Fewer fish discarded after individual transferable quotas offered
...sferable quotas combined with 100 percent observer coverage reduce discard rates of marketable fish to negligible amounts, whereas trip limits imposed on U.S. West Coast fishers force them to discard fish over their limits resulting in high discard rates." Even if the United States started using a system sim...Leslie Roberts, Science Deputy News Editor, wins prize for 'first-rate' polio story
...tious diseases. She also coordinates the journal's coverage of biomedicine and environment/ecology. In a previous stint at Science in the 1980s and 1990s, Roberts was a senior writer specializing in genetics and the environment.Roberts also has served as editor-in-chief at the World Resources Institute, a Was...Leslie Roberts of Science wins ASM Public Communications Award
...ian influenza. She also coordinates the magazine's coverage of biomedicine and environment/ecology. In a previous stint at Science in the 1980s and 1990s, Roberts was a senior writer specializing in genetics and the environment. Roberts has also served as editor-in-chief at the World Resources Institute, a Wa...Faculty of 1000 Biology launch ecology faculty
...aculty - ecology. The ecology faculty expands the coverage of Faculty of1000 Biology, adding to the existing offering of 15 faculties coveringsubject areas from biochemistry to structural biology. Harold Mooney, Professor of Environmental Biology at Stanford University isone of three Heads of Faculty for eco...NHGRI targets 12 more organisms for genome sequencing
...sonia longicornis, will be sequenced at less dense coverage to aid in the comparative studies. Sequencing efforts will be carried out by the five centers in the NHGRI-supported Large-Scale Sequencing Research Network: Agencourt Bioscience Corp., Beverly, Mass.; Baylor College of Medicine, Houston; the Broad...CMS plan recognizes PET technology for benefit of cancer patients
...nd on developing better evidence needed by linking coverage to the collection of clinical data. PET is a dia...14 on this topic to obtain public input on linking coverage to practical trials and databases....AAAS announces winners of the 2005 Fellowships for Reporters from Africa
...s largest general science conference. The winners' coverage of the 2005 AAAS Annual Meeting will be posted to EurekAlert!'s multi-language portal, online at www.eurekalert.org/language . Airfare, hotel costs, meals and other travel expenses will be fully covered by the AAAS fellowships, sponsored by GAVI, PA...Molecular biology fills gaps in knowledge of bat evolution
...her research that, Springer hopes, will expand the coverage of classifications of bats from the family level to the genus level and probe in more detail into the bat evolutionary record. He also plans to compare the completeness of the bat fossil record with that of other mammals....Quantum dots research leads to new knowledge about protein binding in plants
...ernment and corporate sectors, and is dedicated to coverage of all aspects of nanoscale science and technology from a multidisciplinary perspective. Ozkan and his colleagues utilized cadmium selenide (CdSe) quantum dots coated with zinc sulphide as fluorescent probes. The particles had a diameter of 6.3 nm. ...AGI publishes 10th edition of GeoRef Thesaurus
... of the Ocean Drilling Program, including complete coverage through ODP Leg 209. The GeoRef Thesaurus was prepared at the American Geological Institute by Barbara Goodman, a GeoRef editor/indexer, in consultation with GeoRef staff and the Vocabulary Task Force, a committee of GeoRef users from the United Stat...BioMed Central announces publishing partnership with The Scientist magazine
... Research features, Technology Overviews, Business coverage and Opinion and Vision articles. From BioMed Central, Natasha Robshaw, Head of Marketing and Sales, adds, "We are delighted to add The Scientist to our portfolio of products we offer to the library community. The Scientist is an established magazine ...In wake of Lyme disease vaccine for people, mice may be next in line for shots
...n oral vaccine would allow for greater vaccination coverage of both mice and other animal hosts. "We've learned we shouldn't naively ignore other hosts shrews, chipmunks, robins, and maybe others," Tsao said. "Unexpectedly, other hosts contribute more to maintaining bacteria than we had thought. ...Global assessments of biodiversity argue for expansion of protected areas in key regions
...available for conservation planning. It notes that coverage by protected areas varies geographically, but is less than 2 percent for some bioregions, such as the tropical dry forests of Mexico, the mediterranean habitats of Chile, and the temperate grasslands of Southern Africa. In the second article, Ana...Heart responds to fasting by remodeling vital energy-producing components
...er techniques shotgun lipidomics has the speed and coverage of a shotgun blast: From a simple one-step extraction of lipids in tissues, the team can obtain in minutes highly accurate measurements of the various cellular lipids, which previously have been notoriously fragile, time-consuming to analyze and hard...Six reporters reach the 'Pinnacle of Excellence'
...n institutions, publishers or employers) for their coverage of the sciences, engineering and mathematics. To ensure the utmost objectivity and the highest possible standards of integrity, all entries are assessed by independent screening and judging panels, explained Weisman, sponsor of the AAAS Science Journ...World's largest population study on BRCA1/2
...ation of cancers in the database, its size and its coverage offered us a unique possibility to perform this analysis. Our objective was to assess the risk of cancer in high-risk breast/ovarian cancer families at a population level. Data about the risk in BRCA1/2 carriers are often contradictory, so a populati...Are museum collections of ancient life representative?
...exposed and easily accessible, providing excellent coverage of time periods available on the Atlantic Coastal Plain, Barbour Wood said. Lauck Ward, the curator, "has an extensive collection of Atlantic Seaboard organisms. He has done a good job of covering time periods and fossil localities, including some th...International human genome sequencing consortium describes finished human genome sequence
...uced by the Human Genome Project has both the high coverage and accuracy needed to perform sensitive analyses, such as focusing on the number of genes, the segmental duplications involved in disease and the "birth" and "death" of genes over the course of evolution. "Only a decade ago, most scientists thought...Surgeon General's report underscores the importance of new thinking on bone health
...port that also focuses on new research, access and coverage for health services. "The findings of the Surgeon General's Report show that this disease is not simply a symptom of growing older," says Miriam Nelson, Ph.D., a participant in the Surgeon General's Workshop leading up to the report and author of St......e. The initial assembly is based on 3.3-fold coverage of the bovine genome and by 2005, a 6-fold sequence coverage will be achieved. Researchers can access the sequence data through the following public databases: G...