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Do Students Have Too Much Homework? - Expert Available Re: Brown Center 2003 Report on American Education.
October 1, 2003... Byline: University of Maryland, College Park COLLEGE PARK, Md., Oct. 1 (AScribe News) -- Expert Available Re: Brown Center 2003 Report on American Education A report released today by the Brown Center of the Brookings Institution says...

When Heme Attacks: After Trauma, The Molecule that Makes Life Possible Rampages; PENN Researchers Find How Heme Harms - And How To Prevent The Damage.
October 1, 2003... Byline: University of Pennsylvania Health System PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- Heme, the iron-bearing, oxygen-carrying core of hemoglobin, makes it possible for blood to carry oxygen, but researchers from the University of...

Illustrated Internal Medicine Book Features University of North Carolina Faculty, Famous Artwork.
October 1, 2003... Byline: University of North Carolina Healthcare System CHAPEL HILL, N.C., Oct. 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- For the first time in 15 years, busy and time-pressured doctors seeking the most current information on everyday medical problems have a...

University of British Columbia Computer Science Student's Research Leads to New Software That Can Build Digital Panoramas Automatically.
October 1, 2003... Byline: University of British Columbia VANCOUVER, Oct. 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- University of British Columbia computer science PhD candidate Matthew Brown, 25, has developed panorama software with a new object recognition feature that...

New Report Says Stronger Communities Result When More Leaders of Color Can Impact Policy.
October 2, 2003... Byline: PolicyLink NEW YORK, Oct. 2 (AScribe News) -- More than 100 racially and ethnically diverse leaders from the public, private, and nonprofit sectors say that involving more leaders of color in policy development and implementation...

University of Florida Study: Shopper Thriftiness Outweighs Consumer Satisfaction.
October 2, 2003... Byline: University of Florida GAINESVILLE, Fla., Oct. 2 (AScribe Newswire) -- Coupon clippers, you rule: The chance to save a buck outweighs store satisfaction among penny-pinching shoppers, a new University of Florida study has found. ...

Purdue University Researchers Solve Decades-Old Corn, Sorghum Problem.
October 2, 2003... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., Oct. 2 (AScribe Newswire) -- A team of Purdue University researchers has recently uncovered the genetic mechanism that prevents certain crop plants from growing tall - a finding that has...

Participants Sought for Test of Botanicals to Treat Menopause Symptoms.
October 2, 2003... Byline: University of Illinois at Chicago CHICAGO, Oct. 2 (AScribe Newswire) -- The University of Illinois at Chicago is seeking participants for a clinical trial investigating whether two herbal products -- black cohosh and red clover --...

Purdue University Biologists' Spotlight Solves Mysteries of Photosynthesis, Metabolism.
October 2, 2003... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., Oct. 2 (AScribe Newswire) -- A complete molecular-scale picture of how plants convert sunlight to chemical energy has been obtained at Purdue University, offering potential new insights into...

New University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine Study Shows Caregivers Refuse Alzheimer's Medications When Patient's Quality of Life Threatened; Caregiver Assessment Key to Clinical Outcomes for Alzheimer's Patients, Determining When to End Treatment.
October 2, 2003... Byline: University of Pennsylvania Health System PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 3 (AScribe Newswire) -- A caregiver's assessment of an Alzheimer's patient's quality of life is the key factor in determining if and why some caregivers decline to use a...

October Medical Science & Health News Tips From Washington University in St. Louis.
October 3, 2003... Byline: Washington University, St. Louis ST. LOUIS, Oct. 3 (AScribe Newswire) -- The following are news and feature story ideas from Washington University in St. Louis. For more information on any of the stories below or for assistance in...

October Science & Technology Tips From Washington University in St. Louis.
October 3, 2003... Byline: Washington University, St. Louis ST. LOUIS, Oct. 3 (AScribe Newswire) -- The following are news and feature story ideas from Washington University in St. Louis. For more information on any of the stories below or for assistance in...

Knowledge Is Power: Executives Minimize Risks That Affect Their Compensation.
October 3, 2003... Byline: University of Arkansas FAYETTEVILLE, Ark., Oct. 3 (AScribe Newswire) -- In making business decisions, not all information is equal. For executives in high-tech industries, the kind of information sources used in making critical...

Education Researcher Joyce Epstein Comments on Homework Studies.
October 3, 2003... Byline: Johns Hopkins University BALTIMORE, Oct. 3 (AScribe Newswire) -- Research by Joyce Epstein, director of the Center on School, Family, and Community Partnerships and the National Network of Partnership Schools at Johns Hopkins...

