Bush signs; ozone treatment for ballast water; wetland restoration template goes national
...rs Herwig. "Its great to be part of a team thats addressing the issues of ballast water introductions before they become problems too vast to control. CONTACT: Russell Herwig, Washington Sea Grant Marine Ballast Water Specialist, Email: herwig@u.washington.edu ; Phone: 206-685-2163 OREGON WATERSHED RESTOR...Media alert: press briefings and special sessions at the GSA's Annual Meeting
...om state and national levels within the context of addressing elder abuse. Implications for the social work comm..., Bruce Carnes, S. Jay Olshansky, and Harry Moody, addressing disease vs. aging as cause of death and the need for a "pathology of aging." 9:30 11:00 a.m. New H...Artificial intelligence, swimmer detectors, and blast resistant structures
...o develop advanced composite structures for ships, addressing critical issues regarding the integrity of load-bearing structures and joints, as well as structural integrity following fire damage. Another project will develop fiber-optic sensors for ship structure corrosion monitoring, in support of Navy's prog...International consortium launches genetic variation mapping project
...bilt University, who is chair of the group that is addressing the project's ethical and social issues. "For the HapMap project, we have devoted a lot of effort to achieving both these goals in order to do truly responsible science." The samples will be processed and then stored at the Coriell Institute for Med...Paleontological data better than expected
...ain qualitative and quantitative data suitable for addressing these questions. We are also contributing our own data collected in our individual field projects," he says. "The fossil record can yield data that can be used to address a variety of questions regarding issues such as changes in diversity or severit...New findings reconfirm toxicity of Pfiesteria cultures
...e findings finally help set the record straight by addressing the widespread misinformation about this issue during the past few months," Burkholder said. "Growing these cultures is very complex and difficult work. We are entirely confident that the strain we have tested, taken from the very same culture they u...Sandia pursues biotechnology as new technology focus area
...loring what the role of biotechnology should be in addressing Sandia's current and future national security mission needs," Napolitano says. "We concluded that biotech at Sandia is inescapable. We were obligated. We couldn't avoid it. And (by the way) it was already here." Among bio-strategy decisions that need...Alzheimer's, nutrition, smallpox, and other 'Human Health Frontiers' addressed by AAAS speakers
...rts to combat bioterrorism, and new approaches for addressing chronic human conditions such as depression, substance abuse, cancer and spinal cord injury, were also discussed. A summary of presentations by topic follows, below. (Journalists, please cite the AAAS Advancing Science seminar as the source of this i...ICSU to establish 'Science for Sustainable Development' programme
... top priority is to take an integrated approach to addressing the economic, environmental and social pillars of sustainable development." In order to achieve this, Professor Lubchenco says ICSU must focus future research efforts on the local level and then take on the challenge of linking local research to reg...NASA researchers developing tools to help track and predict West Nile Virus
...h Science peer review withagencies responsible for addressing national concerns on WestNile Virus. These agencies include the Centers for DiseaseControl and Prevention, National Institutes of Health,Environmental Protection Agency, United States GeologicalSurvey and state health departments....Biological Challenges to Humanity: Emerging and Re-emerging Pathogens
...nomic data and new biotechnologies, scientists are addressing these arising challenges to better understand how pathogens interact with hosts and the environment. The distinguished speakers will discuss the latest results at the forefront of infectious disease research. Each year, the three-day seminar on a top...New physical activity opinion survey demonstrates perceptions do not meet reality
...e the ways schools can be part of the solution for addressing poor diets and sedentary lifestyles. Citing a looming health crisis among the nation's children, Mrs. Laura Bush, Dr. David Satcher and more than 30 national organizations, including NASPE, will develop national, state and local initiatives to create...Emory School of Medicine teams with deCODE Genetics to study link between genes and disease
...ogists will soon begin the first study in the U.S. addressing the STRK1 gene. The research team will examine several hundred Emory stroke patients and characterize them for stroke risk factors, stroke subtype, and STRK1 gene characteristics. DeCODE will conduct the genetic analysis of the Emory patient popula...Framingham heart study finds strong link between overweight/obesity & risk for heart failure
...-up call to a public health problem that we may be addressing 10 to 50 years from now, when these obese youngste...es and regular physical activity being the keys to addressing overweight and obesity problems. He advised that for individuals who do fall into the overweight an...Bioinformatics: The quest for new drugs finds significant profits
...terpretation of data. Many companies are currently addressing the "integration" issue. Standardization is another pressing need. The current situation is analogous to every computer manufacturer using its own operating system, which makes communication between systems exceedingly difficult. "For the field to r...Research shows different races, ethic groups receiving different levels of preventive care
...think that this work tells us is that, when we are addressing disparities in care, we need to look at every leve...we have policies, resources and systematic ways of addressing the disparities."...Common bacteria kills elkhorn coral off Florida keys, says UGA research team
...iority corrective actions and compliance schedules addressing sources of pollution and to restore and maintain the chemical, physical, and biological integrity of the Sanctuary. These findings will bolster ongoing efforts to implement the WQPP and provide improved treatment of wastewater and stormwater in the F......s suggest that this may be the wrong direction for addressing obesity. Availability of food, and not the physiological actions of the body, is the culprit of obesity by choice....Terminator tussle: Controversial technology needed, experts say
...ther way you're manipulating the issue rather than addressing it." When the U.S. Department of Agriculture examined the issue of the Terminator gene in 2000, there was disagreement between the scientists and the environmental groups, says Martin, who was a member of the USDA Agricultural Biotechnology Advisory ......als science and engineering. Work at the center is addressing fundamental issues underlying the design and synthesis of dramatically improved materials through hierarchical assembly, said Schweizer, the Morris Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at the UI and associate director of the center. The ab...