- June 7, 2013
- 05:00 PM
- 68 views
Forefoot strikers exhibit lower running-induced knee loading than rearfoot strikers
by Craig Payne in Running Research Junkie
Forefoot strikers exhibit lower running-induced knee loading than rearfoot strikers... Read more »
Kulmala, J., Avela, J., Pasanen, K., & Parkkari, J. (2013) Forefoot strikers exhibit lower running-induced knee loading than rearfoot strikers. Medicine , 1. DOI: 10.1249/MSS.0b013e31829efcf7
- June 7, 2013
- 03:18 PM
- 53 views
The Halting of the Hot Jupiter
by Melissa Chernick in Science Storiented
We haven’t talked about exoplanets for a while, and we should ‘cause they are pretty badass. Through various podcasts and the like, I've been hearing some really cool things about NASA’s Kepler Mission and all of neat astronomical bodies it’s been finding. So I decided to browse around the NASA and JPL websites to see what new coolness has been discovered recently.NASA’s Kepler Mission was launched in 2009. It was built to detect potentially life-supporting planets around other stars........ Read more »
Plavchan, P., & Bilinski, C. (2013) Stars Do Not Eat Their Young Migrating Planets: Empirical Constraints on Planet Migration Halting Mechanisms. The Astrophysical Journal, 769(2), 86. DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/769/2/86
- June 7, 2013
- 12:38 PM
- 54 views
Sunscreen slows wrinkles: Will this evidence increase the use of sunscreen?
by Psych Your Mind in Psych Your Mind
This week, new research was released suggesting that
sunscreen not only reduces the risk for skin cancer, but that it also slows
skin aging. In this study, people who were told to use sunscreen daily had
fewer lines and less coarse skin after four years than those who used it as
they normally would. I’ve seen this study all over the news (here, here, and
here)! Though doctors say they have long been telling patients that sunscreen
protects against skin aging, they are now excited to have........ Read more »
Mahler, H., Kulik, J., Gerrard, M., & Gibbons, F. (2007) Long-term effects of appearance-based interventions on sun protection behaviors. Health Psychology, 26(3), 350-360. DOI: 10.1037/0278-6133.26.3.350
- June 7, 2013
- 10:25 AM
- 51 views
Twist, Baby, Yeah Twist
by Ragothamanyennamalli in Getting to know Structural Bioinformatics
If you were born in the 1960′s and if you happen to do The Twist with your partner your heart would of course be racing! Thanks to G protein-coupled inwardly-rectifying potassium channels (GIRKs) your heart can beat back to normal levels. Ironically, the protein does a “twist” to slow down the heart. Go Figure!
GIRK is basically a potassium ion-transporter and found in cardiac cells. It regulates the membrane voltage after the GPCR activated G-beta and G-gamma bind to the tr........ Read more »
Whorton, M., & MacKinnon, R. (2013) X-ray structure of the mammalian GIRK2–βγ G-protein complex. Nature. DOI: 10.1038/nature12241
- June 7, 2013
- 09:41 AM
- 55 views
Do we make too much of workplace conflict between women?
