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Synopsis: 9. security & defence: Defense:

ranging from a complete overhaul of the patent system to more subtle changes such as the inclusion of laws that would allow companies to use an independent inventor defence oe essentially meaning that an inventor could argue that they came up with the an idea on their own.

there was still an increase in the immune systems defence against viruses. The scientists, who are based at the Institute of Food Research in Norwich and the Policlinico Universitario in Messina,

and thus contribute to an antiviral immune defence. The researchers, whose work is published in the scientific journal Immunology Letters

But researchers on both sides say that colony collapse may be the first time that the defense machinery of the post-Sept. 11 Homeland Security Department

The power of that idea in military or bee defense is immense, researchers say, in that it allows them to use

Until that time, safe food buying, handling and preparation is the best defense and some juggling may be needed to avoid breaking the budget.

but this rearing creature is actually a small caterpillar with a cunning means of defence.

The silk could also have applications in bulletproof vests and improved car airbags. Normally getting enough spider silk for these applications requires large numbers of spiders.

California advocacy director for the Natural resources Defense Council. oepolluters will do anything to defeat climate legislation in Washington, D c,

and delivered as online services#rom movies to agriculture to national defense. Many of the winners are Silicon valley-style entrepreneurial technology companies that are invading

Even national defense is based increasingly software. The modern combat soldier is embedded in a web of software that provides intelligence, communications, logistics and weapons guidance.

the military, defense contracting, and real estate, resulting in a practically nonexistent unemployment rate, the lowest property taxes on our list,

and the Non-GMO Project in defense of their participation in the so-called coexistence#talks with the USDA and proponents of GE alfalfa.

The companies who have posted defenses of their participation in these talks have said, to a one,

weeds are continually adapting defenses to survive nonetheless. These superweeds#will require the use of stronger,

#In Apple s defense, it might argue that those superior revenues are accompanied not by significant profits.

It can mount a defense when under siege, and warn its neighbors of trouble on the way.

So the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency at the Pentagon has developed a hand-held wand that snuffs out fires, without chemicals.

because it seems to offer the bees some natural defense.##LINK (Credit: Image courtesy of North carolina State university) Share Thissubscribedel. icio. usfacebookredditstumbleupontechnorati o

The average American throws away 33 pounds of food each month#about $40 worth#according to the Natural resources Defense Council,

our best defense against hackers and identity theft remains the lowly password and our ability to remember it

Every so often, Thrun recalls, military contractors, funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, would roll out their latest prototype.#

#oeall of us were in denial that this could be done.##Then, in February of 2008, Levandowski got a call from a producer of#oeprototype This!#

Putting the genes for this defense into wheat has created a crop that could trick the insects into thinking that they are in peril and drive them away.

Op-Ed Steve Schwartzman director of tropical forests policy for the Environmental Defense Fundâ contributed this article to Livescience's Expert Voices:

The Instituto Socioambiental one of Environmental Defense Fund's partners in Brazil is helping the Xingu indigenous groups learn how to control

#As Superbugs Rise, New Studies Point To Factory Farms (Op-Ed) Peter Lehner is executive director of the Natural resources Defense Council (NRDC.

The natural honey has components in it that help trigger defenses in the bees said Jay Evans a bee pathologist at the U s. Department of agriculture's Agricultural research service in Maryland who was involved not in the study.

#Building a Drought-Proof Farm (Op-Ed) Peter Lehner is executive director of the Natural resources Defense Council (NRDC.

Howes spends about an hour weekly on the roof of the Manhattan office of the Natural resources Defense Council where he is the director of online communications.

#Coffee Farms Falter as the World Heats Up (Op-Ed) Peter Lehner is executive director of the Natural resources Defense Council (NRDC.

A forestry expert quoted by the Natural resources Defense Council describes clear cutting as an ecological trauma that has no precedent in nature except for a major volcanic eruption.

10 Tales from the Crypt & Beyond A modern problem As an example of the modern rhetoric that Sachs believes sets back the environmental movement he read from a plea he had received from actor Robert Redford supporting a Natural resources Defense Council fight

They are also places of denial far removed from our daily lives and our patterns of consumption he said.

and structures as well as applying new research that overturns longstanding conventional wisdom about fire defense experts say.

and to read the summary of this film provided by the organization Predator Defense. The secret war on wildlife refers to

When a specific bacterium develops a defense against some drug the corresponding gene can pass horizontally to others in the same colony.

