Do Cats Reduce the Risk of a Heart Attack? Feb 26, 2008
I wonder if quiescent toxoplasmosis infection has some protective effect. Some diseases have mostly ill effects, but some benefits as well. (MedHeadlines)
At Last Minute, a Group In Kent Opposes Tower Feb 22, 2008
Kent residents were largely quiescent during the long months of negotiation between the town and Verizon. Only a handful of people appeared at the public hearing the Siting Council held two weeks ago in town hall and they were denied the right to object on environmental grounds. (Litchfield County Times, CT)
Genetic Link To Human Herpes Susceptibility Found Feb 1, 2008
Cold sores occur when the herpes virus reactivates from its quiescent state within the nerve, infecting the lip, nose, or face. Discovery of the probable link could lead to the development of new drugs that reduce the frequency of herpes outbreaks, according to John D. Kriesel, M.D., the study's corresponding author and research associate professor in the U School of Medicine's Division of Infectious Diseases. (Science Daily)
The snare of stimulus Jan 23, 2008
Having remained quiescent over the past decade, in spite of excessive money creation in the US and worldwide, inflation is now making a comeback. Even by the heavily massaged numbers of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, US inflation is above 4% and likely to remain there. (Asia Times Online)
Terrorism: FARC's 'Gift' To Hugo Chavez Jan 16, 2008
Seeking to move inventories suddenly less attractive to more careful consumers, businesses will lower prices on all manner of products such that government measures of inflation will be more quiescent. So while a less vibrant economy would hurt workers and businesses of all stripes, the silver lining within would be a lower level of inflation. (Investors Business Daily)
Bush assails Iran on visit to United Arab Emirates Jan 14, 2008
Delivering an otherwise gingerly worded address intended to revive a quiescent campaign for broader democracy across the Middle East, he called for reforms that would transform life from Morocco to Pakistan. Bush proclaimed a "new era," which he said was "founded on the equality of all people before God.". (Boston Globe)
Protein Expressed At Tumor Boundary May Be Essential To Tumor's Invasive Potential Jan 14, 2008
This protein is expressed in many normal tissues, particularly in cells in a quiescent state (G0 phase of the cell cycle). The concentration of GADD45a increases during G1 phase of the cell cycle and greatly decreases when the cell is at S phase, demonstrating its crucial role in the response function to many stress or genotoxic signals. (Science Daily)
The year that changed the world Jan 5, 2008
Eastern Europe was less quiescent: an uprising in East Berlin in 1953, an insurrection in Budapest in 1956 and upheavals in Poznan and Prague some years later had shaken the gerontocracy in Moscow. The crisis of the old empires was typified by the wars in Algeria, Vietnam, Angola, Mozambique and Guinea-Bissau. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
Preview: Microsoft Hyper-V beta makes its lab debut Dec 20, 2007
Technology ess Daily. Next-gen virtualization from Microsoft. (InfoWorld)
austriamicrosystems' New 20V Step-Down DC-DC Regulator Offers up to 96% Efficiency Dec 17, 2007
AS1341 High Voltage Buck Regulator Offers Low 12uA Quiescent Current and 600mA Output Current ... The AS1341 s low quiescent current of 12uA improves light load efficiency and conserves battery life. (BusinessWire)
Brain Stem Cells Sensitive To Space Radiation Dec 13, 2007
The cell is described as quiescent -- or quiet -- because even though it is the wellspring that repopulates the brain with new cells, it exists in relative repose while its daughter cells divide and reproduce in great numbers ... "These stem cells divide quite rarely and it was unexpected that they would be the most vulnerable to this type of radiation. But at least two thirds of these quiescent cells died. The challenge now is to find something to protect those cells.". (Science Daily)
austriamicrosystems Introduces 9uVRMS Ultra Low-Noise 300mA LDO with Power-OK Flag Nov 23, 2007
Offering low dropout voltage as well as low quiescent current, this ultra-low-noise LDO family is ideally suited for any battery-powered device. The AS1358/59/61/62 family offers pre-programmed output voltages in the range between 1. (BusinessWire)
Immune system can drive cancers into dormant state Nov 19, 2007
" Schreiber, Smyth and Old speculate that from the immune system's point-of-view, a cancerous cell may look like a cell infected by an invading microorganism. To overcome the safeguards that prevent the immune system from attacking the body's own tissues, the tumor has to have a high level of immunogenicity, or ability to provoke an immune reaction. Cancer cells can reduce their immunogenicity by changing the materials they present to the immune system to more closely resemble those presented by... (EurekAlert!)
