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Vision and vacuum tubesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Sir Maurice Wilkes, 96, one of the pioneers of British computing, strolls through the history the he helped createWalk round the National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park and sooner or later you'll hear a cry of recognition and someone will say: "I remember using one of those." It probably doesn't happen often to The Millionaire, a mechanical calculator that went into production in 1893, but Sir Maurice Wilkes spotted it, adding: "We used to have one in the lab. I hope it's still there."In this case, "the lab" was what became the Cambridge University Computer Lab, which Wilkes headed from 1945 until 1980. It was where...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - November 18, 2009 Category: Science Authors: Jack Schofield Tags: Computing Technology Science People in science Physics The Guardian Interviews Source Type: news

Women not getting bone treatment (BBC News online, 1 November 2009)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
A study from Cambridge University has shown that women who suffer a bone fracture are not being given the treatment to prevent them suffering additional fractures. Full article (Source: Society for Endocrinology)
Source: Society for Endocrinology - November 4, 2009 Category: Endocrinology Source Type: organizations

Ancient Peruvians turned land to desertEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Lessons to be learned from Nazca civilisation, which exposed itself to floods after mass deforestation, research saysThe ancient Nazca civilisation of Peru, made famous by the giant geoglyphs it left etched in the soil, partly triggered its own downfall by chopping down forests and creating a desert, according to researchers.The society vanished 1,500 years ago after flourishing for centuries, during which it made sophisticated arts and crafts as well as the famous Nazca lines. A study published today suggests its collapse was caused by the clearing of huarango trees, which had maintained an ecological balance in that corn...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - November 2, 2009 Category: Science Authors: Rory Carroll Tags: Deforestation El Ni ño southern oscillation Peru Environment World news Science Archaeology Agriculture The Guardian Source Type: news

A scattering model for surface-textured thin filmsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
We present a mathematical model that relates the surface morphology of randomly surface-textured thin films with the intensity distribution of scattered light. The model is based on the first order Born approximation [see e.g., M. Born and E. Wolf, Principles of Optics, 7th ed. (Cambridge University ... [Appl. Phys. Lett. 95, 171108 (2009)] published Thu Oct 29, 2009. (Source: Applied Physics Letters)
Source: Applied Physics Letters - October 30, 2009 Category: Physics Source Type: journals

Richard bradley: a unified, living agent theory of the cause of infectious diseases of plants, animals, and humans in the first decades of the 18th century.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Authors: Abstract:During the years 1714 to 1721, Richard Bradley, who was later to become the first Professor of Botany at Cambridge University, proposed a unified, unique, living agent theory of the cause of infectious diseases of plants and animals and the plague of humans. Bradley's agents included microscopic organisms, revealed by the studies of Robert Hooke and Antony van Leeuwenhoek. His theory derived from his experimental studies of plants and their diseases and from microscopic observation of animalcules in different naturally occurring and artificial environments. He concluded that there was a microscopic w...
Source: Perspectives in Biology and Medicine - October 29, 2009 Category: Medical Ethics Tags: Perspect Biol Med Source Type: journals

Heinrich Wieland Prize 2009 awarded for outstanding achievements in the synthesis of key natural productsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Ingelheim, Munich/Germany, 29 October 2009 - Professor Steven V. Ley of the Cambridge University (UK) was awarded this year’s Heinrich Wieland Prize in appreciation of his extraordinary scientific achievements in the fields of synthesis, structural analysis and biological characterization of natural products. The award endowed with EUR 50,000 was given to him at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich today. Since 1964, the Heinrich Wieland Prize has been awarded annually to promote innovative research on chemistry, biochemistry, physiology and clinical medicine of lipids and other biologically active substances. P...
Source: Boehringer Ingelheim RSS-Newsfeed - October 29, 2009 Category: Research Source Type: organizations

Master of the universeEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Michael Green is the new Lucasian chair of mathematics at Cambridge – following in the footsteps of Newton and Hawking. So does the pioneer of string theory think he holds the answers to life's mysteries?The history of scientific discovery has an alternate history of ifs, many quite quotidian: if the apple had not fallen on Newton's head, if Archimedes hadn't overfilled his bath … And if Michael Green, visiting from London, had not wandered into the canteen at Cern in Switzerland and bumped into John Schwarz, visiting from California, string theory, which for the last couple of decades has been touted as the most likel...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - October 23, 2009 Category: Science Authors: Aida Edemariam Tags: Physics Science University of Cambridge The Guardian Interviews Features From the Guardian Source Type: news

