Report cites risks associated with over-the-counter cosmetic contact lenses
...change the appearance of eye color or have various shapes and designs, ranging from animal eyes to sports team logos. Problems associated with illegally sold contact lenses were first reported by the American Academy of Ophthalmology, the Eye M.D. Association, in July 2002. The Academy received reports fro...Shape of beverage glass influences how much people pour and drink
...erceived to be larger than squares, and horizontal shapes are seen as smaller than vertical objects of identical volume. Yet research examining the effects of shape on how people determine how much they consume is limited, said Brian Wansink, a professor of marketing and nutritional science at Illinois. ...Microneedles: Report describes progress in new technology for painless drug delivery
...w and solid microneedles in a variety of sizes and shapes from metals, biodegradable polymers, silicon and g... solid and hollow microneedles in a broad range of shapes with feature sizes from one to 1,000 microns. Prausnitz and his research team have fabricated micro...Electrical stimulation in patients with paralysis and spinal cord injury
...earing on the plantar foot shape. The plantar foot shapes of 16 normal feet were obtained by an impression c...ts and comparisons were made on the digitized foot shapes for the whole foot and selected regions. Data showed that increased weight bearing significantly inc...Wind tunnel tests could lead to healthier towns and cities
...that simulate airflow in urban areas. Cube and bar shapes representing a variety of urban settings will be placed in a wind tunnel and covered in naphthalene (an aromatic hydrocarbon used in mothballs), which is carried by airflow in a similar way to heat and pollution. By measuring the net loss of naphthal...Pioneering implants for deaf people
...hey crush them. After experimenting with different shapes on animals and cadavers, Shannon came up with a design resembling the tip of a pencil that glides past neurons without harming them and proved safe enough to test on people. In the first patient, a 19-year-old woman who received an implant earlier l...Childhood obesity leads to adult diabetes, researcher says
... by cutting them in to smaller pieces or different shapes so as to make it more enjoyable and fun. Children who become diabetic also have to deal with peer pressure. They find diet choices confusing, and being different when it comes to picking out foods in the cafeteria can be an ordeal. "Young childre...UCSF scientists show prion shape affects nature of infection
...in can adopt different, distinct, self-propagating shapes and that these conformational differences underlie the differences in prion strains, the scientists conclude. Since earlier work in the Weissman lab had shown that different prion strains have different abilities to jump from one species to another, ...Latest fashion fad concerns eye M.D.s
...e M.D. Association. Tiny pieces of jewelry, in the shapes that range from hearts to half moons, are implanted into the eye's mucous membrane or the conjunctiva. "My concern would be that it might cause foreign body granuloma or scar tissue," said Academy spokesperson, Wayne Bizer, D.O., a comprehensive oph...Sounds of New York, evidence for a preferred ear, ultrasound for the eye
...pan ( 002d885n@y02.kobe-u.ac.jp ) is exploring new shapes for opera halls by using a "genetic algorithm," a computer model that combines the best-performing virtual halls (the "parents") to generate hybrid designs ("children") with the best characteristics of the parents. By using this approach, Hotehama a...Anxiety good for memory recall, bad for solving complex problems
...the only blank spot on a grid that had a series of shapes and symbols. They were given a list of possible so...e the shape or symbol that best fit with the other shapes in the grid. Students performed better on the memory test one to two days prior to the exam, when th...Study pinpoints schizophrenia brain glitch
...ntaining "Pac-man" figures. In one image, the four shapes were arranged to optically suggest a square in the center. The participants had to press a button to show if they perceived the square or not. Both groups were able to respond within a second, but those with schizophrenia made more errors and took a...News tips from the Journal of Neuroscience
...fluences fast-acting synaptic mechansims, but also shapes circuit development in a way that can be seen at the macroscopic level. 2. Nicotine Withdrawal and the beta4 AChR Subunit Ramiro Salas, Fredalina Pieri, and Mariella De Biasi Sadly, quitting smoking is no easy task. This week, Salas et ...Brains of people with autism recall letters of the alphabet in brain areas dealing with shapes
...right hemisphere plays a larger role in processing shapes and visual information. Dr. Just said that the brain could interpret letters either spatially, as geometric shapes, or linguistically, by the names of the letters. The imaging data indicated that the volunteers with autism remembered le...Infants, children prefer sounds over pictures and only slowly become visually oriented, studies find
...the children were not accurate in pointing out new shapes if they were paired with the familiar sounds. They...d that the children could accurately tell when the shapes were changed, if the visuals were presented alone. This means they have no problem finding differenc...Get ready for next generation surround sound
...the sound caused by the effect of the head and ear shapes of the listener. As such, it is a fundamentally different way of creating accurate total immersion in a sound field compared to the use of multi-channel loudspeaker arrays....Effects of autism reach beyond language, new research suggests
...the only blank spot on a grid that had a series of shapes and symbols. They were given a list of possible so...e the shape or symbol that best fit with the other shapes in the grid. Students performed better on the memory test one to two days prior to the exam, when th...When the brain, not the ears, goes hard of hearing
...flows through our senses every day the colors and shapes we see, the textures of the objects we feel, the sounds ranging from the cooing of children to the screech of tires on pavement that we hear morning to night. Our brain stem sorts the bluster of information in ways that make it easy for us to carry o...Mechanism of RNA recoding: New twists in brain protein production
...ferent insects folds into unique structures. These shapes single-handedly determine the species-specific RNA editing patterns that Reenan previously observed. For example, part of the RNA molecule he focused on--the code for the protein synaptotagmin, a key player in neuronal chemical signaling--looks like ...