News tagged with travel distance
New DVT guidelines: No evidence to support 'economy class syndrome'
New evidence-based guidelines from the American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP) address the many risk factors for developing a deep vein thrombosis (DVT), or blood clot, as the result of long-distance travel. These risk ...
Feb 07, 2012 |
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Domestic consumption main contributor to Africa's growing e-waste
West Africa faces a rising tide of e-waste generated by domestic consumption of new and used electrical and electronic equipment, according to a new United Nations report. Domestic consumption makes up the majority (up to ...
Feb 10, 2012 |
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Transparent iron? For the first time, an experiment shows that atomic nuclei can become transparent
At the high-brilliance synchrotron light source PETRA III, a team of DESY scientists headed by Dr. Ralf Röhlsberger has succeeded in making atomic nuclei transparent with the help of X-ray light. At the ...
Feb 08, 2012 |
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New study links high levels of cadmium, lead in blood to pregnancy delay
Higher blood levels of cadmium in females, and higher blood levels of lead in males, delayed pregnancy in couples trying to become pregnant, according to a study by researchers at the National Institutes of Health and other ...
Feb 08, 2012 |
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Online support following joint replacement surgery is cost and time effective for patients
Patients who have had total joint replacement (TJR) are expected to return to their physician's office or clinic regularly for routine follow-up care. In a new study presented today at the 2012 Annual Meeting of the American ...
Feb 08, 2012 |
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Scientists predict where seabirds forage
Researchers have used information about seabird colonies and food availability to create a mathematical model which predicts where they forage for food during the breeding season.
Feb 07, 2012 |
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A quantum connection between light and motion
(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists have demonstrated a system in which light is used to control the motion of an object that is large enough to be seen with the naked eye at the level where quantum mechanics governs ...
Feb 06, 2012 |
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Progress and promise in DIAL LIDAR
For climatologists and environmental policy makers who need to determine the flux of greenhouse gases (GHG), there are three paramount questions: Where is it, how much is there, and how is it moving? A new ...
Feb 06, 2012 |
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VIIRS eastern hemisphere image: Behind the scenes
(PhysOrg.com) -- The Suomi NPP satellite is in a polar orbit around Earth at an altitude of 512 miles (about 824 kilometers), but the perspective of the new Eastern hemisphere 'Blue Marble' is from 7,918 miles ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 03, 2012 |
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Wireless power could revolutionize highway transportation, researchers say
A Stanford University research team has designed a high-efficiency charging system that uses magnetic fields to wirelessly transmit large electric currents between metal coils placed several feet apart. The ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Feb 01, 2012 |
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Remote sensing places nature at our fingertips
When the crew of Apollo 17 snapped the famous Blue Marble photo of Earth in 1972, they gave humanity its first truly global perspective on the planet we all call home. The image helped spark recognition of ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jan 30, 2012 |
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