Standing in Biological News

Social standing influences elephant movement

Berkeley -- When resources are scarce, who you know and where you're positioned on the social totem pole affects how far you'll go to search for food. At least that's the case with African elephants, according to a study led by ecologists at the University of California, Berkeley, who collaborated...

AGU journal highlights -- Aug. 6, 2009

... two sills, internal waves become trapped between the two sills, leading to standing wave generation as well as increased mixing as energy is transferred from larger waves to shorter waves. In contrast, in the single-sill simulation, standing wave generation and increased mixing do not occur. The authors note that th...

Slotted buses keep passengers cool

...y requirements of an air- conditioning system. The turbulent flow into a standard bus does not allow air into all areas. Passengers sitting near or standing in the aisle do not receive any ventilation, while those in the front seats receive airflow from the rear. The team has found that a wide vent at the ...

'Uphold the ban'

... at the World Bank and leader of the Bank's Global Tiger Initiative at the 58th meeting of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species standing Committee. Tiger trade is prohibited internationally and banned domestically in all tiger range countries, including China - historically the lar...

Researchers from around the globe coming to K-State June 21 for workshop on Fusarium fungus

...entify different strains has helped answer questions of more than 100 years standing while, at the same time, raising a whole new set of questions that scientis...id, 'You flattened my whole field.' That's good, because the ones that were standing really meant something." Such application, Leslie said, underscores the ...

Vitamin D expert receives Linus Pauling Prize for Health Research

...unblock use was leading to increasing vitamin D deficiency with serious implications for cancer and other diseases. "I well remember Linus Pauling standing up to criticism and skepticism, a trait of Holick as well," said Nevin Scrimshaw, president of the International Nutrition Foundation, in nominating h...

In troubled economic times, BioSquare 2009 successfully serves as business and innovation starter

...des. BioSquare in 2010  While fewer delegates attended the 2009 edition, activity remains strong. BioSquare 2009 shows that the biotechs are standing up to the crisis. “The continuous progress and discoveries in the field of biotechnology area - more than ever – opening new opportunities...

Research synthesis shines light on several management options after fires in diverse ecosystems

...ear aquatic systems are mostly negative. Most cavity-nesting birds and other animals that live in cavities are impacted by the harvesting of large standing dead trees. "There has been a lot of controversy about salvage logging over the past decade," says Peterson. "We want to ensure that the most rece...

Oh, my aching back: Give me a shot of ozone

...improvement was 25.7 percent for the Oswestry Disability Index (ODI), which measures one's ability to manage everyday lifesuch as washing, dressing or standing (with 61 percent or higher representing back pain that has an impact on all aspects of daily living. The improvement scores for VAS and ODI outcomes a...

Mountain on Mars may answer big question

...lay sediments could account for the volcano's asymmetric shape. The presence of sediment indicates water was or is involved. Olympus Mons is tall, standing almost 15 miles high, and slopes gently from the foothills to the caldera, a distance of more than 150 miles. That shallow slope is a clue to what lie...

LocatePLUS Announces Election of Independent Board

...ces. Achieving an entirely independent Board is an important first step in reintroducing the Company to the markets and it will enhance the Company's standing with the investment community." "Our goal in this dramatic and significant response to the Company's current valuation is to take back the high ...

Study finds life-saving trend among seagulls

...nding group is agitated and ready to take flight, it may be beneficial to be similarly alert," says Dr. Beauchamp. "You don't want to be the last gull standing when a predator approaches." How does this relate to humans? Dr. Beauchamp spent the last two summers tracking and studying gull behaviour in...

Reverse evolution in real-time

... provide the first quantitative evidence for natural selection on so-called standing genetic variation a process long thought to be operating in natural popula...g through changes in the distribution of alleles in a population (so-called standing genetic variation), from generation to generation, rather than the appearan...

Study helps explain connection between sleep apnea, stroke and death

...r ways. The researchers monitored the participants' blood pressure while standing and squatting. standing from a squatting position lowers blood pressure as can be experienced durin...