Harmony morality: The Heart of Morality (4a of 9 parts)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Whom do people typically admire for their moral behavior? Those driven by Bunker morality, like Osama bin Laden or Hitler? Although perverted people (e.g., Charles Manson) are sometimes admired, this is atypical (or a naïve adolescent fantasy). Most people don't want to put on the sweater of a murderer (Rozin, Markwith & McCauley, 1994). No way.Rather, people typically admire those who are courageous and humanitarian, who treat others with deep respect, and who act beyond their own interests to help others, like Jonas Salk, who invented the polio vaccine and gave it away, or Norman Borlaug, who brought about the green...
Source: Psychology Today Personality Center - October 23, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Darcia Narvaez, Ph.D. Tags: Evolutionary Psychology Morality Personality Relationships Social Life adolescent fantasy altruism charles manson compassion florence nightingale green revolution helpfulness Hurricane Katrina jonas salk looters love mammal Source Type: consumer

Michael Green Replaces Hawking at CambridgeEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Michael Green has been appointed as the Cambridge University Lucasian professor of mathematics, a position once held by Sir Isaac Newton and previously held by Stephen Hawking. Hawking resigned from the university at the end of the 2008-2009 academic year because of a university policy that requires resignation at age 67 (see "Hawking to Step Down from Professorship"). Hawking will, among other things, be working some at Canada's Perimeter Institute, where he has accepted a Distinguished Research Chair position. (The Institute recently named a new building after Hawking.) So on to his successor, Michael Green, who assum...
Source: About.com Physics - October 22, 2009 Category: Physics Source Type: consumer

The Cultural Airspace of Bunker Morality (Part 3b of 9)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Bunker morality relies on hard-hearted emotions of toughness and anger. These are opposite to emotions like gratitude or compassion (which lead to a different kind of morality, we'll see later). The point I want to emphasize now is that the daily culture in which one is immersed plays a large role in which emotions stay active (and which type of morality follows).So, the second thing at the base of Stephen Colbert's bunker morality is a cultural airspace that keeps his reactive, self-protective emotions on high alert. The cultural airspace includes the stories and beliefs he uses to understand the world and himself.Stories...
Source: Psychology Today Personality Center - October 17, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Darcia Narvaez, Ph.D. Tags: Morality Personality Relationships Social Life Stress admirable person airspace american way of life anger CNN cognitive bias cognitive biases compassion delusion dog eat dog dominance emotions evolution gratitude imm Source Type: consumer

Bunker Morality's Cultural Airspace (Part 3b of 9)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Bunker morality relies on hard-hearted emotions of toughness and anger. These are opposite to emotions like gratitude or compassion (which lead to a different kind of morality, we'll see later). The point I want to emphasize now is that the daily culture in which one is immersed plays a large role in which emotions stay active (and which type of morality follows).So, the second thing at the base of Stephen Colbert's bunker morality is a cultural airspace that keeps his reactive, self-protective emotions on high alert. The cultural airspace includes the stories and beliefs he uses to understand the world and himself.Stories...
Source: Psychology Today Personality Center - October 17, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Darcia Narvaez, Ph.D. Tags: Morality Personality Relationships Social Life Stress admirable person airspace american way of life anger CNN cognitive bias cognitive biases compassion delusion dog eat dog dominance emotions evolution gratitude imm Source Type: consumer

Bunker Morality and Gorilla Tactics (3a of 9 parts)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
There are two parts to Stephen Colbert's morality. First, he has a reactive stress system. He sees threats around every corner, showing that his primitive survival systems are constantly activated. This is "bunker morality" that represents the most primitive moral sense that humans display (sorry, Stephen!).When ancient emotion systems take charge, your moral choices narrow. You prefer to attack instead of introspect. You become a gorilla-yes, one of our cousins, but not representative of our best selves. Bunker morality focuses on territoriality, struggles for power, deception, and maintenance of past routines and precede...
Source: Psychology Today Personality Center - October 9, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Darcia Narvaez, Ph.D. Tags: Cognition Evolutionary Psychology Morality Neuroscience Personality Social Life blood flow body energy cousins dominance emotions frenzy gorilla tactics group identity helping others hormones human morality instincts ma Source Type: consumer

