In susceptible varieties the fungus kills the infected cells in the head thereby plugging the transport of water and nutrients to the upper part of the head.
The meeting is being held at the Dallas Convention Center and area hotels through Thursday. We found that there are two kinds of microbes in the gut:
because if you don't you'd have to travel to Delhi or another major city. The ADM Institute for the Prevention of Postharvest Loss that provided the funding for this research is interested in storage and
NASA findsa new NASA-led study seven years in the making has confirmed that natural forests in the Amazon remove more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere than they emit
Fernando Espã rito-Santo of NASA's Jet propulsion laboratory Pasadena Calif. lead author of the study created new techniques to analyze satellite and other data.
Espã rito-Santo said that the idea for the study arose from a 2006 workshop where scientists from several nations came together to identify NASA satellite instruments that might help them better understand the carbon cycle of the Amazon.
For example fallen trees create a gap in the forest canopy that can be measured by lidar on research aircraft
We found that large natural disturbances--the sort not captured by plots--have only a tiny effect on carbon cycling throughout the Amazon said Sassan Saatchi of JPL also a co-author.
and the Carnegie Institute for Science Stanford Calif. NASA monitors Earth's vital signs from land air and space with a fleet of satellites and ambitious airborne and ground-based observation campaigns.
NASA develops new ways to observe and study Earth's interconnected natural systems with long-term data records
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#Reintroduction experiments give new hope for plant on brink of extinctiona critically endangered plant known as marsh sandwort (Arenaria paludicola) is inching back from the brink of extinction thanks to the efforts of a UC
This information provided guidance for larger-scale reintroduction experiments in the Golden Gate National recreation area (GGNRA) in Marin county. We think water parsley might be a good indicator of moisture
since none of the species are strong fliers. As highly visual predators the bark mantis species appear to be active hunters that pursue prey as opposed to ambush hunters that wait for prey to come close.
#Researchers take on fighting disastrous consequences of extreme changes in climate before they occurhow can communities dodge future disasters from Mother Nature before she has dealt the blow?
A woman from Guangdong Province who was traveling in Malaysia and is presumed to have contracted the virus in China.
The silent carriage also creates a conflict between poultry producers who want to preserve their flocks
#Astronomers complete cosmic dust censusan international team of astronomers has completed a benchmark study of more than 300 galaxies producing the largest census of dust in the local Universe the Herschel Reference Survey.
Led by Dr Luca Cortese from Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne Australia the team used the Herschel Space Observatory to observe galaxies at far-infrared
and physical properties in galaxies other than our own Milky way said Dr Cortese'Cosmic dust is heated by starlight to temperatures of only a few tens of degrees above absolute zero
and SPIRE data shows that the properties of grains vary from one galaxy to another--more than we originally expected.
As dust is heated by starlight we knew that the frequencies at which grains emit should be related to a galaxy's star formation activity.
However our results show that galaxies'chemical history plays an equally important role commented Dr Cortese.
It is particularly an issue for the most distant galaxies which have a star formation and chemical history significantly different to the one in our own Milky way.
The data obtained for the Herschel Reference Survey have been made publicly available to allow further studies of dust properties in nearby galaxies.
will help astronomers to further unveil the mystery of cosmic dust in galaxies in the years to come.
It is being held at the Dallas Convention Center and area hotels through Thursday. This tag which has a gel-like consistency is really inexpensive and safe
Domestic animals such as chickens carried on these early voyages have left behind a genetic record that can solve some of these long standing mysteries.
In addition to land purchases the project recruits both local rangers and even former maleo hunters to guard nests from egg poachers.
Linden who called the 16 teams a family of researchers said the foundation has funded trips for CU-Boulder team members to collaborate with the other institutions in places like Switzerland South africa and North carolina.
says academicas part of the Psychology Invited Speakers Seminar Series at the University of Leicester Professor Jason Hughes from the University's Department of sociology will today argue that e-cigarettes which are currently unregulated throughout the United kingdom will soon face legislation that will restrict
Professor Hughes said: In the near future e-cigarette use will be restricted tightly in Europe and perhaps altogether banned in certain public places;
Professor Hughes argues future legislation that positions e-cigarettes as'therapies'which require tight regulation may drastically diminish their appeal.
and profits at a booster-run concession stand in Iowa that offered healthy food items from apples to string cheese over two fall seasons.
