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Ohio school district sues over air pollution

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 28, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- A school district near Cincinnati is suing a plastics plant, accusing it of continuing to release chemicals in the air that exceed government safety standards.


Teachers begin using cell phones for class lessons

Technology / Hi Tech

created Nov 27, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(AP) -- Ariana Leonard's high school students shuffled in their seats, eagerly awaiting a cue from their Spanish teacher that the assignment would begin. "Take out your cell phones," she said in Spanish.


Plan to breed lab monkeys splits Puerto Rican town (AP)

Plan to breed lab monkeys splits Puerto Rican town

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Puerto Rico has such a bad history with research monkeys running amok that some residents are stunned that its government has tentatively approved a plan to import and breed thousands of primates ...


Financial restructuring in fresh-start chapter 11 reorganizations

Other Sciences / Economics

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The effectiveness of the existing bankruptcy code has long been a source of vigorous debate. More and more lately, high-profile firms like General Motors, Enron, and K-Mart are seeking protection from creditors through Chapter ...


First Step To Success steps up in Albuquerque schools

First Step To Success steps up in Albuquerque schools

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created 23 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A school-based behavioral intervention program developed under a federal grant in the mid-1990s at the University of Oregon, already in widespread use, now has shown real value on a complex stage, scoring ...


School closure could reduce swine flu transmission by 21 percent

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Nov 27, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A survey carried out in eight European countries has shown that closing schools in the event of an infectious disease pandemic could have a significant role in reducing illness transmission. Researchers writing in the open ...


Sleep changes predict the onset of physical changes associated with puberty

Medicine & Health / Health

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A study in the Dec.1 issue of the journal Sleep suggests that changes in children's sleep patterns that typically occur between the ages of 11 and 12 years are evident before the physical changes associated with the onset ...


Explained: The Discrete Fourier Transform

Explained: The Discrete Fourier Transform

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (34) | comments 9

(PhysOrg.com) -- In 1811, Joseph Fourier, the 43-year-old prefect of the French district of Isčre, entered a competition in heat research sponsored by the French Academy of Sciences. The paper he submitted ...


Hormone ghrelin can boost resistance to Parkinson's disease

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Ghrelin, a hormone produced in the stomach, may be used to boost resistance to, or slow, the development of Parkinson's disease, Yale School of Medicine researchers report in a study published in a recent issue of the Journal of ...


Pancreatic tumors are marked for immunotherapy

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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Pancreatic tumors can be identified by a readily detectable marker that shows promise as a basis for immune therapy against the disease, according to research at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.



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