven the evolution of a gregarious settlement cue that promotes group living in oysters. ...

In young mice, gregariousness seems to reside in the genes

...ted using two different strains of young mice, one gregarious in nature, the other much less so. "Their motivati...in researchers also found that young mice from the gregarious strain seek environments that predict the possibil...pany. That's the point," says Garet Lahvis, of the gregarious strain of mouse. Lahvis is a professor of surgery ...

Climate change creates dramatic decline in red-winged black bird population

...legs of thousands of red-winged black birds in order to track their nesting habits. They winter in southeastern United States. In mid-July they become gregarious and switch from eating insects to eating corn and have caused millions of dollars of damage. Red-winged black birds feed on corn borers, so that ...

Robots manipulating animal behaviour

...er roach, it may approach it, move away or stop. Cockroaches were chosen here because their pheromones are better understood than those found on other gregarious insects, such as ants. According to coordinator Jean-Louis Deneubourg, from the Université Libre de Bruxelles, the project had its origins in colle...

gregarious in Biological Technology

Mouse study reveals genetic component of empathy

...bited clear physiological signs of aversion, such as freezing in place, even though no shock was delivered. In contrast, observer mice from a less gregarious strain less likely to seek the company of other mice showed no response to the tone when they were placed in the test chamber. "The question is, ...