margin in Biological News

January-February GSA Bulletin media highlights

... age of retreat of the Killard Point stadial ice margin from western Ireland. Eight 10Be dates from the ... forming or reactivated as part of one lateral margin of the Thaumasia gravity-spreading system. The other, dextral, lateral margin is a massive splay of extensional faults forming ...

January GEOLOGY media highlights

... long-term seismic segmentation of the Andean margin John P. Loveless et al., Department of Earth ... A record of Pacific subduction at the Gondwanan margin Ralf Tappert et al., Geology and Geophysics, ... Africa and South America, were emplaced along the margin of the former supercontinent Gondwana. This ...

Orchid Cellmark Reports Third Quarter 2008 Financial Results

... margins in both the U.S. and the U.K. Gross margin for the U.S. business decreased for the ... CODIS and forensic casework businesses. Gross margin for the U.K. business in the quarter was adversely impacted by lower margin forensics revenues replacing the DNA testing ...

BIO-key(R) Reports Profitability for Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2008

... in both the Biometrics and Law Enforcement Divisions. Gross margin improved to 87.9% during the fourth quarter of 2008, continuing a ... million reported for the twelve months ended December 31, 2007. Gross margin improved during the year ended December 31, 2008 to 86.5% compared to ...

BIO-key(R) Reports Profitability on Strong Revenue Growth for Second Quarter 2008

... the right track to deliver continued operating growth." BIO-key's gross margin for the second quarter of 2008 was 88.2% compared to 82.6% for the ... 18.2% to $6.1 million from the corresponding period in 2007. Gross margin for the six months ended June 30, 2008 increased to 85.9% compared to ...

BIO-key(R) Reports Profitability on Strong Revenue Growth for Second Quarter 2008

... the right track to deliver continued operating growth." BIO-key's gross margin for the second quarter of 2008 was 88.2% compared to 82.6% for the ... 18.2% to $6.1 million from the corresponding period in 2007. Gross margin for the six months ended June 30, 2008 increased to 85.9% compared to ...

August 2008 Geology and GSA Today media highlights

... of the oldest human presence yet discovered along the northernmost margin of Egypt's Nile delta. A rock fragment carried by humans to the site was ... of its low stretching rate. A zone of shear is present along the northern margin of the Snake River Plain to accommodate the different rates of stretching. ...

BIO-key Reports Third Quarter 2007 Results

... from several of the Company's Law Enforcement customers. BIO-key's gross margin for the third quarter of 2007 was 79% consistent with the corresponding ... revenue growth to be achieved in the coming quarters. Given the high gross margin of our biometric business, small increments of revenue growth have a high ...

November GEOLOGY and GSA TODAY Media Highlights

... warming to present-day conditions next to the retreating northeastern margin of the Scandinavian Ice Sheet ca. 50,000 years ago. A nonmarine ... of plate tectontics, mapping individual terranes that were welded onto the margin by the Pacific Ocean crust diving beneath Alaska. But once attached, ...

August 2009 Geology and GSA Today media highlights

... background of East Asia dust is dominated by binary sources from the arid lands around the northern boundary of China and the deserts on the northern margin of the Tibetan Plateau. However, the modern spring dust in Beijing is characterized by totally different isotopic compositions, which indicate an ...

Iron isotopes as a tool in oceanography

... NOCS, and his colleagues have helped fill this gap be measuring iron isotopes in pore fluids from both the Eel River shelf on the northern California margin (120 m water depth), and deep-sea sediments from the Southern Ocean around the Crozet Island Plateau (3000� m water depth), about 1400 miles ...

Geoscientists meet to discuss Rocky Mountain geology

... Basin and Range and close to both the Colorado Plateau and Rocky Mountains provinces. The Wasatch Fault, a major crustal feature, forms the eastern margin of the valley. Field trips will include destinations to one of the largest open-pit copper mines in the world; hot springs in Saratoga Springs, ...

Wetlands likely source of methane from ancient warming event

... may be the largest ice samples ever for a climate change study. The researchers cut away 15 tons of ice from a site called Pakitsoq at the western margin of the Greenland ice sheet to collect the ancient air trapped within. Methane exists in low concentrations in this air and only a trillionth of any ...

