Vital organs in the Earth system: What is the prognosis?
...an induced global environmental change at the AAAS symposium "Vital Organs in the Earth System: What is the Prognosis?" The symposium features research highlights from a global effort, coordinated by the International Geosphere-Biosph...Mathematics in fact and fiction discussed at AAAS Annual Meeting
...nging nature of mathematical proof, discussed in a symposium at the 2006 Annual Meeting of the American Associa... said. Lorden and Krumholtz are participants in a symposium at the AAAS meeting on NUMB3RS and the challenge of changing public perceptions about math. For his ...Besides food, farming can provide wildlife habitat and reduce global warming
...armland in their communities." Swinton speaks at a symposium entitled "Harvesting Ecosystem Services from Agric...for the Advancement of Science annual meeting. The symposium will be moderated by Frank Lupi, associate professor of agricultural economics and fisheries and wil...Search for alien life challenges current concepts, says U. of Colorado prof.
...she said. Cleland participated in an astrobiology symposium at the annual American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting held in St. Louis Feb. 16 to Feb. 20. In 1976, for example, NASA's Viking 1 spacecraft conducted automated biology experiments on Mars by mixing soil samples with radioactivel...There's something fishy about human brain evolution
...o the table scrap fossil evidence collected by his symposium co-organizer Dr. Kathy Stewart from the Canadian Museum of Nature, in Ottawa. Her study of fossil material excavated from numerous Homo habilis sites in eastern Africa revealed a bevy of chewed fish bones, particularly catfish. More than just fillin...Local involvement in national lands management: Can it work nationwide?
... is needed to make it work." Bronstein moderates a symposium entitled "Adaptive Environmental Management: The V...e Valles Caldera National Preserve as a model, the symposium participants will discuss the strategies in place there, as well as tools that can be used to measur...Bringing the zoos to the zebras
...n September. Rubenstein's talk was part of an AAAS symposium titled "Research Collaboratives for Conservation: Zoos and Universities Working Together." The symposium highlighted recent efforts by zoos to move beyond captive breeding and research programs to integrat...Hooked on fishing, and we're heading for the bottom, says scientist
...r. Pauly will be presenting his views as part of a symposium on international scientific cooperation for the transition to sustainable development at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science February 17 in St. Louis. Dr. Pauly is the principal investigator of the Sea Around......r latest sea lice and salmon findings as part of a symposium called The Rising Tide of Ocean Plagues, February 17 at the Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in St. Louis. Dr. Lewis is a leader in applying mathematical tools to modelling environmental interactions, from ca...Ancient greenhouse emissionspossible lessons for modern climate
... of greenhouse gases. The research, discussed in a symposium at the 2006 Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in St. Louis, suggests there could be some dramatic, potentially abrupt changes in store. "There's an awful lot of knowledge we can gain from past climates,"...Earth Rx: A microbial biotechnology prescription for global environmental health
...a group of international colleagues, gathered at a symposium held at ASU last April to work on a roadmap for biology-based solutions to turn these threats into opportunities. The culmination of the workshop was a paper published as the cover story in the latest issue of Environmental Science & Technology ( ht...Most cave art the work of teens, not shamans
...c Biology at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. A symposium of Paleolithic art scholars in 1979 "... set me on a new course of trying to place Paleolithic art in a larger dimension of natural history and linking artistic behavior to our evolutionary past," writes Guthrie. The book, which contains more than 3...ESMO International Symposium on Prostate Cancer
...anced and comprehensive scientific and educational symposium program. Topics will be selected based on the curr...able to allow media representatives to come to the symposium and get in contact with international experts in specific cancer fields.......s focused on the sons of alcoholics. In contrast, symposium participants at the annual meeting of the Research...ut this period." Gogineni said that she hoped the symposium helped to clarify that the causes of alcohol and drug misuse in men and women are not identical. "C...Chronic drinking and smoking cause both separate and interactive brain injury
...eterans' Affairs Medical Center San Francisco, and symposium organizer. "Specific cognitive dysfunction among ...tively speaking, the research discussed during the symposium may help raise awareness that chronic smoking itself has detrimental effects on the brain and its fu...Three neuronal growth factors may be key to understanding alcohol's effects
... the development of the central nervous system. A symposium at the June 2005 annual meeting of the Research So...at the University of California, San Francisco and symposium co-chair. "The growth factors covered in this symposium insulin, BDNF and GDNF appear to be able ...Mark Estelle of Indiana University awarded Kumho International Science Prize
... also speak on his research during the ASPB awards symposium at the Society's annual meeting in Chicago in 2007. The year 2006 is the first year in which ASPB administered the award selection for the Kumho Cultural Foundation. The selection was previously done by the International Society of Plant Molecular B...Advancing the biomedical frontier: Experimental Biology 2006
...rial function in skeletal muscle and disease. One symposium focuses on the physiology of high performance and ...ncer: Genetic and Therapeutic Applications." The symposium is funded by a grant from the National Institute of General medical Sciences, National Institutes of...Conference to address the challenge of renewable resources
... success." Details of how to reserve places at the symposium will be announced early in the New Year....Predictive health symposium features national experts discussing new model of healthcare
...chnology also are part of the two-day program. The symposium will engage biomedical scientists and leading thinkers in conversations about what the new biomedicine of predictive health can be and how we can make it work. "The Predictive Health Initiative will create a new model of health and healing for the ...