New Jersey Institute of Technology professor to develop supersized virtual library
...utomatically add links within Web pages to related documents and services, customized to your current task." Funding, which extends through September of 2007, includes $498,000 from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS); $850,000 from the National Science Digital Library program at the National S...... In contrast, a case discovered in the 1930s documents a seven year old boy who also associated colours with people, but saw strangers in bright orange with a black outline which faded to a mild blue and finally pink when he got to know them. Dr Jamie Ward continues: "The ability of some people to...Retinal stem cells can regenerate after transplant
...e Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, documents the development of transplanted human retinal stem cells into light-sensing photoreceptor cells and retinal pigment epithelial (RPE) cells, the cells which bounce light and images back onto the retina. "We transplanted the cells early in the animal...Military hazards are greater for Native Americans, according to sociological research
...ng currently, the study examined publicly released documents from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineer relating to closed military bases in the approximately 3,100 counties in the contiguous 48 states. The research focused on sites containing unexploded ordnance, including landmines, nerve gases, and toxic and expl...Livestock grazing study finds moderate grazing beneficial to Great Basin plant communities
...d this week in the Journal of Rangeland Management documents a comprehensive research project that looked for differences between grazed and un-grazed rangelands in Nevada. The study, called "Vegetation change after 65 years of grazing and grazing exclusion," found that there are few differences among plant p...Read your shampoo's label: Study finds common ingredient stunts developing neurons of rats
...rotoxicity reports, or concrete data in any public documents filed with the Environmental Protection Agency. The first set of studies he and his team published in 2002 in The Journal of Neuroscience involved acute exposure to mature rat neurons. They reported that 10-minute exposure at a high concentration r...Study reveals developing countries with recipe for thriving health biotech industries
...ed Dec. 6 in a supplement to Nature Biotechnology, documents the development of successful health biotechnology sectors in detailed case studies of seven countries. It identifies factors that led to their success and the challenges that remain. The key findings underline the importance in dev...National Academy news: Water quality improvement in southwestern Pennsylvania
...opment of ALCOSAN's final control plan and similar documents because of the data limitations and technical and institutional complexities that exist in southwestern Pennsylvania, the committee said. Furthermore, ALCOSAN and other wastewater treatment providers should investigate decentralized and innovative a...FDA approves ABRAXANE(TM) for metastatic breast cancer
...0-K for the year ended December 31, 2003 and other documents filed by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The forward-looking statements in this press release reflect the Company's judgment as of the date of this press release. The Company disclaims any intent or obligation to update thes...Combating blindness is vision of UT, ORNL project
...tinal diseases. "The dataset provided by Dr. Chaum documents the visual attributes of fluorescein angiography and optical coherence tomography imagery that are used to diagnose a wide range of pathologies," Tobin said. "This is a necessary step to support developing our statistical feature descriptions for ima......r trauma on the grieving children. A host of legal documents that convey rights and benefits, from birth certificates to passports and drivers' licenses, require declaration of one gender or the other, which may be impossible for some people. Various conditions can cause genital ambiguity. For example, a condi...21-22 April AAAS forum to discuss Pentagon R&D spending, other policy issues
...e AAAS budget analysis will include a chapter that documents the Pentagon's declining support for computer science research. Congress has added billions to Defense Department science and technology requests in the past, and could do so again this year. Members of key congressional committees already have exp...Children at risk, says Illinois agricultural economist who helped assess the world's ecosystem
...systems, and changes in climate? "One of the first documents put out by the study noted that market-based solutions for the challenges facing the world's ecosystems are important," said Nelson. "Property rights also have a role to play. To address the problems facing the world, we need to find ways to make peo...Joslin hosts conference on diabetes in American Indian/Alaska Natives, May 16-19 in Denver
...and Alaska Natives. This CDC and IHS collaboration documents geographic disparities in the burden of heart disease and stroke mortality and risk factors among AI/AN. This publication is the fourth in a series of CDC atlases related to heart disease and stroke and the first to focus on geographic patterns of ...Ecosystems, economic choices and human well-being
...search by 1,360 of the world's leading scientists, documents how the growing human population is depleting resources and degrading the ecological systems that provide the fundamentals of life clean water, breathable air, productive soil and a stable climate. The results are being released in a series of "synth...Stem cell research at Weill Cornell, The Rockefeller University, and Sloan-Kettering
...ess" in humans, the complete genetic overview that documents the ability of embryonic stem cells to self-renew and generate all cell types of the body; isolated stem cells from the skin of a mouse, and showed, for the first time, that an individual stem cell can renew itself in the laboratory and then be used ...MUHC scientists describe genetic resistance to rampant virus
...," she says. Most significantly, this new research documents an entirely new mechanism of resistance to CMV, involving the interaction between two genes. One gene flags virus-infected cells for destruction, the other gene allows our Natural Killers cells to recognize and terminate them. "This is a new concept ...Study in Royal Society journal on heritability of female orgasm
...hal effects on waterbirds. The present radar study documents a substantial avoidance response by migrating waterbirds to a large offshore wind farm. A larger proportion of the birds fly between the turbines at night compared to day time, but counteract this higher risk of colliding with the turbines in the dar...Research professionals applaud STN AnaVist
... relationships among seven different fields within documents records, e.g., companies, inventors, years, and concepts. Data grouping and cleanup - A company name thesaurus appropriately groups companies and company name variations prior to the analysis. Concept standardization - Application of CAS vocabula...FSU scientist warns North Atlantic right whale facing extinction
...iled by Nowacek and his co-principal investigators documents an unprecedented eight whale deaths during the past 16 months -- almost three times the average annual rate in 25 years of study of the species -- including six adult females, three of which carried near-term fetuses. At least four of the whales were...