The preterm birth rate rose again in 2005 and preliminary data for 2006 show a continued increase, underscoring the urgent need for a sustained, comprehensive…
Described as a hotspot of botanical diversity, there are more than 20,000 indigenous plant species in South Africa. Several thousand of them are used by…
The findings, published in the December issue of the international peer-reviewed journal Public Health Nutrition, show that the frequency of students' fruit…
A new study by one of the world’s leading forestry research institutes warns that the new push to “reduce emissions from deforestation and degradation,” known…
By introducing a gene mutation in mice, investigators have created what they believe to be the first accurate model of autism not associated with a broader…
The study, published December 7 in PLoS Computational Biology, combines data from influenza infections of human volunteers with a mathematical model which…
The new study issued by the Photonics21 technology platform together with the European Commission and entitled “Photonics in Europe” predicts a bright future…
It has for some years been recognised, using information from death certificates, that there is an excess of deaths from coronary heart disease (CHD) and…
The new study looked at the effects on 60 people with mild and moderate asthma of walking along the western end of busy Oxford Street in London, where only…
A report from University of Leicester crime research company PRCI reveals that businesses face a massive hit on their profit margins- because employees are…
This research, which was conducted by Francisco Manuel Parrilla Ruiz, from the Department of Medicine at the University of Granada, and directed by lecturer…
Both the National Curriculum for England (DfEE/QCA, 2000) and the new Framework for Literacy (DES/PNS, 2006) concentrate on the formation and orientation of…
A research study published in the October 2007 issue of HortScience found that consumers don't like blemishes—on apples, that is. The study of consumer values…
“Our findings have important clinical implications,” said study author Michel D. Ferrari, MD, PhD, with Leiden University Medical Centre in the Netherlands….
The most extensive and detailed study to date of 130 North American tree species concludes that expected climate change this century could shift their ranges…
Today a pronounced and stable freshwater layer at the surface originating from inputs of the large Russian rivers almost completely prevents any significant…
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