2 Dutch researchers analyze striking behavior of Web surfers
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What behaviour do website visitors exhibit? Do they buy a specific product mainly on Mondays? Do they always return at a certain time of day? Being able to recognise and make use of such patterns is lucrative business for ...
Supercomputer provides massive computational boost to biomedical research at TGen
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In less time than the blink of an eye, the Translational Genomics Research Institute's new supercomputer at Arizona State University can do operations equal to every dollar in the recent Wall Street bailout.
3.4 million deaths averted through GAVI-funded immunization programs
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3.4 million deaths will be averted in the world's poorest countries through immunisation funded by the GAVI Alliance between 2000 and 2008, according to new data released by the World Health Organization (WHO).
Playing games shows how personalities evolved
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Why do some people co-operate while others are very selfish? Research by the universities of Bristol and Exeter offers a new explanation as to why such a wide range of personality traits has ...
Casino gambling: Hold 'em or fold 'em?
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(PhysOrg.com) -- People who gamble at casinos know when to hold 'em -- or quit while they're ahead -- but have trouble deciding when to fold 'em when they're behind, says a University of Michigan researcher.
Like rest of society, doctors implicitly favor whites over blacks
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In the first large study to explore possible unconscious bias among physicians, researchers have found that doctors mirror the attitudes of the majority in society and implicitly favor whites over blacks.
Research team maps cell interactions
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Proteins make up the machinery of the cell. Their interaction with each other is responsible for how the cell functions within a living organism. Intrigued by what these interactions may look like, scientists ...
Pay for performance has improved blood pressure monitoring and reduced health inequalities
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Pay for performance has substantially improved blood pressure monitoring and control in England, and the difference in monitoring levels between the most and least deprived areas has all but disappeared.
Scientist clears hurdles for muscular dystrophy therapy
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Approximately 250,000 people in the United States have some form of muscular dystrophy. Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is the most common type of the disease, predominantly affecting males. Boys with DMD will lose the ...
Candidate markers for gastric cancer
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The sequencing of the human genome has opened the door for proteomics by providing a sequence-based framework for mining proteomes. As a result, there is intense interest in applying proteomics to foster a better understanding ...
Predatory bacterial swarm uses rippling motion to reach prey
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Like something from a horror movie, the swarm of bacteria ripples purposefully toward their prey, devours it and moves on. Researchers at the University of Iowa are studying this behavior in Myxococcus xanthus (M. xanthus), a bact ...
Play at your own risk
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Taking up bowling or tennis is an excellent way to stay fit. But if you're not careful, you might find that these amateur sports can have unexpected long-term health risks.
Records dating back to Thoreau show some sharp shifts in plant flowering near Walden Pond
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Drawing on records dating back to the journals of Henry David Thoreau, scientists at Harvard University have found that different plant families near Walden Pond in Concord, Mass., have borne the effects ...
Membrane fusion at the synapse: Janus faced synaptotagmin-1 helps to keep the fast pace
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Imagine a bathtub with two soap bubbles colliding but never fusing. Then you add detergent, and the surface of the water goes flat as the walls of the bubbles collapse and merge.
Abducted children: Conventional photos alone don't aid the search
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People's ability to recognise abducted children is impaired when they view a photo of a smiling, clean child, but come into contact with the same child whose appearance is very different because he or she is upset, crying, ...
