COLLEGE PARK, Md. - Offshore wind power offers a feasible way for Maryland to help meet its renewable energy goals, but presents some economic and political hurdles, concludes a new study by the University of Maryland Center for Integrative Environmental Research (CIER). The study, "Maryland Offshore Wind Development," is the most in-depth feasibility assessment to date of developing and operating wind farms in Maryland's Atlantic coastal waters, the researchers say. Among the study's key findings, offshore wind development will have to address two serious hurdles to ...

(PHOENIX, AZ) -- Scientists at Barrow Neurological Institute have recently made discoveries about a type of cell that may limit inflammation in the central nervous system (CNS) – a finding that could have important implications in the treatment of brain disorders such as multiple sclerosis. The research, led by Barrow's Fu-Dong Shi, MD, PhD, was published in the August 2010 issue of The Journal of Experimental Medicine, and simultaneously highlighted in Nature. Dr. Shi directs the Neuroimmunology Laboratory and Flow Cytometry Core Facility at Barrow. One of his research ...

WHAT: Researchers funded by the National Institutes of Health have found that the major malaria-transmitting mosquito species, Anopheles gambiae, is evolving into two separate species with different traits, a development that could both complicate malaria control efforts and potentially require new disease prevention methods. Their findings were published in back-to-back articles in the October 22 issue of the journal Science. A. gambiae is the most common vector of human malaria in sub-Saharan Africa, where rates of the disease are highest. The researchers compared the ...

Vegetation plays an unexpectedly large role in cleansing the atmosphere, a new study finds. The research, led by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colo., uses observations, gene expression studies, and computer modeling to show that deciduous plants absorb about a third more of a common class of air-polluting chemicals than previously thought. The new study, results of which are being published this week in Science Express, was conducted with co-authors from the University of Northern Colorado and the University of Arizona. ...

A study led by a researcher at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine indicates that parent-only treatments for childhood obesity work equally as well as plans that include parents and child, while at the same time more cost effective and potentially easier for families. The results were published today in the advanced online edition of the journal Obesity. Kerri N. Boutelle, PhD, associate professor of pediatrics and psychiatry at UC San Diego and Rady Children's Hospital, San Diego, and colleagues set out to assess whether parent-only groups are ...

WASHINGTON, Oct. 21 – A team of scientists at Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs have examined the energy consumption trends of communications equipment in use today and determined that gains in energy efficiency are not keeping pace with traffic growth. One consequence is that energy is going to become an increasingly important problem for communication networks. In one unabated, business-as-usual scenario, the scientists estimate that power consumed per user could increase by seven-fold over the next 10 years. Based on these findings, Bell Labs has developed several technology ...

LA JOLLA, CA, October 21, 2010 — A multi-institutional consortium led by The Scripps Research Institute scientists, the Joint Center for Structural Genomics (JCSG), is the sole focus of a special issue of the journal Acta Crystallographica Section F. This is the first time in the history of the monthly journal, which publishes peer-reviewed crystallography and structural biology articles, that an entire issue is devoted to the works of a single scientific center. The issue contains 35 articles grouped into sections that highlight different aspects of the JCSG high-throughput ...

CORAL GABLES, FL (October 21, 2010)--Researchers from the University of Miami (UM) and the University of Connecticut (UConn) have published a 2010 report on the American Jewish population, as part of a new North American Jewish Data Bank Report series. The new report called Jewish Population in the United States-2010 shows a greater number of Jews in the U.S. than in Israel. While the article puts the total number of Jews in the U.S. at around 6.5 million, the authors recognize there may be some double counting in the methodology and believe the number to be fewer than ...

The landscape of Central Africa 65 million years ago was a low-elevation tropical belt, but the jury is still out on whether the region's mammals browsed and hunted beneath the canopy of a lush rainforest. The scientific evidence for a tropical rainforest at that time is weak and far from convincing, says paleobotanist Bonnie F. Jacobs at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. Fossil pollen from Central and West Africa provide no definitive evidence for communities of rainforest trees at the beginning of the Cenozoic, says Jacobs, an expert in the paleobotany of Africa ...

The availability of highly nutritious forage is one of four factors linked to the presence of elk populations in western Oregon and Washington, according to a modeling study recently completed by scientists from the U.S. Forest Service's Pacific Northwest (PNW) Research Station. Findings from the two-year study will be used to update land management planning for the ecologically and economically important ungulate in the region. "Habitat models like the one we developed are critical to managing elk populations, particularly since current management practices are based ...

OAK RIDGE, Tenn., Oct. 21, 2010 -- Tin may seem like the most unassuming of elements, but experiments performed at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory are yielding surprising properties in extremely short-lived isotopes near tin-100's "doubly magic" nucleus. Experiments performed with the exotic nucleus tin-101, which has a single neutron orbiting tin-100's closed shell of 50 protons and 50 neutrons, indicate an unexpected reversal in the ordering of lowest states in the nucleus. The finding appears to violate a standard scenario offered by the nuclear ...

Boston, Mass. - A cholesterol-lowering drug reduced the enlarged prostates of hamsters to the same extent as a drug commonly used to treat benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), report researchers at Children's Hospital Boston and their colleagues in the October issue of the Journal of Urology. Together, the drugs worked even better. "We don't know the mechanism, but the results suggest to us that lowering cholesterol has the potential to reduce BPH in men," says senior author Keith Solomon, PhD, a biochemist, and member of the departments of Orthopaedic Surgery and Urology ...

