For example forest elephants in Central africa occur in densities seven times higher in sites with ecoguards than without them.
However the costs of such site-based protection in terms of funds and human lives will continue to increase
De Grummond who has performed work at the site since 1983 is one of the nation's leading scholars of Etruscan studies.
#Strawberry monitoring system could add $1. 7 million over 10 years to some farmsa University of Florida-developed web tool can bring growers $1. 7 million more in net profits over 10
or use the website to sign up for email or text alerts. Before the system was developed strawberry farmers traditionally sprayed weekly during the November-to-March growing season.
Ekaterina Vorotnikova a doctoral student in food and resource economics worked on the study to identify how much the web tool could increase profits and yield by reducing spraying for anthracnose and botrytis two of the crop's deadliest diseases.
She found that using the web tool increased net profit for strawberries with anthracnose by $1. 7 million and $890000 for those with botrytis.
or e-mail alerts about anthracnose and botrytis risk levels from the system Borisova said. Traditionally strawberry growers sprayed their crop with fungicide weekly.
and giving feedback on them indicates research published online in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.
But the advent of smartphone apps with the facility to upload photos in real time which can be accessed easily on the go could be about to change that they say.
They wanted to find out how well crowdsourcing which relies on the input of several smartphone users to provide feedback
They used 450 photos of food/drink uploaded onto the Eatery app by 333 unique users in Europe and the US.
This app enables users to rate their meals on a basic sliding'healthiness'scale from'fit'(healthy) to'fat'(unhealthy)
and to rate the photos of other app users in the same way in a bid to help them improve the quality of their diet.
The expert raters'scores were compared then with those of the app users. The results showed that both sets of ratings were added similar to
which the app users'scores were in line with the national guidance. They gave the'eat more of'foods such as fruits
and crop sciences professor Keith Paustian is implementing the new web-based tool COMET-Farm in conjunction with the report.
The site will allow users to select their land use (including cropland grassland livestock and agroforestry) enter information about their management practices
COMET-Farm is unique in that it allows non-experts to use very advanced methods databases and models for greenhouse gas inventory via a fully spatial user-friendly interface.
The lead software engineer on COMET-Farm CSU computer science alumnus Kevin Brown is the lead software engineer on COMET-Farm
and his team includes several CSU undergraduate students in computer science engineering and agriculture. The USDA report is the work of 38 experts in GHG estimation in the cropland grazing land livestock and forest management sectors across academia the USDA and other agencies of the federal government.
Their computer simulations may lead to new strategies to stop influenza perhaps even a one-size-fits-all vaccine.
The Rice-Baylor team applied protein-folding algorithms developed by Onuchic and his colleagues to analyze how hemagglutinin reconfigures itself as it infects a cell.
The researchers utilized the Data analysis and Visualization Cyberinfrastructure (DAVINCI) supercomputer supported by the NSF and the Bluebiou supercomputer both administered by Rice's Ken Kennedy Institute for Information technology.
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Atmospheres is based on a three-dimensional computer model simulation of the impacts of biomass burning. His findings indicate that burning biomass is playing a much bigger role in climate change
and some others--plus the warming caused by black and brown carbon will yield a planetary warming effect of 2 degrees Celsius over the 20-year period simulated by the computer.
The patent-pending process was developed by NYU School of engineering Associate professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering Jin Kim Montclare along with Richard Bonneau an associate professor in NYU's Department of biology and a member of the computer science faculty
In a process that married computational biology and experimentation the collaborators used Rosetta computational modeling software to identify sequences in the fluorinated phosphotriesterase protein that could be modified to increase its stability
and make therapeutic applications a reality. The possibilities for this reengineered protein are considerable. Montclare explained that
Plans are under way to begin developing therapeutic applications for this modified phosphotriesterase and the research team believes that its methodology--using computational biology to identify potentially beneficial modifications to proteins--could point the way to future breakthroughs in engineered proteins.
I read on the Internet that a gluten-free diet is the way to go
In a one-day experiment on the UF campus in Gainesville in February 97 people ate cookies and chips all gluten-free.
either in tablet form or mixed into drinks to simplify and assist the pharmacological effects of the herbs.
