which via the station's satellite link was submitted to the Biodiversity Data Journal a leading online journal for quick dissemination of new biodiversity data.
Bohrer ran the dataset through a high-resolution atmospheric model that he had developed on OSC's IBM Opteron 1350 Glenn Cluster.
The Glenn Cluster provides users with a total peak performance of 54 teraflops (tech-speak for making 54 trillion calculations per second)
Suarez'laboratory originally became concerned about H7n9 after sequences from several isolates were made available in public databases early in the outbreak.
The research was funded by the National Science Foundation and by Google's Faculty Research Award program.
The second att 1 aids in the insects'immune response. These genes have been found to play a role in rootworm resistance to crop rotation.
They further employed a unique set of data bases and filters to streamline their search and screen out false positive results
It could also be incorporated into new plant designs to further reduce operating costs. We hope to move from the laboratory scale to a commercially available technology within four to six years.
Moisture data are derived from the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES GOES data are inputted into the Atmosphere-Land Exchange Inverse (ALEXI) model previously developed by Dr. Mecikalski and others.
But the continuing work to pinpoint the areas of measurement could result in an online database that farmers in Alabama
#Predators delay pest resistance to Bt cropscrops genetically modified with the bacterium Bt (Bacillus thuringiensis) produce proteins that kill pest insects.
Steady exposure has prompted concern that pests will develop resistance to these proteins making Bt plants ineffective.
Cornell research shows that the combination of natural enemies such as ladybeetles with Bt crops delays a pestâ##s ability to evolve resistance to these insecticidal proteins. â#oethis is demonstrated the first example of a predator being able
to delay the evolution of resistance in an insect pest to a Bt cropâ#said Anthony Shelton a professor of entomology at Cornell University's New york state Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva N y
Bt is a soil bacterium that produces proteins that are toxic to some species of caterpillars
Bt genes have been engineered into a variety of crops to control insect pests. Since farmers began planting Bt crops in 1996 with 70 million hectares planted in the United states in 2012 there have been only three clear-cut cases in agriculture of resistance in caterpillars
and one in a beetle. â#oeresistance to Bt crops is said surprisingly uncommonâ Shelton. To delay or prevent insect pests from evolving resistance to Bt crops the U s. Environmental protection agency promotes the use of multiple Bt genes in plants
and the practice of growing refuges of non-Bt plants that serve as a reservoir for insects with Bt susceptible genes. â#oeour paper argues there is another factor involved:
the conservation of natural enemies of the pest speciesâ#said Shelton. These predators can reduce the number of potentially resistant individuals in a pest population and delay evolution of resistance to Bt.
In the study the researchers set up large cages in a greenhouse. Each cage contained Bt broccoli and refuges of non-Bt broccoli.
They studied populations of diamondback moth (Plutella xylostella) larvae a pest of broccoli and their natural enemies ladybird beetles (Coleomegilla maculata) for six generations.
Cages contained different combinations of treatments with and without predators and with and without sprayed insecticides on the non-Bt refuge plants.
Farmers commonly spray insecticides on refuge plants to prevent loss by pests but such sprays can kill predators and prey indiscriminately.
The results showed that diamondback moth populations were reduced in the treatment containing ladybird beetles and unsprayed non-Bt refuge plants.
Also resistance to Bt plants evolved significantly slower in this treatment. In contrast Bt plants with no refuge were defoliated completely in treatments without ladybirds after only four to five generations showing rapid development of resistance in the pests.
In the treatment with sprayed non-Bt refuge plants and predators diamondback moth populations were reduced
but the larvae more quickly evolved resistance to the Bt plants. â#oethese results demonstrate the effectiveness of Bt plants in controlling the pest population the lack of effect of Bt on the predators
and the role predators play in delaying resistance to Bt plants in the pest populationâ#said Shelton.
Story Source: The above story is provided based on materials by Cornell University. The original article was written by Krishna Ramanujan.
To a large extent it supports the idea that the rewilding-based approach to nature management should be incorporated to a far greater degree in nature policy in Europe-especially in the case of national parks and other large natural areas.
who directs the online Arthropod Pesticide Resistance Database and who also serves as the Entomological Society of America's Liaison to the EPA Office of Pesticide Programs.
and cotton plants genetically engineered to produce proteins from the bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt). These proteins kill some key pests
Organic growers have used Bt toxins in sprays for decades and conventional farmers have adopted widely transgenic Bt crops since 1996.