In addition many of Madagascar's plants have evolved defenses against large herbivores such as spines and multiple leaf shapes that protect young sprouts from browsing tortoises.

along with remains of three bulwarks used to strengthen its defences. They also found five churches (one replacing the other) row houses including a structure that appears to be the governor s house a blacksmith shop and barracks among other features.

#Keystone XL Pipeline Will Cause Damage Beyond Spills (Op-Ed) Danielle Droitsch is director of the Canada Project at the Natural resources Defense Council (NRDC.

Op-Ed Suzy Friedman sustainable agriculture director for the Environmental Defense Fundâ contributed this article to Livescience's Expert Voices:

For a decade the Environmental Defense Fund has been working with farmers and other partners in the Western Lake erie Basin to reduce fertilizer and sediment runoff.

#Real-life Smoking Caterpillar Uses Nicotine as Defense Ripped from the pages of Lewis carroll's Alice in wonderland scientists have discovered a smoking caterpillar of sorts.

Video See the Smoking Caterpillars in Action It's really a story about how an insect that eats a plant co-opts the plant for its own defense said study researcher Ian Baldwin a professor at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical

The scientists then placed so-called interference RNA matching that gene in tobacco plants grown in the lab. The interference RNA targeted that gene preventing the caterpillars from using their defense.

This defense Berenbaum noted has the advantage of warning a predator of a prey's toxicity without requiring the prey to lose a limb.

whether hornworm caterpillars have other defenses against predators. For instance the caterpillars also consume plants such as tomatoes which contain alkaloids that are not volatile like nicotine is.

#Scientists Speak Out on Harm of Research Hiatus (Op-Ed) Perrin Ireland is senior science communications specialist for the Natural resources Defense Council.

#Sell-By Labels Send Edible U s. Food to the Dump (Op-Ed) Peter Lehner is executive director of the Natural resources Defense Council (NRDC.

Too Many Trees (Op-Ed) Jamie Workman writer for the Environmental Defense Fund contributed this article to Livescience's Expert Voices:

as a result of human activities said Stacy Small-Lorenz a conservation scientist at the Environmental Defense Fund an environmental group whose mission is to protect the natural environment.

#5 Huge, Efficient Wins for the Environment in 2013 (Op-Ed) Peter Lehner is executive director of the Natural resources Defense Council (NRDC.

This is a defense tactic when the animals feel threatened. The large beasts make a variety of moans groans and deep throaty bellows.

That is why a single tropical tree may have hundreds of distinct chemical compounds in its defence arsenal against herbivores which makes the analysis harder.

To understand these defences on an ecosystem scale requires the use of metabolomics which is the study of chemical fingerprints left behind by an organism.

and Panama show that neighbouring plants mostly have different defences than would be expected if it were a random process in other words the Red Queen seems to be in action.

Most convincingly closely related trees and shrubs have diverged often defences which is a sign of exploring biotic interaction niches

but have similar non-defence traits which results from similar abiotic conditions that they find themselves in.

They may have been used for defense drainage or perhaps ceremonial or religious reasons. But the new research addresses another burning question:

More than 60 miles of the river run dry according to the National Resources Defense Council and increased pressure on the river'

#The Benefits of Digging in the Dirt (Op-Ed) Laura Wright Treadway is a regular contributor to Onearth magazine published by the Natural resources Defense Council.

#Equipment Megaloads"on Roads Add Twist to Tar Sands Debate (Op-Ed)" Bobby Mcenaney is senior lands analyst at the Natural resources Defense Council (NRDC) and deputy director

Previous research has shown that sulforaphane may help improve the body's defense against oxidative stress.

or black to warn potential predators of their odorous defences. The motivation for my research came partly from history

As a result of animal agriculture's impact on climate change organizations like the Natural resources Defense Council and the Sierra Club support eating more plant-based meals.

and the cholera epidemic in the 19th century the long-lasting denial of the harm of tobacco smoking in the 20th century global warming and climate change in the 21st century) when the translation of science into practice clashes with vested interests.