Through this technology we can build a database with a collection of viruses based on where they came from and
Lobell and Tebaldi used computer models of global climate as well as data about weather and crops to calculate the chances that climatic trends would have a negative effect of 10 percent on yields of corn and wheat in the next
The plant tries to stop this penetration by building a plug of cell wall material--a papillae--around the infection site.
This research provides a key piece of information for wildland managers using on site burning to dispose of accumulated forest debris in a safe manner under favorable conditions with limited impact on air quality visibility
Of the three most often found chemicals clothianidin was the most commonly detected showing up in 75 percent of the sites and at the highest concentration.
Thiamethoxam was found at 47 percent of the sites and imidacloprid was found at 23 percent.
The bull analysis presented at this time is the first phase of the 1000 Bull Genomes project a database which is planned to incorporate the genomes of a thousand bulls from all over the world.
The researchers focused specifically on the abundance of gloomy scales on red maple (Acer rubrum) trees at 26 sites in Raleigh North carolina.
So Dale collected gloomy scales at each site he was monitoring and dissected them to see how many young they were about to produce.
At the coolest sites--18.26 degrees Celsius (64.87 Fahrenheit)--the females were producing approximately 20 young Dale says.
At the warmest sites--20.12 degrees Celsius (68.22 Fahrenheit)--the females were producing around 60 young.
Populations at the warmest sites were over 200 times more abundant than those at the coolest sites.
#Radio frequency ID tags on honey bees reveal hive dynamicsscientists attached radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags to hundreds of individual honey bees
Vikyath Rao a graduate student in the laboratory of U. of I. physics professor Nigel Goldenfeld analyzed the data using a computer model Rao and Goldenfeld developed.
and satellite data and covers all land areas at a resolution of three hours and one degree of latitude or longitude (one degree of latitude is about 70 miles).
The inputs the researchers employed came from the US Department of agriculture databases among other resources. Using the US for this study is ideal says Milo
and as part of the planning process developers must now provide data on presence and abundance of this species and provide mitigation plans to prevent their disturbance before planning applications will be considered.
and analysis software the technology is trained'to automatically recognise the calls of individual species in this case the nightjar.
Remote recorders were deployed at specific sites and the results were compared against observations from standard human field surveys of the same sites.
Andrew Baker managing director of Baker Consultants Ltd and a co-author of the paper said: This is a key piece of research that has demonstrated how effective bioacoustics techniques can be for providing ecological data.
In addition to formal language tests researchers have collected genetic and environmental data as well as assessments with the twins'siblings.
and computer models researchers learned that ozone trapped different amounts of heat in Earth's atmosphere depending on its geographic location.
Aura data in conjunction with other satellite data are helping scientists understand how aerosols interact with incoming sunlight in Earth's atmosphere;
and computer analysis tools to better see how our planet is changing. The agency shares this unique knowledge with the global community
The model which requires intense computer calculations is described inâ Nature Communications. If our goal is to preserve the tree of life
the nurseries and the nursing homes said Mishler director of the University and Jepson Herbaria at UC Berkeley and senior fellow at the new Berkeley Institute for Data sciences (BIDS.
-and paleoendemism (CANAPE) while he was in Australia in 2011 to take advantage of the country's comprehensive plant database.
however with any good georeferenced database of species abundance and relatedness Mishler said. He Bruce Baldwin and David Ackerly UC Berkeley professors of integrative biology earlier this year received a $391000 three-year grant from the National Science Foundation to apply CANAPE to the state's plant databases
primarily that of the Consortium of California Herbaria. These new methods will allow assessment of conservation reserve coverage
Akhunov Shichen Wang a programmer and bioinformatics scientist in plant pathology and Jesse Poland assistant professor of plant pathology collaborated with the International Wheat Genome Sequencing Consortium to order genes along the wheat chromosomes.
and overlapping sequences were stitched together with computer software. The chromosome-based daft sequence the critical step before the full wheat genome is sequenced Akhunov said.
It is possible that one day we might be able to save lives by replacing hardware with an injection of genes.
The oil can be incorporated into films and coatings for packaging both meat and fresh produce Sheng said.
and logging patterns the researchers in this study analyzed LANDSAT satellite images from 1973 to 2010.
