Siphon

Ventura County Taxpayers' Group Files Suit to Stop State-of-the-Art Hospitals for Incarcerated Felons

... at least 1,500 prisoners would be treated there, making it the biggest hospital in Ventura County. Local residents have expressed concern this would siphon away critical care from patients not currently housed in a California prison. While the suit only addresses the proposed Camarillo facility, plai...

LabBits: A media tip sheet from the MBL in Woods Hole

...ses its siphons, or feeding tubes, to hungry predators. At the base of each siphon are eight photoreceptors, cells used to detect light. Whenever the sea squirt experiences a violent loss at the siphon base, the number of photoreceptors that grow back is always eight. Und...

Statement: Congress Should Include the Physician Self-Referral Provision in the Farm Bill for Patients and Communities

...nning self-referral to new facilities would reduce Medicare spending by $2.4 billion over ten years, so taxpayers will win. In short, these facilities siphon off the resources that full-service hospitals need to provide the range of services needed in everyday emergencies as well as in times of community cr...

President Bush Not for Expansion of Child Health Insurance

...icare plans for seniors. Bush has attacked the proposals as big-government attempts to enlarge the federal role in health care, saying they would siphon choice away from individuals and reduce private insurance coverage for some children. He has proposed about $5 billion in new funding for childre...

Donated Mothers Milk To Hit The Market

... University of Rochester's Strong Medical Centre in New York. The report said that non-profit milk banks were worried that the new company would siphon off donors. Others worried that the for-profit framework would eventually entice mothers to sell milk instead of nursing their own babies. "I'm ...

House heads for Medicare drug vote

...s faced stiff opposition in the Senate from Democrats and moderate Republicans who fear the competition provisions would allow private health plans to siphon off the healthiest seniors while leaving the oldest and sickest seniors in the traditional Medicare program, where they would pay higher premiums. ...

Siphon in Biological News

Ma and Pa solutions to global warming

...tters worse. In fact the US is facing a single crisis brought on by an overall design defect in the modern industrial machine, he adds. Farmers can siphon stuff from nature's life cycle better than anybody. Exploiting this life skill captures the prairie's potential. It generates food for us, harnesses r...

Hatchery fish outnumber wild chinook salmon in troubled fall run

...also get a free ride downstream in tanker trucks. The hazards associated with migrating downstream to the ocean range from predators to the pumps that siphon water out of the rivers for human use. "Most of the hatcheries in the Central Valley put the fish in tanker trucks and release them into the lower...

Siphon in Biological Technology

Feeling the heat

... power windows, etc. When scaled up, thermoelectric modules could eventually be used in co-generating power with gas or steam turbines. You can siphon electrical power from just about any situation in which heat is being given off, heat that is currently being wasted, said Majumdar. For example, if i...

Was the Telecom Act of 1996 a boon or bomb for U.S.?

...ady buying RBOC distance-learning solutions that some critics say are overdesigned and overpriced. This RBOC sales tactic is just another mechanism to siphon federal money in the guise of adding technology to schools. As for opening competition, parts of the act actually guarantee a closed market for cer...

Siphon in Biological Dictionary

Siphon

A siphon is a continuous tube that allows liquid to drain from a reservoir through an intermediate point that is higher, or lower, than the reservoir, the flow being driven only by the difference in hydrostatic pressure... A siphon is an anatomical structure which is part of the soft parts o...