News tagged with geographic profiling
Geographic profiling applied to track hunting patterns of white sharks in South Africa
Jun 22, 2009 |
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Predation is one of the most fundamental and fascinating interactions in nature, and sharks are some of the fiercest predators on Earth. However, their hunting pattern is difficult to study because it is rarely ...
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Great white sharks hunt just like Hannibal Lecter
Jun 22, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Great white sharks have some things in common with human serial killers, a new study says: They don't attack at random, but stalk specific victims, lurking out of sight.
Gene linked with human kidney aging
Oct 16, 2009 |
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A gene has been associated with human kidney aging, according to researchers from Stanford University, the National Institute on Aging, the MedStar Research Institute, and the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology. In work ...
Serum bile acid profiling for inflammatory bowel disease characterization
Jul 16, 2009 |
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Based on serum bank material, BA profiling was applied in IBD patients and healthy controls which showed that most but not all BA species were decreased to a different extent in CD and UC. BA decreases were highly pronounced ...
Predicting cancer prognosis
Aug 27, 2009 |
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Researchers led by Dr. Soheil Dadras at the Stanford University Medical Center have developed a novel methodology to extract microRNAs from cancer tissues. The related report by Ma et al, "Profiling and discovery of novel ...
New report: Light brown apple moth classification for eradication and quarantine was justified
Sep 14, 2009 |
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A new report from the National Research Council finds that the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is within its broad regulatory authority to classify California's invasive ...
Chemosensitivity of cancer cells depends on their protein dependency
Oct 26, 2009 |
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Two different anti-apoptotic proteins support cancer cell survival via an identical mechanism, yet differ in their sensitivity to chemotherapeutic drugs, report Brunelle et al. The study will be published ...
The buzz of the chase
Jul 30, 2008 |
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Scientists from Queen Mary, University of London are helping to perfect a technique used to catch serial killers, by testing it on bumblebees.
Study finds nontuberculous mycobacteria lung disease on the rise in the United States
Sep 24, 2009 |
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Nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) are environmental organisms found in both water and soil that can cause severe pulmonary (lung) disease in humans. Pulmonary NTM is on the rise in the United States, according to a large ...
Online social networks leak personal information to tracking sites, new study shows
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Aug 24, 2009 |
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More than a half billion people use online social networks, posting vast amounts of information about themselves to share with online friends and colleagues. A new study co-authored by a researcher at Worcester Polytechnic ...
Facebook change gives users more privacy controls
Dec 09, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Facebook is giving users better control over who sees information on their personal pages.
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