Freezing kidney cancer: Hot treatment should be new gold standard for destroying small tumors

... tumor. The tumor is then thawed by replacing the argon with helium. The procedure consists of two freezing and one thawing cycle, seeking a frozen margin beyond the tumor edge to ensure death of the entire tumor. After the cryoprobe is removed, a small bandage is placed over the skin puncture site. ...

Biologist enhances use of bioinformatic tools and achieves precision in genetic annotation

... order that was not the correct one. Having defined parameters and a manual of correct procedure, very good results were achieved and with a minimum margin of error. Sequencing of fungal genes The second part of Jos Luis Lavn Trueba's PhD focused on certain fungal genes, known as OXPHOS genes. ...

VCU survey: US public supports genetic research, testing and government spending on research

... The VCU Life Sciences Survey, in its eighth year, was conducted by telephone with 1,005 adults nationwide, from Nov. 24 to Dec. 7, 2008. The margin of error for the poll is plus or minus 3.8 percentage points. This is the eighth annual VCU Life Sciences Survey, conducted for VCU Life Sciences and ...

Beckman Coulter Updates 2008 Outlook

... unusually high sales levels in 2008. The company has implemented a zero overhead growth policy to control expenses. The shift in mix toward higher margin recurring revenue and a conservative approach toward spending should allow the company to achieve its 2009 earnings per share growth objective of ....

December Geosphere media highlights

... paper received NSF funding. This paper discusses the tectonic evolution of the Southern Balkan extensional system from its beginning as an Andean margin from Late Cretaceous to early Eocene, through a transition from Andean to extension settings from middle Eocene to Oligocene time, to a regional ...

December 2008 Geology and GSA Today media highlights

... would argue that it was the Rheic Ocean. The Rheic Ocean formed some 490 million years ago during a rifting event that tore apart the northern margin of the continents that together formed Gondwana, including Africa and South America. It was not the opening of the Rheic Ocean, but rather its demise ...

Phase III data show efficacy/safety of iclaprim in patients with complicated skin infections

... population. A 95 percent confidence interval was used to determine statistical significance of study data and the pre-specified non-inferiority margin (-12.5 percent) was met in all populations in both trials. A total of 991 patients, 18 years old and over with cSSSIs were enrolled in the trials. ...

Synaptics Reports Record Results for First Quarter of Fiscal 2009

... revenue $115,857 $86,692 Cost of revenue (1) 69,264 51,228 Gross margin 46,593 35,464 Operating expenses Research and development (1) 15,805 ...

AGU journal highlights -- Oct. 16, 2008

... by topography Surveys of the Nordic seas spanning more than 100 years reveal that warm waters from the North Atlantic flow along the eastern margin of the Nordic seas while cold waters from the Arctic flow south along the east coast of Greenland. However, how deep water circulates within these ...

Nanotech and synbio: Americans don't know what's coming

... between benefits and risks. Of those people who are willing to make an initial judgment, they think benefits will outweigh risks by a three to one margin when compared to those who believe risks will outweigh benefits. The plurality of respondents, however, believes that risks and benefits will be ...

September Geology and GSA Today media highlights

... key region in the evolution of global climate. Long recurrence interval of faulting beyond the 2005 Kashmir earthquake around the northwestern margin of the Indo-Asian collision zone Hisao Kondo, AIST, Active Fault Research Center, Site7, 1-1-1 Higashi, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8567, Japan. Pages ...

BIO-key(R) Issues Open Letter to Shareholders

... continued growth in our biometric business will lead to improvements in our gross margins. Additionally, since our business is based on sales of high margin software and services, we believe securing additional large contracts -- such as our recent $2 million biometric contract -- enhances our ability to ...

July 2008 GEOLOGY and GSA Today media highlights

... British Caledonides southeast of the Moine Thrust. The results support a model for the origin of the Southern Uplands in an ocean trench along the margin of Laurentia, where the floor of the Iapetus Ocean was being consumed under the adjacent continental margin. Astronomical climate control on ...

