Houston minority graduation rises in sciences, engineering as result of UH-led alliance
...others in the H-LSAMP program or take advantage of quiet rooms to concentrate. Workshop instructors also are on hand and eager to help. There are many success stories that have come out of the University of Houston's H-LSAMP program, including those who have gone on to become medical students, pra...Infants sighs may 'reset' breathing regulation mechanism as well as help lungs develop
...ey studied 25 healthy one-month-old infants during quiet sleep, while they were either lying in a crib or in a parent's arms. The researchers hypothesized that sighs may play a crucial role in resetting mechanisms for the negative feedback system responsible for controlling breathing, somewhat like hitting...Why some neonates need caffeine
...-s hyperoxic test performed during active sleep or quiet sleep. The authors of the study, entitled "Effect ...eased oxygen was greater during active than during quiet sleep. Neonates receiving caffeine showed a significantly greater decrease in ventilation during hyp...Reading hexametric rhyme supports cardiac synchronization, especially after a heart attack
...ded into three successive measurements: 15 minutes quiet rest in a resting chair, 20 minutes of exercise measurement, and 15 minutes quiet rest in a resting chair. During S1 and S2 the subjects were allowed to breathe spontaneously. This ...World's oldest mouse celebrates milestone birthday
...rday, April 10, 2004. A dwarf mouse, Yoda lives in quiet seclusion with his cage mate, Princess Leia, in a pathogen-free rest home for geriatric mice belonging to Richard A. Miller, M.D., Ph.D., a professor of pathology in the Geriatrics Center of the University of Michigan Medical School. Yoda was born on...University of Delaware lays keel for new research vessel
...ature a state-of-the-art modular design and clean, quiet operation. It will be the first ship in the U.S. academic research fleet to meet international underwater noise standards, which are based on the hearing ability of fish. The total cost of constructing the vessel and outfitting it with scientific ins...Immune system's attack dogs kept on genetic leash
...may play an intrinsic role in keeping immune cells quiet or in preparing them to battle invaders. "There's not a lot known yet about the family of Fox genes," Peng says. "One member, Foxp3, has been linked to the development of regulatory T cells that suppress the activation of other immune cells. But tha...Mars mission scientist will live a 25-hour day
...r at JPL. They already have rented apartments in a quiet neighborhood equipped with light-tight blackout shades, and some of them will wear specially made Mars watches that record an additional 39 minutes, 35 seconds every day. But when rover team members step outside, they will be bombarded with external ...New book says Northwest salmon could face same fate as those in Northeast, England
... straightened river channels and changed them from quiet salmon nurseries into fast-flowing highways. Even a well-intentioned tactic using hatcheries to bolster troubled salmon runs has backfired, Montgomery believes. Washington state hatcheries turned out 4.5 million juvenile Chinook salmon in 1896 and...Can heart failure impair thinking?
...jects were monitored in the scanner facility until quiet sleep was established. Structural MRI Acquisition and Analysis: Anatomic T1-weighted image volumes were collected on an MRI scanner. The steady-state sequence was used, and no MRI contrast media were administered. The structural brain MRI data were...Researcher explores tumors' survival strategy
...hrow an angiogenic switch, activating a previously quiet endothelial cell. "As a result of activation, the endothelial cell loses its contact with the matrix (the milieu cells live in), elongates and invades the surrounding, stromal tissue," Dr. Motamed said. The cell then begins to proliferate, forming th...Biologist unlocks secrets of winter survival
...e bustling landscape that lies under the seemingly quiet Maine woods he has studied since his boyhood. "He richly deserves comparisons to Thoreau," says the Washington Post of Heinrich, whose first book, "Bumblebee Economics," was nominated for a National Book Award. "Winter World: The Ingenuity of Animal...Hearing loss & rehab, stroke & depression among topics of Vol. 39, Iss 5, JRRD
...h had an adverse effect in speech recognition in a quiet background....November GEOLOGY and GSA TODAY media highlights
... sea god of the region. The scientists found not a quiet seamount, but an active volcano violently erupting steam and lava every few minutes. The summit of Kavachi lies only a few meters below the sea surface and has undergone periods of eruption and subsidence in the past. But until this cruise, no attemp...Study backs theory that accumulating mutations of 'quiet' genes foster aging
...might be safely slowed by targeting genes that are quiet early but threaten damage later in life has gotten a boost from new findings from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The researchers don't promote such tinkering in their paper, which appears online this week in advance of publication by...New study shows efficacy of gene therapy for Parkinson's disease
...placing DBS (deep brain stimulation) electrodes to quiet these areas. Both of these treatments, however, have certain limitations and side effects," said Dr. Kaplitt. "Our approach is based on a similar rationale, but we use gene therapy to adjust the chemical signaling of these brain areas to a more nor...Humanity's din could be blocking whales' courtship songs
...t whales' courtship songs occurred in a relatively quiet part of the seas -- Loreto Bay in Mexico's Gulf of California -- where fin whales aggregate to feast on swarms of krill. Surprisingly to the scientists, some whales spend a lot of time singing during the krill feast. Special computer software, devel...Story tips from the Department of Energys Oak Ridge National Laboratory, May 2002
...licensed to Ecotera, also boasts low emissions and quiet operation, making it ideal for a wide range of applications. Ecotera Energy sees the thermochemical energy conversion engine being used initially for transportation such as for hybrid vehicles and aerospace applications and to generate electricity in...Hopkins scientists reveal how sound becomes electric
...ulation. And once the signal is sent, the nerve is quiet again," adds Fuchs. "But for hair cells, their continual pumping of messengers toward the nerve may be a kind of fail-safe device that ensures a ready supply of transmitters should the sound continue or change." Hearing aids and cochlear implants are......resent time, volcanism in the region is relatively quiet with only three eruptions occurring in the last 80,000 years. The authors make petrologic arguments that suggest that recurrence rates of volcanism used by the DOE may be underestimated. Moreover, if models of hot mantle are correct, then volcanism i...