Commercialization of air traffic control greatly improves performance
Apr 22, 2008 |
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The air transportation industry is imperative to modern society. This industry depends, in turn, on a network of air navigation service providers (ANSPs) to manage the flow of air traffic. A new study in Canadian Public Ad ...
Data mining personnel
Apr 22, 2008 |
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With the dark clouds of global recession now is the time for companies to make the most of their most valuable assets - their personnel. Writing in a forthcoming issue of the International Journal of Business Information Sy ...
Bird migration from Africa in decline
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Apr 22, 2008 |
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British researchers said it appears the number of birds that migrate to Europe from Africa every spring is in decline.
'Crime Scene Investigation' methods could help in the battle against hospital infections
Apr 22, 2008 |
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Inspired by the popular television drama CSI, investigators in the Netherlands have trialed methods used by forensic scientists at crime scenes to highlight infection risks in their hospital. Researchers at Deventer Hospital ...
Black women have urinary incontinence less than half as often as white women
Apr 22, 2008 |
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The good news for black women: They have less than half the chance of developing urinary incontinence as do white women, according to a new study from the University of Michigan Health System.
China world's largest Internet market
Apr 22, 2008 |
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A Chinese research firm said China has surpassed the United States as the world's largest Internet market based on number of users.
Women 80 and older benefit from mammography, but few are screened
Apr 22, 2008 |
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In the first study to assess mammography in women 80 and older, researchers found that having regular mammograms significantly decreases the risk of being diagnosed with late-stage breast cancer, but only about one-fifth ...
Sickest patients still struggle under new Medicare Part D benefit
Apr 22, 2008 |
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A recent study finds that the advantages of the new Medicare Part D drug benefit—a program that for the first time offers Medicare recipients prescription drug coverage—are mixed. On the one hand, both healthy and sick beneficiaries ...
NIAID describes research priorities to fight drug-resistant tuberculosis
Apr 22, 2008 |
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Tuberculosis (TB) has long been one of the world’s great killers. Now, forms of drug-resistant TB--multidrug (MDR) and extensively drug-resistant (XDR)--are occurring at an ominous and accelerating rate. To help in the fight ...
Transgenic Goats' Milk Helps Fend off E. coli-related Illness in Pigs
Apr 22, 2008 |
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Pigs fed goats' milk that was genetically modified to carry an important antibacterial enzyme found in human breast milk showed signs of better resisting attack by common E. coli bacteria than did pigs fed unmodified goats' ...
Drug-releasing stent shows promise for improving outcomes in patients with coronary artery disease
Apr 22, 2008 |
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For patients who underwent angioplasty to open narrowed coronary arteries, the use of stents releasing the drug everolimus reduced the rate of renarrowing of the arteries and significantly reduced the risk of major cardiac ...
Numerical information can be persuasive or informative depending on how it's presented
Apr 22, 2008 |
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Would you rather support research for a disease that affects 30,000 Americans a year or one that affects just .01 percent of the U.S. population?
Companies do not always release important information
Apr 22, 2008 |
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The study, led by Karen Lightstone, PhD, CA, of Saint Mary’s University in Nova Scotia, Canada, focused on companies that had received a cease-trading order (CTO), indicating that the investor could not sell shares and that ...
Herbicide-tolerant crops can improve water quality
Apr 22, 2008 |
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The residual herbicides commonly used in the production of corn and soybean are frequently detected in rivers, streams, and reservoirs at concentrations that exceed drinking water standards in areas where these crops are ...
Costs, considerations of switching to natural or organic methods
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Apr 22, 2008 |
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When Kansas State University graduate student Ben Wileman was a practicing veterinarian in Belle Fourche, S.D., natural and organic labels were a big focus for the beef producers he saw.
