I hoping to use the sorghum findings as a launching pad for working with complex genomes of other feedstocks.
and the Adirondacks of New york. For the Hubbard Brook study a helicopter spread 40 tons of dry calcium pellets over a 29-acre watershed over several days in October 1999.
Follow-up on the effect of treatment on otherwise healthy MRSA carriers has also been tightened up.
but this cannot be concluded definitively as MRSA can be transferred between the animals during transport. MRSA found in tank milk from dairy cattle Last year was the first year that tank milk was examined for the presence of MRSA.
Muscled mothsalthough few gym rats want to admit it whispery moth wings and bulging human biceps aren't that different.
The experiment setup involved gluing a moth by its thorax to a support structure attaching a series of electrodes to its flight muscles to trigger its wings to beat at a rapid pace
The results shed light on more than the mechanics of moth flight--it may redefine our understanding of how our own muscles function.
when a moth flaps its wings a bit of a tug of war is happening at a molecular level.
which is the muscle that makes the wings move was cooler on top than on the bottom.
and decelerating wings during flight is enormous and no insect would be able to maintain that kind of energy output.
These will help keep your hands clean and allergens from entering your airways. Wearing large sunglasses will keep pollen
Bayer and colleagues Imran Mahbub Matthew Chappell John Ruter and Marc van Iersel from the Department of Horticulture at the University of Georgia published their research findings in the August 2013 issue
and snacks sugary drinks manufactured foods French rolls and baked or processed potatoes was associated with an increased prevalence of elevated depressive symptoms.
#Sectors damaging the environment are not drivers of economic growthyou could decrease environmental impact without hindering economic growth.
That much fuel would take the average car in the United states more than half a million miles. Though the legumes'nitrogen fertilizer output waned in later years the species nonetheless took up carbon at rates that were up to nine times faster than non-legume trees.
Batterman and Hedin worked with Michiel van Breugel an STRI postdoctoral fellow; Johannes Ransijn a University of Copenhagen doctoral student in geosciences and natural-resource management;
And to visiting the local Virginia Department of Motor vehicles office in late November. You have to be seizure-free for six months to get a license she said.
The eight models (they found that eight is the minimum number to get fish to school in a lab setting) were suspended from the bike wheel with wire.
These reservoir-like compartments hold stem cells which have the ability to develop into various different cell types.
A one-size-fits-all approach can't be applied to the food industry said Michael Walker a postdoctoral fellow in Masanet's group and a researcher on the cap-and-trade project.
and hotels--are on the agenda today at a major scientific meeting in Indianapolis. In a talk at the 246th National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society (ACS) scientists are describing identification of the genes responsible for pesticide-resistance in bedbugs
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#Interstellar winds buffeting our solar system have shifted directionscientists including University of New hampshire astrophysicists involved in NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) mission have discovered that the particles streaming into the solar system from interstellar space have changed likely direction over the last 40 years.
and where we're going in our journey through the galaxy. Additionally scientists now gain deeper insight into the dynamic nature of the interstellar winds
The results based on data spanning four decades from 11 different spacecraft including IBEX were published in the journal Science September 5 2013.
The data from the IBEX spacecraft show that neutral interstellar atoms are flowing into the solar system from a different direction than previously observed.
The latest IBEX measurements of the interstellar wind direction differed from those made by the Ulysses spacecraft in the 1990s.
That difference led the IBEX team to compare the IBEX measurements to data gathered by 11 spacecraft between 1972 and 2011.
Water scarcity is not the main driver of wastewater use in most of Latin america. Rather farmers engage in wastewater use
Under Dr. Bowden's guidance Dr. Dickinson pursued her postdoctoral training and built up an impressive list of credentials in her own right.
Her pilot study in collaboration with Johns hopkins university will test a topical broccoli sprout solution on the skin a group of patients to see
and transportation in picking up their produce box every week. This study shows that food from a CSA program has positive effects on recipient households said Quandt.
and natural processes but is thought to be primarily the result of international freight transportation. The study suggests that the warming climate is allowing pests to become established in previously unsuitable regions.
and leopard conservation that includes protecting the corridors the big cats use for travel between habitat patches is the most effective conservation strategy for their long-term survival.
then into four clusters around 200 years ago when The british Empire cut vast tracts of timber to build railroads and ships.
