News tagged with flow systems

A novel hypothesis for beetle diversification -- Loss of flight promotes beetle diversification

Professor Teiji Sota, Department of Zoology at Kyoto University, and his group demonstrated that loss of flight has been the major driving force for beetle diversification. This finding has been published ...

Biology / Ecology

created Feb 03, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Risk factors for CCSVI are similar to risk factors for developing MS, study shows

The first study to investigate risk factors for the vascular condition called CCSVI (chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency) in volunteers without neurological disease has identified what the researchers call a remarkable ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Nov 30, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Gelatin-based nanoparticle treatment may be a more effective clot buster

A targeted, nanoparticle gelatin-based clot-busting treatment dissolved significantly more blood clots than a currently used drug in an animal study of acute coronary syndrome presented at the American Heart Association's ...

Medicine & Health / Cardiology

created Nov 14, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Relief from 'parking wars': Researcher develops computer software to revamp city parking

For those who live or work in cities, parking is a major source of stress and frustration. Researchers estimate that for every 110 vehicles circulating on the roads looking for spaces, there are 100 available spots, both ...

Technology / Engineering

created Oct 31, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Some link between CCSVI and MS but quality of evidence prevents definitive conclusion

Chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency (CCSVI) appears to be more common in people with multiple sclerosis than in people without the condition, states a review of published studies in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Associati ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 03, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Pressurized vascular systems for self-healing materials

Artificial microvascular systems for self-repair of materials damage, such as cracks in a coating applied to a building or bridge, have relied on capillary force for transport of the healing agents. Now, researchers at the ...

Chemistry / Other

created Sep 29, 2011 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Trauma drama: researches investigate 'drama queen' of immune system

Kansas State University's Sherry Fleming is investigating the factor that initiates the immune system's "drama queen": the one responsible for intestinal cell damage after hemorrhage.

Medicine & Health / Research

created Aug 08, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Seeing the S-curve in everything

Esses are everywhere. From economic trends, population growth, the spread of cancer, or the adoption of new technology, certain patterns inevitably seem to emerge. A new technology, for example, begins with ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jul 20, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (7) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

New research redraws pancreas anatomy

(Medical Xpress) -- Research from Karolinska Institutet shows that insulin secretion in the pancreas is not under direct neural control, as has previously been thought. The few nerves that are present are connected to blood ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jul 06, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Doctors devise method of testing blood pressure using ultrasound

(PhysOrg.com) -- In what can only be described as insightful, two doctors from The Netherlands, working with Italian imaging companies, have devised a means to use ultrasound to measure blood pressure. The technology, more ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jun 16, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast report

Examining the brain as a neural information super-highway

An article demonstrating how tools for modeling traffic on the Internet and telephone systems can be used to study information flow in brain networks will be published in the open-access journal PLoS Computational Biology on 2nd ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Jun 02, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Is March Madness always the same?

Why is it that the same teams seem to dominate the annual men's collegiate basketball tournament? For that matter, why does the same small group of institutions seem to top annual best-college rankings?

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Mar 01, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

A clearer picture of how rivers and deltas develop

By adding information about the subsoil to an existing sedimentation and erosion model, researchers at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft, The Netherlands) have obtained a clearer picture of how rivers ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jan 25, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Vitamin C: A potential life-saving treatment for sepsis

Physicians caring for patients with sepsis may soon have a new safe and cost-effective treatment for this life-threatening illness. Research led by Dr. Karel Tyml and his colleagues at The University of Western Ontario and ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 17, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (8) | comments 1

Study reveals promising techniques for extending the life of an organ transplant

Experts from the Medical Research Council (MRC) Centre for Transplantation at King's College London, based at Guy's Hospital, have revealed exciting new scientific developments for people with an organ transplant, intended ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Sep 15, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0