Rare Fossil Shows Theropod Dinosaurs Are Fast, Dangerous 'Turbocharged' Reptiles
...lungs or other anatomical features suggestive of a sustained high metabolic rate," according to Zoe Eppley, program director in NSF's division ofintegrative biology and neuroscience, which funded the research. "This findadds further support to the view that these dinosaurs were not warm-blooded." Thi...Rare Fossil Shows Dinosaurs As Fast, Dangerous
...gy while idling but had the potential forenormous, sustained bursts of activity when needed. This was not a sluggard of alizard. "A lot of people who only see cold-blooded reptiles moving slowly intemperate zones have no concept of what they can do in warmer climates and howwell they can function," Gei...Experimental Drug Derived From Snake Venom Shows Promise In Reversing Effects Of Stroke
... "With the new therapy, the effects ofthe drug are sustained for five days instead of an hour or two, withoutincreasing the bleeding risk over time." The major risk in using clot-busting drugs is bleeding, or hemorrhage,in the brain. Sherman says that ANCROD should not be considered a clot-bust...Folate Status During Lactation
...tation, plasma and milk folate and hematocrit were sustained bysupplementing with 1 mg folic acid per day, but declined in unsupplementedwomen....Aldo Leopold Leadership Program Selects First Cohort
...Steering Committee Chair for ALLP, "and there is a sustained need forscientifically credible communication in this area." An OSU distinguishedprofessor of zoology, Lubchenco is past president of both the Ecological Societyof America and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Members of th...Urban Restorer Sees Trash Trees, Beetles As Signs Of Hope
...storation project. He says, "Onlythrough rigorous, sustained and inter-disciplinary research and action,community involvement and agency partnering is there any hope for the recoveryof hyper-stressed, post-industrial environments such as Nine Mine Run." In addition to Tamminga's paper presentation, he ...Stress Increases Blood Chemical Related To Heart Disease
...ncies in folic acid and the B vitamins have higher sustained levels ofhomocysteine and are at increased risk for cardiovascular disease," Stoney said. This study involved 34 women between the ages of 40 and 63. Half werepre-menopausal and half were post-menopausal. For the study, the participants came to Ohio...Report: High Carbon Dioxide Boosts Duke Forest Growth By 25 Percent
... But both scientists cautioned that such a high sustained uptake isactually unlikely, for several reasons. F...keptical that the current high growthrates will be sustained in part because of Swiss and Italian researchers treering studies around hot springs near Pisa and S......long with increased watertemperatures, there was a sustained period of calm weather before andduring the bleaching event, meaning light could have been able to penetratefarther into the water since there was less mixing by wave action. The knowledge gained by other scientists about the link between ocean...University Of Toronto team discovers salt tolerance gene in plants
...nts of salt. Thegenetically modified plants showed sustained growth even when watered with highsalt concentrations, while the normal plants progressively deteriorated with theaddition of more salt. Large regions of the Canadian prairies, the southwest United States, SouthAmerica, Australia, Asia and Europe, w...Microbial hydrocarbon 'cracking'
...ng timeago. Here, microbial life is expected to be sustained by relatively long-livedand sluggish substances. Investigation of such processes in natural sediments isof increasing interest, but is also tedious due to the slowness of the reactionsand sensitivity to sampling procedures. One wide-spread class of l...USGS fire research in the southeast
... had been burned a few months previous tothe fires sustained less damage than those in which fuels had a longer time toaccumulate. The difference was even greater in pine plantations, where recentlyburned stands experienced only 5 percent tree death compared to 52 percent instands with two or more years of fue...UK study shows breast-feeding increases babies' IQ
...e development was seen as early as 6 months andwas sustained through 15 years of age. The longer a baby was breast-fed, thegreater the increase in cognitive developmental benefit. The study included 20 published reports that met the criteria for themeta-analysis. The analysis accounted for such facto...University of Pittsburgh research may lead to new therapies for diabetes
...mbined effects resulted in the altered mice having sustained mild low blood sugar. The research appears in the January 15 edition of The Journal of Biological Chemistry. "This is the first time that hypoglycemia and accelerated islet growth have been demonstrated in a transgenic animal model," accordin...'Roadmap' to guide U.S. photovoltaics industry in 21st century
...s with conventional energy technologies Maintain a sustained market and PV production growth And, make the PV industry profitable and attractive to investors. Allen Barnett, president of PV manufacturer AstroPower, Inc. of Newark, Del., stresses the importance of a substantial domestic market. Most of th...Today's Science for America's Tomorrow: the USGS FY 2001 Budget
...rnment face serious challenges associated with the sustained growth and development of urban regions, USGS will develop predictive models based on historical trends for areas including Seattle, San Francisco, Tucson, Chicago and Miami. "Assessing the impacts of historical and expected change on regional natur...