Machinery of the 'marijuana munchies'
...ty of LH circuits related to appetite, even in the context of leptin insufficiency or resistance."...New study shows animal family tree looking bushy in places
... years to sprout get washed out in the much larger context of 500 million years of animal life on Earth. "It is hard to distinguish these events, even with boatloads of data," Carroll says. "As you go into deep time, origins are much harder to pick out. And given that there is so much data, you have to ask:...Smithsonian guide to the biodiverse marine environment of Panama's Bocas del Toro
...rovides a geographic, geological and environmental context for the station and sets the stage for future work in the region. Focusing in like a pirate's spyglass, initial chapters describe Bocas del Toro's geology, physical environmental monitoring program, and salt- water communities. Later chapters prese...High demand for structured doctoral programmes
...connectedness and interdependence of people in the context of globalisation. The goal is to scrutinise and further develop the existing legal systems on the basis of practical considerations. For the participating doctoral students, this means that they need to frame their dissertation topics not only from a...Recycling of aeronautics components
...on both its properties and its cost. It is in this context that this INASMET-Tecnalia research project arises the principal aim being to perfect a recycling technique that enables, on the one hand, the obtaining of carbon fibre from waste components and, on the other, the study and evaluation of the possibil...Deep-rooted plants have much greater impact on climate than experts thought
...ater, but it can't really be discussed outside the context of plant nutrition," he said. Dawson, Lee and Fung set out to incorporate hydraulic distribution in the National Center for Atmospheric Research Community Atmospheric Model Version 2 (NCAR's CAM2 model), one of the most respected models. "Global clim...UC San Diego partners with Venter Institute to build marine microbial genomics cyberinfrastructure
...--analyzing microbial genomic sequence data in the context of other microbial species, as well as in comparison to a variety of other "metadata" such as the chemical and physical conditions in which microbes are sampled. "The explosion of data from the collection and sequencing of marine microbes requires a...Poll reveals half British public support nuclear future
...n many decision makers like to believe. This wider context is something which the government should take very seriously during its own review."...Defusing a time bomb: Heart attack risk-detection technology developed at UH
...to fund core computer science research in a domain context that has the potential for high impact in science and engineering domains. Kakadiaris' expertise in computer vision to aid in the identification of vulnerable patients has the potential for broad impact in health care. I am delighted to see that hi...Academy honors 15 for major contributions to science
...n of disparate animals, including hominids, in the context of Earth's physical and chemical history." The medal was established by a gift of Mary Clark Thompson and has been presented since 1921. TROLAND RESEARCH AWARDS a research award of $50,000 given annually to each of two recipients to recognize un...The evolution of food plants: Genetic control of grass flower architecture
...ate University discusses the ramosa pathway in the context of the evolution of plant development. "The grasses are a premier model system for evolution of development studies in higher plants: there is tremendous diversity in inflorescence morphology, the phylogeny is well understood and many species are gen...New Zealand tops environmental scorecard at World Economic Forum in Davos
...lity to evaluate policy results is critical in the context of initiatives under the United Nations Millennium Development Goals to expand investments in environmental sustainability."...Wide range of topics covered by new research units
...tion of modern origins has always been used in the context of strategies of justification and legitimisation. The investigation of the corresponding links, conceptual models and narratives will be studied for the last three hundred years with examples from the premodern and antique periods in close collabo...Researchers discover link between high levels of HtrA1 protein
...be unhealthy -- as in the cases of cancer, another context in which the role of HtrA1 has been well studied. In the Mayo Clinic investigation into HtrA1 and preeclampsia, findings suggest that the increased levels of HtrA1 impair correct functioning during the second stage of growth of key placental cells ca...Women pregnant with girls experience more severe asthma symptoms
...otentially important but needs to be placed in the context of other factors which have a greater impact on the severity of mother's asthma, including inadequate medical management of asthma symptoms, and whether the mother was a smoker or not," said Bracken, who also co-directs the Yale Center for Perinatal,...The Gambia is first country to establish citizen forum for achieving 2010 biodiversity target
...wed in other parts of Africa and the world" In the context of South-South cooperation, President Jammeh also declared his intention to explore the establishment in The Gambia of an African training centre for the achievement of the globally agreed upon target of substantially reducing the rate of loss of bio...The American Physiological Society publishes resource book for animal exercise protocols
...ms contained in the APS Resource Book fit into the context of U.S. animal welfare requirements, including the Animal Welfare Act, the Public Health Service Policy on Humane Care and Use of Animals, and the ILAR Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals. Specifically, the APS Resource Book is intended ...Inflammatory reaction drives hormone resistance in cancer, study suggests
...sm?" Rose asked. "It certainly didn't arise in the context of hormone-resistant cancers." The researchers uncovered preliminary evidence to suggest that macrophages may induce important reversals in the gene activity regulated by an estrogen hormone in a similar fashion. The mechanism may therefore play a ro...Wisconsin scientists find a way to make human collagen in the lab
... "solder" to speed healing of large wounds. In the context of nanotechnology, collagen has appeal as a type of nanowire because it is thin -- thinner even than the vaunted carbon nanotubes hailed by nanotechnologists -- and long. Coated with gold or silver, human collagen could form the basis of implantable ...Antioxidant supplementation not associated with decreased risk of prostate cancer
...implications of Hayes and colleagues' study in the context of earlier studies of vitamin E supplementation and cancer risk. The editorialists agree that the study results do not provide strong support for the implementation of antioxidant supplementation for the prevention of prostate cancer. They note that...