UNH receives $380,000 grant to study organic dairy as closed ecosystem

... Northeast survive economic vulnerabilities. The study comes as rising energy, feed and capital investment costs shrink the already narrow profit margin of dairy agriculture in the Northeast, threatening the regional sustainability of the industry. "In a closed system, the only thing leaving the farm ...

BIO-key(R) Reports First Quarter 2008 Results

... 31, 2008 was $2.5 million representing a decrease of 3.8% from the $2.6 million reported for the quarter ended December 31, 2007. BIO-key's gross margin for the first quarter of 2008 was 82.6% compared to 85.6% for the previous quarter. Operating expenses from continuing operations for the first ...

Impoverished areas of Africa and Asia face severe crop losses from climate change in 20 years

... he added, with projected losses of 10 percent or more for many regional staples, including millet, maize and rice. For poor farmers on the margin of survival, these losses could really be crushing, Burke said. Prioritizing investments With such large projected losses in many poor ...

Unusual fish-eating dinosaur had crocodile-like skull

... there is more than one evolutionary solution to the same problem. The unusual skull of Baryonyx is very elongate, with a curved or sinuous jaw margin as seen in large crocodiles and alligators. It also had stout conical teeth, rather than the blade-like serrated ones in meat-eating dinosaurs, and a ...

New folic acid seal helps women choose enriched grain foods to help prevent birth defects

... were conducted with women between the ages of 18-54 (300 Hispanic, 302 non-Hispanic). A sample this size yields a 95% confidence level with a margin of error +/- 4.1%. When using the sub-quotas of 300, the data has a 95% confidence level with a range of error of +/- 5.5%. ...

Scientists find good news about methane bubbling up from the ocean floor

... news for the Earth's atmosphere. Coal Oil Point (COP), one of the world's largest and best studied seep regions, is located along the northern margin of the Santa Barbara Channel. Thousands of seep fields exist in the ocean bottom around the world, according to David Valentine, associate professor ...

Widespread support for nonembryonic stem cell research, VCU Life Sciences Survey shows

... are part of this years nationwide survey conducted by VCU via telephone with 1,000 adults nationwide from Nov. 26, 2007, to Dec. 9, 2007. The polls margin of error is plus or minus 3 percentage points. The survey is conducted for VCU Life Sciences and the VCU College of Humanities and Sciences by the ...

December GEOLOGY and GSA TODAY media highlights

... a unique rock unit in the Upper Cretaceous Pierre Shale in South Dakota and Nebraska, has been thought to represent sea-level rise along the eastern margin of the Western Interior Seaway. However, Weber et al. show that the presence of impact ejecta from the Manson Impact Structure, found within the ...

US fires release large amounts of carbon dioxide

... developed by Wiedinmyer, that estimates carbon dioxide emissions based on the mass of vegetation burned. They caution that their estimates have a margin of error of about 50 percent, both because of inexact data about the extent of fires and varying estimates of the amount of carbon dioxide emitted by ...

Majority of Americans want local action on global warming, says poll

... Current Population Survey on sex, age, region, and education. The final sample is considered to be representative of U.S. adults nationwide, with a margin of error of /- 3 percentage points. ...

BIO-key Reports Second Quarter 2007 Results

... that the Company had participated in as a subcontractor, compared to $310,000 of license revenue from the same project in 2007. BIO-key's gross margin for the second quarter of 2007 improved to 81.2% compared to 77.5% for the corresponding period in 2006. Operating expenses from continuing ...

Cryoablation -- A new treatment option for some kidney tumor patients

... operation of multiple cryoprobes guided by ultrasound. The ablation margin (the edge of the frozen tissue) can be accurately monitored with CT, to ... procedure consists of two freezing and thawing cycles, seeking a frozen margin of approximately 5 millimeters beyond the tumor edge to ensure death of ...

Weighty viruses

... viruses. Previous methods for determining the masses of viruses had a margin of error of ±15%, which made them too inaccurate to ensure the resolution ... of viruses with diameters between 80 and 300 nm—with an astonishingly low margin of error of ±1%. The masses of the viruses can, in combination with other ...