Syphilis rate on rise in US gay, bisexual men
...sex partners of infected people, the study authors infer that a large number of those infected 62 percent in 2003 are gay or bisexual, in part, because so few women become infected. The study does not look past 2003, but statistics suggest the trends continued through 2005, Heffelfinger said. There w...Water flows like molasses on the nanoscale
.... Instead they had to measure other properties and infer the forces acting in films of one nanometer thickness or less. "If you want force, it is preferable to measure it," he said. "This is the first experiment to directly measure the force and it's the first simulation done of these forces. The fact t...Decline in breast cancer cases likely linked to reduced use of hormone replacement
..., but from the data we used we can only indirectly infer that is the case," he says. "But if it is true, the tumor growth effect of stopping use of HRT is very dramatic over a short period of time, making the difference between whether a tumor is detected on a mammogram in 2003 or not," says Ravdin. T...Annals of Internal Medicine tip sheet for December 5, 2006
...y was observational and cross-sectional, we cannot infer that the size and structure of an integrated group cause the differences in quality (Editorial, p. 860). But the study is important, the writer says, because it contributes to the Holy Grail of physician-quality studies: to determine the relations......the subject's navigation decisions enabled them to infer which of two "cognitive states" the subject was in to give the researchers insight into which cortical regions were active during the states. One such cognitive state was a belief about where the subject was in the maze, and the other was a set of "o...Brain study yields insight into machinery of prejudice
..., people tend to use knowledge about themselves to infer the mental states of others. Mitchell and colleagues wrote that "we suggest that the results of the current study are consistent with the possibility that perceivers make selective use of simulation in the original sense, plumbing their own possible-...New technique puts brain-imaging research on its head
...rom test dummy crashes or mathematical models that infer rather loosely what happens to the brain during traumatic brain injury or concussion. But the truth is that the state of the art in understanding brain deformation after impact is rather crude and uncertain because such methods don't give any true...Rutgers-Newark psychology researchers reveal link between body and action perception
...e lifted by other individuals and their ability to infer weight expectations of the observed individuals. Their performance was compared against a control group comprised of healthy individuals. "In order for an individual to perform a motor activity simulation, you need to know how it feels to perform th...