It's not that the disease progresses quicker, it is only after diagnosis it progresses quicker. This probably means that on average the disease starts at the same time but that it manifests itself earlier in 'uneducated' people.
A theory is that educated people can 'route' around the disease better, so don't display external symptoms. Their education leads, on average, to them having more connections in their brain. However, a critical point is reached where the brain can't route around the problem, and symtoms begin to be detected.
To me this is a good thing, with a disease like this I'd prefer to go quickly rather than hang around.
So when, at the beginning of this season, the site received what Grant and Rowson felt were threatening legal letters demanding the removal of offensive content they were shocked. They refused, their server was contacted and BSaD was taken off the internet until Grant and Rowson backed down. The heinous material that caused the problems? Watford FC's fixtures for 2005-06. "We were extremely surprised and did feel bullied," Rowson says. "We do the fanzine for the love of writing about football, with about 1,000 regular hits weekly. We never thought the outside world was even aware of us."
That was reckoning without the keen commercial enforcers at DataCo. This is a company owned by the Premier and Football Leagues, whose job is to charge for publication of the fixture lists, as well as the increasing volume of other data, including match statistics, to which the clubs claim copyright
Chemistry society goes head to head with NIH in fight over public database
Emma Marris, Washington DC
Many chemists might not know it, but the organization that represents them in the United States is fighting to limit their free access to chemical information. The American Chemical Society says that a new publicly funded database of molecules threatens its own fee-based Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), and it is lobbying politicians to restrict the free version. But it is having trouble convincing members that this is in their interests.
CAS is part of many chemists' daily routine. The service is a massive registry of chemicals with their structures and properties, as well as links to related publications and patents.
Depending on their size, chemistry departments and companies pay from a few thousand to more than a hundred thousand dollars for a year's access to the database.
Chemists have had no alternative. A journal search will not find a chemical structure, so the database is the only way to find previously reported molecules and reactions, short of wading through papers by hand.
"CAS is very important," says Chris Reed, an inorganic chemist at the University of California, Riverside. "My students use it all the time, for mining the literature or finding the compounds they want."
PubChem, a free database launched by the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) last September, threatens CAS's monopoly. It is smaller, containing 650,000 molecules so far compared with CAS's 25 million. And it is aimed more at biologists, linking to information such as gene sequences, and related papers in the NIH's PubMed archive of biomedical journals.
650,000 and rising
But it is growing. On 25 May, records were added from NMRShiftDB, a database of chemicals' nuclear magnetic resonance spectra, and from Nature Chemical Biology, which requires all authors to submit their data to PubChem. Other sources are likely to follow.
The ACS argues that projects that compete with the private sector are a waste of taxpayers' money. The database generates the lion's share of the non-profit ACS's income of $375 million, which pays for the society's publications, meetings and staff.
So the society is trying to persuade Congress to make the NIH restrict its database to molecules found by NIH researchers.
Steve Bryant, project director for PubChem, says that's unfair, because the linked content provided by the two databases is different, and they serve different audiences.
Bob Massie, head of CAS, disagrees. "We have been hearing that every chemical researcher understands that PubChem is a substitute for CAS," he says.
To try to limit PubChem to information produced by NIH researchers, the ACS has been working with lawmakers in Ohio, where CAS employs almost 1,300 people. In particular, it has lobbied congressman Ralph Regula (Republican, Ohio), the chairman of the appropriations subcommittee that allocates money to the NIH.
The society's efforts have intensified ahead of this week's expected debut of the 2006 House Appropriations bill that outlines the agency's proposed budget. As Nature went to press, the draft bill was due on 9 June. An official report accompanying the bill was expected to ask the NIH to limit PubChem to data produced by its own efforts. The report is not legally binding, but if the bill is passed it would be difficult for the NIH to ignore.
Although many chemists are unaware of the ACS's attempt to restrict PubChem, weblogs and library discussion groups have picked up the subject. The fight is turning sour. "My only interpretation of the ACS's recent actions is that it is no longer trying to represent the best interests of the scientists who form its membership," says Richard Roberts, a chemist at New England Biolabs in Beverly, Massachusetts, and 1993 Nobel laureate, who advises PubChem. "Rather, it seems to be a commercial enterpri
The license fee also pays for 4 radio stations. All commercial free.
These are almost as important, to me, as the TV stations.
And most programmes are available to 'listen again'.
I presume you don't have kids. This form of humour is the first they get, farts, snot and other bodily functions are funny.
I'm dreading the day when they begin to 'get' sarcasm.
I think that microwaving the articles should be OK (well that's what i've read somewhere).
But obviously it won't work on all items.
Will the tags still work after washing/tumble drying?
Please help.
To continue this, I find that Digital Watches/Clocks etc. take longer to read. I'm not talking mintues here, but milliseconds.
I can just glance at my wirst watch (analogue) and know the time. But with a digital display of time I have to process the numbers to get an idea of the time, this is why I prefer analogue.
If you browse their web site, Warp says it may offer lossless formats depending upon the level of interest in these formats. They will have to charge more for these formats to cover their bandwidth costs.
As part of an academic dept. I run a DNA Sequencing service & this kit will not give you DNA sequence information. As another reply mentions this kit will just separate out the DNA according to molecular weight, which in itself is pretty boring. All you will get is a smear of DNA, which to be honest will look like a bird dropping.
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It's not that the disease progresses quicker, it is only after diagnosis it progresses quicker. This probably means that on average the disease starts at the same time but that it manifests itself earlier in 'uneducated' people.
