Indian Cherry: Richest Source of Vitiamin C
The West Indian Cherry or Acerola fruit (Malpighia Punicifolia L) is the richest
source of Vitamin C known to man. Hundred grams of edible portion yields 1000 to 4000 mg of Vitamin C. The West Indian Cherry tree grows well in the tropical parts in India. //
Apart from Vitamin C, West Indian Che...
Parents Urged to 'Make Change to Save Change' at Back-to-School Time
...save change in their wallets, and ensures they aren't short-changed on nutrition. For example, at just 25 cents per glass, milk provides one of the richest
sources of well-absorbed calcium in the American diet. Plus it contains eight other essential nutrients, including vitamin D that helps enhance calciu...
Association of Peruvian Anchovy Producers Pursues MSC Certification
...rmed the MSC in 1997 to promote responsible, sustainable fishing practices after watching the North Atlantic cod fishery (once the world's largest and richest
fishery) collapse in the 1990s. With its global partners, the MSC has developed standards for sustainable fishing and seafood traceability, ensuring M...
Advocates for Health Millennium Development Goals Unite to Demand World Leaders Honor Funding Commitments
...worse, not made at all."
"At least a million additional lives are in jeopardy because of this economic crisis. We are calling for the world's richest
countries to support their words with concrete action and back up their promises with the money necessary to fulfill them," said Ann Starrs, President...
World Financial Crisis and AIDS Backlash Threaten Lives
...ewswire-USNewswire/ -- On the eve of the G8 Summit in Italy, the International Treatment Preparedness Coalition (ITPC) calls on leaders of the world's richest
countries to announce significant additional funds to ensure that AIDS treatment and prevention programs for millions of men, women and children do no...
New York City's World Product Centre Announces Initial Charter Partners
...a high density of local healthcare providers who can view and evaluate new innovation."
The Northeastern U.S. offers what is arguably one of the richest
concentrations of academic medical centers, hospitals and related healthcare providers in the world, including the most orthopedic resident physicians...
Halogen Delivers Talent Management Industry's Most Comprehensive Value-Add Content for Healthcare Customers
... Ottawa, ON (PRWEB) June 2, 2009 -- Halogen Software today announced that the company is now delivering the talent management industry’s richest
and most comprehensive healthcare content as standard features with every healthcare-specific talent management suite shipped. This new best practi...
ICES study finds wealthy Ontarians have better access to MRI scans
...access to MRI scans based on income existed. Patients
living in the richest
one-fifth of Ontario neighbourhoods were 25 per
cent more likely to...access to MRI between rich and poor widened. Patients
living in the richest
neighbourhoods are now 38% more likely to
receive MRI scans than th...
Broccoli may help protect against respiratory conditions like asthma
...worked with 65 volunteers who were given varying oral doses of either broccoli or alfalfa sprout preparations for three days. Broccoli sprouts are the richest
natural source of sulforaphane; the alfalfa sprouts, which do not contain the compound, served as a placebo.
Rinses of nasal passages were collecte...
Marshfield Clinic Selects SAP(R) BusinessObjects(TM) Solutions to Improve Patient Treatment and Clinic Management
...nce organization. The Clinic system has contributed numerous medical and service innovations to the healthcare industry and has accumulated one of the richest
warehouses of healthcare patient data in America, reflecting encounters on more than 2.1 million patients.
"To provide Marshfield Clinic physicia...
Richest in Medical Dictionary
.... The ester of glycerol and one, two, or three fatty acids. ... The best or richest
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Richest in Biological News
Study finds most wars occur in Earth's richest biological regions
Arlington, Virginia (Feb. 20, 2009) In a startling result, a new study published by the scientific journal Conservation Biology found that more than 80 percent of the world's major armed conflicts from 1950-2000 occurred in regions identified as the most biologically diverse and threatened plac...
Fossil bone bed helps reconstruct life along California's ancient coastline
...between 15 million and 16 million years ago.
The team's interpretation of the fossils and the geology to establish the origins of the bone bed, the richest
and most extensive marine deposit of bones in the world, are presented in the June 2009 issue of the journal Geology .
The mix of shark bones and...
A big lesson from the reef
...r medal for his pioneering work in understanding how ecosystems develop and maintain their amazing diversity.
"The Great Barrier Reef is one of the richest
systems of living things on the Planet. Understanding how it became so rich, and how to keep it that way, is essential for its survival as well as fo...
Research uncovers surprising lion stronghold in war-torn central Africa
...evenue. So we're hoping that's an incentive the government will respond to."
The northern Albertine Rift, in which the two parks sit, is one of the richest
reserves of biodiversity in the world. It's also home to many charismatic wildlife species, including elephant, great herds of ungulates, and lion. Bu...
Another reason to drink a nice cup of shade-grown joe
...therefore more susceptible to inbreeding and further declines or extinction.
Coffee is grown across millions of hectares of land within the world's richest
centers of biodiversity, the researchers said. In tropical America, that coffee is traditionally grown under a diverse canopy of shade trees, which su...