by Alex Fradera in BPS Occupational Digest
This month, the Women's Business Council released a report revealing that underuse of women's workplace potential costs the economy £160 billion.As well as structural issues, such as inadequate workplace childcare, psychological factors can also provide obstacles to an unrestricted workplace. A recent paper by Leah Sheppard and Karl Aquino suggests one may be the tendency to overstate the consequences of female-female workplace conflict. There is a pedigree of research into female-f........ Read more »
Sheppard, L., & Aquino, K. (2012) Much Ado About Nothing? Observers' Problematization of Women's Same-Sex Conflict at Work. Academy of Management Perspectives, 27(1), 52-62. DOI: 10.5465/amp.2012.0005
- June 7, 2013
- 09:16 AM
- 53 views
Spooky action put to order
by Perikis Livas in Tracing Knowledge
A property known as «entanglement» is a fundamental characteristic of quantum mechanics. Physicists and mathematicians at ETH Zurich show now how different forms of this phenomenon can be efficiently and systematically classified into categories. The method should help to fully exploit the potential of novel quantum technologies.... Read more »
Andreas Trabesinger. (2013) Spooky action put to order. ETH Life. info:/
- June 7, 2013
- 09:01 AM
- 59 views
Early Human Diet Went Grassy
by Andrew Porterfield in United Academics
Modern apes eat mostly fruits and leaves in heavily wooded forests. Until recently, scientists believed that early human ancestors shared this diet. But a series of studies from the University of Utah found that our ancestors expanded their culinary tastes to grasses and grains, as much as 3.5 million years ago.... Read more »
Cerling TE, Manthi FK, Mbua EN, Leakey LN, Leakey MG, Leakey RE, Brown FH, Grine FE, Hart JA, Kaleme P.... (2013) Stable isotope-based diet reconstructions of Turkana Basin hominins. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. PMID: 23733966
Wynn JG, Sponheimer M, Kimbel WH, Alemseged Z, Reed K, Bedaso ZK, & Wilson JN. (2013) Diet of Australopithecus afarensis from the Pliocene Hadar Formation, Ethiopia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. PMID: 23733965
Sponheimer M, Alemseged Z, Cerling TE, Grine FE, Kimbel WH, Leakey MG, Lee-Thorp JA, Manthi FK, Reed KE, Wood BA.... (2013) Isotopic evidence of early hominin diets. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. PMID: 23733964
- June 7, 2013
- 08:50 AM
- 26 views
The [Lawyer’s] Smart Use of Unpleasant Emotions–Emotionally Intelligent Emotion Regulation
by Dan DeFoe in Psycholawlogy
Emotionally intelligent lawyers know that wanting to feel bad, mad, or angry may serve a useful purpose. Emotion regulation can help you achieve important goals. New research has explored the link between emotion regulation and emotional intelligence (EI). People with higher EI harness their emotions, even negative ones, manage them better, and achieve important [...]The post The [Lawyer’s] Smart Use of Unpleasant Emotions–Emotionally Intelligent Emotion Regulation appeared fir........ Read more »
Ford BQ, & Tamir M. (2012) When getting angry is smart: emotional preferences and emotional intelligence. Emotion (Washington, D.C.), 12(4), 685-9. PMID: 22309721
- June 7, 2013
- 07:02 AM
- 35 views
Rapport building: A waste of time with eyewitnesses?
by Rita Handrich in The Jury Room
Most of us likely think taking the time to build rapport in an interview setting makes sense. You want the interviewee to trust you and feel comfortable sharing information. But what about in a crime interview? Is it worth it? Specifically, does it accomplish anything other than making the eyewitness feel good? If even that? [...]
Related posts:
Helping jurors ‘see’ what eye witnesses said they saw
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Eyewitness testimony: Itâ........ Read more »
Vallano, J., & Compo, N. (2011) A comfortable witness is a good witness: rapport-building and susceptibility to misinformation in an investigative mock-crime interview. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 25(6), 960-970. DOI: 10.1002/acp.1789
- June 7, 2013
- 06:34 AM
- 61 views
How Do Organs Know When They Have Reached the Right Size?
