Elusive salamanders have role in developing new sampling models
...ught they normally leave ponds. One of the project tasks consists of field experimentation to compare the larval capture efficiency of methods in use at Fort Stewart with methods used by other researchers for other salamander populations and with methods being developed during this project. These studies w...Brain networks change according to cognitive task
...rain. The results also show that switching between tasks -- in this case between rhyming and spelling -- le... that the IFG is active in many different language tasks and suggested that the IFG was involved not only in the integration process but also in control of o...Difference in talking louder, talking over noise depends on verbal cues, internal targets
...Surprising and differing results from three simple tasks The researchers asked 15 men and 15 women in their early 20s to read short and long sentences at four "sound pressure levels" (SPL): comfortable, twice as loud as the comfortable level, 10 decibels (dB) higher than comfortable (with a visual clue fo...The lopsided brain: Attention bias is shared by humans and birds
...r reasons that are not entirely clear, during some tasks humans have a tendency to devote more visual atten...al pseudoneglect in humans--so-called cancellation tasks in which subjects are asked to "cancel-out" evenly distributed visual targets on a sheet of paper pl...Shared computing grid cuts data mountains down to size
... of this spare capacity by dividing large research tasks into small ones and sending those tasks over a network to idle computers to work on. GLOW, in effect, has transformed the UW-Madison campus ...Microbes yield secrets of survival
...crobial communities, the partitioning of metabolic tasks within the communities, and how carbon, nitrogen and energy resources are allocated into metabolic pathways. The information could ultimately be useful for understanding the functioning of biofilms in a variety of environments, including some with im...Brain scans reveal how gene may boost schizophrenia risk
...e in their prefrontal cortex and perform better on tasks involving that part of the brain. Schizophrenia patients typically perform poorly on such tasks. Earlier studies had shown that inheriting two copies of the more common val version leads to a slightly higher risk for schizophrenia and a signature pat...Zinc supplementation improved mental performance of 7th-grade boys and girls
..., responding more quickly and accurately on memory tasks and with more sustained attention, than classmates... end of the study, students performed a battery of tasks designed to measure mental and motor skills, like attention, memory, problem-solving and hand-eye co...Poplar trees redirect resources in response to simulated attack
...l challenges -- or their ability to perform useful tasks such as carbon sequestration, phytoremediation, or the production of bio-fuels -- could also use functional imaging to help track their progress. In the New Phytologist study, the scientists asked how plants deal with an external stress, such as an i...Tiny scaffolding allows stem cells to become working fat cells
...se "two-dimensional" patches fail to mimic all the tasks performed by cells in vivo. Specific genes, proteins and hormones normally produced by healthy cells are often absent in two-dimensional colonies. "The PET fibers are spun out onto a mat that resembles the intracellular matrix that bonds cells togeth...ICPB locks in license to improve plastics with corn
... converting corn into isosorbide. ICPB funded its tasks under the CRADA with Iowa corn checkoff investment funds while PNNL's tasks were funded by the U.S. Department of Energy through the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable E...Cooperation is keya new way of looking at MicroRNA and how it controls gene expression
... of gene expression is one of the most fundamental tasks of every cell in the body because many of our genes encode proteins that may only be needed occasionally. Indeed, having some of these proteins around when they are not needed can create any number of problems for an organism, and failing to properly...Linking brain to mind in a common genetic disease
...ating, and judging numerical magnitudes. All three tasks relate to how the children mentally represent obje...an adult brains, and more capable of reconfiguring tasks through alternative paths," added Dr. Simon. "Our findings represent early steps toward that goal."...Grid expectations for networked computing: From global Earth monitoring to black hole detection
...memory, enabling the solution of massively complex tasks beyond the capabilities of a single machine or local network. "The term 'Grid' comes from the way electricity grids operate," explained Domenico Laforenza of Italy's National Research Centre Institute of Information Science and Technology (CNR-ISTI)...Choosing where to look and changing your mind
...ity in precise areas of the brain during different tasks related to choice. The researchers asked healthy volunteers in a magnetic resonance scanner to freely choose where to look or, alternatively, told them where to shift their eyes. On some occasions, the volunteers were asked to change their plan, rega...Loss of sight and enhanced hearing: A neural picture
...es have shown that blind persons perform nonvisual tasks better than those with sight. Neuroimaging studie...sons can recruit visual centers for other auditory tasks or to help them navigate the world without sight. ...Intelligence in men and women is a gray and white matter
...tudy, may help to explain why men tend to excel in tasks requiring more local processing (like mathematics), while women tend to excel at integrating and assimilating information from distributed gray-matter regions in the brain, such as required for language facility. These two very different neurological...UCLA/VA researchers discover fat gene
...the mice to burn more calories to fulfill the same tasks as normal mice. "Our study suggests that variations in lipin levels could determine a person's tendency to gain weight by influencing how their body stores and burns fat," explained Reue. "Prior to our research, scientists typically viewed obesity ...JCI table of contents, 3 January 2005
...own to perform both injury-inducing and reparative tasks during inflammation. In the January 3 issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation, Jeremy Duffield and colleagues from the University of Edinburgh examined macrophage function in the injury and recovery phases of liver fibrosis in mice. They found...Finding cures for tropical diseases: Is open source an answer?
...tate shared databases. Individual pages would host tasks such as searching for new targets, finding chemicals to attack known targets, and posting data from related chemistry and biology experiments. Volunteers could use chat rooms and bulletin boards to announce discoveries and debate future research dire...