Benchmark Study of Brain Tumors Points to Resection Over Biopsy as One Key to Survival.
October 3, 2003... Byline: University of Virginia Health System CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., Oct. 3 (AScribe Newswire) -- Patients with gliomas, the most common type of brain tumor, have a more favorable outcome with surgical resection in a craniotomy procedure that...

The Neighborhood Matters: Packard Center Scientists Show Cell Environment Important in ALS.
October 3, 2003... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, Oct. 3 (AScribe Newswire) -- In amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), neighborhood may be everything, if a new study in mouse models of the disease holds true for patients. ALS, or...

$500,000 MacArthur 'Genius' Award Goes to UC San Diego Anthropologist Guillermo Algaze.
October 6, 2003... Byline: University of California, San Diego LA JOLLA, Calif., Oct. 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- For his exceptional creativity and originality in research revealing secrets of ancient cities, University of California, San Diego anthropological...

New University of Arkansas Center Studies Patterns of Terrorism.
October 6, 2003... Byline: University of Arkansas FAYETTEVILLE, Ark., Oct. 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- A new study from the university's Terrorism Research Center in Fulbright College will cull data from the court records of more than 500 known terrorists to...

Study Ranks Metropolitan Areas as College Destinations; 2003 College Destination Index Grades College Towns.
October 6, 2003... Byline: Babson College WELLESLEY, Mass., Oct. 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- In the first-ever College Destinations Index, 45 major metropolitan areas are ranked in terms of their appeal as higher education destinations. Developed by...

Vanderbilt Study Shows Audit Firms Will Continue to Put Own Interests First; Changes Imposed by SEC May Help Clean Up Industry.
October 6, 2003... Byline: Vanderbilt University NASHVILLE, Tenn., Oct. 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- Think the accounting scandals of the past two years have straightened out the audit industry? Not so. A Vanderbilt University study reveals that, despite the...

National Center for Atmospheric Research to Explore Link Between Climate Change, Air Quality.
October 7, 2003... Byline: National Center for Atmospheric Research BOULDER, Colo., Oct. 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and other institutions are launching a far-reaching project this month to help the government...

Brookhaven Lab Develops 'ThraxVac' to Clean Up Anthrax; Circle Group Holdings, Inc., Licenses the Technology.
October 7, 2003... Byline: Brookhaven National Laboratory UPTON, N.Y., Oct. 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have developed a device, dubbed "ThraxVac," that can collect and kill anthrax...

You've Got Mail - and the Boss Knows: Survey by Bentley's Center for Business Ethics Reveals Nine Out of 10 Companies Monitor Their Employees' E-Mail, Internet Use at Work.
October 7, 2003... Byline: Bentley College WALTHAM, Mass., Oct. 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- A new survey of 192 companies by Bentley's Center for Business Ethics (CBE) found that 92 percent check up on their employees' use of email and the Internet at work. The...

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Wins Record $10.2 Million NIH Grant for Proteomics Center.
October 7, 2003... Byline: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory RICHLAND, Wash., Oct. 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has won a five-year, $10.2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to support a center for basic...

Purdue Researchers Stretch DNA on Chip, Lay Track for Future Computers.
October 8, 2003... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., Oct. 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers at Purdue University are making it easier to read life's genetic blueprint. They have precisely placed strands of DNA on a silicon chip and then...

Promising Drug Proves Ineffective as Treatment for Hearing Loss.
October 8, 2003... Byline: University of California, San Diego LA JOLLA, Calif., Oct. 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers have demonstrated that Methotrexate, a promising drug to treat hearing loss in patients with autoimmune inner ear disease (AIED), proved...

Don't Rely on Body Mass Index Measurements to Indicate Weight Problem in Children, Study Says.
October 8, 2003... Byline: Ohio State University COLUMBUS, Ohio, Oct. 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- Using body mass index (BMI) and skin-fold measurements - two methods typically used to determine if a child has too much body fat - may not provide accurate...

UC Santa Barbara Physicist Devises Way to Observe Protein Folding.
October 8, 2003... Byline: University of California, Santa Barbara SANTA BARBARA, Calif., Oct. 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- Physicists are getting more involved in the fight against diseases by studying the folding of proteins, which they hope will eventually lead...

University of Maryland Selected for National Research Network to Study Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.
October 8, 2003... Byline: University of Maryland Medical System BALTIMORE, Oct. 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) has selected the University of Maryland Medical Center to join a national clinical research network...