In 2013 Bt corn and Bt cotton were planted on 187 million acres worldwide and accounted for 75%of all cotton
and 76%of all corn grown in the U s. Recognizing that resistance is not all
and use them to classify 13 cases of resistance to five Bt toxins in transgenic corn
and cotton based on monitoring data from five continents for nine major pest species. Emerging resistance of the western corn rootworm to Bt corn exemplifies the urgent need for well-defined
and cut back on soil insecticides U s. farmers began planting Bt corn that kills rootworms. The first evidence of rootworm resistance to Bt corn was discovered in Iowa in 2009 said Dr. Bruce Tabashnik the study's lead author
and head of the entomology department at the University of Arizona. Nearly five years later the resistance has spread
Although some scientists have expressed concern that reports of pest resistance to Bt crops provide'ammunition'to anti-biotech activists Tabashnik said Pests are remarkably adaptable.
That provision is designed to help stop honey transshipments by requiring CBP to compile a database of the individual characteristics of imported honey to verify country of origin
and engage foreign governments for assistance in creating the database. The CBP would also be required to consult with the honey industry to develop industry standards for honey identification
This powerful analytical method using mass spectrometric detection is called CI-API-TOF (chemical ionization--atmospheric pressure interface time-of-flight mass spectrometry.
Silman Messinger and Marcus Wright a chemistry lab manger and key developer of Wake Forest's environmental drone program are also applying their drone technology to explore climate change in the Peruvian Amazon.
Previous work by the group produced a detailed database highlighting the differences in the efficiency
'Ginn says. â#¢Turn off the TV phones and anything else that makes noise. They create distractions that can throw off any family's mealtime routine Ginn says.
-and phone-free zone except for emergencies of course. Instead put on some background music played at low volume to add a relaxing atmosphere.
Headed by an expert from Kingston University and St george's University of London the investigation will scrutinize the way stakeholders are involved throughout the research process
Called SEE-IMPACT it will be led by Dr Annette Boaz a respected expert in the use of evidence in policy making who is based at Kingston and St george's Faculty of health Social Care and Education in London.
The above story is provided based on materials by Kingston University. Note: Materials may be edited for content and length c
and then narrowed this down to two via a series of tests on detached fruit.
What we're finding is that the avian virus has an extremely shallow history in most genes not much older than the invention of the telephone Worobey explained.
and more powerful batteries for products like cell phones tablets and electric cars said Yi Cui an associate professor at Stanford
To assemble an expert database of information about locations of potato hotspots Zimmerer uses a two-pronged approach.
For those comfortable with computers he asks them to delineate on Google earth maps the regions of concentrated agrobiodiversity.
#Madagascar sells first forest carbon credits to Microsoftthe Government of Madagascar has approved carbon sales with Microsoft
We hope that other organizations will follow the lead of Microsoft The Carbonneutral Company and Zoo Zurich and join us in this effort to conserve Madagascar's unique biodiversity through the sale of future carbon credits said Pierre Manganirina Randrianarisoa the Secretary general of the Ministry of Environment and Forests.
We are thankful to Microsoft The Carbonneutral Company and Zoo Zurich and we look forward to future purchases by other forward-thinking organizations.
Said Rob Bernard Chief Environmental Strategist at Microsoft: Supporting forest conservation and community building projects like Makira is an important part of Microsoft's strategy to reduce its environmental impact support sustainable economic growth improve health and education and address societal challenges.
The project's important role in protecting a crucial area of biodiversity value also aligns with Microsoft's own focus on using technology information
and research to develop new approaches and solutions to sustainability. Said Jonathan Shopley Managing director of The Carbonneutral Company:
and computer scientists at Radboud University Nijmegen and published this week in the European Journal of Protistology.
It is likely that BSMV was transported to the east via trade routes such as the Silk road in the late Medieval period.
