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| UC San Diego engineers work to make historic buildings safer during strong earthquakes Thu, 04 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST |
(University of California - San Diego) Recent simulated earthquake tests conducted by UC San Diego engineers are expected to lead to retrofit schemes that make historic buildings safer. |
| Bonefish census reveals population holding steady Thu, 04 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST |
(University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science) If you're looking for bonefish from Miami down to the Marquesas , you have about 321,000 to choose from -- that is down slightly from the average of previous censuses. According to UM Rosenstiel School's Dr. Jerry Ault, co-founder of the census, statistically there is no significant difference year over year, which can be attributed to a variety of factors. This year 64 professional fishing guides, scientists and graduate students covered 1,575 square miles in the census of the Keys. |
| Expert: Long-term care health coverage a hidden casualty of economic slide Thu, 04 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST |
(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Many Americans have lost more than just retirement savings amid a year-long economic meltdown that has sliced the US stock market's value by nearly half in a little over a year, a University of Illinois elder law expert says. |
| Springer joins SERU initiative Thu, 04 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST |
(Springer) Springer has registered as a participating publisher in the Shared E-Resource Understanding (SERU). SERU is a set of terms that protects both the publisher and user of online content. By registering for SERU, Springer is endorsing a common description of the responsibilities of the publisher and user of online content. |
| Depression rife among medical students Thu, 04 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST |
(BioMed Central) Medical students frequently suffer from depression, especially during their internship years. New research published in the open access journal BMC Medical Education reveals the extent of the problem and features a detailed analysis of the symptoms and sufferers. |
| 'World Energy Outlook' to be presented at Rice University Dec. 9 Wed, 03 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST |
(Rice University) Richard H. Jones, deputy executive director of the International Energy Agency, will present the "World Energy Outlook 2008" Dec. 9 at Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy. |
| Forest inventories in Oregon include more than trees Wed, 03 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST |
(USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station) The first five-year forest inventory report for Oregon's private and public lands is now available to the public: Oregon's Forest Resources, 2001-2005: Five-Year Forest Inventory and Analysis Report. |
| Forest inventories in California include more than trees Wed, 03 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST |
(USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station) The first five-year forest inventory report for California's private and public lands is now available to the public: California's Forest Resources, 2001-2005: Five-Year Forest Inventory and Analysis Report. |
| Center for Public Policy at UH to study Houston housing market, foreclosure Wed, 03 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST |
(University of Houston) The University of Houston Center for Public Policy is the recipient of a grant from the National Science Foundation to study Houston's regional housing market. The $49,500 grant will be used to create the Regional Real Estate Database, a unique and comprehensive real estate database of the Houston region that will help researchers begin to understand the complexities and causes of foreclosure. The information also is intended to be a resource for policymakers. |
| Study shows school-based program enables children and adolescents to better manage chronic disease Wed, 03 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST |
(IQ Solutions, Inc.) A new study has found that a school-based asthma education program conducted in the Oakland, Calif., school district was shown to reduce symptoms and increase the number of days that children who suffered from asthma were able to go to school. The study will be published this month in the Journal of School Health. |
| Burnham and HeadNorth Foundation join forces to advance spinal cord research Wed, 03 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST |
(Burnham Institute) HeadNorth Foundation has pledged $975,000 to Burnham Institute for Medical Research to support cutting-edge stem cell research. |
| Monetary aggregates play little role in the conduct of monetary policy Wed, 03 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST |
(Wiley-Blackwell) The analysis finds that none of the arguments provides a compelling reason to assign a prominent role to monetary aggregates. |
| When 'just say no' isn't enough: Try science Wed, 03 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST |
(American Association for the Advancement of Science) Teens are fascinated by their brains, the way they work, change, and even "freeze" sometimes. The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) recommends that parents, teachers and caregivers use that fascination to engage middle and high school students this holiday season in a discussion of why they shouldn't drink alcohol. |
| Some 70 percent of schoolchildren don't walk to school Wed, 03 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST |
(University of Montreal) As part of the study, the research team consulted past investigations on children and walking. In 1971, about 80 percent of Canadian children aged 7 and 8 walked to school. Therr 2008 study revealed only 30 percent of children now walk or bicycle to school in the Montreal and Trois-Rivieres regions. |