New Vaccines May Address Need to Protect Newborns in Developing World.
October 9, 2003... Byline: The Wistar Institute PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- In a new research study, two prototype oral vaccines have both been shown capable of inducing protection against a dangerous virus in newborn mice. If the new vaccines...

Carnegie Mellon University Psychology Department Receives Grant to Study, Improve Middle School Science Instruction.
October 9, 2003... Byline: Carnegie Mellon University PITTSBURGH, Oct. 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- The U.S. Department of Education has awarded a three-year, $750,000 grant to researchers in the Department of Psychology at Carnegie Mellon University to fund a...

New Treatment Significantly Improves Long-Term Outlook for Breast Cancer Survivors; Taking Letrozole After Five Years of Tamoxifen Therapy Continues to Reduce Risk of Recurrence.
October 9, 2003... Byline: Mayo Clinic ROCHESTER, Minn., Oct. 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- A Canadian-led international clinical trial has found that post-menopausal survivors of early stage breast cancer who took the drug letrozole after completing an initial...

Mayo Clinic Finds Weight Not a Factor Among Women Using Fertility Technologies to Become Pregnant.
October 10, 2003... Byline: Mayo Clinic ROCHESTER, Minn., Oct. 10 (AScribe Newswire) -- Impaired uterine function is not the cause of lower birth rates among overweight women using fertility technologies to become pregnant, according to a Mayo Clinic study...

Kuwaiti Citizens Want Democracy But Don't Desire Closer Ties With West, Study Finds.
October 13, 2003... Byline: Ohio State University COLUMBUS, Ohio, Oct. 13 (AScribe Newswire) -- The citizens of Kuwait became more supportive of democracy during the mid- to late-1990s, but that did not include a desire for closer ties with the United States...

Sperm From Marijuana Smokers Move Too Fast, Too Early, Impairing Fertility, University at Buffalo Research Shows.
October 13, 2003... Byline: University at Buffalo BUFFALO, N.Y., Oct. 13 (AScribe Newswire) -- Men who smoke marijuana frequently have significantly less seminal fluid, a lower total sperm count and their sperm behave abnormally, all of which may affect...

'Jobless' Economic Recovery May Continue to Be an Issue, Says Indiana University Forecast.
October 13, 2003... Byline: Indiana University BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Oct. 13 (AScribe Newswire) -- The last time the United States rebounded from a recession, an incumbent president named Bush was hurt by a jobless economic recovery. Productivity and other...

University of California Scientists Discover Plant Gene That Promotes Production of Ozone-Destroying Methyl Halides.
October 13, 2003... Byline: University of California, San Diego LA JOLLA, Calif., Oct. 13 (AScribe Newswire) -- A team of University of California scientists has identified a gene that controls the production by terrestrial plants of methyl halides, gaseous...

Study Confirms Benefits of Hemispherectomy Surgery.
October 13, 2003... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, Oct. 13 (AScribe Newswire) -- A new study by Johns Hopkins Children's Center scientists confirms the lasting benefits of hemispherectomy, a dramatic operation in which half the brain is...

Study Shows Time Key in Relationship With Divorced Parent.
October 13, 2003... Byline: Arizona State University TEMPE, Ariz., Oct. 13 (AScribe Newswire) -- Young adults whose parents have divorced think it's best to live equal time with each parent, and they appear to be right, according to a new study by an Arizona...

Patient Simulator Improves Performance of Clinical Trial Coordinators.
October 14, 2003... Byline: Duke University SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 14 (AScribe Newswire) -- Duke University Medical Center researchers have demonstrated that training research coordinators on a human simulator prior to a complex clinical trial can significantly...

Wellesley Professor Writes About Wealth of American Religious Diversity in Sacred Song in America.
October 14, 2003... Byline: Wellesley College WELLESLEY, Mass., Oct. 14 (AScribe Newswire) -- "Sacred Song in America: Religion, Music and Public Culture" (University of Illinois, 2003) is an exploration of the role of ritual music in American society. Author...

Center for Blood Research Celebrates 50th Anniversary: Announces New Name, Redefined Mission, Major Expansion.
October 14, 2003... Byline: Center for Blood Research BOSTON, Oct. 14 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Center for Blood Research, founded in 1953, is celebrating its 50th anniversary with a new name, a redefined scientific mission, and ambitious plans to expand its...

