Nursing and healthcare staff who took part in a specially developed online infection control course said that it had improved their infection control…
The tests produced promising results that offer a basis for the further development of measures to protect against oil-spills in ice-infested regions.World’s…
Germans are considered to be sedentary and unwilling to leave their familiar surroundings, but the labour market requires more mobile and flexible workers than…
If this defense system fails, conditions such as allergies and autoimmune diseases can develop. The German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft…
This ability, known as orientation memory, is found in primates and has now also been observed in fruit flies. “We can say for certain now that flies have an…
This is made possible by an insulating sheath of myelin that forms at certain intervals around the axonal extensions of nerve cells that specialize in the…
For Professor Bernd Schöne, however, these hard calcium shells provide a profound insight into the history of our earth and especially into the climate of the…
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the biggest killer among chronic diseases, claiming 17 million lives globally every year. Yet doctors can only attribute 50% of…
According to their work, the risk of developing asthma was reduced by 63% in those whose mothers had been given fish oil supplements during the last trimester…
After completing their simulation component in the German-Indonesian Tsunami Early Warning System (GITEWS), the team for tsunami modelling of the Alfred…
“Take Your Innovation to the Market”. www.tbpc-astf.netDeadline for applying is: 22 July 2008The Arab Technology Business Plan Competition is a regional…
For three years, a new way to use data collected by NOAA weather satellites has been giving North Alabama short-term warnings of “pop-up” thunderstorms.Developed by scientists at The University of Alabama in Huntsville, this new computer program is now spreading to other parts of the U.S. and the world. Later this summer a version of the UAHuntsville weather program will begin forecasting storms throughout Central America, Southern Mexico and the Dominican Republic….
“We discovered that the European starling (found throughout Eurasia and North-America) and the zebrafinch (found in Australia and Indonesia) control their…
Lawmakers in several U.S. states and two Canadian provinces have approved an agreement designed to safeguard the world’s largest freshwater source – the Great…
Iowa State University and University of Hawai‘i researchers have won national recognition for their work to grow microscopic fungus in leftovers from ethanol…
On June 23, Senator Brown was joined by co-sponsoring Senators Kent Conrad (D-ND), Charles Grassley (R-IA), Russ Feingold (D-WI), Tom Harkin (D-IA), Ken…
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