Gene found that stops some cancersEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Scientists have identified a gene they believe plays a major role in more than half of all breast cancers and a significant portion of other tumours.The gene, which helps to stop cancer cells in their tracks, came to light after researchers noticed it was missing from tissues that had been removed from breast cancers for testing. The lack of the gene has also been implicated in half of all cases of colon and prostate cancer, and a quarter of ovarian and bladder tumours.Cancer charities described the discovery as a "major step forward" that could open up new ways to screen for and treat the disease.Paul Edwards, a molecular...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - October 5, 2009 Category: Science Authors: Ian Sample Tags: Cancer Genetics Science Health Society UK news The Guardian Source Type: news

Nobel prize for medicine awarded for work on cancerEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Discovery of how chromosomes are protected earns US trio top prize in medicine. Ian Sample reportsThe discovery of a biological gatekeeper that prevents genetic code from fraying with age has won a trio of American scientists this year's Nobel prize for medicine.The prestigious award – and the 10m Swedish kronor (£818,000) prize money – is shared by Elizabeth Blackburn, 60, Carol Greider, 48, and Jack Szostak, 56. It is the first time the prize has honoured two women at once.The researchers identified one of the most critical and intriguing processes in living organisms, one that has deep implications for understandin...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - October 5, 2009 Category: Science Authors: Ian Sample Tags: Medical research Science United States World news guardian.co.uk Source Type: news

Cyclic vs. circular argumentation in the Conceptual Metaphor TheoryEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Cognitive Linguistics 20 (4): 703-732 Abstract In current debates Lakoff and Johnson's Conceptual Metaphor Theory has been charged with the circularity of the relation between the data and the hypotheses. If these charges were justified, they would be fatal for Conceptual Metaphor Theory, because circularity is one of the most serious objections that can be raised against a scientific approach. Accordingly, the paper addresses the following problems: (1) Are the charges claiming that Lakoff and Johnson's Conceptual Metaphor Theory is circular adequate? (2) In what kind of metatheoretical framework can it be decided whether...
Source: Cognitive Linguistics - October 1, 2009 Category: Speech Therapy Source Type: journals

Emissions reductions are 'misleading'Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
UK's true energy footprint is twice as big as on paper, according to Professor David MacKayBritain's reductions in emissions of greenhouse gases are misleading, according to the government's new chief scientist.Professor David MacKay told the BBC that greenhouse gas emissions created by Britons are probably twice as bad as official figures suggest. The figures are distorted because developing countries now made the goods that Britain buys, he said."Our energy footprint has decreased over the last few decades and that's largely because we've exported our industry," MacKay said. "Other countries make stuff for us so we have ...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - October 1, 2009 Category: Science Authors: David Adam Tags: Carbon emissions Climate change Environment Science Carbon footprints UK news guardian.co.uk Source Type: news

Lost world unearthed at site of portEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
• Amphitheatre and palatial rooms at harbour site• Three-year project reveals what previous digs missedBritish archaeologists have unearthed a Roman amphitheatre overlooked by previous excavations at a site to the north of the Tiber that once served as the maritime gateway to imperial Rome.During their three-year dig close to Rome's Fiumicino airport, the researchers also found a shipping canal, luxuriously decorated rooms and a colonnaded garden, suggesting the port was a regular way station for Roman emperors.Portus, ancient Rome's Mediterranean harbour, now lies two miles inland because of sedimentation. But it was ...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - September 30, 2009 Category: Science Authors: Tom Kington Tags: Archaeology University of Southampton Education UK news Science Italy World news The Guardian Source Type: news

