US investment firm gives away Rhode Island-sized lands in Chile
...(including the Bronx Zoo). These activities change attitudes toward nature and help people imagine wildlife and humans living together in harmony. WCS is committed to this work because it believes it is essential to the integrity of life on Earth....NHGRI launches Centers for Excellence in Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications Research
...African descent and how those identities influence attitudes about genomics and health care as well as health behaviors. Donald Bailey, Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. $430,000 over two years. Dr. Bailey will plan a center to examine how information from large-sample genetic studies is ...British scientists exclude 'maverick' colleagues, says report
...niversity study has found that British scientists' attitudes differ considerably from those of their counterparts in Sweden, when managing dissent. The research, by Lena Eriksson, a Swedish researcher in the Cardiff School of Social Sciences, has shown that British scientists operated with firm boundaries be...Society for conservation biology conference
...is frequently recommended as a way to change local attitudes towards an endangered species or ecosystem, but little is known about what approaches are most efficient in the face of limited resources. A team of Venezuelan researchers will present the results from surveys of pre-teens taken before and after two...Genetic testing of embryos to pick 'savior sibling' OK with most Americans
...r suitability as a tissue donor. To measure public attitudes toward these uses of PGD and other reproductive genetic technologies, the Genetics and Public Policy Center, which is funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts, conducted a detailed survey of 4,005 Americans, by far the largest on the issue to date. The su...Survey reports fall in stem cell transplants for breast cancer
...itive retrospective and prospective data. However, attitudes changed following doubts on initial reports, the failure of prospective studies to find an advantage in breast cancer and a growing awareness of the need for evidence. In an editorial commenting on the survey[2] Dr Richard Childs, senior investigator...Study finds wide attitude gap on wolves
... occupations are more powerful predictors of their attitudes toward wolves than individual encounters, or losse...ed loses and those who didn't. This indicates that attitudes lie deeper." Although eliminated from the state in the 1950s, wolves have re-colonized Wisconsin fr...Research reveals brain has biological mechanism to block unwanted memories
... even though they don't know why in terms of their attitudes and relationships." The experiment Twenty-four people, aged 19 to 31, volunteered for the experiment. Participants were given 36 pairs of unrelated nouns, such as "ordeal-roach," "steam-train" and "jaw-gum," and asked to remember them at 5-second i......esults of a nationwide survey that measured public attitudes and opinions about the country's efforts to eliminate cancer. The survey was commissioned by the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) and the Lance Armstrong Foundation (LAF). Cancer survivor Lance Armstrong, quintuple winner of the Tour ...Whites, African-Americans better rate medical care experiences when seeing same-race physicians
...dant visits, suggesting that patient and physician attitudes and expectations, rather than the actual words used to communicate, may have affected patients' experiences," Cooper says. Teaching communication skills to physicians is important to improve the patient-physician relationship, she says. "However, th...Non-judgmental intervention may help binge eaters overcome disorders
...heir eating and purging behaviors and probed their attitudes about these behaviors and their motivation to change. After completing the assessment, people in the self-help group were given a description of the study and a copy of a standardized self-help manual, which they briefly reviewed with a research ass...How to make boaters slow down for manatees
...limits. "An understanding of boaters' beliefs and attitudes towards manatees can shed light on their boating behaviors and can help identify potential interventions for encouraging behaviors that contribute to manatee conservation," say Richard Flamm of the Florida Marine Research Institute in St. Petersburg,...Nation on the verge of 'new era in modern river management'
...st few years we've seen a dramatic shift in public attitudes toward river management," said Lowry, author of several books on environmental policy and associate professor of political science in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis. "People now realize that dam removals and other river restor...Muslims embrace brave new world of IVF
.... She has identified major differences in cultural attitudes toward reproductive technologies between Shi'ite Muslims in Lebanon and Sunni Muslims in Egypt. The uptake of IVF has been profoundly influenced by Islamic fatwa declarations. Dr Inhorn, who spent many years studying social and cultural aspects of in...U-M researchers seek answers for African-Americans at risk for prostate cancer
...epartment of Urology. "That combined with cultural attitudes toward research bred in part from the Tuskegee Study makes it difficult to develop fruitful relationships like the Flint Men's Health Study. Now there are research groups, such as the University of Michigan, making efforts to help build relationshi...African Americans concern about the environment equal to or greater that of whites
...ry. The study examines not just the environmental attitudes of African Americans but also lifestyle choices, political actions, environmental group memberships, and the environmental voting records of African American legislators. Among the key findings: -- African Americans are more likely than white America...Public knows no more about genetics than in 1990, U-M study shows
...respondents conducted in 2000. The topics included attitudes toward prenatal testing, abortion, genetic testing...curacy of public knowledge, the study compared how attitudes toward prenatal testing, preferences for abortion in case of fetal defect and attitudes toward genet...DFG sets up twelve new research training groups
...deal with the causes and manifestations of hostile attitudes towards so-called alien groups, including religious groupings and migrants as well as homosexual and homeless people. These surveys are based on a research project that has been in progress since 2002 and is being funded by the Volkswagen Foundation ......on, food and physical activity surveys) knowledge, attitudes and physical activity (by pedometer). Second grade...ingful increases in: health and science knowledge, attitudes (e.g., increased appreciation of healthy food selection and physical activity) and behaviors (e.g., ......n a stupid person or simpleton reflects prevailing attitudes toward these rather comical birds. But this perception is belied by Lyon's discovery of their impressive cognitive abilities. "I was shocked. At first, I didn't believe the results," he said. Lyon originally set out to study how coot parents care fo...