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Environmental Conservation

Future Clean Energy: The Big Bang of Solar Conversion

Amid mounting agreement that future clean, “carbon-neutral”, energy will rely on efficient conversion of the sun’s light energy into fuels and electric power,…

Health & Medicine

Medication Reduces Myopia Progression in Children’s Eyes

Led by Dr. R. Michael Stiatkowski of Dean McGee Eye Institute/University of Oklahoma Department of Ophthalmology, the researchers evaluated the effects of…

Studies and Analyses

Study Reveals Factors Influencing Satisfaction After Prostatectomy

The study, carried out at the Duke University Medical Center, Durham (US), aimed to identify independent predictors for satisfaction and regret after radical…

Studies and Analyses

On-Demand PDE5 Inhibitors Prove Effective for Erectile Dysfunction

87 centres across Europe, the US, Canada and South Africa participated between December 2004 and September 2007.Nerve-sparing radical prostatectomy (NSRP) is…

Physics & Astronomy

Innovative LIDAR System Captures 3D Atmospheric Data

To make accurate forecasts, meteorologists need data on the vertical distribution of temperature and humidity in the atmosphere. The LIDAR system developed by…

Health & Medicine

Spanish Teens: High Sports Participation and Low Smoking Rates

The article Increase of tobacco consumption and reduction of the physical activity practice level in Spanish adolescents: AVENA Study, published in the journal…

Life & Chemistry

Century old rule of Chemistry overturned – major implications for drug delivery

Overton’s rule says that the easier it is for a chemical to dissolve in a lipid (fat) the easier and faster it will be transported into a cell. The Rule was…

Technology Offerings

Real-Time Gravimetry for Monitoring Small Airborne Particles

The need for environmental monitoring becomes more and more evident on the background of new knowledge concerning noxious effects of fine and particularly…

Technology Offerings

New Model Unveils Insights Into Human Expectations

The invention is a model of human expectations and judgments respectively. When you show some humans the probabilities of some constituent facts and you ask…

Technology Offerings

Miniaturized Frequency-Doubled Lasers: Addressing the Green Problem

Kurzbeschreibung zum Projekt, EN The so-called 'green problem' became relevant with the need to miniaturize cw intracavity frequency doubled solid state…

Technology Offerings

Measuring Adhesion: Key Tests for Polymer and Metal Coatings

While testing the adhesion properties of polymer films upon substrates or metal coatings upon plastics, test procedures like pull-off test or scratch test…

Technology Offerings

New Monoclonal Antibodies Target CCR5 Phosphorylation Sites

Scientists at the Georg-August-University Göttingen produced different monoclonal antibodies directed against phosphorylation sites of CCR5. These antibodies…

Technology Offerings

New Monoclonal Antibody Targets Human Complement Factor H

Scientists at the Georg-August-University produced monoclonal antibodies which react with the polymorphic variant of human complement Factor H (FH-402(His), a…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Molecular Cubes: Harnessing Sunlight to Split Water for Hydrogen

Hydrogen will be one of the most important fuels of the future. It would be ideal to obtain hydrogen by splitting water instead of from petroleum. However, the…

Environmental Conservation

Genetics Unveils Big Fish Species That Nearly Disappeared

Researchers from the University of Hawaii, the Wildlife Conservation Society, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, National Marine Fisheries Service and…

Health & Medicine

Prostate Cancer Treatment: Why Common Drugs May Fail

Some of the drugs given to many men during their fight against prostate cancer can actually spur some cancer cells to grow, researchers have found. The…

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