There are settlements roads and infrastructure that will have an inevitable impact on the corridors and possibly obstruct the flow of genes between the habitats.
In Northwest Montana for example the Montana Department of transportation built 41 fish and wildlife crossing structures 16 miles of wildlife fencing 39 jump outs
To better understand the actual world in which the early farmers lived the BEAN researchers recently visited archaeological sites in western Anatolia on a ten-day excursion.
Those findings are part of a recently published study by David Steward professor of civil engineering and colleagues at Kansas State university.
and was funded by the National Science Foundation the U s. Department of agriculture and Kansas State university's Rural Transportation Institute.
and that at some point in the future groundwater pumping rates are going to have to decrease Steward said.
Steward conducted the study with Kansas State university's Michael Apley professor of clinical sciences and an expert in cattle production;
and present day in those regions Steward and colleagues developed a statistical model that projected groundwater declines in western Kansas for the next 100 years
Once depleted the aquifer could take an average of 500-1300 years to completely refill given current recharge rates Steward said.
and it shows Steward said. Water use efficiencies have increased by about 2 percent a year in Kansas
what decisions are made about reducing the use of the aquifer's water in the near future Steward said.
Steward said the researchers went as high as 80 percent because that closely aligned with the aquifer's natural groundwater recharge rate of about 15 percent of current pumping.
if we're able to save water today it will result in a substantial increase in the number of years that we will have irrigated agriculture in Kansas Steward said.
Steward said he hoped the study helps support the current dialogue about decisions affecting how water can help build resiliency for agriculture in the future.
We really wrote the paper for the family farmer who wants to pass his land on to his grandchildren knowing that they will have the same opportunities that farmers do said today Steward.
Potential applications include treating amputations crush injuries from car accidents or even blast injuries suffered by those in combat zones.
The research was funded by NASA Carbon cycle & Ecosystems the National Science Foundation's Long term Ecological Research Program and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
The maps allowed the team to estimate the location of each colony as well as how far each bumblebee travelled to find food.
NASAS Landsat directs restoration to at-risk areaswhile the 138000-acre Silver Fire still smoldered forest restoration specialists were on the job.
And Landsat satellites built by NASA and operated by the U s. Geological Survey help direct the crews to those forest areas needing attention.
and so sends back a strong signal to the Landsat detector that isn't present over burned areas explained Jeff Masek Landsat program scientist with NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt Md.
or by helicopter Albury said noting that doing so is often infeasible for large fires on remote terrain.
After the Silver Fire for example they identified severely burned areas upstream of a community campgrounds and forest roads.
So crews scattered barley seeds over 11000 acres dropped mulch on 800 acres closed off roads storm-proofed forest roads
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#Genesis and evolution of H7n9 influenza virusan international team of influenza researchers in China the United kingdom and the United states has used genetic sequencing to trace the source
Hong Liu of Florida International University and the Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden; Thomas R. Rainwater of the U s. Fish and Wildlife Service;
We argue that the answer to this question is that cycads are disadvantaged actually by dispersing as lone individuals that may travel long distances
whose curiosity about blue eggs was sparked on a trip to Brazil where he met Professor Jos Antonio Alcalde co-author of the paper.
Reduced exposure to harmful chemicals warrants research of these products as a smoking cessation vehicle says Cinciripini.
High risk times for the disease to spread include during transportation slaughter preparation and consumption.
-Transportation and sale of poultry and eggs. -Purchase and slaughter of poultry from markets. -Preparation of poultry for consumption--particularly in unhygienic conditions and when meat is undercooked raw
We identified poultry transportation slaughter preparation and consumption as critical control points in response to HPAI H5n1 outbreaks in Vietnam.
When you look at a mouse in a cage it's like trying to evaluate the performance of a car by turning it on in a garage Ruff says.
