Do the effects of prenatal exposure to alcohol differ by culture?
...s:" language, practical reasoning, construction of designs (putting together puzzles), and fine motor skills (threading beads). The two groups did not, however, markedly differ in gross motor (running, jumping) and daily living skills. The difference between higher and lower order skills can be illustrated...New technology reduces noxious emissions
...ve worked to improve both the electrical discharge designs and the catalyst performance; the resulting hybrid system is vastly more efficient than what we started out with, Barlow said. It is also much more rugged and reliable. One surprising result has been the relative ease with which we have been able t......ed oxygen and carbon monoxide to form fractal-like designs across a platinum surface, similar to a checkerboard pattern. These "cluster" patterns repeated twice as fast as the random oscillations they replaced-a phenomenon called "period doubling," which demonstrates a high degree of control. "Repeating clus...Software to make testing of new generic drugs more thorough
... well as additional statistical designs that drug companies commonly use. For instance, Powers said, the software could compare time-concentration graphs, which represent the length of time a quantity of a drug stays in the body. ...Berkeley chemist wins national award for work with new polymers
...s them special properties." Frechets research team designs dendrimers, invents ways to make them, then studies what they can do and how their properties relate to their shapes and make-up of their surfaces. "Everything we do goes from fundamental design and understanding to the pursuit of applications," he s...Lobster sniffing: how lobsters' hairy noses capture smells from the sea
...the water around them. We want to understand which designs of odor-catching antennae work successfully in nature so that they could provide inspiration for man-made antennae." Lobsters and other crustaceans sniff by flicking a pair of antennules, dragging them through the water to bring chemosensory hairs on...New public-domain database could advance human computer interaction through sound
... data, engineers previously have had to base their designs on an "average" set of values, with results for th...eers with the information to properly adjust their designs to account for individual differences. The information is freely available for research or commerci...Stanford researchers develop system for field testing mechanisms of evolution
...dy plan greatly increases the options for tweaking designs over time. "The goal of this project was to develop a system that makes it possible to bring what we know in the laboratory about molecular genetics and begin applying it in the field to evolutionary theory and ecology," said Kingsley. The ini...Purdue to help NASA create life-supporting ecosystem in space
... experimentation needed by predicting how specific designs will function before they are built. "One function of the systems analysis group is to develop models of each of the components of the advanced life support system and to hook them together to make sure the system functions overall," Pekny said. Ban...New cellular evolution theory rejects Darwinian assumptions
...ial and eukaryote cell lines. "The individual cell designs that evolved in this way are nevertheless fundamentally distinct, because the initial conditions in each case are somewhat different," Woese wrote in his introduction. "As a cell design becomes more complex and interconnected a critical point is rea...Physics tip sheet #20 July 3, 2002
...r run other applications. The authors propose some designs for quantum simulators and point out that such a tool would be invaluable in studying new material designs, especially for new superconductors and magnets. Preprint: http://www.arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0207011 5) A closer look at gravitational lens...Applied Biosystems launches Assays-on-Demand SNP genotyping and gene expression products
...s supply the desired target and Applied Biosystems designs and manufactures the assays. The Assays-by-Design service uses Applied Biosystems' proprietary software algorithms to customers' unique target sequences to yield an optimal assay design. Sophisticated Online Ordering System The Assays-on-Demand pr...Tropical forests under surveillance
...w NSF-funded Center for Embedded Networked Sensing designs systems to observe phenomena that were previously unobservable( http://www.cs.ucla.edu/csd/CENS.html ). She discussed a system at the James Reserve, of tiny environmental sensors in place which continuously monitor micro-climatic factors. Communicat...NHGRI funds two new centers of excellence in genomic science
...at the genetic level result in the rich variety of designs among vertebrates. The three-spine stickleback is a fish known for its tremendous variability in size, physiology, and behavior. Although this variability resulted in the classification of distinct stickleback populations as different species, stick...Scientist says ostrich study confirms bird 'hands' unlike those of dinosaurs
...dinosaurs arose because both groups developed body designs for walking upright on two hind legs and began to resemble each other over millions of years. "It is now clear that the origin of birds is a much more complicated question than has been previously thought," Feduccia said....New AIDS drug discoveries to battle drug-resistant HIV strains
...ers there compared millions of potential molecular designs in order to select candidates for chemical synthesis. Hundreds of these candidates were then synthesized at Janssen in the United States and then tested against drug-resistant strains at Tibotec/Virco. Two of the most promising drugs, Dapivirine an...University of Pittsburgh scientist discusses blood cell damage from biomedical devices
...s, perhaps we can predict blood damage and improve designs of cardiovascular devices to diminish these effects."...Low dose radiation research grants awarded
...apply similar experimental techniques and research designs to study problems that are relevant to both the DOE Low Dose Radiation Research Program and the NASA Space Radiation Health Program. The goal of DOE's program is to help determine human health risks from exposures to low levels of radiation encounte...New studies advance scientific knowledge of drinking water disinfection byproducts
...an independent panel of experts reviewed the study designs and interpretation of data. The studies were sponsored by the Research Foundation for Health and Environmental Effects, a tax-exempt foundation established by the Chlorine Chemistry Council. Following are brief summaries of each study: Biodisposit...