Water Recycling Project Tested in Turkey Plant
...om the lower 50s to the 70s,thus requiring a major expenditure of energy to cool the incoming water.Recycled water has already gone through the initial major cooling processand needs only to be reduced by a couple of degrees as it makes subsequenttrips through the process. Once a supply of water has been used, ...Argonne Researchers Develops Simple, Inexpensive Method For Cleaning Industrial Waste Streams
...ustrial sites. It would reduce the need forcapital expenditure to address ever-increasing environmental compliance levels,greatly reduce the chemical inventory required for metals separation, and, insome applications, recover metals of potential commercial value. Among theindustries in which this process could b...Leptin Regulates Hunger During Energy Deficit In Women
...ght to play a key role in the regulation of energy expenditure and food intake, but less is known of its influenc...eficit (energy intake reduced by 2 MJ/d and energy expenditure increased by 0.8 MJ/d). Body weight and composition were monitored, fasting leptin concentrations we...Changes In Resting Energy Expenditure After Weight Loss In Obese African American And White Women
Changes in resting energy expenditure after weight loss in obese AfricanAmerican and white women. by Gary D Foster, Thomas A Wadden, Rebecca M Swain,Drew A Anderson and Renee A Vogt. Published in the January 1999 issue of TheAmerican Journal of Clinical Nutrition. The prevalence of obes......edfunds to support additional research. The total expenditure was about $60million. The studies reviewed and conducted by NIEHS and its grantees focused onthe possibility of a link to cancer ? a reaction to a leukemia study in Denver,Colo., in 1979, and to subsequent attempts to duplicate or refute it...World's biodiversity becoming extinct at levels rivaling Earth's past 'mass extinctions'
...y to the poor "who truly need it." "Although this expenditure may seem high, we are living in an era when ourgreat-grandchildren may live in a world in which more than half of the plantspecies that exist now will be known only as specimens," said Raven. Place more emphasis on alien-introduced plants and anima...DFG to set up 21 new collaborative research centres in 2000
...lower production costs, reduce energy and material expenditure and lead to long-term reductions in investment costs. Speaker: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Eckart Doege, Institut fur Umformtechnik und Umformmaschinen (IFUM), tel.: 0511/762 2164 The "Development, Production and Quality Assurance of Microcomponents formed from...Two studies add to the growing evidence that green tea is beneficial for health, according to the
...en tea produced thermogenesis and increased energy expenditure and fat oxidation in humans. A study by Erba and colleagues, published in the Journal of Nutrition, evaluated the effect ofgreen tea compounds on oxidative damage caused by iron treatment in cultured human leukemia cells.Results showed that green t......y technologies. "We want to minimize the time and expenditure that might be associated with obtaining licenses needed to bring golden rice' to farmers and the people in dire need of this vitamin in developing countries," said Hendrik Verfaillie, Chief Executive Officer of Monsanto Company, a subsidiary of Pharm...Research shows that brain receptor may control obesity
...e brain continually adjusts food intake and energy expenditure to maintain constant levels of fat, similar to the way that a thermostat in a house maintains constant temperature. Previous research by Dr. Cone and other scientists also found that blocking a related neuropeptide receptor, called the MC4-R, in the ...Different effects of puberty on resting metabolism in white and African American children
... examines the effect of puberty on resting energy expenditure (REE) in white and African American adolescents, finding a general metabolic slowdown in both groups, which was greater in the African Americans. Compared to the whites, the African American subjects had greater lean mass in the limbs, but lower lea...Resistance training complements aerobic exercise for women
... exercises involving weights, their bodies' energy expenditure was raised for up to two hours after the workout. Typically, exercises such as jogging or aerobics burn more calories during the workout but increase metabolism for less than an hour afterward. Results were published in the June issue of Medicine, S...Basic motion measuring technology may be alternative to more expensive testing procedures
...en used in previous studies to estimate the energy expenditure of various military personnel doing their jobs in ... the DLW method for determining total daily energy expenditure of sailors at sea. A new type of pedometer was used that measures whether a person is running, walk...New study finds need for improved nutrition for low-income African American females
...ries per day. The difference between total energy expenditure and daily caloric intakes determined energy balance. Data were blocked by DRI age group (4-8, 9-13, 14-18, 19-30, and 31-50 years old). Mean nutrient intakes for each age group were compared to the DRI for that nutrient using ANOVA tests. Correlat...NIH grants infrastructure awards for human embryonic stem cell research
...isconsin. "These awards represent the first major expenditure by the NIH for supporting human embryonic stem cell research," said Ruth Kirschstein, M.D., Acting NIH Director. "By providing these funds, the NIH is hoping to get these cells into the hands of basic scientists as quickly as possible." The four ent...Loss of lean body mass in HIV-infected men linked to immunological processes
...PBMC), spurs cachexia and increased resting energy expenditure (REE) and protein catabolism, without weight loss....ioelectrical impedence assay (BIA); resting energy expenditure was measured by indirect calorimetry taken after four hours of fasting; (2) cytokine measurements: P...Mooney to receive 2002 Blue Planet Prize in recognition of pioneering ecological research
...them to obtain the greatest effect with the lowest expenditure of energy. In the late 1980s, Mooney established the first global evaluation of invasive plant species through SCOPE - the Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment of the International Council of Scientific Unions. "He regarded the accele...Researchers discover molecular 'switch' that tells body to store or burn fat
...ency of SCD-1 reduced obesity by increasing energy expenditure without affecting food intake at all," says first ...vide a new therapeutic approach to increase energy expenditure and promote the burning of fat," Friedman says....Subtract a gene and feasting mice add no fat
... protection from obesity involves increased energy expenditure and increased oxygen consumption." Attie says that while the surface effects of removing the SCD-1 gene are not entirely unique, it is notable that the model provides a glimpse of the metabolic mechanisms that underpin those effects: "The fact that y......nt for hearing loss the single largest disability expenditure it has. "The auditory receptors in the cochlea are what actually hear sound, says Commander David Street, who oversees the research on the treatment at ONR. "These are connected to nerve cells and they in turn are connected to the brain. If we ar...