'In the war of words and in the public media biofuels have had to face more accusations than any other renewable energy source such as solar power
These findings may also prove useful for our active members of the military who become'detrained'during injury
Fauquet and his colleagues in the GCP21--an alliance of scientists developers donors and industry representatives--are gathering at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center in Italy this week for a conference dedicated to declaring war on cassava viruses in Africa.
and little-known until about ten years ago CBSD has emerged as the most serious threat among the various cassava viruses.
Whiteflies Ambush a Climate-Resilient Cropinterest in cassava has intensified across Africa as rising temperatures and shifting rainfall patterns caused by climate change threaten the future viability of food staples such as maize and wheat.
But rising temperatures now pose a threat to cassava because they appear to be one of several factors causing an explosion in whiteflies
Scientists will also discuss new research into the potential threat African cassava producers face from the introduction of new diseases currently found outside the continent.
and other destructive viruses like the smallpox of cassava--formidable diseases but threats we can eradicate
It's as if climate change forces warmer climates to flow toward cooler areas making everywhere warmer over time.
and force-feeding it insecticide. It says the results cannot be replicated in the environment. But he also agrees more monitoring of pollinators is needed.
which will aid in surveillance and control of H7n9 infections. Since the effect of poultry-to-poultry infection is understood not really it may become necessary to regulate the activity of poultry markets.
New research indicates that the honey bee diet influences the bees'ability to withstand at least some of these assaults.
Discrete event simulations are used to model irregular systems with behavior that cannot be described by equations such as communication networks traffic flows economic and ecological models military combat scenarios and many other complex systems.
or threatened species the U s. Environmental protection agency National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) and Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) should use a common scientific approach says a new report from the National Research
The two main threats faced by white-lipped peccaries are habitat loss and direct hunting. Story Source:
and diseases and their natural enemies all engaged in the struggle for existence. In order to meet the food demand of nine billion people in 2050 and at the same time reduce our impact on the environment such as the use of crop protection agents
which pose an important threat to crop production. The use of herbicides is an important element of weed control
Density-dependent processes are buying them time for their battle. But without (slow) evolutionary rescue it will not save them in the end says an international team of scientists led by The netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW) in Science this week.
Less effective Yang said are parenting strategies that employ negative reinforcement such as belittling a teenager threats physical discipline
The study led by Christopher Neill director of the Ecosystems Center at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is published this week in the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. This entire journal issue
Story Source The above story is provided based on materials by Marine Biological Laboratory. The original article was written by Diana Kenney.
They are both an economic and a public health threat. While contagion is extremely unlikely in industrialised countries the largest part of the world's population lives in areas where animal brucellosis
and osteoporosis. The nutrient also plays an integral role in modulating the immune system to help fight infections like the flu
There was also no evidence to suggest that it was more effective than limited culling coupled with surveillance to detect other infected flocks.
Studies on wild birds conducted as part of APEIR demonstrated the importance of undertaking surveillance in wild birds to characterise the influenza viruses carried by these birds.
and overhead cables a serious threat. Modern agricultural techniques also endanger the subspecies. Heavy machinery used for tilling land
For Briceã o the scattering of endangered species as habitats are encroached on creates not only external threats--but also extremely limited mating diversity.
#Invasive kudzu bugs may pose greater threat than previously thoughtthe invasive kudzu bug has the potential to be a major agricultural pest causing significant damage to economically important soybean crops.
Deep inside your brain a legion of stem cells lies ready to turn into new brain
Folklore has it that American soldiers from New orleans stationed in Korea in the 1950s learned to appreciate Yak-a-mein on the morning after
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Eastern Canadians are bracing for the B c. MPB's threat to appear in Ontario Quebec and Maritime forests during the next two decades.
#Power struggles are kept best out of the public eye: Audiences influence future status of quails following fights between rivalsfor animals prevailing in a fight affects their likelihood of winning future conflicts.
The opposite is true of losing a fight. The sex hormone testosterone is believed often to mediate this winner effect.
Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology in Seewiesen have examined whether the presence of an audience influences the behaviour and the testosterone changes of Japanese quails (Coturnix japonica) after a fight.
