Cornell Researchers Precisely Date Wood From Ancient Tomb In Turkey
...have been depicted in countless works of classical literature and film. The new chronology also has implications for historical accounts concerning such figures as Queen Nefertiti and Akhenaten, the Egyptian pharaoh. The researchers determined that wood from a shipwreck containing a gold scarab inscribed with ...Ozone 'Chat Room' Provides Real-Time Air-Quality Research
...e world's largest private library of air pollution literature and computerized data, begun at Washington University more than 20 years ago. Many hundreds of gigabytes are stored at and transferred through CAPITA, which has data that span more than 100 years of American pollution and energy consumption. The ai...Premies' Lung Disorder Can Cause Developmental Delays
...nd are now 8 years old. "We know from the research literature on premies in general that these kids at school age have more learning disabilities. We want to find out whether these motor problems persisted when they went to school, whether they resolved, and whether or not they might be related to higher incide......rate this, the team reviewed researchon the travel literature of Central Asia and Arabia to see if there were anymodern-day accounts of animals buried alive in sandstorms. The research did notrecord any such mass smotherings. Again, Dr. Loope drew on his experiences in the Nebraska Sandhills to providethe sol...Microsurgery Made More Accurate With Virtual Measuring Tool
...rascic 1991], no results have been reported in the literature on precision and accuracy of the VTM on a microscopic scale. The present experiment was designed to address that issue. To test the performance of the measurement system, seven subjects with acceptable visual acuity and stereo-acuity (depth discrimi...Urban Residents Rebut Argument That Tree Removal Enhances Safety
... housing administrators, andthey reviewed previous literature on law enforcement concerns that treesheighten fears of attack and on administrators' worries about the cost ofinstalling and maintaining landscaping around public-housing units. When residents were shown computer simulations of their courtyard with...Studies Underscore Link Between Nutrition And Nonmelanoma Skin Cancers
... Arbesman reviewed findings of scientific literature dealing with therelationship between nutrition and these nonmelanoma cancers here today (Feb.27, 1998) at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Dermatology anddiscussed the role of nutritional factors in treating patients at risk. The...DFG To Set Up 32 New Postgraduate Research Groups - First "Virtual Research Group"
...ecosystem research and history'; Regensburg'Travel literature and cultural anthropology'; Paderborn Engineering sciences 'Knowledge presentation'; Leipzig 'Interaction of structure and fluid'; Braunschweig'Energy supply from renewable energy sources'; Chemnitz'Processing, management, presentation and transfer o...DFG To Fund Six New Research Units
...in working and everyday life,the media, elementary literature and fiction. They intend to point out differences betweenvalid norms and what is considered "normal". The object of the planned investigations will behuman behavioural patterns which are described in literary texts and films and looked into inreality...Excess Thiamine May Help Tumor Growth, Research Shows
.... “There is no follow-up data in the medical literature describingthis pathway in cancer cells and the role of thiamine in the tumor-cellproliferation process.” Cancer cells favor the TK pathway because it produces ribose moleculesfaster than the oxidative pathway -- and ribose molecules are in cons...Largest Generation Of Adolescents Faces Reproductive Health Risks
...i Kiragu, two public health specialists whodraw on literature from sub-Saharan Africa. Because of adolescents'physiological and social immaturity and the lack of adequate prenatal careavailable to them in most countries, their early childbearing poses significanthealth risks, such as pregnancy-induced high bloo...Understanding The Mystery Of Anesthesia
...speculatively in view.For example, there's a small literature building now on the use of these kindsof drugs for tissue and organ preservation, and thus our research could contribute to transplantation medicine."Also,anesthesia is not like ordinary sleep or other types of unconsciousness,Eckenhoff notes, raisin...Severity Of Classic Heat Stroke Recognized
...ften fatal and more permanently disabling than the literature onthis disorder would predict. And it drove home the crucial importance ofprevention and rapid diagnosis and treatment." Additional authors of the paper include Jane Dematte, from Michael ReeseHospital; Karen O'Mara, Jennifer Buescher, Sean Forsythe......osis." "This is the first report in the scientific literature describing Caspase-9function through a gene-knockout experiment, and illustrates how Vertexapproaches functional genomics as part of an integrated discovery platform,"said Dr. Joshua Boger, Chairman, President, and CEO of Vertex. "This researchclari......abitats for bacteria, the group searchedscientific literature for direct measurements of cell numbers and the amount ofcarbon in cells from these habitats. They found that the great majority ofbacteria are in sea water, soil, and oceanic and soil subsurface and so began toexamine these habitats further. ...Study Pinpoints Rare Molecular 'Transitions' As Possible Cause Of Skin 'Photoaging'
...'s highly reactive." Examining the medical literature on the "action spectra" oftrans-urocanic acid, action spectra are those wavelengths of light shown toinduce physical changes, Simon's team concluded that singlet oxygen may beresponsible for initiating chemical processes that lead to photoaging. ...Children need their own dietary guidelines, say experts
...s Research Office are now reviewing the scientific literature on childhood nutrition under contract with the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Department of Health and Human Services. Groziak and Millers review article in the Journal of Nutrition draws from position statements of the National Cholesterol ...Boats A Source Of MTBE In Water
...this source has not been widely acknowledged inthe literature reviews on MTBE to date," the article claims. The U.S.Geological Survey, according to the article, has reported MTBE as the secondmost frequently detected chemical in shallow groundwater from urban areas. Other potential sources of MTBE into shallo...Leibniz Prize Winners 1999 - Most Highly Endowed German Promotional Prize For Ten Scientists
...) Ulrich Herbert read history, German language and literature as well as ethnologyand taught at a grammar school before he obtained his Ph.D. in Essen in 1985 andseven years later qualified for a professorship. From 1992 to 1995 he was thedirector of the Forschungsstelle für die Geschichte des Nationalsozia......teto cardiovascular disease. But by reviewing the literature on both types ofdisease, Loesche has found intriguing connections that suggest possiblemechanisms: Blood vessels damaged by periodontal bacteria or their products. Onepossibility is that bacteria from the mouth -- or products released by thesebacter...