National Science Foundation Awards Knowledge And Distributed Intelligence Grants
... larger tangles and arrays; the tangles form small gaps or voids; the tangles and voids lead to the formation of microscopic cracks; and cracks grow to break the wing.The multidisciplinary research team will use computers to explicitly model defect dynamics at each scale. The team will exploit novel soft......alyze, in partnership with localagencies, existing gaps in emergency health care in countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, and it will help to upgrade existing facilities and providepersonnel with better training, equipment, and supervision. Once needed changesare made, there will be ongoing monit...NPSF workshop builds community to improve pharmaceutical safety
...l chain, the existing tools and resources, and the gaps that needto be filled to responsibly address medication safety issues. It will serve asan action agenda for the work of the community as well as the NPSF. This project is made possible by a public/private partnership reflected in amajor grant from Pf...12-year-old Oregon girl is first child to receive new bone growth material in her skull
...next surgery, BMPwill be applied to several of the gaps in her forehead. Emily is the first childto ever h...-face forward. The infection left Emily with large gaps in the front sectionof her skull. Now Emily wears a bike helmet to protect her skull where there isn...Global prevention, funding and accountability debated in fight against HIV/AIDS
...ate the conditions necessary to close the widening gaps in levels of income,future market opportunities, and human development by attracting privatecapital and promoting lasting economic growth. Zuniga claims that the economicconsequences of failing to support development assistance mechanisms is adecele...Federal institutes and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation create Tobacco Use Research Centers
...disciplines, and to focus on areas where there are gaps in knowledge, such asadolescent smoking. Together, NCI and NIDA will spend about $70 million for theeffort over five years. With each center organized around a special theme, researchers willtackle a wide range of studies that include cultu...Lack of private health insurance increases risk of dying, study finds
...inability to get appropriate care during lapses or gaps in insurance coverage, or perhaps to other socioeconomic factors including unemployment and a lack of education, the study found. Individuals without health insurance also may delay seeking medical care, increasing the chance that a health condition...Pharmaceuticals and personal care products
...ry, Daughton says. Still, he adds, there are "huge gaps in the knowledge base." Daughton will highlight the overarching issues during his presentation, which kicks off the session. (C. G. Daughton, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Las Vegas, Nev.; ENVR 29; Monday, March 27, 8:40 a.m.; Hilton Imperial...PQRI workshop to address blend uniformity
...rent status and identify scientific and regulatory gaps that exist; Provide preliminary recommendations for science based changes to guidelines/regulations; and Identify data and research needed to support recommendations for change....Animal study show that heat-sensitive liposome improves chemotherapy delivery to tumors
... inside to escape. "Only tumor blood vessels have gaps in them that allow the passive leaking of liposome... of radiation oncology. "With heat there are more gaps and therefore more liposomes enter the tumor. However, if we use a liposome sensitive to slight hea......groups recommendations address inconsistencies and gaps in policies described in a series of four articles...with an eye to refining some of the weaknesses and gaps cited in the November journal articles. In particular, the proposals recommend that institutions con...New program shown to help heart attack patients get the best care
... as half of its heart attack patients. "There were gaps in the care, situations where we thought that we were doing certain things in a routine way, but we weren't," says Eagle. The situation was the same around the country. "Based upon that reflection in the mirror, we decided to create a program to try ...One more visit could close demographic gaps in infant immunization efforts
... vaccine provider, diminishing the likelihood that gaps in record-keeping were to blame. African-American infants who were not up-to-date with their vaccinations at age 3 months were more likely to end up severely undervaccinated, prompting the researchers to suggest that providers should evaluate v......ncrease research efforts to fill crucial knowledge gaps about the connections between climate and health. ... diseases," said Patz. "Addressing major knowledge gaps would allow us to be better prepared in the future." Among the areas where further research is neede...Improving communications and support for doctors, patients and partners
...cer patients following a project which plugged the gaps in their knowledge and experience, Dr Josie Samers told the conference today. The Inner and Eastern Melbourne BreastCare Consortium, which is made up of public and private hospitals and GPs, conducted a study which aimed to assess referral patterns,...Tests reveal subtle signs of Alzheimer's before clinical symptoms appear
...ups, the pre-AD group had much greater performance gaps between their ability to name objects and their ability to reconstruct the block images. The control group had a much lower performance gap, with their ability to perform in both areas more even. The team concludes that these non-invasive cognitive ...Psychologists hunt for new ways to detect precursors to Alzheimer's Disease
...up. In short, the verbal-versus-visuoconstruction gaps in the pre-clinical Alzheimers group were bigger and more frequent. Thus, the authors suggest that this kind of non-invasive, paper-and-pencil testing could be of particular value in populations known to be at risk, such as people carrying a certai...College drinking problems and research solutions
...h communitys efforts to address existing knowledge gaps and alter the culture of drinking on campus;Facilitating long-term, campus-community research aimed at preventing hazardous student drinking; and Imparting what is known about the patterns of college drinking and the quality of current interventions...Medieval black death not bubonic plague
...plague and used it erroneously to fill in the many gaps in our picture of the Black Death. We do not want to make the same mistake by identifying some other possible cause prematurely. The researchers do not rule out the possibility that the Black Death might have been caused by an ancestor of the modern...Number of teens --primarily boys -- having sex declined in '90s
...ikely than girls to be sexual active, although the gaps are narrowing....