Urbanized Watersheds More Sensitive To Climate Change
... watersheds. Analysis of data for the northeastern sector is complete. "It is obvious that stream flow increases with an increase in precipitation, but in the Northeast, we find that with a higher population and the same precipitation, stream flow increases more," De Walle told attendees at the Americ...Fund Aims To Repay Developing Nations For Valuable Genes
...nd is the first such provision in the agricultural sector of a major researchuniversity," attorney Barton said. "Of course some people willcriticize the fund as not doing enough, while others will say that it goestoo far." Barton noted that he and Ronald struggled to balance what they see tobe the universi......It manufactures nearly the entirerange of magnetic sector mass spectrometers, as well as other analyticalinstruments and software packages. Using its expertise in analyticalinstrumentation, the Company is engaged in two research and development programsto expand its product base. The first program, a resu...DFG To Set Up 32 New Postgraduate Research Groups - First "Virtual Research Group"
...Heidelberg'Law and economics, new types of private sector cooperation and civil law liability'; University of Hamburg'Pale-ecosystem research and history'; Regensburg'Travel literature and cultural anthropology'; Paderborn Engineering sciences 'Knowledge presentation'; Leipzig 'Interaction of structure and ...Clean Air Act Reduces Acid Rain In Eastern U.S.
...es generate another 30 percent and theagricultural sector contributes an additional 25 to 30 percent. Lighteningstrikes and biological processes produce the remaining nitrogen naturally.Consequently, it is much more difficult to control and regulate nitrogen oxides. In 1995, Phase one of the Clean A...Upcoming 'Century Of Biology' Given Head Start By NSF Plant Genome Research Program Grants
...these grants will be exploited by the agricultural sector and otherplant-based industries in developing improved plants of economic value." Research funded at the University of Missouri at Columbia for example,will involve enhancing the content and effectiveness of a maize genome database. Researche...American Society Of Animal Science Recognizes Global Scope Of Virginia Tech Researcher's Work
...ost immediate thing that happens inthe agriculture sector is that there is an increased demand for animal protein." That can create pressures on the environment, the ecology, and theproduction system. Some of those pressures can be lessened so far as farmanimals are concerned by slowly introd...Salmonella Vaccine Now Available For Poultry
...h of 1998)and is the first product in a new market sector for both animals and humans,food safety vaccines. We have a full pipeline and are pleased to have been thefirst to apply this new patented technology to help solve a current human healthproblem." says Brian Clevinger, Ph.D., President and CEO for Me......e. The expansion of thisnewborn and very promising sector known as pharmacogenomics, aiming to developdrugs tailored to individual genetic profiles, brings on an enourmous potentialfor society and could lead to new and more efficient theurapeutic tools. At thesame time, the nature of this research raises qu...Top Experts To Address Top Food Safety Concerns At IFT Meeting
...e latest research on these topics? Howis the food sector addressing them? One can find out at IFT's 1999 AnnualMeeting. American and Canadian experts on food microbiology and policy willconvene for "Listeria monocytogenes: Scientific and Regulatory Issues from aNational and International Perspectiv...Magnetic Fluids More Complex Than Previously Thought
... is being conducted in both the public and private sector to extendthe techniques used to make computer chips and other microelectroniccircuitry to make microscopic systems that can mix, separate and identify awide range of chemicals. Such devices could have widespread application inthe environmental, manuf...Plant pathologists to discuss anti-crop bioterrorism and food security, August 1999
...rom federal agencies, universities and the private sector convened by AnneVidaver, University of Nebraska. "This is the first international symposiumbeing held to create an awareness among individuals with expertise in theagricultural scientific community to develop measures against cropbioterrorism," says ...Environmental jigsaw pieces fall into place
...goals.They have established intermediate goals and sector goals, made proposals as topossible coursesof acti...igh the drawbacks. Measures within theagricultural sector tocombat the leakage of plant nutrients such as nitrogen can lead to raw materialsand energy beingus......s for future forums include mental health, private sector response to theHIV pandemic, and the economics of HIV vaccines. The Institute for Global Health was established in May, 1999, by UC SanFrancisco and UC Berkeley, in close collaboration with Stanford University, andwith leading corporations and organi...Private and public insurance deny few services
...ients. Researchers found that although the private sector modestly outperformed the VA on most quality measures, the VA treats a more troubled population, and the VA improved over time compared with the private sector. 1. ["Utilization Management in a Large Managed Behavioral Health Care Organization," by ...Princeton scientists describe genetics of blood stem cells
... of interactions between the private biotechnology sector and academia. "While the funding for the large-scale acquisition of gene sequences was provided by ImClone Systems Incorporated, a New York-based biotechnology company, we all agreed from the beginning that both the actual sequence data as well as t...NSF-funded researchers discover evidence of microscopic life at the South Pole
...reful to take samples at the edge of the clean-air sector at Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station to prevent contamination of the samples by bacteria from human habitation. The containers of bacteria were flown, still frozen, within 24 hours to the Albert P. Crary Science and Engineering Center at NSF's McMurd...SGX signs agreement to build state-of the-art beamlines at advanced photon source
...'s Advanced Photon Source available to the private sector we are helping to speed the development of new pha...re pipeline. We are very pleased to have secured a sector on which to build a beamline at the APS, as it is the best facility of its kind in the United States......nt step in the positive involvement of the private sector in international rice research. It is essential that institutions like IRRI, and companies like Monsanto, continue to look for ways to work together to the benefit of poor rice farmers and consumers. There should be no doubt that this offer by Mons...Stanford researchers win National Science Foundation grants for information technology research
...ive will help strengthen America's leadership in a sector that has accounted for one-third of U.S. economic ...stment to maintain the U.S. lead in this important sector of the global economy." Jim Plummer, dean of Stanford's School of Engineering, said that "informatio...