Period in Biological News

AGU journal highlights -- Aug. 6, 2009

... from the Southern Hemisphere during the study period (November 2006 to June 2007). The study is the ... emission in bursts several minutes long during a period of about 3 hours that coincided with a large dust ... Hesperian epoch, which has been thought to be a period during which surface conditions did not allow ...

Climate-caused biodiversity booms and busts in ancient plants and mammals

... ANN ARBOR, Mich.---A period of global warming from 53 million to 47 million ... began about 56 million years ago with a short period of increased warming, when many modern groups of ... probably by emigrating from other areas. The period the researchers studied, called the Early Eocene ...

Aware, Inc. Reports Second Quarter 2009 Financial Results

... million, compared to $12.0 million in the same period a year ago. The Company reports its net ... million, or $0.05 per diluted share, for the same period a year ago. GAAP net loss for the six months ... of $2.5 million, or $0.11 per share, for the same period a year ago. The non-GAAP net loss for the ...

August 2009 Geology and GSA Today media highlights

... occurred, and Earth's magnetic field underwent a period of relative stability. In the past, the cause of ... climate records from the same region and time period suggest changes in precipitation and temperature ... ago), considered generally to be the warmest period in Earth's history within the past 25 million ...

In vitro antibody production enables HIV infection detection in window period -- key to safer blood

... and prolong the serological-diagnostic window period of HIV. However, the immunosuppression can be ... to detection of HIV infection during this window period is of obvious public health importance especially ... overcoming the problem of this protracted window period perhaps unique to certain field study sites with ...

Super-sleepers could help super-sizers!

... Many species of animals go through a period of torpor to conserve energy when resources are ... their cells changes radically during the dormancy period allowing the frogs to maximise the use of their ... to remain deeply asleep during the entire period of dormancy. Furthermore, being cold-blooded, ...

When palm trees gave way to spruce trees

... hothouse warmth of the dinosaur age and Eocene period was waning. In Antarctica, ice sheets had formed ... the Eocene/Oligocene transition, but that the period was marked by increasing seasonality," said Dr. ... The researcher said that, nonetheless, the middle period of the transition remained fairly warm. "Hickory ...

Cantabrian cornice has experienced seven cooling and warming phases over past 41,000 years

... kind of statistical analysis over a six-month period at the University of New Mexico, analysing around ... two more stable ones, and a temperate climatic period at the El Mirn cave. The scientists are unsure about dating the seventh and last period ended, as this "could correspond with the Bronze ...

As good as it gets: Octogenarian muscles don't get stronger with exercise

... did three sets of 10 lifts, with a 2-minute rest period between sets. The researchers measured the ... When people do not use their muscles during a period of convalescence or with a sedentary lifestyle, ... but to people whose muscles are immobilized for a period and even for astronauts who spend long periods of ...

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

... net loss of ($0.6 million) for the corresponding period in 2007. The significant improvement in net ... to 86.5% compared to 82.1% for the corresponding period in 2007. The company's commitment to cost ... to $13.6 million reported for the corresponding period in 2007. Net income from continuing ...

Social support during breast-feeding helps humans have more children

... Ribeirinha culture, women observe resguardo, a period of 40 or 41 days after birth during which they ... were able to avoid subsistence work for a long period of time, lowering their energy expenditure. They ... their dietary needs, especially during the early period of lactation. The women who did not have social ...

AGU journal highlights -- Dec. 31, 2008

... from 1999 to 2007 was half of what it was for the period between 1992 and 1999. Further, anthropogenic CO ... traced back to glaciers during the same time period have been interpreted to have resulted from ... of January and February 2006, a special observing period was conducted (SOP0) involving several ...

Study shows competition, not climate change, led to Neanderthal extinction

... by reconstructing climatic conditions during this period and analyzing the distribution of archaeological ... same, or if it contracted or expanded during that period of time. Comparing these reconstructed areas ... to maintain their range across Europe during a period of less severe climatic conditions called ...

