Economic crisis, civil war and tsunami no problem if reefs well managed
...onment. Fishing pressure is managed through group decisions plus there is an effective means of conflict resolution." "We have much to learn from the Acehnese experience." according to Dr Baird "Their success in the face of civil war, economic collapse, and catastrophic natural disaster is extraordinary, ...You can't scare people into getting fit or going green
...ility to reach their goals, people's intentions or decisions to act in a particular fashion will be changed, wh...the past 25 years and quantifying their effects on decisions and actions. The team identified 33 distinct strategies for changing intentions and behaviour acro...Conflict over rearing young shapes breeding systems
...periments and mathematical modeling to analyze the decisions that Kentish plovers make while raising their chicks. Modeling suggested a rationale for the finding that females are more likely to desert if there are local unpaired males: that tendency emerged as a strategy likely to persist in evolution. Further...Alaskans feel the heat of global warming
...ents now debating what to do about global warming, decisions that will affect Alaska for generations to come hang in the balance and Alaskans are clearly paying attention," said Dr. Anthony Leiserowitz, the lead study investigator....Software tool helps protect Nation's drinking water: Now available in all 50 states
...eed timely and accurate information to guide their decisions on deploying first responders to best protect the public," said Douglas Ryan, manager of the Pacific Northwest Research Station's Aquatic and Land Interactions Program. "This information often can be drawn from sources that already exist, but they ar......humans, process information to learn, reason, make decisions and communicate. BBSRC is working with other Research Councils and funders to support new interdisciplinary research in this area."...Commercial fishing causes dangerous fluctuations in fish populations
...earchers hope that their findings will mean future decisions about fishery management take into account the variations caused by fishing, to safeguard the future of key fish populations....Decisions on the first round of the excellence initiative announced
Funding decisions for the first round of the Excellence Initiative h...xcellence, and three institutional strategies. The decisions were announced in Bonn by the Federal Minister of Education and Research, Dr. Annette Schavan, as we...USGS presents a world of science at GSA in Philadelphia
...ly charged. Generally, life, property, and policy decisions hang in the balance. Science must have a seat at the policy table, and communication with the public through the media is critical in getting it there. The author will examine the view from the science side. Get a unique perspective from one of th...Hope remains for Alzheimer's sufferers
...may be possible treatment in the future. "NICE's decisions are based upon the economic health calculations that they do, which are balanced against clinical benefit. Even though the drugs do work in the long-term, patients do progress to requirements of alternative care that do not necessarily lead to saving...New cost-benefit model will aid efforts to conserve wilderness: UBC researcher
...ses of ecosystem services in land use and resource decisions taking place worldwide, starting with areas of Africa, China, Hawaii and California. For more information, visit: http://environment.stanford.edu/ideas/ncp.html Applying this research model to Canada, Chan is currently studying ecosystem services...Three new lung tumor subtypes identified in DNA profiling study
...nical Oncology. Currently, lung cancer treatment decisions are based largely on the location and size of the tumor and if it has spread, or metastasized. And, lung tumor cells are diagnosed by their appearance under a microscope. About 20 percent of these tumors are classified as small-cell carcinomas; the r...Global map shows new patterns of extinction risk
...vation planning by governments and NGOs, and their decisions about where to focus conservation spending. These decisions have typically been based on the assumption that investing in an area known to have a high concentra...Group decisions: From compromise to leadership in pigeon homing
... of Current Biology. Social animals have to make decisions that affect not just themselves, but everyone in the group. For example, when embarking on a journey together, individuals must agree on the route--a difficult task if group members cannot assess who are the best navigators or who is best informed ab...Mysterious 'neural noise' actually primes brain for peak performance
...hances the brain's processing, enabling us to make decisions in an uncertain world. "You'd think this is crazy because engineers are always fighting to reduce the noise in their circuits, and yet here's the best computing machine in the universe--and it looks utterly random," says Alex Pouget, associate profes...First Far Eastern leopard captured in southeast Russia by international team
... may be necessary for the Far Eastern leopard, but decisions will be made only after analyses of a representative sample of the remaining population....Bright future for nuclear medicine technologists
...echnologists so its leaders can make more informed decisions and better meet current and future needs," he added. "With this information, we will be able to take the lead in determining how the nuclear medicine technologists of today may broaden their scope to become the imaging specialists or molecular imagin...Exercise, aspirin consumption and childbirth may alter cancer risk
...ave been seeking to isolate a variety of lifestyle decisions that may stave off the onset of cancer or even reduce tumor formation in their early stages. The latest round of such studies, presented at the American Association for Cancer Research's Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Research Meeting, include the im...New maps emphasize the human factor in wildfire management
...e point we'll have to make tough land use planning decisions in order to control wildfires." "We need actions at all levels-by individual landowners, communities and at the federal level," says Radeloff. "We need federal policies that, at the very least, do not foster sprawl in the wildland-urban interface.......lls, and this can tip the balance of life-or-death decisions towards cell death. This strategy might be useful to sensitise cancer cells to treatment with DNA-damaging irradiation or chemotherapeutic drugs, by eliminating the sick cells. Although a cure for cancer is still far away, this has great implication ...