Story tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, September 2004
... The instrument provides more accurate and concise readings than conventional monitors and can be utilized either on the ground or aboard aircraft. Testing has taken place at the Navy Aviation Depot in San Diego. [Contact: Fred Strohl 865-574-4165; strohlhf@ornl.gov ] CHEMISTRY -- The big squeeze . . . ...New hypoxic event found off Oregon coast
...rical norm, and already this year we have had some readings in that same range," Chan said. "One recent measurement taken at a 30 meter depth station just 1.2 miles off Newport found dissolved oxygen at 0.8 milliliters per liter. Further offshore and to the south, we've found oxygen levels in deeper areas of ...Reading hexametric rhyme supports cardiac synchronization, especially after a heart attack
...breathing frequencies and patterns found in poetry readings on cardiovascular regulation have been investigated extensively in recent years. Poetry recitation has been known to cause a frequency adjustment of breathing oscillations with endogenous blood pressure fluctuations (Mayer waves) and even cerebral bl...Endurance exercise found to be equally effective as diuretics in improving cardiac health
...e to continue. Blood pressure, cholesterol, plasma readings (volume and insulin) were administered. The exercise endurance group participated in a five-month-long program; the test subjects receiving a thiazide diuretic received hydrochlorothiazide 25 to 50 mg daily with supplemental K+ 20 mEq daily for six m...Study reveals poor Houston air quality
... nitric oxides," Zhang says. "At midday, the ozone readings are very high because of the industrial emissions,...le federal standards. At night, however, the ozone readings register almost zero, forming an urban scale ozone hole which is caused by nitrogen oxide emissions ...Advanced sensors, computing systems tracking sea animals worldwide
.... They are also overlaying sea surface temperature readings available by satellite. "That's because when water temperatures drop below a certain critical threshold the turtles leave the coastal sounds," Read said. "And when they do that they have to run this gauntlet of fishing nets." Air breathing turtles an...Physicists use fractals to help Parkinson's sufferers
...y that measures movements in three dimensions. The readings from this sensor, known as a tri-axial accelerometer, are fed to a computer, together with measurements of the patients walking speed, and analysed using a fractal system. Fractals are usually associated with irregular geometric objects that look the...New device can help defend against novel biological agents
...tentiostat, that allowed them to take simultaneous readings from the sensors. One of the biggest problems they had with these modifications was due to the fact that one of the devices was designed to be controlled by a Windows computer and the other by a Macintosh. "In the beginning, there was a tremendous am...NASA learning to monitor coral reef health from the sky
... monitoring was to take undersea light-reflectance readings of elkhorn coral with a handheld spectroradiometer...orida and Puerto Rico, helped Guild take the first readings at varying depths in summer 2002 near Andros Island, Bahamas, with assistance from the U.S. Navy Atl...High heart risk for lupus patients linked to death of cells lining blood vessels
...ese. What's more, their abnormal vascular function readings correlated directly with their blood levels of apoptotic endothelial cells, and the severity of their lupus symptoms at the time. Kaplan and Rajagopalan plan to evaluate how well the apoptotic endothelial cell test predicts actual incidence of ather...Ultra-low oxygen could have triggered die-offs, spurred bird breathing system
...either of the events. Ward said mass spectrometer readings on fossil material, as well as the extinction pattern for fossils in rock outcrops collected from the time of the two extinctions, indicates the events were drawn-out affairs and did not happen suddenly, as they would have with an asteroid impact. I...UCR geneticist spells out consequences of genetically engineered genes escaping into wild species
...n Literature teacher. Ellstrand's recent favorite readings have been "Lords of the Harvest" by Dan Charles and "Instructions to the Cook: a Zen Master's Lessons in Living a Life that Matters" by Bernard Glassman and Rich Fields. What scholars have said of Ellstrand's "Dangerous Liaisons?": "In the stormy s...Exercise measures identify heart disease in seemingly healthy women
...sure of decreased blood flow) on electrocardiogram readings - used to diagnose hidden heart disease in men - did not accurately identify women with hidden heart disease. Overall, after accounting for many risk factors, scientists found that women who performed below average in peak exercise capacity and rec...Researchers develop faster, more accurate test for mad cow disease
...e screening of cattle. The tests can produce false readings and may take a week to yield results. A better test is needed, they say. The new test, which has already undergone animal studies, seems to fit the bill. Called the conformation-dependent immunoassay (CDI), it can detect prion proteins with 100 per...Inflammation blocks impact of heart healthy diets for some
...with lower CRP levels. Subjects with lower CRP readings at the start of the study (less than 2.37 milligrams per liter) had a nearly 10 percent drop in total cholesterol and nearly 12 percent reduction in LDL cholesterol. Their triglycerides were not affected. In those with higher CRP (more than 2.37 mg...Passing its global sight test leaves MERIS ready for work
...rface and submersible instruments. And as with all readings carried out on sea and land - atmospheric data were also recorded, including surface pressure, local aerosol properties and how light scatters in the air. Raw MERIS results represent light recorded shining through the top of the atmosphere, but typ...Burning forests speedily space-mapped for fire fighters
...roducts, delivered to users and validated with GPS readings taken on the ground. Before BIRD had completed a single orbit, local fire fighters had been provided with geo-referenced hot-spot maps together with a risk index indicating where the blaze was most likely to spread as well as fireline representation...Engineering a solution to waste crisis
...thenshire, West Wales, they are analysing constant readings of temperature, gas flows, and gas composition, to develop the most efficient ways of producing valuable compost from material which would otherwise be discarded. Through this work, largely sponsored by Carmarthenshire Environmental Resources Trust ...Underwater sensor system could protect reservoirs, drinking water
... that water-monitoring personnel can track unusual readings or contaminants to their source location. The researchers designed the nodes so that the chemical sensors are immersed in water separate from the communication electronics, making it easy to change the sensors on the nodes without having to alter t...Researchers developing 'sentinel plants' to warn of bioterrorism
...tronic device and points it at a native plant. The readings on the device indicate the plant was exposed to nerve gas sometime in the last 48 hours, allowing the soldiers to don protective gear before they suffer a lethal dose. Although such a device does not exist, it's not as far-fetched as it may sound. As...