We chose April 17 as it had been designated as the International Day of Struggles in Defence of Peasants

A sloth only has its claws for defense against predators. However its very low level of movement

which are used for territorial defense and sexual selection. They curve backward forming a semicircle and have knobby rings on the outer curve.

Monarchs are Fading away (Op-Ed) Peter Lehner is executive director of the Natural resources Defense Council (NRDC).

But (Op-Ed)" Peter Lehner is executive director of the Natural resources Defense Council (NRDC). This Op-Ed is adapted from one that appeared on the NRDC blog Switchboard.

Birds with angel wing are stripped of their ability to fly and therefore their main method of defense.

#7 Easy Ways to Save Water This Summer (Op-Ed) Peter Lehner is executive director of the Natural resources Defense Council (NRDC.

says WASHINGTON DC-based David Doniger, a policy director for the Natural resources Defense Council. Michael Wara, a researcher at Stanford university in California, is convinced less that HFCS need be addressed under the Montreal Protocol.

Meanwhile, new types of stripe rust that can overcome the defences bred into commercial varieties have sparked a separate epidemic in the United states. It is amazing that we are still fighting this battle,

These defences target a specific molecule produced by the fungus, and in time, the fungus often evolves a way to modify the molecule,

Increasingly, breeders are turning to a class of defence gene with a broader spectrum of resistance.

that boosted defences against all known types of stripe rust. Dubcovsky and his colleagues now report that that Yr36 encodes a protein that may activate a protein signalling cascade in response to lipids,

says David Doniger, who handles climate policy issues for the Natural resources Defense Council in WASHINGTON DC.

The US Department of energy has awarded $151 million to 37 research projects through the recently formed Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E). Based on the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency,

says Steve Schwartzman, who heads tropical forest policy for the Environmental Defense Fund in WASHINGTON DC. This is a major step.

To that end, NASA and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency hosted a conference this month to look at strategies for removing debris. The solutions floated include space tugs and Earth-based lasers.

Conservationists worry about such inbreeding because it means that more animals rely on the same set of genetic defences to overcome environmental threats,

The recent ruling meant that Singh would have been able to use a defence commonly referred to as'fair comment

Wind-energy companies have struck a compromise with the UK Ministry of Defence, which was blocking the development of five wind farms on England's east coast.

because spinning turbine blades can confuse air-defence radar (see Nature 451,746; 2008). ) But under an agreement announced on 31 march,

the appeal judgment means that he is able to use the defence of'fair comment'under British libel law.

and the wheat plants have fewer defences against infection, says Pretorius. Pretorius and his team analysed the genomes of the new stem rust variants

India defence research: India's largest military technology research body is set for a management revamp under government measures announced on 13 may.

The 52-year-old state-owned Defence Research & development Organisation currently employs more than 5, 000 scientists in 51 laboratories.

And it made her reconsider her uncritical defense of the IPCC over the years. Curry says,

director of renewable energy policy for the Natural resources Defense Council in New york. There's a sort of belief in Washington that corn ethanol is one of these topics where everyone has to toe the line,

a'Quadrennial Energy Review',modelled on an existing defence review. Oil-spill budget Scientists have welcomed a long-awaited peer-reviewed US government report on the short-term fate of the oil from the Deepwater horizon spill in the Gulf of mexico this summer.

People German plagiarism Germany's defence minister, Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg (pictured), has resigned after a row over plagiarism in his Phd thesis. The University of Bayreuth withdrew Guttenberg's doctoral thesis

and, ultimately, to strengthen these defences. You can breed for these traits, but with genetic markers you could do it faster,

will not be restarted until Chubu completes existing plans to upgrade seawall defences there. The suspension has worried both utilities and local industry,

There they could potentially take advantage of the country's weakened defences and multiply into the kind of swarm that has ravaged previously large swathes of Africa and the Middle east.

In 2010, the UK government allocated £2. 1 billion to flood defence throughout the country over a four-year period 8%less than was allocated by the previous government.

The National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility (NBAF) in Manhattan, Kansas, is designed to provide BSL-4 containment for large-animal studies

North carolina, part of the US Department of agriculture (USDA), who notes that 383 known weed varieties have the genetic defences to survive one or more herbicides."

says Steve Schwartzman, director of tropical forest policy at the Environmental Defense Fund in WASHINGTON DC.""But the changes proposed in what passed the House are fully capable of reversing that trend.

