Changing rooms: time for a makeover

NIH needs a makeover.

This elegantly carved jade face from Liangzhu in southeastern China provides an intriguing glimpse into the beliefs of the people who lived there from 3400 B.C.E. to 2250 B.C.E. As described in a special News Focus section beginning on page 930, discoveries at Liangzhu and other regions far from the traditional heartland of Chinese civilization are revealing surprisingly complex ancient culture...

a time-series analysis of the demand for life insurance in iran

با توجه به تجزیه و تحلیل داده ها ما دریافتیم که سطح درامد و تعداد نمایندگیها باتقاضای بیمه عمر رابطه مستقیم دارند و نرخ بهره و بار تکفل با تقاضای بیمه عمر رابطه عکس دارند

Reverberation Time in "dead" Rooms

culation by the aid of a reliable formula, then, is an important aspect of applied acoustics. A reverberation time formula enables one to calculate the reverberation time once the volume, surface area and average absorption coefficient of the surface of the room are known; or if the reverberation time is measured it enables one to calculate the average coefficient of absorption of the surface t...

Extreme makeover for Hartford's print shop.

Getting Healthier Through Microbiome Makeover

In this issue of EBioMedicine, Liping Zhao and colleagues show that children with obesity have similar gut microbiota dysbiosis regardless of their geneticmakeup,whether it is simple obesity (no underlying pathology) or genetic obesity (Prader–Willi syndrome). Furthermore, their microbiome profile can be changed by a 1-month dietary intervention. Interestingly, the authors also show that transf...