Survey of animal shelters says dogs fare better than cats
...versity. "But the survey showed that we are losing ground with cats." Lord and her colleagues collected data from 165 animal care and control agencies in Ohio in 2004. They compared the answers to those of a similar study of shelters that they did in 1996. The results of the latest survey are published i...Saving the planet, from a mathematical perspective
...nglish law, the common (or commons) was a tract of ground shared by residents of a village, but belonging to no one. It might be grazing grounds, or the village square, but it was property held in common for the good of all. 1 Today the term "global commons" refers to the Atmosphere, Hydrosphere, Lithospher...Dragon Symposium highlights success of projects
... way that very precise measurements can be made of ground motion taking place between acquisitions. When repeat pass acquisitions are combined in this way, forested areas can become de-coherent, providing a distinctive signature that enables forested areas to be classified from non-forested areas. Air Q...Suprising discovery may lead to new understanding of water quality
...means that wherever water goes, either through the ground or through our bodies, it takes ions along with it. A general understanding of this behavior and the development of a new scientific method for studying this phenomenon may lead to better understanding of various other processes that take place at s...Controlling robots that search for Mars life
...pical example of the rover's autonomous operation, ground controllers might radio up a high-level command te...tails of the move on its own. It would survey the ground with a 3D camera, create a digital terrain model, verify its present location, run internal simulati...Tiny airborne particles are a major cause of climate change
...dies. Together with Kauffman, he used a network of ground sensors (AERONET) to measure the effect of aerosol concentration on cloud cover. Radiation absorption is less affected by meteorology, so if the skeptics are right and meteorology is the main influence, then the correlation between aerosol absorption...Power plants are major influence in regional mercury emissions
..., which converts to highly toxic methyl mercury in ground water, is found in fish and can cause neurological problems in developing fetuses and dementia and organ failure in adults who eat fish in large amounts and over long periods. The Yale study was conducted at Great Mountain Forest in northwestern Co...UCLA scientists strengthen case for life more than 3.8 billion years ago
...gone back to Greenland and done the study from the ground up, with much more data than existed at the time of the original paper. I'm much more confident today than I was in 1996 about the likelihood that this is evidence of early life. This is not 'smoking gun' evidence--we are not seeing fossils--but in e...Velvet worm brains reveal secret sisterhood with spiders
...rabs, shrimps and centipedes. "There are certain ground rules that seem to apply to all brain structures. If we look at the olfactory systems in an onychophoran, the architectural entities that define that system are the same as in an insect or a crustacean or a human being," he said. "So if we look at ...European airborne campaign simulates Sentinel imagery over land
...uly. Weekly in-situ measurements were taken on the ground in selected fields throughout the same period. ...quantities of data collected in the air and on the ground over the past few months. One of the key tasks will be to take the airborne data and use it simul...Fulbright awards Senior Specialist grant to Carnegie's Marilyn Fogel
... and techniques for finding life on Mars. The test ground is Svalbard, a Norwegian island in the far north with a geology that is analogous to some Martian geology. Fogel will lecture on astrobiology, an interdisciplinary field that probes the processes that led to life on this planet and explores whe...Preventing ventilation induced lung injury depends on giving the right number of 'sighs'
...ently and too seldom," Bates explained. The middle ground -- two deep inflations per minute -- provides the most benefit to the mice we studied without injuring the lungs, he said. "We conclude that frequent deep inflation can safely improve gas exchange and lung mechanics and may confer protection from b...Sound investment: A new mathematical method provides a better way to analyze noise
...frequency data to determine the composition of the ground under a surveyor's feet, and an angler's fishfinder uses the method to determine the water's depth and locate schools of fish. But current methods are far from exact, so the algorithm has plenty of potential opportunities. "If we were able to do extr...African water authorities receive space tool training
...he vulnerable zones regarding excessive damping of ground water. "When I return to Morocco we are planning to organise a training session with our partners and colleagues so I can share this information with them," Er Raji said. ...Columbia University receives $16.9 million NIEHS award to study arsenic in ground water
...contaminated surface water, not realizing that the ground water was naturally enriched with arsenic. "I am delighted that we have been given the opportunity to continue our efforts to link our growing understanding of the fundamental mechanisms of arsenic release to groundwater with more effective mitigatio...Iowa State researchers convert farm waste to bio-oil
...al. That mixture is applied to the surface of crop ground as fertilizer. He's working with Sadaka to convert some of the farm's manure into bio-oil because he supports alternatives to petroleum. "And there may be more value in using manure as a fuel source than a fertilizer source," Struthers said. S...Mosquito spray increases toxicity of pyrethroids in creek, study finds
...erial applications can cover far more acreage than ground spraying from trucks, and are used if the human health risk from mosquito-borne infections is perceived to be greater than the risk of exposure to the pesticide. In this case, the decision to spray by air came after two dozen people in Sacramento C...NSF grant aids ASU biodiversity exploration in China
...and species diversity makes it the perfect testing ground for ecological experiments. There are more than 50 different species of plants that Wu and his colleagues will manipulate by designing various combinations of functional groups of species in 6 x 6 meter (20 x 20 foot) plots. More than 800 plots wil......sion of sulfites in food and medicines. Common ground for nerves, eggs, and flu An electrical signal zips along a nerve cell. When it reaches the end, it triggers small packages of neurotransmitters to fuse with the membrane. The packages, called vesicles, release the neurotransmitters into the space......rom the lasers bounce off leaves, branches and the ground and reflect back to the instrument. By analyzing t...height of the forest's leaf covered tree tops, the ground level below and everything in between. "LVIS is aiding this search effort far beyond what aircraft...