Geological Society of America: Annual Meeting 2000
...airns. Those who register on-site will receive the abstract book upon arrival. All media registrants will receive the Program book upon arrival at the Newsroom. Information on hotel accommodations is available on the GSA web site at http://www.geosociety.org/meetings/2000/g-lodge.htm . All media are encou...Hopkins scientists shed light on how the brain 'thinks'
... experiments is a concept called "primitives," the abstract elements by which the brain deals with the physics of objects and how the arm interacts with them. One way to think of primitives is to think of a Lego set, which contains a finite number of blocks, in particular shapes and sizes. To perceive reality...Media Advisory 2: Fall Meeting: Abstracts, press conferences, press registration
...g on the name of a particular paper will open the abstract for that paper, including name and contact information for the lead author. Many sessions are jointly sponsored by two or more Sections. The Union Sessions are expected to have the broadest interdisciplinary appeal. Finding Abstracts of In...Chemical may deter starfish from devouring endangered coral reefs
Click here for abstract 1 and here for abstract 2 : HONOLULU, Dec. 17 - Researchers have discovered a chemical in sea urchins that might be us......ly used, it presents a risk to humans as well. An abstract of the study is available on request or at the web site listed below. The National Toxicology Program is headquartered at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. NIEHS/NTP Director Kenneth Olden, Ph.D., said, "We are proud of th...400 never-before published findings to be presented at pharmacology conference
...a.m. to 5:00 p.m., daily. For copies of abstracts, abstract summary highlights and press releases, to arrange pre-conference researcher interviews, or to pre-register for onsite press credentials, contact Sam Franklin at: 202-331-0175, or at sam@kmcpr.com To View full abstracts go to: www.ascpt.org/abstra...Scientists at Penn track epileptic seizures
...e further limited by the difficulty of applying an abstract theory to what actually happens inside the brain. Litt and his colleagues, on the other hand, relied on the traditional method of measuring brain activity through EEG (electroencephalograpy) readings for five epilepsy patients who were being evaluate......SHINGTON More non-human animals may be capable of abstract thought than previously known, with profound impli...lantic team of psychologists has found evidence of abstract thought in baboons, significant because baboons are "old world monkeys," part of a different primate...Researchers put their heads together to understand complex world of wild plants and animals
COLLEGE STATION, - What can abstract mathematical equations tell about animals and plants living in the wild? A lot, contend Texas A&M University scientists who are collaborating to better understand how wildlife animals and plants live and interact. The project started two years ago w...Scans link 2 key pieces of schizophrenia puzzle
... The scans were taken while patients performed an abstract reasoning / working memory task that activates the prefrontal cortex. As in previous studies, the patients showed reduced prefrontal activation and performed poorly on the task, suggesting disturbed functioning of that part of the brain. Also consi...Experimental treatment for hayfever is safe, effective, and fast
...echnologies Corporation of Berkeley, CA. In an abstract scheduled for presentation March 2 at a special late-breaking session at the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology meetings in New York, Creticos described experiments of the drug on 25 adults with chronic, severe ragweed allergy. Cu...Discovery Channel special watches OSU chimps learn to read
...force the animals to construct abstract symbols in a sequence. "I decided that teaching them English -- using reading, writing and constructing words based on alphabetic characters - would work nicely. It seemed to me that if we ...'Relationships in a Changing World' -- call for papers
...licy and Practice Interested parties may submit an abstract online or download the Call for Papers from GSAs annual meeting website, http://www.geron.org/AnnualMeeting/annual.htm#2002 For more information, please contact the Meetings Department at meetings@geron.org or 202-842-1275....A popular Japanese plum, now available in the US, may help prevent the onset of cardiac disease
...and headaches. The flesh of the plum produces an abstract know as bainiku-ekisu. This by-product is the grated, condensed flesh (or skin) of the fruit. A recent study reported that a fruit juice concentrate of Asian plum improves human blood fluidity and identified a bioactive substance in it as Mumefral,...Researchers determine the influence of bone density results in adolescents with anorexia
...sity results further motivated their recovery. An abstract detailing these findings will be presented at the 2002 International Conference on Eating Disorders, April 25-28, in Boston, by Nava Stoffman, M.D., clinical fellow in the Department of Adolescent Medicine, and colleagues at Children's Hospital Bosto...Radiation alone after surgery still the standard for head and neck cancer
...ncer-free after surgery. Results are published in abstract # 903 in the ASCO Program/Proceedings. Recurrence and spread of head and neck cancer is common and fewer than half of these patients are expected to survive past five years. "Early studies suggested that combining certain chemotherapy drugs and radi...Muscle derived cell transplants offer alternative incontinence therapy says Pitt study
...ogical Association (AUA). Results are published in abstract 131 in the AUA proceedings. In the study, researchers obtained a mixed population of MDCs from a mouse skeletal muscle biopsy. The cells were purified to obtain a population that was purely myogenic meaning that the cells were from muscle and capabl...Washington University receives $2.2 million funding from Howard Hughes Medical Institute
... the department. "The lab activities help to make abstract ideas concrete, and enable students to build the ideas in their own minds. The advent of high-speed digital computers has now made analogous instructional methodologies available in mathematics. The traditional lectures and recitation sections in M...Computational geneticists revisit a mystery in evolution
...is that it shifts the focus of the field away from abstract models of natural selection and toward actual gene...heir project, Siegal and Bergman chose to model an abstract system that is important in the development of most organisms - transcription factors, or proteins t...Macarthur Award winning physiologist to present Scholander Award and lecture
...meeting. The recipient must be first author on the abstract and not more than five years past the attainment of the highest educational degree. It is especially appropriate that Dr. Block present this award. In the 1950s, Canadian scientist P. F. Scholander, for whom the award is named, investigated how Ar...