New textbooks and new editions.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Abstract An Introduction to Behavior Genetics by Terence J. Bazzett Hardcover: 350 pages Publisher: Sinauer Associates, Inc.; 1st edition (August 31, 2008) ISBN-10: 0878930493 ISBN-13: 978-0878930494 Population Genetics by Matthew Hamilton Hardcover: 424 pages Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell (April 13, 2009) ISBN-10: 1405132779 ISBN-13: 978-1405132770 Handbook of Behavior Genetics by Yong-Kyu Kim (Editor) Hardcover: 560 pages Publisher: Springer; 1 edition (April 1, 2009) ISBN-10: 0387767266 ISBN-13: 978-0387767260 Principles of Genetics by D. Peter Snustad and Michael J. Simmons, 5th edition Paperback: 848 pages Publisher:...
Source: Twin Research and Human Genetics - September 30, 2009 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Authors: Boomsma D, Vink J Tags: Twin Res Hum Genet Source Type: journals

Can a pill really boost brain power?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
In America, university students are taking illegally obtained prescription drugs to make them more intelligent. But would you pop a smart pill to improve your performance? Margaret Talbot investigates the brave new world of neuro enhancementA young man I'll call Alex recently graduated from Harvard. As a history major, Alex wrote about a dozen papers a term. He also ran a student organisation, for which he often worked more than 40 hours a week; when he wasn't working, he had classes. Weeknights were devoted to all the schoolwork he couldn't finish during the day, and weekend nights were spent drinking with friends and goi...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - September 19, 2009 Category: Science Tags: Drugs Science Neuroscience Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder Life and style United States World news The Observer Features Source Type: news

A blueprint for how not to do scientific researchEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This week at a debate in the Royal Institute I was told off by the science minister for not praising good science reporting, because journalists – famously kind to their targets – are sensitive to criticism. So before we dismantle this Home Office report on drugs policy, can I just say I'm sure they've produced some other perfectly acceptable reports, and I shouldn't like any brittle souls to be dispirited by the criticisms that will follow.Blueprint is a schools intervention programme to reduce problematic drug use, and a lengthy research project to see if it works – costing at least £6m – finished some years ago...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - September 18, 2009 Category: Science Authors: Ben Goldacre Tags: Drugs policy Science Politics Society Schools Education Young people UK news The Guardian Comment Source Type: news

Structure-function relationships in the processing of regret in the orbitofrontal cortex.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The influence of counterfactual thinking and regret on choice behavior has been widely acknowledged in economic science (Bell in Oper Res 30:961-981, 1982; Kahneman and Tversky in Judgment under uncertainty: heuristics and biases. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp 201-210, 1982; Loomes and Sugden in Econ J 92:805-824, 1982). Neuroimaging studies have only recently begun to explore the neural correlates of this psychological factor and orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) activity was observed in several of them depending of the exact characteristics of the employed paradigm. This selective OFC involvement and, moreover, ...
Source: Brain Structure and Function - September 15, 2009 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Sommer T, Peters J, Gläscher J, Büchel C Tags: Brain Struct Funct Source Type: journals

Simon ThirgoodEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Ecologist, biologist, field researcher and expert on mammals and birds of preySimon Thirgood, who has died aged 46 in an extreme storm in Ethiopia, was an outstanding field ecologist, conservation biologist and expert on the predatory behaviour and ecology of birds of prey and large carnivore mammals. At the time of his death he had been setting up a community-based biodiversity project funded by the UK Darwin Initiative, which focused on the conservation of Ethiopia's Afromontane areas, home to endangered animals such as the Ethiopian wolf.Born in Liberia, west Africa, and brought up in Vancouver, Canada, Simon ...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - September 10, 2009 Category: Science Tags: Endangered species Conservation Wildlife Biology Science Zoology People in science The Guardian Obituaries Environment Source Type: news

Smashing species: Joseph Hooker and Victorian scienceEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Joseph Dalton Hooker once described classifying plants as "wild & exciting work, the species go smash smash every day". Hooker was one of the nineteenth century’s most powerful and influential men of science: director of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, President of the Royal Society and a close friend and key ally of Charles Darwin. In this engaging, illustrated talk Jim Endersby will show that understanding why Hooker was so keen to "smash" species, and how he did it, helps us understand much about Victorian science, especially why Darwin’s ideas about species were both useful and dan...
Source: Nature Network London - Upcoming Events - September 9, 2009 Category: Science Source Type: events

