Viruses found in untreated city water
...ater moving through the riverbank and infiltrating city wells was related to the frequency of virus detect...studies on groundwater flow in La Crosse that some city wells have high levels of Mississippi River infiltration, other wells have intermediate levels and t...Early life stress harms mental function and immune system in later years
...nsylvania found that the stress of living in inner city poverty affected learning and memory development i...tress on the later cognitive abilities of 60 inner city middle schoolers. The children's home lives had been assessed at ages 4 and 8. To measure the degree...Iraqi civilian deaths increase dramatically after invasion
... twice, both with and without information from the city of Falluja. The researchers felt the excessive violence from combat in Falluja could skew the overall mortality rates. Excluding information from Falluja, they estimate that 100,000 more Iraqis died than would have been expected had the invasion not ...Scientists pioneer biotech techniques to halt infestation of history, art treasures in tropics
...r, Peru, and Venezuela. Stored in Bolivar's native city of Caracas, "these records are really compromised," said Dr. Ramirez. "Something has to be done soon to save them, by identifying the natural toxin required to kill the insects decaying the papers and artifacts." Tahia Rivero, curator of the art col......shooter and dispatch officers to the scene. The city of Chicago is now installing the first five of 80 of the devices in high crime neighborhoods. In Los Angeles County, Sheriff Lee Baca is now soliciting community involvement and participation to deploy 10 of the units in a pilot test, to be followed...How city dwellers and living things put the green into our urban open spaces
...tunity for people making decisions at national and city level to talk face-to-face with local residents' a... passionate enthusiasm and ecological concern that city residents bring to bear in creating various kinds of urban green space. "And our findings challenge ...International team finds gene variants that affect response to HIV infection
...Research Institute in Durban, which is the largest city of KwaZulu-Natal Province in South Africa. The province is at the epicenter of the HIV epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa. In KwaZulu-Natal province, a third of pregnant women are infected with HIV, and in Durban, prevalence among pregnant women exceeds ...Growing cities in arid regions
...nology: Sustainable technologies and materials for city building Approaches for establishing institutional bridges for effective change Notables at the conference include Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano; Bob Walkup, mayor of Tucson; Jeremy Harris, president of the International Mayors Institute; and Secr...JCI table of contents, December 15 2004
...9 S. aureus strains from healthy donors from the city of Rotterdam. The genetic relatedness of the strains was compared and revealed the existence of 3 major and 2 minor genetic clusters. These clusters corresponded to the predominant genetic groups identified in a similar analysis recently performed in...Return of the Staphylococcus aureus 'superbug'
...9 S. aureus strains from healthy donors from the city of Rotterdam. The genetic relatedness of the strains was compared and revealed the existence of 3 major and 2 minor genetic clusters. These clusters corresponded to the predominant genetic groups identified in a similar analysis recently performed in...Urban ecology study witnessing the birth of a 'designer ecosystem'
...his is all about there is nature in the city. The city is part of nature." Along with their partner LTER ...for the area going back more than 2,000 years. The city has gone from a small farming center to a major metropolitan area in little more than a century, wit...Searle grant funds proteomics initiative
...ccomplish alone. We need scientists to come to the city of Chicago for all it has to offer, not just for o...MS will be available to researchers all across the city -- not just those from Northwestern, Chicago and UIC -- to reveal patterns of single proteins and pr...Novel approach yields predictions validated by experiments
...omplexity of this task to an aerial view of a busy city with many people, cars, energy, and information moving around. "You want to capture all of that activity, but you have incomplete information," Voit explained. "You can't ask who just called whom and why, or where all these people and cars are going.......o map out soil lead levels in neighborhoods in the city of Chicago," Godwin says. Bob Goldberg, University of California, Los Angeles, wants everyoneXscience majors and non-science majors alikeXto understand how research is done. Undergraduates who are not planning careers in science need to understand h...Kids with chronic illness face difficult transition to adult care
... French and you have no idea how to get around the city and you say, 'Wait a second. How did I get here?'" Pediatric hospital systems or practices generally stop serving patients at the ages of 18 or 21, and about 600,000 patients with chronic illnesses are now reaching adulthood every year, Reiss said. N...Researchers investigate 'whole farm' approach to reduce dairy pollution
...entral Texas economy, said Dr. Barry Lambert. "The city of Waco, downstream from the dairies on the Bosque...tion of phytotoxins. In light of these facts, the city of Waco, which gets most of its drinking water from the Bosque River, filed suit against 14 Central ...Survivors to revisit the polio scare
...l but one ward to polio care. Hospitals around the city loaned cribs, and staff of all descriptions, as well as volunteers, toiled overtime in record heat (at one point hitting 104) to keep up. Panicked families overwhelmed hospital emergency admission facilities, forcing doctors to triage people in their...Gladstone building honored with San Francisco Business Times award
...eo, Alameda, Contra Costa or Marin counties or the city of Palo Alto. Six industry judges joined the Business Times editorial staff to consider not only the size and value of projects, but also their community impact, transit impact, financial backing, quality of design and suitability of land use. For 25...Children of mothers with preeclampsia more likely to have pulmonary hypertension
...f La Paz, capital of Bolivia and the highest major city in the Andes at 3600-4000 meters (12,000 13,000 feet), the research team was familiar with a particular form of high-altitude pulmonary edema that occurred to some native dwellers of high altitudes when they returned from sojourns at lower elevation......t (such as "guitar") or a particular university or city (such as "Toronto") may provide other results of interest. PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS The following items describe some highlights from among the many papers being given at the meeting. ACOUSTICS AND THE GREEN BUILDING MOVEMENT With rising energy pri...