The largely critical review suggests that the proposed National Bio-and Agro-Defense Facility (NBAF), scheduled to open in 2020,

With no vaccine or cure for the disease, mass culls and vigilant hygiene offer the main defence.

We have made also critical investments in research and development to bolster our national security and defense. And my budget continues to support making permanent the R&d tax credit

Plant defenses which can include induced cell fortification, cell suicide, toxic chemicals, and defensive enzymes and proteins typically were sufficient to keep the infection in check,

itself inspired by a similar defence-department programme, says Cohen. Once technologies are developed, government agencies could use their buying power to expand production

A former postdoctoral researcher at St jude Children s Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, Bois last year successfully challenged a DHHS judge s denial of his request for a defence hearing.

In 1999, they finally produced a tasty variety that contained the Vf defence gene, bred in from an unappetizing relative.

Even armed with modern breeding techniques and 15 Â known defence genes in the apple family

"Our defences, pesticides and fungicides, are being asked to deal with larger and larger numbers of pests and diseases,

and climate-change denial in schools. Reid, formerly director of the American Academy of Microbiology in Washington  DC, will replace retiring NCSE director Eugenie Scott,

so the plants don t turn up all their stress defences, says Rodriguez. Those findings led him to look for other endophytes optimized to tackle the problems likely to be caused to particular food crops by climate change (R.  S.  Redman et  al.

The defence department sponsored the report to help to address the prevalence of psychological problems,

Investigators found no evidence in any of the wolves of contributing factors to the attack such as rabies disease defense of food or habituation to human food.

Even a pine tree burned in a forest fire does not release as much carbon as a pine tree burned in a power plant Niel Lawrence a National Resources Defense Council lawyer told Greenwire.

Science denial is just something we have to deal with like moon hoaxers birthers and truthers.

To the defense of the religious it does appear that no man-made treatments or cures are as good as Stem Cell Therapies

This blog post from National Resources Defense Council lawyer Avinash Kar summarizes that argument. The National Resources Defense Council has sued the FDA over the use of antibiotics in farm animals.

âÂ#Âoethis is a critical issue because obviously we want the effect to be real

and after WORLD WAR II broke out it began to shore up its defenses building hundreds of bunkers

There are only two things we should fight For one is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of rights. War for any other reason is simply a racket.

This was not just self defense it was defense of the entire human race. It was a winner.

because they were key manufacturing centers that directly supplied the coastal defenses where Operation Olympic was going to land.

If my immune system can't mount a defense against an invader it matters little whether my body has been introduced previously to that pathogen.

The PLANETARY DEFENSE is not to protect Earth from men from Mars. Nothing would live long on Mars well more than 100 times a year every year it is impacted from meteors of all sizes.

The PLANETARY DEFENSE It is for all mankind with most all Nation in on it to stop

and produced natural chemicals normally made for plant defense that may be healthful for humans. The biologists from Rice university in Texas and the University of California at Davis performed a series of experiments on Arabidopsis thaliana plants exposed to 12-hour cycles of light and dark.

Oil companies have ZERO incentive to engage in'Global Warming Denial'whatever that is. 1. Oil is the only game in town

So they face no significant threat. 2. They have need no to deny fallacies it's counter-intuitive to even refer to dismissing an unsubstantiated theory as denial.

But go ahead and continue with your denial so you can keep your republican agenda...@Frosttty historically warmer earths have supported more life.

or will you continue to be in denial and stay moronic? People are ignorant. The media encourages a common misconception that global warming implies warmer temperatures throughout the planet.

You do not want to know how many are on the PLANETARY DEFENSE list. The PLANETARY DEFENSE is not to protect Earth from men from Mars. It is for all mankind with most all Nation in on it to stop

if can most all collision with EARTH from a ASTEROID IMPACT. It is if you will a AVOIDANCE SHIELD.

Those applications are numerous according to Patrick Egan an editor at the unmanned systems news site SUAS News and a civilian researcher for the U s army Space and Missile Defense Command.

and yet current modern human culture is in denial about the document written history given to them from the (beings that come down from above) who created humans to serve the GODS via the Sumerian tablet history.

Before you let your self righteous fingers type out another defense for a POPSCI article

In your defense you must be a good electrician to only pay about $220 in power utilities in a house that big.