Mediterranean diet pill may protect heartEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Teams of doctors at Harvard Medical School, Cambridge University in England and elsewhere are studying the effect of Ateronon, a compound which provides the antioxidant properties of a Mediterranean diet. It is believed that Ateronon will provide a supplement formula free from side-effects. Lycopene, the key ingredient in Ateronon, is a well-know antioxidant derived from tomatoes. Antioxidants block the breakdown of fats in the blood which leads to fat deposits on artery walls. By combining lycopene with a lactose-based milk protein, Ateronon has lycopene molecules small enough to be easily absorbed by humans. A bio-techno...
Source: WorldHealth.net - September 2, 2009 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: info

Obituary: Chris LambEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Astute and creative biochemist who showed how plants defend themselvesProfessor Chris Lamb, who has died at the age of 59 from heart failure, was one of the leading plant scientists of his generation, as director of the John Innes Centre in Norwich, as regius professor of plant science at Edinburgh University, and as director of the plant biology laboratory at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California.His research aimed to understand how plants defend themselves against myriad pathogens. It is perhaps obvious that plants, unlike the rest of us, cannot run away from danger, but instead have to tolerate a continuous attack ...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - August 31, 2009 Category: Science Tags: Plants Science Biochemistry and molecular biology United States University of Edinburgh Middlesbrough Biosciences University of Cambridge University of Oxford GM Agriculture Environment People in science The Guardian Obituaries Source Type: news

Review Essay: A Sociocultural Perspective on Genocide: A Review of The Psychology of Genocide: Perpetrators, Bystanders, and Rescuers by Steven Baum: Baum, Steven, The Psychology of Genocide: Perpetrators, Bystanders, and Rescuers. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. 255 pp. ISBN 978--0--521--71392--4Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
In The Psychology of Genocide, Steven Baum adds a new voice to the field of genocide studies. By connecting relevant psychological theories, Baum is able to effectively show that one’s level of emotional and moral development plays a part in determining whether one will become a bystander, perpetrator or rescuer during a genocide. However, his look into hate and genocide lacks a complete psychological perspective because his sole emphasis is on developmental theories. By adding a sociocultural perspective to this approach, specifically through the addition of social identity and representation research, one can get a...
Source: Culture - August 16, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Phillips DeZalia, R. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

Tomato Pill Found to Reverse Heart DiseaseEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
(NaturalNews) A pill made from tomatoes may do more to help treat heart disease and high cholesterol than many pharmaceutical products currently on the market, according to preliminary trials carried out by researchers from Cambridge University.The pill, known as Ateronon, contains a version of the tomato phytonutrient lycopene, which gives the fruits their bright red color. Lycopene has been shown in a number of studies to help relieve the symptoms of heart disease and to help prevent cancerThe chemical is poorly absorbed by the human body, however, so researchers from a Cambridge spinoff company have refined it into a mo...
Source: NaturalNews.com - August 11, 2009 Category: Consumer Health Advice Source Type: news

Allergens and thunderstorm asthmaEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Abstract Thunderstorm-related asthma is increasingly recognized in many parts of the world. This review focuses on important advances in the understanding of the mechanism of the role of allergens, in particular fungal spores such as Alternaria, in asthma epidemics associated with thunderstorms. From our observations, we have proposed that the prerequisites for this phenomenon are as follows: 1) a sensitized, atopic, asthmatic individual; 2) prior airway hyperresponsiveness before a sudden, large allergen exposure; 3) a large-scale thunderstorm with cold outflow occurring at a time and location during an alle...
Source: Current Allergy and Asthma Reports - August 11, 2009 Category: Allergy & Immunology Tags: Current Allergy and Asthma Reports Source Type: journals

Apparent diffusion coefficient and vascular signal fraction measurements with magnetic resonance imaging: feasibility in metastatic ovarian cancer at 3 TeslaEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Abstract This prospective study aims to evaluate the feasibility of DWI at 3 Tesla in patients with advanced ovarian cancer and investigate the differences in vascular signal fraction (VSF) and apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) values between primary ovarian mass and metastatic disease. Twenty patients with suspected advanced ovarian carcinoma were enrolled in the study. High-resolution T2W FRFSE images were used to confirm the position of three marker lesions: primary ovarian mass, omental cake and peritoneal deposit. Multislice DWI was acquired in a single breath-hold using multiple b-values. The three ...
Source: European Radiology - August 5, 2009 Category: Radiology Tags: European Radiology Source Type: journals

