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Intermodal Shipments, Warehousing, and Third Parties: A Special Measurement Issue
The Commodity Flow Survey CFS is designed to capture shipments moving by more than one mode, but appears to significantly under represent intermodal shipments. Possible reasons include gaps in coverage of shippers, misclassification of shipments because the shipper outsourced supply chain management or the carrier changed modes, and disparities between...
Procurement of Federal Property for Light Rail Transit: Case Study of the Minneapolis Hiawatha Line
The building of the Gold Line using the DB model has been an enriching experience to all the members of the PMC Program Management Consultant and the Design-Builders. There have been many lessons learned during the course of bringing LRT to the communities affected by the Gold Line. This paper...
Complex and Interdependent Systems
When modeling terrorist networks and homeland systems, knowledge of the associated "architectural" framework - including its characteristic state variables1 - is essential. Understanding counterterrorism as a "system of systems" is essential, because the outputs of the terrorism network are the same four types of risk that constitute the inputs to...
Architecture for an Emergency Lane on the NII: Crisis Information Management
The national information infrastructure NII with its new information technologies, properly applied, has the ability to greatly improve disaster preparation and response, thereby reducing the cost of these operations. Within this paper suggestion have been made to build a command and control, computing, communications, and intelligence (C4I) system for civilian...
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Veterans not guinea pigs
Regarding your editorial "Test-vets deserve care" (June 16), you chastised the Veterans Affairs and Department of Defense for not supporting legislation to give medical care benefits to veterans supposedly exposed to and used as guinea pigs in dangerous chemical and germ tests. You failed to report that the so-called exposure...
4-H Responds to Groundbreaking Report Offering a Solution to America's Need for Future Scientific Leaders
4-H Announces National Youth Science Day Encouraging Youth Involvement in Science; Names Five States to Receive Grants for 4-H Science and Water Conservation Program CHEVY CHASE, Md. -- 4-H, America's largest youth development organization serving 6 million young people worldwide, announced that its university-based, out-of-school programming, which includes...
Lifestyle Changes Affect Cancer Genes
Genes may not fully control your destiny when it comes to cancer risk, according to a new study of men with prostate cancer. New research suggests that stringent dietary changes, getting more exercise and practicing stress reduction can change the expression of hundreds of genes. Some of the changes positively...
Brain Stem Cells Can Be Awakened, Say Schepens Scientists
Study Findings Promise to help in treatment of brain diseases BOSTON, June 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Scientists at Schepens Eye Research Institute have identified specific molecules in the brain that are responsible for awakening and putting to sleep brain stem cells, which, when activated, can transform into neurons...
Weight Management Solution Helps You Lose or Gain as Much Weight as You Choose
TUCSON, Ariz., June 5 /PRNewswire/ -- You can lose 15 pounds, 150 pounds and more, or even gain weight if you are below your ideal weight according to a new weight management system designed by Michael Dow, a new author. (Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20080605/NYFNSA03 ) Dow...
Newark High School Students and Research Scientists Discuss Challenges of Making Medicines
New Educational Program Improves Science Education, Focuses on Career Opportunities NEWARK, N.J. -- More than 75 Newark high school students and teachers today probe the challenges and complexities of making medicines when they interact with research scientists in a roundtable discussion sponsored by RxeSEARCH, a new educational program...
What we learned as kids, but forgot
Though being outside can lower stress and improve mood, we're logging fewer hours than ever outdoors, found the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. "Now it's more common to see nature on TV," says co-author Patricia Zaradic, Ph.D. "But it's the hands-on experience that provides the most benefits." Take...
American School Bus Council Urges Parents to Talk About Vehicle Safety This Summer and 'Get On the Bus' Next School Year
New Children's Book Outlines Safety Tips for Riding the Yellow School Bus WASHINGTON, May 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Amid recent reports highlighting the dangers of teen driving, the American School Bus Council ASBC today urged parents to talk to their kids about vehicle safety and encourage them to...
DNA change no good for diabetics: increased protein production stimulates blood vessel growth and may lead to blindness and kidney failure
A TWEAK TO A DIABETIC'S DNA COULD TIP the balance toward blindness and kidney failure, a new study shows. Natural variation in just a single base pair--letters of the genetic alphabet--raises levels of erythropoietin, one of the proteins that stimulate red blood cell production and blood vessel growth....
Mental fluidity: training improves scores on problem-solving tests
MANY SCIENTISTS HAVE LONG REGARDED fluid intelligence--general reasoning skills and problem-solving proficiency--as a genetically ingrained, relatively stable trait that varies from person to person. But a relatively brief memory-training program can boost such mental skills, a new study finds. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "Our finding that cognitive training...
2008 L'Oreal USA Fellowships For Women in Science Awarded to Five Groundbreaking Researchers
Winners Addressing Critical Issues Including Parkinson's Disease and Global Climate Change Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson Receives Role Model Award for Her Contribution Toward Advancing Women in the Sciences NEW YORK, May 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Laurent Attal, President and CEO, L'Oreal USA, and Dr. Ralph...
Not All Sweeteners are 'Equal'
Summer Solace for Stressed Dieters WASHINGTON, May 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Amid the recent barrage of media reports striking fear in the hearts of dieters around the country, there is good news. The low calorie sweetener aspartame is vindicated in the rodent obesity hypothesis. This...
Stanford Professor Barry M. Trost Visits WuXi PharmaTech and Gives Two Seminars
SHANGHAI, China, May 21 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- WuXi PharmaTech , a leading pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device research and development outsourcing company with operations in China and the United States, is proud to announce that the distinguished Stanford University Professor Barry M. Trost ( http://www.stanford.edu/group/bmtrost/ ) has visited WuXi PharmaTech and...
Unsafe at legal weight
Fred Schwarz is right to predict that science will achieve regulatory goals at its own pace ("Machina ex Machina," May 5). He also says that "[current] CAFE standards are quite feasible, and while opponents have criticized them severely on economic grounds, at least no engineering miracles will be...
AlphaMed Press Names George Kendall Vice President, Operations and Business Development
DURHAM, N.C., May 14 /PRNewswire/ -- AlphaMed Press, publisher of the internationally renowned journals Stem Cells and The Oncologist, has promoted George Kendall Vice President, Operations & Business Development. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20080514/CLW104LOGO ) Ann Murphy, AlphaMed's president, said, "We congratulate George who has managed AlphaMed's...
Prana Announces PNAS Publication Describing New Class of Anti-Amyloid Drugs
Prana Biotechnology Limited (NASDAQ: PRAN) (ASX: PBT), a biopharmaceutical company focused on the research anddevelopment of treatments for neurodegenerative disorders, today announceda publication in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences PNASjournal,(1) describing a completely new class of amyloid inhibiting drugs. The reported drugs are directed against the...
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