At the heart of the method is a so-called quantum point contact (QPC). This is a narrow conductive channel in a semiconductor circuit. The scientists created a 70-nanometer narrow channel, about as wide as the wavelength of electrons in the semiconductor. The key is that only one electron at a time will fit through the channel, making possible extremely high-precision measurements of the electric current. As described in the current publication, this method was applied to photogenerated electrons for the first time ever. In the experimental set-up it is not the sun, but ...

Beating the flu has always been tough, but it has gotten even more difficult in recent years. Two of the four antiviral drugs used to treat a nasty case of the influenza A virus no longer work. Fortunately, scientists at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory and Institute of Molecular Biophysics at Florida State University and researchers at Brigham Young University in Utah are close to understanding why these drugs have become less effective — and how new drugs might take their place. Their findings appear this week in the journal Science. "Resistance to drugs ...

Madison, WI, October 21, 2010 – Researchers at the University of Florida Research and Education Centers and scientists at the South Florida Water Management District have published a report regarding the trends in water quality feeding into Everglades National Park. The report can be found in the September-October 2010 Journal of Environmental Quality, published by the American Society of Agronomy, the Crop Science Society of America, and the Soil Science Society of America. The goal of the study was to provide insight regarding the variations in the quality of water ...

Two children, both age 3, enroll in publicly funded preschool. But they may have vastly different experiences: One child may attend preschool for 8 hours a day and be taught by a teacher with a bachelor's degree while the other child may be in preschool for only a few hours a day, under the supervision of a teacher with a 2-year degree. Why is there so much variability and are these programs meeting their potential for adequately preparing youngsters for school? In a new report in Psychological Science in the Public Interest, a journal of the Association for Psychological ...

ANN ARBOR, Mich.---As Halloween approaches, tales of monsters and creepy crawlies abound. Among the most fearsome is the legendary beast known as the chupacabras. But the real fiend is not the hairless, fanged animal purported to attack and drink the blood of livestock; it's a tiny, eight-legged creature that turns a healthy, wild animal into a chupacabras, says University of Michigan biologist Barry OConnor. The existence of the chupacabras, also known as the goatsucker, was first surmised from livestock attacks in Puerto Rico, where dead sheep were discovered with ...

USA Volleyball is joining forces with its newest partner to offer the 2012 Ludus Tours Sport Development Grants to volleyball clubs for the development or enhancement of programming for boys, ages 14 years or younger. Any USAV-sanctioned volleyball club that is in good standing with their Region and USAV is eligible to apply for one of five $1,000 grants. Only one club per USAV region will be awarded a grant. Grant funds must be used to develop new programming or enhance existing programming for boys, ages 14 years or younger. It is strongly suggested that the funds ...

As the exhibit of original photos from the collection of Thomas Adams prepares to close, the New Hampshire Institute of Art is very pleased to feature four prominent collectors of original fine art photography that will discuss the art of collecting photography. Panelists are as follows: Thomas Adams, Steve Duprey, Robert Rogers, and Dr. Randy Bryan. The event is free and open to the public, and will be held at the French Building Auditorium, 148 Concord Street in Manchester Thursday, Oct. 28 from 5:30 to 7 pm. The discussion will be moderated by Gary Samson, chairperson ...

Capitalizing on the durability properties of native Canadian Cedar, Undercover Pet Houses of Nova Scotia, Canada manufactures a safe, sturdy, weather-resistant, and warm outdoor house for cats. Available in a selection of sizes, ranging from a single one-cat house to a large duplex or doubledecker capable of housing a colony of cats, these cedar outdoor cat houses are sold in the United States by the Cat Tree Store (http://cattreestore.com). In addition to the natural warmth-retaining properties afforded by the cedar construction, the roof, floor, and sides are filled ...

OREIA Announces "Success Implementation Program" for 2010 The Ohio Real Estate Investors Association just announced the Success Implmentation program that is free for all conference attendees who attend the 2010 OREIA Convention in Dayton, OH November 11-14, 2010. OREIA understands that with most conventions and events you get educated and motivated, but then you are left on your own to implement. But we are making your success our business by giving you the follow up support you need to reach your goals. OREIA is a non-profile real estate organization that understands ...

Was there a situation where people were in need of medical assistance and there was no way that an ambulance could them? Air ambulance companies cater to these types of emergencies.An air ambulance is an aircraft that is used for medical emergencies in situations or areas were normal ambulance could not reach. Air Ambulance International is one of these companies. It is one of the long- established companies with an excellence in service that caters to medical assistance or emergency 24 hours a day, 7 days a week throughout the year. Their fields of expertise are in ...

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Wine and Design, Raleigh's first and only wine and painting party company, will be holding its second in-house fundraising event on Saturday, November 13th from 6:30pm-8:30pm. The two-hour painting party, being called "An Evening for Tony", will raise funds to support The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society and was inspired by Carrboro resident Lisa Purvis and her father-in-law, Tony Purvis. Purvis is a woman on a mission and has been supporting and participating in cancer research fundraising events since her father-in-law, Tony Purvis, was diagnosed with melanoma last November. ...

Hotel search engine, HotelsCombined.com.au, announced that hotels in Melbourne, host city to the "race that stops the nation," have decreased prices for the Melbourne Cup 2010 YOY. Sites statistics indicate the average night rate for Melbourne Cup in 2010 is AUD $185, down from AUD $194 in 2009. Spokesperson Yury Glikin, Director of Business Development for HotelsCombined.com.au, said, "The HotelsCombined 'Hotel Price Index (HPI)' shows hotel prices are relatively lower for the Melbourne Cup this year. As a result many luxurious hotels close to the Flemington Racecourse ...