Water Quality In Indiana's White River Basin Affected By Urban And Agricultural Activities
...nitrate concentrations in streams. "Concentrations tend to increase as the proportion of naturally or artificially drained soils in the basin increases," said Crawford. "Manure from farm animals also increases nitrate concentrations in some streams." Nitrate concentrations in stream water rarely exceeded ...New Sunspot Cycle To Be Bigger Than Average
...he polar fields," Wilsonsaid. "Polar coronal holes tend to reach maximum size nearcycle minimum, and the maximum in the geomagnetic indices usuallyoccurs within a couple of years or so before minimum." In turn, this serves as a goodindicator of where the sunspot cycle is headed, but it's not anabsolute m...Aspirin's Preventive Action In Heart Attacks Tied To Genetics
...echanisms -- mutations andpolymorphisms. Mutations tend to occur in a small portionof the population and are the genetic changes most often closely linked todiseases because they alter the function of the protein product, theblueprint of which has been disrupted by the mutation. Polymorphisms, on the othe...Ulcer-Causing Bacteria Also May Be Associated With Heart Disease
... wasimportant, Pasceri says, because poorer people tend to get more infections thanthose with more financial resources. Even with this finding, Pasceri says that an individual with anulcer because of an h. pylori infection shouldn't necessarily be examined forheart disease. "Screen...... it stop pulsing," he said. "Nowadays,the results tend to be much less dramatic." Electronic article surveillance systems are not the only potentialsources of interference. GTRI also tests the effects of microwaveovens, military radar systems, cellular telephones, electric powerequipment and radio broa...You Could Eat Your Dinner Off That...
...o support a thriving population of bacteria, which tend to prefer dampenvironments. At the start of the study, the researchers found a million times as manybacteria in the fluid wrung from dishcloths as on toilet seats. Even choppingboards hosted three times as many bacteria. There was a dramatic ......ght incentral Florida greater than 2lbs, 17 inches tend to be females. It has beensuggested by researchers at the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department that femalesare faster growing, longer lived and reach a larger size than males. At HarborBranch, we are also investigating whether individuals may be hem......found that aftersilent synapses are awakened, they tend to remain active and transmit painsignals. These synapses can be activated by both strong pain signals and messagesfrom the RVM. Zhuo found that spinal cord neurons, much like those in thebrain's hippocampus, become more efficient at transmit...Relapsing Fever Spirochete Switches Surface Proteins When It Changes Hosts
...s for years withoutfeeding. Human cases of illness tend to peak in the warmer months, since if it's toocold, the ticks can't move. But the disease can occur year-round. A commonscenario for human infection is to have a tick population established withrodents who've made their home in rustic mountain cab...Pediatric Anesthesiologists Risk Halothane-Related Liver Injury
...ch of thepotent anesthetic gas halothane when they tend to their patients, possiblyputting themselves at high risk for liver injury, according to a study byresearchers at Johns Hopkins and the National Institutes of Health. The investigators found that 23 percent of pediatric anesthesiologistsand ...Detecting Deer: New Method For Counting Population In Urban Areas
...cies to achieve this goal. The surviving deer also tend to eat all available plants, including plants thatbotanists grow for research. Thus, researchers cannot conduct effective studyand analysis of plants. Sexton and his colleagues chose helicopters and snow cover as the best methodfor the deer census...News Backgrounder: Duke Primate Center Successfully Fosters Mysterious Aye-Ayes
...thing to others. "I thought that the animals might tend to look for the ends of tracks,where the insect would most likely be," he said. "But I found that aye-ayes werejust as good finding grubs midway along the track as at the end. And contrary tomy earlier studies, it did seem that the actual presence or...Allergy And Asthma-Exaceberating Mites, Molds And Pollens On The Rise Due To El Niño . . . La Niña
...ounts. Inaddition, when the weather is bad, people tend to stay indoors more, and theclose proximity often results in viral infections which can lead to asthmaattacks. If that weren't enough, the high humidity has also provided an ideal environmentfor cockroaches and microscopic dust mites -- the leading...Duke Studies Show That Environmental Effects Of Dams Extend To Insect Life
..."If there is a high hostplant density, butterflies tend to stick around longer. Consequently, they tendto lay more eggs. People assume these islands are pretty much similar in termsof resource distribution. That may be true for some species, like rodents,iguana or howler monkeys. But that's not true for s...Study Suggests Weekly Hurricane And Rainfall Patterns Are Linked To East Coast Pollution
... hit over the weekend, such that weekendhurricanes tend to be much weaker than, say, Tuesday storms. "Hurricanes are the biggest storms that we have on this planet, in termsof energy and precipitation," noted Cerveny. "And what we've found is that we'rehaving an impact on them. It's a little daunt...New Research: Children Inhale Higher Percentage Of Pollution
...ly it doesn't tell the whole story of why children tend to get sick thisway, but it is likely a key part of the story. Other factors, for example, arethat children are outside more often and exercise more than adults." A report on the findings will appear in the September issue ofInhalation Toxico...New Rehabilitative Device Combines Form And Function For Children With Mobility Impairments
... was a need. Products for the disabled and elderly tend to be veryutilitarian in design," said Tierney, now an industrial designer atMotorola in Plantation, Fla. One of Tierney's biggest challenges was designing the system for a broadrange of users. Generally, children with cerebral palsy have excessivemu......ibrillation had an increased risk of death. "Women tend to live longer than men," says the study's lead author Emelia J.Benjamin, M.D., associate professor of medicine at Boston University School ofMedicine and director of echocardiology for the Framingham Heart Study. "However, in our study, the risk of ...Screening In Women Army Recruits Shows High Chlamydia Infection Rates
...yto have untreated disease, she says, because they tend to have symptoms thatlead them to a doctor. Somewhere between half and three-quarters of infectedmen experience a discharge and painful or difficult urination. "We hope thiswill bring routine screening of both men and women in the Army," says Gaydo...School Breakfast Participation Leads To Academic, Psychosocial Improvements
...se their participation inschool breakfast programs tend to show improvement on a wide range of measuresof social and academic functioning. Conducted in public schools in Philadelphia and Baltimore, the study found thatincreased school breakfast participation correlated with less tardiness andabsence, hi...