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Resistance management and sustainable use of agricultural biotechnology
(AgBioForum, 2010)
While crop biotechnologies deployed worldwide with herbicide-resistant (HR) or insect-resistant (IR) traits have provided significant economic and environmental benefits, these benefits are threatened by the evolution of ...
Exposure Assessment for Endocrine Disruptors: Some Considerations in the Design of Studies
(National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, 2003)
In studies designed to evaluate exposure-response relationships in children's development from conception through puberty, multiple factors that affect the generation of meaningful exposure metrics must be considered. These ...
Cost and Consequences of Sedentary Living: New Battleground for an Old Enemy
(2002)
The purpose of this review is to update our earlier review by itemizing, as best we can, the costs and consequences of sedentary living, and thus provide cost reasons to fight a war against sedentary lifestyles.
Computational model of extracellular glutamate in the nucleus accumbens predicts neuroadaptations by chronic cocaine
(Elsevier, 2009-02)
Chronic cocaine administration causes instability in extracellular glutamate in the nucleus accumbens that is thought to contribute to the vulnerability to relapse. A computational framework was developed to model glutamate ...
Price controls and biotechnology innovation : are state government policies reducing research and innovation by the ag biotech industry in India?
(AgBioForum, 2010)
In 2006, the governments of major cotton-producing states in India ordered all seed companies to lower their prices of Bt cotton seed to Rs. 750 per packet of seed, down from Rs. 1,600 per packet. Although biotech firms ...
Indirect land use change : a second-best solution to a first-class problem
(AgBioForum, 2010)
Concern about the possible effects of biofuels on deforestation have led to assigning biofuel producers with the responsibility for the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of the indirect land-use changes (ILUC) associated with ...
Public vs. private agbiotech research in the United States and European Union, 2002-2009
(AgBioForum, 2010)
We provide an in-depth analysis of biotechnology patents filed in the European Patent Office (EPO) and US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), building a comprehensive dataset of more than 7,000 patents for the period 2002 ...
Policy gridlock or future change? : the political economy dynamics of EU biotechnology regulation
(AgBioForum, 2010)
There are major differences in biotechnology regulation among various countries and in particular between the European Union and the United States. We summarize a formal and dynamic model of government decision-making on ...
Poverty impacts of improved agricultural productivity : opportunities for genetically modified crops
(AgBioForum, 2010)
Constraints on land and water resources, growth in population, and an apparent slowdown in agricultural productivity raise concerns that food prices may rise substantially in the coming decades. A key question is whether ...
Developments in agricultural biotechnology in sub-Saharan Africa
(AgBioForum, 2010)
A number of crops with a variety of traits are being developed by public-private partnerships in sub-Saharan Africa. These include maize that is resistant to the parasitic weed, Striga; tolerant to drought, and resistant ...
The Rights and Duties of Childrearing
(William and Mary Bill of Rights Journal, 2003)
What rights and duties do adults have with respect to raising children? Who, for example, has the right to decide how and where a particular child will live, be educated, receive health care, and spend recreational time? ...
What is the best way to treat Morton's neuroma?
(Family Physicians Inquiries Network, 2011)
No single treatment for Morton's neuroma has been identified in the literature.A protocol of stepped care that showed good results in an uncontrolled trial seems reasonable: patient education and footwear or insole changes, ...
Does turmeric relieve inflammatory conditions?
(Family Physicians Inquiries Network, 2011)
Limited evidence suggests that turmeric and its active compound, curcumin, are effective for rheumatoid arthritis and other inflammatory conditions (strength of recommendation [SOR]: C, primarily low-quality cohort studies ...
Sedentary death syndrome is what researchers now call America's second largest threat to public health
(2001)
Obesity has doubled, Type 2 diabetes has increased nine-fold, and heart disease remains the number one cause of death for Americans. Sedentary Death Syndrome, or "SeDS," is a growing list of health disorders that are ...
Spin, acceleration and gravity
(American Institute of Physics, 2004)
The massless field perturbations of the accelerating Minkowski and Schwarzschild spacetimes are studied. The results are extended to the propagation of the Proca field in Rindler spacetime. We examine critically the ...
Modification, Degradation, and Stability of Polymeric Surfaces Treated with Reactive Plasmas
(Journal of Polymer Science: Part A: Polymer Chemistry, 2000)
The degradation, modification, and stability of polymeric surfaces exposed to chemically reactive O2 and H2O-vapor plasmas were investigated. Specifically, the effects of these plasmas on etching rate, surface morphology, ...
Dynamics of Relativistic Flows
(arXiv, 2004)
Dynamics of relativistic outflows along the rotation axis of a Kerr black hole is investigated using a simple model that takes into account the relativistic tidal force of the central source as well as the Lorentz force ...
Gravitoelectromagnetism: A Brief Review
(arXiv, 2008)
The main theoretical aspects of gravitoelectromagnetism ("GEM") are presented. Two basic approaches to this subject are described and the role of the gravitational Larmor theorem is emphasized. Some of the consequences of ...
Standard clocks, orbital precession and the cosmological constant
(American Institute of Physics, 2003)
We discuss the influence of the cosmological constant on the gravitomagnetic clock effect and the gravitational time delay of electromagnetic rays. Moreover, we consider the relative motion of a binary system to linear ...
Resolving FTO barriers in GM canola
(AgBioForum, 2010)
The development of intellectual property (IP) protection in plant breeding brought much-needed private investment into canola research in the 1980s, but at the same time, fragmented research and IP ownership. In the 1990s, ...