Deliberate Self Harm Is An Overlooked Tragedy In The Developing World
... They suggest that research to find ways to reduce deliberate self harm is just as urgently required as attempts...e under the age of 30. For most of the youngsters deliberate harm seemed to be a means of dealing with a difficult situation and they did not really intend to ki...AAAS Report Attributes Majority Of Killings In Guatemala To State
...lings and disappearances to the state as part of a deliberate government policy of extra-judicial killing, and l...l class, continues to evade responsibility for its deliberate long-termpolicy of extra-judicial murder, even for the army's well-planned early 1980sscorched earth...Research Reveals Environmental Injustice In N.C. Communities With Large Hog Farms
...nd in the hogindustry does not necessarily reflect deliberate racist attitudes, but ratherinstitutional factors and lack of political influence, he said. The result is asystem that favors whiter and wealthier communities at the expense of others. The UNC-CH scientist believes the study is the first to i...Suppression Of Natural Fires Harms Squirrels
... Now the dog chow-fed squirrels are part of a deliberate experiment bythe Idaho Department of Fish and Game, the U.S. Forest Service and researchersfrom Cornell and Albertson College: -- Controlled, "cool" fires are set to burn off non-native vegetationand underbrush that blocks the ground squirrel...Invasive fishes pose increasing threat to U.S. waters and native fishes, says USGS
...native fish in the UnitedStates were introduced by deliberate stocking, others have spread throughreleases of live bait or unwanted aquarium pets, or arrived in ballast waterdischarged from ships. The new book provides detailed information on more than 500 non-native fishspecies, including methods of introduct...Plant pathologists to discuss anti-crop bioterrorism and food security, August 1999
...nt diseases could reducethe destructive effects of deliberate pathogen releases," says Bob Forster,University of Idaho Research and Extension Center. Forster, Leach and Schaad as well as Thomas Frazier, GenCon; Wallace Deen,private consultant; David Huxsoll, Louisiana State University; Larry Madden,Ohio State ...USGS studies wildfire ecology in the western United States
...h humans have long shaped their landscapes through deliberate use of fire, Allen says fire patterns in the Southwest have largely been driven by the region's weather patterns. "Human ignitions were probably less important here than in most places on the planet," he says. Recent data show that the Jemez Mountain...Researchers show that proteins can transmit heritable traits
...st discovery of a new yeast prion resulting from a deliberate search. The current known yeast prions had been found accidentally. Lindquist and Sondheimer used a stringent set of molecular criteria in their search for candidate yeast prions, and their experiments pinpointed a likely candidate, called Rnq1. ...Nature's path leads scientists to new antibiotic strategy
... a radical new path that may lead to the rational, deliberate design of clinically useful molecules like antibiotics." The design of the new antibacterial agents involved mimicry of naturally-occurring peptides that ward off microbial invasion. Peptides are composed of alpha-amino acids which also are t...Biological warfare: an emerging threat in the 21st century
...gue and other pathogens. Evidence also exists of a deliberate tularemia - or rabbit fever - attack by Soviet forces against German troops in 1942, although some experts say the incident never occurred. After World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union launched full-scale bioweapons programs, which incl...Putting randomness to work: unique form of nanoscale random motion may drive key cellular functions
... "heads" to walk along the microtubule paths in a deliberate way, fueled by the energy molecule adenosine triphosphate (ATP). But in a paper published in May issue of the journal Physical Review E , Georgia Institute of Technology physicist Ronald Fox argues that what appears to be a walk along...Terrorist threats to agriculture studied
...n of the food and fiber supply. Bioterrorism, the deliberate release of toxins or infectious organisms, has been studied by national experts for years. The threat to the U.S. food supply and its underlying agricultural industry has more recently been recognized, heightened by the attacks on Sept. 11. "The eff...Gene therapy and sickle cell disease: Religious perspectives
... will be made available for it to proceed with all deliberate speed. 2. Rev. Demetrios Demopulos (Ph.D. in genetics) is the parish priest of Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church and teaches at Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology, Brookline, MA. 978-342-1216 or 978-342-9015. An obvious appli...... from prescribed burning. Prescribed burning--the deliberate setting of fires under controlled conditions--is used to treat some 6 to 8 million acres in the South each year. About half this area is burned for forest management, the remainder for agricultural and range purposes. Southern land managers recognize...Transplant patients from 40 years ago cause Pittsburgh doctors to take an about-face
...ng process begins. A similar strategy, without the deliberate attempt to wean, was in place 40 years ago. Seven of nine recipients of living-donor kidney transplants from that era have been off all anti-rejection drugs for between two and one-half and 38 years. Some stopped taking the drugs on their own. Others...Scientists discover role for Cdk4 in making cells cancer resistant
...uppressor pathway is disabled in human tumors, the deliberate suppression of Cdk4 activity may provide an alternate point of entry for doctors to regulate the cell growth cycle and halt tumorigenesis....Tribal warfare: Revenge, retaliation, deterrence
..., there is often unbridled blood revenge and often deliberate atrocity, he said. Exterminating the adversary may be the goal. But revenge does not need a label to make it what it is, according to James Boster, an anthropology professor at the University of Connecticut. Boster studied the Waorani, a tribe in eas...HHS announces contracts to develop safer smallpox vaccines
...es from the remote but extremely grave threat of a deliberate release of smallpox virus, we need a vaccine that can be safely given to all Americans, including individuals with weakened immune systems, children and pregnant women, said Secretary Thompson. The new contracts will help us meet this need by acceler......prove the nation's ability to combat accidental or deliberate introductions of plant diseases. The BESC/CoFARM breakfast event honoring Chairman Smith also featured a short session presented by Adrienne Froelich, Director of Public Policy at the American Institute of Biological Sciences and Co-Chair of BESC. M...