author and U-M graduate student Andres Baeza who works in the laboratory of Mercedes Pascual in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology.
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
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.
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.
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
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.
We began working on this after a train commute into Leeds. Looking out of the window
Human activity is the overwhelming driver of carbon stock patterns in Panama. Panama is one of the first UN REDD partner countries
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
or motivational drivers and instead be cued by context automated actions time pressure and low self-control.
and invasion success explains Mark van Kleunen the leader of the project. First the nonliving environment the so called abiotic filter constrains establishment of species without certain physiological adaptations.
and is even gaining in importance with time says van Kleunen. The study now published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences helps to better understand the assembly of plant communities.
Herbivory is a fundamental driver of plant diversity explains Dr Sarah Barlow who carried out the work
Tour said industrial carbon fibers--a source of steel-like strength in ultralight materials ranging from baseball bats to bicycles to bombers--haven't improved much in decades
and cars that release carbon dioxide into the atmosphere Saner and his team decided to take a close look at the other end of the equation--how energy consumption for housing
and vegetables in dark trucks boxes and refrigerators may reduce their ability to keep daily rhythms.
from the Institute for Environmental sciences Landau analysed the impact of pesticides such as insecticides and fungicides on the regional biodiversity of invertebrates in flowing waters using data from Germany France and Victoria in Australia.
The authors point out that the use of pesticides is an important driver for biodiversity loss
For the study the researchers assessed heat index in common and sleeping rooms in barracks trailers and houses at 170 eastern North carolina farmworker camps in 16 counties across a summer from June 15 to Oct 4 2010.
Better batteries are desired greatly by everyone who carries a cellphone or computer or drives an electric car.
These included images for six of the most popular cigarette brands in Germany and eight other products such as chocolate clothes mobile phones and cars.
and strengthening components--potentially a television screen that rolls up like a poster or ultrastrong composites that could replace carbon fiber.
At the processor and distribution level greater emphasis on truck fleet-fuel usage and consumption of electricity will reduce emissions the researchers said.
Finally the researchers recommended a careful examination of trucking transport distances to realize greater optimization and efficiency of routes.
and the Honda Research Institute USA reported today in Nature's online journal Scientific Reports.
Diamond happens to be a good example according to Rice materials scientist Pulickel Ajayan and Honda chief scientist Avetik Harutyunyan.
To test their ideas the Honda team grew various types of graphene on copper foil by standard chemical vapor deposition.
Co-authors of the study are Honda senior scientists Rahul Rao and Gugang Chen; Rice graduate student Kaushik Kalaga;
The research was supported by the Honda Research Institute. Story Source: The above story is provided based on materials by Rice university.
Our results will help develop ways to use this new material in atomically thin electronics that will become integral components of a whole new generation of revolutionary products such as flexible solar cells that conform to the body of a car.
We may also be seeing a slowdown of the drivers of decline. The postwar emphasis on getting land into production and on more intensive farming has given way to a more stable situation in
A plan for dealing with allergy and asthma emergencies should also be shared with teachers coaches and the school nurse.
studies revealresearchers at Lincoln Park Zoo and Northern Illinois University have discovered a new culprit contributing to amphibian decline and altered mammal distribution throughout the Midwest region--the invasive plant European
Lincoln Park Zoo Reintroduction Biologist Allison Sacerdote-Velat Ph d. and Northern Illinois University Professor of Biological sciences Richard King have identified European buckthorn as a contributor to amphibian
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The new discovery was made by Dr Erica van de Waal and Professor Andrew Whiten of the University of St andrews
Dr van de Waal conducted the field experiments at the Inkawu Vervet Project in the Mawana private game reserve in South africa.
Nitrogen oxides are created pollutants by cars trucks aircrafts coal plants and other large scale sources. The work presents a dramatic new wrinkle in the arguments for reducing man-made pollutants worldwide said Surratt whose work was published this month in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
which development leads to large areas of dark-colored surfaces such as roofs buildings and parking lots.
Car accidents involving animals are a serious and growing problem in Europe. They pose a risk for human life
Drivers must understand that many roads pass through the habitats of these species and that it is necessary to reduce speed especially in certain seasons
As well as making drivers more aware of and signposting the more dangerous sections Lagos believes that the creation of GPS
-and mobile phone-based systems to warn drivers as they approach risk zones may be a more efficient system in Galicia and in the rest of Europe.
when lions were struck by cars or caught raiding livestock. One male known as 16m was shown to have crossed busy Highway 17 between Scotts Valley and Los Gatos 31 times.
Methane is a substantial driver of global climate change contributing 30 percent of current net climate warming.