In the fall of 2008 the booster club in Muscatine Iowa took a chance. Researchers from the University of Iowa asked
Booster clubs across the United states directly support schools'athletic and extracurricular programs like band and choir.
I don't think without revenue from booster clubs especially with how schools are cutting things how they'd be able to do it says Kate Hansen a former president of the Muskie Boosters.
To date six other school booster clubs in Iowa have added healthy foods to their concession menus following a how-to guide written by Laroche based on her experience in Muscatine.
Booster groups have worried that healthier items wouldn't sell and it's important for them to make money to support student activities Larochesays.
I think what it comes down to is people want to have choices says Hansen who was the Muscatine booster club president during the study.
He divided a flight cage into two compartments. One was naturally dark and the other was illuminated by a sodium street lamp the most common form of street lighting in the world.
The results revealed that bats flew into the dark compartment twice as often as the compartment lit by a street lamp.
The bats also harvested fruits almost twice as often in the dark compartment. In a second experiment Lewanzik illuminated pepper plants growing in the wild with a street light
'when defecating seeds while flying. By reducing foraging of fruit-eating bats in lit areas light pollution is likely to reduce seed rain he commented.
Their relatively broad wings allow them to fly slowly and to manoeuvre elegantly within the dense forest.
The histamine travels through the blood and latches onto histamine receptors on other cells causing them to swell.
or in the car) to keep pollen out. â#¢Installing your air conditioners early since they're ideal for filtering the outside air that comes into your home. â#¢Washing your hair after coming indoors. â#¢Refraining from mowing lawns
The multiyear study was conducted on Cornell land near Freese Road in Ithaca where the deer density is about 39 animals per square kilometer--about 10 times greater than it was before European settlement in the late 1700s.
#Biofuel-to-hydrocarbon conversion technology licensedvertimass LLC a California-based start-up company has licensed an Oak ridge National Laboratory technology that directly converts ethanol into a hydrocarbon blend-stock for use in transportation fuels.
The technology could also supply a source of renewable jet fuel required by recent European union aviation emission regulations.
and widely license breakthrough technologies that substantially expand the use of sustainable transportation fuels that reduce greenhouse gas emissions
Commercialization will lead to the widespread use of proprietary Vertimass technology for low cost production of sustainable transportation fuels for aircraft and heavy and light duty vehicles from multiple sources of biomass on a large scale.
and genetic data providing new insight into the drivers of viral diversity and the emergence of disease that can ultimately impact human health and livelihoods.
Cruise and researchers from the University of Maryland-College Park and the U s. Dept of agriculture's Hydrology and Remote Sensing Laboratory in Beltsville Md.
Vegetation cover is estimated using the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) scientific instrument launched into Earth orbit by NASA in 1999 on board Terra (EOS AM) and in 2002 on board the Aqua (EOS PM) satellites.
and government officials in the more arid countries of the world says collaborator Cruise the principle researcher from UAH's Earth System Science Center.
The main impetus was to run this model in areas where you don't have a lot of precipitation to start with Cruise says.
There are potentially many different gradients Cruise says where the area being measured could be downsized. Story Source:
#Ancient Chinese medicine put through its paces for pancreatic cancerthe bark of the Amur cork tree (Phellodendron amurense) has traveled a centuries-long road with the healing arts.
The methane bubbling up from a single palm oil wastewater lagoon during a year is roughly equivalent to the emissions from 22000 passenger vehicles in the United states the analysis found.
but new crevassing of the ice prevented the team landing by plane at many planned locations.
This powerful analytical method using mass spectrometric detection is called CI-API-TOF (chemical ionization--atmospheric pressure interface time-of-flight mass spectrometry.
