Conservation under the shade coffee canopy: ant-bird interactions in Panama croplands
...abundance of ant swarms was high enough to support numerous kinds of birds. Also, Nearctic migrants that winter in Panama or migrate through the area composed a greater percentage of the attendant species in shade coffee habitats than in forests. Areas of shade grown coffee which were distant from the intact...Defense Department awards Stanford nearly $5.3 million for a 'revolutionary' biosciences project
...g on a mathematical model to represent and analyze numerous aircraft taking off and landing simultaneously," she says. "We can apply a similar model based on mathematical principles to various biological activities. For example, we'll be looking at the mechanisms by which cells grow and divide, how genes swit...Study appears to show why muscle decays mysteriously in cancer, AIDS, other illnesses
..., AIDS, late-stage heart disease, severe burns and numerous chronic diseases. Their research focuses on cachexia, an important syndrome they say doctors know well but which is largely unfamiliar to lay people, and could lead to an effective treatment for the condition. Cachexia, which kills an estimated one ......tion, the two institutions may be able to identify numerous organisms with health or commercial benefits, Rouse said. The MMS was established in 1982 to oversee the development of the nation's energy and mineral resources while safeguarding the environment. The agency is also in charge of collecting and di...UNC-CH study offers new evidence that garlic protects against cancers
...was a meta-analysis, a mathematical combination of numerous other studies to develop a clearer picture of such issues as cancer and heart disease. They reviewed 300 scientific papers related to diet and cancer and then combined and analyzed data from 22 describing the best, most relevant human research relate...Bio-X awards $3 million in grants for imaginative interdisciplinary research and education projects
... because of their amazing beauty, but also for the numerous marine organisms that comprise a reef`s ecological community. Coral reefs are comparable to terrestrial rain forests in terms of productivity and their immense diversity.`` Some researchers believe that coral reefs contribute to global warming by rel......tissue. The researchers have continued to document numerous unexpected behaviors, and one of the strangest may be "filial cannibalism." Scientists had suspected for years that some nest-guarding fish were actually eating their own offspring, though the reasons seemed obscure from an evolutionary point of view...Biocomplexity study in Lake Ontario bays and lagoons
... the Lake Ontario project. "The connections among numerous processes and pieces that result in familiar envir... basins. They are considered to be typical of the numerous freshwater bays throughout the Great Lakes that are associated with extensive wetlands and human se...Economic realities depleting arsenal of antiparasitic drugs
... resume production, but White and Moore have found numerous similar instances where effective drugs are no longer being made available in the United States, and sometimes worldwide, because they are not economically viable. In one case they found a drug still being used that hasn't been in production for ov...... memory, they deal with sequencing, initiation and numerous other higher order functions with which the dorsolateal cortex is involved." Luckily, her old college roommate, Marian Everett, was a member of a golfing and bridge club in Orinda, so Diamond approached her about finding a group of 12 players. "The...Raven one of 12 to receive National Medal of Science
...arch and Exploration. Raven is the recipient of numerous prizes and awards, including the prestigious International Prize for Biology from the government of Japan; Environmental Prize of the Institut de la Vie; Volvo Environment Prize; Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement; and the Saskawa Environment ...Fossil teeth of extinct North American rhinos reveal an aquatic lifestyle similar to modern hippos
...Ashfall site, where paleontologists have uncovered numerous intact skeletons of North America's ancient fauna. Clementz found much less variability in the oxygen isotope compositions of Teleoceras teeth than in other animals, as would be expected for a semi-aquatic mammal. At two other sites, Clementz foun...Mammalian telomere maintenance
...mere end fusion. Mouse cells that lack Ku develop numerous chromosome fusions. Ku works at the mammalian telomere in a functionally distinct manner from its action at double stranded breaks. Understanding the surprising association of Ku with the mammalian telomere is a primary step in understanding the de...Linear algorithm for sequence analysis
... stratigraphic sequences in geology; numerous applications in linguistics; studies of interaction, the life course, and individual and institutional careers, among many others, in sociology, and so on. The dynamic programming algorithm is a power...Hyporheic zone appears key to nitrogen remediation in streams
...l streams may be very important, since they are so numerous and cover such a large area. Thomas presented the first year's research results at the Geological Society of America's meeting in Reno in November....Cold water off Brazil might be causing Argentine penguin nest failures
...ome have been rescued by biologists, but there are numerous reports of people keeping them as pets and even placing the flightless birds inside refrigerators to keep them more comfortable, a mistaken notion that is likely to cause hypothermia. In addition, many more dead penguins have washed up on Brazilian b...Game of life allows all mating strategies
...they never guarded. Most vulnerable were the more numerous females in the orange throats' vast territories. ...es somewhat from year to year): • The more numerous bullies were successfully producing young with their genes, including the next generation of bully m......ther explore the safety and efficacy of LDP-341 in numerous clinical trials as both a single agent and in comb... Selective inhibition of proteasome activity has numerous effects, including attenuating the activity of NF-kB, the transcription factor that controls cellula...Crystal structure of protein interaction could lead to new drugs against cancer
...f these proteins in your body that are controlling numerous functions, depending on whether they're switched 'on' or 'off'." The UNC researcher studies the Rho family of G proteins, which normally help regulate such important functions as cell shape, division, movement, proliferation - virtually every aspec......eanographic Institution, show that the field hosts numerous active and inactive hydrothermal vents. The steep-sided, 180-foot-tall deposits are composed of multiple spires that reach 30 feet in width at their tops. They are commonly capped by white, feathery hydrothermal precipitates. The tops and sides of t...