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... the United States in 1994, and then tracked their flying records until 2000. During the seven-year period,...g males between the age of 30 and 34, with limited flying experience of less than nine hours in the preceding six months. When the crash records for the group...Climate change and the future of air travel
...aft could generally minimise contrail formation by flying lower in the atmosphere. Their work suggests that...signing new aircraft that can be as fuel efficient flying at 20,000 feet, as today's aircraft are at 35,000 feet, would help eliminate contrails." A key consi...Mental health crisis looming for tsunami survivors, warns psychologist just back from Indonesia
...ater in a tub or cowering when large airplanes are flying overhead because they sound like rushing water," said Randall Kyes, a research associate professor of psychology and head of the division of international programs at the UW's National Primate Research Center. Kyes said some children had begun to st...Most alcohol-related plane crashes occur at night and in worsening weather conditions
...archers at Johns Hopkins have found that nighttime flying and worsening weather conditions are two key chara... "Pilots should never mix alcohol consumption with flying because it can impair their ability to think about key functions in operating a plane, such as inter...Global air pollution map produced by Envisat's SCIAMACHY
...f the German, Dutch and Belgian financed SCIAMACHY flying on Envisat. While both instruments function in the same way, GOME has a limited spatial resolution of only 320 x 40 km, compared to a typical 60 x 30 km with SCIAMACHY, which also observes the atmosphere in two different views downwards or 'nadir' l...Widely used treatment for head injuries found to be harmful
...ing treatments with unproven effectiveness is like flying blindly. In future, we should avoid trusting in underpowered clinical trials with surrogate rather than clinical endpoints, and transferring evidence from one disease to another"....Dental X-rays of pregnant women associated with low-weight babies
... was about the same amount ofradiation exposure as flying 16 round-trips from New York to London." The conclusions were drawn from a population-based case control studylinking dental utilization data from Washington Dental Service (WDS), anot-for-profit dental insurance company, and vital record birth c...Argonne licenses Anti-Jet-Lag-Diet software to online company
...iet: In a test involving 186 National Guard troops flying across nine time zones, soldiers who used the Anti-Jet-Lag Diet flying east were 7.5 times less likely to experience jet lag. On the return trip west, soldiers who used th...Rare disease endemic in South America is model for studying autoimmunity
...90, Dr. Abreu-Velez was living less than an hour's flying time from El Bagre when she first made the trip through 33 creeks and the jungle to get to the town. The disease was emerging as those jungles were cleared to get to the gold in the rivers and rocks. That journey changed her life and the lives of pat...Study suggests 1% risk of DVT for long-distance air travellers
.... 112 patients with positive D-dimer results after flying were referred for radiological assessment. Frequency of venous thromboembolism associated with travel was 1% (9 out of 878), which included four cases of pulmonary embolism and five of deep venous thrombosis. Six patients with venous thromboembolism ......e otherwise the slightest exertion might send them flying up towards the ceiling. Isaac Newton put it best: ... hard indeed. But there is a netted-off area where flying is allowed nicknamed the 'monkey house'. Waiting for weightlessness It is here in the netted-o...Neutron detector under development to monitor spacecraft radiation
...rons, people living at high elevations, and pilots flying at high altitudes on long-haul schedules or on flights over the poles, where the Earth's magnetic field is weak and cosmic rays can readily penetrate. "When traveling outside of the Earth's atmosphere and its magnetic field, radiation doses to humans...National Tropical Botanical Garden reports possible dietary link and neurodegenerative disease
...osed to BMAA through consumption of a type of bat, flying foxes, which feed on cycad seeds. They also theori... in successively higher levels from cycad seeds to flying foxes to the Chamorro people. Dr. Cox likens the biomagnification of BMAA, an amino acid once found ...NSF considers alternatives for treating ill South Pole worker
...Zealand, could be used to assist in an evacuation, flying to McMurdo Station, NSF's logistics hub on the coast of Antarctica, where it would meet the Twin Otter arriving from the Pole, some 1200 kilometers (800 miles) away. Simultaneously, NSF has requested through the New Zealand Antarctic Program to have ...UC Davis physicians use high-tech virtual system
...ho also is a former flight surgeon with experience flying high-performance jets. He has used advanced flight simulators for jet trainers, flight aircraft and the space shuttle, as well as virtual reality trainers and computerized patient simulators for training military physicians. "Simulation systems also ...Desert sandstorms add dangers for pilots
...n hard landings or a crash because the pilot isn't flying level as he approaches the landing strip. "Helicopter pilots suffer most from brownouts because they fly at very low altitudes," Lessard said. In the landing phase, helicopters cause sand to blow upward and in a circular pattern, which not only obscu...Airport noise impairs long-term memory and reading
...ACA, N.Y. -- Excessive noise, such as jet aircraft flying overhead, impairs children's reading ability and long-term memory, a Cornell University environmental psychologist and his European colleagues conclude in a study of schoolchildren living near airports. "This is the first long-term study of the same ...Recirculated airplane cabin air does not cause more colds
Passengers flying in airplanes with recirculated air report no more ...es. The study involved more than 1,000 passengers flying between the San Francisco Bay area and Denver during the winter and early spring of 1999. About 19 p...Gender differences in general aviation crashes
Male pilots flying general aviation (private) aircraft in the United ...which include misjudging weather and visibility or flying an aircraft with a known defect. Females, though more likely to mishandle or lose control of the air...Government needs to support 'e-medicine' to improve medical care
...lation of costly equipment has proven cheaper than flying doctors into remote regions....