UF Researcher: Athletes Likely To Have Symptoms Of Eating Disorders
...on-athletes. Hausenblas said these qualities don't necessarily preventeating disorder symptoms, because the drive for thinness often can bestrongly motivated by other external factors and pressures. Participants in aesthetic sports, such as gymnastics, diving and figureskating, may be more prone to eating disord...NYU Chemist Supports New Theory For Origin Of Life
...s andconditions: a liquid or dense gas medium (not necessarily water), a suitableenergy source, and a system of matter capable of using the energy to organizeitself. He calls this hypothesis the Life Principle. Furthermore, he arguesthat no predictable directions exist for life's later development from theseba...Revealing the complex patterns of cardiac disease
...scomposed of sub-fronds, each a miniature, but not necessarily identical copy, ofthe whole. Other systems, like the healthy human heart, are much more complex, with dynamicchanges occurring periodically over time. An individual jumps up as the alarmrings, pushes the snooze button and dozes for ten minutes, jum...Common genes form new family tree for animals
...al comparison. "Similar (anatomical) traits don't necessarily reflect a closer relationship,"Grenier explained. "We think there are fewer problems using molecular data" tomap kinship among animals. One intriguing upshot of the new study and others is that scientists, throughgenetic analysis, may learn something......s out,however, that the higher temperatures aren't necessarily damaging thereef-building corals directly but instead are degrading the ability ofsymbiotic algae, upon which the survival of their hosts is dependent, toconvert light into utilizable energy. "Because coral bleaching is occurring on such a global sc...When opposites don't attract: Understanding why may support new biomaterials, Science paper suggests
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...elopment of male depression." This result doesn't necessarily mean that men are more likely to becomedepressed after a stressful event than are women, Bierut says. "But when they dodevelop depression, it is more likely to be due to individual stressors than togenetic factors," she explains. Surprisingly, the es...First International Congress on Telehealth and Multimedia Technologies Story Ideas
... death zone. The Everest Extreme Expeditionhas not necessarily made the mountainous climb any easier, but it has added anew dimension to it: Telemedicine. In 1998 and now again in 1999, an elite teamof climbers, medical specialists and technicians ushered the technology age toEverest Base Camp which acted as com...Just how serious a problem is alcoholism?
... physical trauma among women alcoholics that isn't necessarily addressed bytraditional confrontational or mixed-gender programs. We need programs that'build up,' that enhance self-esteem," she said. Raimo and his colleagues believe that their research, in conjunction with thecontinuing COGA study, is trying to ...How alcohol use during pregnancy can lead to attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder
...d attention. "The number of dopamine neurons isn't necessarily important," said Roh-Yu Shen, Senior Scientist at the Research Institute on Addictions, State University of New York and lead author of the study published in the November issue of Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research. "What's important is ...Well-nourished women maintain ability to ward off disease in old age
... against viruses, bacteria, or tumor cells may not necessarily be affected with aging per se." The results suggest that healthy eating habits may offer a natural means to maintain the ability to fight off germs and reduce illness in old age, she adds. The results of the study are detailed in the current issue ...Playing the odds: Can you stop abusing alcohol at 10 years and be OK?
...in certain types of cognitive activities might not necessarily be picked up on ina typical physical examination. Yet these cognitive deficits are particularly important for thepatient to recognize in order to understand his scope and limits of what he can do in a day, in a joband for the rest of his life." She...Brain neurochemicals, not gender, tell a female to act like a female
...l behavior typical of females, for example, aren't necessarily linked to the female's sex at all. "This is a clea...der-typical behavior by the basal forebrain is not necessarily limited by an animal's gonadal sex, even though sexual behavior and the gonads also are regulated by...Ecosystem health depends on complex relationship between organisms
... all disappearing very, very quickly. This doesn't necessarily mean they're all disappearing from the face of the Earth, but as you walk you will encounter fewer species per hectare, or per acre, or per meter," he said. "We're a single species, but we're a powerful species."...Brain cell 'chorus' appears as attention increases
...ng, receiving a signal on any one dendrite doesn't necessarily guarantee that the nerve cell will pass on the message. "If all the neurons upstream are firing synchronously, though, that strongly increases the possibility that the nerve cell will pass the message on downstream," says Hsiao, an associate professo......ange--and global warming and climate change aren't necessarily the principal factors. In the article, researc...logy. Global warming and climate change aren't necessarily the principal factors in the loss of biodiversity anticipated over the next century, Poff said. Nitr...Athletes take note: Not all energy bars built the same
... Ohio State. "But these claims aren't necessarily valid." His study appears in a recent issue of the Journal of the American Dietetic Association. Hertzler wanted to know how energy bars affected blood glucose levels. G...Chemical 'crumbs' from microbes' snacks provide a trail to ancient, remote life
...und an "imposter," a chemical process that doesn't necessarily involve any living organisms but nevertheless leaves evidence that scientists had thought might only be due to microbes. The team turned its attention to iron, a particularly appealing indicator for scientists because it's present in a majority of ro...