University of Colorado Scientists Search for Artifacts in Melting Glaciers.
October 14, 2003... Byline: University of Colorado, Boulder BOULDER, Colo., Oct. 14 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers at the University of Colorado at Boulder continued their search in southeast Alaska last summer to pinpoint rapidly melting glaciers and ice...

Childhood Brain Tumors Associated With Rarely Inherited BRCA2 Gene Mutations.
October 14, 2003... Byline: Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center NEW YORK, Oct. 14 (AScribe Newswire) -- New research led by scientists at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and The Rockefeller University shows that pediatric brain tumors and Fanconi...

Better Chronic Illness Management, Incentives for Improved Quality More Likely Among California Physician Groups.
October 14, 2003... Byline: Health Affairs BETHESDA, Md., Oct. 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- Physician organizations in California are more likely than their counterparts outside the state to be paid for improving health care quality, and are more likely to follow...

Relief of Poverty Linked to Improvement in Some Childhood Psychiatric Symptoms.
October 14, 2003... Byline: Duke University DURHAM, N.C., Oct. 14 (AScribe Newswire) -- Relief of poverty appears to be associated with improvement in symptoms of behavioral psychiatric disorders in children, such as problem conduct and "oppositional defiant...

Down and Dirty: Airborne Ozone Can Alter Forest Soil.
October 15, 2003... Byline: Michigan Technological University HOUGHTON, Mich., Oct. 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- The industrial pollutant ozone, long known to be harmful to many kinds of plants, can also affect the very earth in which they grow. Researchers...

Research Reveals Enduring Influence of Early African Farmers, Cooks.
October 15, 2003... Byline: University of Virginia CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., Oct. 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- -- It's well known that much traditional American cooking, epitomized by "soul food," has flavorful African influences. But as the 400th anniversary of the...

Cancer Patients Find More Pain Relief When Treatment Guidelines Are Followed.
October 15, 2003... Byline: Duke University DURHAM, N.C., Oct. 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- For "a few more pennies a month," health-care providers can consistently manage and control cancer pain much more effectively using guideline-based care than more...

Building a Better Atlas of Yeast Proteins.
October 15, 2003... Byline: Howard Hughes Medical Institute CHEVY CHASE, Md., Oct. 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- Using high-tech robots and old-fashioned hard labor, Howard Hughes Medical Institute researchers have measured the abundance and pinpointed the cellular...

Practice Makes Perfect: Death Risk From Tricky Aortic Aneurysm Repair Far Lower If Vascular Surgeon Does the Job, Study Shows.
October 15, 2003... Byline: University of Michigan Health System ANN ARBOR, Mich., Oct. 13 (AScribe Newswire) -- If the largest blood vessel in your body threatens to burst, a new study finds that your best bet is to have it repaired by a surgeon who has...

Duke Researchers Discover Power Behind Molecular Motors.
October 15, 2003... Byline: Duke University DURHAM, N.C., Oct. 16 (AScribe Newswire) -- After having demonstrated how "molecular motors" move within cells, a team of researchers led by a Duke University Medical Center scientist now believe they have...

'Shooting Kennedy': Art Professor's New Book Links JFK Images to Art History, Pop Culture.
October 16, 2003... Byline: Wake Forest University WINSTON-SALEM, N.C., Oct. 16 (AScribe Newswire) -- Forty years after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, a new book by a Wake Forest University art professor explores famous images of Kennedy and...

Georgetown University, MedStar Health Receive $6.5 Million NIH Grant to Enhance Preparedness of Washington, D.C., Emergency Rooms in Times of Crisis.
October 16, 2003... Byline: Georgetown University Medical Center WASHINGTON, Oct. 16 (AScribe Newswire) -- A team from Georgetown University Medical Center and MedStar Health has been awarded a $6.5 million research grant by NIH's National Library of Medicine...

Remote Earthquake Triggering by Large Midcontinent Events May Reveal Areas of Persistent Stress Accumulation.
October 16, 2003... Byline: Seismological Society of America EL CERRITO, Calif., Oct. 16 (AScribe Newswire) -- A careful review of 19th century historical accounts suggests that large midcontinent earthquakes such as the 1811-1812 New Madrid and 1886...

Genome Deserts Yield DNA Gold.
October 16, 2003... Byline: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory BERKELEY, Calif., Oct. 16 (AScribe Newswire) -- Vast regions of the human genome thought to be genetic "deserts" harboring DNA sequences of no value may actually contain heretofore hidden...