The use of Lean Thinking techniques in implementing the Department of Health, UK, 18-week waiting time directive for cochlear implantationEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
In October 2007, Primary Care Trusts throughout the East of England agreed to fund assessment and implantation for all patients referred to Cambridge University Hospitals' Cochlear Implant Unit ('the Unit') providing they met locally agreed criteria.Subsequently, the Unit has employed Lean Thinking techniques to maximize departmental efficiency in order to comply with the Department of Health's 18-week guideline. Analysis of the patient's pathway, from referral to implantation surgery, highlighted areas of 'waste' that were causing delays in downstream processes. Through a number of streamlining measures a large waiting li...
Source: Cochlear Implants International - August 3, 2009 Category: Audiology Authors: Peter Kullar, Frances Harris, Simon KW Lloyd, John Briggs, Zebunnisa H Vanat, John Willis, Patrick R Axon Source Type: journals

Core Topics in Mechanical VentilationEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
; Edited by Iain Mackenzie; ISBN: 978-0-521-86781-8; Cambridge University Press; 425 pp (Source: Critical Care)
Source: Critical Care - August 2, 2009 Category: Intensive Care Authors: Lluis Blanch Source Type: journals

New one hour Chlamydia testEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
A urine test can diagnose male chlamydia within an hour, according to the BBC. The sexually transmitted infection, which often has no symptoms, can cause fertility problems and is estimated to be carried by 6.8% of young men in England. This new urine test reportedly enables same-day treatment following a one-hour wait for results. The well-conducted study behind this story has demonstrated that the Chlamydia Rapid Test is highly accurate in confirming that a man is not infected. It also has a good, but slightly lower, level of accuracy in correctly identifying that a man did have the infection. The technique also avoids ...
Source: NHS News Feed - July 31, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Medical practice Source Type: news

The fracture toughness of cancellous boneEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Abstract: The mechanical capacity and integrity of cancellous bone is crucial in osteoporosis, a condition which is set to become more prevalent with increasing lifespan and population sizes. The fracture toughness (FT) of cancellous bone has never been examined before and the conditions associated with the growth of a major crack through the lattice of cancellous bone, a cellular solid, may improve our understanding for structural integrity of this material. The aim of this study is to provide (i) basic data on cancellous bone FT and (ii) the experimental support for the hypothesis of Gibson, L.J., Ashby, M.F. [1997a. Cha...
Source: Journal of Biomechanics - July 30, 2009 Category: Biomedical Science Authors: R.B. Cook, P. Zioupos Tags: Papers Source Type: journals

Book Review: Floyd, K. (2006). Communicating Affection: Interpersonal Behavior and Social Context. New York: Cambridge University Press. pp. 222. ISBN: 978-0-521-73174-4Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: Journal of Language and Social Psychology - July 29, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Alley-Young, G. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

The implications of the presence of an aberrant right hepatic artery in patients undergoing a pancreaticoduodenectomyEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions The surgical and oncological outcomes of PD remain unaffected by the presence of ARHA provided that the anatomy is recognized and appropriately managed. Aberrant right hepatic artery can be classified into three types according to their anatomical relationship with the head of the pancreas. Content Type Journal ArticleCategory Original ArticleDOI 10.1007/s00595-009-3947-3Authors Asif Jah, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Department of Hepatobiliary and Transplant Surgery, Addenbrooke’s Hospital Box 201 Cambridge CB2 2QQ UKNeville Jamieson, Cambridge University Hospital...
Source: Surgery Today - July 28, 2009 Category: Surgery Tags: Surgery Today Source Type: journals

Synchronized Swimming Of Algae May Have Significant Implications For Human Health And DiseaseEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Using high-speed cinematography, scientists at Cambridge University have discovered that individual algal cells can regulate the beating of their flagella in and out of synchrony in a manner that controls their swimming trajectories. Their research was published on the 24th July in the journal Science. (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - July 25, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Biology / Biochemistry Source Type: news

