News tagged with spatial distribution
Sustainable interventions key to successful schistosomiasis control
May 05, 2009 |
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A decade after the conclusion of a schistosomiasis control program in Mali, prevalence of the disease had regressed to pre-intervention levels, according to a study published May 5 in the open-access journal PLoS Neglected Tr ...
Fingerprinting slow earthquakes (w/Podcast)
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Apr 23, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The most powerful earthquakes happen at the junction of two converging tectonic plates, where one plate is sliding (or subducting) beneath the other. Now a team of researchers, led by Teh-Ru ...
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Perennial vegetation, an indicator of desertification in Spain
Sep 04, 2009 |
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A team of scientists has analyzed 29 esparto fields from Guadalajara to Murcia and has concluded that perennial vegetation cover is an efficient early warning system against desertification in these ecosystems. ...
Using neutron-computed tomography techniques, scientist measure in-situ water content
Sep 08, 2008 |
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Scientists at the University of California in Davis present results from a newly developed non-invasive technique that uses thermal neutron attenuation to measure spatial and temporal distribution of water in soils. The study, ...
No place like home: Africa's big cats show postcode preference
Oct 09, 2009 |
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The secret lives of some of Africa's iconic carnivores, including big cats, are revealed in a new study in Animal Conservation, today.
Microscope Sees with Nanoscale Resolution
Jan 28, 2008 |
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Researchers have recently built an x-ray microscope that has a pixel resolution of just 15 nanometers, allowing scientists to study the properties of materials at the molecular scale and beyond.
Astronomers get best view yet of infant stars at feeding time
Oct 10, 2008 |
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Astronomers have used ESO's Very Large Telescope Interferometer to conduct the first high resolution survey that combines spectroscopy and interferometry on intermediate-mass infant stars. They obtained a ...
Young stellar objects: The source of gas emission around Herbig Ae/Be stars
Oct 10, 2008 |
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This week, Astronomy & Astrophysics is publishing new observations with AMBER/VLTI of the gas component in the vicinity of young stars. An international team of astronomers led by E. Tatulli (Grenoble, France) and S. Kra ...
On the trail of polar lows
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 12, 2008 |
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This has made it possible to determine, for the first time, the frequency of such polar lows in the past.
Coronary calcium distribution tied to heart attack risk
May 27, 2008 |
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A new calcium scoring method may better predict a person’s risk of heart attack, according to a new multicenter study published in the June issue of the journal Radiology. Calcium coverage scoring takes into account not on ...
Nature study demonstrates that bacterial clotting depends on clustering
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Nov 02, 2008 |
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Bacteria can directly cause human blood and plasma to clot—a process that was previously thought to have been lost during the course of vertebrate evolution, according to new research at the University of Chicago, National ...
New research challenges previous knowledge about the origins of urbanization
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Aug 30, 2007 |
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Ancient cities arose not by decree from a centralized political power, as was previously widely believed, but as the outgrowth of decisions made by smaller groups or individuals, according to a new study from ...
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