Computer graphics spills from milk to medicine
...tudying coated soot particles derived to deal with shortcomings in the Lorenz-Mie theory. Jensen and the students from Denmark also called upon their mother tongue, Danish, to pick apart a little-known paper published in 1890 in Denmark by the physicist Ludvig Lorenz, one of the two namesakes of the Lorenz-Mie th...American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- June 27/July 3, 2007
...elivery system that shows potential for addressing shortcomings that have hindered development of more generally applicable platinum-based anticancer drugs. These include analogues of the widely used and extremely potent drugs cisplatin, carboplatin, and oxaliplatin. The report is scheduled for the July 11 issue......by treaties, protect some aspects of biodiversity, shortcomings remain: the areas only cover certain habitats and local people often resent their formal management. Natural sacred sites exist in many countries around the world, with communities often sharing and managing sites that are not under formal protectio...HYPER-CEST MRI breaks new ground in molecular imaging
...be broadly applicable, potentially overcoming many shortcomings of currently used strategies for molecular imaging." Added Wemmer, a chemist with Berkeley Lab's Physical Biosciences Division and UC Berkeley chemistry professor, "Other molecular MRI contrast agents provide small changes in big MRI signals, making...ACS News Service Weekly PressPac -- October 11, 2006
...areful to use an approach that avoided some of the shortcomings of past studies. "The statistical analysis of the data shows that the metabolic status of the wheat grain from organic and mineralic farming did not differ in concentrations of 44 metabolites," they report. "This result indicated no impact or a small...Titans of biodiversity science call for united, authoritative voice to inform decision-makers
... hope that the task is achievable, but it also has shortcomings for addressing biodiversity loss in the long term. First, it was a one-off effort (6). Various projects are following up on aspects of the MEA, often at the level of a single country or region, but there is currently no mechanism for making this typ...Yale dean addresses biggest environmental threats in new book
...Speth and political scientist Peter Haas outlines shortcomings of current efforts to address climate disruption, loss of biodiversity, acid rain, ozone depletion, deforestation, desertification, degradation and shortages of freshwater, decline of marine fisheries, toxic pollutants and excess nitrogen -- all of w...Education and guidelines needed for genetic testing in liver disease
...dictable than generally assumed." To address these shortcomings in the science and society's understanding of the science, the authors propose that professional organizations, such as the AASLD, collaborate with patient advocacy groups, to develop and deliver comprehensible educational messages about genetic test...Whale bubble nets, saxophone sounds, ultrasonic laser
...o, highlight the lessons learned, and identify the shortcomings in current design practice (3aNS5). Bradford Gover and John Bradley of the National Research Council of Canada will present a new procedure for accurately measuring the degree of speech privacy of a closed office or meeting room, as well as a microph...Rutgers team's coal-to-diesel breakthrough could drastically cut oil imports
...Tropsch. The Goldman group's innovations eliminate shortcomings in the process that can finally make it a workable solution to dwindling domestic oil reserves. "The key to energy independence in the next five decades is Fischer-Tropsch chemistry, amended and enhanced," said Goldman, a professor in the department ...Mathematics in fact and fiction discussed at AAAS Annual Meeting
... Devlin, a Stanford University mathematician. "The shortcomings of traditional practices of peer review become evident when applied to complex computer-assisted proofs," says Thomas Hales of the University of Pittsburgh. In 1998, Hales announced a computer-assisted proof of Kepler's Sphere Packing Conjecture. Joh...PITT research integrity panel finds that Dr. Gerald Schatten committed no scientific misconduct
.... As part of its peer review, the panel identified shortcomings in Dr. Schatten's fulfillment of the responsibilities as co-author for one article. The panel also commended Dr. Schatten for his role in promptly alerting the scientific community of his suspicions of improprieties by Dr. Hwang in the conduct of the...New look at DNA hints at origin of ultraviolet damage
...tively be missing. The Nature paper highlights the shortcomings of previous studies, which applied results from isolated base pairs to the full DNA molecule. "It turns out that you can't extrapolate the results of base pairs to whole strands of DNA," Kohler said. The discovery has clear implications for biology, ...CBEN: Buckyball aggregates are soluble, antibacterial
...ystems, but he said the findings do illustrate the shortcomings of federal guidelines for the handling and disposal of buckyballs, which are subject to the same regulations as bulk carbon black. "Not all carbon is the same," said Hughes. "Graphite and diamonds are both bulk carbon, for example, but current standa...Clear rules needed to govern deep sea bioprospecting: UNU
...ernational waters. The UNU-IAS report identifies shortcomings in UNCLOS, the Convention on Biological Diversity and intellectual property rights instruments governing access and benefit-sharing to genetic resources. These include the need to: Establish whether describing the sequence of a genome can be consi...New World founders small in number
...to the next generation). Hey's approach addresses shortcomings in traditional population genetic studies that rely on just one gene and that assume that population sizes have been constant over time. Studying levels of DNA sequence variation at a single genomic region, or loci, can offer insight into the history...Blocking cell signaling can stymie viral infections, study shows
...in current anti-viral medications have a number of shortcomings that make them less than ideal for treating and/or preventing illnesses," says the study's senior author, Ellis Reinherz, MD, of Dana-Farber. "The existing vaccine against smallpox, for example, poses potential health risks that make it a questionabl...Improved recipe for magnetic brain stimulation
...tly, the researchers found they could overcome the shortcomings of previous stimulation approaches that produced a mix of both excitation and inhibition of transmission of signals between neurons in the brain. The researchers discovered that the excitatory effect of TMS builds up rapidly, within about a second, w...Researchers improve predictions of cloud formation for better global climate modeling
...imate." To address the lack of computer power and shortcomings of existing parameterization, Nenes and his research team have developed simple, physics-based equations that link aerosol particles and cloud droplets. Then these equations can be scaled up to a global level, providing accurate predictions thousands...