Diabetes Network Research Nurse, CambridgeEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Via healthjobsuk.com. The position of Diabetes Network Research Nurse is available within Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. This is a Band 7 post on a fixed term contract until 31 March 2012 on a salary of £29,789 - £39,273 pa pro rata. This is an excellent opportunity for a motivated Nurse to advance their career in clinical research. In recognition of the immediate and growing importance of diabetes to public health in the UK, the Diabetes Research Network has been established by the DoH through the UK Clinical Research Network (UKCRN). There are eight local Diabetes Research Networks acr...
Source: Society for Endocrinology - July 23, 2009 Category: Endocrinology Source Type: organizations

Thresholds for color discrimination in English and Korean speakers.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Categorical perception (CP) is said to occur when a continuum of equally spaced physical changes is perceived as unequally spaced as a function of category membership (Harnad, S. (Ed.) (1987). Psychophysical and cognitive aspects of categorical perception: A critical overview. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press). A common suggestion is that CP for color arises because perception is qualitatively distorted when we learn to categorize a dimension. Contrary to this view, we here report that English speakers show no evidence of lowered discrimination thresholds at the boundaries between blue and green categories even th...
Source: Cognition - July 17, 2009 Category: Neurology Authors: Roberson D, Hanley JR, Pak H Tags: Cognition Source Type: journals

Revving Up for the Year of ScienceEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The year 2009 has been designated the Year of Science (www.yearofscience2009.org). The Coalition on the Public Understanding of Science (COPUS) and AIBS, together with the Geological Society of America, the National Science Teachers Association, and the University of California Museum of Paleontology (home of the new Understanding Science Web site; see p. 91)—are fully engaged in the effort to attain the goal of the Year of Science: to empower Americans "to appreciate the pragmatic outcomes of science, to distinguish science from non-science, and to participate in social discourse that provides insight into the natur...
Source: AIBS BioScience Editorials - July 14, 2009 Category: Biology Authors: BioScience Source Type: info

High Throughput Monitoring Of Protein AdsorptionEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Paraytec Ltd. has announced that its multi-award winning ActiPix D-100 system has been selected by Cambridge University to enable pioneering research into high-throughput micro channel separations of recombinant proteins within microcapillary films. (Source: Pharmaceutical Online News)
Source: Pharmaceutical Online News - July 13, 2009 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news

Book Review: The bilingual child: Early development and language contact By Virginia Yip & Stephen Matthews (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2007). Pp. xxii + 295. ISBN 978-0-52183-617-3 (Hbk), 978-0-52154-476-4 (Pbk)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
(Source: First Language)
Source: First Language - July 12, 2009 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Kupisch, T. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

Can sperm really be created in a laboratory?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Anybody who has, for whatever reason, dreamed of a world without men in the past probably looked to the cloners to make it happen. Few would have imagined it might one day be possible to create human sperm in a laboratory, but that is now the proud claim of Professor Karim Nayernia of the North East England Stem Cell Institute.It is a claim that immediately hit controversy. Allan Pacey of the University of Sheffield, a sperm biologist of 20 years standing, declared he was unconvinced. Azim Surani, a professor of physiology and reproduction at Cambridge University, said they were "sperm-like cells" and "a long way from bein...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - July 8, 2009 Category: Science Authors: Sarah Boseley Tags: Fertility problems Life and style Medical research Science The Guardian Features Source Type: news

Can sperm really be created in a lab?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Anybody who has, for whatever reason, dreamed of a world without men in the past probably looked to the cloners to make it happen. Few would have imagined it might one day be possible to create human sperm in a laboratory, but that is now the proud claim of Professor Karim Nayernia of the North East England Stem Cell Institute.It is a claim that immediately hit controversy. Allan Pacey of the University of Sheffield, a sperm biologist of 20 years standing, declared he was unconvinced. Azim Surani, a professor of physiology and reproduction at Cambridge University, said they were "sperm-like cells" and "a long way from bein...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - July 8, 2009 Category: Science Authors: Sarah Boseley Tags: Fertility problems Life and style Medical research Science The Guardian Features Source Type: news

Trauma Anesthesia C. E. Smith (ed.). 220 × 285 mm. Pp. 606. Illustrated. 2008. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge. £50·00.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
No Abstract. (Source: British Journal of Surgery)
Source: British Journal of Surgery - July 8, 2009 Category: Surgery Authors: A. Marsh Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: journals

