Burning now an option to clean up ocean oil spills previously thought incombustible
...by a small amount. The process was repeated until sustained combustion was achieved and the minimum critical heat flux needed to ignite the sample was determined. Kulkarni says that, in actual open water conditions, an external heat flux could come from an adjacent deliberately set fire. "A small fire will n...ESA announces award winners for 2001
...rd is presented annually to a senior ecologist for sustained and distinguished contributions to the science of ecology and biological sciences. Through his research, Paul Ehrlich's contributions have revolutionized the thoughts of the scientific community about population biology, density dependence and coevo...Paul Ehrlich named Eminent Ecologist for 2001
... award is given annually to a senior ecologist for sustained and distinguished contributions to the science of ecology and biological sciences. This year's award will be presented during ESA's 86th annual meeting in Madison, Wis., on Aug. 9. Ehrlich, the Bing Professor of Population Studies at Stanford, was ci...Famous coral reefs damaged due to global warming will take a century to recover, says new research.
...h levels and in some areas of the ocean there were sustained temperatures of 33-34 degrees centigrade - in previous years temperatures averaged at 28 degrees. "This caused the corals to die, and damage like this can only be rectified over the long term - we think about 100 years." Divers from all over the w......o HIV vaccine research, said Evans. It will take a sustained and probably lengthy effort to develop a vaccine that stops HIV in United States and around the world. This trial is an important step in reaching that goal. TO PARTICIPATE IN THE STUDY, volunteers must be healthy males or females between the ages o...Typhoid fever bug sequence raises hope of complete eradication
...teria, but all very closely related. Symptoms are: sustained fever, severe headache, nausea, severe loss of appetite, constipation or diarrhoea. Without therapy the illness may last for between three to four weeks and death rates range between 12 per cent and 30 per cent. Typhoid fever is contracted when peopl...Astrobiologist and national security expert Christopher Chyba named 2001 MacArthur
...eveloped models to understand how Earth could have sustained life 3.5 billion years ago, when the Sun was 25 percent dimmer than it is today," noted the foundation. "He has proposed mechanisms for hospitable climatic conditions at that time due to greenhouse gas insulation." The foundation also singled out Ch...Highly specific biological agents attack mechanisms of treatment resistance
...e blood and bone marrow disappeared. Remission was sustained for four months on average; two patients stayed in complete remission for more than a year. Typical side effects of chemotherapy such as fever, nausea, and vomiting did not occur at higher-than-expected levels, suggesting that Genasense itself was no...... rests rejuvenating effects, apparently permitting sustained wakefulness. Anyone whos ever pulled an all-nighter knows by the next morning that sleep is essential, and sleeps status as a behavior found in organisms ranging from fruit flies to frogs to humans underscores its importance as a biological process. ...New gene therapy shows promise for hemophiliacs
...ne, reports that the use of BOECs has "resulted in sustained and therapeutic levels of factor 8 (FVIII) in mice and may comprise an effective therapeutic strategy for use in gene therapy for humans with hemophilia A." The results of this gene therapy, published in the January 15 issue of Blood, may pave the wa...New report documents dramatic decline in beluga sturgeon in the Caspian Sea
...ampaign reiterated their call for an immediate and sustained halt in international trade of caviar from the end...t this is a critical situation that will require a sustained commitment from governments, industry, scientists, conservationists and consumers around the world f......will alert the world to a new aspect of the losses sustained when upland rainforests are cleared, and contribute to better management of tropical catchments and rivers it may encourage people to replant trees in cleared areas of the wet tropical uplands it could even generate income from sale of the extra wa...Meeting ecological and societal needs for freshwater
...to replace with technological infrastructure. The sustained provision of those goods and services, as well as the adaptive capacity of aquatic ecosystems to respond to future environmental alterations such as climate change, is critical to human well-being. Natural freshwater ecosystems are dynamic, and the...Prenatal alcohol exposure affects visual processing
...posure to alcohol, to maintain visual and auditory sustained attention. "We wanted to know if there are specific effects of FAS," said Claire D. Coles, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Emory University School of Medicine and lead author of the study. "Are these effects different than t...Hypoglycemia may affect newborn's brain cell function, says Hopkins researcher
...tee at MCP Hahnemann University, the research team sustained hypoglycemia in piglets (3 to 6 days old) for two hours with insulin injections. Researchers then extracted brain tissue from six hypoglycemic piglets and six piglets with normal blood sugar levels. After isolating brain cell membrane --- where the g...Resumption of caspian caviar trade could mean extinction
...gn have reiterated their call for an immediate and sustained halt in international trade of beluga caviar. The Caviar Emptor partners Wildlife Conservation Society, Natural Resources Defense Council, and SeaWeb will urge CITES officials to reconsider their approval of a resumption in beluga caviar trade at ...For the longest distance runner, that tired feeling may not be due to central fatigue
...kground Fatigue is a natural consequence of such sustained physical activity. Physical activity lasting one to two hours often leads to local fatigue, causing pain in a specific part of the body. A long held belief in the scientific community is that central fatigue, resulting from alterations to the centr...Findings conclude sustained caffeine intake negates the benefits of creatine supplements
...r the athlete in training, the key finding is that sustained caffeine intake, over a three-day period, negates the benefits of creatine supplements....The building blocks of erection: Nitric oxide...and more nitric oxide
...down couldn't explain how erections are naturally sustained over time. Working with rats and genetically tran...ed, more tissue relaxes, more blood comes in and a sustained erection is achieved," Burnett says. This cascade of events, Burnett says, begins when erotic though......ad news is that the way we grow food now cannot be sustained into the future. Industrial agricultures damaging impacts on the environment and public health are becoming more apparent all the time, and will only intensify if we continue down this path, says lead author Leo Horrigan, senior research program coor...