FREE 'Wash Your Hands' Song from Edutunes.com Teaches Children How to Stay Healthy
HALEIWA, Hawaii, June 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Amidst the swine flu scare, first grade teacher Jennifer Fixman has decided to make a difference. She is giving away a free song called "Wash Your Hands" to help children and their families to stay healthy. "Miss Jenny" encourages everyone to download the so...Birds communicate reproductive success in song
CORVALLIS, Ore. Some migratory songbirds figure out the best place to live by eavesdropping on the singing of others that successfully have had baby birds a communication and behavioral trait so strong that researchers playing recorded songs induced them to nest in places they otherwise would ha...Use of Song in Disposable Diaper Campaign Enrages Beatles Fans
Some Beatles fans are furious over the latest use of a Fab Four song in a nappy commercial . The legendary bands 1967 peace anthem "All You Need Is Love" has been used to underline a new disposable diaper campaign, and devotees are enraged about the step. "For people who feel that p...Bird Song Study Provides Clues to Human Speech Disorders
A recent research has found that songbirds have a distinct right-brain response to the sound of songs, and can provide clues to human speech disorders . Researchers at the Methodist Neurological Institute (NI) in Houston and Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City used functional MRI to ...Heavenly Notes from a Life Etched With Disability: The Strangest Song
Aged 51, Gloria Lenhoff, struggles to do simple arithmetic or to make change for a dollar. She is incapable of pointing out which is left or right. //She can’t write down her name clearly, nor can she cross a road all by herself. She is a differently abled person. She can sing like a nightingale al...Nick Jonas of the Jonas Brothers to Address the National Press Club on August 24
...ent to raise awareness about juvenile diabetes. In June, he testified before Congress to call for support of diabetes research funding. He wrote the song "A Little Bit Longer" to inspire those with diabetes to live their lives to the fullest. Together with his brothers Kevin and Joe, Nick founded the ...ConvaTec Launches Hydrofiber(R) Technology Web Site
...er, 2006. http://www.hcup-us.ahrq.gov/reports/statbriefs/sb64.pdf . Accessed July 8, 2009. de Lissovoy G, Fraeman K, Hutchins V, Murphy D, song D, Vaughn BB. Surgical site infection: incidence and impact on hospital utilization and treatment costs. Am J Infect Control . 2009;37(5):387-397. ...U.S. Census Bureau Daily Feature for July 21
...rs and public health officials. On the other, junk food shows no sign of waning in popularity. In fact, today is National Junk Food Day. It's theme song might well be the hit of years ago, "Junk Food Junkie," which sang the praises of such items as "Dr. Pepper and an old Moon Pie." Still, Americans ha...Donate Your Car to the Songs of Love Car Donation Program
...alth care facilities in all 50 states. The songs have often been played to alleviate pain and trauma during painful and scary hospital treatments. The song recipients have played their "songs of love" in all kinds of situations and settings such as car trips to the hospital, show and tell at school, for f...New Tools Help Parents Reinforce Anti-Smoking Message
... Answers." to provide the valuable information to its members. Even the youngest children are included--there's a free download of a kid-friendly song with an anti-smoking message for parents to use with their youngest family members. As always, the "Real Parents. Real Answers." prog...Microarray Sequence Capture Speeds Large-Scale Resequencing of Targeted Genomic Regions
...,000 people. Additional information is available on the Internet at http://www.roche.com . (1) Albert TJ, Molla MN, Muzny DM, Nazareth L, Wheeler D, song X, Richmond TA, Middle CM, Rodesch MJ, Packard CJ, Weinstock GM, and Gibbs RA. 2007. Direct selection of human genomic loci by microarray hybridizatio...Mosquitoes create harmonic love song before mating, study finds
ITHACA, N.Y. That pesky buzz of a nearby mosquito is the sound of love, scientists have known for some time. But a new Cornell study reports that males and females flap their wings and change their tune to create a harmonic duet just before mating. Cornell entomologists have discovered that male...Is that song sexy or just so-so?
