Oxford Journals release preliminary findings from open access experiments
...ata available will stimulate others to share their experiences of open access, in order to help to foster a better understanding of the advantages and disadvantages of open access and subscription-based business models." ...Improving urban environments: why children's voices should be heard
...ribed the project as 'one of the best professional experiences in many years of teaching'. The researchers found that urban children were very knowledgeable about their local community and were directly affected by such problems as air and noise pollution, traffic dangers and crime. They increasingly found th...Controlling robots that search for Mars life
... Earth. "We're not shy in trying to learn from the experiences of our sister agencies," says Chesson. Innovative ground control to enable autonomous functioning For ExoMars, the controllers on Earth would most likely be located in a 'rover dedicated control room', similar in concept to the dedicated contro...Improving livestock health, trade and human livelihoods in Africa
...cultural economist at FIC, and colleagues reviewed experiences from the Community-based Animal Health and Participatory Epidemiology (CAPE) Project. The African Union/InterAfrican Bureau for Animal Resources (AU/IBAR) established the CAPE Project in 2000 supported by FIC, to create policies and legislation to en...Top researcher-educators receive Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
...on activities include developing exciting hands-on experiences for K-12 students, creating a new pipeline to educate and advance a diverse base of talented youth. Ashley James of the University of Minnesota is conducting research on flows that occur at interfaces in many industrial, biomedical, and natural proc...Researchers appeal for new regulations to save coral reefs from live fish trade
...establish institutions that are able to learn from experiences with roving bandits, develop decision-making skills in an environment of uncertainty and complexity, and respond quickly to shifts in demand from global markets. "Due to the high international demand for live fish, these roving bandits deplete cora...Common anti-depressants similarly safe and effective for treating postpartum depression
...nder usual circumstances will work for a woman who experiences depression after giving birth, but there have not been studies that provide scientific proof that this was an effective and safe course of treatment," said Katherine L. Wisner, M.D., M.S., professor of psychiatry and obstetrics, gynecology and reprod...Latest enhancements to the free Access Grid Toolkit are now available for download
...w-level services that enable participants to share experiences through digital media. Many of the underlying technologies have been updated or re-engineered to conform to standard Internet technologies and protocols, for a new level of robustness and interoperability. Thomas Uram, technical lead for the Acce...Oxygen deprived brains repaired and saved
...to protect itself and how the brain reacts when it experiences mild, non-damaging hypoxia. "I found that mild, non-damaging hypoxia actually protected the brain against a subsequent injury by activating certain proteins," Dr Jones said. "Mild hypoxia appears to pre-condition neural tissues against a mass 'su...Shrinking ponds signal warmer, dryer Alaska
...loud shadows can look like water and Alaska rarely experiences a cloudless day, said Verbyla. The most difficult part of the four-year project, said Riordan, was "having the patience to circle 10,000 ponds for each time period." The main study area was the subarctic boreal region of Interior Alaska, which spa...Potassium limitation, ammonium toxicity and amino acid excretion in yeast
...as seen. It seems, therefore, that S. cerevisiae experiences ammonium toxicity under potassium-deprived conditions and that it uses a primitive detoxification system involving the production and excretion of amino acids in an attempt to deal with it....IUBMB selects Wiley to publish Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education
...isher for over 16 years, and we have had only good experiences with their professionalism and concern for quality," said the Voets. "As Co-Editors-in-Chief of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, we look forward to extending our relationship to include the company's Scientific, Technical, and Medical di...Temperament linked to onset of cancer and early death in female rats
Female rats that are apprehensive of new experiences as infants maintain that temperament and die earlier from mammary and pituitary tumors than do their more adventuresome sisters, according to new research by a team based at the University of Chicago. The apprehensive rats were more likely to have i...Insights into activity-dependent neuronal growth through RSRF-supported research
...RTT) develops during early childhood, when sensory experiences normally stimulate the development of synaptic circuits, some researchers hypothesized that the fundamental defect in RTT is a failure of synaptic plasticity or maturation. Early support for this hypothesis came from studies showing that MeCP2 expres...Weather forecasting technique wins top prize in 2006 Collegiate Inventors Competition
...es because of the possible risk of infection. Her experiences led her to focus on her current anti-adherent project, looking not just at practical applications for contact lenses, but also investigating broader applications with medical implants in general. Yang has been a resident of Davis, California since sh...NSF awards UGA $4.1 million grant to study so-called 'jumping genes' in maize
... plant crucial across the globe. "The collective experiences of the team that will work on this puts us in a unique position," said Susan Wessler, Regents Professor of plant biology at UGA and principal investigator. "Maize is the organism of choice for understanding how TE's contribute to gene and genome evol...A Wellcome brain gain for world leading neuroscience lab
... we internally represent large-scale space and our experiences within it, and seeks to determine how this supports our sense of who and where we are. Dr Maguire also studies disorders affecting memory, such as developmental disorders in children and dementia in the elderly, with the aim of developing clinical ...Adults who go to bed lonely get stress hormone boost next morning
...gical, social and emotional dynamics of day-to-day experiences in real-life settings shows that when older adults...the next day and have the types of positive social experiences that help regulate hormone levels, she said. Adam also is a faculty fellow at C2S: The Center on S...First global analysis of sexual behavior
...aged to protect young women's honour, early sexual experiences can be coercive and traumatic and, with respect to early pregnancy, dangerous for mother and child. The researchers found that in a number of countries, rates of condom use at last sexual intercourse were increasing, in some cases, for example in U...Experience sculpts brain circuitry to build resiliency to stress
...roscience. "Lack of control over stressful life experiences has been implicated in mood and anxiety disorders," noted NIMH Director Thomas Insel, M.D. "Understanding how the brain encodes the experience of control to protect against such adverse consequences should help us develop better treatments for these ...