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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...
Future Truck and Bus Safety Research Opportunities
In 20 years, what will this nation's roads and highways look like and, more important, how will trucks and buses safely and efficiently navigate those highways? A group of industry, government, and university experts met at the Conference on Future Truck and Bus Safety Research Opportunities in Arlington, Virginia, on...
Privacy, Confidentiality, and Data Sharing
It is clear from the legislative history on privacy that when a person provides information to the government, or to a private entity, they do not give up all rights to how those data are used. Conversely, when the government receives information from the public, it is not free to...
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No bull: Cattle seem to know which way is north
WASHINGTON -- Talk about animal magnetism, cows seem to have a built-in compass. No bull: Somehow, cattle seem to know how to find north and south, say researchers who studied satellite photos of thousands of cows around the world. Most cattle that were grazing...
Frog die-off a global problem
For years, California developers have been struggling to find ways to not disturb the endangered red-legged frog. Now, research led by two UC Berkeley biologists finds frogs and other amphibians worldwide need help because they are dying at alarming rates. The researchers found that...
Frog die-off a global problem, UC researchers say
For years, California developers have been struggling to find ways to not disturb the endangered red-legged frog. Now, research led by two UC Berkeley biologists finds frogs and other amphibians worldwide need help because they are dying at alarming rates. The researchers found that...
Brain Slow to Judge Fast-Moving Objects Head-On
If you are not experienced at dodging flying or speeding objects, your best bet may be to just get out of the way, a new study says. balls or cars, for example -- coming straight toward them based more on past experience than actual perception, according to findings published in...
DNA Helps Trace History of Human Migration
An analysis of human DNA has provided new information about how ancient people shared knowledge that helped advance civilization, say Stanford University researchers. They found that animal-herding methods arrived in southern Africa about 2,000 years ago on a wave of human migration, rather than by movement of ideas between people....
Vitamin C injections slow cancer in mice: study
WASHINGTON AFP — High doses of vitamin C injections reduced the size of tumors and slowed cancerous growths by about 50 percent in laboratory mice, according to US research. Researchers at the National Institutes of Health noted the phenomenon in brain, ovarian and pancreatic cancers, according to findings...
Vitamin C Injections Slow Tumor Growth in Mice
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <!DOCTYPE text PUBLIC "-//The Gale Group//DTD Mercury Version 1.0//EN" "Article.dtd"> <Text rich="yes"> <P> High-dose injections of vitamin C, also known as ascorbate or ascorbic acid, reduced tumor weight and growth rate by about 50 percent in mouse models of brain, ovarian, and...
Sowing Atheism
Sowing Atheism Robert Bowie Johnson Jr. Solving Lights Books 727 Mount Alban Drive, Annapolis, MD 21409 9780970543851, $12.95, www.solvinglight.com Could pushing a curriculum of evolution on schools be going too far? "Sowing Atheism: The National Academy of Sciences Sinister Scheme...
Sidney Kimmel Foundation for Cancer Research Announces the Appointment of Dr. Theodore Lawrence to the Foundation's Medical Advisory Board
PHILADELPHIA -- Sidney Kimmel, Founder and Chairman of The Sidney Kimmel Foundation for Cancer Research, has announced the appointment of Theodore Lawrence, M.D., Ph.D. to the Medical Advisory Board of the Kimmel Scholar Award program. Theodore S. Lawrence, M.D., Ph.D., Isadore Lampe Professor of Radiation...
Wake up and smell the coffee: Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation
A new study co-authored by Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation scientist Linda Thompson found that mice immunized to develop a multiple sclerosis-like condition were protected from the disease by drinking caffeine. The research appears in the online edition of Proceedings of the National Academy...
NeuroVigil Inc., a Salk Institute spin off, Wins First Prize at World-Class UCSD $50K Innovation Competition
NeuroVigil Led the Diverse Pack of 68 Accomplished Teams SAN DIEGO -- The UCSD $50K Competition today announced that NeuroVigil Inc., a Salk Institute spin off, has won first prize of $30,000 for innovation in brain analysis. NeuroVigil Inc. is the first wireless neurodiagnostics company....
Keith Pitts Joins Marrone Organic Innovations as Regulatory VP
Brings over 20 years of senior public policy and regulatory affairs experience DAVIS, Calif., July 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Marrone Organic Innovations, Inc. MOI announces that Keith Pitts has joined the company as Vice President of Regulatory Affairs. Mr. Pitts has worked in...
Growth hormone in dairy cows a greenhouse-gas plus: study
WASHINGTON AFP — Giving one million dairy cows a growth hormone makes them produce more milk would cut greenhouse gas emissions equal to taking 400,000 cars off the road, a US study found. Large scale cow milk production requires the use of huge amounts of land,...
Coffee could help beat MS: study
WASHINGTON AFP — A strong cup of coffee may do more than just wake you up in the mornings. It could also help you stave off multiple sclerosis MS, according to a new study. Scientists in Oklahoma found that mice which had been immunized to develop...
Bovine growth hormone 'could cut CO2 emissions'
The use of bovine growth hormone to boost milk production - a bte noire of the organic food movement - could cut emissions of greenhouses gases substantially, according to a study that makes a strong environmental case for the controversial cattle injections. Bovine...
Burnham Institute Researchers Link Early Stem Cell Mutation to Autism
LA JOLLA, Calif. -- In a breakthrough scientific study published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, scientists at the Burnham Institute for Medical Research have shown that neural stem cell development may be linked to Autism. The study demonstrated that mice lacking the...
Caffeine Could Stave Off Multiple Sclerosis
Caffeine just might prevent multiple sclerosis, a new animal study suggests. Giving mice the equivalent of 6 to 8 cups of coffee a day prevented mice from getting the animal model equivalent of MS, said Dr. Linda Thompson, of the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, and a member of the...
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