USGS Science at Ecological Society of America
...pecies. The authors examined county- and regional- scale information on native and non-native species richness to determine what makes some areas so susceptible to invasion. The USGS serves the nation by providing reliable scientific information to: describe and understand the Earth; minimize loss of li...The Center of Nutrigenomics of the TU Munich licences Genomatix Microarray Analysis Pipeline
...onsible for co-regulation of involved genes. Large scale genomic database scanning with such organizational patterns identifies additional genes belonging to a common regulatory environment. Dr. Martin Seifert, Vice President of Microarray Business at Genomatix stated: "The Center of Nutrigenomics is an ......demonstrate that a key uncertainty determining the scale of an epidemic and whether it is self-sustaining is the number of times a single instrument is re-used, alongside the infectivity of contaminated instruments and the effectiveness of cleaning. A survey into the frequency of re-use of surgical instrum...Top researcher-educators receive Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
...r-aided methodologies for the design of very large scale integrated (VLSI) circuits at the deep submicron l...s on understanding how random effects on a smaller scale can influence a system's behavior on a larger scale. This kind of behavior is important in phenomena...Stevens' Davidson Laboratory acquires new research vessel
...tudents interested in naval architecture. The full scale vessel can provide data that will be used to verify the students' analytical predictions of stability, powering, maneuvering, and sea-keeping. In a sense, the vessel's on water performance will demonstrate the validity of their class room conclusions...Nano probe may open new window into cell behavior
...rugs or changes in the environment) from the organ scale down to tissue and even the single cell level. "At its core, disease is a disruption of normal cell signaling," said Dr. Andrei Fedorov, a professor in Georgia Tech's Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering and lead researcher on the project. "S...$1.4 million grant helps professor see the light
...E - have to be coordinated on the millisecond time scale so we can see. It's a miracle that it all works," he says....Fundacin BBVA and IDIBAPS reassess the intermittent treatment efficiency against malaria
...ng of malaria were already demonstrated on a small scale in Tanzania, with a study that demonstrated that t...ilot centre to assess the application on the large scale of the Malaria Intermittent Treatment with a preventive aim. ...Neurologists developing first standardized measurement scale for dyskinesia in Parkinson's patients
...34,000 to develop the first comprehensive clinical scale to accurately measure the presence and severity of...ers' scores on these identical cases to refine the scale and the instructions for using it. The physicians will then prepare a teaching tape for widespread...11th International Deep-Sea Biology Symposium
...e deep-sea floor gives me new appreciation for the scale of human impacts on the ocean," says Smith. "We need to recognise that the oceans consist of a stack of tightly connected ecosystems over-fishing or pollution in surface waters is bound to cause problems thousands of metres below." An image of a ...CI partners with responsibletravel.com to promote small scale sustainable tourism venues
...rists interested in authentic ecotourism and small scale ecotourism ventures that are failing because touri...ector. The principal area of weakness for small scale and remote sustainable tourism ventures lies in marketing and access to travelers and travel agents....A boost for European Life Sciences as ESF launch EuroBioFund
...m-up generation of research programmes of European scale and scope: EuroBioGenerator Shape a new funding way in Europe by helping to develop joint investments and funding of life sciences research: EuroBioAccess EuroBioFund's new approach will centre on an annual conference, EuroBioForum, and the first...French-German cooperation extended
...The need for a more efficient joint usage of large scale equipment in marine fundamental research represented an important driving force for the mutual efforts towards the agreement. Operation of Ifremer's remotely operated underwater vehicle 'Victor 6000' from the flagship of the Alfred Wegener Institute,...Creating a window on 'oceans in motion'
...ivities can transform ocean ecosystems on a global scale and the 21st century, so far, leaves little doubt that problems will compound as climate change occurs," says Dr. O'Dor, who is also Senior Scientist for the Census of Marine Life. "We hope that together we can lay the foundation for better manageme...New phase for Global Biodiversity Information Facility
..., it was agreed to move away from a category-based scale to a new continuous funding scale based on gross domestic product (GDP). This was seen as the most transparent and easily understood a...First global bird map provides new clues to future extinctions
...opes this new ability to plot patterns on a global scale will enable conservationists to predict and even slow or reverse future extinctions. The new data provides the first strong evidence that species' range areas are smallest in the tropics and larger in temperate and polar regions. A smaller range area...New study: Pine bark extract reduces ADHD symptoms in children
...ers and parents using the Child Attention Problems scale (CAP), the Connor's Teacher Rating Scale (CTRS) and Connor's Parent Rating Scale (CPRS) and a psychological investigation before treatment, one month after the study began and one month after the end of the study. After one month of Pycnogenol treat...Rangeland repair enters phase 2
... restoration process needs to begin. This type of scale is nothing new for agricultural use, but for military land, it is, he said "Ours is going to be soil specific for the site," Fox said. The department of soil and crop sciences will study the amount of soil compaction and the impact of vegetation in ...Fake malaria drug implicated in Burmese man's death
...erfeit artesunate continues to circulate on a vast scale in mainland Southeast Asia," say the authors. So far, only the Guilin Pharmaceutical brand of artesunate has been counterfeited. Genuine artesunate is relatively expensive, creating a demand among poor, vulnerable people for cheaper alternatives--t......s been tested from the laboratory up to industrial scale through the EUREKA project, and is ready to upgrade existing working waste water treatment plants. Enga Luye points out: "This technology means that for the first time in Europe, we are in a position to say that high concentrations of major pollutant...