Opposition steals a march in Malaysia Nov 13, 2007
Outside the Jamek Mosque train terminal police fired tear gas at largely quiescent demonstrators. According to government news reports, 245 people were arrested and later released. (Asia Times Online)
Bello: Global South, Global Warming Oct 13, 2007
The fact is that not a single river in the plains has potable water". Things changed when the government announced its plans to dam the mighty Narmada River in the late seventies. Instead of quietly accepting the World Bank-backed enterprise, the affected people mounted a resistance that continues to this day. The Narmada Bachao Andolan movement led by Medha Patkar at the Sardar Sarovar Dam and Alok Aggarwal and Silvi at the Maheshwar Dam drew support from all over India and internationally.... (Zmag.org)
Stomach stem cell discovery could bring cancer insights Oct 4, 2007
Now, for the first time, we have the experimental tools to ask important questions, like, Does stomach cancer really arise from mutations in this progenitor cell population" Stomach cancer is a major cancer killer outside the United States. It is the most common cause of cancer deaths in much of East Asia and Latin America. In the United States, it is estimated that 21,260 people will be diagnosed with stomach cancer and 11,210 will die of it in 2007. There are several types of stomach... (EurekAlert!)
Drug Could Cure Chronic Myeloid Leukemia Oct 3, 2007
All cancerous stem cells have the ability to enter the quiescent state. Evidence indicates that when such sleeping stem cells wake up, Imatinib can kill them. (Newsmax)
Microsemi Announces New Integrated Multichip Power Amplifier for 802.11b/g/n WLAN Front-End Applications Sep 27, 2007
5GHz with a low quiescent current of 80mA. Its error vector magnitude (EVM) is a low 3 percent across the 2. 3 to 2. (Primezone Releases)
austriamicrosystems Introduces High Efficiency Inductorless DC-DC Boost Converter Aug 28, 2007
With an excellent efficiency of up to 92%, the AS1301 offers lowest quiescent current and features a less than 5uA shutdown mode in which the output is fully disconnected from the input. "Inductorless DC-DC converters like the AS1301 are often the ideal solution for applications requiring a combination of low power, simplicity and low cost," commented Walter Moshammer, marketing director Standard Linear at austriamicrosystems. (BusinessWire)
austriamicrosystems introduces 1.5uA ultra low quiescent current, 20V LDO Aug 21, 2007
5uA ultra low quiescent current, 20V LDO ... 5uA quiescent current and handles up to 20V input voltage ... 5uA of quiescent current. (BusinessWire)
Delivering the goods won't be easy Jul 29, 2007
Let's congratulate ourselves that smokers have become a furtive, slowly disappearing breed--a browbeaten and quiescent (silent) minority who don't vote their habit. And let's stick it to them rather than, say, to the uptight--ooops upright--abstemious. (Reno Gazette Journal)
austriamicrosystems Unveils Single-Cell Boost Converter Operating with Less Than 1.6uA Jul 9, 2007
New AS1323 Ultra-Low Quiescent Current Step-up Converter Offers Longest Running Times for Low-Power Products. UNTERPREMSTAETTEN, Austria--(BUSINESS WIRE)--austriamicrosystems (SWX:AMS), a leading global designer and manufacturer of analog integrated circuits (ICs) for communications, industrial, medical and automotive applications, introduces the AS1323, a ultra-low quiescent current, high efficiency, step-up DC-DC converter which comes in a small 5-pin TSOT package ... 6uA quiescent current and... (BusinessWire)
Lendman: Chomsky's Interventions Jun 15, 2007
" In 1973, banker David Rockefeller (grandson of oil tycoon and mega-corporate predator John D.), Zbigniew Brzezinski and others founded the Trilateral Commission that included notable members like Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton. It's purpose was to counter a "crisis of democracy" from the 1960s. That meant too much of it as sectors of the population (called "special interests") became active politically while these rulers of the world expect them to remain inert. So action was needed... (Zmag.org)
Rose grower offers eco-friendly spray options Jun 7, 2007
Spray should be applied as necessary to prevent disease and keep roses healthy until the first light frost occurs by mid-October and the rose plant enters the quiescent cycle. A spray cycle of twice a month was sufficient to prevent significant fungal or insect damage when the spray was allowed to remain on the plants for 24 hours without rain or overhead irrigation. (Coos Bay-North Bend The World, OR)
Herpes Infection May Be Symbiotic, Help Beat Back Some Bacteria May 22, 2007
In latent viral infections, the virus is present for the lifetime of the host in a relatively quiescent form that does not cause overt symptoms ... Sometimes symptoms never recur; sometimes they flare up periodically before becoming quiescent again. (Science Daily)
'Insulator' helps silence genes in dormant herpes virus May 3, 2007
Scientists have long puzzled over the mechanism used to keep this small region of the genome going while nearby genes remain quiescent. Now, scientists at The Wistar Institute have discovered a molecular mechanism that keeps HSV-1 activation restricted to a single gene for months or even years. (EurekAlert!)
