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13 hrs ago | Journal of High Energy Physics latest...

Reheating temperature and gauge mediation models of supersymmetry breaking

For supersymmetric theories with gravitino dark matter, the maximal reheating temperature consistent with big bang nucleosynthesis bounds arises when the physical gaugino masses are degenerate.

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Related Topix: World News, Poland, Ann Arbor, MI, Detroit Metro

Thu Dec 03, 2009

Nature Publishing Group

Getting heavier, younger: trajectories of obesity over the life course

E-mail: joyclee@umich.edu Received 7 April 2009; Revised 3 September 2009; Accepted 7 September 2009; Published online 1 December 2009.

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Related Topix: Ann Arbor, MI, Detroit Metro

Tue Dec 01, 2009

Centers for Disease Control and Preve...

Novel Calicivirus Identified in Rabbits, Michigan, USA

Annabel G. Wise, Steven R. Bolin, Thomas P. Mullaney, Matti Kiupel, and Roger K. Maes Author affiliations: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA ; and Michigan State University, Lansing, Michigan, USA Abstract We report a disease outbreak in a Michigan rabbitry of a rabbit calicivirus distinct from the foreign animal disease agent, ...

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Related Topix: Ann Arbor, MI, Detroit Metro, Michigan State University, Lansing, MI, Lansing Metro

Sun Nov 29, 2009

Nurse.com

Daily News: Study Finds Unreported Incontinence in Women

A study by researchers at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, found 52.6% of women surveyed had urinary incontinence in the previous 12 months, but none had reported the symptom to her healthcare clinicians.

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Sat Nov 28, 2009

Medical News Today

Brain's Fear Center Is Equipped With A Built-In Suffocation Sensor

Main Category: Anxiety / Stress Also Included In: Neurology / Neuroscience ; Psychology / Psychiatry ; Respiratory / Asthma Article Date: 27 Nov 2009 - 0:00 PST The portion of our brains that is responsible for registering fear and even panic has a built-in chemical sensor that is triggered by a primordial terror - suffocation.

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Related Topix: University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, Health

Thu Nov 26, 2009

Rehab Management

Social support helps cognitively impaired diabetics control glucose levels

In adult diabetics with cognitive impairment, higher levels of social support for diabetes care may ameliorate the poor glycemic control often seen in these patients.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health, Diabetes

Tue Nov 24, 2009

Archives General Psychiatry

Impact of a Pharmacist-Facilitated Hospital Discharge Program: A...

Background Medication discrepancies are common at hospital discharge and can result in adverse events, hospital readmissions, and emergency department visits.

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Related Topix: Michigan

Sun Nov 22, 2009

IEEE Security & Privacy

PrePrint: L₂ Kernel Classification

JooSeuk Kim, Clayton Scott, "L₂ Kernel Classification," IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence , vol.

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Related Topix: Los Alamitos, CA

Fri Nov 20, 2009

Brian Leiter's Law School Reports

What the "Super Lawyer" Ranking of Law Schools Would Look Like...

Amazingly, they produced a list of schools that graduated the most "super lawyers " without making any effort to take account of the fact that, e.g., Harvard has graduated more than twice as many lawyers as Yale over the past thirty years.

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Related Topix: Drink, Soft Drinks, Harvard University, Texas, University of Texas at Austin, Yale University

Wed Nov 18, 2009

Journal of High Energy Physics latest...

Emergent electroweak symmetry breaking with composite W, Z bosons

We present a model of electroweak symmetry breaking in a warped extra dimension where electroweak symmetry is broken at the UV scale.

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Related Topix: Cambridge, MA, Australia, World News,

Mon Nov 16, 2009

CiteULike

Causal Effects in Clinical and Epidemiological Studies Via Potential...

Abstract a-a Abstracta A central problem in public health studies is how to make inferences about the causal effects of treatments or agents.

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Chemical and Engineering News

Stabilized Helix Cracks Cancer Target

An a-helix is critical for activating the Notch transcription factor complex as it binds to DNA.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Cancer, Harvard University

Sat Nov 14, 2009

New Scientist

Common cold may hold off swine flu

A VIRUS that causes the common cold may be saving people from swine flu. If this intriguing idea turns out to be true, it would explain why swine flu's autumn wave has been slow to take off in some countries and point to new ways to fight flu.

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Related Topix: H1N1 Influenza / Swine Flu, Health, Epidemic, Natural Disasters, Australia, Oceania, World News

Thu Nov 12, 2009

Associated Content

Panel Visits Westland Library to Discuss the Relationship Between Economy and Depression

The William P. Faust Library in Westland, Michigan, was a host to a community discussion on the effects the tough Michigan economy has had on mental health.

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Related Topix: Westland, MI

Tue Nov 10, 2009

Circulation

Human C-Reactive Protein Does Not Promote Atherosclerosis in Transgenic Rabbits [Article]

Y. Eugene Chen MD, PhD, and Jianglin Fan MD, PhD* From the Departments of Molecular Pathology and Clinical and Laboratory Medicine , Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Medicine and Engineering, University of Yamanashi, Yamanashi, Japan; Analytical Research Center for Experimental Sciences, Saga University, Saga, Japan ; Cardiovascular Center, ...

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Related Topix: World News, Japan, Asia, Germany

Sun Nov 08, 2009

Nature Publishing Group

Long-term follow-up of a family with dominant X-linked retinitis pigmentosa

Abstract Purpose To document the progression of disease in male and female members of a previously described family with X-linked dominant retinitis pigmentosa caused by a de novo insertion after nucleotide 173 in exon ORF15 of RPGR .

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Related Topix: Medicine, Ophthalmology, Ann Arbor, MI, Detroit Metro, Genetics, Biology, Science

Fri Nov 06, 2009

WOIO

Health fears are nothing to sneeze at

It may sound hard to believe, but just one sneeze is enough to increase your fear not just of contracting flu, but also of dying from a heart attack at an early age, dying from an accident or being the victim of a fatal crime, new research shows.

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Related Topix: Psychology, Science

Circulation

Nitro-Fatty Acid Inhibition of Neointima Formation After Endoluminal...

Marsha P. Cole * , Tanja K. Rudolph * , Nicholas K.H. Khoo , Uche N. Motanya , Franca Golin-Bisello , Jeffrey W. Wertz , Francisco J. Schopfer , Volker Rudolph , Steven R. Woodcock , Subhashini Bolisetty , Muhammad S. Ali , Jifeng Zhang , Y. Eugene Chen , Anupam Agarwal , Bruce A. Freeman , Philip M. Bauer From the Departments of Pharmacology & ...

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Related Topix: Science, Pharmacology, Biology, Pittsburgh, PA, University of Pittsburgh, Biochemistry

Thu Nov 05, 2009

All About Jazz

CD/DOWNLOAD/ALBUM: Sub Pop Announces Next Ambiance, Bassekou Kouyate

Sub Pop Records and KEXP radio host Jon Kertzer have come together to form Next Ambiance, a world music imprint.

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Circulation

Dystroglycan Matrix Receptor Function in Cardiac Myocytes Is...

From the Departments of Molecular and Integrative Physiology and Internal Medicine , University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; and Departments of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics , Neurology , and Internal Medicine and Howard Hughes Medical Institute , University of Iowa, Iowa City.

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Related Topix: Ann Arbor, MI, Ann Arbor Metro, Detroit Metro, Biotech, Charitable Organizations

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