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Abstracts: Britain finds way round impact of falling pound. Britain to spend 100 million pound sterling on innovative manufacturing
Abstracts: Britain launches two studies of 'Gulf War syndrome'.... China urged to delay 'eugenics' law.... Malaria research suffering relative neglect, study claims
Abstracts: Britain plays it cautious on animal-human transplants. A call to action from the lab bench. Don't leave it to the market-place
Abstracts: Britain seeks compromise on animal research. Chicken welfare is influenced more by housing conditions than by stocking density
Abstracts: Britain's 'high-tech' budget praised.... Science in China to face its biggest upheavel since mid-1970s reforms
Abstracts: Britain to help coal centre develop cleaner technologies. Rutherford and Daresbury labs to merge as 'self-standing institution.' (Britain's Rutherford Appleton Laboratory and Daresbury Laboratory)
Abstracts: Britain to support aerospace. UK debates public's role in science advice. Biosafety code gathers pace through bilateral agreements
Abstracts: Britain urged to lift barriers to investment in biotechnology. Britain plans broad strategy on genome, approves therapy
Abstracts: British aerospace industry wants more government support. UK government's support 'essential' for exploitation of superconductivity
Abstracts: British Biotechnology announces the availability of new and improved versions of the in situ Instructor and the Digoxigenin Hybridization Detection Kits
Abstracts: British drive for more women in science. Gender discrimination 'undermines science'. US science shocked by revelations of sexual discrimination
Abstracts: British forensic science in the dock: Unregulated forensic science practices have led to a spect of wrongful convictions. There are too many 'cowboy' practitioners whose services can be bought at a price
Abstracts: British government releases plans to cut air pollution by 2005. Network crime prompts UK moves on access to data
Abstracts: British group backs French scientist. Wolfson Foundation's policy on animals anger other British medical charities
Abstracts: British military beckons environmental researchers. Academy's letter to Russian raises issue of political views
Abstracts: British report real decline in spending on research. Last chance for British Ass? Towards real-time molecular demolition?
Abstracts: British research council jumps at gene therapy. Bringing a community-based vision to the heart of Europe's research: The European Union's new research commissioner hopes that his plans to promote science will win over critics in the European Parliament
Abstracts: British science sent back to dog-house. The centre needs to hold: Research ministers met for a seminar in London this week to discuss how to improve the handling of European-level research. The solution lies in steady and targeted reforms to practices in Brussels
Abstracts: British scientists seek recognition of role in 'life on Mars' debate.... British government releases plans to cut air pollution by 2005
Abstracts: British universities face up to their day of reckoning. Making British justice fair and sure. Science faces new treatment in British courts
Abstracts: Broadband neural encoding in the cricket cercal sensory system enhanced by stochastic resonance. Brain waves deciphered
Abstracts: Broad-band optical parametric gain on a silicon photonic chip. All-optical control of light on a silicon chip
Abstracts: Broadcasting science: the renewal of the BBC's charter demands the intervention of others than mere broadcasters
Abstracts: Broadening the extinction debate: population deletions and additions in California and Western Australia. An evolutionary approach to understanding the biology of invasions: local adaptation and general-purpose genotypes in the weed Verbascum thapsus
Abstracts: Broken halo revels all. Neutron halo slips. The nucleon in a spin
Abstracts: Bromoform emission from Arctic ice algae. Grazing-activated chemical defence in a unicellular marine alga. Invasive alga reaches California
Abstracts: Bronx zoo riverwalk: discover a new nature trail in new york city . In the swim
Abstracts: Brood ecology of mallards and gadwalls nesting on islands in large reservoirs. Multivariate age assessments of redheads in spring
Abstracts: Brood-mate avoidance in the parasitic wasp Bracon hebetor Say. Wasp sex ratios when females on a patch are related
Abstracts: Brood parasitism in the sand martin, Riparia riparia: evidence for two parasitic strategies in a colonial passerine
Abstracts: Brood sorting by ants: Two phases and differential diffusion. Division of labour within teams of New World and Old World army ants
Abstracts: Brother-and-Sisterhood against the pigeon shoot. Tough sledding for mushers. Nepotism at NAVS?