In this talk we discuss the drivers affecting water sustainability and potential solutions including: adapting to a changing water world direct and indirect potable water reuse resilient water infrastructure and more holistic management of the water cycle.
#Trade emerging as a key driver of Brazilian deforestationa new study published online April 4th in the journal Environmental Research Letters finds that trade and global consumption of Brazilian beef
By estimating CO2 emissions from deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon from 1990 to 2010 and connecting the emissions to the most important direct drivers of Brazilian deforestation
The pollutants products of fossil fuel combustion are emitted by cars trucks and buses. Pollutants rise up into the atmosphere
and accumulate until being washed down as wet deposition by rain or snow or as dry deposition between rain events.
Every car now has a catalytic converter that reduces tailpipe emissions. So adoption of highly efficient control technologies as uniformly as we do across the United states has resulted in lower emissions.
and automobile manufactures are aggressively trying to develop vehicles that run on hydrogen fuel cells. Unlike gas-powered engines that spew out pollutants the only byproduct of hydrogen fuel is water.
The potential for profit and environmental benefits are why so many automobile oil and energy companies are working on hydrogen fuel cell vehicles as the transportation of the future Zhang said.
This matters because when users log (or campers or drivers use) the area they can inadvertently
#Insect pests more plentiful in hotter parts of city than in cooler areashigher temperatures in cities can be a key driver of insect pest outbreaks on trees in urban areas according to research published March 27
Hybrid ribbons a gift for powerful batterieshybrid ribbons of vanadium oxide (VO2) and graphene may accelerate the development of high-power lithium-ion batteries suitable for electric cars and other demanding applications.
#Petroleum use, greenhouse gas emissions of automobiles could drop 80 percent by 2050: U s. reporta new National Research Council report finds that by the year 2050 the U s. may be able to reduce petroleum consumption
and greenhouse gas emissions by 80 percent for light-duty vehicles--cars and small trucks--via a combination of more efficient vehicles;
hybrid electric vehicles such as the Toyota Prius; plug-in hybrid electric vehicles such as the Chevrolet Volt;
battery electric vehicles such as the Nissan Leaf; hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles such as the Mercedes F-Cell scheduled to be introduced about 2014;
and compressed natural gas vehicles such as the Honda civic Natural gas. Although driving costs per mile will be lower especially for vehicles powered by natural gas
or electricity the high initial purchase cost is likely to be a significant barrier to widespread consumer acceptance the report says.
All the vehicles considered are and will continue to be several thousand dollars more expensive than today's conventional vehicles.
That's because other things--a car's headlights for instance--will set a rooster off too at any time of day.
--thus still conveying the false and deceptive message that lights are safer than regular cigarettes.
when he worked with the Inupiat Eskimos of Barrow Alaska and decided to find out more about how the flexible material filters whale-sized mouthfuls of water.
and trailers totalling 25210 part or full minute intervals. Documentaries (161) news programmes (139) and soap operas (72) were the most common genres.
The break-down of content type showed that actual tobacco use occurred in 245 (1%)of all 1-minute intervals in 73 (12%)of all programmes and (0. 7%)of all adverts/trailers.
According to crop sciences professor Gustavo Caetano-Anoll s very little is known about the evolutionary drivers for this folding.
The goal of the project is to sequester 1 million metric tons of CO2 a year--the equivalent of removing 200000 automobiles from the road.
Wienhold with the ARS Agroecosystem Management Research Unit in Lincoln Neb. led studies that compared runoff rates
Driving your car less eating less red meat and improving the insulation of your home substantially reduces your carbon footprint.
For example if you consider making a trip from London to Glasgow flying has higher physical GHG emissions than a coach journey.
while those of the coach are not and therefore are additional. Surprising as it may sound going by coach increases total emissions more than flying.
Commenting on the paper Prof Ian Bateman director of CSERGE said: This is an interesting and useful study
and give a boost to their abil ity to take up car bon dioxide. Trees play an impor tant role in tak ing up car bon diox ide from the atmos phere
so researchers led by David Med vigy assis tant pro fes sor in Princeton's depart ment of geo sciences wanted to eval u ate pre dic tions of spring bud burst
--when decid u ous trees push out new growth after months of win ter dor mancy--from mod els that pre dict how car bon emis sions will impact global
The date of bud burst affects how much car bon diox ide is taken up each year yet most cli mate mod els have used overly sim plis tic schemes for rep re sent ing
and potato chips researchers Ellen van Kleef Mitsuru Shimizu and Brian Wansink designed a study to determine
and PSA screening history when calculating the association between eating deep-fried foods and prostate cancer risk.
and automobiles are converted to ozone in the presence of sunlight and subsequently transported by wind around our planet.
