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Business and Finance

Hedge Fund Share Restrictions: Managers Gain Over Investors

Armed with insider knowledge, managers of share-restricted hedge funds sell off their own holdings ahead of their investors in order to avoid low returns…

Studies and Analyses

Do Babies Really Forget? New Insights on Infant Memory

These days, psychologists know that isn't true: for young babies, out of sight doesn't automatically mean out of mind. But how much do babies remember about…

Business and Finance

Spatial Factors Drive Economic Growth in Thailand: A Study

The study, which examines growth in the Thai economy between 1986 and 1996, shows that a high concentration of enterprise in an area predicts high subsequent…

Health & Medicine

NIH Uncovers New Approach to Cancer Therapies with EETs

This research is the first to show that EETs work in concert with vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), a protein known to induce blood vessel growth….

Studies and Analyses

Acupuncture reduces protein linked to stress in first of its kind animal study

Acupuncture significantly reduces levels of a protein in rats linked to chronic stress, researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC) have found….

Life & Chemistry

San Diego Zoo Uncovers Two Crocodile Species Using Mummy DNA

“This paper provides a remarkable surprise: the Nile crocodile is not a single species, as previously thought, but instead demonstrates two species – living…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

New Insights Enhance Crop Drought Tolerance Efforts

When a plant encounters drought, it does its best to cope with this stress by activating a set of protein molecules called receptors. These receptors, once…

Life & Chemistry

UCF Nanotechnology: Accelerating Drug Testing with Qdots

Some drug testing can take a decade or more, but UCF associate professor Swadeshmukul Santra and his team have created an electronic quantum dots (Qdots) probe…

Life & Chemistry

Bone marrow-derived cells differentiate in the brain through mechanisms of plasticity

Many BMDC studies have been aimed at repairing damaged brain tissue or helping to restore lost neural function, with much research focused on BMDC transplants…

Physics & Astronomy

Enhancing Laser-Manufacturing Techniques with Ultrafast Pulses

Ultrafast laser pulses are used to create features and surface textures in metals, ceramics and other materials for applications including the manufacture of…

Life & Chemistry

Hellbender Salamander Study Aims to Uncover Amphibian Decline

Published today in the online journal PLoS One, the study details changes in the salamander's declining health and habitat, and could provide a baseline for…

Health & Medicine

New Blood Pressure Predictor for Heart Attack Risk Revealed

A hike in your blood pressure during middle age significantly raises the risk of having a heart attack or a stroke during your lifetime, according to new…

Health & Medicine

Pet Kidney Injuries Mirror Human Conditions, MU Research Finds

When evaluating early kidney injuries in people, doctors monitor blood level increases of creatinine, a waste product of muscle breakdown, to understand the…

Physics & Astronomy

Measuring Nanometer Scale Temperature in Polymer Films

Atomic force microscope cantilever tips with integrated heaters are widely used to characterize polymer films in electronics and optical devices,…

Life & Chemistry

Salk discovery may lead to safer treatments for asthma, allergies and arthritis

Scientists have discovered a missing link between the body's biological clock and sugar metabolism system, a finding that may help avoid the serious side…

Technology Offerings

TAPPIR® – Tunable Aqueous Polymer Phase Impregnated Resins

Aqueous Two-Phase Extraction (ATPE) is a process proved efficient for the gentle purification of various biomolecules. Fast mass transfer rates and less damage…

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