News from Afar: Diversionary tacticsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
David Ferguson describes the second day of his hastily arranged journey to a remote region of Ethiopia in time to investigate a volcanic eruption. He and his fellow geologists dodge Al-Qaida trucks and survive a flight by Ethiopian military helicopter, but their final destination still eludes themFriday: We left Addis Ababa before dawn, weaving our way through the dark streets avoiding the crowds of early morning joggers. Our destination was an Ethiopian military base around 50km from the city, from where we had been promised a helicopter ride to the eruption site about 450km northwards in the remote Afar region. Once we r...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - July 6, 2009 Category: Science Tags: Science Geology guardian.co.uk Blogposts Source Type: news

Elisabeth Young-Bruehl. Anna Freud: A Biography, 2nd ed. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2008. 576 pp. $20.00 (paper). ISBN-13: 9780300140231Michael Ruse and Robert J. Richards (Eds.). The Cambridge Companion to the "Origin of Species." New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. xxvii, 395 pp. $26.00 (paper). ISBN-13: 978-0521691291Stephen Murdoch. IQ:A Smart History of a Failed Idea. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2007. xiv + 269 pp. $24.95 (cloth). ISBN-13: 978-0471699774Warren D. Allmon, Patricia Kelley, and Robert Ross (Eds.). Stephen Jay Gould: Reflections on His View of Life. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. 416 pp. $34.95 (cloth). ISBN-13: 978-0195373202Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
No abstract. (Source: Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences)
Source: Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences - July 1, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: Briefly Noted Source Type: journals

Unsentimental ethics: towards a content-specific account of the moral-conventional distinction.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
In this paper, we offer an overview and a critique of the existing theories of the moral-conventional distinction, with emphasis on Nichols's [Nichols, S. (2002). Norms with feeling: Towards a psychological account of moral judgment. Cognition, 84, 221-236] neo-sentimentalist approach. After discussing some distinctive features of Nichols's (2002) thesis and situating it within the context of his predecessors' work [Blair, R. (1995). A cognitive developmental approach to morality: Investigating the psychopath. Cognition, 57, 1-29; Turiel, E. (1983). The development of social knowledge: Morality and convention. Cambridg...
Source: Cognition - June 27, 2009 Category: Neurology Authors: Royzman EB, Leeman RF, Baron J Tags: Cognition Source Type: journals

Battle Autism with Bentonite ClayEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
(NaturalNews) Many autism treatment centers are incorporating the use of Bentonite clay in their successful treatment regimens. Detoxing and chelating with calcium Bentonite clay baths is proving to be a key factor in their success. Studies are showing the clay`s unique ability to safely remove metals and environmental toxins from the body clears the way for greater results with behavioral and integrative therapies.The number of children diagnosed annually with autism is escalating at a truly frightening rate. In the 1980s, a study showed that 4 in every 10,000 children showed signs of autism. A recent study by Cambridge U...
Source: NaturalNews.com - June 26, 2009 Category: Consumer Health Advice Source Type: news

Why Students UnderachieveEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Virtually all psychologically important human motives and goals reduce to combinations of 16 universal life motives (see my book "The Normal Personality", Cambridge University Press). Everybody embraces these life motives, but individuals prioritize them differently. How an individual prioritizes the 16 life motives has implications for how the person behaves in many natural environments. Our work on life motives, for example, has identified six common motivational causes of poor grades in schools. Any individual student doing poorly in school may have one or more these six motives. Each motive has different implications f...
Source: Psychology Today Parenting Center - June 23, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Steven Reiss, Ph.D. Tags: Parenting education Source Type: consumer

Charles Darwin - man of lettersEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Charles Darwin was a true man of letters. He not only wrote prolifically, he also read voraciously, as our three special guests at the Guardian Hay Festival earlier this month testified. Darwinophile and momentary Oxford Professor of Poetry Ruth Padel suggests that anyone who wants to read Darwin should start with The Voyage of the Beagle, which she finds "fresh, vivid and personal"."His writing style really tells you something about the man himself ... he was passionately interested in what he was talking about – life."He also loved reading Milton, Byron, Shelley, Shakespeare and Wordsworth, but became hardened to poetr...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - June 22, 2009 Category: Science Authors: Alok Jha, Scott Cawley Tags: Charles Darwin Science Evolution Steve Jones Guardian Hay festival People in science Science and nature Books guardian.co.uk Interviews Source Type: news