by Perikis Livas in Tracing Knowledge
Development is, literally, the journey of a life time, and it is a trip still as mysterious as it is remarkable. Despite new methods to probe how an animal or plant forms from a single cell, biologists have much to learn about the unimaginably complex process. To identify some of the field’s persistent riddles, Senior Editors Beverly Purnell and Stella Hurtley and the news staff of Science have consulted with developmental biologists on our Board of Reviewing Editors and elsewhere. The mys........ Read more »
Vogel, G. (2013) How Do Organs Know When They Have Reached the Right Size?. Science, 340(6137), 1156-1157. DOI: 10.1126/science.340.6137.1156-b
- June 7, 2013
- 04:49 AM
- 53 views
Autism, the ketogenic diet and Dangermouse
by Paul Whiteley in Questioning Answers
I'm proud of my quite 'unusual' area of autism research interest focused primarily on whether diet might, in some way, shape or form, be linked to or impact on some cases of the autisms. It's not been a particularly popular area of research down the years it has to be said. Most of which I've put down to its links to areas far outside of the behavioural dyad (as its known these days). That and all the gastrointestinal (GI) baggage inevitably associated with diets like the gluten- and casein-free........ Read more »
Ruskin, D., Svedova, J., Cote, J., Sandau, U., Rho, J., Kawamura, M., Boison, D., & Masino, S. (2013) Ketogenic Diet Improves Core Symptoms of Autism in BTBR Mice. PLoS ONE, 8(6). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0065021
- June 7, 2013
- 04:42 AM
- 48 views
Video: Helicopter Flies by Thought Control
by Andrew Porterfield in United Academics
This video shows a demonstration flight of a new helicopter. But the helicopter isn’t new; the way it’s controlled is. The entire flight was managed by the thoughts of a man wearing a cap with electrodes. The researchers think that if a helicopter can be piloted by detachable electrodes, then these electrodes could be used to make non-invasive limbs for the disabled.... Read more »
Lafleur K, Cassady K, Doud A, Shades K, Rogin E, & He B. (2013) Quadcopter control in three-dimensional space using a noninvasive motor imagery-based brain-computer interface. Journal of neural engineering, 10(4), 46003. PMID: 23735712
- June 7, 2013
- 04:11 AM
- 26 views
FLCN’s divergent DENN domain evolutionarily conserved
by Lizzie Perdeaux in BHD Research Blog
Last summer, Nookala et al., published the structure of the C-terminus of the FLCN protein, and showed that this portion of FLCN formed a divergent DENN domain. DENN domain proteins have Guanine nucleotide exchange factor (GEF) activity towards Rab GTPases, … Continue reading →... Read more »
Zhang D, Iyer LM, He F, & Aravind L. (2012) Discovery of Novel DENN Proteins: Implications for the Evolution of Eukaryotic Intracellular Membrane Structures and Human Disease. Frontiers in genetics, 283. PMID: 23248642
- June 7, 2013
- 03:31 AM
- 65 views
Interpreting unexpected significant results
by Dorothy Bishop in bishopblog
What should you do if you run an ANOVA and get a significant result you did not anticipate?
a) Describe this as my main effect of interest, revising my hypothesis to argue for a site-specific sex effect
b) Describe the result as an exploratory finding in need of replication
c) Ignore the result as it was not predicted and is likely to be a false positive
In this post I discuss how unexpected results are very likely to arise by chance, especially in designs with 3 or more factors. The scient........ Read more »
Simmons, Joseph P., Nelson, Leif D., & Simonsohn, Uri. (2011) False-positive psychology. Psychological Science, 1359-1366. DOI: 10.1037/e636412012-001
- June 7, 2013
- 01:05 AM
- 43 views
The Range of Imitation in Dogs
by Leema in Some Thoughts About Dogs
A quick look on what science has told us about how dogs imitate models. Turns out, dogs are copy cats.... Read more »
Range, F., Heucke, S., Gruber, C., Konz, A., Huber, L., & Virányi, Z. (2009) The effect of ostensive cues on dogs’ performance in a manipulative social learning task. Applied Animal Behaviour Science, 120(3-4), 170-178. DOI: 10.1016/j.applanim.2009.05.012
Range, F., & Viranyi, Z. (2009) Different aspects of social learning in dogs. Journal of Veterinary Behavior: Clinical Applications and Research, 4(6), 244. DOI: 10.1016/j.jveb.2009.05.007
Range, F., Viranyi, Z., & Huber, L. (2007) Selective Imitation in Domestic Dogs. Current Biology, 17(10), 868-872. DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2007.04.026
Virányi, Z., & Range, F. (2009) How does ostensive communication influence social learning in dogs?. Journal of Veterinary Behavior: Clinical Applications and Research, 4(2), 47. DOI: 10.1016/j.jveb.2008.10.023
- June 7, 2013
- 12:35 AM
- 34 views
Dental Imaging - What is happening there?