#Drone shows new view of energy coal ash spillaerial images captured by a drone aircraft provide a new look at the extent of contaminants leaked into a North carolina river from a Duke energy coal ash dump as concerns about water pollution grow
A drone aircraft operated by researchers at Wake Forest University's Center for Energy Environment
and biology graduate student Max Messinger attached a camera to their unmanned aircraft and flew a grid-like pattern over the ash pond taking pictures at regular intervals.
or a busy airport where cold viruses and other germs circulate freely flowers are common gathering places where pollinators such as bees
and aerospace engineering from Princeton in 2010 and is now an assistant professor of materials science and engineering at Arizona State university.
The discovery of hyperuniformity in a biological system could mean that the state is more common than previously thought said Remi Dreyfus a researcher at the Pennsylvania-based Complex Assemblies of Soft Matter lab (COMPASS) co-run by the University of Pennsylvania
The use of bioethanol instead of gasoline reduces the CO2 emissions from cars and fossil fuel consumption.
and roads but the earth split open and swallowed sections of the forests and bamboo groves that shelter and feed pandas and other endangered wildlife.
Jindong Zhang a postdoctoral research associate in CSIS spent several months over a period of four years in Wolong dodging landslides mudslides and rubble strewn roads to survey
The reasons were the lack of experienced operators of forest machines and the bad quality of forest roads.
Already by 2015 if proper measures such as construction of all season forest roads will not be undertaken the potential losses of a typical large logging company could be about 360000.00 euros/year due to the technical
It showed that deformed wing virus (DWV) and the fungal parasite Nosema ceranae--both of which have major negative impacts on honeybee health--can infect worker bumblebees
One of the novel aspects of our study is that we show that deformed wing virus
they are not just carriers. The researchers also looked at how the diseases spread and studied genetic similarities between DWV in different pollinator populations.
or transport water from distant roots to their leaves so they're a relatively soft and pliable plant containing tiny amounts of woody material such as lignin and cellulose.
and the only ban that has been enforced is on public transport. WHO went on to publish a report in 2011 which stated that there were multiple opportunities to improve tobacco control.
and the plant's energy status. But there is much about the transport proteins involved in the process that isn't understood.
Frommer had developed previously technology to spy on transport protein activity by using fluorescent tags in a cell's DNA to monitor the structural rearrangements that a transporter undergoes as it moves its target molecule.
and regulation of suspected nitrogen transporters in living plant roots which otherwise are impossible to study Frommer said.
Their method is applicable to any transporter from any organism thereby enabling the otherwise exceptionally difficult analysis of transport processes in the tissues of plants and animals.
because there were no horses to pull the pump wagons. Out here in the West the U s. Cavalry was fighting the Apaches on foot
and more powerful batteries for products like cell phones tablets and electric cars said Yi Cui an associate professor at Stanford
Kono Lab/Rice university) That said the researchers makes nanotube-based cables an ideal platform for lightweight power transmission in systems where weight is a significant factor like aerospace applications.
or ampacity with a custom rig that allowed them to test it alongside metal cables of the same diameter.
Image courtesy of the Kono Labpasquali suggested the threadlike fibers are light enough to deliver power to aerial vehicles.
Suppose you want to power an unmanned aerial vehicle from the ground he mused. You could make it like a kite with power supplied by our fibers.
and converted the data into probabilities--balloon-shaped areas where the valence electrons were most likely to be found.
#Cosmic roadmap to galactic magnetic field revealedscientists on NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) mission including a team leader from the University of New hampshire report that recent independent measurements have validated one of the mission
and is an important measurement to be making in tandem with the Voyager 1 spacecraft
That it's revealing a consistent picture of our neighborhood in the galaxy with what IBEX has revealed gives us vastly more confidence that
How magnetic fields of galaxies order and direct galactic cosmic rays is a crucial component to understanding the environment of our galaxy which in turn influences the environment of our entire solar system
and our own environment here On earth including how that played into the evolution of life on our planet.
