Golf-related head injuries in children increasing along with sport's popularity
...e the skull back together with titanium screws and plates and monitor the children for potentially dangerous brain swelling. He noted that most of the injuries occurred in a neighborhood or park rather than a golf course. "But it doesn't matter where you get hurt. It's the same mechanism of injury." Much l...4D proton therapy, radiation-resistant tumors, interpreting medical images
...ammograms involve squeezing the breast between two plates and firing an x-ray that images the breast all at once. In breast CT, the patient lies down on a table and places one breast at a time through a circular opening, while a CT scanner produces 300 images per breast, in a period of just 17 seconds, to ...New proton therapy, breast CT clinical trials, radiation-resistant tumors
...ammograms involve squeezing the breast between two plates and firing an x-ray that images the breast all at once. In breast CT, the patient lies down on a table and places one breast at a time through a circular opening, while a CT scanner produces 300 images per breast, in a period of just 17 seconds, to b...Golfers with low-back pain may be helped by University of Pittsburgh research
...ers used a 3D motion analysis system and two force plates to assess kinematics and spinal loads of the trunk. They used a bottom-up inverse dynamics procedure to calculate spinal loads of the lower back. In addition, they measured trunk and hip strength and flexibility, back proprioception and postural stab...Binghamton University receives $1.7 million NYSTAR award to enhance flexible electronics research
...ts are produced on silicon or quartz wafers, or on plates of specialized glass in a "batch" process that has been the backbone of the integrated circuit (IC) and flat panel display (FPD) industries. The R2R is a continuous web process that produces components at higher yields and lower costs than current pr...... specific genes, proteins or protein interactions, plates containing rows of tiny wells have replaced old-fashioned test tubes. However, trawling for a gene or protein with just the right qualifications may require sorting through millions, or even billions, of possibilities. Instead of wells, the new metho...Mega-brands have mega influence on dietary behavior
...s that dominate the supermarket shelves and dinner plates of mainstream America, are often under siege by consumer groups because of their ingredients, labeling, and marketing practices. Yet, mega-brands continue to rack up billions of dollars in sales each year. What is the secret to their success? Accordi...Ground movement risks identified by Terrafirma
...ich is squeezed between three other major tectonic plates the African and Arabian plates to the south, and the Eurasian plate to the north. The combination of these plate movements has been...'Mindless Eating' is a nourishing read
... has learned that we are influenced by the size of plates (they are larger today, so we think we have to fill them up). Packages make a difference, too. A large bag of corn chips in front of us means we will consume more; so why don't we try smaller bags" We may not eat much of the fried chicken in an ordin...Hungry for a Super Bowl victory?
...ople's plates. Sports fans eating off of clean plates ate 43% more chicken wings than those whose bones stayed on their plates. "These left-overs served as boney reminders of how much they had eaten. This kept them from mindlessly eating more," said Brian Wansink, Ph.D., Cornell University professor, ......nclude 398 full-color photographs as well as color plates from the LuEsther T. Mertz Library of The New York Botanical Garden. The book contains vital information on a broad variety of poisonous and injurious temperate and tropical plants such as holly, poinsettia, and philodendron. It also includes comm...