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Rand study says renewable energy could play larger role in US energy future
11-13-2006 · EurekAlert!Renewable resources could produce 25 percent of the electricity and motor vehicle fuels used in the United States by 2025 at little or no additional cost if fossil fuel prices remain high enough and the cost of producing renewable energy continues falling in accord with historical trends, according to a Rand Corp. study issued today. The study was conducted within the Environment, Energy, and Economic Development program of Rand, a nonprofit research organization.
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- Scripps research team discovers a chemical pathway that causes mice to overeat and gain weight
02-12-2007 · EurekAlert!
Researchers from the Scripps Research Institute who are studying how body temperature and energy metabolism are regulated have discovered a pathway that appears to play a critical role in the onset of obesity. Further study of the pathway could lead to better understanding of the physiological foundation of obesity in humans and even the discovery of new treatments for the condition.
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- RAND to review renewable energy study and will issue corrected version
12-05-2006 · EurekAlert!
The RAND Corporation today announced that it is revising a study on renewable energy expenditures issued November 13 after learning there were some inadvertent errors in the computer model and numerical assumptions on which the study findings were based.
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- RAND Study says unofficial diplomacy efforts can have positive effect in Middle East, South Asia
09-19-2007 · EurekAlert!
Unofficial diplomatic discussions can play a significant role in shaping attitudes in the Middle East and Asia, but are best used as a long-term strategy without expectations for dramatic policy shifts, according to a report issued by the RAND Corp. Such discussions -- typically featuring individuals from universities, nongovernmental organizations, former government leaders and even current officials acting unofficially -- primarily are about long-term socialization and generating new ideas, not immediate policy change.
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- D-cycloserine reduces cocaine-seeking behavior in 'addicted' mice
11-06-2007 · EurekAlert!
Scientists at the US Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory provide further evidence that a drug known as D-cycloserine could play a role in helping to extinguish the craving behaviors associated with drug addiction. Their study found that mice treated with D-cycloserine were less likely to spend time in an environment where they had previously been trained to expect cocaine than mice treated with a placebo.
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- Study suggests nonpharmaceutical interventions may be helpful in severe influenza outbreaks
08-07-2007 · EurekAlert!
An analysis of nonpharmaceutical interventions used in the US during the 1918-1919 influenza pandemic, such as closing schools and banning public gatherings, found an association between these interventions and reduced death rates, suggesting that nonpharmaceutical interventions may play a role in planning for future influenza pandemics, according to a study in the Aug. 8 issue of JAMA.
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- Science Café: Renewable energy and climate change
01-04-2007 · University of Bath
The role that renewable energy sources could play in combating climate change will be discussed by Professor Geoffrey Hammond, Department of Mechanical Engineering, speaking at the next Bath Science Café in The Raven pub in Queen's Street next week.
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- Revealing estrogen's secret role in obesity
08-20-2007 · EurekAlert!
Research on the effects of the female sex hormone estrogen in the brain lend credence to what many women have suspected about the hormonal changes that accompany aging: Menopause can make you fat. In animal experiments, researchers showed how estrogen receptors in the brain serve as a master switch to control food intake, energy expenditure and body fat distribution. The study will be presented in August at the American Chemical Society national meeting in Boston.
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- Targeting gut bugs could revolutionize future drugs, say researcher
02-01-2008 · EurekAlert!
Revolutionary new ways to tackle certain diseases could be provided by creating drugs which change the bugs in people's guts, according to a new article. Trillions of bugs known as gut microbes live symbiotically in the human gut. They play a key role in many of the processes that take place inside the body. Different people have different types of gut microbes living inside them and abnormalities in some types have recently been linked to diseases such as diabetes and obesity.
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- Big vegetarian mammals can play a critical role in maintaining healthy ecosystems, study finds
01-16-2007 · EurekAlert!
Removing large herbivorous mammals from the African savanna can cause a dramatic shift in the relative abundance of species throughout the food chain, according to scientists from Stanford University, Princeton University and the University of California-Davis.
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- Scripps research study shows humans and plants share common regulatory pathway
04-09-2007 · EurekAlert!
In findings that some might find reminiscent of science fiction, scientists at the Scripps Research Institute have shown for the first time that humans and plants share a common pathogen recognition pathway as part of their innate immune systems. The data could help shed fresh light on how pathogen recognition proteins function and the role they play in certain chronic inflammatory diseases.
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