If you often fail to remember information that would otherwise be readily available via a quick Google search, then you may be part of a growing population that relies on what is now called transactive memory. This type of memory leads to the tendency to rely on family, friends, co-workers, and reference materials (including and especially the Internet) to recall and store information for you.
According to Dr. Betsy Sparrow, assistant professor of psychology at Columbia University, and Daniel M. Wegner of Harvard and Jenny Liu of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, the widespread use of search engines and online databases has affected the way people remember information. Fro
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Residents of Williamson County now have a high-level trauma center that has met national standards, and a second, competing center could receive the designation soon.
Were all very excited about this, said Dr. Neel Ware, trauma medical director at Seton Medical Center Williamson.
Wares hospital and St. Davids Round Rock Medical Center announced two years ago that they were seeking Level II trauma designation to better serve residents of Williamson County and far northern Travis County who have bad injuries or medical emergencies.
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Networks of gene families of the seven analyzed plant species that are associated with the CesA genes Plants have neither supportive bone tissue nor muscles, and yet they can form rigid structures like stalks and even tree trunks. This is due to the fact that plant cells are enveloped by a stable cell wall. The main component of the plant cell wall is cellulose, which represents almost 50 percent of the total cell wall material and, at one billion tonnes per year, is the most frequently produced macromolecule in nature.
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The elderly may be safer drivers than thought – a new study found children are less likely to get hurt in a car driven by a grandparent.
The study discovered that the risk of injury for a child in an accident was 50% lower if a grandparent was behind the wheel instead of mom or dad.
“We were surprised to discover that the injury rate was considerably lower in crashes where grandparents were the drivers, said Dr.
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Allergens blockbuster botulinum neurotoxin BOTOX may have a new competitor in the near future: PurTox by Mentor. Chances are youve either had BOTOX done or youve heard of it – it is often brought up as controversial points in the press such as: Who is too young for BOTOX? or Which celebrity has gotten BOTOX done? Love it or hate it, the business of botulinum toxin is booming and BOTOX is at the forefront of the anti-wrinkle injectable race. Dysport, another botulinum neurotoxin was FDA approved in June of 2009 but BOTOX still has the strong hold in the market.
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A project on the dynamics of social networks at the University of Notre Dames Interdisciplinary Center for Network Science and Applications (iCeNSA) has found a link between cell phone usage and relationship strength.
The study, conducted by Notre Dame faculty members Zoltán Toroczkai, Nitesh Chawla, David Hachen, Omar Lizardo and Mark Alber, is a collaborative effort between four departments at the University.
Toroczkai and his students worked on the modeling aspects while Chawla and his group focused mainly on data mining and prediction.
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