September/October 2004 Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
...capacity to accommodate intervention research, and collecting and using emerging unanticipated data. Linking Ruth to Her Past By Renate G. Justin, M.D. A family physician shares the story of her 30-year relationship with a patient and the strong ties they formed. Although she was trained to keep emotionall...Researchers find chemosignal that encourages women's sexual desire
... lab have shown that the procedure is effective in collecting chemosignals. In Chicago, the researchers recruited about 90 women between the ages of 18 and 35 who had not born a child. The women were divided into two groups, one group exposed to the pads with breast feeding substances, and the other grou...Award-winning INEEL probe to help safely monitor hazardous waste sites
...s no longer have to wait for soil to settle before collecting measurements. A system of ports lets workers test and sometimes even fix sensors without hauling equipment to the surface. And off-the-shelf components keep the cost of building and maintaining a GEOPS unit low. Scientists can use GEOPS in a variet...Iraqi civilian deaths increase dramatically after invasion
... I think our survey demonstrates the importance of collecting civilian casualty information during a war and that it can be done," said lead author Les Roberts, PhD, an associate with the Bloomberg School of Public Health's Center for International Emergency, Disaster and Refugee Studies. The researchers conduc...Are museum collections of ancient life representative?
...e is also interested in other time periods, but is collecting this one to make sure it is represented in the literature. "I want to compare the Eastover to other time periods to see how diversity of organisms changed over time, which may be in part a result of climate change." "People who study the diversity of...Powerful 'toolkit' developed for functional profiling of yeast genes
... growth. Pan's mutant yeast are protected from collecting genetic impurities because he's added a second copy of all the genes, a cloak that temporarily obscures the effects of whatever gene is missing. He then uses a laboratory trick developed by researchers at the University of Toronto to get rid of the e...Cloned gene from sea animal may prove key in cancer drug development
....The bacteria cannot be grown in laboratories. And collecting vast numbers of the animals at sea would be environmentally destructive. One way of solving this dilemma is to clone the genes involved in natural bryostatin development. In the Chemistry and Biology paper, the researchers describe the process by whi...Global bird populations face dramatic decline in coming decades, study predicts
...tinct bird species. Eight researchers spent a year collecting data on the conservation, distribution, ecological function and life history of every species-more than 600,000 computer entries in total. "The result is one of the most comprehensive databases of a class of organisms ever compiled," Sekercioglu said...UGA partners with U of Pennsylvania for bio-defense and infectious disease research project
...d make the database [ApiDB] for these organisms by collecting all of the data together in one location," Kissinger said. "I call that the vacuum-cleaner approach. But there's too much data to suck it all up so new approaches are needed." Instead, the UGA team will use a relatively new technology called "Web ...Flocking together: Study shows how animal groups find their way
...ocean, and each individual robot was moving around collecting information locally," he said. "By returning to the group and following the type of algorithm we propose, they could select collectively the direction associated with the best quality information or select collectively the majority direction." Couzin...Falling canopy ants glide home
...nd near Iquitos, in Peru, where he currently works collecting mosquitos for the University of Texas Medical Branch and the University of Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory, showed that the ants visually orient toward tree trunks. In addition, small workers don't fall as far as their larger counterparts befo...New cyber security protocol for online banking, and more
... organized crime and terrorist-funding groups from collecting large numbers of fund-transfer account numbers that could be used for money laundering, the researchers say. In one possible application, the security protocol could be used to verify that two wireless devices trying to connect to each other don't m...New Georgia Tech micro-CT imaging technique to help tissue engineers improve bone regeneration
...eral crystals form to harden regenerating bone) by collecting three-dimensional images in vitro and in vivo. Georgia Tech researchers used the new technique to help develop bone graft substitutes that combine the availability and structural integrity of bone allografts, or bone grafts taken from a human donor, ...Ecological destruction fuels emerging diseases
... the dense jungles of Costa Rica tracking down and collecting parasites. Since 1996, he has coordinated the parasite Taxonomic Working Group for the All-Taxa Biodiversity Inventory (ATBI), an international scientific and economic initiative to help developing countries preserve the world's biodiversity. In the ...One year after groundbreaking, desert research center takes shape on the Israeli-Jordanian border
...a pesticide. Mooney was particularly interested in collecting samples of tamarisk, a Mediterranean plant that ha...fic team used the same border crossing en route to collecting samples on the Jordanian and Israeli sides of the Dead Sea in January. "We can't underestimate the d...Stealth worms may improve insect pest control
...ns of local nematodes. In Arizona, Stock's team is collecting native species of EPN for pest control trials in citrus and iceberg lettuce, with funding from the Arizona Citrus Research Council and the Arizona Iceberg Lettuce Research Council. Ninety percent of the citrus orchards in the state have the parasitic...Man-made wetland's effectiveness similar to natural marsh
...The researchers studied the wetland for two years, collecting and analyzing water samples twice each month. They tested the samples for concentrations of phosphorus, nitrates and several other chemicals. The researchers also gathered data on water flowing into the wetland from rain and snowfall and from ground ...Will aid to poor put wildlife at risk?
...ome 1208 households in six locations across Gabon, collecting information on meat consumption, socioeconomic status, and demographic factors. In all instances, the consumption of meat, including wildlife, fish, chicken and livestock, increased with wealth, while rising prices resulted in a decrease in consumpti...Trio of leukemias share a single mutation
...hat a research group has used it as a protocol for collecting blood samples to identify the cause of a disease."...Same mutation aided evolution in many fish species, Stanford study finds
...tion. The group continues to wade out into nature, collecting additional stickleback species from around the world that can reveal whether particular genes are always reused when the animals adapt to new conditions, or if evolution has other tricks up its sleeve to push organisms towards an optimal form for the...