Screensavers of the world, unite!
... for individuals and teams to help foster friendly competition and generate more interest in running the software,`` Pande says. Team Egg Roll is now in second place, having reached 10,000 folding days, but it lags far behind the top-ranked team, Nerdz, whose members have clocked 17,000 days - or about 47 y...Researchers craft model that provides reasons for climate-change observations
... plants. The model incorporates variables such as competition for resources and population density, which, the authors emphasize, are also factors likely to change with climate. In each of the specieswood anemone, hepatica, and colt's footthe model shows plants bloomed earlier after warmer winters because of ...Genomics research promises to make hogs less piggy
...or in chickens. In that research, he detected that competition for food had a significant effect on animal survival and production. Through that work, he discovered major genes for behavior in vertebrates. "These genes arent used in hog breeding programs," Muir says. "They are concerned about behavior in breedi...Baboon studies suggest strategies for coping with stress
...s hormones help baboons deal with harsh realities: competition for sexual partners and aggression from bullies, coalitions or beaten animals looking for a third party to pummel. But over the long term, aggression and even psychological stress itself can exact a toll in the form of elevated stress-hormone levels,...All specialized insect predators not suitable for biological control
...ation for this lack of coupling lies in the strong competition between large larvae. While the wasps attack older larvae, the virus infects younger larvae and the virus-induced mortality is partially compensated for by meal moths that survive to adulthood. While the virus does affect the meal moth, it does not f...Dried cells, tissues could solve biological materials storage, transport problems
... for up to three MURI graduate research fellows. A competition amongst MURI awardees will be conducted in April for the equipment and research fellow funds. In addition to Potts and Helm, collaborators are Tom Sitz of biochemistry and Lenwood Heath and Naren Ramakrishnan of computer science, all of Virgini...Competing fruit flies show evolution in action
...phila melanogaster, Bolnick has shown that intense competition between members of the same species can drive some...Bolnick. In a big environment such as a continent, competition with other species is more important. But when a species -- for example, a finch -- enters an enviro...Tree biomass is the same in tropic or temperate climes
... the model simulates tree growth, reproduction and competition for space and sunlight, "you see them grow and die before your eyes, and you see their community expand and contract until it reaches equilibrium," says Niklas. Once the virtual forest reaches a stable state of death and birth, it exhibits the same p...Janet Ginsburg receives microbiology communications award
...nderstanding of microbiology. Judging this year's competition were Joe Neel of National Public Radio, Sally Squi...the award-winning article.Runner-up in this year's competition is Daniel Haney of the Associated Press for his story, "Eliminating Syphilis," about the federal pla...Deregulation will cause significant fluctuations in electricity prices, new study reveals
...that all states will adopt policies that encourage competition and allow flexible prices. So far, 24 states have legislated restructuring programs, including New York, Pennsylvania and Texas. England, Wales, Norway, Australia and other countries also have implemented deregulation plans. Transmission capacity Ha......tiple endosymbionts are assumed to be rare because competition between symbionts could be harmful to the host, suggesting that in most symbioses three is a crowd. Dr. Nicole Dubilier and her colleagues at the Max Planck Institute for Marine Micorbiology in Bremen have discovered a unique type of symbiosis that c...Science study shows age, sex, weather, factors in fluctuating Soay Sheep population
...dings show for the first time, by figuring out how competition for food, weather, and population structure intera...e shown that to do this, one needs to consider how competition between animals, weather and the structure of the population are linked," Coulson said. The m...ASM receives awards for PR excellence
...ions Advance America Honor Roll, a national awards competition sponsored by ASAE, Washington, DC, for its Clean Hands Campaign. Now in its 11th year, the Associations Advance America Awards program recognizes associations that propel America forward with innovative projects in education, skills training, standar......on Agency. The awards resulted from a national competition of research projects to investigate the causes of ...cts represent the best of a national peer-reviewed competition to address an issue of fundamental concern to our nation's ability to ensure sustainable management ...Biting may drive division of labor among social wasp workers
...he wasps, Polybia occidentalis, was not related to competition over reproduction or to body size. This suggests that biting and other interactions in this and similar species may be an important means of regulating the division of labor in insect colonies, he said. O'Donnell's findings, published in the curr...Mass extinction at the Triassic-Jurassic boundary
...hibians? Whatever it was, it shot down much of the competition so dinosaurs could later dominate the Earth. "The Triassic-Jurassic boundary extinction event is one of the 'big five'mass extinctions of the Phanerozoic Eon, profoundly affecting life on landand in the oceans," explained Lawrence Tanner, a Professor...Book examines ethical, advocacy issues in biomedical research
... the limits of research, Dresser says. To minimize competition and questionable decision-making in research funding, they could expand their view to encompass the best interests of numerous patient groups and broader societal concerns, including greater access to standard health care....A closer look at the genomes black holes
... continuous evolution is being driven by a sort of competition among centromeric DNA that occurs during meiosis in the egg. Three of the four products of meiosis are discarded, and only one survives to become the oocyte nucleus. The "winning" centromeres are those whose chromosomes may show even a slight advanta...Whitaker Foundation to phase out grant programs
...ortunity Awards in Biomedical Engineering One more competition will be held for these three-yearinstitutional awards to develop and enhance educationalprograms. The deadline for preliminary applications is March15, 2002. Biomedical Engineering Research Grants Four more competitions will be held for these grants...... trees, control crowding, reduce stress and lessen competition for water and nutrients, the researchers found. Some levels of insect herbivory, or plant-eating, may even be good for trees and forests, and in the long run produce as much or more tree growth. "There is now evidence that in many cases forests are ...