As Montreal Conference considers deforestation issues, ESA presents space solution
...satellites to quantify global biomass and identify fire outbreaks, measure increases in the heat content of the oceans, changes in ocean current circulation and a steady rise in average global sea surface levels. In the atmosphere, satellites are also able to quantify aerosol types and concentrations wh...Envisat sees smoke from Europe's worst peacetime fire
...black plume of smoke from Europe's worst peacetime fire in this Envisat image, taken within five hours of ... of around 140 km. The pall of smoke comes from a fire at Buncefield oil depot on the outskirts of Hemel Hempstead. Buncefield is the fifth largest fuel st...Brandeis researchers propose model of neural circuit underlying working memory
... study shows that neurons in the prefrontal cortex fire with greater or lesser intensity to finely control, or inhibit behavior, based on a neuronal feedback signal, or circuit mechanism. Such integral feedback control is probably at work in many regulatory areas of the body, such as temperature control a...Morning grogginess more debilitating than sleep deprivation, according to CU-Boulder study
...awakening. "If a person is awakened suddenly by a fire alarm, for example, motivation alone may be insufficient to overcome the effects of sleep inertia," he said. The paid study volunteers, nine of whom were included in the sleep inertia study, slept eight hours per night during the month leading up to...Common bacteria pirate natural mechanism to get inside cells
...so want inside cells and out of the direct line of fire of the immune system or treatments such as antibiotics for bacterial infections, Dr. Daaka says. "Some bacteria and viruses bind to receptors on the plasma membrane and use them to go inside, and that is how they start replicating inside the cell," h...Cause of ongoing pain discovered
...ated through damage or disease, these nerve fibres fire electrical impulses that travel along the fibre from the site of injury to the spinal cord, from where information is sent to the brain. The faster the undamaged fine fibres fire, the stronger the ongoing pain becomes. Dr Djouhri added: "The cause o...... in the neurons at the whiskers' bases, which then fire signals off to the brain. The scientists, Marcin S...To sense the horizontal, for instance, the neurons fire with exact temporal precision and the timing of these signals relative to the whisking motion encode...CPSC cites NIST research in Mattress Safety Advance
...s Safety Council, quantify the product's increased fire resistance. Mattress and set prototypes, using the NIST test, pass the new CPSC performance requirements if, in a 30-minute period in which their product is subjected to open flames, the peak heat release rate does not exceed 200 kilowatts (kW) and t...Protein's potential as a regulator of brain activity discovered
... pump activity. Adding agrin caused nerve cells to fire electrical impulses uncontrollably. In turn, the researchers found that they could block these electrical impulses by introducing small fragments of agrin, which prevented the full agrin proteins from binding their sites on the sodium pump molecules ...Dr. McCluskey receives top honor for young taste researchers
...and they are partly like neural cells, so they can fire action potentials and tell your brain about what is on your tongue," she says. One of the most interesting and fortunate things about the system is that when communication with the brain is severed, nerves regenerate. "You can section a nerve and t...Flick of whiskers helps tease out brain's 'shadow' signaling system
...ng their electrical activity. But astrocytes don't fire in the same way, and conventional techniques don't...ter them. While scientists have known that neurons fire electrically in spectacular fashion to send signals, it's only recently that the slower chemical sig...Use marketing to improve health, say experts
... the authors. Social marketing enables us to fight fire with fire. And health professionals can help by reinforcing social marketing messages during their direct and indirect contact with patients, they conclude....Extending the reach of disaster relief from fire to flood
...nt, has, however, successfully extended its forest fire fighting capabilities to the domain of flood relief, saving both resources and lives. Already demonstrated to be a big success in aiding Canadian fire-fighters during 2004 (Related news: Using satellites in the fight against forest fires), Phase 3 o...New UF tool measures heart implant patients' anxiety
...go. The uncertainty of when or if the device would fire made him wary of driving long distances. Before setting out on a road trip to California to visit family, Burns researched and made a list of every medical center along the route that could treat ICD patients. Now a new tool from the University of...Rutgers/EOHSI builds model to assess World Trade Center fallout
...down. Anyone who witnessed the attacks and saw the fire that followed, might expect that people in the plume vicinity could be at health risk; the work of Stenchikov and his co-authors addresses: How much, and where, giving public health authorities much more information about contaminant distribution and...Children's health and human rights are at risk in Nepal
...them of education. And since the end of the cease fire in 2003, say Singh and colleagues, there has been a steady increase in human rights violations against Nepalese children by both parties to the conflict. The international community, they say, needs to raise its voice against the atrocities levied ...Poorest children face highest risk of death from injury
...social class. Inequalities were greatest for house fire and pedestrian deaths. Ten years on, researchers... And inequalities were again greatest for house fire and pedestrian deaths. Compared to children of parents in social class 1, the death rate in children...Heat therapy for cancer may be key to 'Lance Armstrong Effect'
... blocking proteins whose primary role is to act as fire blankets to coat the nuclear matrix and preserve it from heat damage. These so-called "heat shock proteins" also have a second role as "chaperones" to other proteins, ensuring their proper interaction and shape, and, depending on these interactions,...World Trade Center dust cuts lung function capability in rescue workers
... 1997) and after the tragedy. Approximately 11,500 fire personnel and 2,500 emergency medical service work...ry early stages of the rescue and recovery effort, fire department personnel were exposed to airborne pollutants, including pulverized building materials an......dollars and cents. Making a case study of a 2001 fire in Chisholm, Alberta, that ravaged 116,000 hectare...toring stations to assess the contributions of the fire to concentrations of particulate matter (PM) in the air. The seven-day blaze caused PM levels 160 ki...