Criteria in Biological News

Red List overlooks island species

... The criteria of the International Union for the Conservation ... species around the planet, and according to these criteria all the species in the Canary Islands are ... threatened with extinction according to these criteria did not coincide with reality, as they were "too ...

Fujitsu PalmSecure Certified Under International Common Criteria Evaluation Assurance Level 2

... has been certified under the International Common criteria for Information Technology Security Evaluation as ... identification and security. Common criteria is a set of established guidelines for evaluating ... Assurance Level 2 certification under Common criteria solidifies PalmSecure's position as one of the ...

Publication sets guidelines across cancer therapies: Ensuring the best in patient management

... was difficult. As a result, generally accepted criteria for response assessment in solid tumors did not ... believe that the international guidelines and criteria for response assessment using PET in solid tumors ... PET. "Previously, researchers used different criteria and their results were inconsistent," explained ...

Hear about emerging trends in toxicology research

... the new NIEHS/NTP director; hear about the new criteria NTP will be using to evaluate non-cancer studies; ... held at the Baltimore Convention Center. NTP criteria for Hazard Identification in Non-Cancer Studies ... bioassay. The program has now developed similar criteria for reaching conclusions from NTP ...

NASA picks ASU research team to guide study of search for life

... exploration to the next stage by refining the criteria that guide the search for life. The ... direction of Anbar, the team plans to refine the criteria to guide the search for life by characterizing ... in the search for extraterrestrial life, these criteria are too vague. Within the solar system there is ...

How will government spur technological innovation in the 21st century?

... program. In the paper, Dr. Osama offers criteria that could help design effective public sector venture funding initiatives. These criteria include policy and business objectives; ... than entirely on a set of fuzzy ideological criteria of what a government should and should not do, ...

University of Minnesota study refutes belief that black men have more aggressive prostate cancer

... the possibility of prostate cancer. But all these criteria are interrelated and could be the result of ... races require re-evaluation because inconsistent criteria were used in selection of patients, he said. Our ... of tumors that have been matched by criteria relevant to a diagnosis of cancer as well as ...

Notre Dame researchers describe new tool for evaluating 'managed relocations'

... of uncertainty clearly delineated. The tool uses multi-disciplinary criteria for to score a proposed relocation. The criteria include possibility of success of the proposed relocation, its potential ...

Is vitamin D deficiency linked to Alzheimer's disease and vascular dementia?

... Writing in the article, Dr. Grant states, "There are established criteria for causality in a biological system. The important criteria include strength of association, consistency of findings, determination of ...

The evolution of gene regulation

... changes. "Which of the two principles prevails depends on evolutionary criteria such as the population size and the periods over which environmental ... "In this conflict between maximal and minimal use of the regulators, other criteria do in fact come into play: the population size and the periods over which ...

Bayhill Therapeutics and the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation announce research collaboration

... induction of immune tolerance to pancreatic autoantigens. Clinical Trial criteria Key inclusion criteria for this trial include: a diagnosis of type 1a diabetes mellitus based on ...

EPA releases science assessment on health effects of nitrogen oxides

... review document released in 1993. Oxides of nitrogen is one of the six criteria pollutants for which EPA is required to issue air quality criteria under the Clean Air Act (CAA). EPA set a national ambient air quality ...

New study raises concerns about proposed mitigation strategy for marine bycatch

... examine the strengths and weaknesses of this approach and establish the criteria that would have to be met for it to work," said Myra Finkelstein, a ... original paper. But the bulk of the new paper is devoted to a set of five criteria for evaluating any proposals to implement such strategies. The researchers ...

American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- Nov. 14, 2007

... ARTICLE #4 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE New database screening criteria improves identification of anticancer drugs Journal of Chemical ... cells. In a series of experiments, they showed that applying these new criteria significantly increased the accuracy rate of identifying drug-like ...

CO2 emissions could violate EPA ocean-quality standards within decades

... point where it will violate U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Quality criteria [1976] by mid-century if emissions are not dramatically curtailed now. ... is more acidic. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency [1976] Quality criteria for Water state: For open ocean waters where the depth is substantially ...

Restless legs syndrome affects nearly 2 percent of US/UK children

... excluded those who did not meet all of the National Institutes of Health criteria for diagnosing children with RLS. A child who had periodic limb movements ... would not be included unless he or she met all of the other diagnostic criteria for RLS. Some parents are surprised to learn that conditions such as ...

Navigating in the ocean of molecules

... to help them steer their way through this sea of possibilities. The program Scaffold Hunter generates a map of the chemical space based on structural criteria and uses it to identify biologically active compounds, e.g. natural substances. The program can also be used to predict new candidate agents that do ...

Hybrid vehicle rebates produce scant environmental benefits, high cost

... environmentally progressive, Chandra suggests that some programs may serve as de facto "bailouts" for the North American auto industry. "The criteria for Ontario's recent rebate increase seem designed to benefit domestic manufacturers, especially General Motors," Chandra says. "The biggest rebates ...

Report shows the power of US cities to mitigate climate change and steps they need to take to adapt

... 39 adaptation tactics such as implementing a needs assessment to evaluate drainage infrastructure and developing city-wide climate change design criteria The report says 14 cities see general opportunities arising from climate change, including energy efficiency and a strengthening of communities. ...

Two is not company -- as far as fish are concerned

... of ten or more; large groups are also more likely to exhibit natural behaviours such as shoaling'. Further research is needed to ascertain the criteria for fish welfare in home aquaria; the results of these studies, funded by the WALTHAM Centre for Pet Nutrition, should go some way to improving ...

What makes a great footballer?

... a player's skill components should be used to help in the selection and identification of new talent. Our studies could help to streamline selection criteria and efficiency by providing a rank ordering of individuals based upon competitive one-on-one tasks. In addition, the relative importance of each type ...