Observations of atmospheric carbon dioxide made by aircraft at altitudes between 3 and 6 kilometers (10000-20000 feet) show that seasonal carbon dioxide variations have changed substantially during the last 50 years.
The amplitude increased by roughly 50 percent across high latitude regions north of 45°N compared with previous aircraft observations from the late 1950s and early 1960s.
Taking advantage of the long-duration and high-altitude-profiling capabilities of the NSF Gulfstream V aircraft also known as HIAPER the HIPPO project was designed to take a'snapshot'of the global troposphere Earth's lowest atmospheric
In the study the scientists compared the recent aircraft data with aircraft data gathered from 1958 to 1961 using U s. Air force weather reconnaissance flights.
These aircraft measurements were done at the time Charles Keeling was beginning continuous carbon dioxide measurements at Mauna loa Hawaii.
While the Mauna loa measurements are recognized now widely as the Keeling Curve the early aircraft data were forgotten all but.
Recent observations aboard the Gulfstream V were made during regular flights conducted during the HIPPO campaign from 2009 to 2011.
The aircraft repeatedly ascended and descended from a few hundred meters to roughly 12 kilometers (40000 feet) in the skies between the North pole and Antarctica.
Additional recent data comes from regular flights conducted by NOAA at a network of locations.
Mauna loa and Barrow Alaska. Other stations operated by Scripps and NOAA only began measuring carbon dioxide in the 1970s to 1990s.
The aircraft-based observations uniquely show the large area in northern high latitudes where carbon dioxide amplitude increased strongly since 1960.
John Kelley of the University of Alaska Fairbanks and Eric Kort of the Jet propulsion laboratory in Pasadena Calif. Story Source:
Soot also known as black carbon is made of fine carbon-based particles that are given off by car and truck tailpipes and wood stoves.
Finally all cars and trucks were assumed to be equipped with advanced soot emission controls. Highest possible reduction isn't so high The research found that cutting soot
author and U-M graduate student Andres Baeza who works in the laboratory of Mercedes Pascual in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology.
Hughes Medical Institute Investigator. Pascual said the findings show that environmental methods for sustainable disease control are needed urgently.
Nokia also provided reliability via dedicated service vans that traveled to rural Indian villages to fix broken phones.
If a microentrepreneur has say a small cart they don't have a lot of capital to risk
Unlike other drugs that target cancer cells from the outside often injuring normal cells as a side effect this therapy consists of multiple drugs chemically bonded to a nanoplatform that functions as a transport vehicle.
Bioconjugates are drugs that contain chemical modules attached (conjugated) to a delivery vehicle by strong chemical bonds.
or separated in tissues or blood plasma during transit. With inventive drug engineering the anti-tumor components activate inside tumor cells.
#NASA fire towers in space watch for wildfires on the risethe Black forest wildfire this June was one of the most destructive in Colorado history in terms of homes lost.
As temperatures warm and weather patterns change scientists from NASA universities and other government agencies are putting their satellite observation
Over the last 30 years we have seen an increase in hot and dry conditions that promote fire activity said Doug Morton a scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt Md.
and Aqua two of NASA's flagship Earth-observing satellites have scanned the surface of our planet for fires.
The recently launched NASA/NOAA Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (Suomi-NPP) and its Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) will continue the measurements from MODIS.
The U s Forest Service is one of the beneficiaries of NASA's fire detection capability
The project uses data from Landsat satellites a mission jointly operated by NASA and the U s. Geological Survey.
NASA recently launched the Landsat 8 and Suomi-NPP satellites which will provide information on fire fuels active fires aerosols and climate:
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#Increase in woodpecker populations linked to feasting on emerald ash borerthe scourge of forests the emerald ash borer
or EAB is described usually with words like destructive and pest. A recent study based on data collected by citizen scientists suggests that one more adjective might apply at least from a bird's perspective:
NASA satellites used to predict zebra migrationsone of the world's longest migrations of zebras occurs in the African nation of Botswana
Using NASA rain and vegetation data researchers can track when and where arid lands begin to green
To track the greening of leaves the researchers relied on the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index data acquired by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer on board NASA's Terra and Aqua satellites.
