A man has died of dengue in Delhi the first fatality due to the disease in 2011, officials said Saturday.

According to the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD), a total of six cases have been reported in the capital so far this season since the first was detected at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) March 3.

One dengue death has been reported from Sir Ganga Ram Hospital Saturday, MCD health officer N.K. Yadav told IANS.

According MCD health committee chairman V.K. Monga, the man passed away at the Ganga Ram hospital July 9 but the MCD received the notification only on Saturday.

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“It is not a mystery that exercise and nutrition help slow the aging process,” said Benjamin F. Miller, Ph.D., a researcher involved in the work from the Department of Health and Exercise Science at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado. “Studies such as ours help to explain how exercise and nutrition work so that we can better take advantage of those pathways to slow the aging process.”

To make this discovery, scientists recruited 16 participants age 37 and older and instructed them to exercise on treadmills for 45 minutes three times a week for six weeks. After each bout of exercise, one group was given a protein drink and another group was given a carbohydrate drink.

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The study led by Deborah Feltz, chairperson of MSU’s Department of Kinesiology, is the first to investigate the Kohler effect on motivation in health video games; that phenomenon explains why inferior team members perform better in a group than they would by themselves.

The research, to be published in an upcoming edition of the Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, was funded by a 150,000 grant from Health Games Research, a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Pioneer Portfolio.

“Our results suggest working out with virtually present, superior partners can improve motivation on exercise game tasks,” Feltz said.

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By changing its colour in the presence of particular gases, Rhodium can warn consumers if packaged food has been tampered with.

This finding could potentially influence the production of both industrial and commercial air quality sensors.

We initially found out by accident that modified rhodium reacts in a colourful way to different gases, says Cathleen Crudden, chemistry professor at Queens Univeristy, Ontario. That happy accident has become a driving force in our work with rhodium.

Rhodium that is modified using carbon, nitrogen or hydrogen-based complexes changes to yellow in the presence of nitrogen, deep blue in the presence of oxygen, and brown in the presence of carbon monoxide, according to a Queens statement.

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