It always has been good to be home but not quite like this year. Credit better rest, a familiar routine, knowledge of a ballpark intricacies, a roster customized to maximize those intricacies, what have you. Simply, playing at home is an advantage.
Home teams in 2008, however, are winning 58.0 percent of their games, more three [...]
The Utah Jazz needed overtime while the San Antonio Spurs rolled to a rout Sunday as they squared both Western Conference series in the National Basketball Association playoffs.
Deron Williams scored 29 points with 14 assists for the Jazz, who blew a sizeable fourth-quarter lead but eked out the 123-115 overtime triumph over the Los Angeles [...]
In the early years of 21st century, the VoIP phone service has brought in a revolution of all sorts in the communication industry. The advanced IP telephony services deliver unified communication over the internet. The media-rich collaborative applications wherein voice Home Warranty, video, data and images are sent simultaneously have unified communications to a [...]
Sylvia Cremer is from the University of Copenhagen in Denmark and the University of Regensburg in Germany. Working with colleagues from these institutes and the University of Keele in the UK, she looked at colonies of ants in 14 locations around Europe. Using a combination of genetic, chemical and behavioural analyses, the researchers investigated the [...]
Its actually a festival more than 1000 years old, for martyred Saint Valentine, which has somehow evolved into a modern celebration of love.
It%26lsquo;s true, some blokes act like martyrs when the day comes around, moaning about the pressure. They don %26lsquo;t know what to get. The worst of them, paralysed by fear, do absolutely nothing.
Other [...]
Much of the research effort around MRSA to date has focused primarily on hospitals, said Carmel Hughes, lead review author.
MRSA spreads easily — most commonly via the hands of health care workers — and first-line antibiotics, like penicillin, are ineffective against the organism. Nursing home residents are particularly vulnerable because infection with the bug tends [...]
Despite mating being a risky business for females %26ndash; not least with the threat of injury, sexually transmitted diseases and vulnerability to predators - polyandry (females taking multiple mates) is widespread in the animal kingdom.
Dr Stephen Cornell (Leeds) and Dr Tom Tregenza (Exeter) have shown that polyandry may have evolved as a survival technique [...]
Their study provides a three-dimensional snapshot of the enzyme basil Eugenol Synthase frozen in mid-action as it produces eugenol, the fragrant molecule responsible for basil’s spicy overtones reminiscent of cloves and cinnamon.
This particular enzyme is very interesting since it belongs to a large family of enzymes that perform what we call ‘household reactions’ but, through [...]
It is as much a part of Kiwi culture as stealing the dead is with East Cape whanau. We possess an adolescent, anti-authoritarian streak that enjoys pricking the puffery of the pompous, if never quite being sure of time or place.
We recognise all the post-modern symptoms of such yobbishness in our kids behaviour. The binge [...]
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