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...eral public as a refuge of last resort and at what wind speeds it is safe for emergency vehicles to continue responding to emergencies during hurricanes. Schmidlin has studied severe weather including hurricanes, tornadoes, storms and lightning for more than 15 years....Huge waves from 1 storm slam coasts some 6000 km apart
...storm, which moved rapidly and had two main strong wind periods," Chapron said. "As illustrated in the animation, the resulting waves were organised into two main swell systems that followed each other across the entire Indian Ocean, hitting Reunion Island, Mauritius, Australia and Indonesia." Accordi...Huge waves that hit Reunion Island tracked from space
... A larger wave period correlates to a more extreme wind event. The one that hit Saint Pierre, Reunion Isla...ness and its modulation through the combination of wind wave and currents. Waves of all wavelengths and travelling in several directions are generated by...Mice with a migraine show signs of brain damage
...e demand for energy, some parts of the brain still wind up experiencing severe oxygen shortage, or hypoxia. This causes parts of brain cells sophisticated signaling structures to disintegrate, similar to what occurs when a person has a mini-stroke, or after a severe injury, or when blood flow to the brain...Study details catastrophic impact of nuclear attack on US cities
...rson can look up at the trees to see which way the wind is blowing and then flee perpendicular to the wind. Because the plumes are significantly longer than they are wide, moving as little as one to five miles perpendicular to the plume can mean the difference between life and death. People in areas upwin...Opening windows may be the best way of preventing transmission of airborne infection
...n rooms built after 2000. Even at the lowest of wind speeds, natural ventilation exceeded mechanical ventilation. Facilities built more than 50 years ago, characterized by large windows and high ceilings, had greater ventilation than modern naturally ventilated rooms. The authors went on to calculate w...Opening windows effective way of preventing transmission of TB
... with windows and doors closed. Even at the lowest wind speeds, natural ventilation exceeded mechanical ventilation. "We were surprised by how effective simply opening windows and doors was at generating high rates of ventilation, which would theoretically reduce the risk of transmission," says Dr Escom...New research brings initial find of Alois Alzheimer to fore once again
...nes most of the 60,000 miles of blood vessels that wind their way through our bodies. SRF and myocardin control dozens of proteins that, when overactive, pull the muscle tightly, constricting arteries and reducing the amount of blood that can flow through them. A similar type of muscle also lines our airw...ACS News Service Weekly PressPac -- January 3, 2007
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...bles such as atmospheric temperature and humidity, wind speed and direction over the ocean, ozone and other trace gases, thus making a major contribution to global weather forecasting and climate monitoring capabilities. The payload also includes an instrument for data collection, an instrument to observe...Doctors cut repeat LASIK visits dramatically
...oblem, then the other 80 percent of patients would wind up slightly nearsighted. The new formula takes the guesswork out of the picture and establishes a scientific basis for the phenomenon. The software developed by Venkiteshwar and MacRae controls how the laser beam dances around the surface of the corn...Weightlifting increases pressure within the eye
...s action occurs during coughing, vomiting, playing wind instruments and sometimes weightlifting. Geraldo Magela Vieira, M.D., Institute of Specialized Ophthalmology and UNIPLAC School of Medicine, Braslia, Brazil, and colleagues measured intraocular pressure during weightlifting in 30 males age 18 to 40 ...UK record heatwave and rising pollution observed by eyes in the sky: Images reveal hotspots
...oad traffic and power-plants, the lack of rain and wind in the stable summer weather allows significant NO2 build-up in major cities. Dr. John Remedios, Head of Earth Observation Science at the University of Leicester said: "The latest satellite data shows a perspective on the environment in which we li...Lessening the impact of climate change on health
...renewable energy sources, such as solar, wave, and wind power will have a beneficial effect on climate change and health. They note for example that a study suggests that vehicles powered by hydrogen from renewable energy sources could save 3700-6400 lives a year in the US from reduced air pollution, as w...The World Bank accused of deception and medical malpractice in malaria treatment
...ts malaria staff and has little expertise left, it wind down its malaria projects and allocate US$1 billion to other institutions, such as the Global Fund for AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM). In response, the World Bank's Jean-Louis Sarbib and colleagues acknowledge that the institution should have...OHSU brings relief to 'suicide disease' sufferers
...umbing, electric shock-like pain from just a light wind or a finger's glance of the cheek. Believed to be among the most severe types of pain known to humanity, the most common forms of TN affect 1 in 15,000 to 20,000, but 1 in 5,000 are thought to suffer from some type of facial pain. People with the con...Researchers win money to develop breath test to detect breast cancer
...own---imagine blades of tall grass before a strong wind blows them flat. The surfaces switch when electrical charges are applied to make the straight particles bend. When upright, the spaces between the particles are open, and will attract the metabolites. Theoretically, a woman could breathe into an ove...Envisat making first direct measurements of ocean surface velocities
...rface currents can lead to strong interaction with wind and waves, and through the transfer of heat influe...Envisat ASAR product Wave Mode data, which yields wind speed and wave spectra over the open ocean into the sea state prediction models of French national ...Anabolic steroid use increases heart attack risk and causes liver damage
...ho take these drugs to build muscle, but who could wind up with significantly damaged hearts and livers." The randomized, double-blind trial among 262 HIV-positive men was the largest study of its type on men with HIV-associated weight loss, according to the study authors. For the first 12 weeks of the tr...Air in Fallon, Nev. has elevated levels of tungsten and cobalt
...d plasma mass spectrometry. The team also analyzed wind speed and direction data from a weather station in Fallon, because wind speed and direction can affect the amount of dust in the air. The team found that compared with the ...