The evidence shows that both winners and losers exhibit raised testosterone levels after a conflict without an audience.
Furthermore both winners and losers are able to maintain their social status within their group. With an audience on the other hand this remained true for winners
Battles for territory and mating partners are widespread in the animal world and are fought usually by males.
The concentration of this substance often rises dramatically during a fight. However the social environment in which the rivals fight their battle can change the context
and affect the role of testosterone for maintaining dominance. Experience plays a role for instance how often the opponents got involved in a conflict
and whether they have met before. Of crucial importance can also be whether the fight is watched by spectators.
Audiences can have a decisive effect on the outcome of a contest between humans too.
With support of the Alexander-Von-humboldt Society scientists working with Katharina Hirschenhauser from the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology in Seewiesen have been studying the influence of mixed-sex audiences on future social status after a fight.
The scientists observed fights between two dominant male quails in a central arena. The members of the respective social group either were allowed to watch the fight or not.
During the fighting phase which lasted an average of seven minutes the eventual winners attacked their rivals 29 times on average.
Although the fights are naturally pretty rough none of the combatants got seriously injured. The winners without exception retained their dominant status (the winner effect.
however even the losers were able to maintain their dominant status. As expected testosterone levels were raised after the fight
After a fight in front of an audience though the losers had lower testosterone levels. The winners on the other hand showed a similar increase to quails that had fought without an audience.
In order to determine whether a change in status after losing a fight in front of an audience could be prevented physiologically the scientists treated the losers immediately after the fight with a testosterone cream on the skin.
They injected the winners with a testosterone blocker directly after the fight and observed their behaviour in the social group.
Apparently the information about a fight essentially determines the loser's future status in its group.
Next the scientists would like to test the direction of information use in other words how the combatants behave
but the observers are informed fully about the fight's outcome. Story Source: The above story is provided based on materials by Max Planck Institute for Ornithology.
The vaccine one of the most effective in use was thought to elicit neutralizing antibodies that attack the virus in the blood.
#New dual resistant tomatoes fight lethal pests with one-two punchin the battle against thrips Cornell breeder Martha Mutschler-Chu has developed a new weapon:
Green crabs won the struggle for the burrows. In fact sesarma crabs survived the tussle only 15 percent of the time.
In other words the presence of a green crab was as effective a deterrent to sesarma herbivory as actual attacks by green crabs.
The other is that ecologists should account for the power of a predator's threat not just its actual attacks.
and won't pose threats to local animals that pollinate. The paper The effects of aluminum and nickel in nectar on the foraging behavior of bumblebees first appeared online March 6 in Environmental Pollution.
Corp. and Fourth Military Medical University in China contributed to the article. Cedars-Sinai researchers were supported by a Young Investigator Award and a Challenge Award from the Prostate Cancer Foundation research grants (P01 CA098912 and R01 CA122602) from the National institutes of health a Department of defense Idea
Award (W81xwh-11-1-0422) and from Spielberg Family Foundation. UCLA researchers were supported by a Creativity Award from the Prostate Cancer Foundation and research grants (R21 CA151159 and R33 CA157396) from the National institutes of health/National Cancer Institute Innovative Molecular Analysis
Over the course of the study black bears were captured both in the wild and at the urban interface in response to conflict complaints.
Because many captures were in response to conflicts the urban interfaces of cities and towns of the Lake Tahoe Basin were included.
The force is concentrated there and that's where it starts breaking. Force on these junctions starts the cracks
The Air force Office of Scientific research and the National Science Foundation supported the work at Rice. The National Natural science Foundation of China the Tsinghua University Initiative Scientific research Program and Tsinghua National Laboratory for Information science and Technology of China supported the work at Tsinghua.
and another type of pesticide coumaphos that is used in honeybee hives to kill the Varroa mite a parasitic mite that attacks the honey bee.
