Improved Understanding Of Population Dynamics With The Help Of Small Water Fleas
A study of populations of tiny water fleas is helping ecologists to understand population dynamics, which may lead to predictions about the ecological consequences of environmental change. The study is published in the journal Nature. The water flea, called Daphnia, plays a key role in the food web of many lakes.
New Study-Based Handbook Promotes Student Athlete Success In PA
With 7 million high school athletes nationwide and more than 300,000 in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, scholastic sports have a vital role in cultivating positive experiences for student athletes. Middle and high school athletic programs should help student athletes achieve success beyond the playing field by teaching life skills, according to a groundbreaking study evaluating the current status of scholastic sports across Pennsylvania.
Runners Get Personal On World Run Day - USA Event Inspires Donations To 1000+ Charities
Fitness runners, scattered across hundreds of US cites, can help celebrate World Run Day in “their own way” this November 9th. For the event, each runner decides where they’ll run and what charity they’ll donate to. Already, over 1200 runners in the USA have registered for the event.
Apache Corporation, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, UH Team Up To Explore Shared Technologies
Whether it’s in the human body or under the Earth’s crust, modeling the unseen involves many similar techniques. Physicians and geologists will be meeting at the University of Houston to discuss just how much they have in common. Through a partnership between UH, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center (MDACC) and Apache Corporation, experts in biomedical and seismic imaging will gather to explore the potential for cross-collaboration in imaging.
When Electricity Prices Rise, Electricity Use Significantly Reduced By Households
A new study in the RAND Journal of Economics examined how quickly households change their electricity use when prices rise and fall rapidly. Results show that when electricity prices increase, the average household rapidly reduces its electricity use. However, when electricity prices then decrease, household energy use returns to previous levels. Matthew White and Peter C.
New Program Internationalizes Health And Fitness Research
In an effort to expand global health and fitness research and partnerships, the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) has formed an international science and health exchange to highlight scientific discovery and collaboration among international scientists. A research program with Sato Sports Plaza of Japan is the first major partnership in the ACSM initiative.
New Research Shows Nanotech’s Environmental Gains May Be Canceled Out
New research shows that environmental gains derived from the use of nanomaterials may be offset in part by the processes used to manufacture them.
Urban Residents’ Vulnerability To Heat Examined By Researchers
Darrel Jenerette, a landscape ecologist at UC Riverside, is on a team led by Arizona State University researchers that will be investigating human vulnerability to deadly heat exposure. The three-year project will examine how variation in the “urban heat island” - a metropolitan area that is much warmer than its surrounding areas - impacts human comfort and health risks, as well as how human decisions lead to this variation.
Sprint And Endurance Power And Ageing: An Analysis Of Master Athletic World Records
Past analyses of world record data suggest that the age-related decline would be larger for endurance than for sprinting events. However, all of those past studies were based upon running speed. In this study, by contrast, we have focused on the required metabolic power. Analysis of the world records from master track runners between the age of 40 and 90 shows that sprinting power and endurance power decline with age in a strikingly similar way.
Advancing Biofuels And Plant-Produced Therapeutics
Scientists from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and the Arkansas Bioscience Institute present their latest research on cellulosic ethanol, therapeutics produced from tobacco roots, and other plant-based research Can biofuels produced from non-food plant products like corn stalks
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