Urban Restorer Sees Trash Trees, Beetles As Signs Of Hope
... with people, as a living slag pile." The plan is to try to convert the area to something more suitable forhuman compatibility by enhancing biodiversity, reintroducing native species andworking with and revealing the natural processes underway in the area. "Nobody else is using this kind ...UCSF Research Team Looking For Volunteers For Nationwide Study On Family Traits And Alcoholism
... project originally was launched in January with a plan to enroll volunteersonly from the San Francisco Bay Area, but phone interviews with participantsproved so successful that the study has now been expanded nationwide. "Werealized that we don't have to be restricted by geography, which means a widerre......ch causes bloating and discomfort. The researchers plan to seek FDA approval for an enteric-coated capsule for divers to use....Jet Stream Studied In West African Drought
...79 to switch thearea into drought. The researchers plan to look at the effects of El Nino, theNorth American Oscillation and other phenomenon to see how they affect the jetsand the drought in the Sahel. They would also like to look at the easterlyatmospheric waves that bring most of the rainfall and rain ...Stakeholders improve global change assessment
...y information onclimate change. Few water managers plan further than five years into the future. The Mid-Atlantic Region includes Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Maryland,Delaware, Virginia, the District of Columbia, northeastern North Carolina,southern and western New Jersey, and southcentral New Y......In other words, "These algorithmscan't predict and plan ahead for the increased blood-sugar levels that canoccur after a diabetic patient eats," he explains. As a result, he says, patients may experience many hours of very high or lowsugar levels before returning to a normal state. The UD system more pre...Horseshoe crab studies providing new insight into valuable ancient creatures
...arine Fisheries Commission implemented amanagement plan for the species along the Atlantic Coast. Adopted lastOctober, the plan calls for the collection of information necessary tomanage the horseshoe crab fishery and to insure ...Roundworm studies yield new insight into organ formation
...on of the worm metalloprotease, Blelloch andKimble plan to study a similar enzyme in mice that has been im...in mouse cells," said Kimble. The scientists also plan to insert the worm gene into other tissues in theworm itself in order to determine whether and how t...Gene triggers formation of sensory cells in the ear
... cells. In their next experiments, the scientists plan to explore whether Math1 can somehow be introduced into mature inner ear cells - perhapsusing a harmless virus - to regrow hair cells lost to disease or aging. "The art is to deliver the gene to the proper cell at the proper time and atthe right co...New unified dietary guidelines offer nutritional protection against wide range of killer diseases
...nizations have bandedtogether to endorse an eating plan designed to help stave off the diseases thatkill most people: heart disease, stroke, cancer and diabetes. The guidelineswill be published in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association. In the past, each health agency had its own nutritio...Biomedical engineers working to help kids with special needs
...r, the graduate students have made eight beads and plan to make atleast four more, each containing micro-circuitry, speakers, lights and arechargeable battery, he said. Some also contain vibrators. "This was actually a very technically difficult project, and I wasimpressed at how well our students...Stimulation technique holds new promise for spinal cord injuries
...level are alive. That is where the CWRUresearchers plan to put the neural prosthetic device. "The idea is to put electrodes below the spinal injury to artificially re-establish the communications link from the brain,"Grill said. Injuries that are farther up the spinal cord cause greater loss of function. ...Malaria called failure, puzzle and challenge
...to Dr. Renato Gusmao, malariaexpert for PAHO. The plan aims to reduce malaria incidence by controllingtransmission, using community health workers to help diagnose and treat thedisease. PAHO Director Dr. George Alleyne says that "Despite earlier successes inshrinking the disease's geographical boundarie...Technotes -- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory's summer news tipsheet
...at the Sequimlaboratory for two years as part of a plan to supplement eelgrass populations inthe Puget Sound near Seattle, Wash. Eelgrass beds are a resting, foraging andhiding place for juvenile salmon and have been disappearing in the Puget Sound. The greenhouse will allow researchers to test how well ...Scientists grow blood-producing stem cells outside the body
...eality." As a next step, the UW scientists plan to begin studying this blood stemcell multiplication technique in baboons. Human culture studies are under way.If these studies are successful, trials in humans may follow. One reason the connection between stem cell growth and TPO has goneun...NCAR scientists seek clues to wildfires during Alaska prescribed burn
...nditions for igniting the burn The Frostfire burn plan puts public health and safety foremost (see www.fsl.orst.edu/fera/burnplan.html ). Each day the Alaska FireService will make the "go/no-go" decision on ignition according tocurrent and predicted weather conditions and administrativeconsiderations suc...USGS scientist awarded prestigious Marine Conservation Fellowship
Providing a plan to help resource managers restore the Bering Sea and North Pacific ecosystem is a task research scientist Jim Estes of the U.S. Geological Survey will pursue during the next four years with funding help from a 1999 Pew Marine Conserva...Is your diet making you lose more than weight?
...s that women who want to lose a few pounds need to plan their weight lossprograms carefully to avoid long-term problems like osteoporosis. A recent study in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition found that a lifestyle intervention program utilizing a low-fatdiet combined with moderate exercise resul...World's biodiversity becoming extinct at levels rivaling Earth's past 'mass extinctions'
...rding to Raven. The paper outlines an seven-point plan to slow the extinction rates of plantsaround the world. It suggests that a major United Nations-sponsored conferenceon this topic could move these steps into country-by-country actions. "All plants are important in one way or another and this compr...New methodology reduces costs of monitoring contaminated sites
...eral plume-interpolation modules, and a monitoring plan selectionprocess that uses a genetic algorithm. "T...c algorithm then assigns each candidate monitoring plan a "fitness"based on both cost and error, where the erroris determined by the absolute difference bet...