The biggest threat to the biofuels industry is unsubstantiated accusations whether they relate to greenhouse gas savings
. J. S. C. F. A d.)by the Air force Office of Scientific research (Grant No. FA9550-09-1-0418)( J. H.)by the Office of Naval Research (Grant No.
and Paul Schaberg and John Battles of the University of California Berkley Charles Driscoll of Syracuse University Timothy Fahey of Cornell University Lucie Lepine of the University of New hampshire Gene
or very loosely managed until after the Civil war when Texans rounded up the wild herds
The work was funded by the U s army Research Office and the Office of Naval Research through a Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative grant and a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship grant.
For bioenergy researchers the size of the peach genome makes it ideal to serve as a plant model for studying genes found in related genomes such as poplar one of the DOE JGI's Plant Flagship Genomes
Learn more about poplar and DOE JGI Plant Flagship Genomes at http://genome. jgi. doe. gov/programs/plants/flagship genomes. jsf.
In that case they posed little threat to the surrounding apple orchards in central Washington. But the real fear was represented that they an expansion in the range of the invasive apple maggot fly known to biologists as Rhagoletis pomonella.
so they would present no environmental threat in the event of leakagethird-generation biodieselfirst-generation biodiesel
and Technology (ICTA) and involved researchers from the Department of Marine and Oceanographic Biology of the Institute of Marine Sciences of the CSIC from the UAB spin-off Inã dit Innovaciã SL in the UAB Research
Aluminum toxicity comes close to rivaling drought as a food security threat in critical tropical food-producing regions.
Relationships between humans and wolves are linked often to conflicts with livestock breeding activities. Contrary to a widespread belief among western environmentalists these conflicts don't only occur only in western countries
even though their intensity often appears lower in other places. Indeed in many countries livestock breeding activities have been dealing with wolves for centuries
Now they are perceived more as a threat to the Kyrgyz's main capital in times of crisis
In this context wolves are perceived not as the main threat to their future but as an additional threat
and to an increase in the perception of conflicts even in countries where humans and wolves have coexisted continuously.
The results show that the human-wolf relationship is dynamic as well as highlighting the necessity of understanding the broader socio-economical context within which human-wildlife conflicts are embedded
#Community approach effective in fight against diabetesnew research from Wake Forest Baptist Medical center shows that a diabetes prevention program led by community health workers is effective at reducing blood glucose
Other birds under threat in this area include sarus cranes storks ibises and eagles. Rural communities have been left vulnerable to land-grabbing and privatisation of-communal grasslands.
Since 2005 intensive rice cultivation by private companies has rapidly become the most serious threat to these grasslands destroying huge areas at a very alarming rate.
Using surveillance of influenza cases in humans and birds we've come up with a technique to predict sites where these viruses could mix
Often stranded calves are refloated with the nearest mature females under the assumption that this is the mother explained Scott Baker co-author and Associate Director of the Marine Mammal Institute at Oregon State university.
It emerged in Holland shortly after the First world war earning the name Dutch elm disease. It is the most destructive elm tree disease in North america and typically kills most trees within two years of infection.
which no attack took place. Solitary bees responded similarly in the case of flowers that had been attacked by control predators and control flowers.
This will allow managers to sample soil and substrates to test for the presence of Geomyces destructans freeing up limited surveillance funds and time.
By prolonging hot and dry conditions during spring a late monsoon could also trigger more wildfires and force cities to stretch diminished water supplies.
and snowfall thus delaying the onset of the monsoon rains until enough moisture can be moved in from the oceans.
The second-latest monsoon onset was recorded in 2005 but for three years after the monsoon came earlier than average
Those droughts had major environmental and social effects Griffin said pointing out that the late-16th-century megadrought caused landscape-scale vegetation changes a 17th-century drought has been implicated in the Pueblo Revolt of 1680
and lions into much closer proximity the incidence of lion attacks on humans and livestock has increased substantially.
and consequences of threats to insect pollinators and to inform the development of appropriate mitigation strategies.
The root causes of sap exudation before the onset of the growing season which allow trees like maple to be tapped for sap in commercially exploitable quantities have been debated in the biology community for decades explains co-author John Stockie.
