and/or combined heat and power stations but technology must be developed for an environmentally-friendly utilisation stresses Dr. Armin Vetter from TLL who has been operating a straw-fuelled power station for 17 years.
and beans may increase their chance of becoming pregnant according to dietitians at Loyola University Health System (LUHS).
The research was led by mathematician Dr Iain Johnston from Imperial College London and plant biologist Dr Ben Williams from the University of Cambridge and is published in the journal elife.
They came together to test whether a new mathematical model of evolution could be used to unpick the evolutionary pathways that led to the advanced photosynthesis. My main interest is in using tools from maths to make some concrete progress in a problem of real biological and social value
said Dr Johnston. Encouragingly for the efforts to design super-efficient crops we found that several different pathways lead to the more efficient photosynthesis--so there are plenty of different recipes biologists could follow to develop to achieve this.
Dr Julian Hibberd from the University of Cambridge the final author on the paper added:
but sustainability studies are needed at population level to insure the protection of this beautiful species. Dracaena kaweesakii is thought to be endangered through having a limited distribution destruction of limestone for concrete and extraction of trees for gardens comments Dr Wilkin
The research is by Dr Diewertje Sluik Department of Epidemiology German Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam-Rehbruecke Nuthetal Germany and colleagues.
Dr. Cohen concludes The outcomes of the CHANGE study provide evidence that a multi-component intervention targeting low-income children living in rural communities in America can improve their diet quality.
and health benefits explained Dr. Rick Green Vice president Technology at POS Biosciences in Saskatoon co-author of the study Our results provide evidence that these fruits do in fact possess such nutritional benefits
and further develop these nutritive-rich ingredients is being sought from the recently established (2010) Global Institute for Food security (GIFS) says co-author of the study Dr. Nicholas Low a Professor of Food Chemistry at the Department of Food and Bioproduct Sciences University
My collaborators Dr. Rong Wen and Dr. Byron Lam at the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute in Florida first sought my expertise in mass spectrometry to analyze cells cultured from a family
They think this mass spectrometry-based detection method will help physicians provide more personalized care to RP patients especially to young children whose retinal degeneration has developed not fully.
when we are hungry explains Dr. Beshel. Dr. Zhong and I wanted to find the part of the brain that might be responsible for these types of behavior.
Is there somewhere in the brain that deals with food odors in particular? How does brain activity change
As Dr. Beshel explains: The more general idea is that there are areas in the brain that might be involved specifically in saying:'
and examining the resulting root system formation Dr. Dubrovsky and colleagues have determined that this molecule can in fact have the opposite effect as previously found
One in three mouthfuls of our food depend on bee pollination said lead author Dr John Bryden from the School of Biological sciences at Royal Holloway.
but if stress levels get too high the colony will eventually fail added Dr Bryden.
Pesticides can have a detrimental effect on bees at levels used in the field said co-author Dr Nigel Raine.
The main objective for Dr Gunda Herberth was to reveal the influence of tobacco smoke on the development of children's immune systems--at molecular level.
For this reason Dr. Gunda Herberth and Dr. Irina Lehmann from the UFZ decided to address the relatively recent research area of microrna.
What we are interested now in finding out explains Dr. Gunda Herberth is whether or not these micrornas link exposure to smoke regulatory T cells and the risk of developing allergies.
After already being able to demonstrate the influence of prenatal smoking on regulatory T-cell numbers in cord blood from our LINA study the current epidemiological investigation delves even deeper into molecular processes Dr. Gunda Herberth
and Dr. Irina Lehmann resume. Now the immunologists from Leipzig explicate we will know more about the molecular processes that trigger off stressors from smoke during pregnancy.
Dr. Thilo Fischer Privatdozent at The chair of Plant Biochemistry and Physiology at LMU and Professor Wilfried Schwab of the Center for Life and Food Sciences Weihenstephan at the Technische Universitã¤t
Their study was supervised by environmental microbiologist Dr. Sebastian Behrens and geomicrobiologist Professor Andreas Kappler of the Center for Applied Geosciences at the University of TÃ bingen in cooperation with researchers from the University of Hohenheim.