FSU, Magnet Lab researchers license critical petroleum data
.... In so doing, Marshall's group has compiled the largest database of petroleum compounds in the world -- priceless information for some of the world's richest
Wealth, however, isn't the motivation behind the group's licensure deal.
"There will be some small royalties associated with the Sier...
Durham scientists to tackle CO2 storage in global warming challenge
...and storing that CO 2 is seen as an essential part of reducing the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
At the recent G8 summit the world's richest
nations stated their "vision" to cut CO 2 emissions by 50 per cent by 2050 and the UK has plans to build power plants with carbon capture facilities....
Study suggests past climate changes may have promoted the formation of new species in the Amazon
...ea level fluctuations may have promoted the formation of new species in the Amazon region of South America.
Today, the Amazon basin is home to the richest
diversity of life on earth, yet the reasons why this came to be are not well understood. A team of American and Brazilian researchers studied three sp...
Scientists discover new reefs teeming with marine life in Brazil
...(July 8, 2008) Scientists announced today the discovery of reef structures they believe doubles the size of the Southern Atlantic Ocean's largest and richest
reef system, the Abrolhos Bank, off the southern coast of Brazil's Bahia state. The newly discovered area is also far more abundant in marine life t...
BBVA Foundation Awards for Biodiversity Conservation
...sponsibilities between the Mexican Government and civil society for the management of the Sierra Gorda Biosphere Reserve; the protected space with the richest
ecological diversity in all of Mexico with a total extension of 383,567 hectares. Because of its location between two distinct bio-geographical region...
Richest in Biological Technology
Heinlein Trust and SpaceX Announce Competition to Promote Research Innovation in Zero Gravity
...hich have raised more than $500 million in early-stage capital.
The Rice Alliance is host to the Rice Business Plan Competition, the largest and richest
business plan competition in world. Thirty-six graduate schools compete for over $700,000 in prizes each year.
Elsevier Introduces Breakthrough Technology Intelligence Solution for Accelerating R&D and Innovation in Europe
...the breadth of Elsevier's premium scientific
content, millions of patents and 8 billion Web pages and fuses them into an
organized view, making it the richest
business search solution in the world.
Recent research(1) projects European R&D spending to reach $280.2 billion
in 2009, accounting for ro...
Humanitarian Offers $75 Million for Single Dose Sterilization of Cats and Dogs
...rating foundation, formed by
prolific inventor, entrepreneur and billionaire, Dr. Gary Michelson. Dr.
Michelson is also noted as one of The Forbes 400 richest
( http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2008/1006/104.html ). The foundation addresses
the causes and consequences of pet overpopulation through inno...
Oil palm plantations are no substitute for tropical rainforests, a new study shows
... 50,000-square miles of moist, tropical lowland areas, mostly in Malaysia and Indonesia. These areas, once covered in tropical rainforest, the globe's richest
wildlife habitat on land, are also home to some of the most threatened species on earth.
The review, published today in the journal Trends in Ecol...
Experts prove the geochemical origin of part of the CO2 emissions in semiarid climates
...rid systems. The interest of the work lies in the knowledge of the CO2 production processes and their absorption and in the conservation of one of the richest
ecosystems of Spain.
One of the most recent studied on the subject is the doctoral thesis CO2 interchanges between atmosphere and karst ecosystems: ...
Aida Receives Chinese Government Innovation Award
.... (OTC Bulletin Board: AIDA) today announced that it
has received an award from the Science and Technology Department of
Zhejiang Province, one of the richest
regions in China and known throughout
the country for its focus on innovation. Aida was rewarded by the
governmental authority because of its "clinica...
Vet-Stem and Central Veterinary Research Labs of Dubai Sign Exclusive License
...d Prime Minister of the United
Arab Emirates, Sheik Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, is one of the world's
largest thoroughbred owners and sponsors the richest
horse racing day, the
Dubai World Cup. "The Central Veterinary Research Laboratory will be an
excellent partner in bringing this technology from the U...
Angel Investing in Wisconsin
...len more than 25%, but an invisible entrepreneurial economy had created more than 25 million new jobs.
In 1985, only 40%of the Forbes Four Hundred richest
People in America were entirely self-made, i.e., first generation money. Most major U. S. family fortunes had then been made during the earlier indust...
Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age
...d there are no excuses," Graham writes. "When those far removed from the creation of wealth -- undergraduates, reporters, politicians -- hear that the richest
5% of the people have half the total wealth, they tend to think injustice! An experienced programmer would be more likely to think is that all? Th...
Gates displays software's future to UW-Madison students
...ing a room in Weeks Hall on Wednesday night, Gates was anything but unrecognizable. As founder and chief software architect of Microsoft Corp. and the richest
man in the world, Gates is an icon in the profession and someone whose ideas can shape the computer market for years at a time.
"His vision of wide...
Richest in Biological Definition
...contain all essential amino acids. Peanuts , soy milk, nuts, seeds, green peas, Legumes , the alga spirulina and some grains are some of the richest
sources of plant protein.
All eight essential amino acids must be part of one diet in order to survive and are needed in a fixed ratio. A shortage ...