The article with the complete HEALTHGRAIN definition including the permitted grains can be accessed in the current volume of Food and Nutrition Research (http://www. foodandnutritionresearch. net/index. php/fnr/article/view/22100.
and the adoption of transgenic Bt (Bacillus thuringiensis cotton which is modified to express its own pesticide the researchers found that the value of the pest control services dropped 79 percent from a high of $23. 96 million in 1990
and technological substitutes such as Bt cotton can affect the value of an ecosystem service even
The researchers point to mounting evidence of the evolution of pest resistance to Bt cotton suggesting that the value of bat pest control services may increase again.
This evidence of resistance evolution suggests that Bt cotton may not be a long-term solution to pest-related losses said Mccracken.
In fact by preying on the individual insects that survive the Bt toxin bats may provide the additional service of slowing the evolution of resistance to Bt and other insecticides.
studies showa large body of literature has shown that genetically-modified plants that produce proteins from the bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) to protect themselves from insect pests have little to no effect on a wide range of nontarget insects.
However concerns about Bt crops still exist. Now two new studies using more exacting methods show that Bt crops have no negative effects on two beneficial insect predators or on a beneficial entomopathogenic nematode.
In an article in the February 2014 issue of Environmental Entomology called Using Resistant Prey Demonstrates that Bt Plants Producing Cry1ac Cry2ab
and Cry1f Have No Negative Effects on Geocoris punctipes and Orius insidiosus researchers used caterpillars that were known to be resistant to Bt proteins and fed them Bt maize and Bt cotton.
They then fed the caterpillars to two common beneficial predatory insects--insidious flower bugs (Orius insidiosus)
and big-eyed bugs (Geocoris punctipes)--for two generations and compared them to another group of predators that consumed caterpillars fed on non-Bt plants.
and fertility of the insect predators in both groups were similar regardless of whether they consumed caterpillars that fed on Bt plants or non-Bt plants.
This research demonstrates that the current Bt proteins used in corn and cotton crops globally do not harm Geocoris punctipes
By using caterpillars resistant to the Bt proteins in this study we were able to remove any'host quality effects'that might have led to spurious misinterpretation of the results.
This work demonstrated that the caterpillars consumed the Bt proteins and the predators consumed the Bt proteins
when they fed on the caterpillars but they did not suffer any harm even over multiple generations.
when it ingested another Bt protein. For this study resistant caterpillars were fed Bt broccoli and then exposed to Heterorhabditis bacteriophora a beneficial nematode that preys on insects.
The researchers found that the virulence reproductive potential and time of emergence of the nematodes that consumed Bt-fed caterpillars were affected not significantly compared to nematodes that did not ingest the Bt protein.
This is the first report we are aware of in which a nematode predator has been tested in such detail against a Bt protein Dr. Shelton said.
Together these two studies add to the scientific literature demonstrating that Bt plants can control targeted insect pests
while not harming important natural enemies that help suppress pest species and maintain biodiversity in agricultural systems Shelton added.
The study is described in an article called Comparative Diversity of Arthropods on Bt Maize and Non-Bt Maize in two Different Cropping Systems in South africa
which appears in the February 2014 issue of Environmental Entomology. The aims of the study were to compile a checklist of arthropods that occur on maize in South africa
and abundance of arthropods and functional groups on Bt maize and non-Bt maize the authors wrote.
and diversity of arthropods in maize and the different functional guilds were affected not significantly by Bt maize either in terms of diversity or abundance.
A total of 8771 arthropod individuals comprising 288 morphospecies were collected from 480 plants sampled from Bt maize and non-Bt maize fields over a two-year period.
and efficiency of excited hot electrons drawn from gold nanoparticles into a sheet of graphene. It's a good thing for scientists
Dark-field scattering and photoluminescence spectroscopy of more than 200 nanoparticles helped them determine that it takes about 160 femtoseconds (quadrillionths of a second) for an electron to transfer from the particle to highly conducting graphene the single-atom-thick form of carbon.
The researchers placed gold nanorods on beds of both inert quartz and highly conductive graphene and used a spectrometer to view the line width of the plasmon-scattering spectrum.
The Rice researchers found graphene broadened the nanorods'surface plasmon response --and shortened its lifetime--by accepting hot electrons.
By acting as an electron acceptor the graphene accelerated damping of the plasmons. The difference in damping between the quartz
and graphene samples provided a means to calculate the electrons'transfer time. The plasmon resonance is determined by the size
which in this case is graphene. The Rice lab hopes to optimize the connection between the nanoparticles
and graphene or another substrate preferentially a semiconductor that will allow them to trap hot electrons.
