Beyond nature vs. nurture: Williams syndrome across cultures
...ir typically developing counterparts. But cultural expectations clearly influenced social behavior, since the sociability of normal American kids was on par with Japanese Williams syndrome kids, whose social behavior is considered out of bounds in their native country. Says Zitzer-Comfort: "It really is an in...Duke geologist's book assails unrealistic mathematical models
...d have given coastal communities overly optimistic expectations about the endurance of beach nourishment projects. "We make this point again and again: if your basic assumptions are wrong, it doesn't matter what the math does," said Pilkey, a retired professor at Duke's Nicholas School of the Environment and ...ACS News Service Weekly PressPac -- March. 14, 2007
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...on years. This finding is at odds with theoretical expectations and has led to a number of new approaches in research. After working in the UK and the US for many years, Eric Bell now heads a DFG-funded Emmy Noether independent junior research group and represents his institute at the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SD...Man's earliest direct ancestors looked more apelike than previously believed
...sed reconstruction based on erroneous preconceived expectations of early human appearance that violated principles of craniofacial development," said Dr. Bromage, whose reconstruction, by contrast, shows a sharply protruding jaw and a brain less than half the size of a modern human"s. These characteristics make ...Why some people are more attractive than others
...al selection can promote genetic diversity despite expectations to the contrary.' In 2005, Professor Petrie and colleagues demonstrated that men with greater genetic diversity in disease defence regions of the genome and therefore better prospects of passing disease resistance to their offspring had a number ...Atlas of Science Literacy completes mapping of science-learning pathways
... to compare Atlas maps with grade-level learning expectations displayed in a chart format. "They really liked the Atlas maps," she reported. "The way the information is arranged, and the notations about how and when related topics can be addressed with students were popular features among the teachers." The...Penn study finds ICD devices offer heart patients life-saving benefits
...ress these issues with patients when communicating expectations of living with the device and throughout long-term care. According to Groeneveld, the quality of life benefits emerge from advances in ICD technology over the last decade resulting in smaller, more easily programmed devices which can more accurate...Massive gene screening points way to more effective chemotherapy
...wer of a genome-wide screen you go in without any expectations and let the data tell you whats important."...Psychology professor elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
...r the object in its previous location. The infants expectations were demonstrated by the amount of time it spent staring at the staged event. Unexpected events those that defied logic elicited longer episodes of staring, the researchers found. A native of Qubec, Canada, Baillargeon earned her bachelors degree...Manchester to spearhead 8.3 million particle physics project
...s country that these machines are able to meet the expectations listed above would place the UK at the forefront of this exciting new development. "The benefits of this type of particle accelerator are large and wide-ranging. However, the behaviour of beams in these machines is impossible to predict in detail. ...Creation of an international industrial chair in life cycle assessment
...f a new chapter: responsible action that meets the expectations of civil society. Veolia also aims to continue and advance the definition of both the social and environmental world minimum standards that can be suitably applied to our main business activities, no matter where they are carried out, and which meet ...... extent of the genetic differences far exceeds the expectations for such a streamlined genome, as the scientists write in this week’s edition of Science magazine. To track down the variation in the genome of the different Arabidopsis strains, the researchers compared the genetic material of 19 wild strains wit...