Orangutan's spontaneous whistling opens new chapter in study of evolution of speech

...ial to Great Ape Trust." The research also builds on earlier investigations by ape language pioneer Dr. Sue Savage-Rumbaugh a scientist with special standing at Great Ape Trust, and others on the ability of great apes to imitate human speech. Specifically, Savage-Rumbaugh's 1991 investigation centered on wh...

Elsevier partners with the Royal Netherlands Society for Agricultural Sciences

...earch through linked references and many other helpful features. Elsevier Publisher Gilles Jonker noted, "We are very honoured to publish this long standing journal, and hope that in doing so we will further strengthen our relationship with the Royal Netherlands Society of Agricultural Sciences". Prof....

Advice to the new administration: UM foreign and domestic policy guide

...ty Policy. To the secretary of state-designate: "You have little to build on from the last eight yearsYour biggest challenge must be to restore the standing of the pastThe easiest arena for instant credibility will not be a rapid round of travel but an enthusiastic embrace of treatiesKyoto and climate chan...

Acoustical Meeting, Nov. 10-14, 2008 in Miami, Florida

...oats plying Florida's bays and inland waterways killed 69 of the large mammals, which are typically 10 feet long and weigh upwards of 800 pounds. The standing response of marine authorities to deaths from boat collisions has been to impose low speed limits on boats. However, after more than a decade of slow...

Purple tomatoes: The richness of antioxidants against tumors

...peculiar purple colour to the tomatoes, the British team has used two genes from the snapdragon flower: Delila and Rosea1. "Our insti-tute has a long standing interest in this plant that we use as a model to study flower development- says lead author Eugenio Butelli- The two genes we have isolated are respon...

Communication Intelligence Corporation Reports Third Quarter 2008 Financial Results

... into partner software platforms. The Company, as a strategy, has been focused for years on being at its core "lean and agile" while establishing long standing strategic relationships that allow the Company to rapidly access product development and deployment capabilities required to address virtually any dep...

Wetlands expert: China should think outside the flooding box with Three Gorges Dam

...te, the use of fertilizers during growing periods. Fertilizers would leave behind undesired nutrients that would promote the development of algae once standing water covers the crop fields. "Fertilizers actually won't be needed," Mitsch said, because the sediment left behind by flooding will be rich in cer...

Farmers can spot lame sheep, but fail to prevent footrot spread

...as the severity of its lameness increased. The majority said they would catch a single lame sheep at the point where it would not bear its weight when standing and showed discomfort when moving. However, 25 farmers said they did not catch individual sheep at all and only treated lame sheep at routine gatherin...

Photo reveals rare okapi survived poaching onslaught

... result of the ten years of insecurity in the region, so it's encouraging to see that the okapi has survived." Measuring up to 8 feet in length and standing up to 6 feet at the shoulder, the okapi has striped legs that give the animal a superficial resemblance to a zebra. It is, in fact, a close relative o...

Biological invasions increasing due to freshwater impoundments, says CU-Boulder study

...ogy and evolutionary biology department. The researchers wrote in the study that "reservoir construction and the conversion of free-flowing rivers to standing waters may ultimately facilitate the spread of invasive species across the landscape." The team looked at data from 4,200 lakes and more than 1,000...

BioScience tip sheet, September 2008

...ns for Today. Lara O'Sullivan, Andrew Jardine, Angus Cook, and Philip Weinstein. Deforestation and associated ecological changes such as increased standing water probably exacerbated pestilence, believed to have been malaria, in and near Rome around the first century BCE. Modern parallels reinforce the im...

Great Ape Trust graduate student's paper sheds light on bonobo language

... For her paper, Pedersen analyzed a videotaped conversation between the bonobo Panbanisha and Dr. Sue Savage-Rumbaugh, now a scientist with special standing at Great Ape Trust, but a researcher at Georgia State University's Language Research Center when the video was made about 15 years old. Since 2000, st...

$3.2M for Rutgers to apply biology, engineering, physical sciences toward stem cells

...lerates the use of stem cells in the treatment of debilitating injuries and diseases," said Rutgers President Richard L. McCormick. "It will boost our standing as one of the world's top universities for stem cell research and training." "By broadening the scope of stem cell research to encompass molecular ...