Using electricity generated by coal-fired plants to power the cars defeats the purpose to some extent but
& Technology showed photovoltaics (PV) to be much more efficient than biomass at turning sunlight into energy to fuel a car.
The researchers examined three ways of using sunlight to power cars: a) the traditional method of converting corn or other plants to ethanol;
and conserve species and train future generations of conservationists. Headquartered In front Royal Va. SCBI facilitates
#NASA Mars rover preparing to drill into first Martian rocknasa's Mars rover Curiosity is driving toward a flat rock with pale veins that may hold clues to a wet history on the Red planet.
If the rock meets rover engineers'approval when Curiosity rolls up to it in coming days it will become the first to be drilled for a sample during the Mars Science Laboratory mission.
The size of a car Curiosity is inside Mars'Gale Crater investigating whether the planet ever offered an environment favorable for microbial life.
Then the rover will drill and ingest more samples from this rock which it will analyze for information about its mineral and chemical composition.
Researchers have used the rover's Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) to examine sedimentary rocks in the area.
Indigenous groups who lived near this site include the Ngã¤be Bugl Bribri Cab car and the now-extinct Dorasque peoples.
This is shown by a current study conducted by the Landau-based Institute of Environmental sciences of the University of Koblenz-Landau.
Current practice unsuitableour study shows that current methods of sampling for the investigation of insecticides in water resources are unsuitable declares Ralf Schulz of the Institute of Environmental sciences in Landau.
therefore give a completely false picture of the true impact of insecticides adds Sebastian Stehle principal author of the Landau study.
which according to previous studies of the Institute of Environmental sciences in Landau are capable of reducing pesticide exposure up to 70 per cent.
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or fuel crop plants could represent an abundant source of renewable energy according to research published in the International Journal of Automotive technology and Management.
and photograph birds control Scalextric cars and build interactive toys that react to the weather.
and quality of cereal and bioenergy cropsa team of scientists led by Thomas Brutnell Ph d. director of the Enterprise Rent-a-car Institute for Renewable Fuels at the Donald Danforth Plant science Center have developed a new
Instead of spending days worrying about the toddler's deteriorating health Daniels now watches as a reenergized Aspen rides her tricycle outside swings and rocks her baby dolls to sleep.
and one fully functioning car are taking the stage--literally--in another arena: live theater.
Speaking about the research Deputy Vice Chancellor Professor Nick Talbot said The University of Exeter is committed to tackling fundamental research questions to help control plant diseases
Overall however Turner says the effects of beetle outbreaks on fire severity took a back seat to stronger drivers--primarily weather and topography.
Subramanian compared micro-RNAS to the brakes of a car. Micro-RNA regulates the levels of the target gene's activity he explained.
and has exciting potential for the car space and defense industries. Current powder metallurgy or liquid processing methods fail to achieve uniform processing says research leader Junfeng Guo who is from the A*STAR Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology.
The review led by UC Davis animal scientist Alison Van Eenennaam examined nearly 30 years of livestock-feeding studies that represent more than 100 billion animals.
and eggs derived from animals that have consumed GE feed are indistinguishable from the products derived from animals fed a non-GE diet Van Eenennaam said.
To avoid international trade disruptions it is critical that the regulatory approval process for genetically engineered products be established in countries importing these feeds at the same time that regulatory approvals are passed in the countries that are major exporters of animal feed Van Eenennaam said.
#NASA, partners target megacities carbon emissionsdriving down busy Interstate 5 in Los angeles in a nondescript blue Toyota Prius Riley Duren of NASA's Jet propulsion laboratory Pasadena California is a man
and vegetable intake may play a potential role as a driver not just of physical
We understand the atmospheric drivers behind winter upwelling so now we plan to use climate models to see what they say about these drivers
if the train restricts escape from predators such as tigers and leopards in their natural environment Dr Askew said.
and then filmed the same birds taking off without their trains. The display feathers which naturally moult at the end of the breeding season were cropped to judge the change in take off performance between the two states.
and the movement of the train in take off and then calculated the amount of power used by the birds to accelerate
He found it was essentially the same regardless of the presence or absence of the train.
Intuitively you expect that the train would detrimentally affect flight performance and so not finding a detectable effect was a bit surprising Dr Askew said.
The train of the peacock is one of the most iconic examples of sexual selection in the animal kingdom.
Dr Askew also looked at how much drag the train created during take off by mounting a detached train in a wind tunnel.
