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... the surface of the ocean is an important physical property that strongly influences the transfer of heat and sensible and latent fluxes between the ocean and the atmosphere. And because water takes a long time to warm up or cool down the sea surface functions as an enormous reservoir of heat: the top two me...Lowering of blood pressure achieved through use of hashish-like drug
...axation of the blood vessels. A further beneficial property observed in work carried out with Prof. Ruth Gallily of the Lautenberg Center for General and Tumor Immunology, was that the compounds produced an anti-inflammatory response. Maor believes that these qualities have the potential for development of a...The right pathway to better health and science
...ort also highlights the importance of intellectual property to fostering innovation, and the role of internati...protecting and furthering Australia's intellectual property rights. "The recent launch of the Pharmaceutical Industry Council is a leading example of the advant...Stevens in agreement with Competitive Technologies to commercialize Stevens' IP worldwide
...CTT) to commercialize some of Stevens'intellectual property on a worldwide basis. Dr. Helena S. Wisniewski, Vice President, University Research and Enterprise Development for Stevens, said, "We look forward to a growing relationship with CTT. Stevens' rich IP portfolio reflects our educational environment ...Under-diagnosed rage disorder more prevalent than previously thought
.... These outbursts are sudden and include damage to property and/or physical harm (or threat of physical harm) ...d both people and property, causing 3.5 times more property damage than other violent Intermittent Explosive Disorder subgroups. The study shows that for both ...Intermittent explosive disorder affects up to 16 million Americans
...s and their possessions, causing bodily injury and property damage. Typically beginning in the early teens, th...d property. The latter group caused 3.5 times more property damage than other violent IED sub-groups. Affecting nearly 4 percent of adults within any given yea...New protein target may advance design of HIV and cancer drugs
... shape. For these molecules, shape is an important property that enables the protein to carry out certain biological functions. The process, active site displacement, involved design of a platinum drug with higher affinity for the protein peptide backbone, thus eliminating the zinc from its active site. In t...Chaos=Order: Physicists make baffling discovery
...ons are completely irrelevant. Maybe it is only a property of oscillators." Oscillators like a child on a swing A vital similarity between the model system and neurons is that they are both "nonlinear" meaning that there is not a linear, or straight-ahead, correlation between the applied force and displac...Protein sorting in pigment cells sheds light on melanoma, Alzheimer's disease
...rough one type of endosome. "This may be a general property of a class of amyloids and the fact that the process happens in non-pigment cells means that it can also happen in neurons or epithelial cells where these amyloids cause problems," says Marks. Pmel17 and other proteins of melanocytes are well-known ...Extreme personality poses risk of ADHD, conduct disorder
...including chronic lying, setting fires, destroying property or hurting animals. The researchers analyzed personality data from 1,438 sets of same-sex, reared-together 11-year-old and 17-year-old male and female twins who participated in the Minnesota Twin Family Study. The rate of ADHD, conduct disorder and t...Legal and ethical questions about stem cell research
...legal, ethical, and political questions concerning property and stem cells, both intellectual property and "personal" property. The legal and ethical issues associated with human embryonic stem cell res...Intellectual property law and the protection of traditional knowledge
... "at least in the short run, existing intellectual property regimes offer the most realistic avenue for securi...ndition for enforcing otherwise valid intellectual property rights."...Acrux acquires rights to commercialise world's first contraceptive spray
...icence from the Population Council to intellectual property covering the use of Nestorone with Acrux's patented metered-dose skin spray delivery technology (MDTS). Acrux will develop and commercialise Nestorone MDTS and has the right to sub-license to commercial partners. In addition to commercial distributio...Many new immigrants to US change diet -- and not for the better
...orever. However, those with high earnings and U.S. property are less likely to plan on naturalizing; those with high levels of education are least likely to be satisfied with the United States. "The picture that emerges from this analysis is of a fluid and dynamic global market for human capital in which the ...Antipsychotic drug may block addiction, UIC researchers find
... first time any study has shown the anti-addictive property of trifluoperazine, Wang said. "From studies conducted in the 1970s and 1980s, we know that trifluoperazine inhibits calmodulin," Wang said, a molecule that is required for the activation of an enzyme called calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kina...Scientists find ability for grammar hardwired into humans
...demonstrates. A prominent example of this abstract property of language is the idea of subject. While grammar ...ly suggests that this basic and somewhat arbitrary property of language is an innate tendency in humans as they develop any communication system. "The notion o...First two research awards from university-industry partnership
...earch supported by the agreement. All intellectual property rights to the discoveries will be retained by the medical center and its inventors. J&J will fund will the project on a renewable basis with proposals solicited twice a year. The next round of applications is to be collected in mid-March....Carbon monoxide soothes inflammatory bowel disease
... of life-sustaining oxygen. It is this asphyxiant property of CO that has earned it a bad reputation. But recent scientific studies have shown that CO -- at least at low concentrations -- has a redeeming quality: it acts as an anti-inflammatory agent. It is this quality, according to Plevy and colleagues, t...Ancient Chinese remedy shows potential in preventing breast cancer
...o investigate whether the breast cancer prevention property of artemisinin can be generalized to other types of cancer."...Higher dose formulation of FOSRENOL approved to reduce serum phosphorus in esrd patients
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