Its developers foresee electrical generators driven by changes in humidity from sun-warmed ponds and harbors.
or contact Cherry Sanchez by phone at 310-423-8100 or email cherry. sanchez@cshs. org. Story Source:
The rain forests of Borneo Sumatra Java Thailand and Vietnam were thought previously to have been unaffected largely by humans
and large sample sizes made the dairy cow a powerful model for the exploration of milk synthesis. The study was derived from all lactation records from 1995 to 1999 in a database managed by Dairy Records Management Systems
He noted other researchers are looking at similar effects through the molecular manipulation of graphene the single-atomic-layer form of carbon.
Similarly a small property developer that buys renovates and sells one house at a time cannot rule out house A just
They used a protocol similar to the one in Pavlov's dog experiments (where a dog is conditioned to associate a bell with being fed) using vanilla (the locusts'favourite) and lemon odours.
Now with modern amenities--satellite phones for example--and especially the presence of our partner institution the Egidio Feruglio Museum in the same region as the dig sites recovering these fossils becomes much easier.
Data were collected from GSM-GPS telemetry devices attached to three species of vultures in Mara-Serengeti ecosystem of East Africa.
and providing them with the opportunities and advantages they need to excel in areas that they didn't before said lead author Kristy Howe.
and stop trafficking using sniffer dogs apps for customs officials and training for enforcement staff.
This Thanksgiving, Be More Grateful than Wasteful NRDC Switchboard Photo: Flickr/Pink Sherbet Photography
10 ways to get ready for the end of oillast week a reader wrote to me:
In the United states, search the Database of State Incentive for Renewable Energy (DSIRE) to find available opportunities in your area.
Dave Bartlett, the Vice president of IBM's Smarter Buildings Initiative, recently made predictions for the top five building trends that are going to make a big impact in 2012,
For example, IBM is involved in a project in Boston's Backbay to help the neighborhood implement smart grid technology that electronically monitors
According to Bartlett, this system helped IBM identify carbon in unexpected places like in methane leaks from utilities.
IBM â¢s campus in Rochester, Minnesota has implemented this system of transparency. The buildings there take up a massive 3. 2 million square feet,
and IBM takes real time data from over 300,000 data points, combining the results help make the campus as efficient as possible,
Sensor technology, that is coming from the physical infrastructure (like that used on the IBM campus),
Apps, like the parking app Streetline that helps drivers find available parking spots, use this sensor technology too.
and apps can help them contribute, said Bartlett. He called this environmental crowd sourcing, or the ability of a citizen to use their smartphone to alert the city to building issues,
or using an app to identify the problem. Bartlett said that IBM has found that people want to be involved in the improvement of their communities,
and have been very receptive to the apps that have been introduced so far. Â Just as smarter buildings and smarter neighborhoods are the building blocks of smarter cities
people are as well. Prediction 4: More energy options for buildings Bartlett predicts that in the near future,
This method was implemented on IBM's campus, following a new sustainability mandate. I think that it is said really cool
IBM has been working with New york city a city whose buildings are much more responsible for green house gasses than many other cities due to its density,
The goal, with the help of IBM's carbon intelligence software is to reduce New york city's greenhouse gas emissions by 30 percent by 2017.
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A capitalist's view on water conservation (or, why a price on water is impractical) Laura Shenkar,
Look at the cell phone--they sell them incredibly in Asia and Africa. But that was only when it was developed and matured and proven in the developed world.
Look at Google. It's really changed the world in a lot of good ways. But they never set out to do that.
a pioneering mobile health company known for making the first glucose meter for Apple's iphone.
Vu and company worked around this hurdle by allowing the wearer to place the Shine on their Apple iphone.
When a corresponding app is launched, the device will begin transferring its data automatically. We were inspired by a scene from Iron man 2,
Via Co. Design Photos: Philips, Antaean/Flickr
A year after Fukushima, how life in Japan has told changedas to Laura Shin by Yuki Kokubo Yuki Kokubo is based a Brooklyn filmmaker who focuses on social and environmental issues.
It's a TABLET PC, a classic Microsoft windows application, custom built for Allscripts. The staff told me that they clock in with a fingerprint reader.