Therefore the impact of the train on the overall take off performance is negligible allowing birds with
and without trains to invest the same amount of power in the ascent. The results do not mean that having an ornate train carries no costs for peacocks.
Dr Askew pointed out that the feathers might adversely affect flight stability and the birds'ability to run.
male birds invest about 3%of their daily metabolic energy budget in train growth. Story Source:
or overweight it's no secret that our food environment is a contributing factor to obesity especially among children said Barbara Rolls Phd FTOS TOS past-president and professor of nutrition at Pennsylvania State university.
and improve diet quality continued Dr. Rolls. For example I will feel more full after eating 100 calories of strawberries
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One can now think of using these films in automobile glass as an invisible deicer and even in skyscrapers Tour said.
and was being used to better train Queensland Academy of Sport athletes prior to competition. As part of his Phd research the sports biomechanist tested his theory by working closely with elite athletes connected to the Queensland Academy of Sport
With this system we are taking a big step toward creating a global monitoring system for greenhouse gases something that is needed as the world considers how best to meet greenhouse gas reductions said Kevin Robert Gurney lead investigator and associate professor
The loss of habitat to agriculture is the primary driver of diversity loss globally but we hadn't known until now how agriculture affected diversity in an evolutionary context said study co-lead author Daniel Karp who began working on this project
Export Agriculture a Key Driver of Illegal Deforestationaccording to the report the international trade in agricultural commodities (beef leather soy palm oil
It is high time the ocean as the primary driver of the planet's climate and attenuator of climate change becomesa central part of climate change discussions said Wendy Watson-Wright Executive secretary of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO.
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The devices allowed them to track the strawberries'temperature from the field through precooling and into trucks
and vegetables Companies normally measure only the temperature of an entire truck. But Brecht explained that individual pallets can vary greatly in temperature depending on
what time of the day berries were picked and even their placement on the truck. Strawberries picked in the cool of the morning and placed on a refrigerated truck would stay fresher longer than strawberries picked in the afternoon heat.
Brecht said under perfect conditions strawberries can maintain a good quality based on researchers'scale of
Food production is a main driver of biodiversity loss and a large contributor to climate change and pollution so our food choices matter.
And 1. 7%said they had bought from informal sources such as a market stall or the back of a van on one or more occasions over the past 12 months.
WAIR proponents argue that the wings assist running by providing lift like the spoiler on a race car
Her project was under the supervision of Dr Will van Wettere who leads a number of research projects in improving pig fertility and life expectancy of piglets.
and trophic cascades in concert with other drivers affect coastal ecosystems. The ecological impacts of a changing climate are evident from terrestrial polar regions to tropical marine environments.
In the long term the only sustainable solution is for the demand for ivory--the ultimate driver of the system--to be reduced.
Clearly there are things that you can do to reduce loss--you can put bed liners in trucks you can adjust your combine you can harvest more slowly
If you see soybeans bouncing off your windshield from the truck ahead of you and bands of soybeans along the berm why wouldn't you try to prevent it?
lack of truck regular maintenance; lack of adjustment to the combine at the platform; bad weather;
but truck conditions were mentioned by only 62 percent. These causes should be common knowledge so
and truck conditions contribute to loss. The lack of definitiveness about this may indicate that loss is not a front-of-mind issue for managers
The scientists identified climate change as the main driver behind this increase: under assumed stable climatic conditions no substantial further increases in forest disturbances beyond the current levels were found in their simulations.
This assumption would be in accordance with archaeological finds of wooden wheels wagons and a yoke from the Horgen culture.
and bike into a different kind of forest than we do now. Petr's research was funded by the Forestclim project.
The research was carried out by Colette Heald an associate professor of civil and environmental engineering (CEE) at MIT former CEE postdoc Amos Tai and Maria van Martin at Colorado State university.
In order to study the effect of changes in agricultural practices on Midwest river discharge the researchers focused on Iowa's Raccoon River at Van Meter Iowa.
In order to make this possible Rianne van Binsbergen Phd researcher at the Animal breeding and Genomics Centre of Wageningen UR investigated
The researchers also found that temperatures were related to the amount of impervious surfaces in the area including streets sidewalks and parking lots.
Facts 2014). 3. 79 percent of pet owners said the quality of their pets'food is as important as their own (Mintel 2013). 4. Top drivers of sales in pet foods included adding excitement
and only considers the most important drivers it reflects the consequences of the dramatic change in land use patterns in arid regions says Prof.
Guus van Muijlwijk of the Department of Medical Microbiology at Radboud University is a final year medical student who contributed to the research during an exchange visit to Manchester.
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