Honeybees In The Wild Nearly Gone In North America
... for beekeepers, Tew said-- honey production. "The price of honey has doubled in the last 18 months,"he said. "In many cases, honeybees will be redirected intohoney production rather than crop pollination. It's a less riskybusiness decision for the beekeeper." Backyard gardeners will notice the effects of ...Humble Pocket Gophers Shed Light On The Genetic Fortitude Of Cheetahs
...vely to changes in the environment. You exist at a price if you have low genetic variation. It's like having lots of clones of yourself." If animals within a population are similar to each other immunologically, Sanjayan adds, "That doesn't bode well for disease resistance. If a new disease arises, either ...UW Smogmobile Offers Cleaner, Safer Alternative To Gas Or Electric Cars
... the UW researchers. Assuming an 8-cent-per-gallon price for mass-produced liquid nitrogen, they predict the smogmobile would cost 3.8 cents per mile to drive. This compares favorably with the 6.2-cent-per-mile cost of operating gas-powered vehicles and electric cars (including the cost of battery replacem...Premies' Lung Disorder Can Cause Developmental Delays
... of that life-giving technology is also exacting a price on the kids, according to a new study published in the December issue of the medical journal Pediatrics . Investigators from Case Western Reserve University's School of Medicine found that a significant percentage of very low birth weight babies su...Good Ergonomics Is Good Economics
...r 50 stands in Dodger Stadium can now be done at a price of $12,000 per stand, resulting in a payback period of only 20 games. Potentially, the resulting productivity increases can be used to reduce customer waiting time, thereby also increasing customer satisfaction (Andrew Imada, personal communication)....Common Cold Caused By Multiple Viruses
... need to have their doctors test forthe cause. The price of diagnosis ($700 per patient in this study) is too high and only in rare caseswill it affect treatment. The Journal of Clinical Microbiology is a publication of the American Society for Microbiology(ASM). With over 40,000 members worldwide, the AS...High Testosterone Level May Lead Male Junco To Stray From Mate
... The junco’s family at the home nest paid the price for these sexualencounters. Results showed that high-testosterone male juncos spent lesstime providing care for young in their own nests. Researchers suspect thisis why high-testosterone males, when compared to normal males, producedfewer offspring w...At Life's Most Sensitive Stage, Embryos Cope With Stress
...ucceeds in fending off toxins, the embryo maypay a price in delayed development. (For more information on Epel1s discoveries about MDR transporters in musselsand worms, see Stanford Report, March 18, 1997, available on the Web athttp://www-leland.stnaford.edu/dept/news/relaged/970319epel.html.) Surviving ...Population Growth Costs Include Global Warming Impact
...ntries at all income levels, the annuitized shadow price of a personcomes out to about 30 percent of per ca...risingly, most of the external costs in the shadow price come fromconventional considerations of capital and land use. Estimates of climatechange costs are ...Drivers Should Pay More Of Environmental Costs, Report Says
... the effect of three factors -- an increase in the price of automobile use, better management of urban growth so there is less urban sprawl and a combination of the two -- on driving habits. It found the most significant shift in road behavior occurred by combining the two. "If we manage growth better so ...Malthus + 200: Disastrous 'Correction' Looms
...poor (because, he thought, that would drive up the price of food) but favored finding jobs for the needy. Malthus also argued for universal education, and supported late marriage as a way of limiting the number of children a couple might have and of providing more adequately for their needs. More recentl...Gene Transfer Process Generates Seedless Summer Days
...s hopeful the process willin the future reduce the price of seedless fruits. Despite the fruits being seedless, Li said ways exist to produceseeds from seedless plants. These seeds will in turn produce seedlessfruits. According to Li, poor pollination is a major cause of incompleteand undersized fruits f...Third Annual Awards For Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Recognize Innovations
...biodegradable, until now has cost about double the price of many undesirablebut economical solvents. A new process developed at Argonne NationalLaboratory,however, brings the cost down to compete directly with about 80 percent ofcurrent solvents, many of them toxic, environmentally damaging,petroleum-deriv...Scientists ID A Protein With Punch As Infection-Inflammation Fighter
...to tissues in reperfusioninjury. "It's sort of the price we pay for being able to make potentantimicrobials, such as free radical oxygen," Ross said. One of the more toxic of these metabolites is hypochlorite -- "that's the activeingredient in household bleach," said Blecha, professor of anatomy andphysiol...The Biology Of Antarctic Sea Ice Explored In New Volume
... $31.50 (AGU members), $45.00 (non-members)Special price for combined purchase of Volumes 73 (Biological Processes) and 74(Physical Processes): $80.50 (AGU members), $115.00 (non-members)Available from the American Geophysical Union by phone: 800-966-2481 (fromoutside the U.S.A., +1-202-462-6900), or from ...Test For Genetic Trait May Indicate Heart Benefits Of Hormone Replacement Therapy
...bout 80 percent of theprice. Superko says the base price of the test is likely to drop as it becomesmore widely available. Co-authors are Ronald M. Krauss, M.D; Michael J. Schoenfeld, M.D.; Laura Hall,B.A.; Patricia Blanche, B.S.; and Joseph Orr, B.S. For more information Nov. 8-11 contact Carole Bullock ...Garlic Perfumes Poultry Houses
... This means the eggs and pork mayrequire a premium price to be cost effective for commercial producers.However, if the products prove to contain a lower cholesterol level, theycould qualify as specialty items because of the health benefit....Reusing Ag Drainage Water An Option For West Side Farm Sustainability
... found that there's a lot of uncertainty, like the price farmers receive forthe wood they produce. Depending on what you assume, it may or may not makeeconomic sense," Knapp said. He suggests that, in tackling the west side drainage water disposal problems,farmers should consider using a combination of str......arlygood for this job." For example, he says, the price of water fluctuates widelyalong California's Interstate 5 corridor -- while the price of gasoline isrelatively stable. Water marketing, already practiced in some Western statesand recen......repare in the womb for a thriftyexistence pay the price after birth if they live a life of over consumptio...encies in thewomb. But that compensation carries a price in later life. 7.) Attempts made after birth to reverse the consequences of programming mighthave t...