by Knowyourimages in Know Your Images
The first time I was started thinking about dental imaging from a different point of view was when I heard in a talk the speaker saying: "These are statistics about medical imaging, without dental imaging.". I wondered "Why are dental imaging statistics not included?"... Read more »
Vandenberghe B, Jacobs R, & Bosmans H. (2010) Modern dental imaging: a review of the current technology and clinical applications in dental practice. European radiology, 20(11), 2637-55. PMID: 20544352
- June 6, 2013
- 07:34 PM
- 58 views
Thule on My Mind: Deep Water Port and Air Force Base
by Andreas Muenchow in Icy Seas
I am an air force brat. My father and my father-in-law enlisted in the German and US Air Forces, respectively. They served during the Cold War when I was born in 1961 a few month after the Berlin Wall went … Continue reading →... Read more »
Elwood, N.J. and J.W. Gaithwaite. (2007) Perpetuating a Pier. Civil Engineering, 77(5), 62-67. info:/
- June 6, 2013
- 05:25 PM
- 39 views
Scientists Develop Cheap and Efficient Nanostructured-Carbon-Based Catalyst
by dailyfusion in The Daily Fusion
Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists have designed a new type of nanostructured-carbon-based catalyst that could pave the way for reliable, economical next-generation batteries and alkaline fuel cells, providing for practical use of wind- and solar-powered electricity, as well as enhanced hybrid electric vehicles.... Read more »
Chung, H., Won, J., & Zelenay, P. (2013) Active and stable carbon nanotube/nanoparticle composite electrocatalyst for oxygen reduction. Nature Communications, 1922. DOI: 10.1038/ncomms2944
- June 6, 2013
- 02:26 PM
- 7 views
Gullibility and pseudoscience, bridged by headlines
by Kausik Datta in In Scientio Veritas
Much have been made in the media recently, of a February 2013 paper, published by a German group in the Annals of Internal Medicine, claiming that acupuncture may help relieve seasonal allergies. Always interested in examining the bold claims of efficacy by various forms of pseudoscientific, wannabe-medicine modalities (such as homeopathy, naturopathy, and so forth), I elected to go to the source; the paper was behind an annoying paywall, but thankfully, I had institutional access, and dove in. ........ Read more »
Brinkhaus, B. (2013) Acupuncture in Patients With Seasonal Allergic Rhinitis: A Randomized Trial. Annals of Internal Medicine, 158(4), 225. DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-158-4-201302190-00002
- June 6, 2013
- 01:30 PM
- 62 views
When it Smells Like Team Spirit
by Aurametrix team in Olfactics and Diagnostics
Why do we connect and collaborate, deciding to "walk in the light of creative altruism" instead of the "darkness of destructive selfishness"? Is it because of subtle behavioral clues that make us "click" and consider the other person a part of the group? Or is it because it smells like team spirit? It very well might be. We (literally) smell love, victory, fear, along with chemicals that motivate us to cooperate. As was recently shown in double-blind placebo-controlled studies that quantitativel........ Read more »
Huoviala P, & Rantala MJ. (2013) A Putative Human Pheromone, Androstadienone, Increases Cooperation between Men. PloS one, 8(5). PMID: 23717389
Lundström JN, Hummel T, & Olsson MJ. (2003) Individual differences in sensitivity to the odor of 4,16-androstadien-3-one. Chemical senses, 28(7), 643-50. PMID: 14578126
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