It is possible that one day we might be able to save lives by replacing hardware with an injection of genes.
The UW Arboretum long a refuge for Wisconsin's native plants and animals is confirmed the first site for Amynthas agrestis an invasive worm believed to have arrived in the United states from its native range in Japan
Every death that occurs in the United states is recorded in a database managed by the National Center for Health Statistics.
and the University of Cologne who simulated ecological and social factors in a computer model. The negative effects of climate change can to a certain extent be offset by an increased herd mobility write the researchers in a recent issue of the journal Global Environmental Change.
Using computer modeling techniques they identified a surface area in Alt a 1 susceptible to interact with the defense protein.
They found no resistance from the sites in Greater manchester compared to 1. 7%resistance detected in West yorkshire implicating fungicide use in agriculture.
Researchers compare it to the continued use of pens in the age of the word processor.
which point clay tablets filled with pictorial symbols drawn using triangular-tipped reeds begin to emerge:
However recent excavations at Ziyaret Tepe--the site of the ancient city Tuå¡han a provincial capital of the Neo-Assyrian Empire--have unearthed a large quantity of tokens dating to the FIRST MILLENNIUM BC:
two thousand years after'cuneiform'--the earliest form of writing--emerged on clay tablets. Complex writing didn't stop the use of the abacus
han's lower town along with many cuneiform clay tablets as well as weights and clay sealings. Over 300 tokens were found in two rooms near the back of the building that Macginnis describes as having the character of a'delivery area'perhaps an ancient loading bay.
and ending up inscribed onto cuneiform tablets further down the line. Archaeologists say that while cuneiform writing was advanced a more accounting technology by combining it with the flexibility of the tokens the ancient Assyrians created a record-keeping system of greater sophistication.
While the majority of the cuneiform tablets found with the tokens deal with grain trades it's not yet known what the various tokens represent.
One of my dreams is that one day we'll dig up the tablet of an accountant who was making a meticulous inventory of goods
Those changes include a shifting of blood from the extremities to the body's core including the brain and heart.
and they wanted to identify spatial patterns from the 136930 groundwater level observations from the Texas Water development Board's database.
#Silicon oxide for better computer memory: Use of porous silicon oxide reduces forming voltage, improves manufacturabilityrice University's breakthrough silicon oxide technology for high-density next-generation computer memory is one step closer to mass production thanks to a refinement that will allow manufacturers to fabricate devices at room temperature with conventional
production methods. First discovered five years ago Rice's silicon oxide memories are a type of two-terminal resistive random-access memory (RRAM) technology.
Tour is Rice's T. T. and W. F. Chao Chair in Chemistry and professor of mechanical engineering and nanoengineering and of computer science.
For example manufacturers have announced plans for RRAM prototype chips that will be capable of storing about one terabyte of data on a device the size of a postage stamp--more than 50 times the data density of current flash memory technology.
and no label they should email call or otherwise contact the company to ask them to start using sustainable palm oil
and dangers of the introduction of the yellow crazy ant to the uniqueendemic ecosystem of the mature palm forest of the Vallã e de Mai a UNESCO World Heritage Site on the Seychelles.
That farmer is not going to invest in machine upgrades or make as many purchases in the community.
A dense network of trees and hedges (bocage) thus became a veritable maze for these bees who had become less able to recognise their landmarks.
and improve the design of epidemiological watch networks. Story Source: The above story is provided based on materials by INRA-France.
The study Using a Network Model to Assess Risk of Forest Pest Spread via Recreational Travel was published July 9 in the journal PLOS ONE
Studya study co-authored by a University of Guelph scientist that involved fitting bumblebees with tiny radio frequency tags shows long-term exposure to a neonicotinoid pesticide hampers bees'ability
The researchers monitored bee activity using radio frequency identification (RFID) tags similar to those used by courier firms to track parcels.
So-lay-num core-duh-SEE-tum). It's a new unique plant from the United states she says.
Only five plants have been collected from two sites in Mexico's western Chihuahua state. Its status is data deficient
Other fossils of this age come from Wyoming and Colorado some 2700 miles to the south of the Arctic site of Ellesmere Island.
