According to studies from the medical domain it can be assumed that the training of sensomotor abilities by the use of video game consoles positively affects performance in real life situations. With this in mind we investigated the assumption that – at least for bowling novices – training of bowling games with the Nintendo Wii can have positive effects on their performance on a real bowling al...

Pacific salmon are among the dominant fish in the epipelagic layer of the subarctic Pacific Ocean and are considered the principle consumers of forage resources. In recent years (1990s and 2000s) most Pacific salmon stocks have increased two-fold in abundance. Many researchers consider that such high abundance may increase interspecific competition for food and influence density-dependent facto...

Did smiling evolve as an expression of happiness, friendliness, or both? Naturalistic observation at a bowling alley (N — 1,793 balls) shows that bowlers often smile when socially engaged, looking at and talking to others, but not necessarily after scoring a spare or a strike. In a second study, bowlers (N =166 balls) rarely smiled while facing the pins but often smiled when facing their friend...

Abstract Intensively managed open croplands are highly productive but often have deleterious environmental impacts. Temperate agroforestry potentially improves ecosystem functions, although comprehensive analysis is lacking. Here, we measured primary data on 47 indicators of seven functions in and 16 four grasslands to assess how alley-cropping performs compared cropland grassland. Carbon seque...

Key objectives of international greenhouse gas (GHG) policy are to (i) “prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system” and (ii) “enable economic development to proceed in a sustainable manner” (UNFCCC, 1992). One common interpretation of “dangerous anthropogenic interference” is to trigger a climate threshold or “tipping point” response – a nonlinear shift in the Earth sy...

STEFANIA RACOVITA1, SILVIA VASILIU1, CEZAR DORU RADU2, LENUTA PROFIRE3, LAURA CHECHERITA3*, LILIANA FOIA3 1”Petru Poni” Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry, 41A Grigore Ghica Vodã Alley, 700487, Iaoi, Romania 2 ”Gh. Asachi” Technical University, Faculty of Textiles-Leather and Industrial Management, 29 Mangeron Bd., 700500 Iasi, Romania 3”Gr.T.Popa” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Facult...

Joseph Y Cheng, Marcus T Alley, Tao Zhang, Peng Lai, Jonathan I Tamir, Martin Uecker, John M Pauly, Michael Lustig, and Shreyas S Vasanawala Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States, Radiology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States, Global Applied Science Laboratory, GE Healthcare, Menlo Park, CA, United States, Electrical Engineering and Computer Scie...

Address correspondence to: Dr. Alexander Apt, Department of Immunology, Central Institute for Tuberculosis, Yauza alley, 2, Moscow 107564, Russia. Fax: (7495) 963 80 00; Email: [email protected] AC CE PT ED Copyright © 2007, American Society for Microbiology and/or the Listed Authors/Institutions. All Rights Reserved. Infect. Immun. doi:10.1128/IAI.00482-07 IAI Accepts, published online ahead of pri...