Flu Is A Trigger Of Heart Attacks, Researchers Say Apr 18, 2007
Prof Madjid said: "Most people develop atherosclerotic lesions in their coronary arteries in early childhood and these lesions grow over time. Inflammation plays a pivotal role in development and growth of these lesions. Most people in Western countries live with different stages of atherosclerosis and many will never show any clinical manifestations of the atherosclerosis. However, in some patients the quiescent, stable atherosclerotic plaques undergo sudden changes, mainly due to exaggerated... (Science Daily)
Mammography Screening Guidelines Muddy the Waters Apr 4, 2007
PHILADELPHIA, April 3 -- A new skirmish has broken out over whether a medically mandated routine annual mammogram for low-risk women younger than 50 is a good idea, rekindling a quiescent issue that once embroiled breast-cancer screening. Action Points. (MedPage Today)
Gene Switches On Repair in Liver Mar 30, 2007
"If you know what the switch is," she says, "and if you know how these cells become quiescent again then you can start interfering with this process.". MORE HEALTH. (Scientific American)
Dams cause toxic algae, groups claim Mar 16, 2007
"By damming rivers that are high in nutrients, impounding them in reservoirs, then warming those waters in a quiescent environment, dam operators like PacifiCorp have created a perfect environment for the growth and proliferation of blue-green algae.". The blue-green algae Microcystis aeruginosa produces a level of microcystin toxin in the reservoirs that exceeds standards by the World Health Organization, the petition states. (Daily Triplicate)
Whatever!: Hormonal Reversal During Puberty Keeps Teens Totally Anxious Mar 15, 2007
Now, researchers at the State University of New York Downstate Medical Center in New York City have found the switch that transforms quiescent children into raging, hormonal teens. The team reports in Nature Neuroscience that allopregnanolone (THP), a chemical that normally helps soothe the activity of brain cells in adults and children by binding to receptors that inhibit accelerating electrical activity, actually becomes an antagonist during puberty. (Scientific American)
The Colonel who Came in From the Cold Mar 6, 2007
A Western diplomatic source prefers to talk about "tension, more or less creative, between those who want to hold on to the status quo - which has kept the regime in place, with a quiescent population - and those who want to open Libya up, now that sanctions have gone, to the wide world". The chasm separating these two views of the world, and of Libya's future, was apparent in the conference hall in Sebha. (Ocnus.net)
Regenerative Medicine Advance: Frog Tadpole Artificially Induced To Re-grow Its Tail Mar 2, 2007
During the Forsyth study, the activity of a yeast proton pump (which produces H+ ion flow and thus sets up regions of higher and lower pH) triggered the regeneration of the frog's tail during the normally quiescent time. This research will be published in the April issue of Development and will appear online on February 28, 2007. (Science Daily)
Long quiescent, Libya starts to awaken Mar 2, 2007
One of the nation's many portraits of Colonel Muammar el-Qaddafi, the Libyan leader, decorating the lobby of a hotel in Tripoli, where state celebrations will be held on Friday. ( Shawn Baldwin for The New York Times ). (International Herald Tribune)
GUEST VIEW: Global warming theory is silly Feb 25, 2007
Researchers have found that climate warming actually provides more quiescent conditions, not worse. Fourth, the theory says that increased carbon dioxide will warm the earth s surface after it first heats up the lower atmosphere. (Winona Daily News, MN)
Guinea:The Case for U.S. Action Feb 21, 2007
The U.S. Agency for International Development's (USAID) more than $15 million investment since 1998 to encourage Guinea's fatalistic and quiescent civil society to be more forceful advocates for democracy and good governance has now achieved demonstrated results. The question now is whether the United States will act to help protect Guinea's people from its brutal dictator, President General Lansana Cont. (allAfrica.com)
- Rajiv Chandrasekaran: Inside Bush's Iraq - part two Feb 20, 2007
Endowed with billions of dollars in US reconstruction funds and a comparatively quiescent environment in the aftermath of the US invasion, the CPA was the US government's first and best hope to resuscitate Iraq - to establish order, promote rebuilding and assemble a viable government, all of which, experts believe, would have constricted the insurgency and mitigated the chances of civil war. Many of the basic tasks Americans struggle to accomplish today in Iraq - training the army, vetting the... (Guardian Unlimited)
Mouse Clones Sprout from Adult Skin Cells Feb 14, 2007
These adult stem cells are easy to collect, quiescent so they are not continually dividing and remain able to develop into many cell types. Cells were taken from the mouse's back, and stem cells were then sorted out (using techniques Fuchs' team developed a few years ago) and delivered to Mombaerts to undergo nuclear transfer. (Scientific American)
Schwartz: Baghdad Hell Feb 13, 2007
Haifa Street once again became a quiescent enemy enclave, and -- with the rise of sectarian violence -- was suspected of "harboring terrorists" of an anti-Shiite variety. As Marc Santora put it. (Zmag.org)
Gaffe of the Year: Feb 13, 2007
Sadr's militia became relatively quiescent for a whole year after the Marines defeated it at Najaf in August, 2004. But since it is rooted in an enormous social movement, the militia is fairly easy to reconstitute after it goes into hiding. (Slate)
EVEN GOP SENATORS RIP RICE ON IRAQ Jan 12, 2007
" Hagel is a longtime critic of Bush's Iraq policy. More surprising was the grilling Rice took from Sen. John Sununu, a New Hampshire Republican facing re-election in 2008, and Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski, who said she agreed with Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., that Great Britain's announcement of troop withdrawals leaves the United States isolated in Iraq. Ohio Republican Sen. George Voinovich, a former supporter of the president's Iraq policy, told Rice he had "bought into (Bush's) dream. And at... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Politics)
