View of forest insects changing from pests to partners
...nce to plant growth and survival, and this type of moderate herbivory clearly should not be "fought" with costly controls. Wood production in western U.S. pine forests reached or exceeded pre-attack levels 10-15 years following mountain pine beetle outbreaks, research has shown, and the more an individual Dou......ble of being scaled up to commercial production at moderate cost, being applied as a paint or coating. The goal is to make any common surface capable of killing airborne bacteria....Smallest silicon particles light way for new sensors, materials
...d in solar cell applications. Using white light of moderate intensity from a tungsten source, Buriak and her team created excitons in the laboratory by exposing wafers made of nanocrystalline silicon to the light for 30 to 60 minutes in the presence of alkenes or alkynes, chemicals compounds that contain hydr...APS August/September journal hot picks
...Female Elite Runners Summary: Acclimatization to moderate high altitude, accompanied by training at low alti...rs concluded that four weeks of acclimatization to moderate altitude, accompanied by high-intensity training at low altitude, improves sea-level endurance perfo...Probing the role of the delta opioid receptor in alcohol consumption
...ol reward and reinforcement. Opioids are known to moderate the activity of dopamine pathways, and it is possible that alcohol addiction is partly associated with alterations in opiate receptor-mediated processes. Animal and human studies documenting reductions in alcohol consumption by treatment with naltre...Studies offer data on potential impact of Reminyl on caregiver 'burden' in Alzheimer's disease
...) the newest medication approved to treat mild to moderate Alzheimers disease can ease the burden on family ...ded in the analysis were 435 patients with mild to moderate Alzheimer's disease who had been randomly assigned to receive either 24 mg of Reminyl daily (220) or...Changes in Lake Erie fish population suggest lake's recovery
...t diversity reached a peak with moderate levels of phosphorus, and declined as ...n as possible, and walleye like moderate levels of phosphorus in their habitat. So we've seen a decline in walleye in the ...Nature's chemical weapons save lives
...antation," Romo said. "Such compounds are given to moderate the activity of the immune system so that the body does not reject the organ." Romo's group completed a total synthesis of Pateamine A in 1998, putting together this complex molecule bond by bond from simple and commercially available starting materi...Pregnant women who drink moderate to heavy amounts place their offspring at risk for... particularly damaging. A new study has found that moderate alcohol exposure during early pregnancy may be just as damaging to neurobehavioral development as co...Study detailing safety and efficacy of exisulind in treating recurrent prostate cancer
...nfection. Elevations of liver enzymes were mild to moderate in severity, generally occurred early in therapy a...ind treatment and most adverse events were mild or moderate and reversible. At the end of the study, investigators allowed those patients who had remained on tr...Texas tortoise and cattle can co-exist
...Kazmaier and his colleagues studied the effects of moderate grazing on the Texas tortoise, which lives primari... and ungrazed pastures, and so concluded that this moderate grazing regime has little if any effect on them. However, the researchers stressed that there are s...BioMed Central to consider charging authors for paper submissions
... currently assessing the possibility of charging a moderate fee of about $500 for publication. Authors would o.... These are often much more then $500. By paying a moderate charge to cover the cost of publication, which in turn will fund open access, scientists will be con...Climate change puts food production at risk
...le most developed nations are likely to experience moderate to large increases in crop productivity, some (including Belgium, the Netherlands, the UK and Australia) could experience food production losses, says the report....Asthmatic blacks get less high-quality asthma care
...rity. The group included individuals with at least moderate asthma symptoms and was 14 percent African American and 72 percent female. Roughly 35 percent of African Americans reported using inhaled corticosteroids daily, compared to 54 percent of whites. Forty-two percent of African-Americans had enough infor...Biologists discover protein's impace on plant-water balance
...n dioxide for photosynthesis. Guard cells thereby moderate the amount of water and carbon dioxide in the plants. Researchers Sarah M. Assmann, professor of biology at Penn State, and Xi-Qing Wang, a postdoctoral scholar at Penn State, along with collaborators at the University of North Carolina, discovered ...Microbes and the dust they ride in on pose potential health risks
...louds move over open water in lower latitudes, the moderate temperatures and high humidity are known to enhance microbial survival." Florida receives more than 50 percent of all microbe-laden African dust that reaches the United States. Over the last 25 years, dust quantities reaching Miami have increased dur...Somatostatin in sexually dimorphic gene expression
...liver in males is presumably exposed to at least a moderate level of the hormone at all times. The SST mutation leads to a feminized pattern of gene expression in the livers of males, but it has no dramatic effect on the expression pattern in livers of females. Surprisingly, the males and females in this mu...Study finds nonviral gene therapy for severe hemophilia a is safe with early signs of benefit
.... People with 1 to 5 percent of normal levels have moderate hemophilia, and those with greater than 5 percent ...ent by transforming his disease from a severe to a moderate or mild form."...Disturbance can benefit some rare forest plants
...c pioneers that colonize cleared areas. Why would moderate human disturbance be good for endemic plants? Ende... human disturbance. "My observation suggests that moderate use of tropical forests may be compatible with the conservation of endemic plant species," says Kess......romycin, have been used for over 20 years to treat moderate and severe forms of acne. The use of antibiotics has been connected to the development of antibiotic resistance in other bacteria, and the researchers sought to determine if that was also occurring in P. acnes. In the study presented at the ASM Mee...