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Recovering with 4-legged friends requires less pain medication.
NewsRx Health & Science; 12/20/2009; 1022 words; ...for six to nine months where they are trained to be one of four types of assistance dogs. Service dogs are...alert partners to various sounds, such as a doorbell, alarm clock or smoke alarm. The average service life of each dog is eight years...

Lowering Healthcare Costs by Reducing Fall Injury and Fatalities at Home, Through New Fall Education and New Fall Protective Devices.
Pediatrics Week; 12/19/2009; 1021 words; ...hip fracture. This loss could have easily been prevented with one of these new devices or education techniques. Numerous lives...Some of these devices include Hip Protectors, Fall and Exit Alarms, high impact Fall and Floor Cushions, Fall and Lift Furniture...

Findings from C.A. Davis and co-researchers advance knowledge in meteorology.
Ecology, Environment & Conservation; 12/18/2009; 793 words; ...value of the total interest obtained by comparing an object in one field with all objects in the comparison field was retained...manifestation of the differing levels of performance was fewer false alarms, forecast rain areas with no observed counterpart, in the...

Researchers from University of Parma detail findings in ethology.
Ecology, Environment & Conservation; 12/18/2009; 675 words; "The alarm behaviour of the ant Formica...identify glandular sources of the alarm pheromones involved," investigators...which secretions from more than one glandular system are employed...communication is regulated by more than one substance (each with a different...

Research results from C. Keil and colleagues update understanding of meteorology.
Ecology, Environment & Conservation; 12/18/2009; 719 words; ...algorithm that defines a vector field that deforms, or morphs, one image to match another." "When the forecast field is morphed...be two separate amplitude errors: a missed event and a false alarm. The displacement and amplitude error components are combined...