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Burnout and Mental Distress Strongly Related to Errors by U.S. Surgeons

VIDEO ALERT: Additional audio and video resources,including excerpts from an interview with Dr. Shanafelt describing the research, are available on the Mayo…

Physics & Astronomy

With 1st Neutrino Events, Multinational Team In Japan Takes 1st Step To Answering Why Only Matter In Universe

Protons from the 30-GeV Main Ring synchrotron were directed onto a carbon target, where their collisions produced charged particles called pions. These pions…

Life & Chemistry

In Type 2 Diabetes, Mitochondrial Damage Kills Insulin-Producing Cells

Curiously enough, the failure arises when the insulin-producing “beta” cells, located in the pancreas, themselves fail to import insulin properly. Similar…

Physics & Astronomy

A Mechanical Model of Vocalization

“Voice disorders affect 30 percent of the general population and up to 60 percent of educators,” says Plesniak. “The objective of our work is to develop a…

Medical Engineering

New Tool for Helping Pediatric Heart Surgery

The researchers will present their work next week at the 62nd Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society's (APS) Division of Fluid Dynamics will take…

Physics & Astronomy

Wind Farm Design Borrows Strategy from Schooling Fish

Robert Whittlesey and John Dabiri of the California Institute of Technology have developed a potentially more efficient wind farm design that maximizes the…

Machine Engineering

Siemens’ Sirius Modular System Boosts Efficiency in Automation

With its new Sirius Modular System for industrial controls, Siemens has succeeded not only in cutting down on the amount of wiring work but also in reducing…

Technology Offerings

Innovative Micro-Structured Surfaces via Ultra-Short Laser Pulses

The main invention content is a construction for the production of micro-structured function surface on substrates with ultra-short laser pulse of specific…

Technology Offerings

Tailored Cancer Therapy: Overcoming TRAIL Resistance in Patients

TRAIL has recently emerged as a novel potential anticancer agent. However, cancer cells are in specific patients resistant to TRAIL induced apoptosis….

Social Sciences

Homeowners vs. Renters: Who’s Greener in Waste Separation?

Preliminary results from 1500 respondents show that those who own their own home are more likely to separate their rubbish (83 per cent) than those in rented…

Studies and Analyses

Daycare Doubles Screen Time for Young Children, New Study Reveals

In a new study, the amount of television viewed by many young children in child care settings doubles the previous estimates of early childhood screen time,…

Studies and Analyses

Chemotherapy’s Impact: Insomnia in Cancer Patients Revealed

Three quarters of cancer patients and survivors treated with chemotherapy suffer insomnia or sleep disorders that often become chronic conditions, hindering…

Health & Medicine

Johns Hopkins Identifies Protein Linked to Nasal Polyp Growth

A protein known to stimulate blood vessel growth has now been found to be responsible for the cell overgrowth in the development of polyps that characterize…

Physics & Astronomy

New Modeling Methodology for Underground Carbon Fate

A team of researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has developed a new modeling methodology for determining the capacity and assessing the…

Life & Chemistry

New cancer target for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma

Physician-scientists from Weill Cornell Medical College have discovered a molecular mechanism that may prove to be a powerful target for the treatment of…

Life & Chemistry

New Hydrogen-Storage Method Transforms Energy Solutions

The discovery paves the way for an entirely new way to approach the hydrogen-storage problem. The researchers found that the normally unreactive, noble gas…

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