Human Brain Still Awake, Even During Deep Sleep Oct 18, 2008
By using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) combined with electroencephalography (EEG), researchers have evidenced that these slow oscillations are associated with brain activity increases during non-REM sleep (see image, side panels), therefore discarding the concept of brain quiescence that prevailed for a long time in the characterization of non-REM sleep. Besides, these activity increases are located in specific brain areas, including the inferior frontal gyrus, the parahippocampal... (Science Daily)
Africa: What's Working? What's Not? - U.S. Policy Oct 15, 2008
So to, was our surprising quiescence in the significant matter of APARTHEID in southern Africa. Africa was the "proxy" continent - and we are still living with results, the mistakes, of that time. (allAfrica.com)
Death and the lesson of the leaves Sep 22, 2008
Those kaleidoscopically lovely maples and birches and oaks allow us to gaze for a moment at the wonder of nature and to accept the inevitable quiescence of our own souls. Like so much else around us, it's not the leaves' beauty that moves us: It's the fact their beauty won't last. (Boston Globe)
Federal Report: Warming = More Harmful Climate Extremes Jun 22, 2008
The other is that the oceanic oscillation, the Pacific Decadal Oscillation, has just switched from a 30 year warming phase to a 30 year cooling phase, and the sun has entered a period of unusual quiescence. It is entirely possible that the warming during the last part of last century was from the warming PDO, and that it is a co-incidence that CO2 was also rising. (Yahoo News -- Climate Change)
Arsenic-based Therapy Shown To Help Eradicate Leukemia-initiating Cells May 13, 2008
But in a paradoxical discovery, a research team led by investigators at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) has found that a tumor suppressor protein known as PML appears to be the factor that enables LICs to maintain their quiescence -- the inert state that protects them from being destroyed by cancer therapies -- and suggests that inhibition of PML is a promising target for new therapeutics ... "They are pluripotent, they readily replicate and they can indefinitely remain in a dormant... (Science Daily)
Gingrich: 'Ferraro's remark was silly, childish -- and true' | Political Insider Mar 15, 2008
In fact, Bill Clinton was prepared to lash black people whenever it was politically convenient, with the quiescence of Hillary. Just after receiving the Democratic nomination for president, Governor Clinton returned to Arkansas to authorize the execution of a black man, Ricky Ray Rector, who was so profoundly mentally disabled that he told the guards to keep his last meal so he could have it tomorrow. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Travel)
The corpse on the gurney Jan 19, 2008
To achieve an image of lifelike quiescence in Iraq, involving a radical lowering of "violence" in that country, the general and ambassador did have to give up the ghost on a number of previous Bush administration passions ... This may have been the real "surge" in Iraq and, if you look at new maps of the ethnic make-up of the capital, you can see the startling results - from which a certain quiescence followed. (Asia Times Online)
Snoozing worms help Penn researchers explain the evolution of sleep Jan 12, 2008
First author David M. Raizen, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Neurology, in collaboration with other researchers at the Penn Center for Sleep, showed that there is a period of behavioral quiescence during the worms development called lethargus that has sleep-like properties. Just as humans are less responsive during sleep, so is the worm during lethargus, explains Raizen. (EurekAlert!)
Putin's Reaganesque Victory Dec 4, 2007
In Chechnya, the breakaway province bombed and bludgeoned into quiescence by Putin since taking office in 2000, some 99. 4% of the vote went to his party. (Time.com)
Morse: Sudan II Oct 20, 2007
Oil buys the quiescence of the good citizens of Khartoum, who pretend not to know what is going on 500 miles away. Rumors abound that Darfur itself may contain oil reserves beyond those located in its southeast corner -- as well as valuable deposits of uranium and gold. (Zmag.org)
Drug Could Cure Chronic Myeloid Leukemia Oct 3, 2007
The UCI scientists, however, believe Imatinib can kill cancerous stem cells but not when the stem cells temporarily stop dividing, a state known as quiescence. All cancerous stem cells have the ability to enter the quiescent state. (Newsmax)
The Science of Death: Reviving the Dead Jul 15, 2007
His breathing stopped as he entered a quiescence beyond sleep. Alex Majoli / Magnum for NewsweekBill Bondar, Died May 23, 2007: One of the 250,000 Americans whose hearts will stop outside a medical setting this year, Bondar, 61, is seen here, at the site of his death near his New Jersey home. (MSNBC -- Health)
Common preterm labor drug has more side effects than alternative Jun 29, 2007
They found that magnesium sulfate was more effective in achieving the study's primary outcome - preventing delivery for 48 hours with uterine quiescence. But there were no significant differences in the treatments' ability to delay delivery, in the gestational age of the newborn or in the birth weight of the infants. (EurekAlert!)
Caging the Inflation Monster Jun 16, 2007
The explanation for inflation's quiescence. First of all, that 168% rate of increase, while technically accurate, is something of a red herring produced by a short, sharp, and temporary runup. (BusinessWeek)
New Computer Model Predicts Crowd Behavior May 23, 2007
Another set of scenarios will explore a range of health issues, for example, how might a pathogen be transmitted through mobile pedestrians over a short time period"Urban and economic planners will be able to use scenarios to explore questions involving the positioning of anchor stores along main shopping streets, pedestrian flow past street entertainers and placement of tourist information sites.In the areas of public safety and homeland security, the model can be used to examine questions... (Science Daily)
* Johnny Neihu's NewsWatch: No more trunk calls to the WHO May 19, 2007
For then can we not feel quiescence. (jwRG). (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
85 killed or found dead across Iraq Apr 18, 2007
In a sign that Shiite death squads are on the move again after more than two months of quiescence, 25 bodies, most tortured, were found dumped in Baghdad on Tuesday. Radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr ordered his six Cabinet ministers Monday to quit the government. (MSNBC -- International)
Schwartz: Baghdad Hell Feb 13, 2007
But in American reportage, the emphasis was on the pacification and quiescence achieved, once -- by the late spring of 2005 -- the Americans had suppressed the active resistance ... And then, overlaid on top of the cleansing of the Shia minority, came the contrary cleansing of the Sunni majority; engineered by the Iraqi military that arrived in the neighborhood with the Americans, and conducted their own purge with the support or acquiescence of the U.S. military. (Zmag.org)