In the absence of natural predators populations are continuing to expand--causing a serious threat to biodiversity as well as road traffic accidents and crop damage.
and elsewhere in Europe Increasing deer populations are a serious threat to biodiversity--particularly impacting on woodland birds such as migrant warblers and the nightingale.
A team led by Rice physicist Ching-Hwa Kiang found that shear forces like those found in small arteries of patients with atherosclerosis cause snippets of nonclotting VWF to change into a clot-forming shape for hours at a time.
Kiang associate professor of physics and astronomy and of bioengineering studies the forces involved in protein folding.
Kiang is a pioneer in the use of atomic force microscopes (AFM) to shed light on the fundamental physical processes involved in protein folding.
By stretching these like rubber bands her team has shown it can measure the precise physical forces that hold them in their folded shape.
In this study we did more than just measure the forces; we used those measurements to see what state the molecule was said in Kiang.
and Gell show that engineered mutations in the police gene named Aubergine (others on the force in the experiments are called Piwi Squash
and Modifier of SD act by interfering with Aubergine or its buddies on the force but Reenan said that is among the next things his group will look into.
I call upon the international community to join us in this fight. If we do not reverse the tide fast the African elephant will be exterminated.
and governance as was witnessed during the 2003 SARS threat. Similar action focused on curbing ivory demand is key
And Dr. Douglas Webb of United nations Development Program warned that tobacco use poses a major health and human development threat.
In the early 1990s before the civil war of 1996-2003 DRC was relatively calm. In a 1995-1997 survey of the OFR--a UNESCO World Heritage Site--WCS found that there were approximately 6800 forest elephants living in an area of almost 14000 km2 (8682 square miles.
After the civil war WCS carried out a second survey in 2005-2007 and found that elephants had suffered heavy losses to poaching with numbers having dropped by 60 percent to approximately 2700 elephants.
Despite this dramatic decline OFR had fared much better than did protected other areas during the civil war.
During the war park guards could not protect much of OFR but were able to document elephant kills and ivory poaching.
Since the end of the civil war five years ago park rangers have reduced the decline from approximately 400 to 170 elephants annually.
Rebels launched a deadly attack on the park headquarters in June 2012 killing park rangers
We urge the international community to support the DRC in the fight against the threat of extinction of the forest elephant.
and supports eco-guard patrols focusing their efforts through local intelligence networks and aerial surveillance and ensuring they get the backup they need from the police army and courts.
To stop trafficking WCS works with governments to detect smuggled ivory at key ports and airports at different points in the trade chain in Africa and East asia.
A weapon in the fight against kidney disease caused by high-fat dietsnew insight into grape seed extract as a therapeutic and preventative measure to fight obesity-induced kidney damage is presented in a new study.
and it is becoming increasingly important as we face global threats like climate change. As we strive to find a healthy balance between conservation
although the researchers speculate that hairy bumblebees bristle up under the electrostatic force just like one's hair in front of an old television screen.
While this loss of control probably has a high evolutionary cost it allows the tree to survive the insect-plant war.
and fungi potential threats to their crops these microbes can help wild plants adapt to extreme conditions according to a Penn State virologist.
in addition to avoiding possible conflicts over scare resources said Marilyn Roossinck professor of plant pathology and environmental microbiology and biology.
and food shortages can lead to unrest and wars. Population growth makes this research important as well Roossinck added.
one lightly stamped another with medium force and the final stamped heavily. The preliminary indication is stamped that these decoys were 40 percent better than recently dead females in luring
In Senegal the lack of equipment and qualified human resources for firefighting make late-season fires an especially large threat.
Some health experts regard mycotoxins as the most serious chronic dietary risk factor greater than the potential health threats from pesticides and insecticides.
which attacks leaves and interferes with their ability to photosynthesize. Thirty percent of the trees have no leaves at all
The team studied 19th century maps from English Heritage archives comparing them with aerial photographs taken during WORLD WAR II by the Royal air force as well as more modern day Google earth images.
Some more recent objects have connections to the war years. The team expected several small metal garden tags they discovered to bear the names of plants.
and Mabel Gower--perhaps they worked the allotments that were on the site during WORLD WAR II.
