Study Examines How Mechanisms Evolve To Regulate Bee Development
...has a genetic basis, becausethe drone sons of fast worker bees inherit accelerated development. The finding... behavioraldevelopment in the drones' sisters, the worker bees, which pollinate almost$15 billion of agricultural crops annually, said Gene Robinson, a profes......creature. The new specimens comprise three worker and four male ants. One of theworkers is a complete, well-preserved specimen from the group known asSphecomyrma freyi, a primitive kind of ant. This insect was firstdescribed in 1967 by renowned entomologist E.O. Wilson and his colleagues,but becau...Good Ergonomics Is Good Economics
...vitis resulted in a $100,000 per annum increase in worker compensation premiums. A new, ergonomically desig...ged image of the assembly work, but it enables the worker to maintain a better posture and more dynamic motion. Based on extensive comparative testing of th..."A Little Bit Here" And "A Little Bit There" Can Add Up To A Big Problem
...ertilizer on her lawn. Across town, aconstruction worker uses a hose to rinse out the inside of a dump truck. Twentymiles away, a farmer uses manure from his livestock to fertilize his crops. Whatthese three don't realize, is that each, in their own small way, arecontributing to something they have probab...Summer Science: Where Have All The Honeybees Gone? UD 'Bee Guy' Asks Why--From America To The Amazon
...ing," Camazine says. "Do the mites directly damage worker bees? Do theyspread viral infection or weaken the bees' immune system, allowing otherdiseases to kill the colony? Do mite-infected bees have lower cold tolerance?This knowledge could help us to develop new control strategies or to identifydesirable t...System Offers Breath Of Relief To Workers
...es within minutes theamount and type of chemical a worker has been exposed to and how much of thatchemical h...ng so it can make safety improvements. Also, if a worker claims heor she was exposed to dangerous levels of a chemical a year earlier, the companyhas scienti...Russian Queens Bee-Little Mites' Impact
... depending upon how hard it works. But an infested worker may survive only 3 to 5 days in its sickly state. The mites, which also attack adults, reproduce on a 10-day cycle, allowing them to quickly kill off a colony. In the new tests, Rinderer's team exposed 90 parasitefree colonies to mites. Each co...Out On A Limb: Young Burro Receives Artificial Leg At Colorado State
... a burro. Carl Conrath, a former Rehab Designs worker who's now completing adegree in animal science at Colorado State, said, "Everything we've done forPrimrose was exactly what you would do for a person with, say, a below-elbowamputation, although for people the prosthesis doesn't have to be as strong....UC Scientists Search For Alternatives For Methyl Bromide
...the same job as methyl bromide, it will enhance worker safety and, from what we know of its atmospheric chemistry, its potential for contributing to ozone depletion is minimal," said Jim Sims, UC Riverside plant pathologist. Unlike methyl bromide, methyl iodide is injected into the soil as a liq...Pet Therapy Programs Help Patients In Rehab, Physical Therapy And More
...," says Barbara Cowen, the licensedclinical social worker who runs the Pet Therapy program in the AIDS unit andCardiology. "They take great joy and pride in seeing how their dog is making adifference in people's lives."...New Worlds Of Order, Argentine Ants Succeed By Outnumbering The Competition
...r introduced range, Argentine ant colonies support worker forces thatexhibit little intraspecific aggression and may contain hundreds of queens. Thequeens disperse locally to form new colonies which often connect with theoriginal colony. This enables a single "supercolony" to grow steadily largerover time......ic counselor Helen Hixon, M.S., andclinical social worker Marcy Polsky, M.S.W., to develop and providecomprehensive management and prevention strategies for each patient. Intensivepreventive screenings are an important component that can lead to earlierdetection and better outcomes. Medications and vitamins...No Link To CJD In People Working With Animals....At Least Not Yet
...luded butcher and abattoir worker, farmer and farm worker or veterinarian. They found that those few deaths (four farmers/farm workers) that were certified as due to Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease were not higher than might be expected by chance. However, in an accompanying commentary Dr Annick Alprovitch write...New Carbon Monoxide Sensor Developed For Occupational Use
... put a number of safetymeasures in place to reduce worker and building occupant exposures to CO,including in... occupationalstandard of 25 parts per million. One worker who exceeded the standard probablyreceived excessive exposure from operating a forklift in an enclos...National Laboratory, National Parks And Forests Leaders Seek To Share Resources
... deal with," saidBeller. "We discussed issues like worker safety, environment, wasteminimization, maintenance shops and fleets, alternative solvents, and snowplows,trucks and busses. Mike Finley, the superintendent of Yellowstone National Park,also discussed bringing down the Yellowstone maintenance group t...UI study suggests genetics and gender affect human response to endotoxin
...n dosage,40 micrograms, as the "the total amount a worker inhales during an eight-hourshift in a heavy dust-exposure site such as a grain elevator." Eight of the participants were highly sensitive and developed "profoundbronchospasm" following exposure to miniscule doses -- 6.5 micrograms -- ofendotoxin. T...Screening programs find health problems among former Hanford workers
... at http://depts.washington.edu/cresp2/hos.Besides worker health, other topics at the conference will include contaminated high-level waste tanks, beryllium exposure and evaluation of human and ecological health risks. Among the scheduled topics: - The two new studies that quantify the number of health p......tacked, and even killed, by the large and powerful worker antsguarding the nests. Very little research has previously been done on threadsnakes, partly because their small size makes them difficult to work with. Also, theirtendency for burrowing makes them extremely difficult to find, Kley said....University of New Orleans researcher develops nontoxic corrosion inhibitor
...genic. It applies easily. And that means it's more worker friendly, safer for the environment, and will help control hazardous material costs, disposal, and handling. Using his more than 40 years of experience working for and/or with the chemical and paint industries, Martin Marietta, NASA, the Environmenta......e whether a juvenile bee is destined for life as a worker or as a queen. By stringing together a series of ...pability to develop into one of two castes, either worker or queen. The ability of young from the same species to differentiate into different castes is known...