AGU journal highlights: Nov. 11, 2008

... in ice discharge are correlated for the time period studied. Using this correlation, they determine that the ice sheet lost mass during the warm period before 1970, although in the 1970s and 1980s the ... wavelength greater than 1 meter (3.3 feet) and period longer than about 1 second) have long been known ...

Extreme weather postpones the flowering time of plants

... approx. a decade of global warming. The flowering period of an important early flowerer, the common ... researchers were able to simulate an extreme dry period of 32 days and a period of extreme rain using artificial rain with 170 ...

Researchers uncover world's oldest fossil impression of a flying insect

... of a flying insect from this or any previous period has never been discovered. The fossil, Benner ... to gain knowledge about the ecosystem of that period and what type of animals lived in it. The ... Era - the second half of the Carboniferous period - and dates back to about 310 million years. ...

September Geology and GSA Today media highlights

... Pages 715-718. The middle Cretaceous was a period of extreme climate changes and repeated ... indicates that sulfate-saturated magmas spanned a period of six million years at Yanacocha, Peru. Magmatic ... mass extinction marks the end of the Permian period and coincides with evidence of environmental ...

Communication Intelligence Corporation Reports Second Quarter 2008 Financial Results

... of $148,000, or 27%. Orders for the three month period ended June 30, 2008, however, were $703,000, $296,000 higher than revenue recognizable for that period and such orders are expected to be recognized as ... to common stockholders for the three month period ended June 30, 2008 was $1,464,000, compared to a ...

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

... 18.2% to $6.1 million from the corresponding period in 2007. Gross margin for the six months ended ... to 85.9% compared to 81.8% for the corresponding period in 2007. Gross profit increased by 24.1% to $5.3 ... compared to $4.2 million in the corresponding period in 2007. Operating expenses from continuing ...

Antarctic fossils paint a picture of a much warmer continent

... of 8 degrees Celsius, over a relatively brief period of geological time roughly 14 million years ago, ... temperatures would have dropped in that period by as much as 8 degrees Celsius. On average, the ... temperatures in the Valleys during this temperate period would have been as much as 17 degrees warmer than ...

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

... 18.2% to $6.1 million from the corresponding period in 2007. Gross margin for the six months ended ... to 85.9% compared to 81.8% for the corresponding period in 2007. Gross profit increased by 24.1% to $5.3 ... compared to $4.2 million in the corresponding period in 2007. Operating expenses from continuing ...

August 2008 Geology and GSA Today media highlights

... extensional regime in the region during the period prior to the opening of small basins ca. 42 ... high demand for nickel from China and a prolonged period of high prices, the nickel mining industry is ... Glacial Maximum (LGM, ~21,000 cal yr B.P.) to a period of warmer temperatures and relative dryness that ...

More sensitive radiology monitoring in the Basque Country

... level of precipitation. Thus, she defined a dry period (0 litres per square metre), a wet period (whenever rainfall is greater than 0 litres per ... and a transition period, that encompasses the period from the end of the precipitations to the point ...

March GEOLOGY and GSA TODAY media highlights

... concentrations in the Cretaceous early Albian period were reconstructed to have ranged from 500 to ... adjoining plate boundaries. Occurring during a period of significant change in relative and absolute ... the oxygen content of the oceans during an abrupt period of global warming 183 million years ago in the ...

Scientists expand understanding of how river carbon impacts the Arctic Ocean

... is remarkably labile during the spring flood period when the majority of annual DOC flux occurs. The ... by timing their sampling to include the high-flow period just after the spring ice break, the authors ... organic carbon in rivers during the spring flood period is highly labile. Rivers sampled for this ...

Ancient fish bones reveal impacts of global warming beneath the sea

... in Danish waters during a prehistoric warm period are now returning. Some cold-water species, such ... The Danish fish fauna during the warm Atlantic period (ca. 70003900 BC): Forerunner of future changes? ... Sea. When temperatures cooled after the warm period ended, most of these species disappeared from the ...

Stowers Institute's Hawley Lab identifies factors responsible for restart of meiotic cycle

... the meiotic cycle of oocytes following a natural period of dormancy. The Hawley Lab has described the ... Dec. 4, 2007 issue of PLoS Biology. The long period of dormancy that interrupts the process that ... same point in meiosis as in humans. The long period of meiotic arrest has mystified biologists for ...