The zinc then interacts with a process that is vital to the fight against infection and by doing
because your defense system is amplified and inappropriately so. The benefit to health is explicit: Zinc is beneficial
In experiments using human monocytes--cells involved in the first line of defense against an invading pathogen--the researchers examined
and he mentioned that 93.5 million years ago there was a mass extinction of deepwater organisms that coincided with a global marine anoxic event--that is the deep oceans became starved of oxygen Lee said.
Lee spent an entire year pouring through WORLD WAR II mining surveys from the western U s. and Canada for example.
and shows too that RNA silencing is an important battleground during infection by pathogens across kingdoms.
Late-onset sepsis commonly occurs in about 22 percent of very-low-birth-weight babies the United states
Over the last three years we have deployed 400 additional parks staff 120 soldiers and 30 gendarmes in our fight to stop illegal killing of elephants for the black market ivory trade.
which when used in nanoparticles might pose a real threat. says Hiram Castillo. Our results have shown also that Ceo2 nanoparticles can be taken up by food crops when present in the soil.
and Wildlife Service superintendent for the Papahä naumokuä kea Marine National monument (Monument) which includes Midway Atoll NWR.
Staff and volunteers stationed on Midway are responsible for monitoring the health of the beautiful seabirds that arrive every year by the hundreds of thousands to nest.
Sue Schulmeister manager of the Midway Atoll NWR said Wisdom is one is one of those incredible seabirds that has provided the world valuable information about the longevity of these beautiful creatures
Present threats to the birds include lead poisoning of chicks on Midway from lead paint used in previous decades;
Research like this supports the idea that proper nutrition can help combat osteoporosis and fractures.
Osteoporosis is considered a major public health threat for an estimated 44 million Americans or half of those aged 50 and older.#¢
The principal threat to most Amazon freshwater ecosystems is large-scale alteration of the basin's natural hydrology.
even though cob residues did slightly delay the onset of runoff sediment loss rates were affected not significantly by the presence or absence of the cobs.
As a result these parks are unlikely to protect such a wide-ranging species against threats in the wider landscape.
The EU ETS is the biggest international system for trading GHG emission allowances and a cornerstone of the EU's policy to combat climate change.
or delay the onset of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). The study published by Wiley in Annals of Neurology a journal of the American Neurological Association
ALS is a progressive neurological disease that attacks nerve cells (neurons) in the brain and spinal cord which control voluntary muscles.
or delay the onset of ALS. Further food-based analyses are needed to examine the impact of dietary nutrients on ALS.#
so that we can witness an increase in the population as public and private groups collaborate to institute measures to protect them from various threats he said.
) This research was supported by the U s. Air force Office of Scientific research Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative by the UK Engineering and Physical sciences Research Council and through a postdoctoral research fellowship from the Alexander Von humboldt Foundation.
This will help chickpea farmers become more resilient to emerging challenges brought about by the threat of climate change.
In the face of the growing global hunger and poverty amid the threat of climate change the chickpea genome sequence will facilitate the development of superior varieties that will generate more income
and juice processors address the threat posed by Huanglongbing (HLB) a disease that is costing the citrus industry millions of dollars each year.
#Depression-era drainage ditches emerge as sleeping threat to Cape cod salt marshescape Cod Massachusetts has a problem.
however Following the Second world war Cape cod developed rapidly nearly tripling in permanent human population between 1940 and 1976
As a fishing enthusiast himself Coverdale does not see ecologists and fishermen as opposing forces.
Regardless the fight cannot be won without implementing substantial climate measures within the next few years. Sulphate particulatesthe project's researchers may have shed new light on another factor:
Lemurs are native to the African island of Madagascar where climate change isn't the only threat to their survival.
Smoke from those fires can travel long distances and poses a special threat for wine grapes.
We are familiar with how animals use a fight or flight strategy to face external challenges.
or salty environments is important in controlling the plant equivalent of fight or flight. To understand how Abscisic acid controls growth the investigators devised a strategy to inhibit the response to this hormone in different tissue layers of the root.
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