To date the only other direct information gathered from the heart of this complex boundary region is from NASA's Voyager satellites.
We've known for some time that Orangutans use the ground to travel and search for food
but flanged males--those with distinctive cheek pads and throat pouches--travel on the ground more.
because price is an important driver of purchase behavior. Researchers tend to assume food is going to be purchased safe
but overall they aren't the major drivers that lead the average consumer to purchase a particular product.
and it was only with the arrival of the Vikings that fish became a significant part of our diet.
and Technology who started her career creating a viable Mars colony food system for NASA.
Tyrosine helps you stop fastera child suddenly runs out into the road. Brake!!A driver who has eaten recently spinach
or eggs will stop faster thanks to the amino acid tyrosine found in these and other food products.
According to the Transportation-Imagery Model persuasion of a story's messages occurs because an individual is transported
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NASA study points to infrared-herring in apparent Amazon green-upfor the past eight years scientists have been working to make sense of why some satellite data seemed to show the Amazon rain forest greening-up during the region's dry season each year from June to October.
Now a new NASA study published today in the journal Nature shows that the appearance of canopy greening is caused not by a biophysical change in Amazon forests
Correcting for this artifact in the data Doug Morton of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt Md
or Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer sensors that fly aboard NASA's Terra and Aqua satellites make daily observations over the huge expanse of Amazon forests.
They culled satellite observations from MODIS and NASA's Ice Cloud and land Elevation Satellite (ICESAT) Geosciences Laser Altimeter System (GLAS)
The above story is provided based on materials by NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center. Note: Materials may be edited for content and length.
Rebecca De Santis and Ruth Schmitz-Streit of University of Kiel in Germany and Monica Balsera of the Institute of Natural resources and Agrobiology of Salamanca in Spain also worked on the projectgrants from the National Science Foundation the National aeronautics and space administration
It also includes a new technique to divide the gut into sections enabling researchers to track the step-by-step movement of plant matter through each gut compartment.
or the time needed for food digestion in each compartment and ultimately better understand the insect food digestion process Avanesyan explains.
Using the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies Model-E2 global Earth system model the researchers were able to simulate the terrestrial ecosystem emissions and atmospheric chemical composition of the Pliocene and the preindustrial era.
According to their findings the increase in global vegetation was the dominant driver of emissions during the Pliocene--and the subsequent effects on climate.
We might do a lot of work to reduce air pollution from road vehicle and industrial emissions but in a warmer future world the natural ecosystems are just going to bring the ozone
#Uncovering the drivers of honey bee colony declines and lossesscientists have announced the results of research conducted on honey bee colony declines
and are researched under and poorly understood drivers. Honey bees provide ecosystem services through pollination of crops worth $215 billion annually worldwide.
Many scientists have proposed new drivers such as pollution from pesticides as the cause of these declines.
Nearly every animal and plant species requires travelling some distance for nutrition reproduction and genetic diversity but few conservation or climate mitigation strategies take the connections between conserved lands into account.
At the Wake Forest Medical center doctors use replica bodies to help train surgeons to use the Da vinci system Lee said.
Piperno and Winter devised a scheme to essentially travel back in time by comparing plants grown in modern conditions with plants grown in the early Holocene chamber.
Traffickers are slashing down forests often within protected areas to make way for clandestine landing strips and roads to move drugs
and converting forests into agribusinesses to launder their drug profits the researchers say. Much of this appears to be a response to U s.-led anti-trafficking efforts especially in Mexico said Kendra Mcsweeney lead author of the Science article and an associate professor of geography at The Ohio State university.
In the Science article Mcsweeney and her co-authors say deforestation starts with the clandestine roads
and landing strips that traffickers create in the remote forests. The infusion of drug cash into these areas helps embolden resident ranchers land speculators
The technology is a low-cost version of the continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) systems that are a standard feature of most neonatal units in the developed world.
The findings are based on weather information collected at the regional airport and by researchers in the field as well as from penguin counts.