We think there is incredible potential for a start-up company to develop new repellents based on Dr. Ray's current research said Michael Pazzani the vice chancellor for research and economic development at UCR.
when we this research was how different nitrogen fertilizer supplements affected the overall soil organic matter composition says Dr. Adam Gillespie a postdoctoral fellow working with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC).
and/or an antidepressant would help reduce them in men as it does in many women said Mara Vitolins Dr. P. H. professor of public health sciences at Wake Forest Baptist
and adolescents who are exposed highly to pro-smoking messages are more likely to smoke said Dr. Dina Borzekowski lead author of the Pediatrics study
This study reiterates that more needs to be done to reduce the ability of tobacco companies to market their products to children said co-author Dr. Joanna Cohen director of the Johns Hopkins Institute for Global Tobacco Control.
The discovery in the October edition of the journal Infection and Immunity may inform changes in the ways doctors treat patients.
Overuse injuries in young people are said definitely preventable Dr. David Martin an orthopedic surgeon at Wake Forest Baptist Medical center.
and many more single-sport athletes said Martin who is director of sports medicine for Wake Forest University athletics and team physician for the Winston-salem Dash minor-league baseball team.
Playing different sports on the other hand is good for young people on multiple levels said Dr. Daryl Rosenbaum who specializes in family medicine and sports medicine at Wake Forest Baptist.
and playing different sports definitely helps with that said Rosenbaum who has been a team physician for the U s. Soccer Federation's under-20
That view is echoed by Dr. Michael Freehill a Wake Forest Baptist orthopedic surgeon who specializes in shoulder injuries and assists as team physician for the Winston-salem Dash.
And it can't be just'Well the doctor says you can only throw so many pitches.'
but it didn't Dr. Fayock said. Based on work by Doyle T. Hall in 1992 Dr. Fayock has created a model that describes how light is reflected by neutral hydrogen atoms coming from the interstellar medium and drifting through the heliosphere.
Neutral particles from space travel through the electrons and ions in the solar boundary and swap electrons with the plasma inside the boundary to generate another highly energized hydrogen atom called an energetic neutral atom (ENA.
Based on the flux densities Dr. Fayock's model maps out the heliosphere and its features like where the heliopause area is expected to be.
When Voyager data is compared to Dr. Fayock's models there is a close correlation. As the model gets farther from the sun things start to change based on the location of the heliopause he said.
The impact of the work Brian is doing is said significant Dr. Gary Zank heliophysics professor and director of the Center for Space Plasma and Aeronautic Research (CSPAR.
which the Voyager team released recently said Zirnstein whose advisor is Dr. Jacob Heerikhuisen assistant professor of physics and assistant director of CSPAR.
Zirnstein's work sheds a great deal of light on the IBEX measurements said Dr. Zank. Tying together the IBEX global view with the extremely microscopic view of Voyager is very important.
For example NASA's Dr. Fayock says funding is drying up for his Voyager work and he is holding on to the hope that an upcoming UAH graduate student may see value in continuing it.
Taking a momentary break during a hectic day CSPAR Director Dr. Zank indulges a visitor to his office by setting aside mounds of calculation-laden journal proofs he's reading
and humans are extinct this craft could still be out there in orbit Dr. Zank said where it will exist for billions more years.
#A snack helps reduce cardiovascular risk in obese childrenresearchers at the Universitat de Valã ncia Universitat Politã cnica de Valã ncia (UPV) Doctor Peset University Hospital
and functional value of the snack a study was conducted involving 48 obese children aged 9 to 15 who were being treated at the Department of Paediatrics of the University Hospital Doctor Peset.
and other substances) said Dr. Pilar Codoã er head of the Department of Paediatrics University Hospital Doctor Peset and professor in the Department of Paediatrics at the Universitat de Valã ncia.
Dr Sue Ward the Senior Research Associate for the project at Lancaster Environment Centre said:
Dr Ward said the study would be of interest and relevance to ecological and climate change scientists and policy makers.
According to principal investigators Dr Matthew Struebig and Anthony Turner from the University of Kent's Durrell Institute of Conservation Ecology (DICE) these findings challenge a long-held belief that there is limited
Dr Struebig Lecturer in Biological Conservation from DICE explains:''Recent studies have emphasised similar numbers of species living in unlogged
'says Dr Struebig.''For biodiversity simple measures such as setting artificial nest boxes for bats and birds may
Lead author Dr Louise Matthews Senior Research Fellow in the Institute of Biodiversity Animal health and Comparative Medicine said:
and assessing the impact of treatment involves coordination between human and veterinary health practitioners. Senior author Professor Stuart Reid of the Royal Veterinary College added:
and effective way without having to resort to a trial-and-error approach says Dr. Ron Scattergood a professor of materials science
and high-temperature alloys for nuclear energy applications says Dr. Mostafa Saber lead author of the study and a postdoctoral research scholar in materials science and engineering at NC State.
