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Katy Wilson

Lizards facing mass extinction from climate change - 0 views

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    Makes you wonder what other species are are getting effected by the heat and why exactly is the heat increasing?
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    Topic idea: What animal's reproductive systems are getting affected by the heat ?
Megan Hanak

Females butterflies can smell if a male butterfly is inbred - 0 views

  • The mating success of male butterflies is often lower if they are inbred.
    • Megan Hanak
       
      Topic to write an article on: The relation between male inbreeding and sexual reproduction rather than what female butterflies smell.
  • inbred males are often weaker
  • Erik van Bergen, currently at the University of Cambridge
Katy Wilson

Robotic fish gain new sense: Navigate water currents and turbulence - 0 views

  • lateral line sensing
    • Megan Hanak
       
      Lateral line testing: look up definition
  • based on biological principles
    • Megan Hanak
       
      So are these principles based on cells and DNA or just a copy of observations?
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    Robotic fish, interesting topic. May lead to a robotic engineering topic.
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    What do they plan on doing with these robotic fish after these tests?
Katy Wilson

Obama Legacy On Keystone XL Pipeline Is New Environmentalist Appeal - 0 views

  • "Russell Graham, associate professor of geosciences and director of the Earth and Mineral Sciences Museum at Penn State University, says global warming will most harm the animals adapted to the coldest environments, primarily those accustomed to life in the Arctic."
    • Katy Wilson
       
      What about the other animals, not just the ones that are originated in the artic.
  • 40-73 percent of pregnant females could fail to bring cubs to term.
Katie Stevenson

C-Section May Raise Child's Risk of Allergies, Asthma: Study - 0 views

  • that early childhood exposure to microorganisms affects the immune system's development and onset of allergies
  • a baby's exposure to bacteria in the birth canal is a major influencer on their immune system."
  • born by C-section have a pattern of "at-risk" microorganisms in their gastrointestinal tract that may make them more susceptible to developing the antibody immunoglobulin E (IgE) when exposed to allergens,
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  • IgE is linked to the development of allergies and asthma.
  • The study found an association between cesarean birth and allergy risk, but it did not prove cause-and-effect.
Katie Stevenson

Births - The 2012 Statistical Abstract - U.S. Census Bureau - 0 views

  • Births, Birth Rates, and Fertility Rates by Race, Sex, and Age
    • Katie Stevenson
       
      Downloaded onto desktop for use in article
    • Katie Stevenson
       
      The total number of live births from the most recent census released to the public in 2008 was 4,247,694
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    PDF Downlands about birth rates in the US
Indea Armstrong

Planarians offer a better view of eye development - 0 views

  • intense study for their renowned ability to regenerate any missing body par
    • Indea Armstrong
       
      Is the flatworm harmful ?
  • courtesy of Whitehead Institute researchers, who this week are publishing in Cell Reports
Caitlan Granger

How Is Autism Treated? | What is Autism? | Autism Speaks - 0 views

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      Sometimes children and adults no longer "meet the criteria" to keep going back for treatment, but not exactly cured either
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      Is this true? When was this info last updated?
Ronnice Moore

Professor says gaming can help relieve stress | TCU 360 - 0 views

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    I've learned this is true from experience of having friends who play those type of games.
Anna Wermuth

Borderline Personality Disorder-Topic Overview - 0 views

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    webmd
Anna Wermuth

How do happiness and sadness circuits contribute to bipolar disorder? - 0 views

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    jan. 14, 2013
Indea Armstrong

Eyes work without connection to brain: Ectopic eyes function without natural connection... - 0 views

  • scientists have shown that transplanted eyes located far outside the head in a vertebrate animal model can confer vision without a direct neural connection to the brain.
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      How does that work? How can you possibly use your eyes and they aren't connected to your brain?
  • Biologists at Tufts University School of Arts and Sciences used a frog model to shed new ligh
    • Indea Armstrong
       
      How closely are humans related to frogs?
  • visual
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  • is the question of exactly how the brain recognizes that the electrical signals coming from tissue near the gut is to be interpreted as visual data
Anna Wermuth

Widely used screening scale may misidentify borderline personality disorder as bipolar ... - 0 views

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    BPD article from 2010...
Anna Wermuth

Family intervention improves mood symptoms in children and adolescents at risk for bipo... - 0 views

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    bipolar disorder article from March 6
Katie Stevenson

Why the National U.S. C-Section Rate is So High? | Cesarean Section - 0 views

  • it leveled off at 32.8% in 2010 and 2011
    • Katie Stevenson
       
      Statistic from the Child Birth Connection
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    About C-sections and their rates
Katie Raborn

Newborn infants learn while asleep; Study may lead to later disability tests - 0 views