ANDRILL's 2nd Antarctic drilling season exceeds all expectations

... we recovered last year with this one, from a time period right below it, and it's more than 2 kilometers ... from the middle Miocene and a step into a colder period of time, and that was one of our key targets," ... warmer-than-present conditions over an extended period of the middle and late Miocene when the western ...

Worldwide atmospheric measurements will determine the role of atmospheric fine particles

... Next May, a new, month-long measuring period will begin. During that time, the atmosphere ... kinds of pollution. The month-long measurement period is part of a wider 15-month (1 March 200831 May ... Field Station will contribute to this intensive period by providing ground-based measurements. ...

BIO-key Reports Third Quarter 2007 Results

... of 2007 was 79% consistent with the corresponding period in 2006. Operating expenses from ... period in 2006. The net loss amount in the 2006 period included $5.5 million from the extinguishment of ... loss per share of ($0.13) for the corresponding period in 2006. "We saw significant improvement in the ...

Expecting an afternoon nap can reduce blood pressure

... in Cardiovascular Function During the Onset period of Daytime Sleep: Comparison to Lying Awake and ... into three phases: Phase 1: A five-minute period of relaxed wakefulness before lights were turned ... 15 minutes before this phase) Phase 2: The period between lights out and the onset of Stage 1 sleep ...

Living fossils have hot sex

... suggests have been around since the Permian period roughly 290 million to 250 million years ago. ... between the scales open slightly during the period when pollination occurs. The spaces provide a way ... An individual cycad plant has a pollination period known as coning season once a year to once ...

October Geology and GSA Today media highlights

... Very few such sites are known from the Ordovician period of geological time (about 488 to 444 million ... Burgess Shaletype deposits of the Cambrian period (which are more than 500 million years old) and ... soil erosion rates over 6000 years during the period of Maya occupation in a lake basin in northern ...

Communication Intelligence Corporation Reports Second Quarter 2007 Financial Results

... Total revenue of $555,000 for the three month period ended June 30, 2007 increased 24% compared to ... to common stockholders for the three month period ended June 30, 2007 was $843,000 compared to a ... The operating loss for the six month period ended June 30, 2007, before interest expense and ...

BIO-key Reports Second Quarter 2007 Results

... recast financial statements for the corresponding period in 2006. The reduction in revenue from continuing ... to 81.2% compared to 77.5% for the corresponding period in 2006. Operating expenses from continuing ... million) from ($1.6 million) in the corresponding period in 2006. Net income was $1.7 million for the ...

When bivalves ruled the world

... massive extinctions that occurred as the Permian period ended and the Triassic period began: toxic oceans created by too much ... fossil samples of the marine survivors from the period in what today are China, Japan, Italy and the ...

September Geology and GSA Today media highlights

... years, and only in 1538 did an eruption follow a period of uplift. Bodnar et al. propose that periods of ... ages of these speleothems show that the last main period of increased rainfall occurred between 140,000 ... between central Africa and the Levant. The humid period in the Negev Desert between 140,000 and 110,000 ...

Nanodiamonds deliver insulin for wound healing

... and releasing the curative hormone at a specific location over a period of time. The nanodiamond-insulin clusters hold promise for wound-healing ... slowly and consistently released from the nanodiamond clusters over a period of several days. Insulin accelerates wound healing by acting as a ...

Spring cold snap helps with stream ecosystem research

... Patrick Mulholland, author of the paper. "The stream no longer gets that period of peak productivity in spring because the leaves are shading the stream ... has negative effects on the stream ecosystem during the critical spring period when many stream organisms are dependent on algae for food." Although ...

Arctic climate under greenhouse conditions in the Late Cretaceous

... winter sea ice in the Arctic Ocean during the Late Cretaceous a period of greenhouse conditions - gives a glimpse of how the Arctic is likely to ... Arctic should help predict its future behaviour. The Late Cretaceous, the period between 100 and 65 million years ago leading up to the extinction of the ...