Why is your mate's rendition of Marvin Gaye's "Let's Get it On" cute and sexy sometimes and so annoying at other times? A songbird study conducted by Emory University sheds new light on this question, showing that a change in hormone levels may alter the way we perceive social cues by altering a s...The song doesn't remain the same in fragmented bird populations
The song of passerine birds is a conspicuous and exaggerated display shaped by sexual selection in the context of male-male competition or mate attraction. At the level of the individual, song is considered an indicator of male quality. Paola Laiolo and colleagues at the Spanish Council of Res...Eavesdropping comes naturally to young song sparrows
Long before the National Security Agency began eavesdropping on the phone calls of Americans, young song sparrows were listening to and learning the tunes sung by their neighbors. University of Washington researchers exploring how male song sparrows (Melospiza melodia) acquire their song reperto...Bird song changes sound alarm over habitat fragmentation
Changes in bird song could be used as an early warning system to detect man-made ecological disturbances, new research published in the British Ecological Society's Journal of Applied Ecology has found. Although much previous research has focused on bird song and vocal mimicry, this is the first st...Researchers see evidence of memory in the songbird brain
... CHAMPAIGN, Ill. When a zebra finch hears a new song from a member of its own species, the experience c... changes in gene activity after a bird heard a new song would quickly dissipate. The new experiments un...appears quickly just after a bird hears a recorded song but only if the...A bad performance is better than no performance at all
...d from their parents and are raised apart from the song of conspecifics. Although these birds develop song... accept these abnormal songs of their parents as a song model was investigated by researchers around Sandr...reached the age of 60-70 days and thus had started song development already. Detailed...Researcher garners major award from NIH for further exploration into the mechanisms of obesity
...MERIT award at Georgia State. The MERIT award extends NIH support under Bartness' current 5-year grant to 10 years. Recently, Bartness, with C. Kay song of Georgia State, and Gary J. Schwartz of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, found that fat cells give feedback to the brain in order to regulat...Songs raise awareness about aquatic invasive species
...sease (viral hemorrhagic septicemia) from spreading from an infected to a noninfected lake. Natural resource professionals reviewed the lyrics of each song to assure scientific accuracy and consistency with current laws in Wisconsin. The primary target audience for these songs are 35- to 55-year-old fi...Songbird study from CSHL, CCNY provides concrete measure of biology's impact on culture
... raised in complete isolation do not sing the same song as they would if raised normally, i.e., among othe...ns, will introduce improvisations that bring their song into conformity with those of "wild-type" zebra fi...d in isolation, the young sing a raspy, arrhythmic song that's different from the...China-Biotics, Inc. Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year Fiscal 2009 Financial Results
...r purchase orders from major dairy producers and animal feed manufacturers, which remain the most prominent sources of demand for bulk additives," Mr. song said. "Same-store sales for Shining retail stores that have been in operation at least one year are expected to grow significantly year-over-year, and...China-Biotics, Inc. Reports Second Quarter 2009 Financial Results
...at progress in our retail expansion strategy, and we expect that our new manufacturing facility will come online during the fiscal third quarter," Mr. song said. "We now have 22 Shining outlets that have been open at least one year, and all of these have demonstrated very strong growth year-over-year. As ...China-Biotics, Inc. Reports First Quarter 2009 Financial Results
...es continue to expand, we are managing our capacity utilization carefully to strike a balance between achieving current and future sales growth,'' Mr. song said. ''We are pleased that we were able to begin achieving meaningful sales of our bulk additives to commercial customers. We are also working on rol...China-Biotics, Inc. Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year Fiscal 2008 Financial Results
...ss opportunities during the 2009 fiscal year," Mr. song said. "Same-store sales for Shining retail stores ...of production at our new manufacturing plant," Mr. song continued. "Leveraging our technical competence, c...ting and Compensation Committees are Mr. Yick, Mr. song and Dr. Du, respectively. In June 2008, China-Bi...Frontage Laboratories Completes Acquisition of Advanced Biomedical Research, Inc. (ABR)
..., collaborative R&D services to the pharmaceutical industry. The completion of the acquisition of ABR is a key part of fulfilling that goal," said Dr. song Li, Chairman & CEO of Frontage and newly appointed Chairman of ABR. "Over the years, ABR has proven to be a most valuable partner and resource in exte...Spiraling nanotrees offer new twist on growth of nanowires
...centimeter thick have taken many forms, including nanobelts, nanocoils and nanoflowers. But when University of Wisconsin-Madison chemistry professor song Jin and graduate student Matthew Bierman accidentally made some pine tree shapes one day complete with tall trunks and branches that tapered in lengt...3SBio Inc. Announces Appointment of Kevin Sow Peng Teo as Chief Financial Officer
... roles at Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen), Siemens Malaysia Sdn. Bhd., Siemens Cerberus Sdn. Bhd., Wetlands International - Asia Pacific, Chua song Seng Sdn. Bhd., and Anuarul Azizan Chew & Co. Mr. Teo received a London Chamber of Commerce and Industry Third Level Group Diploma in Cost Accounting ...Kiwa Fertilizer Distribution Network (Hebei) Grows to 900 Terminals
... crops production areas in Hebei. The next focus will be to develop these distribution networks in Langfang, Tangshan, Qinhuangdao, Zhangjiakou. Mr. song noted, "The fertilizer market in Hebei is characterized by the large quantities and the variety of fertilizer products, and extensive competition. Onc...