Poison prevention Web site for kids
University of MichiganU-M graduate students create the site at http://www.ipl.org/youth/poisonsafe/
U-M graduate students create the site at http://www.ipl.org/youth/poisonsafe/
In a new paper, a Simon School operations management professor details his unorthodox use of economic principles in teaching operations strategy to his M.B.A. students.
Discretionary accruals may offer managers a means to portray a company's true financial condition, but they can also be manipulated opportunistically to boost a manager's personal performance record. A Simon School research team offers new analysis on the issue, and cautions those who would step too quickly into the camp that cries "foul."
HOUSTON, TEXAS--Boosting the octane number of gasoline just got easier, thanks to new software that lets engineers and scientists build a model of the naphtha reforming process in hours, rather than months, University of Delaware researchers reported March 13 during the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) meeting. EMBARGOED: 4:00 p.m., Thursday, March 13, 1997.
Small strokes may produce and intensify the symptoms of Alzheimer's disease (AD), according to an article in this week's AD theme issue of The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).
Using drugs to treat Alzheimer's disease (AD) can temporarily improve the cognitive ability of patients, but do not slow the progression of the disease, according to Peter J. Whitehouse, M.D., Ph.D., Director, Alzheimer's Center, University Hospitals of Cleveland, Ohio.
The family physician can play a key role in helping patients and their families deal with Alzheimer's disease, according to the director of one of the busiest Alzheimer's facilities in the nation.
One out of five families with a demented family member is unable to recognize the signs of dementia in a loved one, according to an article in this week's Alzheimer's disease (AD) theme issue of The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). Dementia is an acquired decline in all areas of mental ability.
Temperature-gleaning satellites are useful tools in the quest to diagnose global change, but only when their limitations are well understood. This is the message conveyed by scientists from the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado, in an article appearing in the journal Nature on March 13. NCAR is managed by the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research under sponsorship of the National Science Foundation.
A Johns Hopkins study finds that physicians in some specialties -- chiefly psychiatry and surgery -- are at higher risk for divorce than their medical brethren in other fields. But the results do not support the common view that job-related anxiety and depression are linked to marital breakup.
At rest, overweight African American women burn fewer calories than overweight Caucasian women, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center. The findings are among the first to suggest that biological factors may be partly responsible for higher rates of obesity in black women.
A new study on a Mars meteorite supports a low-temperature origin for carbonate globules inside the rock, researchers said today. This new evidence is consistent with theories that microscopic depositions in the rock may be the fossilized remains of bacteria. The research was published today in the journal Science. **EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE UNTIL 4 P.M EST, THURSDAY, MARCH 13, 1997**
In Cornell University's concrete lab, a shake table was used to test, for the first time, whether interior infilled concrete/masonry walls have an effect on structural integrity during an earthquake.
Charles I. Plosser, dean of the William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of Rochester, is one of five graduate business school deans joining the Board of Directors of the Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC)--the global organization of graduate business schools.
An article in Nature (13 March) by two NCAR scientists provides new findings on a controversy involving the reliability of global temperature trends available via satellite, which conflict with surface readings. In the same issue is an overview of how computer models of global climate are used and misused.
Johns Hopkins economist Steve Hanke, one of the world's leading proponents of the currency board form of monetary policy (as opposed to central banking), has been named economic adviser to the recently elected president of economically struggling Bulgaria.
Researchers supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) have presented the first direct evidence that increased ultraviolet light (UVB) damages the DNA of animals in a natural population in Antarctica -- the eggs and larvae of icefish, an Antarctic fish lacking hemoglobin. The ozone hole opens up over Antarctica every southern spring, letting more UVB from the sun penetrate to the earth's surface.
Four tips from Los Alamos: 1- Measuring material strain, 2- Less noise in your video camera, 3- Laser slappers, and 4- Dielectric materials for fine-tuning microwaves.
