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Robots that monitor emotions of ASD children
Feb 17, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The day that robot playmates help children with autism learn the social skills that they naturally lack has come a step closer with the development of a system that allows a robot to monitor ...
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Vive the vole!
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Apr 01, 2008 |
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The gathering of data for research involving an animal usually involves invasive procedures or death for the experimental animals. But critical data may now be collected through a nonlethal procedure, according ...
Mechanical ventilation for patients with lung damage don't always work as planned
Nov 12, 2009 |
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As more Canadians are diagnosed with H1N1 influenza infection, some will be admitted to hospital. The most severely affected may be treated in the intensive care unit (ICU) and placed on a mechanical ventilator to help them ...
Tadpoles Used to Rapidly Detect Water Pollution
Dec 03, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Research conducted by University of Wyoming Professor Paul Johnson and others demonstrates that genetically modified tadpoles work well as sensitive monitors for rapidly detecting water pollution.
Mental fatigue can affect physical endurance
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Feb 24, 2009 |
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When participants performed a mentally fatiguing task prior to a difficult exercise test, they reached exhaustion more quickly than when they did the same exercise when mentally rested, a new study finds.
Muscular protein bond -- strongest yet found in nature
Jul 20, 2009 |
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A research collaboration between Munich-based biophysicists and a structural biologist in Hamburg (Germany) is helping to explain why our muscles, and those of other animals, don't simply fall apart under stress. Their findings ...
Brain activity exposes those who break promises
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Dec 09, 2009 |
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Scientists from the University of Zurich have discovered the physiological mechanisms in the brain that underlie broken promises. Patterns of brain activity even enable predicting whether someone will break a promise. The ...
Chronic family turmoil and other problems cause physical changes
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Apr 20, 2007 |
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Adolescents who are chronically exposed to family turmoil, violence, noise, poor housing or other chronic risk factors show more stress-induced physiological strain on their organs and tissues than other young people.
Metabolic factors may play a role in risk for breast cancer
Jun 30, 2009 |
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Physiological changes associated with the metabolic syndrome may play a role in the risk of postmenopausal breast cancer, according to study results published in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, a journal of the ...
Mountaineers measure lowest human blood oxygen levels on record
Jan 07, 2009 |
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The lowest ever levels of oxygen in humans have been reported in climbers on an expedition led by UCL (University College London) doctors. The world-first measurements of blood oxygen levels in climbers near the top of Mount ...
Study identifies genetic variants giving rise to differences in metabolism
Nov 28, 2008 |
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Common genetic polymorphisms induce major differentiations in the metabolic make-up of the human population, according to a paper published November 28 in the open-access journal PLoS Genetics. An international team of res ...
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