Study shows transfer of heavy metals from water to fish in Huelva estuary

... copper was also detected at high concentrations. This research forms part of the project "Production and validation of environmental quality criteria in sensitive coastal ecosystems" financed by the former Ministry of Education and Science, and which also includes analysis of the levels of organic ...

Why do we choose our mates? Ask Charles Darwin, prof says

... first step, and it's given us models to work from to try to answer other big questions." Those include determining methods to find out the actual criteria used in choosing a mate, what methods work and which do not, and the passing of genes on to the next generation, a field of study Jones says gained ...

Improving livestock productivity in Honduras

... and meat producers by determining the nutritional value of pastures, forages and potential cattle feeds; by reinforcing the sperm bank and selection criteria for cattle for higher meat and milk production; and by improving diagnosis of diseases affecting livestock. Secondly, the project also helps ...

Afghanistan releases its first-ever list of protected species

... to obtain the most recent and accurate information available for Afghanistan and the region, and then evaluated those data using scientific criteria established by the global authority on species listing the IUCN Red List. By the end of 2009, WCS says the list may be expanded to as many as 70 ...

Yale study: Most polluted ecosystems recoverable

... ecologists measured recovery on the basis of an ecosystem's more recent condition. The study points out the need for the development of objective criteria to decide when a system has fully recovered. The researchers said the analysis rebuts speculation that it will take centuries or millennia for ...

Study shows CGM devices also benefit people with type 1 diabetes

... HbA1c levels rose over time in the control group. He noted that all the HbA1c outcomes favored the CGM over the control group. Major eligibility criteria for the study included people over the age of 8 who had type 1 diabetes for at least one year, who either used an insulin pump or took at least three ...

Did the North Atlantic fisheries collapse due to fisheries-induced evolution?

... intense fisheries-induced selection. The cod fishery at Iceland is one of the world's few remaining cod fisheries. The study appears to have met all criteria for concern that this fishery is threatened. "Can anything be done to avert collapse?" the authors ask. A strategy that would remove selection ...

Genetic testing for breast or ovarian cancer risk may be greatly underutilized

... and while there have been discrepancies among the guidelines, all of them include a history of breast or ovarian cancer in close relatives among the criteria indicating elevated risk. The authors note that most U.S. health insurers cover at least part of the cost of BRCA1/2 testing for at-risk women. ...

NIH announces new program to develop therapeutics for rare and neglected diseases

... of rare and neglected diseases will be pursued. Leadership currently envisions a small number of diseases being studied each year, with strict criteria used to determine which molecules will be studied for which diseases. NIH expects to use existing intellectual property policies to transfer licenses ...

Protecting fresh-cut produce

... off odor, and total aerobic plate count, which determines microbial load. Evaluations were conducted every 5 days for 20 days, and subjective criteria were based on the opinions of three judges. Results varied by location. California's crops with the two lowest harpin levels had higher OVQ and ...

Some vocal-mimicking animals, particularly parrots, can move to a musical beat

... vocal non-mimics such as dogs and cats. Schachner analyzed the videos frame-by-frame, using the same analyses applied to the case-study birds. criteria included the animal's speed compared to the speed of the music and alignment with individual beats. Potentially "fake" videos were omitted, where ...

DOE funds bio-inspired solar fuel center at Arizona State

... environmentally clean. The use of solar energy to produce a clean fuel such as hydrogen is essentially the only process that can satisfy these criteria at a scale large enough to meet the world's energy demands. Plants and similar organisms use photosynthesis to oxidize water, producing oxygen and ...

Tips from the American Journal of Pathology

... model for human psoriasis. The psoriasis model developed by Dr. Ward's group "bears a striking resemblance to human psoriasis, meeting multiple criteria at the clinical, histological, biochemical, immunophenotype, and pharmacologic levels and therefore will become important for studying pathological ...

Wildlife biologist named Roger Tory Peterson Medal recipient, speaker

... of Natural History (HMNH). Mittermeier will deliver the Roger Tory Peterson Memorial Lecture on April 5. Renowned for his work in developing criteria for biodiversity "hotspots" as a conservation priority, Mittermeier is considered an expert on such topics as biological diversity and its value to ...

Review of probiotic trial research finds only Bifantis able to claim efficacy for IBS symptoms

... probiotic guidelines established by The International Scientific Association for Probiotics and Prebiotics (ISAPP). These guidelines include five key criteria that consumers should consider when selecting a probiotic product - strain specificity, clinical proof, packaging, and the quality and quantity of ...

Study suggests salt might be 'nature's antidepressant'

... induce one of the key symptoms associated with depression," Johnson said. The UI researchers can't say it is full-blown depression because several criteria factor into such a diagnosis, but a loss of pleasure in normally pleasing activities is one of the most important features of psychological ...

Simple test helps predict heart attack risk

... said Murphy. While 91 percent of the NHANES group was considered at low or intermediate risk of cardiovascular disease, according to Framingham criteria alone, almost 45 percent of them were found to have at least one of three conditions: an abnormal ABI or elevated plasma fibrinogen or elevated ...

Musicians have biological advantage in identifying emotion in sound

... training in the European Journal of Neuroscience study were between the ages of 19 and 35. Subjects with music training were grouped using two criteria -- years of musical experience and onset age of training (before or after age 7). Study participants were asked to watch a subtitled nature film ...

1 drug may help people both lay down the drink and put out the cigarette

... of the study. Smokers are more likely to drink alcohol and to consume greater quantities of alcohol, and they are four times more likely to meet criteria for alcohol use disorders. Diseases related to tobacco use are the leading causes of death in alcoholics. "A medication such as varenicline, ...