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Environmental Conservation

Alpine Bird Decline Linked to High-Altitude Ski Runs

Writing in the January issue of the Journal of Applied Ecology, Italian ecologists warn that ski pistes above the tree line result in fewer species and lower…

Health & Medicine

Travelers’ Knowledge Gaps on Diarrhea Prevention Revealed

A survey of 104 vacationers boarding flights for Mexico revealed that their general level of knowledge about the prevention of this condition was generally…

Health & Medicine

Childhood Abuse Linked to Higher Risk of Psychosis

Using data from a large American epidemiological mental health survey, based on a nationally representative sample of over 5000 people, Dr Mark Shevlin and Dr…

Studies and Analyses

England Football Team Best in World – So Say 1.3 Billion Chinese

Dr Sue Bridgewater, a researcher in the University of Warwick's Warwick Business School carried out research among football fans in China for the English…

Information Technology

ScienceDirect Enhances Search with FAST ESP Innovation

With FAST ESP, ScienceDirect provides a more powerful search experience enabling users to access over eight million full-text scientific, technical and medical…

Life & Chemistry

Bone-degrading substances also produced by gums’ own cells

The findings are important to our understanding of how inflammation leads to loosening of the teeth, arthritic rheumatism, and prostheses detaching from the…

Information Technology

Genedata, ChemAxon Merge to Enhance Lead Discovery Tools

The integrated solution captures and displays discovery relevant information to help researchers identify novel drug candidates.Scientific computing…

Life & Chemistry

Sunshine Pill: Vitamin D Drug for Advanced Prostate Cancer

The drug, Asentar (DN-101), is based on vitamin D and is given to patients in the advanced stages of prostate cancer along with chemotherapy drugs. Drug makers…

Environmental Conservation

Sugar Waste Product Cuts Apple Scab Spore Formation

The Wageningen researchers of the institutes Applied Plant Research (PPO) and Plant Research International (PRI) also found vinasse to considerably stimulate…

Earth Sciences

A graphic and intuitive method allows UGR students to solve Geology problems on-line

The project is entitled “Aplicación de los gráficos animados por ordenador a la enseñanza de problemas de Geología” (An application of on-line animation…

Life & Chemistry

University of Navarra Researchers Identify Thrombosis Cause

The scientific project was undertaken in the Hemostasis and Thrombosis Laboratory. Based on this advance, Digna Biotech, the biotechnology firm that develops…

Communications Media

Unlocking Creativity: Young Filmmakers Share Their Stories

During a number of workshops, children and young people were given the opportunity to make their own animated films. The messages these films contain have now…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Plant Seeds as Medicine: New Antibody Variants Unveiled

They have also demonstrated that these antibody variants are just as active as the whole antibodies that occur naturally in humans. By virtue of their…

Health & Medicine

Smoking, Indoor Air Pollution, and Tuberculosis: New Insights

A new study from Hsien-Ho Lin and colleagues at Harvard School of Public Health reviewed the published evidence for an association between tobacco smoking,…

Health & Medicine

New Proteomic Method Detects Inflammation in Amniotic Fluid

This score has been shown to be able to identify women at risk of preterm delivery. In the current study, the researchers assessed whether MR scores were…

Studies and Analyses

Ghost Authorship Found in 75% of Industry Drug Trials

A study of 44 industry-initiated trials from Denmark in the 1990s found evidence of ghost authorship for 33 trials, which increased to 40 if a person…

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