Addition of 3-D imaging technique to mammography increases breast cancer...
The addition of tomosynthesis, a 3-dimensional breast imaging technique, to digital mammography in more than 170,000 examinations was associated with a decrease in the proportion of patients called...
View ArticleUse of regional anesthesia during hip fracture surgery not associated with...
Among more than 56,000 adults undergoing hip repair between 2004 and 2011, the use of regional anesthesia compared with general anesthesia was not associated with a lower risk of death at 30 days, but...
View ArticleWhy can internal waves improve water environment?
Complex flow field can be stimulated during the propagation process of internal waves. The increased turbulent intensity may have great impact on the sediment transport in the bottom of oceans or...
View ArticleThe breakthrough of hypervelocity launch performed on three-stage light gas...
In the past 20 years, the Laboratory for Shock Wave and Detonation Physics Research in IFP, CAEP has conducted the research in hypervelocity launch technology, in which significant progresses have...
View ArticleRecent progress in whole-lifecycle software architecture modeling
Software complexity is an important factor leading to software crisis. In 2014 (5) issue of Science China: Information Science, a paper based on long-term research shows that the software architecture...
View ArticleWhere are the persistent organic pollutants in foodstuffs after cooking?
Dietary intake is an essential pathway for human exposure to persistent organic compounds (POPs). However, a large number of foodstuffs are consumed after being cooked. Cooking processes could affect...
View ArticleUnexpected effects of Hepatitis C infection in transplant patients
Viruses aren’t typically known for the good things they can do, but a new study reports that in liver transplant patients, a history of infection with Hepatitis C virus actually restrains the...
View ArticleI+D to develop an intelligent new high performance electric motorcycle
The “intelligence” of Bultaco’s new electric motorcycle is being developed on the south side of Madrid, in Science Park of the Universidad Carlos III of Madrid (UC3M), where the company has...
View ArticleA more ancient origin of animal-built reefs
The discovery of an approximately 548 million-year-old reef in Namibia, made of the world’s earliest known skeletal animals, suggests that these aquatic organisms had been building reefs before the...
View ArticleWhy the same electric organs showed up in unrelated fish
The electric organs fish use to navigate and communicate -- mystifying to scientists in that have they shown up repeatedly in unrelated fish species -- evolved in their hosts because certain...
View ArticleFinding flowers gets harder amid competing smells
Insects follow the odors of flowers to find their next nectar nibble, but a new study reports that competing odors, including manmade odors, make this task harder by altering odor perception of the...
View ArticleDisrupting ocean circulation extended Earth’s glacial cycles
A new study suggests that a major disruption of the thermohaline circulation (THC) -- a particular feature of the oceans’ large-scale circulation pattern -- initiated a change during the...
View ArticleAre conservatives more obedient and agreeable than their liberal counterparts?
Over the last few years, we've seen increasing dissent among liberals and conservatives on important issues such as gun control, health care and same-sex marriage. Both sides often have a difficult...
View ArticleVideoconferencing with family and friends lowers stress for pediatric patients
To ease isolation during extended hospitalizations, UC Davis Children’s Hospital offers secure videoconferencing for patients and families. While anecdotal accounts have suggested the “Family-Link”...
View ArticleAlso of interest from the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
A study finds that rubbing two solids against each other in the presence of a liquid creates microscopic bubbles as the surfaces experience microscale fractures, and that small bubbles coalesce into a...
View ArticleStrains of amyloid beta and patterns of AD pathogenesis
In a pair of studies, researchers report that natural and synthetic strains of amyloid beta (Aβ) peptides trigger distinct patterns of brain amyloid plaques in mice and that distinct strains of brain...
View ArticleMalaria infection may enhance host attractiveness to mosquitoes
Mice infected with malaria release a different odor profile from that of uninfected individuals, making infected mice more attractive to mosquitoes, according to a study. Mosquitoes serve as vectors...
View ArticleWell integrity and methane leakage
Unconventional oil and gas wells, such as hydrofractured wells, may pose a higher risk of methane leakage than conventional wells, according to a study. Elevated levels of methane in Pennsylvania...
View ArticleInvasion of cane toads from South America to Australia
The cane toad’s invasion of Australia may shed light on a longstanding ecological theory, a study suggests. Niche theory, proposed around 50 years ago, states that the place where a species lives is...
View ArticleGender bias and life sciences faculties
Elite male faculty members in the life sciences train significantly fewer female graduate students and postdoctoral researchers than other faculty members, a study reports. Despite receiving more than...
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