Defence Budget? No one should want to live on mars. At least not until they discover water in other locations than the ice caps.

With that milestone looming organizations like the U n. the Natural resources Defense Council and Food Tank are working on ways to make food systems more efficient.

A week or so of this may mend your defenses and send you back into the fight refreshed

and we can easily justify it as a means of defense. But it is possible that we may be driven back to our mother the sea

but it also puts the pain in defense repellants has antifungal properties and serves as nice ornamental foliage.

and defense--and it lets you design a strategy to control it Gabriel said. Researchers often liken having the genetic sequence for an organism to having its list of parts.

and seed size and production defense against pests and pathogens and response to abiotic stresses such as drought and ozone Pandey said.

and a susceptible one and studied their defense responses to Radopholus similis. Phenylphenalenones: Local accumulation of defensive substances in infected regions of root tissues inhibits further propagation of the pestthe researchers used modern spectroscopic analysis

and localize defense substances in banana roots: The plants accumulated so-called phenylphenalenones only in infected regions of their roots but not in healthy tissues.

and translocate the defense compounds on a molecular level. Such insights will provide important clues for the development of banana varieties which are resistant to the nematodes.

The chemical compounds play a key role in the insect's ability to find a mate and to overcome tree defences.

Plant pathologists Dr Joan Webber from Forest Research the research agency of the Forestry Commission and Professor Clive Brasier found that the defence mechanisms which the Chalara fraxinea (C. fraxinea) fungus

Whitefly experimentation to prevent contamination of agricultureon November 8th Jove the Journal of Visualized Experiments will introduce a new technique to aid in the development of defenses against diseases threatening food crops worldwide.

Therefore the whitefly-assisted transmission method provides researchers with a powerful means for continued experimentation in developing plant defenses against the threat of whitefly-transmitted disease.

and defense of leaves by ants--was greater at sites with longer dry seasons. Laurel trees don't feed ants sugar directly.

#Bee sting allergy could be a defense response gone haywirefor most people a bee sting causes temporary pain

Immune cells called mast cells which reside in most of the body's tissues are poised to unleash signals that turn on defense responses

Adaptive immunity is usually a faster more specific and more effective form of defense than innate immunity.

and that allergies are an extreme and maladaptive example of this type of defense. This idea known as the toxin hypothesis of allergy was proposed first by Margie Profet in 1991

Drought conditions appear to decrease host tree defenses against spruce beetles which attack the inner layers of bark feeding

and tree defenses like pitching beetles out of tree interiors with resin were likely high.

In the case of Botrytis cinerea small RNAS silence the expression of host defense genes resulting in the host plant cells being less able to resist the fungal attack.

The research which was supported by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) was published online August 31 2013 in the journal Carbon.

Rhizobia eventually developed a chemical to inhibit the defense response in legumes and make those plants recognize it as a friend.

#African breed of cattle harbors potential defense against life-threatening parasiteevery year millions of cattle die of trypanosomosis.

also increased antioxidant defences and decreased markers associated with oxidative DNA damage and inflammation all cardiovascular risk factors.

His study of the brown rot fungi led him to study tree defenses at the nanostructure scale.

#New cell component important to tea and wine-makingscientists have discovered where plants build tannins complex chemicals used by plants for defence and protection.

or proanthocyanidins are thought to play diverse roles such as defense against herbivores and pathogens or ultraviolet protection.

This strategy of opening holes in the cell membrane is employed by a great number of host-defense antimicrobial peptides many

or no defense against it Liebhold said. We can take heart that native woodpecker species are clearly figuring out that EAB is edible

The work was supported by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency and the National Science Foundation. Story Source:

unless the hunt is to eliminate a lion in defense of life or livestock. Still lion hunting regularly occurs in both countries usually without the hunters'following the law.

which tend also to be plant defense chemicals Olsen says but it is weed basically a.

The new species A. chamrani has its name in honour of Dr. Mostafa Chamran (1932-1981) an Iranian scientist and defence minister.

and tolerate the plant's defenses a little better the researchers report. This boost in digestive finesse allows rotation-resistant beetles to survive long enough to lay their eggs in soybean fields.

and to their ability to tolerate soybean plant defenses. The researchers found other parallels between the composition of gut microbes and the life history of the rootworms.

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