The team also used NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission data to map daily rainfall which gave the researchers an idea of how much rain was falling in three-hour intervals.
Guiding light among the starshaving access to NASA's free satellite images that shed light on the environmental conditions migratory animals face is something that Beck finds invaluable.
because the timing of their food--insect hatches greening plants for example--no longer coincides with their travel this can have serious consequences for their continued survival.
The above story is provided based on materials by NASA. The original article was written by Lisa-Natalie Anjozian NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.
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#First probable person to person transmission of new bird flu virus in China; But H7n9 is not able to spread efficiently between humansthe first report of probable person to person transmission of the new avian influenza A (H7n9) virus in Eastern China has just been published.
The strength of the study lies in the use of multiple lines of evidence--population modeling molecular genetics ecological trapping border control/airport detections
and European nations with conditions equally hospitable to fruit flies as well as similar patterns of international travel and detections of fruit flies in cargo at ports of entry do not have established fruit-fly populations.
or on infested fruits carried in by travelers from regions of the world where fruit flies were had native
and respiration especially in light of climate change said Lisa Patrick Bentley who led the research funded by the National Science Foundation as part of a postdoctoral fellowship in Enquist's lab
Bentley and her team tested this prediction in five different species of trees: maple oak balsa Ponderosa pine and piã on pine.
and shape of branches Bentley said. They grow within proportion. Take a pine tree for example: It has the general shape of a cone
. If you imagine collapsing all of a tree's outermost branches into one cylinder that cylinder would be the size of the trunk Bentley said.
but trees don't look like that said Bentley who currently is working in Peru as part of her research through a postdoctoral fellowship the University of Oxford.
but in some aspects it needs to be modified to incorporate more variation among species said Bentley.
but the latest findings provide a specific brain mechanism explaining why food choices change for the worse following a sleepless night Walker said.
and ultimately higher rates of obesity said Stephanie Greer a doctoral student in Walker's Sleep
Another co-author of the study is Andrea Goldstein also a doctoral student in Walker's lab. In this newest study researchers measured brain activity as participants viewed a series of 80 food images that ranged from high-to low-calorie
On a positive note Walker said the findings indicate that getting enough sleep is one factor that can help promote weight control by priming the brain mechanisms governing appropriate food choices.
and slow sound waves (known as surface acoustic waves or SAWS) traveling across a surface Fang says.
If acoustic waves--such as the intense shock waves from an explosion--hit the two-dimensional material at a right angle much of their energy can be converted to surface waves that travel sideways out of the material.
and Allen Place of the University of Maryland Center for Environmental science's Institute of Marine and Environmental Technology and Frederic Barrows of the U s. Department of agriculture's Agricultural research service is published in the August issue of Lipids.
and conservation biology will answer reporters'questions in the ESA press room after the session ends.
and in Tanzania is limited to mostly tourists hunting with permits unless the hunt is to eliminate a lion in defense of life or livestock.
The'rainforests-of-the-sea'reefs were replaced by the'gravel parking lots'of the greenhouse world said Norris The greenhouse world was marked also by differences in the ocean food web with large parts of the tropical and subtropical ocean ecosystems supported by minute
and transportation and they're more susceptible to extreme weather disasters. Increased energy access will improve their quality of life
A plantation taking up only about 3%of the Arabian desert for example could absorb in a couple of decades all the CO2. produced by motor vehicles in Germany over the same period.
Other co-authors are Kevin J. Zahnle of the NASA Ames Research center in Moffett Field Calif.;
and David Crisp of the Jet propulsion laboratory in Pasadena Calif. Story Source: The above story is provided based on materials by University of Washington.
or to travel a discovery which may have implications for conservation efforts. An expedition led by Brent Loken from Simon Fraser University
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.
or to travel a discovery which may have implications for conservation efforts. An expedition led by Brent Loken from Simon Fraser University
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.
