World's Experts Plan Global Locator Service For Environmental Information
...eed to search many separate sources. We may not be satisfied with just scanning World Wide Web pages, just accepting the suggestions of one publisher, or just being limited to information published in English. "Libraries centuries ago confronted the same problem. They held an amazing diversity of cont...Pet-Owning Couples Are Closer, Interact More Than Pet-Less Couples, UB Study Shows
...n cats or dogs have closer relationships, are more satisfied in marriage and respond better to stress than couples who do not, a new University at Buffalo study has shown. Measures of heart rate and blood pressure taken during a situation known to be a source of conflict between spouses showed that systol...SFU Researcher Finds Low Cost Solution To High Auto Emissions
... wrapping up a three-year study for General Motors satisfied hehas "promising" results that would mean upgrading existing software in new cars,rather than producing new hardware at additional cost, as companies try tobecome fully compliant with new environmental regulations set to take effect inthe U.S. and Ca......with severalEuropean collaborators. McIlwraith is satisfied with progress so far. "Our plan was to get more cartilage by using the microfracturetechnique," he said. "Now our goal is to identify those growth factors criticalto healing, so we've been doing immunohistochemistry to look at what growthfac...Science and Amersham Pharmacia Biotech award Young Scientist Prize
...id Velculescu. The process is generating a slew of satisfied scientists--a testament to Velculescu's success. 400 - 500 detailed protocols of the SAGE method have been delivered worldwide, with tens of SAGE-related papers already published. An overbooked conference last February in the Netherlands demonstrated...Pioneering evolutionist Ledyard Stebbins dies at age 94
...from many disciplines developed modifications that satisfied most of them. Dubbed "the modernsynthesis," the new theory continued to emphasize natural selection and the gradual pace ofevolution. Its architects were some of the best scientific minds of the time, and G. LedyardStebbins was one of them. Evolution...Cholesterol levels not necessarily indicative of cardiac health
...etter have it checked out thoroughly, and don't be satisfied with even a treadmill run or an EKG [electrocardiogram]," said Fred A. Kummerow, a professor emeritus of food chemistry at the University of Illinois. "Have a cardiologist check you out. You cannot depend on your cholesterol level to indicate heart...Bitter taste receptors identified
...hen activated, you do not discriminate." Zuker is satisfied that the T2R family of genes represents at least a subset of bitter taste receptors, but there's more work to be done: tracing pathways from receptor cells to the brain, generating "knockout" mice that lack T2R s and studying their taste deficits,...Updated study shows baseline annual diet costs less for women than men
...or polyunsaturated fatty acids and copper were not satisfied with the diets. In addition, the male minimum requirement for carbohydrates was not met. The new nutrient content was taken from the 1998 edition of "Bowes and Church's Food Values of Portions Commonly Use," by J A T Pennington, the 17th edition of t...University of Florida scientist maps brain reactions to food
...nutes is generally all that separates nutritiously satisfied from excessively gorged. That knowledge could be key in the diagnosis and treatment of obesity and associated conditions. By mapping changes in blood flow and oxygenation using a technique called functional magnetic resonance imaging, termed fMRI...New research highlights concerns over children born through donor insemination
...y people. Parents who had told their children were satisfied with their decision and said they had seen no negative effects to date. One of the research leaders, Dr Claes Gottlieb of the Sophiahemmet and Karolinksa Hospitals in Stockholm, said: "Attitudes towards informing the child seem to be changing with mo...Obese as likely as lean women to feel full on low energy density meals
...n't influence how much the participants ate or how satisfied they felt. Rolls says, "We've seen repeatedly in our studies that people eat about the same amount of food each day and, if they consume less than they are used to, they feel hungry. Fat can make food taste good but it doesn't necessarily make yo...Diet aid works best with other life changes
...e of their expected weight loss and were the least satisfied with changes in their weight, health, and appearan...d the combination approach were significantly more satisfied with their outcomes, but were only moderately satisfied over all. We have to help people realize th...New research confirms that natural selection is acting on the current human population
... these, 2,710 pairs of identical and non-identical satisfied the criteria for inclusion in the teams research. The data were then assessed using the classical twin method. This method scores traits on a scale that ranges from wholly genetic through to wholly environmental. The researchers placed these scores i...What it means to be a mammal: New clues from tiny fossil described in Science
...uish between these three possibilities. But we are satisfied to know that Hadrocodium is the sister taxon to all living mammals," says Luo. Luo and colleagues estimated Hadrocodium 's mass (around two grams) by comparing its skull size with skull size in other mammals. The two-gram estimate ranks Hadr......n their educational experience." Students are most satisfied in doctoral programs where they have the freedom t...sfaction with their programs overall, only 45% are satisfied with their preparation for teaching and 38% with career services. According to Adam Fagen, survey au...Seeing stars after LASIK? Study suggests certain pre-surgery factors may be to blame
... patients, asking if they were satisfied with the surgery or if they had nighttime vision problems. They also examined the patients' medical charts. All subjects in the study had at least six months of recovery time. "Doctors thin......r, but only 20 percent of the women said they were satisfied with their genitalia. In contrast, 50 percent of m...e help of testosterone replacement, said they were satisfied with their genitalia. Like the women, men said they identified with their male gender. "Raising t...Hopkins researchers find eye drops preferable to eye patch in treating children's amblyopia
...children in the atropine group were generally more satisfied with treatment than parents of children who wore eye patches. "With atropine, you simply put the drop in once in the morning and there's no more monitoring of the child for the day," Repka says. "With the patch, children have to be continuously monit...Researchers identify protein that overcomes leptin resistance
...mone that signals the brain that our appetites are satisfied and we can stop eating. For this reason, explains study co-senior author Barbara Kahn, M.D., Chief of Endocrinology and Metabolism at BIDMC, efforts made several years ago to use leptin in drug form to treat obesity were largely unsuccessful. The ma...