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- Pest Problems Abroad May Affect Compliance With U.S. Safeguards
- Ninety-five percent of Mediterranean fruit fly medfly outbreaks in the continental United States since 1929 have occurred in Florida and California. USDA, along with California's and Florida's departments of agriculture, use preventive release programs to reduce the severity and frequency of outbreaks. Millions of sterile male fruit flies are released...
- Research articles 2008-06-01
- The "desert" model for sentencing: its influence, prospects, and alternatives
- INTRODUCTION THE DECLINE OF THE REHABILITATIVE ETHOS IN SENTENCING THEORY in the post-1960s is a story that has been told often (see, for example, Allen, 1981) and need not be rehearsed here. * Penal treatment programs, once tested for their effectiveness, showed scant success--or at most, succeeded only in...
- Research articles 2007-06-22
- System monitors health of composite military missiles.(TESTING/CHARACTERIZATION)
- A monitoring system in which a mathematical model pinpoints the location and severity of impacts on composite missile casings based on vibration data collected by a sensor called a triaxial accelerometer has reportedly been developed at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind. The casings are made out...
- Research articles 2007-06-01
- Drought uncovers Australia's drowned town
- ADAMINABY, Australia AFP — Australia's worst drought in a century has uncovered a town deliberately flooded 50 years ago as part of a massive hydro-electricity scheme, stirring painful memories for former residents. Adaminaby, a small farming town nestled in the Snowy Mountains on the border between New South Wales...
- Research articles 2007-04-17
- Business spending cuts trim expansion.
- Byline: Alexander Symonds Dec 06, 2006 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) -- There is speculation that the severity of Australia's skills shortage will continue to impair economic growth. Companies such as BHP Billiton are struggling to find skilled staff for...
- Research articles 2006-12-06
- Adler loses appeal over sentence.
- May 18, 2006 (The Sydney Morning Herald - ABIX via COMTEX) -- The New South Wales Court of Criminal Appeal has rejected an application by Rodney Adler against the severity of his jail sentence. The Sydney businessman was jailed for a maximum of four and a...
- Research articles 2006-05-18
- Cooper defends death rate for bypass
- Heart bypass patients at Cooper University Hospital in Camden were more than twice as likely to die in 2003 as those at the average New Jersey hospital, according to a state analysis of heart surgery. But Cooper's head of cardiac services said the report, issued yesterday by the New...
- Research articles 2006-03-01
- Canadian cyclist Genevieve Jeanson banned for life
- MONTREAL AFP — Canadian cyclist Genevieve Jeanson has reportedly been banned for life by USA Cycling after testing positive for blood-booster EPO. Jeanson failed the test last July at the prologue of a stage race in Pennsylvania which she won. The severity of the punishment reported by Quebec...
- Research articles 2006-01-19
- Registration of 'Masami' wheat.(REGISTRATIONS OF CULTIVARS)
- 'Masami' soft white winter wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) (Reg. no. CV-977, PI 634715) was developed by the Agricultural Research Center of Washington State University WSU in cooperation with the USDA-ARS. Masami was jointly released by Washington and Idaho Agricultural Experiment Stations and the USDA-ARS in 2004....
- Research articles 2006-01-01
- Modifier gene makes some hearing loss more severe.(Brief Article)
- Scientists have identified a genetic mutation in humans that affects the severity of hearing loss caused by a mutation of another gene. National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders scientists Julie Schultz and Andrew Griffith and co-authors at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute...
- Research articles 2005-05-24
- RODEO-CHEDISKI: SOME UNDERLYING QUESTIONS
- Editor's note: The fires of 2002 revived a fierce debate over who or what is to blame for uncharacteristically severe wildland fires in the Interior West. Some say it's too little active management, and others say it's too much, or maybe not the right kind. In the wake of the...
- Research articles 2005-01-01
- Workers' compensation claims continue frequency decline.(National Report)
- A key market issue facing employers and workers' compensation insurers is whether the large declines in claim frequency that began in the 1990s are likely to continue, according to the National Council on Compensation Insurance. In late 2003, research by the council showed a...
- Research articles 2005-01-01
- Sensors for off-road machines
- This sensor family features 316 stainless steel housings, and are rated IP69K for their level of protection against liquid ingress. Available in 12, 18 and 30 mm dia., the 24 VDC units are designed to ignore radiated electrical interference levels of 100 V/m, according to ISO 7637-2 severity level. The...
- Research articles 2005-01-01
- Lack of water causes lung disease
- The central problem that causes cystic fibrosis--the most common lethal genetic illness among whites in the U.S., striking roughly one in every 2,000 to 3,000 infants born--has been identified by scientists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Special genetically engineered mice the researchers created revealed that...
- Research articles 2004-10-01
- Acupuncture, not pills, best cure for migraines: study
- PARIS AFP ? Acupuncture is the best treatment for people who suffer from chronic headaches, according to the largest study into the effectiveness of this therapy for treating migraines. British doctors recruited 401 patients who suffered from several days of severe headache each week. Patients were allotted randomly...
- Research articles 2004-03-15
- Web-based resources
- The Bureau of Justice Statistics BJS presents Homicide Trends in the United States, a section of its Web site that contains over 50 charts that describe homicide patterns and trends in the United States since 1976. Homicide is of interest not only because of its severity but also because it...
- Research articles 2004-03-01
- Reader Feedback
- Critical Thinking Is VitalI read Carl Metzgar's review of Fabulous Science: Fact & Fiction in the History of Scientific Discovery (Dec. 2003, pp. 17, 64). My reaction is "Yes!"I recently became curious about Heinrich while reading several books on behavioral safety which claim him as the father of that theory....
- Research articles 2004-02-01
- Israeli troops kill two Palestinians in Gaza City
- GAZA CITY, AFP ? Israeli forces have shot dead two Palestinians in eastern Gaza City close to Israeli territory early Saturday, Palestinian hospital sources said. Identifying the two victims was proving difficult due to the severity of their injuries, the sources added. The deaths brought the number of...
- Research articles 2004-01-23
- SPECTROSCOPY: Technique Speeds MS Detection.
- A new method to measure the virulence of multiple sclerosis MS can help physicians be more exact and aggressive in treating the disease. Using magnetic resonance MR spectroscopy, researchers at New York University NYU School of Medicine developed a method called whole brain N-acetylaspartate WBNAA to...
- Research articles 2004-01-01
- Illinois University's Medical Center Settles Transplant-Suit
- The University of Illinois has agreed to a $2 million settlement of a suit charging its Chicago medical center defrauded the U.S. government's liver-transplant procurement system by exaggerating the severity of prospective recipients' conditions so they could move up the waiting list. Some healthier patients allegedly were falsely classified...
- Research articles 2003-11-24
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