Education in women brings sounder sleep

A research team from Taiwan had found out that sex differences in sleep patterns do exist, with //insomnia affecting women more than men. The researchers had carried out a national survey of 39,588 people of the age group pf 15 years and older in the city of Taiwan. The researchers considered se...

Get Long-Term Care Protection Now; Don't Wait for Health Reform, Industry Leader Advises

...ght not qualify at all." 5. The upcoming legislation may provide new safeguards for LTC insurance buyers, but this will only make the insurance a sounder investment than it already is. "Waiting serves no purpose," says Gott. Gott's organization offers help from over 550 independent long-term care a...

New health reform strategy would insure everyone, improve health and slow spending growth

...that "it is time to change 'business as usual' and invest in the health care reforms that will benefit the public and patients and put our nation on a sounder economic footing." ...

Recently discovered deep-sea reefs catch the attention of the drug discovery team

...e of the reefs and to identify factors responsible for their incredible diversity. Researchers typically have to spend hours using a ship depth sounder to map an area before determining where to do submersible dives because maps detailed enough to show the telltale mounds and other features of deepwat...

Negative Effects Of Sedatives

... Elderly people taking sedatives for a sounder sleep could suffer from side effects like dizziness or loss of balance, a study says//. Such people could try non-drug therapies instead, it says...

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DEIMOS joins MARS and its satellite of instruments on seafloor

...ing Marine Observatory System. DEIMOS uses an echo sounder to transmit and receive an acoustic signal used to...batteries to provide power for one week to an echo sounder he mounted on a buoy for a past project. To operat...n the seafloor, one can't very well deploy an echo sounder package and 312 car batteries. The Monterey Bay...

NASA-funded carbon dioxide map of US released on Google Earth

... critical information for climate change policy decisions." Vulcan Project data and maps will complement observations from the Atmospheric Infrared sounder on NASA's Aqua spacecraft and the upcoming Orbiting Carbon Observatory, which is set to launch next week. This mission will use space-based instrument...

Europe cores in EUROCORES: Ocean drilling in EuroMARC

...spots for the actual coring and to get the drill sites approved by bodies like IODP. In order to map the topography of the seafloor, a multi-beam echo sounder system is used, which is like a fanlike beam covering a huge swath of the seafloor. Additionally, sediment penetrating systems are employed, which sho...

AGU journal highlights -- July 23, 2008

... the ultraviolet data collected by the Nimbus 7 Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer and infrared data collected by the High Resolution Infrared Radiation sounder (on NOAA's Television Infrared Observation Satellite (TIROS) Operational Vertical Sounder), Carn et al. tracked sulfur dioxide released by Hekla. They...

Satellites illuminate pollution's influence on clouds

... we can see the clouds every day and we're getting confirmation on a global scale that we have an issue here." Jiang's team used the Microwave Limb sounder on the A-Train's Aura satellite to measure the level of carbon monoxide in clouds. The presence of carbon monoxide implies the presence of smoke and o...

NASA presentations at American Geophysical Union Joint Assembly

...ental Quality. The collaboration uses satellite data from the Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer on NASA's Aura satellite and the Atmospheric Infrared sounder on NASA's Aqua satellite to supplement knowledge of ozone and temperature in the lowest portions of Earth's atmosphere above Texas. Understanding E...

2008 Pew Fellowship in Marine Conservation awarded to Fan Meng; first Chinese fellow

.... (Learn more about the other recipients and their projects at www.pewoceanscience.org ). Because Mr. Meng and his team will establish a wider and sounder Marine Protected Area network in the region, ocean environments in Guangdong Province will have a much better chance of being protected, to the benefi...

Planetary geoscience, paleontology, and more at GSA Annual Meeting in Denver next month

...tailed ways. This Pardee Keynote Symposium will highlight recent discoveries using these new sensors. Included will be current MARSIS and SHARAD radar sounder results regarding ice-rich polar layered deposits, first results from CRISM's high-resolution observations of water-related deposits emplaced througho...

NASA keeps eye on ozone layer amid Montreal Protocol's success

...Bhartia, project scientist for the mission. In addition, measurements from the Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment, along with the Microwave Limb sounder and the Halogen Occultation Experiment aboard the Upper Atmospheric Research Satellite, were important to scientists' understanding of ozone. Scie...

NASA study: Alaskan fires affected Houston air quality in 2004

...meter on the Terra satellite, aerosol data from the Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer satellite, and carbon monoxide data from the Atmospheric Infrared sounder on the Aqua spacecraft. They tracked an air mass from the region of forest fires in western Canada and eastern Alaska on July 12-13, 2004, and followe...

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Observations from the Sarbanes-Oxley trenches

.... However, many CEOs, CFOs and directors are now voicing their favor as they realize benefits including improved efficiencies, better risk mitigation, sounder IT controls, timelier reporting and stronger governance environments. In addition, other parts of the world are now considering SOX-like requirements ...

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...ing technology portfolio (including Alexa Fluor® products) to ... Interphase Technologies Inc. manufacturing scanning sonar fish finder and depth sounder products for the commercial and recreational boating, fishing, sailing, and ... FM radio, TV, DTV, OET-69,Broadcast Engineering Software, Longley-R...