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)
Lembcke: Sir! No Sir! Nov 8, 2006
It would be a mistake, though, to flip the analytical coin over and assign causative powers to in-service resistors, thus crediting the early dissidents like Duncan with spawning the Vietnam-era movement that followed their path-breaking actions, and then, by extension, blaming the absence of '60s-like demonstrations on the relative quiescence of today's GIs and Marines. Rather, the focus should be on the chemistry between military and civilian dissent and what is different about today that... (Zmag.org)
AGU journal highlights -- Nov. 6, 2006 Nov 7, 2006
This suggests that hydrological factors, rather than internal stress changes, greatly influence the shallow seismic velocity structure of the volcano during periods of volcanic quiescence. Title: Passive image interferometry and seasonal variations of seismic velocities at Merapi Volcano, Indonesia. (EurekAlert!)
West Nile Virus Season Subsiding, But It's Not Over UCD, Oct. 13 Oct 14, 2006
Culex quinquefasciatus, however, "continues blood feeding although they slow down and may go into quiescence (a resting or inactive period) during cooler periods in the Central Valley and especially southern California," Reisen said. Diapause ends after the winter solstice as the weather warms. (University of California Newswire, CA)
Get set for Spring | Aug 22, 2006
As you throw off the quiescence of winter and step into spring with energy and bounce, take time to inspect your home and tackle those jobs you've been meaning to get to. Our maintenance checklist highlights the most important problem areas that need to be addressed in preparation for summer but also touches on other chores that are often overlooked at other times of the year. (iAfrica.com)
Street: "The Blame is Wide" Jul 11, 2006
" This "liberal"-Democratic tutorial in responsible quiescence comes even as Bush's approval ratings remain stuck in the 30s and a majority of the supposedly "conservative" U.S. populace says that the invasion of Iraq was not "morally justified" and calls for a timetable for prompt withdrawal. The democratic sails of peace and justice, I am told by liberal know-it-all/do-nothing intellectuals, must be trimmed so that the more sophisticated rulers --- the slightly less plutocratic and... (Zmag.org)
'We will lose next election' Jun 19, 2006
June 18, Henry Porter: With act after act, Labour infringes our private lives, aided by Tory quiescence. It's time David Cameron rocked the boat. (Guardian Unlimited -- Politics)
The Fall of Palestine Apr 19, 2006
Churchill once said, "The Hun is either at your feet or at your throat." Similarly with the Arabs; and I suggest that their oscillations between quiescence and ferocity are driven by the Shame/Honor dynamic that is central to Arab psyche and Arab society. Shame and loss of honor, while toxic to the Arab, cannot be metabolized within the Arab self. (FrontPage Magazine)
Let's grumble for Grandad Mar 28, 2006
Staff take advantage of elderly quiescence and resignation to whisk away food, shuttle patients between wards, ignore both their reasonable wishes and their urine bottles or grudge giving two minutes thought to the sudden lameness of a fit human being just because he happens to have turned 80. This must stop. (TimesOnline)
