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...healthcare. Publishing in freely accessible online journals will also make the UK higher education system more...shing in any of BioMed Central's 90+ peer-reviewed journals in which all research content is freely accessible. Dr. Alicia Wise, Head of Development at JISC, e...Geoscience community outlines cooperative activities
...ch an electronic publishing project for geoscience journals and other publications; DataPages, the digitization of geological data sets for use in GIS applications; and Geoinformatics, the plan to integrate research data, analytic tools, and visual applications into a single, unified system for use by the res...Journal of Gerontology: Biological Sciences to offer forum
...ure article that pointed out the weight that a few journals have on the publishing of scientific articles. "These major journals vie for high-profile articles, which will be much cited, and therefore reinforce the validity of pub...Open Access Initiative from Oxford Journals
...ntly listed by ISI as one of the top ten 'hottest' journals of the decade in biology and biochemistry . This ... Journals Division, "but very few well-established journals have made a move to Open Access. NAR is a highly respected international journal, and as such we mu...Genomes of tiny microbes yield clues to global climate change
...lants were published today on the websites of the journals Nature and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). Three of the microbes two strains of Prochlorococcus and one of Synechococcus were among the first organisms to have their DNA sequenced at JGI in the late 1990s, and are the first ...Scripps team part of collaboration that reveals first ecological genomic 'blueprints'
...tly in the August 13, 2003, online editions of the journals Nature and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. A group from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, led one of the discoveries. The papers describe the genomes of Synechococcus and Prochloroco...Couch potatoes may be created in the womb, not at the dinner table
...e Physiology. The journal is one of 14 scientific journals published each month by the American Physiological Society (APS) (www.the-aps.org). Methodology Virgin Wistar rats (age three months) were mated and included in an animal model of fetal programming using maternal undernutrition. Animals were ass...Abnormally high number of Lou Gehrig's disease cases identified among Gulf War veterans
...tures. Multiple studies published in peer-reviewed journals after Dr. Haley's initial studies have corroborated these findings. The new study shows a more serious brain disease emerging from the Gulf War. Two years ago, after meeting with Dr. Haley and VA researchers, VA Secretary Anthony Principi approved fu...Findings offer further understanding about growth and development in young male gymnasts
...ed Physiology. The journal is one of 14 scientific journals published monthly by the American Physiological Society (APS) ( http://www.the-aps.org ). Methodology A total of 21 elite gymnasts (GYM) (13.3 0.3 years) were recruited from competitive gymnastics clubs around Southern Ontario, Canada. In order to...Nasal contribution to breathing with exercise: The effect of race and gender
...ournal of Applied Physiology, one of 14 scientific journals published monthly by the American Physiological Society (APS) ( http://www.the-aps.org ). Methodology A group of healthy, nonsmoking adults, age 1831 yr, were studied, of which 11 were Caucasian (6 men/5 women) and 11 were African-American (5 men/...Hormonal changes in satisfied and dissatisfied shift workers across a shift cycle
...ed Physiology. The journal is one of 14 scientific journals published monthly by the American Physiological Society (APS) (www.the-aps.org). Methodology A total of 317 of 368 full time shift workers working as control room operators, shift engineers, machinists and shift supervisors at a paper and pulp fac...New study shows why hypertension affects black males disproportionately
...t and Circulatory Physiology, one of 14 scientific journals published monthly by the American Physiological Society (APS) ( http://www.the-aps.org ). Methodology Thirty-two African-American (AA) volunteers were compared with a similar group of 29 non-African-American (NAA) males recruited from the staff an...Can heart failure impair thinking?
...ournal of Applied Physiology, one of 14 scientific journals published each month by the American Physiological Society (ASP) ( http://www.the-aps.org ). Methodology The following methodology was used: Subjects: Nine advanced HF patients (mean age = 51 10 yr; 6 men) and 27 healthy controls (mean age = 46 1...Open access initiative from the Company of Biologists
...Biologists announces that - from January 2004 its journals - Development, Journal of Cell Science and The Journal of Experimental Biology - will be offering authors the option of 'open access'. In response to the biological community's drive for freedom of access to scientific research, The Company of Biolo...Public Library of Science launches PLoS Biology
...ing $10 billion per year. The majority of existing journals restrict access to their current issues to individ...tant to publish their best work in new open access journals that lack the prestige of established journals like Science or Nature," noted Michael B. Eisen, Ph.D...E-Commerce and the environment: Good news or bad?
...es to grocery shopping, book selling and scholarly journals are compared and the possibility of using product tags to improve recycling is explored. The research ranges from the U.S. to Germany, from Finland to Japan. David Rejeski, Director of the Foresight and Governance Project at the Woodrow Wilson ...US crackdown on bioterror backfiring
...nst bioterrorism." The ASM, together with leading journals such as Nature and Science, last year announced a voluntary self-censorship code that requires crucial details that could be exploited by bioterrorists to be removed from scientific papers. But the regulations the US government has brought in, and t......hing in any of BioMed Central's 100+ peer-reviewed journals in which all research content is freely accessible..., is "one of the largest collections of electronic journals run by a library consortium," says Sanville. The EJC will allow users to quickly access the BioMed C...Estrogen receptor-a disruption and vasodilation in coronary arteries
...ology--Heart and Circulatory Physiology, one of 14 journals published each month by the American Physiological Society (APS). Methodology The investigators followed the primary procedures outlined below: Animals : A total of 43 ER knockout (ERKO) mice and 36 wild-type (WT) female mice were used for the st......ology--Heart and Circulatory Physiology, one of 14 journals published each month by the American Physiological Society (APS). Methodology The investigators studied male Fischer 344 rats, a strain that has been extensively used as a model of aging without the presence of other confounding factors such as co...