Sex selection for social reasons unlikely to skew gender balance in Germany and UK
...e assumption that a freely available sex selection service would distort the natural sex ratio. But, for a severe gender imbalance to occur there would have to be two conditions met a significant preference for children of a particular sex and a considerable demand for preconception sex selection. The rese...Two studies find Gulf War veterans have increased risk of ALS
...to have a significantly higher risk than the other service branches, but all branches had an elevated risk. As a cross-check of the findings, the data were also evaluated under numerous "what-if" scenarios. The consistency of the findings gave the investigators the confidence to conclude that veterans of the...Story tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, September 2003
...stress conditions, without any loss of transformer service life. Oak Ridge National Laboratory and industrial partners Waukesha Electric Systems in Wisconsin and SuperPower in New York are testing the world's first 5 MVA prototype at the Waukesha factory. According to Waukesha, low-cost, second-generation hi...High-tech institute to hold Cal-(IT)Day@UCSD
...will be able to ride the world's first regular bus service to offer broadband Web access -- even with the bus traveling at 65 miles per hour. Attendees will also be able to tour the Cal-(IT) 2 -funded Visualization Center at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, a three-million pixel, wide-screen display, for...While the homeland is on alert, Technical Insights provides indispensable technology information
...for key industry participants. This subscription service concentrates on the science, technology, applications, and markets for homeland security systems. The recent search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, battlefield surveillance for chemical and biological hazards, and scares of "white powder" in...Book traces the history and mystery of the Deschutes River
...ups involved with dam issues. Contact AGU customer service to order the book at 800-966-2481 or orders@agu.org ....Cross-species mating may be evolutionarily important and lead to rapid change, say IUB researchers
...ble online by Science magazine's "Science Express" service on Thursday (August 7) at 2 p.m. EDT. A study of sunflower species that began 15 years ago shows that the sudden mixing and matching of different species' genes can create genetic super-combinations that are considerably more advantageous to the surv...UC Berkeley museum biologists to repeat 85-year-old Yosemite National Park wildlife survey
... lead wildlife biologist, Steve Thompson. The park service is committing $41,000 to the survey, Thompson said...d of between four and eight people, including park service biologists, who are surveying mammals, birds, reptiles and amphibians. A separate team of herpetolog...Estimated 300 children died in the U.S. from shaken baby syndrome last year
...ed if suspects confessed or if a medical or social service agency determined abuse. "We found 152 cases of serious or fatal traumatic brain injuries over the two years," the physician said. ""Out of 230,000 children under age 2 in North Carolina, 80 were injured from shaken baby syndrome." Although they conf...CNRS use F1000 Biology to evaluate researchers
...kage of evaluation tools. A literature evaluation service for the biological sciences, Faculty of 1000 Biolo...hin the organisation. Faculty of 1000 is an online service that systematically highlights the most interesting papers published in the life sciences, based on ...SARS information for antiviral drug design released by Protein Data Bank
...s for treating SARS. The PDB renders an important service to the research community in providing rapid access to this crucial information." The Protein Data Bank is an Internet-accessible international resource for three-dimensional information on biological macromolecules. As a tool to help unlock the se...Quarries may be last chance for many rare European butterflies
...habitats would be an ongoing and costly task, "the service is provided for free in the quarries as a side-effect of the excavation," say Benes and his colleagues. The second group comprises 19 species, 10 of which are threatened in the Czech Republic, that thrive in old quarries because they prefer habitats...Von Liebig Center awards funding to six projects to commercialize UCSD faculty research
...that the prototype will attract sponsors including service providers, consumer electronics companies, chip manufacturers, mobile phone and PDA manufacturers. Paul Yu, Professor and Chair "Electro-optic Waveguide Modulation using Inner Step Barrier Quantum Wells and Peripheral Coupled Waveguide" $50,000 As ...JCI table of contents, July 15, 2003
...-jci.org/press/19157.pdf Wire services: All wire service stories must carry the embargo time at the head of each item and may not be sent out more than 24 hours before that time. Warning: This document and the Journal of Clinical Investigation papers to which it refers, may contain information that is pri...UN development work guided from space
...lly helpful in demonstrating how an operational EO service might work. The scale of the damage done was such...That experience showed us how a more open-ended EO service for the development sector might work in practice." To form the UNOSAT consortium UNOPS struck deal...JCI table of contents, July 1 2003
...jci.org/press/16645.pdf Wire services: All wire service stories must carry the embargo time at the head of each item and may not be sent out more than 24 hours before that time. Warning: This document and the Journal of Clinical Investigation papers to which it refers, may contain information that is pri...UCR entomologists honored for maintaining and enhancing nation's natural resources and environment
...at UC Riverside have been recognized for exemplary service and achievements by Agriculture Secretary Ann M. Veneman at the 57th Annual U.S. Department of Agriculture ( USDA ) Honor Awards Ceremony held this month in Washington, D.C. Toscano and Blua received the Secretary's Annual Awards in the category 'Ma...US-EC Biotech Task Force keys on research, collaboration
...from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's research service on the 24-member task force, "because of genomics, botanists, zoologists, microbiologists and others have a common language. That insight has opened up an entirely new field of research that could have profound impacts." The task force has met annua...Journal announces scientific releases
...y and quality of the work described. As a special service to researchers and clinicians, accepted papers are made available online about three months ahead of print as "First Edition Papers." Blood is issued to Society members and other subscribers twice per month, available in print and online. ASH, the w......ho publish in open access journals are providing a service to the scientific community. The JISC deal means that 180 universities in the UK will now become BioMed Central members. Together with the recent NHS England membership agreement1, the vast majority of research produced in the UK could be published ...