German Environment Prize awarded to Ernst-Detlef Schulze
...stimates that had to be used before. The aim is to calculate the carbon cycle more accurately by means of detailed analyses. These results can then be used to fill gaps in the protocol to counter global warming. Professor Schulze is the author of the Springer textbook Plant Ecology, co-author of Springer's Atl...Understanding food nutrition labels challenging for many people
... For example, only 32% of patients could correctly calculate the amount of carbohydrates consumed in a 20-ounce...servings in the bottle. Only 60% of patients could calculate the number of carbohydrates consumed if they ate half a bagel, when the serving size was a whole bag...Mars mission Risk 29: Scientists research ways to reduce radiation-induced brain damage
...s will be exposed to in deep space. They then must calculate how much damage is caused by particles with various energy levels. "There are only a handful of laboratories in the world where these kinds of high-energy particles can be produced," Britten said. His team will be work closely with scientists at B...New breast cancer screening tool helps general practitioners
...itative assessments are available to physicians to calculate an individual patient's risk for developing breast cancer. One example is the modified Gail model. Collecting familial and individual risk data, the tool is able to quantifiably assess both five-year and lifetime absolute risk of developing invasive ...Closing in on lethal heart rhythm in young athletes
...condition's genetic roots will help researchers to calculate the precise increased risk from each mutation for developing symptoms and dying. Previous research by the Hopkins team showed that familial ARVD generally strikes after puberty and its symptoms - dizziness, fatigue and fainting after exercise - may ...CU, Scripps researchers provide evidence of how proteins fold
...l methods. The first method used supercomputers to calculate the energy required to convert a polypeptide chain into a collapsed hydrophobic pocket. The folds occur in several places that require the least possible energy to maintain. By finding these places where the nonpolar groups exist, the researchers bet...New findings offer more complete view of breast cancer gene mutations in US population
...ased on their findings, the researchers went on to calculate the prevalence of BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations in the general U.S. population. Among white and African American women ages 35 to 64, the prevalence of BRCA1 mutations is 0.06 percent and the prevalence of BRCA2 mutations is 0.4 percent, the researchers ...Wildlife Conservation Society joins Climate, Community & Biodiversity Alliance
...ividuals are also being offered the opportunity to calculate and offset their personal carbon footprint through the Makira project by using the carbon calculator at Conservation International's website, www.conservation.org . ...Current technology for brain cooling unlikely to help trauma patients
...now about blood flow in various types of patients, calculate the characteristic length of this cold shield and make predictions on what the temperature distribution in the brain will be like," Yablonskiy says. "We now also understand why attempts to use hypothermia for brain injury treatment in rats were enc...Ossur's POWER KNEE widely available in September
...activity the user is engaged in, the AI is able to calculate the precise amount of power needed and act to generate the appropriate prosthetic function. The software can be fine-tuned based on the personal physical condition and rehabilitation level of individual users. The POWER KNEE not only won high praise ...Elephants avoid costly mountaineering
...this behavioral tendency. For example, the authors calculate that climbing 100 meters would "burn" energy that would take an extra half hour of foraging to replace--or would need to be paid for by expenditure of body reserves. In light of their calculations, the authors point out in the paper that "clearly, cl...Finding about cellular microtubule rigidity could lead to development of new nano-materials
... The changes in the beads' position were used to calculate the stiffness of the filaments they were attached to, through a method recently developed by the theoretical physicists on the research team. To the surprise of the scientists, they found that the longer the filament, the more rigid it became. Fl...Soft materials buckle up for measurement
...f the sensor film was known, the researchers could calculate the stiffness of the soft material underneath. In the journal article, the team focuses on results achieved with model soft specimens, such as silicone polymer, and more challenging "hydrogel" specimens (networks of polymers swollen with water). I...New method for dating art prints and early books borrows know-how from genetic science
...addition, Hedges used his print-clock technique to calculate the day on which there were no cracks in the wood, revealing the date when the artist finished carving the woodblock. "This estimate of the date the woodblock was carved seemed odd because it was ten years before the date of the first print, but it t...Just-right PET/CT imaging for patients of all sizes
...by the PET scanner, which uses this information to calculate where the agent is concentrated, thus creating a volumetric image of the patient including the affected area. Although the photons in each pair arrive at slightly different times depending on their origination point, this information has not traditio...UCLA biomathematician earns prestigious peer award
...portant scientific dilemma. Bayesian statisticians calculate probabilities by blending prior knowledge and accumulated experience through the recording and collection of data. In their award-winning article, Suchard and Redelings described a new Bayesian method that uses genetic information to estimate the evo...Algae's protein 'tails' create motion and aid munching
... created a mathematical model that allowed them to calculate how the flagella created a flow of water around the colony and verified this prediction with experimental measurements. Then they used the model to show that the coordinated beating of the flagella concentrated the nutrients just ahead of the moving ...Robotic joystick reveals how brain controls movement
...y mathematical equations to these measurements and calculate predictions of how the brain might be "learning" these simple movements. For example, by taking into account the number of repetitions it took for the subjects to push the joystick in the first direction to keep it centered and how long it took for ...Other highlights in the May 17 JNCI
... a Decade After Prostate Removal A graph used to calculate prostate cancer recurrence, called a nomogram, makes accurate predictions about recurrence up to ten years after removal of the prostate gland, according to a new study. Michael W. Kattan, Ph.D., of the Cleveland Clinic Foundation in Ohio, and collea...New method confirms importance of fungi in Arctic nitrogen cycle
WOODS HOLE, MA--A new method to calculate the transfer of nitrogen from Arctic mushrooms to plants is shedding light on how fungi living symbiotically on plant roots transfer vital nutrients to their hosts. The analytical technique, developed by John E. Hobbie, MBL Distinguished Scientist an...