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Physical abuse is terrifyingly common in Mongolia, but it was the first time I was an eye-witness to it. I talked to my boss about it, and she said that abuse centers are sprouting up, with housing, because most of these women stay with their husbands because they have nowhere else to go.
Vitamin B12 reduces the blood levels of homocysteine, a risk factor for cardiovascular disease, but the reduction apparently has no effect on survival. The review covered 12 studies with a total of 16,598 participants who had pre-existing illness.
But after controlling for maternal age, birth weight, breast- feeding and other factors, the children of the women who took fish oil were significantly better at hand-eye coordination than those of the women who took the olive oil supplement.
Far from a solemn proceeding by a dispassionate state, Saddam's execution has been framed as an act of sectarian vengeance shrouded in political theater and overseen by an American occupation that has resulted in little more than humiliation and tragedy for Iraqis. "If Saddam had media planners he could not have planned it better than this," said Daoud Kuttab, an Arab media critic and director of the online radio station Ammannet.net. "Nobody could ever have imagined that Saddam would have gone down with such dignity."
På nyhetsmorgon just nu (08:24) påannonserar en av programledarna (den kvinnliga) en diskussion med att "Folkpartiet vill förbjuda andra språk än svenska i skolan". Det är ju inte sant. Det är ju ett lokalt förslag, som den andre programledaren senare fyller i för att försöka rädda situationen. Han blir då avfärdad av programledare nummer 1 med att det finns riksdagsledamöter som tycker så.<br><br>Detta är ett oseriöst arbete av programledare 1. Det är inte ett folkpartiförslag på det sätt som hon försöker påskina.<br>
Former prisoner Lee Sun Ok described one such test before the U.S. House Committee on International Relations: "In February 1990, I was asked by the chief guard to follow him to an administration warehouse ... He ordered me to check out six bundles (five pairs in each bundle) of gas masks with rubber gowns, which looked like a sea diver's kit. When I returned to my prison chamber, a total of 150 prisoners, several from each unit, were selected and separated from the other[s]. The selected prisoners were mostly crippled and weak women who had less labor value." Later, said Lee, "I saw many prisoners lying on the slope of a hill, bleeding from their mouths and motionless, enveloped by strange fumes and surrounded by scores of guards in the gas masks ... I delivered earlier in the morning."
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In the study to be published in Thursday's New England Journal of Medicine, Gary Small and his colleagues discovered that the chemical allowed doctors to pick out which of 83 volunteers had Alzheimer's, which had mild memory problems, and which were functioning normally for their age. It was 98 percent accurate in determining the difference between Alzheimer's and mild cognitive impairment.
Dr. John Crippens, a general practitioner from the United Kingdom, in his widely respected weblog writes: "Did you know that most Google searches on childhood immunization throw up pages and pages written by the anti-immunization lobby? And that is what parents read." To check on this premise, MEDGADGET has conducted an investigation, and our results are far from reassuring. In fact, what you will see below, is something that is quite disconcerting for many of us in the clinical practice.
Peter Singer, blogging from the Brookings Institution next door to FP, just posted a fascinating piece at Defensetech.org. Singer found a tiny clause inserted in the Pentagon's fiscal year 2007 budget legislation that strips contractors of their immunity in the battlefield.
The researchers focused on a sugar called N-acetyl-D-mannosamine, or ManNAc, for short. The team created a hybrid molecule by linking ManNAc with butyrate. The hybrid easily penetrates a cell's surface, then is split apart by enzymes inside the cell. Once inside the cell, ManNAc is processed into another sugar known as sialic acid that plays key roles in cancer biology, while butyrate orchestrates the expression of genes responsible for halting the uncontrolled growth of cancer cells.
The brain's capacity for dynamic states, called neuroplasticity, or just plasticity, makes tracking the circuitry behind memories a task of near-epic proportions. Hundreds of variables come into play. Consider, for example, that a lot of memory formation and storage goes on simultaneously, some of it consciously and some of it unconsciously. And, in the time it takes to commit something to memory, hundreds of other experiences are being sorted and perhaps stored. A message passed between two neurons is like person-to-person e-mail rather than a listserv. It does not trigger a global response in the brain's processing network. Sound complicated? "That's right," says Helmstetter. "Plasticity is functionally infinite."
The results: Immune responses occurred not only in subjects in or near the Daschle office but also in those elsewhere in the Hart building, or even outside the building; the extent of exposure was thus greater than predicted. No associations were seen between exposure levels and immune responses or symptoms, but the most-exposed subjects were the only ones to have high-magnitude responses. Low-level exposure did not appear to trigger an antibody response, but did induce a response by cells of the immune system, Intermediate exposure induced both. Finally, cellular immune responses declined with post-exposure use of antibiotics, suggesting that the intervention impeded spore germination and implying that it may reduce the incidence of both subclinical and clinical B. anthracis infection.
The best analysis to date of the economic impact of migration to the UK was published today by Bank of England MPC member and professor of economics, Danny Blanchflower. Co-authored by Bank economists Jumana Saleheen and Chris Shadforth, The Impact of the Recent Migration from Eastern Europe on the UK Economy (PDF) explores the evidence in great detail. What the paper finds is ably sumarised by the accompanying news release:
An American intelligence official said the new material, which has been authenticated within the intelligence community, confirms "that Iran is working closely with both the Shiite militias and Sunni Jihadist groups."
The one social factor that researchers agree is consistently linked to longer lives in every country where it has been studied is education. It is more important than race; it obliterates any effects of income.
Iraq's Shiite-led government said Tuesday that it had ordered an investigation into the abusive behavior at the execution of Saddam Hussein, who was subjected to a battery of taunts by official Shiite witnesses and guards as he awaited his hanging.
The evolution of our molecules has been coming rapidly into focus. Much more information about the broad scale of human molecular evolution will be coming online this year. There aren't so many people who can take this information and find the aspects of human natural history that it can address. The important changes in human evolution -- beyond the brain to other aspects of our biology, such as life history, diet, and social strategies -- are just as much a black box to many molecular biologists as genomics has become to many traditional anthropologists. There is something interesting there, no doubt, but what is it? That's my field. That's what I'm working on. It's really exciting.