Health care rationing in Germany
... age-specific cost patterns are caused by clinical decision making. For example: age is an indicator of probability of death, and a death that occurs during treatment might be considered a medical failure. Furthermore, there is less knowledge about the treatment of older patients and the most elderly. Like ba...UN Foundation & Conservation International forge $15M partnership to protect global biodiversity
...na International led to the Cambodian government's decision to designate a 1,000,000-acre (402,000-hectare) area in southwestern Cambodia's Central Cardamom Mountains as a protected area. The Cardamoms, which Cambodia plans to nominate as a World Heritage site, are home to most of Cambodia's large mammals an...Transgenic rice for human benefit: a religious perspective
...benefits of the biotechnology revolution. "Their decision to patent their work but then to release it to the public domain deserves high praise. This is a bold, life-affirming decision. The benefits of their breakthrough are likely to touch the world's neediest people, those whose very existence is threat...Scripps Institution researchers develop new approach for designing marine reserves
... Science , could become a powerful new method for decision makers charged with developing marine reserves and...utions, they say, can be adjusted and presented to decision makers who can then evaluate the costs and benefits of different management options within socioecon...European scholars support development of germ line modification
...ft to the mechanisms of the free market. 4. A fair decision making process This implies good information and c... of all relevant stakeholders in different ways of decision making. 5. The promotion of meaning and meaningful life No interpretation of human dignity has bee...Science picks-leads, feeds and story seeds (January 2003)
...ng plans for water management or flood mitigation, decision makers need to consider that future streamflow conditions may be different from past conditions. Check out the study at http://ks.water.usgs.gov/Kansas/pubs/reports/dmw.grl.v29.html . Butch Kinerney ( bkinerney@usgs.gov ) 703-648-4460 FEEDS Abst...Prehistoric NW Indians hunted fur seals of sustainable basis
...necessarily shows that the people made a conscious decision to conserve fur seals. They were taking animals of every size and hitting the animals hard. But if you try to figure out if a particular harvesting practice represents intentional resource conservation based on the archaeological record, you start ...Young plant's natural defenses amount to more than just its seed
...not for the shelter of its seed. Consequently, the decision to shed this weatherproof coat in order to begin to grow is perhaps the most critical a plant will ever make: once it stretches its fragile stem up toward the sky, there's no turning back to the safe haven of the seed. Yet, growing up may not be quit...The war against anti-aging medicine
...st their efforts in pointing out to the public and decision makers the potential health benefits to be realized from their own research in the decades ahead, such as active longevity free from disability and functional dependence....Story tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory February 2003
.... . Ecological models and other tools available to decision makers can vastly reduce the environmental impacts of new roads, according to Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Virginia Dale, one of the authors of two recently released books. In the past, environmental impacts of new roads were often considered too ...High-density storage of nuclear waste heightens terrorism risks
...nough waste to relieve the water tank density. The decision whether to reconfigure the spent fuel storage systems comes down to a cost-benefit analysis, von Hippel said. Even without the possibility of terrorism, the opportunity to reduce the risk of more conventional mishaps would justify the expense under m...What to plant when the fires go out
...ted for the great plains." Much is at stake in the decision regarding what and where to plant, as plant life plays a crucial role in the severity and duration, and even the type, of conflagrations that consumed 6 million acres of western lands in 2002. "Grassy lands are critical to making very frequent, relat...Meeting the nitrogen management challenge: Arresting the nitrogen cascade
...ists, economists, engineers, business leaders, and decision makers." Improved Nitrogen Management The majority of human-produced reactive nitrogen comes from the Haber-Bosch process to produce fertilizer. It is also created by livestock, fossil fuel and biomass combustion, and chemical production and was...Pregnancy prevention efforts rely on neighborhood ties
...hild Advocacy, which promotes personal assets like decision making skills and positive peer role models as its overarching prevention strategy. Central city areas were chosen that had high teen birth rates and racial and ethnic diversity, including concentrations of Vietnamese, Hispanic, African-American, Nat...High-risk women welcome genetic testing for breast cancer gene
...ral Oncology at Penn. "In fact, in many cases the decision to pursue genetic testing may be a healthful and constructive way to cope with the threat of cancer." The study by Coyne and his colleagues has recently been published in American Journal of Medical Genetics. Although most breast cancer is not caus...Rockefeller scientists identify 'natural' proteins that push stem cells to produce hair, not skin
...ively called the cytoskeleton, are involved in the decision to change that shape to form hair follicles. Before stem cells differentiate, they are locked together in tight sheets, zipped to one another. The protein that forms the "teeth" of these zippers is known as E-cadherin; it sticks outside the membrane ...... "Rejection takes a long time, so the clutch-size decision is made while the parasitic eggs are still in the nest," Lyon said. "That means they are not using a touch cue. These birds are looking at their nests and counting only those eggs they recognize as their own to make a clutch-size decision." Lyon note...Initiative launched for computer science
... first 16 junior scientists has already begun. The decision to launch the programme was taken by the responsible DFG grants committee at its meeting on December 6th. The plan of action aims to provide an attractive opportunity for young computer scientists with a PhD to swiftly qualify for a professorship in ...AACR reschedules annual meeting for July 11-14 in Washington, D.C.
...ashington Convention Center in Washington, DC. The decision to reschedule the meeting came after a large majority of registrants, abstract presenters and invited speakers -- surveyed over the past week by the Association -- said they would like to move forward as soon as possible with the Annual Meeting. "I a...Exploring the sights and sounds of a deepwater coral marine protected area off Florida
... Habitat Area of Particular Concern (OHAPC). This decision was heavily influenced by years of work at the site by HBOI researcher John Reed, who will be chief scientist on this year's expedition. In 1994, the OHAPC was closed to all bottom fishing except trolling for pelagic fish, and in 2000 the area was ex...