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Natalie Mitten

http://blogs.cornell.edu/mendlelab/files/2012/10/Mendle-et-al-2012-JAP-1kqyfx3.pdf - 0 views

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    • Natalie Mitten
      Natalie Mitten on 20 Mar 13
       
      This would be super helpful
Nick Noack

No Doomsday in 2012 - 3 views

www.universetoday.com/...no-doomsday-in-2012

2012 chemistry MRH doomsday

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  • Nick Noack on 14 Nov 11
     
    need for important information for project
Natalie Mitten

Why Einstein Was a Genius - ScienceNOW - 0 views

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  • Thomas Harvey, permission to preserve the brain for scientific study. Harvey photographed the brain and then cut it into 240 blocks, which were embedded in a resinlike substance.
  • only six peer-reviewed publications resulted from these widely scattered materials
  • greater density of neurons in some parts of the brain and a higher than usual ratio of glia (cells that help neurons transmit nerve impulses) to neurons
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  • 2009 by anthropologist Dean Falk of Florida State University in Tallahassee,
  • But the Falk study was based on only a handful of photographs that had been previously made available by Harvey, who died in 2007.
  • several regions feature additional convolutions and folds rarely seen in other subjects.
  • and his prefrontal cortex—linked to planning, focused attention, and perseverance in the face of challenges—is also greatly expanded.
  • Albert Galaburda, a neuroscientist at Harvard Medical School in Boston, says that "what's great about this paper is that it puts down … the entire anatomy of Einstein's brain in great detail.
  • he study raises "very important questions for which we don't have an answer."
  • whether Einstein started off with a special brain that predisposed him to be a great physicist, or whether doing great physics caused certain parts of his brain to expand
  • "some combination of a special brain and the environment he lived in."
  • Falk agrees that both nature and nurture were probably involved
  • "he had the right brain in the right place at the right time."
Carolina Torres

Marijuana Use Among U.S. Teens More Common Than Cigarette-Smoking, Survey Finds - 1 views

www.huffingtonpost.com/...use-among-us-te_n_1582017.html

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  • This marks the first time that marijuana use has eclipsed cigarette smoking. One expert says that a factor in rising marijuana use is that teens perceive the drug to be less harmful for their health than cigarettes.
    • Carolina Torres
      Carolina Torres on 02 Nov 12
       
      It not only seems less harmful, most teens don't care about the effects of marijuana. So they smoke it more then cigarettes because most of them know whats inside of cigarettes. So in a way, marijuana is better.
Alexis Ramsey

With age comes greater success among hunting dogs - 0 views

www.sciencedaily.com/...120416113011.htm

HD hunting dogs

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  • Apr. 16, 2012
  • lowland Nicaragua, UC
  • male dogs seem to enjoy better success rates than do younger and female dogs.
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  • The research examined variables such as age and sex
  • The UC research was conducted in Nicaragua's Bosawas Biosphere Reserve, which is part of the largest unbroken tracts of Neotropical rainforest in Central America, north of the Amazon Rainforest
  • their owners than did younger dogs. And bigger dogs are able to track and corral bigger prey, which increases their hunting return rates, and in general, male dogs are bigger than females.
    • Alexis Ramsey
      Alexis Ramsey on 26 Feb 13
       
      Summary- Research in Nicaragua's Bosawas Biosphere Reserve showed that male dogs seem to enjoy better success rates than younger and female dogs do. Variables such as age and sex play a big role in finding your good hunting dog. The older the better, as well as the bigger the better. Males tend to always be bigger than female dogs and with having a big dog it's able to track larger prey therefore returning more game and making out for a better hunter.
  • Alexis Ramsey on 11 Feb 13
     
    Older male dogs better than younger or female dogs.
Ronnice Moore

Video games help patients and health care providers - 0 views

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  • n the Perspectives article, the team describes therapeutic video games, including their own Patient Empowerment Exercise Video Game (PE Game), an activity-promoting game specifically designed to improve resilience, empowerment, and a "fighting spirit" for pediatric oncology patients. The researchers also looked at other games that have been shown to help patients with several chronic diseases.
    • Ronnice Moore
      Ronnice Moore on 17 Feb 13
       
      The team has their own therpudic video games for their patients as well as other games that are specifically designed to help patiences with chronical diseases.
  • A new publication by researchers from the University of Utah, appearing in the Sept 19 issue of the journal Science Translational Medicine, indicates video games can be therapeutic and are already beginning to show health-related benefits.
    • Ronnice Moore
      Ronnice Moore on 17 Feb 13
       