Neurology News Briefs: 1) Proper Management of Sports-Related Concussion Can Prevent Years of Chronic Headaches, Confusion and Memory Loss 2) Radiosurgery Proven Safe, Effective Treatment for Trigeminal Neuralgia
Briefs from March Neurology: 1) Out of the Clear Blue Sky: Rugby Spectator Struck by Lightning 2) Treatment Shows Small Benefit for Some Inclusion-Body Myositis Patients
ATHENS, Ga. -- A botanist at the University of Georgia and a colleague at Purdue University have shown for the first time that filamentous fungi contain crucial "scaffold" proteins called septins. Perhaps even more important, the researchers have found that the gene which directs the production of septins in one fungus (Aspergillus nidulans) is crucial to the survival of the organism. The discovery could point toward a method of treating fungal diseases, which have dramatically increased in the past decade.
Press release of issue dated March 8 for New Scientist, the international science and technology weekly news magazine
DETROIT -- An innovative approach to providing health care to the elderly is being put to the test at Henry Ford Health System. Recognizing that providing health care for the elderly is entirely different from providing care to younger people, health care workers at Henry Ford Health System and University Hospitals Health System in Cleveland are learning ways to treat older patients.
In the February, 1997 issue of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Mount Sinai - Bronx VA nutrition researcher Victor Herbert reported that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-mandated (effective January 1, 1998) addition of folic acid fortification to grains (breads, cereals, pastas) will do more harm than good, unless the FDA also mandates fortification with free vitamin B12. To the contrary, having both vitamins in grains will help millions, says Herbert.
NEW ORLEANS, LA.--With a tip just 25 microns in diameter, a new microelectrode sheds light on the complex natural chemistry of "swamp scum and sea slime"--including the corrosive ocean "biofilms" that damage boats, docks and off-shore platforms, a University of Delaware researcher reported today during the National Association of Corrosion Engineers (NACE) meeting.
A growing proportion of U.S children, asolescents, and adults are over weight, according to an article published in today's Morbidity and Mortality weekly Report by HHS' Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has named the late Carl Sagan, noted planetary scientist, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and Emmy Award-winning television producer, to receive the agencyÃs Distinguished Public Service Award for lifetime achievement.
An exhaustive supercomputer modeling effort at the NSF-supported National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado, has shown that hydrochloric acid (HCL) is broken down on the surface of ice particles found in stratospheric clouds over earth's poles. Taller than most seabirds, masked boobies live and breed in tropical oceans where they feed by making high-velocity fishing dives into the sea. One of the most elusive pieces of the climate and weather puzzle may soon be supplied by a simple ocean-going package of sensors the size and shape of a frisbee.
The most common method for controlling blood-sugar levels in hospital patients with diabetes is ineffective and in some cases worsens their condition, a Johns Hopkins study suggests.
The role of wetlands in providing habitat for wildlife, reducing floods and erosion and improving water quality is documented as part of a comprehensive state-by-state assessment of the nation's wetlands compiled by the U.S. Geological Survey.
Two University of North Texas computer scientists are working on an innovative way to "visit" a university campus, as well as take classes there, all from a personal computer. The course design being developed for the Virtual Collaborative University stands to revolutionize the nature of student involvement in classes over the Internet.
The human body has several mechanisms for getting rid of foreign chemicals. Stanford researchers have now shown that one of the first lines of defense -- a versatile pump in the lining of the gut, called P-glycoprotein -- may prevent the absorption of saquinavir, one of the new generation of anti-HIV drugs.
According to a new study released by the Coalition for Excess Weight Risk Education (CEWRE), the difference in obesity levels nationwide is determined by a combination of cultural and demographic factors unique to each city. The study, known as the National Weight Report, ranks the 33 largest metropolitan areas in the U.S. by percentage of obese residents and explores demographic and cultural factors that contribute to variability in those percentages.
The dreams of cultural landscape historian John Brinckerhoff (J.B.) Jackson will live on at the University of New Mexico School of Architecture and Planning through a major bequest recently announced by the Jackson Trust.
