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...'not shoot' unarmed Whites. When participants made incorrect shooting decisions, brain wave activity indicative of conflict detection was larger when the target was White than Black. The results show how racial stereotypes influence behavior, and how brain wave responses to behavioral errors can reflect stere...Brain differences in adolescents, psychopaths, lend to their impulsive, risk-taking behavior
...ng more points), even though the penalty for being incorrect may be greater (i.e., losing more points) than making a choice that is more likely to be correct. Differences in behavior and corresponding brain activity were found between psychopaths and nonpsychopaths, after adjusting for group diffe...Study urges caution in contaminant source tracking
...either remained unclassified or were classified to incorrect sources. In all, fewer than 30 percent of challenge isolates were classified to the correct source-animal species by any method. "When people are faced with contaminated drinking water, they want a rapid response and remediation," said Don Stoeck...Can plant research lead to new insights in cancer research?
...s process goes wrong, giving rise to cells with an incorrect number of chromosomes. Such an occurrence can undermine the precise control system governing cell division, so that the cell begins to divide without restraint, turning into a cancer cell. New insights from an unexpected quarter In a small plant l...Timing is everything: First step in protein building revealed
...Biomedical Sciences. "We see disease largely as an incorrect timing event -- the wrong thing happening at the wrong time, or the lack of the right thing." As a result, Lorsch studies the timing of how the ribosome complex itself assembles and how other factors come and go as it translates genetic information t...Biologists discover why 10% of Europeans are safe from HIV infection
... the Black Death (2004, Wiley), that this idea was incorrect and the plagues of Europe (1347-1660) were in fact a continuing series of epidemics of a lethal, viral, haemorrhagic fever that used the CCR5 as an entry port into the immune system. Using computer modeling, they demonstrated how this disease provid...Children at risk, says Illinois agricultural economist who helped assess the world's ecosystem
...lems stem from limited data collection efforts and incorrect interpretation of data that do exist. One consequence was an early draft map indicating that areas of recent rapid agricultural expansion took place in such unlikely locales as the U.S. northern Great Plains, Ireland, and Java. "We simply don't have ...Brain chemical serotonin involved in early embryo patterning, Forsyth scientists find
...ious organs are randomly located on the correct or incorrect sides of the body), or situs inversus (in which all organs are located on the opposite side of the body)." Such defects affect about one in 8 thousand babies born to term. THE STUDY In the current study, the researchers found that frog embryos con...Scientists journey to southern Africa to unravel the secret world of elephant communication
...y modes. We bias research with the unconscious and incorrect assumption that other animals 'see' the world as we do. Every time we discover otherwise, it expands the horizons of scientific knowledge and sends us the humbling and vital message that we are not, after all, 'the measure of all things.'" Planthopp...African grey parrot is first bird to comprehend numerical concept akin to zero
...to give instructions, and one to model correct and incorrect responses and to act as the student's rival for the trainer's attention; the model and trainer also exchange roles so that the student sees that the process is fully interactive. The student, in this case, a middle-aged parrot, tries to reproduce the...Scientists characterize proteome of human cornea
...sm. These vision disorders are often the result of incorrect curvature or irregular shape of the cornea and are the most common vision disorders in this country. Other diseases that affect the cornea range from bacterial, fungal, and viral infections (keratitis) and allergies to various dystrophies including k......tellite markers are oversimplified and may lead to incorrect conclusions when looking at natural populations and their social structures," Ingram said. "The relationship among members of the mole-rat family are well-accepted. Some species (of mole-rat) are strictly solitary while others, such as the naked mole...Insight into the processes of 'positive' and 'negative' learners
...re typically more negative after participants make incorrect responses compared to correct choices. Researchers...rrect choice was indicated by a smiley face and an incorrect choice by a red crossout symbol. Thus, the researchers could precisely explore how ERNs reflected su...Illinois research zeroing in on optimum soil nitrogen rates
...ooked at several sites where a high ISNT value was incorrect in predicting negligible response to applied nitrogen and concluded that balanced fertility is key to efficient crop use of fertilizer nitrogen. "Two of these sites had a soil pH down around 5. It has been known for a hundred years that acidity inhi...Ernst Mayr's theory illustrated in genetic epidemiology studies
...ected by natural selection and are adaptive. "It's incorrect to portray genetic revolution as just a random speciation model. It's a process that is very strongly driven by natural selection, but this adaptive process can go in directions that can't be predicted just by selection alone because a random force ...Discoveries should aid research into cause of ALS
...ntermolecular disulfide bonds, or cross-links, are incorrect bonds that form between, not within, SOD1 molecule...f the SOD1 protein, causing it to misfold and form incorrect disulfide bonds that facilitate protein aggregation," said Thomas V. O'Halloran, professor of chemis...New roles for growth factors: Enticing nerve cells to muscles
...vered molecules that repel motor neuron axons from incorrect targets in the limb, scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have identified a molecule, known as FGF, that actively lures growing axons closer to the right destination. Their findings appear in the June 15 issue of Neuron. "The most ...IVF identity fraud: A phenomenon that puts patients, children, and clinics at risk
...potentially medically harmful for a person to have incorrect information about his genetic make-up." The team intend to send the results of their research to clinics in the UK and in Europe. They will carry out a further survey in a year's time to see if changes in practice have occurred. "We hope to sensi...'Sticky' mice lead to discovery of new cause of neurodegenerative disease
...er tRNA. This editing enables the enzyme to reject incorrect amino acids. The researchers found that the mutant enzyme would charge an incorrect amino acid, serine, which resembles alanine, to tRNAs meant to carry only alanine. That meant that t...Understanding food nutrition labels challenging for many people
... serving of low-carb spaghetti. Common reasons for incorrect responses included misapplication of the serving s...sion by extraneous material on the food label, and incorrect calculations. According to Russell L. Rothman, MD MPP, "The study showed that many patients strug...