Abstracts: Brown and black bear density estimation in Alaska using radiotelemetry and replicated mark-resight techniques
Abstracts: Brown dwarfs: The stars that failed. Jet propulsion is essential for young stars. Duration of the superwind phase of asymptotic giant branch stars
Abstracts: Brownian motion and microscopic chaos. Engineering complex systems. Mechanisms of extensive spatiotemporal chaos in Rayleigh-Benard convection
Abstracts: Brushtail possum mortality and ambient temperatures following aerial poisoning using 1080. Nonlinearity and seasonal bias in an index of brushtail possum abundance
Abstracts: Brussels inquiry criticizes BSE secrecy. Venter's Drosophila 'success' set to boost human genome efforts. Boost for French universities following student protests
Abstracts: Brussels reshapes science panels after BSE criticism. Global R&D spread clouds local analyses. Occupational hazards
Abstracts: Brute force in the clinic. The heart of the cycle. DNA twists and flips
Abstracts: BRX mediates feedback between brassinosteroid levels and auxin signaling in root growth. Insight into steroid scaffold formation from the structure of human oxidosqualene cyclase
Abstracts: BSE makes US headlines. Countdown to catastrophe? BSE-free fantasy continues
Abstracts: BSE researchers bemoan 'ministry secrecy.' (bovine spongiform encephalopathy) Slow release of data adds to BSE confusion
Abstracts: BSE transmission to macaques. Don't leave it to the market-place. Spending on BSE research
Abstracts: BSE watch
Abstracts: Buddhism on the brain. Future shock in California. Net losses pose extinction risk for porpoise
Abstracts: Budding from Golgi membranes requires the coatomer complex of non-clathrin coat proteins. Brefeldin A inhibits Golgi membrane-catalysed exchange of guanine nucleotide onto ARF protein
Abstracts: Budgetary and biogeochemical implications of N2O isotope signatures in the Arabian Sea. Increased marine production of N2O due to intensifying anoxia on the Indian continental shelf
Abstracts: Budget axe threatens social science directorates at NSF. NSF urged to raise environmental efforts... NSF does well, NIH does not in Clinton's 1994 budget
Abstracts: Budget crisis forces hard choices on US high-energy physics. Fermilab faces up to uncertain future
Abstracts: Budget cuts force Sweden to consider CERN pull-out. Staff pay cost of keeping CERN collider on target. Staff face pay cuts as CERN prepares to tighten its belt
Abstracts: Budget woes cast chill on French research. French researchers brace for budget cuts. Too few doctors
Abstracts: Building hierarchical models of avian distributions for the state of Georgia. Factors affecting avian species richness and density in riparian areas
Abstracts: Building the Midwest's future. All for one... Striving for excellence
Abstracts: Built-in polarizers form part of a compass organ in spiders. Giant female or dwarf male spiders?
Abstracts: Bulk density of asteroid 243 Ida from the orbit of its satellite Dactyl. Seismic resurfacing by a single impact on the asteroid 433 Eros
Abstracts: Bullets or fragmenting shells? Gravitational waves constrained. A stellar performance
Abstracts: Bundling up excitement. Transformation from temporal to rate coding in a somatosensory thalamocortical pathway
Abstracts: Burdens of proof of misconduct. Brazilian researcher protests against 'plagiarism' fine. Fraud and hoaxes in science
Abstracts: Burrow abandonment by gopher tortoises in slash pine plantations of the Conecuh National Forest. Canopy closure, competition, and the endangered dusky gopher frog
Abstracts: Bursts make new waves. A distance of 133-137 parsecs to the Pleiades star cluster. A problem of distance
Abstracts: Bush asks for more physics - again. The first cut. Panel negotiates climate 'synthesis report'
Abstracts: Bush backs Bement to head science agency. Moderate flies flag for science on Capitol Hill. US reveals physics wish-list in bid for scientific frontier
Abstracts: Bush's policy stopped US gaining stem-cell lead. Embryonic and extraembryonic stem cell lines derived from single mouse blastomeres
Abstracts: Bush Tucker, Bush Pets, and Bush Threats: Cooperative Management of Feral Animals in Australia's Kakadu National Park
Abstracts: Business booms for guides to biology's moral maze. Eyes viewed from the skin. Rhodopsin guides fungal phototaxis
Abstracts: Bustard's last bastion: on the plain in Spain, a heavyweight of the bird world still postures and puffs. Our man in Havana
Abstracts: Butterfly magic; within specially crafted houses, butterflies fly free, enchanting all who enter. Social butterflies
Abstracts: Butterfly mimics of ants. Know thine enemy. Evidence for memory in invertebrate immunity
Abstracts: Butterfly poachers brought to justice. The lupine and the butterfly. Butterfly carnivale
Abstracts: Butting by calves, Bos taurus, and rate of milk flow. The 'coping' hypothesis of stereotypic behavior: a reply to Rushen
Abstracts: Buttons, booklets, and bonobos. River escape: into the Big Bend country of Texas. Walk for wildlife: a quest to save one of Africa's most spectacular wild places
Abstracts: By-product mutualism, Tit-for-Tat reciprocity and cooperative predator inspection: a reply to Connor. Tit for Tat, by-product mutualism and predator inspection: a reply to Connor
Abstracts: C36, a new carbon solid. Imaging standing waves in a two-dimensional electron gas. Making waves with electrons
Abstracts: C60 chemistry expands. New ribbons and threads. A new hydrocarbon cage
Abstracts: CA2+/calmodulin binds to and modulates P/Q-type calcium channels. Voltage-dependent potentiation of L-type Ca2+ channels due to phosphorylation by cAMP-dependent protein kinase
Abstracts: Ca2+/S100 regulation of giant protein kinases. Structure of IRF-1 with bound DNA reveals determinants fo interferon regulation
Abstracts: Cache protection strategies by western scrub-jays, Aphelocoma Californica: Implications for social cognition. Food sharing in jackdaws, Corvus monedula: what, why and with whom?
