Open source and open medicine take centre stage at UN research symposium
Can an Intellectual Property regime designed to protect private interests be reformed to "lock everyone in"? What results when government authorities promote free, open source software in their jurisdictions? Who (if anyone) should own or control access to the human genome sequence? Wh...International biodiversity meeting to take place in Brazil
...er the possible terms and form of an international regime on access to genetic resources and sharing of the benefits. Earlier this year, a meeting in Granada, Spain, resulted in a draft text which could form the basis for further negotiations. Parties will seek to come to consensus on this issue and make ...Progress needed on global regime for access to genetic resources and benefit-sharing
...ty are urged to make progress in defining a global regime on access to genetic resources and benefit sharing...ources. The decision to negotiate an international regime on access and benefit-sharing was adopted in response to the call for action by heads of states at t...Space service for wetlands protection on show at Ramsar COP
...curred during the past decade or more. Water cycle regime monitoring maps are also being created, using Envisat and Radarsat radar data to show flood and retreat patterns. Specialised products available by request include digital elevation models (DEMs) and biophysical data acquired from multispectral sat...Experts urge reform of international patent system at eve of WIPO assembly
...chnologies (UNU-INTECH) warned that the current IP regime is undermining agreed sustainable development targets. Of particular concern is the implementation of the Doha Declaration on the TRIPS Agreement and Public Health, passed at the 4th Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization. Noting th...Clear rules needed to govern deep sea bioprospecting: UNU
...ess to deep seabed genetic resources. Designing a regime for bioprospecting in the deep seabed The report s...a first step towards a comprehensive international regime to protect the deep seabed from over-exploitation. It also suggests the UN General Assembly adopt g...Deeply held values fuel debate over offshore wind power
...rative that Congress devise an offshore regulatory regime that provides for the sustainable use, conservation, protection, and management of the marine environment in a transparent and equitable fashion." Kempton, with Richard Garvine, Maxwell P. and Mildred H. Harrington Professor of Physical Ocean Science...Certain fish have a special mating preference
... modes of speciation. Since variation in predator regime exists between as well as within species, we can test specific theoretical predictions regarding genital evolution to evaluate what processes might have caused the patterns." Langerhans also plans to examine whether other species of livebearing fis...Satellite images give a better picture of sediment transport
...cedure was adopted to study the sediment transport regime operating in the southwest lagoon of New Caledonia. The physics of sediment transport calls for hydrodynamics methods. Researchers use a numerical model that reproduces the currents and material transport that occur, taking into account the constrain...For sardine and anchovy, El Nio events do not always have the same effects
...parts of the ocean. However, when a warm climatic regime arrives (El Nio, El Viejo), upwelling becomes less...ndant at the time owing to the influence of a cold regime (La Vieja) exerted since the beginning of the 1990s, took refuge and aggregated in these small zones...Scientists find both damage and promise for renewal in devastated Iraqi marshlands
...aqi Mesopotamian marshes after the toppling of the regime of Saddam Hussein, scientists have found many problems, but also the promise of partial revitalization, should those problems be solved. During his 24-year reign, Saddam decreed the extensive draining of the original 15,000-square-kilometer wetlands......ycle shortened to less than 1 nanometer, the X-ray regime is entered. The Austrian-German team focused a sequence of intense ultrashort flashes of red light at a gas of helium atoms to convert 700-nm laser light into a 1-nm wave of X-ray light emitted by the excited atoms (Figure). The intense laser fiel...Open microfluidic and nanofluidic systems
...uidics applications, the most important morphology regime is (F) which corresponds to stable filaments. Since this regime covers a relatively small region of the morphology diagram, it can only be obtained if one carefully...Restoration efforts in Iraq's degraded marshes to be described in D.C. news briefing and symposium
...g the 1991 Persian Gulf War. By the time Hussein's regime was deposed, an international panel estimated that the original 7,700 square mile marshlands area had been reduced by 90 percent, in some cases leaving nothing more than salt-encrusted dustbowls. In June, 2003 and again in February and March of 2004...Physics team puts new twist on spin hall effect
...the semiconductor chip that yielded operation in a regime close to the intrinsic spin Hall effect. "They are both beautiful experiments, and one of the most remarkable aspects is that they seem to be exploring opposite regimes," Sinova adds. The possibility of generating magnetization without circulating ...Study in Royal Society journal on managing GM crops for environmental benefit
... in female guppies (Poecilia reticulata): predator regime or resource level by Dr J Arendt and Professor DN Reznick Two factors driving evolution in guppies are predation (some populations have large predators that eat guppies of all size, some have small predators that only eat small guppies) and food lev...Scientists find that the human nose is more complicated than a jumbo jet
...nes or simple curves like an aircraft wing and the regime of airflow is not simply laminar or turbulent." The research has mapped the flow of air around anatomical landmarks in the nose, such as the conchae and has discovered why we need to breathe deeply to smell a flower. Our sense of smell relies on a sa...Australian expertise helps resurrect Iraq's ancient marshlands
...ich were drained and burned under Saddam Hussein's regime in one of the world's worst environmental tragedies. With the fall of the regime, glimmers of hope are emerging after scientists recently entered the marshes for the first time in 20 years. CSIRO's Dr Rob Fitzpatrick was contracted by the consultanc......the control of TB". The prime - boost" vaccination regime combining BCG and the new DNA vaccine has the pote...y for this new generation of vaccines. The vaccine regime jointly investigated by MPI-IB and MOLOGEN is based on a first vaccination ("prime") with the curren...