A recipe for saving the world's oceans from an extinction crisis

...now." Despite Jackson's bleak prognosis for a "brave new ocean," he clearly identifies "lack of political will and the greed of special interests" as standing in the way of establishing sustainable fisheries and aquaculture, "Simply enforcing the standards of the Magnuson-Stevens Act and the U.S. National Ma...

Entomologists play matchmakers for cerambycid beetles

... RIVERSIDE, Calif. Cerambycid beetles, also known as long-horned beetles, can cause severe damage to standing trees, logs and lumber. How then might they be promptly detected and their numbers swiftly controlled? Two entomologists have devised a solution ba...

American Society for Microbiology honors Victor de Lorenzo

...Research Organization, and is also a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology. He served as Spain's delegate and member of the Core Group in the standing Committee for Life and Environmental Sciences of the European Science Foundation from 1998-2002. Dr. de Lorenzo received his B.S.A. in Chemistry a...

Scattered nature of Wisconsin's woodlands could complicate forests' response to climate change

...ricultural lands - will also likely delay their progress, says Mladenoff. "The result is that northern forest biomass in the future - that is, the standing amount of forest - could decrease, because the trees that are there now will be experiencing less than optimal conditions," he says. "And the southern...

Search for salt tolerant grasses aims to improve roadside plantings

... KINGSTON, R.I. July 2, 2008 standing in a greenhouse at the University of Rhode Island, Rebecca Brown was smiling even though it appeared that something had gone terribly wrong. Almost a...

G8 summit: Opportunity for immediate action on climate change

...ts. In December 2007, the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change agreed to also consider financial incentives for tropical countries that protect standing forests to prevent emissions from deforestation. CI has launched a global campaign titled "Lost There, Felt Here" that promotes tropical forest con...

Did walking on 2 feet begin with a shuffle?

... todays primates, including humans, did something novel. While temporarily standing on its rear feet to reach a piece of fruit, this protohominid spotted anoth...fling toward it instead of dropping on all fours, crawling to the shrub and standing again. A number of reasons have been proposed for the development of bipe...

Ape language pioneer Savage-Rumbaugh receives honorary Ph.D. from alma mater

... Des Moines, Iowa May 22, 2008 Dr. Sue Savage-Rumbaugh, Scientist With Special standing at Great Ape Trust of Iowa and a pioneer in the field of ape language and cognition studies, recently received the eighth honorary doctor of science d...

Road losses add up, taxing amphibians and other animals

... 74 dead northern leopard frogs, a species of special conservation concern in Indiana. To survive, most amphibians require habitats with running or standing fresh water, in which they lay eggs and begin life. This makes them vulnerable to water pollution and land-use changes like drainage or waterway disru...

Qualifying date rule hinders German stem cell research

...ring which Hacker responded to 27 questions, were the prospects for research on adult stem cells. This, Hacker emphasised, is not viewed by the DFG as standing in contrast to research on embryonic stem cells, but as a logical extension. The recent scientific findings on induced pluripotent stem cells were als...

Researchers confirm dead zone off Texas coast since 1985

...ter, but we found numerous samples that were even one-half of that, meaning severe hypoxia has occurred. DiMarco says a comparison would be that of standing on top of a mountain. You know the air is going to be thin up there because of the altitude, he says. The thin air has low oxygen levels making it u...

Asia's odd-ball antelope faces migration crisis

...e million animals 20 years ago, largely due to poaching for horns used in traditional Chinese medicines and competition with livestock. standing just under two feet at the shoulder and weighing about 50 pounds, the most striking feature of the saiga is its large nose, or proboscis. The functio...

Workshop assesses interactions between climate, forests and land use in the Amazon Basin

... by replacing the previous paradigm, which assumed that forests were nothing but unproductive land, with the understanding that forests are worth more standing than cut. The workshop focused on how to reduce the risk of a vicious cycle of forest impoverishment in which forest clearing and degradation foste...