Providing better playgrounds could improve children's physical activity
...tes. The results raise the possibility that making realistic improvements to school environments could increase the physical activity of students throughout the school day, he says. However, on average fewer than 2 percent of girls and 6 percent of boys were physically active at school outside of physical educ...Breast cancer risk lower than women think; statistics by age, ethnicity give more realistic picture
...term, such an assumption may hold true, but is not realistic over a long period of time, Morris and colleagues say. Incidence rates of breast cancer are unlikely to remain stable over time because of advances in screening technologies, which lead to more tumors being detected earlier, and improvements in pr...Getting older and feeling weaker?
...oject. The project also is aimed at evaluating realistic tasks. "Lots of research has been done using constant force and posture," Nussbaum notes, "but in the real world people are moving around." Another goal is to assess the levels of fatigue that the subjects experience. "We need to see if there are ......gnizing when children with advanced cancer have no realistic chance of cure, according to a Dana-Farber Cancer ... and physicians became aware that the child had no realistic chance for cure; what factors were associated with a greater similarity in the timing of parent and ...Virco first to introduce drug-specific biological cut-offs for its HIV resistance tests
New cut-offs will provide more realistic picture of resistance GLASGOW, SCOTLAND, October...andom clinical samples, revealed a higher and more realistic incidence of resistance. "We are very excited about this development. The new cut-offs will tell c...'Chaos' theory empowers researchers to predict epileptic seizures
...reatment. But Sackellares and Iasemidis say it is realistic to think that implantable devices can bedeveloped to detect the preseizure state and automatically act to thwart it. They noted that suchdevices have been developed for other conditions, including diabetes. A scientist who collaborated with Sackella...Global prevention, funding and accountability debated in fight against HIV/AIDS
...regulated to avoid waste and abuse, and offered in realistic terms that takeinto account already fragile national economies -- is more necessary than ever tocreate the conditions necessary to close the widening gaps in levels of income,future market opportunities, and human development by attracting privateca...Dartmouth researchers urge caution in communicating results to public
...is important, according to the authors, to provide realistic expectations. First, the study summarized the relative chance of referral for blacks comparedto whites using a statistical format called an odds ratio. Few people think interms of odds or encounter them in daily life. Instead, they often mi...Narcolepsy network issues national 'wake up' call
...r uponawakening hypnagogic hallucinations - vivid, realistic and often frightening dream-likeexperiences when first falling asleep or upon awakening disruptions of normal nighttime sleep "automatic behavior" - performing familiar or routine tasks without fullawareness or memory of doing it "The impact of narc......Planck Institute to test this prediction undermore realistic settings....Media Advisory: Chemistry In The Movies
... Anaheim it's Dr. John J.Fortman. Ever wonder how realistic science is in the movies? Or how Hollywoodis using chemistry to create more spectacular special effects? At the 217thnational meeting of the American Chemical Society, the world's largestscientificsociety, Dr. Fortman will answer these questions and...Temples Virtual Lab Helps Disabled Students
...up thevirtual office- depicted on the monitor in a realistic manner--and click on abookshelf to obtain reference materials, a file cabinet for backgroundmaterials, and a tutor for help. The core of the virtual laboratory is the Interactive Multimedia IntelligentTutoring System (IMITS), the program Butz develop...Improved Medications Can Nip Allergy Season In The Bud
...ng agent and avoid it, that's great -- but notvery realistic for most people," Dr. Mohsenifar explained. "There are nowmedications that are very, very effective in treating the symptoms of allergieswithout drowsiness." For Dorit, that means taking the prescription antihistamine Zyrtec at the firstsigns of cong...New drugs, diagnostic tests, software needed to prepare US cities for chemical, biological attacks
...ead ofhazardous agents in an attack and to provide realistic training for emergencymanagement officials. Recent events suggest that terrorists in the United States and abroad may bemore interested in using biological and chemical weapons than in the past, thereport says. The 1995 nerve gas attack in the Toky...Drug Reduces Heart Attack, Death Rates In Patients With Unstable Angina
...lations. "Our trial model offers the most realistic sense of what kind oftreatment effect you would see in the clinical setting, where each doctor has adifferent approach to patient care," Harrington said. "It has all the blemishesand benefits of a large, simple trial in which there are very few restr...Effective Obesity Treatment Likely To Require Targeting Of Multiple Weight Control Systems
...uraged that treatmentswill improve, but we must be realistic that multiple systems must be targetedfor long-term weight control to be effective. No single intervention is likelyto do the trick." The authors cite the example of the difficulty of achieving weight lossby reducing calorie intake. When calo...Optical Technology Projects Images Directly Into The Eye
...e virtual reality simulated by a computerin a very realistic way. The picture quality is much better than that ...t. The RSD technique makes it possible to project realistic pictures covering a wide field of vision. A three-dimensional impression isformed by sending slightl...Chemists Closing In On Commercial Potential Of Alkanes
... studying the alkane-activatingreaction under more realistic conditions. A new collaboration wasestablished with Berkeley Lab scientists Charles Harris and Heinz Frei. Harris provided a special time-resolved infra-red flash kineticsspectrometer that operates on a femtosecond (millionths of a billionth)ti...... may not touch," Weinhold said. "Idon't think it's realistic to say that we can wipe the disease out, butby boosting the health and ability of the immune system to fight, we maybe able to convert AIDS into a chronic disease that doesn't progress." Protocol 2 For some patients, AIDS is double jeopardy....