  • "We found a basic form of learning in sleeping newborns, a type of learning that may not be seen in sleeping adults
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      Newborns could learn while sleeping. How do they learn while sleeping? How do they figure that out? How come sleeping adults can't do that, since adults are more developed?
  • Dana Byrd, a research affiliate in psychology at UF
    • Katie Raborn
       
      credible source
  • The findings give valuable information about how it is that newborns are able to learn so quickly from the world, when they sleep for 16 to 18 hours a da
    • Katie Raborn
       
      When a newborn sleeps for 16 to 18 hours a day they are able to learn quickly about the world.
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  • ested the learning abilities of sleeping newborns by repeating tones that were followed by a gentle puff of air to the eyelids.
    • Katie Raborn
       
      They tested the newborns by the repeating tones. Could they test other things to figure out how newborns learn while sleeping? How do they know if they aren't just dreaming instead of learning?
  • After about 20 minutes, 24 of the 26 babies squeezed their eyelids together when the tone was sounded without the puff of air.
  • The brain waves of the 24 infants were found to change, providing a neural measurement of memory updating.
    • Katie Raborn
       
      So brainwaves detect memory updating.
  • While past studies find this type of learning can occur in infants who are awake, this is the first study to document it in their most frequent state, while they are asleep
    • Katie Raborn
       
      Infants learn while their awake but can also be found while they are asleep.
  • Learned eyelid movement reflects the normal functioning of the circuitry in the cerebellum, a neural structure at the base of the brain. This study's method potentially offers a unique non-invasive tool for early identification of infants with atypical cerebellar structure, who are potentially at risk for a range of developmental disorders, including autism and dyslexia, she said.
  • Newborn infants' sleep patterns are quite different than those of older children or adults in that they show more active sleep where heart and breathing rates are very changeable," she said. "It may be this sleep state is more amenable to experiencing the world in a way that facilitates learning."
  • Another factor is that infants' brains have greater neural plasticity, which is the ability for the neural connections to be changed
Ruby Ridgway

Sterilization Methods - 0 views

  • An autoclave is generally considered to be the only form of sterilization appropriate for a body modification studio, although some low-volume home studios may use chemical sterilization.
    • Ruby Ridgway
       
      So when you go in to get a piercing, they don't typically use solution to sterelize anything, they only use the autoclave.
  • Cleaning can be achieved by first putting your tools in a ultrasonic with proper cleaning tablets or Alconox and scrubbing them at least once during the ultra sonic cycle.
    • Ruby Ridgway
       
      What is an ultrasonic? Are they in every shop, or do only certain shops have them?
  • While bleach is far a more powerful anti-microbial agent than alcohol, bleach kits often don't kill Hepatitis, and sometimes don't even kill the AIDS virus
    • Ruby Ridgway
       
      How common is it to contract Hepatitis from an infected piercing?
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  • The CDC (center for disease control) has permitted boiling of needles and medical tools for an hour in extreme cases in areas where autoclaves and other more functional methods are not available.
    • Ruby Ridgway
       
      What piercing case is really that extreme? Or this could mean surgery tools for emergency surgery.
  • staphylococcus bacteria
  • gluteraldehyde based chemical agents
Katie Stevenson

Asthma Facts - 0 views

  • America
  • 40,000 people miss school or work due to asthma. * 30,000 people have an asthma attack. * 5,000 people visit the emergency room due to asthma. * 1,000 people are admitted to the hospital due to asthma. * 11 people die from asthma.
  • 1 in 15 Americans
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  • most common chronic condition among childre
  • common among children (7 to 10%) than adults (3 to 5%)
  • 5 million asthma sufferers are under age 18
  • (44%) of all asthma hospitalizations are for children
  • 4,000 deaths due to asthma each year,
  • Each day 11 Americans die from asthma
  • death rate for children under 19 years old has increased by nearly 80% percent since 1980.
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    About Asthma and the effects it can have
Katie Stevenson

Asthma - 0 views

  • breathing is sometimes difficul
  • Swelling of the lining in the airways
  • Tightening of the muscles around the airways (a spasm)
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  • Extra mucus in the airways
  • lifelong disease which can be controlled with daily medications
  • asthmatic means that there is almost always some inflammation/swelling in the airways.
  • Every child has different and specific triggers
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    About Asthma and the effects it has on the patient
Katie Stevenson

Robert S. Kahn, MD, MPH - 0 views

  • susceptibility to common pediatric conditions such as asthma and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).
  • genetic susceptibility may influence the effects of risks presented by the physical and social environment
  • obtained a Masters in Public Health at Harvard School of Public Health.
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    Robert Kahn researcher on asthma study
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