Good Ergonomics Is Good Economics
...both excessive whole-body vibration and noise; (c) classifying different terrain conditions including ground slope, roughness, and other conditions and determining the most effective tree harvesting system (method and equipment) for each; and (d) developing ergonomic checklists and work environment surveys tailo...The Shape Of Life: How Does The Computer "Know" When It Sees It?
...swill have to be stored digitally and scanned, and classifying these images willrequire 10,000 times the computin...d the first D'Arcy Machine, a computerdedicated to classifying images fortell-tale biological shapes. Before considering extraterrestrial sources of life, however,...AAAS statement on genetic discrimination
...deral departments and agencies from hiring,firing, classifying or segregating persons based on genetic information. It would further preventfederal employers from requesting, collecting or purchasing protected genetic information, gleanedby analyzing an individual's DNA to detect disease-related geneotypes of mu......s of Internal Medicine, the study suggests that by classifying dizziness as a geriatric syndrome, researchers might get closer to identifying the causes of this condition. The study's goal, Tinetti said, was to determine the prevalence of dizziness episodes that last for at least one month. Tinetti's team set o...Shark cancers cast more doubt on cartilage pills
...ughout the phylogenetic tree, science's system for classifying the many forms of life," Ostrander explains. "The idea that there's some animal out there that never gets cancer and never expresses it just really doesn't resonate well with people who work in the field." Scientists have not yet conducted a ...Clinton names a diverse group of researchers to receive the 2000 National Medals Of Science
...nternational prize, the Fields Medal, for his woin classifying all of the finite simple groups. Uhlenbeck stands out as one of the founders of geometry based on analytical methods and is a leader in her field as a mentor for women and minorities in mathematics education. In physics, Jeremiah P. Ostriker of Pr...Helping medical researchers classify genes
...in gene research today is properly identifying and classifying genes into categories, says Professor Reza Emami, a lecturer at U of T's Institute for Aerospace Studies. The task is made more difficult by the fact that most organisms are made up of thousands of genes, while the human genome contains almost 100,00...Antibiotics for the next generation
...g genome technology. This technology will help in classifying and developing novel antibiotics to combat increasingly resistant bacterial strains....Virus studies reunite two families of major insect-borne viruses
...n says. "Using protein structure as a basis for classifying the viruses is based on the fact that protein structures change much more slowly than do the amino acid sequences that make up the genomes, thus providing clues about the viruses' evolution," he says, noting that this concept was developed 25 years a...Nuts cut coronary heart disease risk
... evaluated in these studies due to difficulties in classifying consumption patterns of specific nuts and because of the small number of cases in each category. In typical American diets, peanuts account for approximately half of all nuts consumed. The 11 clinical studies reviewed by the Penn State researchers ......chers to strongly support the Theria hypothesis of classifying the three major groups of mammals. The Theria hypo...vide statistically unambiguous results in favor of classifying mammals using the Theria hypothesis, as paleontologists have long done through studying fossils," Ji......oc for those scientists who are in the business of classifying both fossils and current living things, as well as for others who rely on this information. John Alroy, researcher at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis at the University of California, Santa Barbara, delved into the topic in h...Scientists using gene chips identify a unique form of leukemia
...cer cell are active and which are not as a way of classifying and diagnosing them. Traditionally, scientists have categorized cancers on the basis of what body organs they originated in and how their cells appear under the microscope. The genetic profiles, or signatures, not only could provide a new system of ...Scientific bias helping cause mass extinction
...orking group is developing and testing methods for classifying species conservation status and estimating risk. "...ill synthesise and evaluate existing protocols for classifying species conservation status applied in the United States, Australia, Mexico, Great Britain and elsew...Lakeshore development affects birds
...rd communities in a unique way. Instead of simply classifying the birds they saw and heard by species, they also categorized them by "guilds" or ecological groups. In this scheme, birds can be classified by how they feed (on the wing or by poking their beaks into bark, for example), where they nest (on the gro...Gulf buoy network to aid in red tide early warning systems
...ce we have perfected our techniques of imaging and classifying the different phytoplankton encountered by the buoy, we'll be able to use our methods for other species besides those which cause the red tides," Campbell said. "And the system will allow us to build a data archive to later query and analyze, so we ...Funding for global protein database
... sequence similarity, as a means of organizing and classifying proteins. PIR's entries are organized in this manner and computer-annotated with functional and structural data. Specifically, the new UniProt database will consist of two parts: the SWISS-PROT section, which will contain fully annotated entries, an...UCI biologist proposes trimming some branches
... "An unnecessary multiplication of categories for classifying our Hominid ancestors distorts our evolutionary biology," Ayala said. "Our proposal provides a clearer overview of human evolution, so that the trees do not obscure the forest or -- a better analogy in this case -- so that a multiplicity of branches ...New book explains plants, medicine
...ive Amazonian indigenous people in identifying and classifying their uses of plants for a variety of medical uses. They note that the Jivaro Indians of Peru alone use at least 500 species of plants for medicines on a daily basis. Also, they mention that Navajo apprentice healers must learn the medicinal uses of......d to determine what degree of difference justified classifying specimens as different species," said Harvati. "The only way we could effectively do this was to examine the skeletal morphology of living species today and come up with models. From these data, we were able to determine how much variation living p...