High rates of HIV infection documented among young Nepalese girls sex-trafficked to India
...reas of HIV prevention, we can no longer afford to ignore the behavior of men and boys, said Silverman. Addressing the widely accepted male demand for commercial sex is critical to ending this modern day form of female slavery....Nitrate in Lake Superior: On the rise
... "This study of Lake Superior tells us that if we ignore results of basic research on lakes and the changing biochemistry of their waters, we do so at our own peril," says Don Rice, director of NSF's chemical oceanography program, which funded the research....Endogenous cannabinoids linked to fetal brain damage imposed by maternal cannabis use
...ose availability instructs neurons to target or to ignore specific cells. Scientists have now identified that endogenous cannabinoids, molecules naturally produced by our brains and functionally similar to THC from cannabis, play unexpectedly significant roles in establishing how certain nerve cells connect...The brain is more adept at using the nose than previously realized
...aid. Those visual distractions lead people to ignore their ability to detect smells, something the brain is apparently well equipped to do, according to Kay and Jennifer Beshel, a graduate student at the University, who presented results of her dissertation research in the talk, "Olfactory bulb gamma o...News tips from the Journal of Neuroscience
... a motor task command under some conditions and to ignore a stop signal under others. Functional MRI revealed increased activity in the IFC, STN, and preSMA when a stop signal was delivered under the noncritical condition, similar to outright stop responses. In this network, preSMA may serve a conflict-moni...First impressions: Computer model behaves like humans on visual categorization task
...cause they could focus attention on the target and ignore the clutter. "We have not solved vision yet," Poggio cautioned, "but this model of immediate recognition may provide the skeleton of a theory of vision. The huge task in front of us is to incorporate into the model the effects of attention and top-...JCI table of contents -- February 8, 2006
...n) that enable the protein-generating machinery to ignore such mutations have shown benefit in some, but not all, CF patients with the W1282X mutation. In a study that appears online on February 8 in advance of publication in the March print issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation, researchers from T...Genetic variation may reduce Alzheimer's risk
...rary. But once he saw the attraction, he could not ignore it. His lab actually first found an attraction for fetal hemoglobin, another surprise since most adults have little of this substance that snatches oxygen from the placenta and holds onto it tightly for the fetus. Looking further, his lab found adul...How trees manage water in arid environments
...f you drop a piece of ice on the kitchen floor and ignore it, in a few minutes it will be gone -- melted and...diana, if you drop a piece of ice on the floor and ignore it, the water will just stay there until it's wiped up. In Arizona, she said, if you need a partic...Paying attention sets off symphony of cell synchronization
...but subjects were told to pay attention to one and ignore the other. Sometimes the target patterns were fairly dim. At other times they were quite bright. EEG responses from the participants showed more brain activity for brighter stimuli, as expected, but responses also varied depending on attention. The ...Floating lovers count too -- in the health of eagle populations
... in breeding populations. "Population studies that ignore floater dynamics may fail to understand all the different factors influencing density-dependent population patterns," Penteriani says. He continues, "Clearly defining the portion of the population that shapes density-dependent patterns may help to so...How the brain keeps emotions at bay
... happy or fearful. The subjects were instructed to ignore labels of "fear" or "happy" written across each face. These labels might be either "congruent" (e.g., happy face, "happy" word) or "incongruent" (e.g., happy face, "fear" word) with the image. Incongruent face-word combinations constituted a respon...Psst! Coffee drinkers: Fruit flies have something to tell you about caffeine
...he fly-equivalent of our taste buds caused them to ignore caffeine's taste and consume the caffeine as if it were not there. "No, you won't see jittery Drosophila flitting past your bananas to slurp your morning java anytime soon," says Craig Montell, Ph.D., a professor of biological chemistry in the Insti...Unusual data shed new light on brain and inhibiting behavior
...at younger people simply don't have the ability to ignore secondary targets, even when told in advance, said Paul van Donkelaar in a presentation today at the Brain & Mind Research Symposium of the Association of Pacific Rim Universities in Sydney, Australia. Van Donkelaar, a professor of human physiology...Study supports 'urgent' need for worldwide ban on lead-based paint
...lobal economy, it would be irresponsible for us to ignore the public health threat for the citizens in the offending countries--as well as the countries they do business with." This study, Dr. Clark says, is believed to be the first to show that new paint in many unregulated Asian countries greatly exceed...3-D model reveals secrets of metastasis
...nal Academy of Sciences. "Two-dimensional assays ignore the obstacles that cells face in their natural contexts," explains Zaman, who recently became an assistant professor at the University of Texas at Austin. "In 3D, cells move through a thick jungle of fibers, or "vines" TM , that hinder forward progre...Must ecologists account for time to understand biodiversity in space?
...ller ones. But what are ecologists missing if they ignore the reality that communities are not snapshots but continually in flux? By studying how plants in three hyper-diverse grasslands change annually over a decade, ecologists Jason Fridley (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill), Robert Peet (Univer...Virginia study urges early emphasis on science
...issue of Science magazine, suggests this focus may ignore the importance of an early emphasis on science. Tai and U.Va. researchers Christine Qui Liu, Adam V. Maltese and Xitao Fan analyzed data from the National Educational Longitudinal Study, begun in 1988, to see if expectations about science made a diff...Why nerve cells work faster than the theory allows
...ty of the threshold potentials allows the cells to ignore slowly varying stimuli. The cells continuously increase their threshold so that in many cases no impulse is initiated at all. The fast activation of action potentials, on the other hand, helps the cells to transmit fast changing signals, even with hi......before they receive medical treatment. "We tend to ignore ear infections thinking they will go away or we might have a reluctance to visit the doctor but in third-world countries the problem is common due to the lack of available treatment," he said. Dr Ghassemifar said the results of other gene targeting ...