Is a single bout of exercise helpful or harmful in getting a good night's sleep?
...ing program. The volunteer's characteristics (all values throughout are means + standard deviations) were as follows: Subjective measures of sleep were determined using the Pittsburgh Sleep Diary the two nights before the exercise bout and the night af...New database aids medical device exporters
... and cholesterol. The EU "Directive" requires that values assigned to commercial standards used for calibrating such devices be traceable to appropriate "higher order" measurement procedures and/or certified reference materials, such as those from internationally recognized national metrology institutes lik...Glowing microspheres improve fluorescence measurements
...y calibrating the cytometer to match the intensity values provided by NIST for the reference vials, the intensity of the unknown sample can be measured more accurately....Office Depot partners with Conservation Organizations to incorporate science into paper procurement
...hey seek to achieve. We are perfectly clear on the values we want to promote and advance, the types of forests we want our suppliers to avoid, and the forest practices we will and will not accept. The activities of this alliance will assist forest managers in their efforts to address those values, and provi...Mathematical rule said to be widely and wrongly used to forecast future beach erosion
...ont development and exponentially increasing total values for beachfront, real estate, infrastructure and buildings." This development has "unfortunately coincided with the century of accelerated global sea level rise," it added. That coincidence "means that the prediction of the future rate of shoreline re...Field Museum maps 'social assets' of Chicago's industrialized Lake Calumet region
...ssets people connecting over important issues and values that things are accomplished, organizations are formed, buildings are built, biodiversity is conserved, the environment is protected, and the community is strengthened," said Alaka Wali, director of The Field Museum's Center for Cultural Understandi...Despite confinement, crop genes can spread fast to wild
...ow as one-tenth of 1 percent, along with plausible values for the other parameters, leaves a 60 percent chance of transgene escape within the first 10 generations. The situation, says Haygood, is worsened when one considers that a transgenic crop is likely to be planted on more than one field, increasing th...A shrinking sink? Carbon fertilization may be flimsy weapon against warming
...y enhanced growth by 10 to 20 percent, with higher values in the driest years. But, various lines of evidence suggest that soil nutrients are deficient to support long-term growth stimulation, Schlesinger said. Schlesinger stressed that planting trees is an effective way to sequester carbon, but "shouldn't ...Scientists' findings may lead to better understanding of how that sleep develops, matures
...odulation by the QS/NREMS - AS/REMS cycle with low values in AS/REMS and high values in QS/NREMS. Whereas at 2 weeks and 2 months, low delta and theta activity showed a similar time cou...Could memory performance and spatial learning be genetically based?
...osambi mapping function, and critical significance values for interval mapping were determined by a permutation test. Two-Way Repeated Measures ANOVA, one-way ANOVA or t-tests (when indicated) were used to analyze behavioral data. All statistical tests were two-tailed and differences were considered signif...Severn Estuary success in Europe
...ding of the archaeological and nature conservation values of the Severn Estuary coastal zone. George Ashworth, Chairman of the Severn Estuary Partnership said that the new funding will make a big difference to the work of the Partnership. "It means that, as well as getting a greater number of people aware...Examining cardiac performance of tunas at the cellular level
...heir similar temperature sensitivities and similar values for activation energy; and Western blots revealed that increased SERCA2 protein content is associated with the higher Ca2+ uptake and ATPase activities seen in bluefin ventricles compared to albacore, yellowfin and mackerel. Conclusions This stu...Conservation International & Starbucks expand partnership, launch Verde Ventures loan program
...nomic opportunities for coffee farmers. "Starbucks values are reflected through its supply efforts and our i...more, the program has helped us find a market that values all that our coffee offers. Starbucks knows our work and the effort we are making in our fields, an...New standard on the menu, certified slurried spinach
...the results to the NIST-certified values. The NIST values confirm that spinach is rich in antioxidants--both beta-carotene and lutein. Although the actual amounts look small (the antioxidants constitute 0.0019 percent and 0.0033 percent of the spinach by mass, respectively), spinach contains far more of the...Researchers develop model to help control West Nile outbreak
...e management." The research group set up parameter values from published scientific papers on mosquito biology, crow biology and West Nile biology. In order for a specific region to use this model, officials could tailor such parameters as mosquito life span, biting rate and crow life span to the data in th...From neighborhoods to globe, NASA looks at land
...the northwest and west of the city show higher LAI values compared to the 2001-2002 average, indicating more vegetation. Applications of the LIS are countless. For example, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation plans to use the LIS to help determine snowpack, amounts of soil moisture, and the loss of water into t...Can the mode of training affect the hormone response to different modes of exercise?
...END subjects had significantly higher relative VO2 values and significantly lower RER during the run compared to RES and SED subjects. RES subjects had a higher mean heart rate during resistance exercise compared to END subjects. Luteinizing Hormone : When subjects were taken as a whole, there was a si...Study finds evidence for global methane release about 600 million years ago
...ath the seafloor. "The extremely negative isotopic values from these sediments provide unambiguous evidence for methane-derived carbon," said Ganqing Jiang, a researcher at the University of California, Riverside, and the article's lead author. "The identification of a methane-derived isotope signal and wid...Alcohol exposure in pre- and early post-natal stages may cause insulin resistance
...A with Dunnett's multiple comparison test. Insulin values were log-transformed before analysis and values expressed as the mean SEM. P<0.05 were considered significant. Results The researchers note...Governing commons still a struggle, but fight not without hope, according to new report
...ere are bound to be sharp differences in power and values across interested parties, and to allow for adaptation, because some current understanding is likely to be wrong, the scale of organization can shift, and biophysical and social systems change. In an online supplement to the article, remotely sensed ...