Financial Concerns Top List of Holiday Stressors for Women, Families with Children

...as, Chanukah, Kwanzaa, or other holiday celebration is perfect; view inevitable missteps as opportunities to demonstrate flexibility and resilience. A lopsided tree or a burned brisket won't ruin your holiday; rather, it can create a family memory. If your children's wish list is outside your budget, talk to ...

Scientists learn what's 'up' with a class of retinal cells in mice

...cell body, but the upward motion-detecting cells arrange almost 90 percent of their dendrite tangle exclusively on one side of the cell body. "This lopsided arrangement literally directs the cell's function, orienting the dendrites downward like roots of great trees," says Sanes, professor of molecular and...

Partial Face Transplant Patient Doing Well

...he was able to completely close her mouth 10 months after surgery, improving her ability to pronounce words and letters. The woman's smile remained lopsided up to the 10th month after surgery but was normal at 18 months. The patient did experience two rejection episodes, both of which were successfully ...

Doctor-aided suicide: No slippery slope

...erence or that is partly contested showing that people with psychiatric illness including depression and Alzheimers disease are not likely to die in lopsided numbers. Those who received physician-assisted dying appeared to enjoy comparative social, economic, educational, professional and other privile...

Female Ducks Develop Complicated Genitals to Outwit Aggressive Males

... Rape is a monstrous violation of a woman's freedom. But in a patriarchal society with lopsided values, there seems to be no escape from it . But ducks seem to show a way out. Females in certain species have developed complicated genitals th...

Female Ducks Develop Complicated Genitals to Outwit Aggressive Males

... Rape is a monstrous violation of a woman's freedom. But in a patriarchal society with lopsided values, there seems to be no escape from it//. But ducks seem to show a way out. Females in certain species have developed complicated genitals th...

Stress and mood fatigue may affect the diet in pregnancy

... Stressed women had more breads and snacks, which are rich in fats, iron and zinc. Anxiety caused lower intake of vitamin C. This may lead to a lopsided diet, which might lack in essential nutrients, while resulting in increased intake of certain nutrients. Finding out more of the mental makeup of the ...

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The lopsided brain: Attention bias is shared by humans and birds

When it comes to the world laid before us, our mind's eye has a bias. For reasons that are not entirely clear, during some tasks humans have a tendency to devote more visual attention to the left side of the visual world than the right side, a phenomenon known as pseudoneglect. Researchers now repo...

February 2009 Geology and GSA Today media highlights

...oulevard, Houston, Texas 77058, USA. Pages 139-142. The immense Olympus Mons volcano on Mars (about 23 km tall and 600 km wide) exhibits a somewhat lopsided structure: elongated to the northwest, shortened to the southeast, with corresponding types of faulting (extensional and compressional, respectively) ...

Are humans hardwired for fairness?

... to gain exactly the same dollar amount of free money, the subjects were much happier with the fair offers and much more disdainful of deals that were lopsided and self-centered. The psychologists wanted to know if there is something inherently rewarding about being treated decently. So, they scanned seve...

Odd protein interaction guides development of olfactory system

...tremely high levels. When Wnt5 was absent, the normally symmetrical odor-sensing structures, called glomeruli, were smaller, malformed, and grew in lopsided positions in the antennal lobes. The commissure, a network of neural fibers that connects the lobes, also was missing. Because receptors and their ...

Quick identification needed to save Florida's citrus industry from devastating disease

...w sectors of infected trees. The symptoms of citrus greening usually include a blotchy mottle and leaf yellowing that spreads throughout the tree with lopsided fruit that fail to color properly. Citrus greening has seriously affected citrus production in Asia, Africa, the Indian subcontinent and the Arabia...