And for doctors, we should make it electronically easy for them to pick up their smart phone,
Allscripts Remote (for the Android, iphone) is another. Allscripts Referral Network is another way. Our CEO is impatient;
Ma â¢s IPE has developed pollution databases and online maps that give citizens and companies doing business in China,
It followed with two databases of air and water pollution violation records spanning years. The initial response was tepid by the public
 The databases gave journalists and environmental activists in China easy, quick access to government pollution records.
and in 2008 it began using IPE â¢s database to identify factories in its supply chain that were problematic.
the information provided by IPE â¢s databases was a powerful tool the retailing titan could use to help clean up its supply chain.
Alcatel and Nokia began working with IPE â¢s databases to make more informed choices about Chinese business partners, the world â¢s largest company,
and iphone touch screens with dangerous chemicals and highlighted high rates of suicide among the workers to paint a portrait of dire working conditions.
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Apple bakes fitness deeper into its ipod nano device with Nike+Ten years after its debut, Apple is integrating fitness more deeply into its line of ipods.
For instance, Withings, a French developer of Wi-fi enabled scales and blood glucose monitors keeps track of users'bodies and Fitbit,
The awareness that Apple will bring to market will likely just increase demand for fitness-related gadget and apps.
Already, the ios health and fitness app space is expected to expand from 9, 000 to 13,000 healthcare-related apps by next year, according to Mobihealthnews.
meaning that there will be more startups leveraging low cost computation on smart phones, sound, position and phone attachments for self-service outcomes.
Baking fitness apps into ios devices will allow those already using the tech to start tracking their fitness.
At Health 2. 0, apps for helping you sleep, breathe better Three consumer health apps that you should know about Wellnessfx launches with a platform that can help you lead a healthier life
Apple prepares to pull Evi from the App Storeevi, the Siri-like iphone and Android app, is gong to be pulled from the itunes App store,
Techcrunch reports from the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Apple has approved versions of Evi for the App store many times,
but on Friday evening True Knowledge received a call from Apple representative Richard Chipman saying that Apple is going to pull Evi from the store
because it was took similar to Siri. True Knowledge launched the artificial intelligence app in January, 2012,
and all though Siri and Evi do not use the same search engine, they both use the same Nuance's voice recognition technology.
The Evi app appear confusingly similar to Siri, but their functions have a few differences. Evi is unable to do tasks like adding information to your calendar,
The rule being cited for pulling the app is number 8. 4 in the App store's T&cs where it says that apps which appear confusingly similar to an existing Apple product
Right now, about 200,000 Apple users have purchased already the app without the ability to get updates.
Evi is still on Apple's App store, and although iphone users will not be able to continue using Evi the app will still available for Android users
Apple submits detailed proposal for'Spaceship'campusas NASA puts its historic spaceship mission to rest,
Via WSJ) Photo credit: Jason Ralston/Flickr
Apple will begin manufacturing Macs in U s. next yearin a wide-ranging interview, Apple CEO Tim cook tells Bloomberg Businessweek that Apple will begin manufacturing some of its products in the United states. N ext year we are going to bring some production to the U s. on the Mac.
Apple already  manufactures some parts for some products in the U s.--including the processor for the ipad and iphone in Texas and glass for Apple products in Kentucky.
An iphone 5 costs over US$1, 000 in Brazil due to its government's decision to discourage imports.
Android has around a 56%market share compared to Apple's 0. 4%,Kantar Worldpanel,
and has worked with regulators to bring its latest phones to market in Brazil earlier than usual.
who wield gadgets including iphones in order to keep tabs on all the raw data needed to make a farming operation more sustainable--such as the daily evapotranspiration ratio (how quickly the sun will suck up moisture from plants and the dirt) and wind speeds.
Nater pulled out his iphone and entered Melanie as the pick-up name so the robot would announce that the drink he was about to order was for me.
So passengers will be able to get on their mobile apps and place the order while they're standing in the security line.
The two groups have separate databases where Dove team logs each incident. Commercial airlines report strikes on a voluntary basis;
the information is entered into a database and sent to the airfield where the strike occurred.
instead of letting developers lose their permits, this program gives you a couple years to pause the development until financing can be obtained.
have heard you from developers interested in doing this? We re doing this because we wanted to create food for the restaurant
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