Local Cumbrian folklore speaks of connections between the Herdwicks and Viking settlers. The coming together of the genetic evidence with historical evidence of Viking raiders and traders in the Wadden islands and adjacent coastal regions suggests the folklore is right
but extends the connection to Rough Fells. One outcome of the scientific study united the three hill breeds.
In fact moistening a pound of dry spores would generate enough force to lift a car one meter off the ground.
Maybe hungerfor the three-toed sloth a trip to the restroom is no rest at all. It's a long slow descent into mortal danger from the safety of home among the upper branches of the forest.
But the harrowing and excruciatingly slow trip may be key to staving off starvation. What is striking about this behavior is the vulnerability says Jonathan Pauli a professor of forest
if the sloth was making this dangerous trip for the moth because the moth provides something relatively important to the sloth.
#Integrating vegetation into sustainable transportation planning may benefit public healthstrategic placement of trees and plants near busy roadways may enhance air quality and positively impact public health.
or going to school near roads with high traffic volume has been a rising national concern. Studies conducted in the United states
The article by the U S. Environmental protection agency U s. Forest Service and other organizations addresses planning practices for locations along major transportation corridors and considers options to address short-and long-term impacts
of human exposure to pollutants emitted by transportation sources. The group agreed that vegetation barriers are a form of green infrastructure that can provide environmental economic and social benefits to their surrounding areas.
Scientists in the group have conducted research using field studies air quality modeling of pollutant transport and deposition in roadside vegetative barriers and tree performance studies.
The article provides guidance on optimal design considerations (length width height density) for achieving maximum barrier performance based on research to date.
and dog for discovering more genetic characteristics of water buffalo and providing guidance for its breeding and industrial transformation.
This would have involved a voyage of more than 2200km from its native New guinea and its arrival on the island is consistent with other known maritime voyages in the region at that time--evidence that people imported the Sago seeds
and planted them. The findings have huge importance for ecological studies or rainforests as the historical role of people in managing the forest vegetation has rarely been considered.
Simonis and her team tackled the question by reexamining two of the different ways heat can travel:
The key word is appear said Talbot Trotter the study's lead author and a research ecologist with the U s. Forest Service's Northern Research Station.
Co-author Dr Darren Evans a conservation biologist at the University of Hull said This work could have been done by paying research assistants to travel the country and collect records
but could also be useful for tourism officials in places like Vermont where leaf peepers plan trips to take in the fall colors.
To field test the device the Rice team installed it on a mobile laboratory used during NASA's DISCOVER-AQ campaign which analyzed pollution on the ground and from the air last September.
Tittel said smaller QEPAS device will be added this year to the mobile monitoring van currently carrying out a Rice university of Houston survey of pollutants in the city.
The Shorepower Project was kicked officially off January 17 at an event at the Tidewater Inn in Easton.
or in the car dramatically increases the odds of children being readmitted to the hospital within a year of being admitted for asthma.
are trained the truckers to properly transport these animals? How long do they wait at the slaughter facility?
and helicopters have been known to explode if they discharge suddenly when landing. Everything that moves through the air develops static charge
and travel 200 kilometres a day while eating everything at its passage it is easy to understand why it is so crucial to find new ways to stop them.
For the past two winters the researchers traveled to Concord and collected leafless dormant twigs from each species and placed them in cups of water in their lab. Over the following weeks they observed how quickly each species was be able produce their leaves in these unseasonably warm lab conditions.
and elsewhere in Massachusetts including flowering dates butterfly flight times and migratory bird arrivals. Founded in 1839 Boston University is recognized an internationally institution of higher education and research.
Saint louis University research has even found links between driving and increased skin cancer with drivers in the U s. developing more skin cancer on the left side of their faces due to exposure while in the car.
The researchers found that for the rest of the year vultures travel enormous distances in search of food.
From November to June the vultures travel all over Kenya and Northern Tanzania with some individuals using an area of more than 200000 square kilometers (77000 square miles)--that's a region larger than New jersey
We knew that vultures use efficient soaring flight keen eyesight and even used information from each other to find food
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