Southern Pine Beetle Reaching Outbreak Levels In North Florida
...ed pines. The trees arestill green and they have a tendency to want to try to save a tree, whenactually, the tree is already dead," Foltz said. Leaving an infested pine in place only gives the beetles a platform forstaging their attack on nearby healthy trees and can lead to thedeforestation of surrounding ac......ercent of children are born to be shy and that the tendency persists asthey grow older. Signs of shyness in that study included clinging totheir mothers and hesitancy in speaking and joining other children atplay. Shy children responded to new situations with higher than averageheart rates, blood pressure a...Brain-Activity Data Clarify Contradictions In Earlier Anxiety Research
... reportedtrait anxiety, which is associated with a tendency toward anxious arousaland panic. As the students listened to narratives that depicted pleasant,unpleasant, arousing or non-arousing events, researchers measured brainactivity. Previous research on anxiety has yielded often contradicting and unexpla...... and give birth to larger than normalbabies with a tendency to become obese. Now a new study of genetically normalrats indicates that the effect of overfeeding extends for at least threegenerations and may explain health trends beginning to be seen in humanpopulations in the American Southwest, Japan, Austra...Handfish Steps Back From Brink Of Extinction
...in 1804. Noted for its superb colouring and its tendency to ‘walk’ over the bottom on leg-like fins rather than swim, the spotted handfish is found only in the lower Derwent Estuary and adjoining bays and channels. Mr Bruce said the species had been protected under State Fisheries Legislatio...Microsurgery Made More Accurate With Virtual Measuring Tool
... Accuracy, or absence of bias, was defined as any tendency of the subjects to neither consistently to underestimate (negative measurement error) nor overestimate (positive measurement error) the distances between the two dots using the VTM. Accuracy was therefore assessed in terms of the computed mean of the......ng LDL response todiet. "People with apoE4 have a tendency for higher blood cholesterol levels,increased heart disease risk, and increased risk for Alzheimer's disease," hesaid. Krauss also will describe recent research on the LDL subclass pattern B,characterized by "small, dense" forms of LDL, lower b...Malthus + 200: Disastrous 'Correction' Looms
...bsistence. Malthus believed, says Price, that the tendency for population to outstrip its means of subsistence is counterbalanced by "preventive checks" such as infanticide, abortion and contraception, and by "positive checks" such as famines, plagues and wars. In the intervening 200 years, world populatio...Prostate Cancer Switch May Yield Map Of Cancer Machinery, Targets For Drugs
... Prostate cancers are distinguished by their tendency to linger at arelatively benign stage for many years, but to suddenly transform into a deadlyform that spreads, or metastasises, throughout the body. The scientists are Russ Carstens and Mariano Garcia-Blanco of the DukeUniversity Medical Ce...'Mean Gene' Found In Africanized Honey Bees
...nes was found to have a much greater effect on the tendency to sting. "We have also mapped genes that affect l...n temperate areas, too," Hunt says. "If it is, the tendency to be aggressive could be introduced in northern areas in European bees even if the Africanized bees...Study Finds Some People Are 'Born To Smoke'
... clues about precisely what is being inherited---a tendency to findnicotine pleasurable---and perhaps where gene-hunters should start in theirsearch for "smoking genes." The study also suggests that someday it may be possible to identify a cluster ofcharacteristics that go hand-in-hand with sensitivity to ni...Tiny Worm Reveals Workings Of Suspected Tumor Protein
...ssuade a prospective male embryo from its inherent tendency tobecome a girl. Moreover, a separate line of investigation is converging with Shi'sresearch. Scientists studying gene transcription have found that certain enzymestack acetyl groups onto histones--the proteins around which the DNA is draped....Researchers Discover Novel Gene Family Responsible For Pacemaker Activity In Brain And Heart
...nnel. Suppressing this activity might decrease the tendency to have aseizure," suggests Dr. Kandel. Altering pacemaker channel function might alsoone day be used to manipulate levels of awareness. "The 'burst' activity thatpacemaker channels generate is important for the state of arousal. Conceivablyby activa......uch situations are avoided in normal bodies by the tendency towiggle, which allows blood to flow through capillaries. Reduce The Number Of Amputations "If our system were widely deployed, it would reduce the number of amputationscaused by many medical conditions in this country by half," said Felton, a 1977...Edible Lily Plant Yields A Natural Pesticide
...lorine pesticides are very unstable. This natural tendency tobreakdown gives them an inherent advantage over synthetic organochlorinepesticides which persist for a long time and have resulted in manyenvironmental problems. # # # # A nonprofit organization with a membership of more than 155,000 chemists an...Researchers Document Transmission Of Protease-Resistant HIV
...nsidered tobe a low-risk practice. "There may be a tendency to feel complacent because of the success of treatmentefforts," Hecht said, "but the fact that this transmission occurred by apractice that many consider to be 'safe' highlights the crucial role ofcontinued prevention efforts needed to control the HI...Little Known Protein Prevents Formation Of Kidney Stones In Trace Amounts
... calgranulin. Wesuspect this is a factor in their tendency to form stones," says Pillay. According to the basic laws of chemistry, our kidneys should bechock-full of kidney stones. Although the kidney is supersaturated with calciumand oxalate, the basic components of kidney stones, only thre......udy of workers exposed to dioxins has examined the tendency todevelop diabetes. Dioxins are believed to influence the thyroid hormonetyroxine, which in turn plays an important role in regulating blood sugarlevels. The study showed that workers with a high exposure had higher bloodsugar levels than those with ......ey to their final structure, proteins have a large tendency tomake mistakes that greatly slow them down," notes Englander. "Proteins need tofold fast because if they spend too much time in one intermediate state, they'revulnerable to aggregation with other proteins in the midst of folding, which canbe very de......VER--Children with severe allergies have a greater tendency to also havesignificant behavior problems, such as aggressiveness, depression andirritability than children with no allergies, according to research at NationalJewish Medical and Research Center. The chance that a child has behaviorproblems if he or...