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Walid El-Damouny

Fit teenage boys are smarter, but muscle strength isn't the secret - 0 views

www.physorg.com/news179415275.html

PhysOrg.com health fitness cognition lifestyle intelligence education cardiovascular teenage muscle

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    Walid El-Damouny on 07 Dec 09
     
    "In the first study to demonstrate a clear positive association between adolescent fitness and adult cognitive performance, Nancy Pedersen of the University of Southern California and colleagues in Sweden find that better cardiovascular health among teenage boys correlates to higher scores on a range of intelligence tests - and more education and income later in life."
Walid El-Damouny

Vitamin D levels associated with survival in lymphoma patients - 0 views

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PhysOrg.com vitamin D vitamins cancer health medical medicine

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    Walid El-Damouny on 06 Dec 09
     
    "A new study has found that the amount of vitamin D in patients being treated for diffuse large B-cell lymphoma was strongly associated with cancer progression and overall survival. The results will be presented at the annual meeting of the American Society of Hematology in New Orleans."
Walid El-Damouny

New climate targets may not change daily life much - 0 views

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PhysOrg.com global warming environmentally friendly energyefficiency energy environment climate health lifestyle

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  • Public health officials from around the world on Wednesday released a series of studies showing that reducing greenhouse gas emissions - by the same 83 percent by 2050 that Obama targeted - would save millions of lives because of reduced air pollution.
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      Walid El-Damouny on 28 Nov 09
       
      Saving the planet also saves human lives from pollution realted deaths.
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    Walid El-Damouny on 28 Nov 09
     
    Americans' day-to-day lives won't change noticeably if President Barack Obama achieves his newly announced goal of slashing carbon dioxide pollution by one-sixth in the next decade, experts say.
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    Walid El-Damouny on 28 Nov 09
     
    Saving the planet also saves human lives from pollution realted deaths.
Hiral Mody

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plants

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    Hiral Mody on 21 Nov 09
     
    encyclopedia of plants
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    Hiral Mody on 21 Nov 09
     
    this is a website which gives you detailed information about various plants
Ilmar Tehnas

Ripples in space divide classical and quantum worlds - physics-math - 18 November 2009 - Ne... - 1 views

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science:space-time

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    Ilmar Tehnas on 19 Nov 09
     
    The Unuverse is on the verge of becoming virtual...
Walid El-Damouny

Steadier Traffic Flow Improves Health of Local Infants, Researchers Say - 0 views

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PhysOrg.com traffic children birth abnormalities birth defects health medical vehicles fuel

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    Walid El-Damouny on 18 Nov 09
     
    "The creation of E-ZPass lanes over the past 15 years has significantly improved the health of newborn babies living near highways in the Northeast, according to a Columbia study. The researchers found that reductions in traffic congestion generated by E-ZPass lanes reduced premature birthrates by 10.8 percent and low birth weight by 11.8 percent among infants born within 2 kilometers of toll plazas. The net effect has led to hundreds of millions of dollars in saved medical costs."
Walid El-Damouny

UN: Fight climate change with free condoms - 0 views

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PhysOrg.com climate change population climate UN United Nations condoms global warming environmentally friendly

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    Walid El-Damouny on 18 Nov 09
     
    "(AP) -- The battle against global warming could be helped if the world slowed population growth by making free condoms and family planning advice more widely available, the U.N. Population Fund said Wednesday."
Walid El-Damouny

Studies suggest males have more personality - 0 views

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PhysOrg.com personality natural selection sexual selection genders sex

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    Walid El-Damouny on 18 Nov 09
     
    "Males have more pronounced personalities than females across a range of species - from humans to house sparrows - according to new research. Consistent personality traits, such as aggression and daring, are also more important to females when looking for a mate than they are to males. Research from the University of Exeter draws together a range of studies to reveal the role that sexual selection plays in this disparity between males and females."
Charles Daney

Out There: Water, Water Everywhere -- Space.com - 0 views

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mars

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    Charles Daney on 09 Nov 09
     