A theory is that educated people can 'route' around the disease better, so don't display external symptoms. Their education leads, on average, to them having more connections in their brain. However, a critical point is reached where the brain can't route around the problem, and symtoms begin to be detected.
To me this is a good thing, with a disease like this I'd prefer to go quickly rather than hang around.
No - i'm afraid not. Something similar has happened in the UK to do with the printing of Football [Soccer] fixture lists. http://football.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,975 3,1671699,00.html?
Rather like this post, presenting an opinion as fact. Which rather neatly sums up the whole problem regarding the reporting of science in the press.
iTunes still doesn't support .ogg does it?
They aren't giving it away for free,as you and many others assume.
As they mention on the site:
It has also done so in this case: Other services offering downloads of classical music
Chemistry society goes head to head with NIH in fight over public database
Emma Marris, Washington DC
Many chemists might not know it, but the organization that represents them in the United States is fighting to limit their free access to chemical information. The American Chemical Society says that a new publicly funded database of molecules threatens its own fee-based Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), and it is lobbying politicians to restrict the free version. But it is having trouble convincing members that this is in their interests.
CAS is part of many chemists' daily routine. The service is a massive registry of chemicals with their structures and properties, as well as links to related publications and patents.
Depending on their size, chemistry departments and companies pay from a few thousand to more than a hundred thousand dollars for a year's access to the database.
Chemists have had no alternative. A journal search will not find a chemical structure, so the database is the only way to find previously reported molecules and reactions, short of wading through papers by hand.
"CAS is very important," says Chris Reed, an inorganic chemist at the University of California, Riverside. "My students use it all the time, for mining the literature or finding the compounds they want."
PubChem, a free database launched by the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) last September, threatens CAS's monopoly. It is smaller, containing 650,000 molecules so far compared with CAS's 25 million. And it is aimed more at biologists, linking to information such as gene sequences, and related papers in the NIH's PubMed archive of biomedical journals.
650,000 and rising
But it is growing. On 25 May, records were added from NMRShiftDB, a database of chemicals' nuclear magnetic resonance spectra, and from Nature Chemical Biology, which requires all authors to submit their data to PubChem. Other sources are likely to follow.
The ACS argues that projects that compete with the private sector are a waste of taxpayers' money. The database generates the lion's share of the non-profit ACS's income of $375 million, which pays for the society's publications, meetings and staff.
So the society is trying to persuade Congress to make the NIH restrict its database to molecules found by NIH researchers.
Steve Bryant, project director for PubChem, says that's unfair, because the linked content provided by the two databases is different, and they serve different audiences.
Bob Massie, head of CAS, disagrees. "We have been hearing that every chemical researcher understands that PubChem is a substitute for CAS," he says.
To try to limit PubChem to information produced by NIH researchers, the ACS has been working with lawmakers in Ohio, where CAS employs almost 1,300 people. In particular, it has lobbied congressman Ralph Regula (Republican, Ohio), the chairman of the appropriations subcommittee that allocates money to the NIH.
The society's efforts have intensified ahead of this week's expected debut of the 2006 House Appropriations bill that outlines the agency's proposed budget. As Nature went to press, the draft bill was due on 9 June. An official report accompanying the bill was expected to ask the NIH to limit PubChem to data produced by its own efforts. The report is not legally binding, but if the bill is passed it would be difficult for the NIH to ignore.
Although many chemists are unaware of the ACS's attempt to restrict PubChem, weblogs and library discussion groups have picked up the subject. The fight is turning sour. "My only interpretation of the ACS's recent actions is that it is no longer trying to represent the best interests of the scientists who form its membership," says Richard Roberts, a chemist at New England Biolabs in Beverly, Massachusetts, and 1993 Nobel laureate, who advises PubChem. "Rather, it seems to be a commercial enterpri
.. not me. I never pay for music.
yeah
the iPod doesn't support OGG.
That is, if he was dead he would be.
The license fee also pays for 4 radio stations. All commercial free.
These are almost as important, to me, as the TV stations. And most programmes are available to 'listen again'.
You don't then accept that an employer has a duty of care to an employee?
An employee may not be able to assess to risks that handling certain chemicals pose. Is this their fault?
I couldn't disagree with you more.
But it is amusing
I presume you don't have kids. This form of humour is the first they get, farts, snot and other bodily functions are funny.
I'm dreading the day when they begin to 'get' sarcasm.
Will the tags still work after washing/tumble drying? Please help.
To continue this, I find that Digital Watches/Clocks etc. take longer to read. I'm not talking mintues here, but milliseconds. I can just glance at my wirst watch (analogue) and know the time. But with a digital display of time I have to process the numbers to get an idea of the time, this is why I prefer analogue.
If you browse their web site, Warp says it may offer lossless formats depending upon the level of interest in these formats. They will have to charge more for these formats to cover their bandwidth costs.
As part of an academic dept. I run a DNA Sequencing service & this kit will not give you DNA sequence information. As another reply mentions this kit will just separate out the DNA according to molecular weight, which in itself is pretty boring. All you will get is a smear of DNA, which to be honest will look like a bird dropping.
Isn't Hotmail still running on *nix?
I have been using a mac for over 10 years and I have never been infected with a virus.
I just sit back and watch tech-support rush around patching and updating the windows boxes, whilst I continue working.presumably it derives it's energy from an internal cold fusion plant.
You really haven't been here long have you.