| Springer helps launch CLOCKSS archive Wed, 03 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST |
(Springer) Springer Science+Business Media, publisher of one of the world's most comprehensive online collections of scientific, technological and medical journals, books and reference works, announces a partnership with the community-governed archive cooperative CLOCKSS to preserve Springer content in the CLOCKSS global archive. Springer publishes over 1,700 journals and more than 5,500 new books a year, as well as the largest STM eBook collection worldwide. Springer is a founding member of CLOCKSS. |
| New HIV film tackles stigma faced by teachers in Africa Wed, 03 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST |
(Imperial College London) Addressing the discrimination against HIV-positive teachers in Africa is a key aim of a new documentary and accompanying book being launched in Senegal today by the Partnership for Child Development based at Imperial College London. |
| PNNL developing blueprint for code enforcement in China Wed, 03 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST |
(DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory) The Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory will develop an action plan for building energy code enforcement that can be deployed in small and medium-sized cities across China, where half of the world's new construction will occur in the next 10 years. |
| LSUHSC's England leads development of new testing guidelines for common nerve disorder Wed, 03 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST |
(Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center) John D. England, M.D., Professor and Chairman of Neurology at LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans School of Medicine, is the principal investigator of two studies recommending new testing guidelines for neuropathy -- a common degenerative nerve disorder that to this time had few evidence-based standards for evaluation and management. The studies, published in two separate papers in the Dec. 3, 2008 online issue of Neurology, resulted in recommendations about who should be tested, when and how. |
| Snapshot of the recession Tue, 02 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST |
(University of Maryland) "The unrelenting, month-by-month loss of American jobs throughout 2008 provides a revealing snapshot of our path into this recession," says University of Maryland economist Peter Morici, who predicted the recession early on -- late last year when holiday sales proved disappointing. He expects the trend to continue this Friday when November employment figures come out with as many as 300,000 additional job losses. |
| EEGs show brain differences between poor and rich kids Tue, 02 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST |
(University of California - Berkeley) Prefrontal cortex activity in children from low socioeconomic levels is lower than in similar children from well-off families. The brain differences, documented through EEGs, are dramatic: the prefrontal cortexes of poor kids 9 and 10 years of age react to novel stimuli in the same way as the brain of a stroke victim. The researchers from UC Berkeley and the University of British Columbia believe this is fixable, however. |
| MU researcher calls for increase in sexual assault awareness programs on college campuses Tue, 02 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST |
(University of Missouri-Columbia) The statistics for sexual assault are unsettling; the Department of Justice reports that one in five college women will be the victim of attempted or actual sexual assault during their college years. In a new study, researchers from two universities, including the University of Missouri, have found that college women often are unaware of drug-facilitated sexual assault and fail to recognize the risk of certain behaviors, including leaving drinks unattended. |
| Operations engineering for more efficient operating rooms Tue, 02 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST |
(University of Southern California) Work by specialists from the USC Viterbi School of Engineering has led to significant improvements in turnover times for operating rooms at three California safety net hospitals, allowing "many more hours of daytime surgery per year." |
| Baker Institute fellow urges new look at government 'Web-tapping' Tue, 02 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST |
(Rice University) The technology of government surveillance has changed dramatically and the rules governing surveillance should be changed accordingly. Chris Bronk, a fellow in technology, society and public policy at Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy, makes that argument in a paper published in First Monday, a free, openly accessible, peer-reviewed journal devoted to the Internet. |
| Using the other guy's toolkit: Similarities of pumping blood, oil examined Tue, 02 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST |
(University of Houston) Scientists and engineers from two of the nation's largest industries -- medicine and energy -- will come together Dec. 8, along with academicians, to explore synergies in moving oil and pumping blood. The Pumps & Pipes II conference will stimulate discussion, spark ideas and share new technologies among experts in the petroleum, medical and imaging industries that face similar challenges, even if on a very different scale. |
| Drop in cancer deaths tied primarily to gains in behavior and screening Tue, 02 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST |
(Harvard University) Behavior change and improvements in screening have contributed equally and substantially to the 13 percent decline in cancer mortality rates, according to new research from David Cutler, an economist at Harvard University. Cancer treatment after diagnosis has also contributed to the decline, although this is less of a factor than behavioral changes and screening. |
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