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...past two years come from upgrading the efficiency of central plant equipment through measures such as switching from oil to natural gas, which contains less carbon. The other half was achieved through conservation efforts and behavioral-change programs, such as retrofitting buildings with more efficient lighting and encouraging sustainable lab practices, Phillips said. In the coming years, conservation and behavioral-change campaigns will get more “aggressive” and hopefully constitute up to three-fourths of annual reductions, he added. “Behavioral change means changing the way we make decisions around the infrastructure that...
That person will join a team of several experts in the analytical lab of the Straus Center. The new researcher will continue work currently being done at the center, which focuses on the close examination of art materials to determine artistic techniques and conservation methods. This conservation work is key to preserving the museum’s collections, said Daron J. Manoogian, a museum spokesman...
...local economy and offering economic opportunities during the current financial crisis, proponents say. “It seems like a natural progression that will add to the breadth and scope of biotech here in Cambridge,” Mayor E. Denise Simmons said of the project. Simmons said the labs will benefit the city by attracting more people with highly specialized talents and employing many more. She said she will ask the company to reach out to Cambridge when looking for employees. The new unit will be located in Cambridge, Mass., as well as Cambridge, England. Between the two facilities...
...analysis included 540 patients in Canada who were recruited by telephone survey. All patients had been previously diagnosed with asthma and were prescribed medication to control their symptoms. Over the course of up to four lab visits and a battery of pulmonary tests, which included examining how well patients fared when their asthma medications were tapered off or taken away, researchers confirmed the diagnosis in 346 patients, or 70%. But for 150 patients - who accounted for 31.8% of obese participants and 27.8% of their normal-weighted peers - their initial diagnosis was wrong. Indeed, says Aaron, many of these patients...
...anything, including popping gingko supplements - on which Americans spend more than $100 million annually - in the hopes of holding off the slow and agonizing mental decline that characterizes dementia. The claimed benefits of gingko have mostly been based on the supplement's antioxidant effects, which have been shown in lab studies - but not in patients - to gnaw away at the fatty plaques that infiltrate the Alzheimer's brain and destroy nerve cells. Studies in patients have involved only small groups, making those results interesting but hardly definitive...