Sexually active young people must protect themselves against sexually transmitted diseases and be routinely tested for these infections to help ensure their fertility later in life, the American Social Health Association emphasizes.
Spending six months of the year in the midst of a malaria epidemic in the African nation of Malawi may not sound like the ideal career to most people, but Terrie Taylor, D.O., associate professor of internal medicine at the Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine, wouldnπt have it any other way.
Thyroid hormone may play a role in the hyperactive and impulsive symptoms of children with attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Elevated levels of certain thyroid hormones correlate positively with hyperactivity and impulsivity, although not with inattention.
New medical research into the treatment for women's cancers will be presented at the 28th annual meeting of the Society of Gynecologic Oncologists, to be held March 22 at the South Pointe Hilton, Phoenix, AZ. Medical and scientific presentations regarding Estrogen Replacement Therapy, BRCA1 Gene Therapy, and Pap and cervical examinations will highlight the meeting. Exciting results will add to the medical knowledge of diagnosing and treating women's cancers.
The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), Laurel, Md., has received a Defense Certificate of Recognition for Acquisition Innovation for its achievements in the Transit Navy Navigation Satellite Program. The award was one of two given out in a community of more than 41,000 eligible organizations.
It sounds like a James Bond thriller -- tiny chemical structures are parachuted onto a surface for strategic safe-keeping, and then retrieved when duty calls. Purdue University scientists have developed a way to bring chemical structures in for a "soft-landing" on surfaces, providing a new way to modify the outermost layer of materials.
Some 12,000 dermatologists, exhibitors and guests from 60 countries will meet in San Francisco, March 20-26 for the 55th Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Dermatology.
A Purdue University professor sugggests that employers should provide their workers with a little more financial support than just a salary. Flora Williams suspects that financial counseling for workers might help companies improve profitability.
Annals of Internal Medicine 3-1-97 TipSheet 1) Screening for Asymptomatic Carotid Stenosis Not Cost-Effective; 2) Specific Medical Benefits Derived from Transdermal Nicotine, Moderate Alcohol Consumption; 3) Exploring Systematic Reviews and Clinical Decisions; 4) Clinical Interventions and End-Of-Life Care; 5) Early Detection of Prostate Cancer
Northeast Regional Climate Center climatologist finds that long-term temperature runs in the Northeast end when and if an El Niño weather event develops in the Pacific Ocean.
Topics: *Ask frank questions before receiving minimal-access surgery *Heimlich maneuver can be a lifesaver, but don't use it on babies or coughing adults *Tax time is a good time to become a food accountant: Keep a calorie ledger instead of just saying no *Work with your physician to get the most out of cholesterol-lowering drugs
Earthquakes in Iran and Pakistan have already pushed the death toll for this year higher than all of 1996, according to Patrick Leahy, Chief Geologist, U.S. Geological Survey.
The Midcourse Space Experiment (MSX) -- a Ballistic Missile Defense Organization (BMDO) satellite launched last April to gather data for future space- and ground-based missile defense systems -- has tracked two medium-range missiles, known as Low Cost Launch Vehicles (LCLV). Part of the Combined Experiments Program, these LCLV flights were designed to demonstrate the ability of space-based optical sensors, on MSX, to perform key missile defense functions -- acquisition, tracking and discrimination in the mid-course phase of missile flight -- on realistic targets against realistic backgrounds.
USGS scientists -- some just recently returned from working on the Western floods -- are reporting the highest flows of record in several states, including West Virginia, Kentucky, and Ohio.
A new process developed at Michigan State University stands ready to revolutionize the flower industry -- as well as provide a boon for medical school teaching, restaurants and an endless array of others by using silicone to open up new possibilities in preservation.
America would be better off seeking compensation from tobacco companies at the state and local levels rather than at the national level, according to a commentary in this week's issue of The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 p.m. (CT) Tuesday, March 4, 1997