UC San Diego Scientists Explain, Improve Upon 'Enigmatic' Probability Formula; Findings Could Have Implications for Speech Recognition, Machine Learning, Information Retrieval.
October 16, 2003... Byline: University of California, San Diego SAN DIEGO, Oct. 16 (AScribe Newswire) -- Scientists at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) have developed new insight into a formula that helped British cryptanalysts crack the German...

South American Glaciers Melting Faster, Changing Sea Level.
October 16, 2003... Byline: Jet Propulsion Laboratory PASADENA, Calif., Oct. 16 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Patagonia Icefields of Chile and Argentina, the largest non-Antarctic ice masses in the Southern Hemisphere, are thinning at an accelerating pace and now...

Rabies Remains a Costly Public Health Threat, Says Jefferson University Virologist; While Raccoon Inoculation Program Continues in Pennsylvania and Elsewhere, Increasing Cases of Bat Rabies Raise Concerns.
October 17, 2003... Byline: Thomas Jefferson University PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 17 (AScribe Newswire) -- No one in this country gets rabies anymore. It's a Third World problem. Everyone vaccinates their cats and dogs and there's a safe, effective - albeit...

Gene Silencer May Improve Chemotherapy and Radiation.
October 20, 2003... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, Oct. 20 (AScribe Newswire) -- Like bacteria that resist common antibiotics, cancer cells can survive chemotherapy and radiation. Radiation oncologists at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer...

Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea Are Most Attractive Emerging Markets: Michigan State Releases Latest EMPI Index.
October 20, 2003... Byline: Michigan State University EAST LANSING, Mich., Oct. 20 (AScribe Newswire) -- Michigan State University's Center for International Business Education and Research (MSU-CIBER) in the Eli Broad College of Business today released its...

University of Minnesota Receives $699,245 From NSF to Sequence Genome of Herbicide-Eating Bacterium.
October 20, 2003... Byline: University of Minnesota MINNEAPOLIS, Oct. 20 (AScribe Newswire) -- The University of Minnesota has received a National Science Foundation grant of $699,245 for sequencing the genome of a soil bacterium that breaks down atrazine and...

University of Iowa Museum of Natural History, Department of Geoscience Excavate Giant Sloth Bones.
October 20, 2003... Byline: University of Iowa IOWA CITY, Iowa, Oct. 20 (AScribe Newswire) -- The discovery of giant sloth bones in southwestern Iowa and their relocation to the University of Iowa Museum of Natural History will provide new evidence about how...

Psychologists Seek Behavioral Approach to Lowering Blood Pressure.
October 20, 2003... Byline: Duke University DURHAM, N.C., Oct. 20 (AScribe Newswire) -- Duke University Medical Center psychologists James Blumenthal, Ph.D. and Andrew Sherwood, Ph.D., are on a mission to discover a non-pharmacologic behavioral approach to...

High Doses of Radiation Found to be Effective, With Few Side Effects, Ten Years After Treatment for Prostate Cancer.
October 20, 2003... Byline: Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center SALT LAKE CITY, Oct. 21 (AScribe Newswire) -- New research shows that men with clinically localized prostate cancer, treated to high dose levels with three-dimensional conformal radiation...

Gene Therapy Rebuilds Bone, Tissue in Dental Patients.
October 21, 2003... Byline: American Dental Association SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 23 (AScribe Newswire) -- Gene therapy is most often associated with complex medical conditions, yet experts predict that within the next dozen years, it may make its way into the...

University of Nebraska Research Shows Vaccine, Bacterial Feed Additive Each Reduce E. Coli in Cattle.
October 21, 2003... Byline: University of Nebraska at Lincoln LINCOLN, Neb., Oct. 21 (AScribe Newswire) -- A new vaccine and a beneficial bacterial feed additive each significantly reduced E. coli O157:H7 in feedlot cattle, and using both may offer added...

Lasers Blaze New Trail in Dentistry.
October 21, 2003... Byline: American Dental Association SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 21 (AScribe Newswire) -- From grocery store checkout scanners to military weapon guidance systems, lasers are a part of our everyday lives. Dentists are using lasers, too, virtually...

Growing Number of Dentists Offer Patient-Pampering Amenities.
October 21, 2003... Byline: American Dental Association SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 21 (AScribe Newswire) -- Soft music, warm towels, the aroma of lavender or freshly baked bread, perhaps even a hand massage-until recently these items might not be associated with a...

Beckman Laser Institute to Improve Breast Cancer Detection by Standardizing Use of New Laser Technology.
October 21, 2003... Byline: University of California, Irvine IRVINE, Calif., Oct. 21 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Beckman Laser Institute at UC Irvine will lead a nationwide effort to standardize use of a new technology that improves breast cancer detection,...

