News tagged with average
Scientists warn on climate tipping points
Mar 17, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A survey of top climate scientists has revealed there is a real chance of key climate tipping points being passed with serious consequences for the planet.
Global warming link to amphibian declines in doubt
Nov 12, 2008 |
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Evidence that global warming is causing the worldwide declines of amphibians may not be as conclusive as previously thought, according to biologists. The findings, which contradict two widely held views, could help reveal ...
Subterranean oceans on Saturn's moon Titan
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Apr 06, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Saturn's largest moon, Titan, may have a subterranean ocean of hydrocarbons and some topsy-turvy topography in which the summits of its mountains lie lower than its average surface elevation, ...
Vast expanses of Arctic ice melt in summer heat
Aug 09, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The Arctic Ocean has given up tens of thousands more square miles (square kilometers) of ice on Sunday in a relentless summer of melt, with scientists watching through satellite eyes for a possible ...
They are rich who have true friends - mates are key to happiness, new research shows
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Oct 24, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- When friends meet, hearts warm, according to the old proverb — and new research from The University of Nottingham backs this up.
Global glacier melt continues
Jan 29, 2009 |
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Glaciers around the globe continue to melt at high rates. Tentative figures for the year 2007, of the World Glacier Monitoring Service at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, indicate a further loss of average ice thickness ...
Linking Climate Change in Siberia and Britain
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 23, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have for first time demonstrated a critical link between the Siberian climate and the circulation of the major current system which gives us our mild winters here in the UK. This new understanding ...
Using math model, NJIT professor names MVP and Cy Young award contenders
Oct 15, 2008 |
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NJIT's Bruce Bukiet, a mathematician who has applied mathematical modeling techniques to elucidate the dynamics of run scoring in baseball, is now applying his methods to ascertain the players most deserving of major league ...
Households significantly reduce electricity use when prices rise
Oct 29, 2008 |
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A new study in the RAND Journal of Economics examined how quickly households change their electricity use when prices rise and fall rapidly. Results show that when electricity prices increase, the average household rapidl ...
Disparities in head and neck cancer patients
Oct 06, 2008 |
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A new analysis finds considerable disparities in survival related to race and socio-economic status among patients with head and neck cancer. Published in the November 15, 2008 issue of Cancer, a peer-reviewed journal of the ...
Black women in the U.S. appear to be shrinking, data show
Dec 26, 2008 |
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Call her The Incredible Shrinking African-American Woman. In an age when the adult populations of most industrialized nations have grown significantly taller, the average height of black women in the U.S. has been receding, ...
Children with TVs in their room sleep less
Sep 02, 2008 |
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Middle school children who have a television or computer in their room sleep less during the school year, watch more TV, play more computer games and surf the net more than their peers who don't – reveals joint research conducted ...
'Office of the future' environment study
Aug 02, 2008 |
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Mayo Clinic endocrinologist James Levine, M.D., Ph.D., has continued his research in environment-changing innovations with a six-month study of a real-life office that was re-engineered to increase daily physical activity ...
'Old blood' linked to infection
Oct 28, 2008 |
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Blood stored for 29 days or more, nearly 2 weeks less than the current standard for blood storage, is associated with a higher infection rate in patients who received transfusions with the blood. In a new study presented ...
Cholesterol drugs lower risk of stroke for elderly too
Sep 03, 2008 |
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Elderly people who take a cholesterol drug after a stroke or mini-stroke lower their risk of having another stroke just as much as younger people in the same situation, according to research published in the September 3, ...
