Discoveries: New and Noteworthy Social Research

In the Literature: New and Noteworthy Nutrition Research

In the past few decades, Americans have been eating more and sleeping less, and some researchers now suspect that there may be a connection. A number of cross-sectional and longitudinal cohort studies have suggested that chronic sleep deprivation is associated with an increased risk of obesity. 1-4It is thought that sleep deprivation may promote weight gain by altering sympathetic nervous syste...

Noteworthy New Titles

New and Noteworthy in Nutrition (NNN)

SOUTHERN AFRICA “In a little town not far from where I live, children suck salt to make themselves thirsty. Their thirst makes them drink more water and this fills their stomachs and helps to suppress the hunger in their bellies. It is almost beyond belief that three years ago Zimbabwe was called the breadbasket of Africa” (excerpt from Zimbabwean farmer, Cathy Buckle’s online journal, 22 Febru...

quran and new scientific discoveries

abstract the great quran is the honorable speech of allah which was descended to his honest prophet as a miracle to represent the truth of his mission of summoning people to god. allah- glory to him- has expressed everything in the quran. as the great quran emphasizes, it is full of scientific points and information currently and even very recently discovered by scientists; and it is a wonder t...

Research Discoveries After Kubin.

This paper will discuss commercializing discoveries made at research organizations, particularly with a view to the In re Kubin case, decided April 3, 2009, by the Federal Circuit. Here, the existence of a general method of isolating DNA molecules was held to be relevant to the question whether the DNA molecules themselves would have been obvious under § 103 of the patent act. How are DNA inven...