Animal Communication: Sheep May Vocalize Stress by Altering Timbre.
October 21, 2003... Byline: Hampshire College AMHERST, Mass., Oct. 21 (AScribe Newswire) -- Mark Feinstein, a Hampshire College cognitive science professor interested in bioacoustics, has in the course of his research on animal communication found a method of...

Medical College of Wisconsin Researchers Identify Inflammatory Bowel Disease As an Equal Opportunity Condition.
October 21, 2003... Byline: Medical College of Wisconsin MILWAUKEE, Oct. 21 (AScribe Newswire) -- Medical College of Wisconsin researchers have collected and analyzed a huge volume of data on Wisconsin children with newly-diagnosed inflammatory bowel disease...

San Diego State University Researcher Paints Clearer Picture of Autism Development.
October 22, 2003... Byline: San Diego State University SAN DIEGO, Oct. 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- A San Diego State University researcher's discoveries published in this month's American Journal of Psychiatry offer a more comprehensive model for the development...

Sandia Uses Hypersonic Vehicle Design, Development, Flight Experience to Assist NASA's HyTEx Program.
October 22, 2003... Byline: Sandia National Laboratories ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., Oct. 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- Sandia National Laboratories researchers are assisting with NASA's HyTEx (Hypersonic Technology Experiment) program to create new mature technologies...

Training Like Professional Golfers Has Seniors in the Swing: University of San Francisco Study Finds Exercise Regimen Improves Balance, Club Speed.
October 22, 2003... Byline: University of San Francisco SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- A University of San Francisco study shows that regular, integrated performance training - an exercise technique used regularly by professional golfers - helps...

Sandia's New Truman Fellowship Program Seeks Nation's Top Postdoctoral Talent for Independent, National Security-Related Research.
October 22, 2003... Byline: Sandia National Laboratories ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., Oct. 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- Sandia National Laboratories is offering the nation's outstanding new Ph.D.s in science and engineering an opportunity to conduct independent research of...

University of Florida Study Finds Specialty Coffee's Caffeine Content Capricious.
October 22, 2003... Byline: University of Florida GAINESVILLE, Fla., Oct. 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- If that take-out coffee seems more invigorating than usual today, it might not be your imagination - it may be the java's packing a bigger dose of caffeine than...

Saliva Spits Out Information on Chemical Exposure.
October 22, 2003... Byline: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory RICHLAND, Wash., Oct. 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- Home testing of saliva to measure personal hormone levels is gaining popularity, with dozens of companies offering do-it-yourself, mail-in test...

University of Virginia Health System Researcher Raises Questions About Sanity Evaluations in Criminal Defense Cases.
October 23, 2003... Byline: University of Virginia Health System CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., Oct. 24 (AScribe Newswire) -- On the hit TV show Law and Order, defendants and their lawyers seek insanity pleas in hopes of lesser sentences for their crimes. In real life,...

Newly Identified Gene May Halt Fuzzy, Moldy Fruit.
October 24, 2003... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., Oct. 24 (AScribe Newswire) -- An insidious fuzzy gray mold that often coats refrigerated strawberries and many other plants during growing and storage may be prevented by a gene identified by...

Purdue University's Academic Environment Best Among U.S. Universities, Says 'The Scientist'.
October 24, 2003... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., Oct. 24 (AScribe Newswire) -- Purdue University has the best university work environment in the country, according to a survey of researchers in the current (10/20) issue of "The Scientist"...

Consumers Value Genetically Modified Foods That Directly Benefit Them.
October 24, 2003... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., Oct. 24 (AScribe Newswire) -- Consumers may be willing to pay a premium for certain genetically modified foods if they are told of the potential health benefits they may receive from eating...

Public Opinion on Abortion Remains Constant Over Decade, According to Study by Illinois Wesleyan University Professor.
October 24, 2003... Byline: Illinois Wesleyan University BLOOMINGTON, Ill., Oct. 24 (AScribe Newswire) -- Research published by an Illinois Wesleyan University political scientist shows that Americans' support for abortion rights in a general sense has...

Biological Trick Reveals Key Step in Melatonin's Regulation.
October 26, 2003... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, Oct. 26 (AScribe Newswire) -- Johns Hopkins researchers have uncovered a key step in the body's regulation of melatonin, a major sleep-related chemical in the brain. In the advance...