Abstracts: Caching decisions by grey squirrels: a test of the handling time and perishability hypotheses. The innate basis of food-hoarding decisions in grey squirrels: evidence for behavioural adaptations to the oaks
Abstracts: Cadherin 23 and protocadtherin 15 interact to form tip-link filaments in sensory hair cells. Mutations in cadherin 23 affect tip links in zebrafish sensory hair cells
Abstracts: Cage enrichment and mouse behavior. Encoding social signals in the mouse main olfactory bulb. A twist in a mouse tale
Abstracts: Caiman: Celebrating a comeback in the pantanal. The stork club: Banding wood storks in Jacksonville is a cooperative affair
Abstracts: Calcineurin mediates inhibition by FK506 and cyclosporin of recovery from alpha-factor arrest in yeast. SLAM (CDw150) is a cellular receptor for measles virus
Abstracts: Calcitic microlenses as part of the photoreceptor system in brittlestars. Crystals, asymmetry and life
Abstracts: Calcitonin gene-related peptide potentiates synaptic responses at developing neuromuscular junction. Nitric oxide mediates activity-dependent synaptic suppression at developing neuromuscular synapses
Abstracts: Calcium activation of Ras mediated by neuronal exchange factor Ras-GRF. Towards a molecular understanding of adaptive thermogenesis
Abstracts: Calcium channels activated by hydrogen peroxide mediate abscisic acid signalling in guard cells. Guard cell abscisic acid signalling and engineering drought hardiness in plants
Abstracts: Calcium-independent potentiation of insulin release by cyclic AMP in single beta-cells. Neuropeptide Y functions as a neuroproliferative factor
Abstracts: Calcium mobilization via sphingosine kinase in signalling by the Fc-epsilon-RI antigen receptor. Structure of the Fc fragment of human IgE bound to its high-affinity receptor Fc epsilon RI alpha
Abstracts: Calcium transients in astrocyte endfeet cause cerebrovascular constrictions. Notch activity acts as a sensor for extracellular calcium during vertebrate left-right determination
Abstracts: California laboratory backs its use of volunteers. US scientists call for fairer animal funding. Dispute over insect resistance to crops
Abstracts: Californian grad students vote to unionize. Merger of top Californian medical schools turns sour. Californian universities scrap hospitals merger
Abstracts: Californians feel the tension. Changes in static stress on southern California faults the 1992 Landers earthquake
Abstracts: California spotted owl habitat selection in the central Sierra Nevada. Association of weather and nest-site structure with reproductive success in California spotted owls
Abstracts: Callers and satellites: chorus behaviour in anurans as a stochastic dynamic game. The effect of social dominance on fattening and food-cahing behaviour in Carolina chickadees
Abstracts: Call for a lighter regulatory burden on NIH researchers. US to tighten protection of medical data. US privacy laws may curb access to medical data
Abstracts: Call for Europe to 'revitalize efforts' in basic research. 'More effectiveness needed' in Brussels' handling of research
Abstracts: Call for reform of scientific panels. Biology versus physics? Science and technology deserve better from Brussels
Abstracts: Calls for human cloning ban 'stem from ignorance.' (World Health Organization working group on human cloning) Pope condemns 'immoral' embryo research
Abstracts: Call to scrap licences for travel to Cuba. US spirit is willing, but funds are still weak. Britain weighs plan to axe US science mission
Abstracts: Call-type matching in vocal exchanges of free-ranging resident killer whales, Orcinus orca. Within-pod variation in the sound production of a pod of killer whales, 'Orcinus orca'
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