Wheelchairs biomechanics, prosthetic development
...eel camber. These results provide information that must be taken into account in the search for the optimal regulation of the user-to-chair interface. The Smart Wheelchair Component System provides mobility for people with severe disability , pg 429 This article describes the development and evaluation...UCSB professor and director receives two national awards
...ative atmosphere that makes the place work so well must be attributed in large measure to Jim's vision and leadership. Just for his role at NCEAS, Jim would have to merit recognition as one of the most influential living ecologists." Regarding mammalogy, the citation said, "A look at his c.v. will reveal...Ecologist calls for creation of an international panel to assess human behavior
...uld need to determine where and how human behavior must change if any semblances of today's societies are ...ned. ''Behavioral scientists and lay persons alike must do that most difficult of all tasks - examine their own values, see how they relate to environmental...Whale carcass yields bone-devouring worms
... that site will die off. Before this happens, they must release enough eggs or larvae so that some tiny pr...further implies that, as Vrijenhoek put it, "there must be a lot of dead whales out there." After studying the dead whale in Monterey Bay fo...Scientists build on case connecting inflammatory disease and depression
...cytokine-treated patients indicates that treatment must be discontinued since depressed patients can commit suicide," he said. For about 30 years, depression has been linked to low levels of serotonin, a brain chemical that regulates mood. Drugs called selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) such...Researchers look into components of RNA silencing machinery
...rious scientific endeavor," says Aramayo. "It is a must if we ever are to conquer disease." In a study...to function properly, some sections of the highway must have illumination, which means DNA must be expressed, whereas other sections must not have illuminat...Ocean scientists assess impact of seismic pulses in effort to protect whales
...ection Act in 1972, ships operating in U.S. waters must adhere to increasingly strict guidelines, in order to minimize impacts on whales and other animals. This includes the gradual ramping up of a seismic array over 30 to 60 minutes, to warn whales and give them time to leave the area. The National Marin...Growing new breed of vaccine-producing plants to fight human diseases worldwide
...faces many challenges, Arntzen noted. The vaccines must address the need for lower costs, oral-administration (needle-free), heat stability, and they must include combination vaccines including those that protect against diseases that occur predominantly ...Major scientific discovery in cancer research to be honored
...nal research. In order to be eligible, candidates must be recently published, active researchers, working in academia, industry or government anywhere in the world. The winner will give an award lecture during the 96th AACR Annual Meeting in Anaheim, Calif., April 16-20, 2005, and will officially recei...Scientists discover new intricacies in how ulcer bugs stick to stomach
...Spanish strains of H. pylori, so these adaptations must have occurred since Spanish conquistadors arrived, introducing their bacterial strains to the peoples of the New World." Surprisingly, specialist babA doesn't bind to Lewis b any tighter than generalist babA. This suggests the specialist type m...Report outlines vision and recommendations for microbiology in the 21st Century
...f fundamental importance to life, their activities must be taken into account in biological research and all biologists must have a solid background in microbial sciences." The report puts forth that microbiology should not ...Gene defects found in age-related macular degeneration
...hat future searches for causative mutations of AMD must be painstaking in their precision and involve large numbers of patients. "It may well be that some of the variations we found in the other fibulin genes also cause AMD, but with our current analytical limitations, they are not detectable." The resear...Study shows that ultrasound accreditation improves the quality of ultrasound practice
...6. Ultrasound practices seeking AIUM accreditation must show evidence of physicians' training in sonography, certification of sonographers performing ultrasound examinations, continuing medical education for physicians and sonographers, and the presence of protocols and procedures to ensure proper and saf...Common therapy for HIV associated with cervical abnormality regression
...hasized, however, that HIV-infected women on HAART must still receive careful gynecologic follow-up and close routine monitoring." In an editorial, Long Fu Xi, M.D., Ph.D., and Nancy B. Kiviat, M.D., of the University of Washington in Seattle, further noted that the rates of regression in HIV-infected wom...Songbirds escaped from Australasia, conquered rest of world
...rows. The group is further divided into birds that must learn their songs "true songbirds") and those with the innate ability to sing the "correct" song. True songbirds account for 4,580 of the 6,000 known Passeriformes species. (There is a total of 9,702 known species of birds.) The true songbirds are cu...LSU vet school professor uses gene therapy to destroy cancerous tumors
...y is limited by the type of cancer that the animal must have and the owner must give his or her consent. Nevertheless, Li, who came to LSU more than a year ago after research stint...Scientists issue statement on scientific peer review
...ers the 'right' answer. Scientific peer review must maintain programmatic flexibility. All scientific peer review must be based upon an assumption of integrity. Efforts to revise the process of peer review should ackn...Rutgers chemist uses NMR to elucidate protein-DNA interaction
...in an individual's genetic make-up and the protein must work its way through millions of non-specific DNA sequences in order to locate the correct connection. DNA (Deoxyribonucleic acid) is a chemical structure that forms chromosomes. Structurally, DNA is a double helix made up of two strands o...Protective mechanism exploited by tumors may provide new cancer treatment
...Natural tolerance mechanisms are like a brake that must be removed before the immune system will attack the tumor. "If you take off the brakes (for example with an IDO inhibitor drug), you may make people sick. We need to be very careful that we do not do something that causes harm to patients. So that is......sm is the first piece of the puzzle," he says. "We must now identify the molecules that allow this process to take place."...