Dr Samik Datta of the WIDER group based at the School of Life sciences at the University of Warwick said:
Dr Datta said: Using just two snapshots of data we have been able to reconstruct this epidemic
while the surgeon viewed real-time MRI images of the process. Wake Forest Baptist is one of only 25 medical centers nationwide
While it is understandable that parents may choose to use these products early in the weaning process health professionals should be aware that such food will not add to the nutrient density of a milk diet they conclude.
Rather the use and management of these technologies to gain control of weeds by practitioners determines the risk of herbicide-resistant weeds evolving.
Dr. Dickinson's research currently focuses on how sulforaphane--a naturally occurring compound in broccoli with established chemopreventive properties--could possibly be used to help patients reduce their risk for skin cancer.
What sets Dr. Dickinson's research apart? Instead of eating broccoli to unlock the risk-reduction nutrients she's asking patients to apply small doses of sulforaphane to their skin.
and use of sunscreens we're still seeing far too many cases of skin cancer each year Dr. Dickinson said.
Dr. Dickinson a research assistant professor in the Pharmacology Department at the University of Arizona and a UA Cancer Center member began investigating broccoli's chemopreventive properties
Prior to joining Dr. Bowden's laboratory Dr. Dickinson earned her Phd through the Genetics Graduate Interdisciplinary Program at the UA studying oxidative stress and heart disease.
Under Dr. Bowden's guidance Dr. Dickinson pursued her postdoctoral training and built up an impressive list of credentials in her own right.
As Dr. Bowden transitions into retirement Dr. Dickinson will take over the majority of his lab's ongoing projects including this in depth look into sulforaphane.
I learned so much from working with Dr. Bowden Dr. Dickinson said. He is driven a hypothesis old-school scientist who quietly extracts the best out of everyone around him.
Dr. Dickinson's research shows that sulforaphane is a highly adaptable highly effective agent when it comes to inhibiting cancer-causing pathways (such as the AP-1 protein) while activating chemoprotective genes (such as the Nrf2 gene).
If the research proves to be successful Dr. Dickinson believes this could lead to even more applications for sulforaphane.
if the dosage is measured properly Dr. Dickinson said. We already know that it is very effective in blocking sunburns
and pharmaceutical agents being explored for use in topical prevention of UV-induced skin cancers through the Chemoprevention of Skin cancer Program Project Grant headed by Dr. Bowden and UACC Director David Alberts MD.
Dr. Dickinson's research could potentially lead to a day when parents are instructing their children to not only eat their vegetables
Benjamin Cheong a doctor in the Department of Radiology St luke's Episcopal Hospital Houston; and research scientist Maria da Graã§a Cabreira-Hansen;
and a grocery store tour with a dietitian that focused on healthful eating on a budget.
Marder M d. M p h. of Columbia University college of Physicians and Surgeons New york N y. and colleagues. The Mediterranean diet a diet high in plant foods (e g. fruits nuts legumes
Dr Dan Bebber from the University of Exeter said: If crop pests continue to march polewards as Earth warms the combined effects of a growing world population
The researchers examined data gathered between 1984 and 2008 from 187382 participants in three long-running studies (Nurses'Health Study Nurses'Health Study II and Health professionals Follow-up Study.
Dr Bryony Jones also from the UCL Department of Genetics Evolution and Environment and lead author of the paper said:
Dr Jones explained: Ethiopia has been a crossroads of human migrations in the last five thousand years
and behavior affect how genes express themselves in offspring should help health care providers and public health officials develop more precise prenatal strategies to maximize the health of newborn children.
PSW Research Wildlife Biologist Dr. Hartwell Welsh and Garth Hodgson examined two species of woodland salamanders across four stages of tree development at Mill Creek--a disturbed
and other worms of this type acquire resistance to a wide range of anthelmintics#the drugs used to treat worm infections#says Dr James Cotton senior author from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.#
Lead author Dr Ben Krause-Kyora from Christian-Albrechts University in Kiel Germany said: Mesolithic hunter-gatherers definitely had dogs
Co-author Dr Greger Larson from the Department of Archaeology at Durham University added: Humans love novelty and though hunter-gatherers exploited wild boar it would have been hard not to be fascinated by the strange-looking spotted pigs owned by farmers living nearby.