The other mammal discovered at the site Heptodon is an ancient relative of modern tapirs
But no fossils of mammals had ever before been identified at the site. The fieldwork that resulted in these discovered was supported by Natural sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada.
Fossil plants from the site indicate the area seldom experienced freezing temperatures and probably had a climate similar to that of Portland Oregon located roughly 700 miles to the south Driftwood Canyon is a window into a lost world--an evolutionary experiment where palms grew beneath spruce trees
To conduct the study researchers used data from the 2012 Kansas Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance system and the 2011 Kansas Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance system
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if they show up to the site. It's a communication strategy that's bold and risky yet remarkably successful in warding off competitors according to a paper published in the July 7 issue of the journal Current Biology.
To Nieh whose research has focused on the evolution of communication strategies among bees eavesdropping is part of the information web the signals and cues that surround animals and play a key role in shaping ecosystems.
In the case of bees and other pollinators he says a network of signals and cues shapes pollination informing animals about where
Trigona hyalinata spies that detect food sources marked by Trigona spinipes foragers will often displace T. spinipes from desirable sites in the wild
But Lichtenberg found in a controlled field study that the eavesdropping species will avoid desirable sources of food that have been visited frequently by T. spinipes (communicated by the larger number of pheromone markings at the site) to avoid being attacked.
The eavesdroppers could take over the highly visited sites by recruiting more of their nestmates or battling with T. spinipes bees
Each has its own sensor run by an embedded computer. We envision dozens of SPOTS on a space habitat said Dane Larsen who is working on a master's degree on computer science.
Telemetry in each SPOT provides data on plant condition to a computer display. The robots and plants are networked together
We want to optimize a system allowing the humans to get psychological benefits from interacting with the plants she said in a 2013 Web video interview produced by the University of Colorado Boulder.
For Daniel Zukowski who is also working on a master's in computer science the X-Hab Challenge is an opportunity to use terrestrial-based know-how
Hava noted that the team has benefited from support from former NASA astronaut Joe Tanner who now is a senior instructor of aerospace engineering sciences at the University of Colorado and Nikolaus Correll assistant professor of computer science at the university.
The study published in the Bulletin of Entomological Research has been developed in the laboratories of the Mediterranean Agroforestal Institute (IAM in Spanish) in collaboration with the Department of Computer Engineering (DISCA in Spanish) of the UPV.
The work team analysed the insect behaviour with a camera fitted with a flight mill connected to a computer.
At each of the sites soil samples were collected from areas of sugarcane cultivation and from other areas to be used as reference.
and are present at this site in surprisingly large numbers. The researchers'findings appear in the journal Marine Biology.
of grazers in the region according to the latest report by the Global Coral reef Monitoring Network (GCRMN) the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and the United nations Environment Programme (UNEP.
http://cmsdata. iucn. org/downloads/caribbean coral reefs status report 1970 2012. pdfstory Source: The above story is provided based on materials by International Union for Conservation of Nature.
But add in a third factor--the socioeconomic background of eaters--and some quirky results emerge.
Resembling a miniaturized ground-based radio telescope it was designed to study the composition velocity and temperature of gases on or near the comet's surface and measure the temperature of the nucleus down to a depth of several inches or centimeters.
NASA's Deep space Network is supporting ESA's Ground Station Network for spacecraft tracking and navigation.
Hardware subsystems for MIRO were provided by the Max-Planck Institute for Solar system Research and the Laboratoire d'Etudes du Rayonnement et de la Matiere en Astrophysique of the Observatoire de Paris. The consortium also includes the Laboratoire d'Etudes Spatiales ed
The team also compared its information to prior studies of sediment cores extracted from an oceanic region in the central Arctic ocean called the Lomonosov Ridge--a steep hump of continental crust that rises more than 1000 feet from the ocean floor--to estimate
and designing oil palm plantations so that dense road networks do not intersect directly with waterways. These kinds of improved practices are being pioneered by the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm oil
Funded by the National Science Foundation the study looks at a century's worth of data on thousands of human remains found at hundreds of sites across the Four Corners region of the Southwest.