      Recently Spetember 2012, reasearchers from University of utan idicates that video games can be therapudic and it already begins to show health related benefits.
Natalie Mitten

http://www.tamiu.edu/~cferguson/desensitization.pdf - 0 views

www.tamiu.edu/...desensitization.pdf

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      Natalie Mitten on 26 Jun 13
       
      Better research these studies sited. Huesmann & Miller, 1994; Freeman, 2002; Grimes, Anderson & Bergen, 2008; Olson, 2004; Bushman & Anderson, 2009; Ferguson and Dyck, 2012; Hetsroni 2012; Drabman and Thomas, 1975-6; Horton & Santogrossi, 1978; Molitor & Hirsch, 1994; Woodfield, 1988; Funk, Baldacci, Pasold & Baumgardener, 2004; Adachi & Willoughby, 2011; Freedman, 2002; Przybylski, Rigby & Ryan, 2010; Savage, 2008; Simmons, Nelson & Simonsohn, 2011; 
    • Natalie Mitten
      Natalie Mitten on 03 Aug 13
       
      "For each type, three TV episodes were selected as exemplars. Shows were chosen to be similar on variables other than violent content (e.g., recentness, dramatics, network release, presence of female characters, etc.)
    • Natalie Mitten
      Natalie Mitten on 03 Aug 13
       
      What is a Likert scale?
    • Natalie Mitten
      Natalie Mitten on 03 Aug 13
       
      State Anxiety Scale?
Katie Stevenson

Child's Home Address Helps Predict Risk Of Readmission to Hospital - 1 views

www.cincinnatichildrens.org/...predict-readmission-10-18-2012

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  • research in the American Journal of Public Health.
  • geographic social risk index
  • based on census measures of poverty, home values and number of adults with high school degrees,
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  • families likely to report financial or psychological hardship – both of which are linked to adverse asthma outcomes, says Andrew Beck, MD
  • t Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center and lead author of the study.
  • could include enhanced care coordination, community health workers or help with better housing
  • Robert Kahn, MD,
  • help identify children admitted to the hospital with asthma who may need more aggressive, targeted assessments and/or interventions may prevent asthma attacks and reduce disparities,
  • increasing our ability to know a child’s likelihood of returning to the hospital
  • enhanced clinical care pathway right at the start of an admission.
  • readmissions is increasingly critical in the era of healthcare reform.”
  • (grouping households by geographic area
  • constructed the social risk index
  • assigned census tract regions
  • extreme poverty rates, median home values and high school graduation rate
  • 601 children hospitalized for asthma were evaluated and placed in one of three categories, or risk strata: low, medium or high risk.
  • 39 percent of all patients were rehospitalized or returned to the emergency room within 12 months.
  • low geographic risk, children in the high risk category were 80 percent more likely to be rehospitalized or revisit the emergency room
  • high-risk children had caregivers who were five times more likely to report two or more financial hardships in their households and three times more likely to report psychological distress.
  • medium-risk category were 30 percent more likely to be readmitted or return to the emergency room
  • . Poor, urban and minority children are at the highest risk for emergency room treatment and hospital admission
  • identification of children at increased risk could allow additional assessments and services to be put in place prior to discharge to improve patient outcomes
  • target and use scarce and overburdened hospital and community resources more efficiently.”
  • e to use the geographic social risk index to study other asthma outcomes and other conditions, such as diabetes mellitus.
  • introduction of geographic data into clinical care leads to more in-depth and reliable triage of patients.
  • helps link hospital- or community-based care to those patients most likely to benefit from it.
  • Katie Stevenson on 31 Oct 12
     
    Cincinnati Hospital finds knowing a child's address may tell if they are going to revisit or be readmitted into the hospital
Alexis Ramsey

Can You Give the Flu To Your Dog or Cat? | Surprising Science - 2 views

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    • Alexis Ramsey
      Alexis Ramsey on 30 Oct 12
       
      Should we come up with a flu vaccine for animals?
  • A group of veterinarians at Oregon State and Iowa State Universities is now looking into the risk of flu for an unexpected population that doesn’t have access to flu shots: dogs, cats and other household pets.
    • Alexis Ramsey
      Alexis Ramsey on 30 Oct 12
       