Dr. Beth Middleton of the U s. Geological Survey National Wetlands Research center and Evelyn Anemaet of Five Rivers Services Inc. discovered a way to simplify the construction of dendrometer bands.
and Missouri Botanical gardens Dr Chris Stapleton turned his attention to the bamboos of Africa. He found that the features of the mountain bamboos were significantly different to those of Asia
'This is a whole new approach to plant nutrition says Dr Peter Leggo of the Department of Earth sciences who developed the material.
According to Dr Matt Heard of CEH: All workers in a bumblebee colony are daughters of a singly-mated queen
because they can devote more energy to reproduction explains Dr Heard. Our findings could help land managers to plan schemes to help conserve bumblebee populations in both agricultural
Dr Claire Carvell the project leader says Ultimately we want to be able to predict which types of landscapes work best for bumblebees
Dr Heard will present the team's findings to INTECOL at Excel London on Thursday 22 august 2013.
He and Dr Carvell are working with Professor Andrew Bourke at the University of East Anglia Dr Seirian Sumner and Dr Stephanie Dreier at the University of Bristol and Dr Jinliang Wang at the Institute
Dr Claire Spottiswoode from the University of Cambridge's Department of Zoology who carried out the research said:
Dr Spottiswoode said: Under these circumstances it makes good sense that honeyguides have a lot to gain from tricking other honeyguides.
and their hosts in Zambia led by Dr Claire Spottiswoode who adds My colleagues and I are very lucky to be helped by a wonderful team of local field assistants who find all the nests we study
Co-researcher Dr Joram Mwacharo added: Of course it's not only some breeds of chicken that produce blue eggs.
Indeed clinicians sometimes smoke alongside patients as a way of creating a rapport with them said Judith Prochaska Phd MPH associate professor of medicine at the Stanford Prevention Research center
which she documents the long history of tobacco in psychiatry sharing excerpts from a 1951 psychotherapy handbook that encourages practitioners to smoke during treatment sessions.
The challenges mental health clinicians have feared when banning smoking have not been borne out by studies. Smoking also can interfere with treatment affecting the metabolism of some psychiatric medications Prochaska said.
I received a call from a clinician asking to make a referral--saying this is a great program.
This new fossil from eastern China is very similar to the Late Jurassic fossil teeth of multituberculates from Portugal in Western europe explained Dr. Luo.
The research was led by Dr Diana Bell and Dr Kelly Edmunds from UEA's school of Biological sciences.
Dr Bell said: Since 1980 an average of one new infectious disease emerges in humans every eight months--representing a substantial global threat to human health.
Dr Edmunds added: We also showed that adopting the Hazard Analysis of Critical Control Points (HACCP) system
Author Dr Kathryn Arnold from the University of York's Environment Department said: Previous studies have shown that male blue tits prefer mates that exhibit highly UV-reflectant crown feathers.
Dr Arnold said: With up to 14 chicks to care for blue tit mothers in our study were feeding their broods every couple of minutes.
Dr Alison Gray and Magnus Peterson of Strathclyde's Department of mathematics and Statistics warn the figures ought to be of major concern
Dr Gray said: This is an extremely high loss rate. In fact the loss rate last winter is the highest we have found
Dr Gray told how bees face many challenges internationally. She said: Honey bees worldwide are having to contend with habitat loss
Dr Vanessa Adams says that late dry season wildfires in Australia's tropical north generate about 3%of the country's annual greenhouse gas emissions so strategic burning could be an important abatement activity.
and fires can burn up to five times hotter than a native wildfire Dr Adams said. We examined the spatial and financial extent of the threat of gamba grass
Dr Zhou says that the reason for carrying out this study was because there was no definite evidence to show that the novel virus can transmit person-to-person plus she
and fish oil use said the study's lead author Dr. Aaron Watson. Supported by another paper published in the Journal of Fisheries
This makes aquaculture completely sustainable said Dr. Allen Place. The pressure on natural fisheries in terms of food fish can be relieved.
Dr. Alan Fahey a lecturer at the University college Dublin said the gilts were studied during two pregnancies.
and Dr. Stephanie Spehar from the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh travelled to the East Kalimantan region of Borneo.
and that some populations may frequently come to the ground to travel they still need forests to survive said Dr. Spehar.
and Dr. Stephanie Spehar from the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh travelled to the East Kalimantan region of Borneo.
and that some populations may frequently come to the ground to travel they still need forests to survive said Dr. Spehar.
Dr Stefan Kepinski senior lecturer in the University of Leeds'Faculty of Biological sciences and lead author of a paper in the journal Current Biology that gets to the bottom of the mystery said:
Dr Kepinski said: We have found that another growth component--the'anti-gravitropic offset'--counteracts the normal gravitropic growth in these lateral branches.