Researchers unzip nanotubes by shooting them at 15,000 mphcarbon nanotubes unzipped into graphene nanoribbons by a chemical process invented at Rice university are finding use in all kinds of projects
One-step chemical-free clean and high-quality graphene nanoribbons can be produced using our method. They're potential candidates for next-generation electronic materials he said.
This will bring us a step closer to new applications in mobile communication systems such as sending olfactory messages by smartphone or even the development of bioelectronic noses.
or telephone survey at the beginning and end of the program to report their child's at home consumption of fruits vegetables and milk.
and you're a regional hospital network and you have 20 CT scanners says Lemon.
The research also found the use of static knowledge the information provided by a supplier's website
What I hope is that people understand the value of these peer-to-peer problem-solving communities in a business to business setting.
The estimates were done using the Lives Saved Tool (List) a computer-based tool developed by Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public health researchers that allows users to set up
because they belong to a class of herbivores known as browsers that subsist on woody plants and shrubs many species
when he noticed that the Sodom apple was conspicuously absent from some experiment sites. He and other researchers had set up 36 exclosures
It was in the sites that excluded elephants and impala that the Sodom apple particularly flourished Pringle said which defied everything he knew about the plant.
and his co-authors used cameras to document the zest with which wild African browsers will eat S. campylacanthum.
The addresses then were overlaid on maps with the locations of agricultural chemical application sites based on the pesticide-use reports to determine residential proximity.
The researchers found that during the study period approximately one-third of CHARGE Study participants lived in close proximity--within 1. 25 to 1. 75 kilometers--of commercial pesticide application sites.
Some associations were greater among mothers living closer to application sites and lower as residential proximity to the application sites decreased the researchers found.
Organophosphates applied over the course of pregnancy were associated with an elevated risk of autism spectrum disorder particularly for chlorpyrifos applications in the second trimester.
It includes data from the team's ongoing excavations at the sites of two ancient communities in the lower Yellow River flood plain of China's Henan province.
Researchers examined about 50 vertical feet of exposed soil layers at the Anshang site carefully cleaning sections of a quarry wall to reveal patterns of sedimentary deposits dating back about 10000 years.
While ancient levees may be difficult to spot with an untrained eye geoarchaeologists employ an array of precise analytic tools to confirm a site's sedimentary history.
Help for understanding climate change's effectskidder an authority on river basin geoarchaeology has gathered data from the Yellow River excavation sites over the last five summers.
He also conducts similar geoarchaeology research along the Mississippi river at a Native american site called Poverty Point in Louisiana.
They are freely accessible through a Livestock Geo-Wiki a site maintained by collaborators at the International Institute for Applied Systems analysis (IIASA.
Tufts Wildlife Clinic at Cummings School of veterinary medicine received results of a toxicology screen last week that showed that Ruby tested positive for three different types of second-generation anticoagulant
which the screen results now confirm. Ruby had high concentrations of an SGAR called brodifacoum in her system
The researchers base their findings on a comprehensive trawl of online English language websites marketing e-cigarettes between two specific periods--May to August 2012 and December 2013 to January 2014.
By January 2014 there were 466 different brands each with its own website and 7764 unique flavours.
But this ban does not cover the internet where up to half of the total quantity of e-cigarettes sold are purchased the authors point out.
but no large advertising budget is required to achieve a web presence they Add in the USA alone the e-cigarette market is projected to reach US$2 billion this year.
The number of e-cigarette brands sold on the internet is large and the variety of flavours staggering write the researchers.
The vegetation survey looked at 62 vacant lots in several neighborhoods including Mexicantown Kettering and Core City.
They also set up pollen collectors at 34 sites and analyzed the concentration of ragweed pollen grains collected at each location.
They found that the amount of ragweed pollen in the air at a collection site was determined both by the abundance of ragweed plants within 10 meters (33 feet) of the collector and by the number of vacant lots within 1 kilometer (0. 62 miles) of the site.
Dwomoh will use Landsat imagery to track deforestation and information from NASA tropical rainfall and fire data to analyze the impact of fires on the region.
The survey published in a June 16 special supplement of the journal Tobacco Control found that 10 new e-cigarette brands entered the Internet marketplace every month on average from 2012 to 2014
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