      Good Idea. Great minds think alike.
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  • “We worry a lot about zoonoses, the transmission of diseases from animals to people,” said Christiane Loehr, a professor at the OSU College of Veterinary Medicine. “But most people don’t realize that humans can also pass diseases to animals, and this raises questions and concerns about mutations, new viral forms and evolving diseases that may potentially be zoonotic. And, of course, there is concern about the health of the animals.”
    • Alexis Ramsey
      Alexis Ramsey on 30 Oct 12
       
      If this was put out more, I bet people would take this seriously in America we treat our animals like our childern.
  • H1N1 (“swine flu“) and H5N1 (“bird flu”)
  • The first recorded instance, described in an article published by the team in Veterinary Pathology, took place in Oregon in 2009.
    • Alexis Ramsey
      Alexis Ramsey on 30 Oct 12
       
      Look at that article.
  • While a cat owner was hospitalized with H1N1, both of her cats (which stayed indoors and had no contact with other sick people or animals) came down with flu-like symptoms and eventually died. A postmortem analysis of their lungs and nasal cavities turned up the H1N1 virus
    • Alexis Ramsey
      Alexis Ramsey on 30 Oct 12
       
      Proof
    • Alexis Ramsey
      Alexis Ramsey on 30 Oct 12
       
      Articles are mainly focusing on H1N1.
  • “It’s reasonable to assume there are many more cases of this than we know about, and we want to learn more,” Loehr said.
  • “Any time you have infection of a virus into a new species, it’s a concern, a black box of uncertainty,” Loehr noted.
  • this news might trigger immediate concern,
    • Alexis Ramsey
      Alexis Ramsey on 30 Oct 12
       
      Shouldn't this be on the news then?
  • the flu could be passed from human to pet, mutate into a more dangerous form,
  • “We don’t know for sure what the implications might be, but we do think this deserves more attention.”
    • Alexis Ramsey
      Alexis Ramsey on 30 Oct 12
       
      I agree very much.
  • msdchemistry on 04 Nov 12
     
    A good question Alexis... I think that people would pay for a flu vaccine for their pets.
Anna Wermuth

Computer system identifies liars - 0 views

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lying computer system

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  • Mar. 26, 2012
  • UB's Center for Unified Biometrics and Sensors (CUBS)
  • when the critical question was asked, a strong deviation from normal eye movement patterns suggested a lie
Nick Noack

World won't end in 2012, says Mayan expert - CBC News - 3 views

www.cbc.ca/...mayan-apocalypse.html

world says mayan expert cbc news astronomy 2012 earth doomsday chemistry nasa calendar maya science

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  • Nick Noack on 02 Dec 11
     
    better, from CBC news!
Nick Noack

Does Maya calendar predict 2012 apocalypse? - USATODAY.com - 0 views

www.usatoday.com/...2007-03-27-maya-2012_N.htm

2012 usatoday maya calendar apocalypse

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    paper
Nick Noack

NASA - 2012: Beginning of the End or Why the World Won't End? - 2 views

www.nasa.gov/...2012.html

chemistry earth nasa Science apocalypse astronomy calendar

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  • Nick Noack on 14 Nov 11
     
    Better information...NASA
Nick Noack

NASA - 2012 - A Scientific Reality Check - 0 views

www.nasa.gov/...yoemans20091110.html

reality check chemistry 2012 earth doomsday apocalypse astronomy calendar Science nasa

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  • Nick Noack on 18 Nov 11
     
    Dwyer, perfect source for my article
Nick Noack

Top 10 Reasons Why the World Won't End in 2012 : Discovery News - 4 views

news.discovery.com/...villard-doomsday-theories.html

earth doomsday chemistry 2012 astronomy apocalypse science calendar

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  • 10. Changes in the Sun's magnetic field will lead to powerful flares.
  • The bottom line is that no dragon's breath of flame will stretch across 100 million miles of space and blowtorch Earth. The largest solar flare recorded to date, on Nov. 4, 2003, spewed several billions of tons of plasma in Earth's direction. The flare's X-ray radiation that impacted our protective atmosphere had the equivalent radiation of 5,000 suns.
  • 4. An asteroid will smash into Earth. A threatening near-Earth asteroid that's gotten the most press is the 900-foot wide Apophis. But its chances of collision have been downgraded to 1 in 250,000 at its next close approach in 2029. In theory, an uncharted asteroid or comet could come out of the blue tomorrow. But if we don't know about it today, the Mayans certainly didn't know about it 1,200 years ago. Earth-killer impacts are tens of millions of years apart. So there's no reason to be a doomsday clock-watcher.
  • Nick Noack on 17 Dec 11
     
    This is a good source
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