Dr Kepinski added: You can compare it to the way a tank or paddle steamer is steered.
Dr Kepinski said: The angle of growth of branches is an exceptionally important adaptation because it determines the plant's capacity to capture resource above and below ground.
Dr Susan Huxtable Director of Intellectual Property Commercialisation at The University of Nottingham believes that the N-Fix technology has significant implications for agriculture she said:
and behavior such as gustatory perception said Dr. Ying Wang of Arizona State university. She and a team of scientists are behind the experiment titled RNAI-mediated Double Gene Knockdown and Gustatory perception Measurement in Honey Bees.
The researchers further assumed a 12-month gestation period for North Atlantic right whales similar to that estimated for the closely-related southern right whale (Eubalaena australis) by the South african whale biologist Dr. Peter Best.
Cornell hospital clinicians worked to prepare for intravenous medication delivery. In the first such procedure ever done to treat a sick pig surgeon Jim Flanders who had performed similar procedures in smaller animals joined large-animal surgeon Susan Fubini to surgically implant a vascular access port.
They ran a catheter up a vein in Nemo's neck to a port behind his ear creating a route for delivering drugs where they would be most effective
The vets have cared for him with amazing dedication and thoughtfulness especially Dr. Barrell. It's been a wonderful effort on the part of several people:
and its champions worldwide says Datuk Dr. Choo Yuen May the Director General of the Malaysian Palm oil Board (MPOB) an agency of the Malaysian federal government.
and oil yield explains Dr. Rajinder Singh of the MPOB first author of the Nature paper describing the Shell gene.
Palm oil also has the best energy balance of any commercial product currently used in biofuel applications yielding about 9 times the energy required to produce it according to Dr. Martienssen.
and then north along the Gulf stream said co-author Dr Wenju Cai. Together with a greenhouse gas-induced southward shift the Indian subtropical ocean gyres towards the Antarctic these processes delay the Indian ocean warming in the models Dr Cai said.
What makes this work fascinating is the fact that human-emitted aerosols have such a large impact on remote ocean temperatures says Mr Cowan.
and East Africa or the Amazon said co-author Dr. Lauren Coad. However severe ecological changes below the forest canopy driven by hunting are already occurring.
and with them on the future of the forests themselves and all the people who depend on them said Dr. James Deutsch Executive director of WCS's Africa Program.
The study supported by the Natural Environment Research Council was published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. Dr Ed Mitchard of the University of Edinburgh's School of Geosciences who led the study said:
Dr Ashok K Giri who led the Indian research team added: Although high arsenic in rice is a potential threat to human health there should not be any panic about the consequences particularly as the health risks arise from long-term chronic exposure.
The new species A. chamrani has its name in honour of Dr. Mostafa Chamran (1932-1981) an Iranian scientist and defence minister.
and the Verband Deutscher Zoodirektoren Association of German Zoo Directors the Dresden team led by biologists Dr. Raffael Ernst
Dr Cynthia Mcdonnell who led this study commented Parasitized bees tend to leave the colony earlier to perform foraging activity
Lead author Dr Amy Bogaard from the School of Archaeology at the University of Oxford said:'
Children's decision making has explained few dimensions Dr. Adam Drewnowski (CQ) director of the Center for Public health Nutrition and professor of epidemiology at the School of Public health University of Washington Seattle.
and are not making food choices based on health said Dr. Jennifer Orlet Fisher an associate professor of public health at Temple University Philadelphia.
Particle size has bioaccessibility of the energy of the food that is being consumed said Dr. Richard Mattes (CQ) professor of foods and nutrition at Purdue University West Lafayette Ind.
Dr. Roger Clemens (CQ) chief scientific officer of Horn Company of La Mirada Calif. and an adjunct professor of pharmacology and pharmaceutical sciences within the USC School of Pharmacy
Dr. Martin Wickham (CQ) director of nutrition at Leatherhead Food Research in the United kingdom also presented an update at the conference session on similar studies in the European union
Dr Evropi Theodoratou of the University of Edinburgh's School of Molecular Genetic and Population Health Sciences said:
Herbivory is a fundamental driver of plant diversity explains Dr Sarah Barlow who carried out the work
On the bright side said Dr Barlow the slugs did not like the seedlings of some of the desirable wildflowers such as wood cranesbill rough hawkbit and greater burnet.
Newcastle University's Dr Gordon Port a senior lecturer and an expert in pest management said:
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