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Bestseller verklärt Gewalt gegen Frauen

By Guest PostDecember 7, 2013Culture, Mediaalkohol, anastasia steele, autorin, barbara marti, bestseller, cdc, christian grey, drogen, e l james, fifty shades, formen des missbrauchs, gewalt gegen frauen, grey, infosperber, psychologin amy bonomi, roman, sexuelle beziehung

Der Bestseller «Fifty Shades of Grey» verklärt Gewalt gegen Frauen. Zu diesem Schluss kommt eine Studie der Ohio State University.

Die Fachzeitschrift «Journal of Women’s Health» hat die Studie online veröffentlicht. «Fifty Shades of Grey» schildert die Beziehung zwischen der 22-jährigen Studentin Anastasia Steele und dem sechs Jahre älteren Unternehmer und Multimillionär Christian Grey. Die beiden leben eine von Gewalt geprägte sexuelle Beziehung nach vereinbarten Regeln, denen beide zugestimmt haben. Weltweit wurden mehr als 70 Millionen Exemplare der Trilogie verkauft. (more…)

Should you invest or clear off credit card debt first?

By Guest PostDecember 7, 2013Small Businesscredit card, credit card debt, debt payment strategy, financial planners, interest rate, new investments, safe investments

If you have outstanding credit card debt, you might be considering making an investment, the income from which you expect would help make it easier for you to pay back your debt. (more…)

Nanoscale Coatings Improve Stability and Efficiency of Devices for Renewable Fuel Generation

By Guest PostDecember 7, 2013Environment, Scienceaaron k vannucci, acidic, ald, atomic layer deposition, berc kalanyan, carbon dioxide, carbon neutral fuels, chemical pathway, device, efficiency, Environment, gregory parsons, hydrocarbon fuel, hydrogen, klondike bar, leila alibabaei, low ph, mark losego, molecular catalysts, molecular photoelectrochemical cell, nanoscale coatings, north Carolina, oxygen, ph, renewable fuel generation, solar water splitting, stability, state university, ultra thin layer, water oxidation, water splitting devices

Splitting water into its components, two parts hydrogen and one part oxygen, is an important first step in achieving carbon-neutral fuels to power our transportation infrastructure – including automobiles and planes.

Now, North Carolina State University researchers and colleagues from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have shown that a specialized coating technique can make certain water-splitting devices more stable and more efficient. Their results are published online in two separate papers in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. (more…)

Milde Gabe für den Eisbär

By Guest PostDecember 7, 2013Naturealaska, anti konflikt massnahmen, arktis staaten, arktische oekosystem, berlin, daenemark, eisbaer, eisbaer konferenz, kanada, klimawandel, konflikt monitoring, mensch tier konflikte, moskau, nordpol anrainer, norwegen, norwegischen kueste, sindre kinneroed, ursus maritimus, usa, wwf

Schutzkonferenz: Arktis-Staaten wollen Eisbär retten

Berlin/Moskau – Auf der am Freitag in Moskau zu Ende gegangenen Eisbär-Konferenz haben sich die arktischen Anrainerstaaten auf die Eckpfeiler eines umfassenden Aktionsplans verständigt. Die Naturschutzorganisation WWF erklärte, die wichtigsten Ziele auf dem Ministertreffen seien erreicht worden und die internationalen Schutzbemühungen für den Eisbär und seinen Lebensraum hätten politische Rückendeckung erhalten. (more…)

NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft Obtains Best Views of Saturn Hexagon

By Guest PostDecember 7, 2013Scienceandrew ingersoll, antarctic ozone hole, atmosphere, ball of gas, best views, cassini spacecraft, cloud structures, earth, european space agency, hampton university, hexagon boundary, hurricane, ice caps, italian space agency, kunio sayanagi, motion, NASA, north pole, ozone destroying chemical, rotating storm, saturn, saturn hexagon, saturn summer, scott edgington, solar system, the hexagon, types of particles, virginia, weather patterns

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NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has obtained the highest-resolution movie yet of a unique six-sided jet stream, known as the hexagon, around Saturn’s north pole. (more…)

MU Research Sheds Light on Nerve Regeneration Following Spinal Cord Injury

By Guest PostDecember 6, 2013Healthactivation, andrew mcclellan, chemical signals, cyclic amp, eel like fish, emily frisch, group of molecules, level of injury, locomotion, mammals, molecule, nerve cell, nerve regeneration, neurons, reticulospinal neurons, sea lamprey, second messengers, spinal cord injury, timothy pale, university of missouri, vertebrate

COLUMBIA, Mo. – Fish, unlike humans, can regenerate nerve connections and recover normal mobility following an injury to their spinal cord. Now, University of Missouri researchers have discovered how the sea lamprey, an eel-like fish, regrows the neurons that comprise the long nerve “highways” that link the brain to the spinal cord. Findings may guide future efforts to promote recovery in humans who have suffered spinal cord injuries.

“There is a lot of attention to why, following a spinal cord injury, neurons regenerate in lower vertebrates, such as the sea lamprey, and why they don’t in higher vertebrates, such as humans,” said Andrew McClellan, professor of biological sciences in the College of Arts and Science and director of the UM Spinal Cord Injury Research Program (SCIRP). (more…)

No peak in sight for evolving bacteria

By Guest PostDecember 6, 2013Sciencebacteria, Environment, frozen fossil record, generation, mathematical function, michael wiser, michigan state university, noah ribeck, population, power law, quantitatively, richard lenski, Science, set of mutations, simple environment

There’s no peak in sight – fitness peak, that is – for the bacteria in Richard Lenski’s Michigan State University lab.

Lenski, MSU Hannah Distinguished Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, has been running his evolutionary bacteria experiment for 25 years, generating more than 58,000 generations. In a paper published in the current issue of Science, Michael Wiser, lead author and MSU zoology graduate student in Lenski’s lab, compares it to hiking. (more…)

Moorschutz bedeutet Arten- und Klimaschutz

By Guest PostDecember 6, 2013Naturebekassine, deutschland, europa, klimaschaedliches kohlendioxid, klimaschutz, klimawandel, kohlenmonoxid, kohlenstoff, kranich, mensch, moor, moorfrosch, moorschutz, moorzerstoerung, nabu in deutschland, natur, pflanzenwelt, russlands, seggenrohrsaenger, tier, treibhausgas, un klimarahmenkonvention, volkswagen ag, volkswagen financial services, vw fs, weltklima

Warum wir Moore weltweit erhalten müssen

Moore bieten einer einzigartigen Tier- und Pflanzenwelt ein Zuhause. Zahlreiche Tierarten sind an die speziellen Bedingungen von Mooren angepasst: Dazu zählen in Europa zum Beispiel der Kranich, der Seggenrohrsänger und die Bekassine – der Vogel des Jahres 2013. Moore gehören außerdem zu den wichtigsten Kohlenstoffspeichern der Welt. Obwohl sie nur drei Prozent der Landfläche bedecken, enthalten Moore 30 Prozent des gesamten terrestrischen Kohlenstoffs, weit mehr als zum Beispiel Wälder. Doch Jahr für Jahr werden weltweit riesige Moore trockengelegt, um die Flächen für Land- und Forstwirtschaft zu nutzen oder den Torf als Rohstoff zu nutzen – beispielsweise für Blumenerde, die auch in deutschen Baumärkten und Gartencentern landet. (more…)

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