Potential for enhanced sequestration of carbon in soils supports evaluations
...he range of possible costs and benefits that could accrue from adopting land-management practices designed to increase the uptake of carbon dioxide by soils. The increasing concentration of carbon dioxide in the earth's atmosphere contributes to ongoing global warming that is causing ecological disruption a...Third set of awards are announced under interagency biodiversity program
...earch process and products are equitably sharedand accrue to local institutions and communities involved. Contributions from pharmaceutical and agroscience companies include screening for therapeutic potential, trainingopportunities, technology donations, financial support, and royalties from the sale of an...Teenage pregnancy may put girls at risk for osteoporosis
...nt adults. Unlike adult women, however, girls must accrue forty percent of their total bone mass during adolescence. Girls who consumed more calcium during pregnancy showed less bone loss when tested post-partum than those with poor or average calcium intakes. A related study by this research group also fou...Mapping a road to understanding human health
...ay, we anticipate the maximum medical benefit will accrue in the most rapid fashion." The HapMap Project is an international collaboration involving researchers in the United States, Canada, China, Japan, Nigeria, and the United Kingdom. The results generated will be applicable to all human populations, and...Pregnant African American teens need more calcium for healthy fetal bone development
...t achieved peak bone mass, and must simultaneously accrue bone and accommodate the skeletal development of their fetus. Competition for calcium between the teenage mom and her baby may influence fetal skeletal consolidation. "The femur is the longest and fastest growing bone in the fetus. Its length is typi...Fungi help some trees weather acid rain, not all
...ardwoods, such as oaks. And a lesser benefit might accrue to trees species with the "wrong" type of root fungi -- including ash, basswood and maples -- if they are growing nearby in mixed-species forests, simply because they are close enough to share calcium mined by other trees' mycorrhizae, Cornell's Fahe...Of 101 neonates at a New Jersey hospital, 40 percent test positive for drugs of abuse
...n are necessary, the researchers say. The benefits accrue not only to the mothers health and the infants well-being, but to the community at large since the costs associated with delivering and caring for a newborn that has not been exposed to drugs of abuse are significantly less than the costs associated ...Women with vaginal cancer likely to have been exposed to HPV-16, the virus that causes genital warts
... of the rarity of the disease, it has been hard to accrue enough women to conduct a meaningful study," said Daling, also a professor of epidemiology at the UW School of Public Health and Community Medicine. The new study included 156 western Washington women with squamous cell in situ (non-invasive) or inva......ic incentives for supporting conservation that may accrue from tourism, employment or other forms of economic development associated with parks. "Also, if you constantly rely on monetary benefits to the neighboring communities for conservation, you're in deep trouble, because someone is always going to com...