Children need a good night's sleep for their overall school performance said Kristin Avis Ph d. associate professor in the Department of Pediatrics Division of Pulmonary and Sleep Medicine.
and memory in the classroom affect impulse control and mood regulation lead to anxiety and even depression Avis said.
Avis said kids ages 6-12 should get nine hours sleep nightly as should adolescents ages 13-18
but that's all it takes to affect them the next day Avis explained. If they are deprived chronically it can snowball
and have going to bed a hard time Sunday night Avis said. Monday morning they are tired and it's hard to wake up for school.
Avis recommends a consistent bedtime seven days a week. It keeps their clock set so they can go to bed at a certain time sleep well through night
and wake up well rested the next morning Avis said. Story Source: The above story is provided based on materials by University of Alabama at Birmingham.
supporting past research on the potential transport of pesticides by the elements. California's Central Valley is one of the most intensely farmed regions in North america producing 8%of U s agricultural output by value.
We began working on this after a train commute into Leeds. Looking out of the window
This delay in the modelled Indian ocean warming is likely due to the presence of atmospheric aerosols generated through transport emissions biomass burning and industrial smog together with natural emissions of sea salt
This in turn increases the movement of heat from the Southern hemisphere oceans to the Northern hemisphere oceans via a global oceanic conveyor belt travelling south from the subtropical Indian ocean passing the southern tip of Africa into the south Atlantic
Furthermore previously untouched swathes of forest are being penetrated by roads and subsequently degraded by logging and agriculture.
In some regions of northwestern Europe grassland butterflies are restricted now almost to road verges railway sidings rocky or wet places urban areas and nature reserves.
Human activity is the overwhelming driver of carbon stock patterns in Panama. Panama is one of the first UN REDD partner countries
#Climate forecasts shown to warn of crop failuresclimate data can help predict some crop failures several months before harvest according to a new study from an international team including a research scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt Md.
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It travels more than 1700 miles crossing the plateau and plunging through The himalayas before reaching India's Assam Valley where it becomes the Brahmaputra river.
Examples include the major media companies airlines government universities and others supplying the vast data that feed the Googles and Expedias of the world.
The Singapore National Research Foundation the Office of Naval Research the Lockheed martin LANCER IV program and the Air force Office of Scientific research supported the work.
At sublethal doses the pesticides modulated key enzymes that regulate physiological processes cognitive capacities and immune responses such as homing flight associative learning foraging behavior and brood development.
The studies were conducted under the guidance of Associate professor Suresh Valiyaveettil of the Department of chemistry at the NUS Faculty of science.
According to co-author of the study Professor William Hughes of the University of Sussex:##oeif we don t act then the risk is that potentially tens of thousands of parasite-carrying bumblebee colonies may be imported into the UK each year and hundreds of thousands worldwide.
CLASLITE's high-resolution satellite imaging uncovered logging roads in Brunei and in the Malaysian states of Sabah and Sarawak on the island of Borneo.
Analysis of satellite imagery collected from 1990 and 2009 over Malaysian Borneo showed approximately 226000 miles (364000 km) of roads constructed throughout the forests of this region.
A. eucratides is the most similar species to chamrani in the wing pattern external and genitalia characteristics and it is also the closest geographically.
in order to find out whether these morphologically very variable frogs may be affected by the planned tourism activities. The results will lead in the medium term to a sustainable development plan for the area with Atelopus receiving the role here of a so-called flagship species i e. a species which stands as representative for the protection of the entire area.
whether the use of the area as a destination for ecotourism will not ultimately lead to the loss of a species
and use it for navigation communication and more. Humans can't see polarized light so we rely on devices to do that for us.
He created two types of carpet one with positively charged carriers (p-type) and another with negatively charged carriers (n-type.
The research was supported by the Lockheed martin Advanced Nanotechnology Center of Excellence at Rice university the National Science Foundation the Department of energy the Welch Foundation and the National Institute for Nano Engineering and the Laboratory Directed Research and development
and healthy food choicessweet and salty flavors repeat exposure serving size and parental behavior are the key drivers in children's food choices according to a July 15 panel discussion at the 2013 Institute of Food Technologists
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