    It's now official that water has been found on the moon, and scientists have long seen it on Mars as well. In fact, water is all over the solar system and the rest of the galaxy - and since water is key to life as we know it, these discoveries raise the hope that we are not in fact alone.
Charles Daney

Is dark matter mostly 'dark atoms'? - physicsworld.com - 0 views

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dark matter

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    Charles Daney on 09 Nov 09
     
    Physicists currently believe that most of the dark matter in the universe is made up of individual particles, and the challenge is to work out what kind of particles these are. New research, however, overturns this assumption and says that observational and experimental data are better explained if dark matter exists as composite particles - atoms of dark protons and dark electrons that are acted on by the dark-matter equivalent of the electromagnetic force.
Charles Daney

Concepts are born in the hippocampus - New Scientist - 0 views

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concepts

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    Charles Daney on 09 Nov 09
     
    A diminutive chihuahua and a lumbering Irish wolfhound look completely different, yet most us know they both belong to the concept called "dog". Now the brain regions responsible for our ability to organise the world into separate concepts have been pinpointed.
Charles Daney

Inflammation - 0 views

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als inflammation

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    Charles Daney on 09 Nov 09
     
    Chiu now suspects that ALS is initiated by some still unknown agent or event. Then, as nerve cells begin to sicken and die, the nervous system tries to right itself by making microglia behave like wound-healers, secreting IGF-1 and other factors in an attempt to preserve motor neurons. "If the immune system has evolved in a way to help heal motor neurons," Chiu says.
Charles Daney

How to Measure What We Don't Know - 0 views

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science

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    Charles Daney on 09 Nov 09
     
    James Crutchfield, Physics Professor at the University of California at Davis, and graduate students Christopher Ellison and John Mahoney, have developed the analogy of scientists as cryptologists who are trying to glean hidden information from Nature. As they explain, "Nature speaks for herself only through the data she willingly gives up." To build good models, scientists must use the correct "codebook" in order to decrypt the information hidden in observations and so decode the structure embedded in Nature's processes.
Charles Daney

Quantum Computers Could Tackle Enormous Linear Equations / Science News - 0 views

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quantum computing

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    Charles Daney on 09 Nov 09
     
    A new algorithm may give quantum computers a new, practical job: quickly solving monster linear equations. Such problems are at the heart of complex processes such as image and video processing, genetic analyses and even Internet traffic control.
Charles Daney

Macro-roles for MicroRNAs in the Life and Death of Neurons - Alzforum: News - 0 views

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alzheimer's disease microRNA

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    Charles Daney on 09 Nov 09
     
    Until recently, the control of protein synthesis seemed straightforward and of little concern to most neuroscientists. However, the simple story of gene transcription into messenger RNA (mRNA) and subsequent translation into a protein has recently become considerably more complicated. Small RNA molecules have been discovered that can determine when and if the mRNA for a particular protein will be translated.
Charles Daney

Dark Energy Hunters Catch a Wave - Wired.com - 0 views

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dark energy astrophysics

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    Charles Daney on 09 Nov 09
     
    A new project to create a 3D map of space so large that scientists can find a 500 million-light-year-size remnant from the early universe inside it began operation last month. The Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey opened its eyes to the universe, taking in data from hundreds of galaxies and quasars in the constellation Aquarius, from its perch on the Apache Point Observatory in New Mexico. Eventually, it will image two million galaxies and quasars.
Charles Daney

Lessons from Windows on the Universe - 0 views

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cosmology astronomy

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    Charles Daney on 09 Nov 09
     
    I confine these remarks to lessons to be drawn on the state of our subject from the histories of research in three Windows on the Universe: cosmology, our extragalactic neighborhood, and life in other worlds.
Charles Daney

How does your galaxy grow? - New Scientist - 0 views

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galaxy formation cosmology dark matter

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    Charles Daney on 09 Nov 09
     
    Together with ever-improving observations of the early universe, grand simulations are beginning to paint a single, unifying picture of why the universe looks as it does. At its heart is an almost invisible scaffold of dark matter and cold gas on which the visible constituents of the universe hang - a structure known as the cosmic web.
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